Fighting Love | Stefan Salvatore

The One When Stefan Hears Her

Stefan immediately recognized the voice this time around. It belonged to the one person who was keeping him sane at the moment. It belonged to the one person who owned his heart. It belonged to the love of his life, Emily Gilbert.

A soft smile instantly pulled onto the Salvatore vampire's face at the gentle sound of Emily's voice that he had missed so much. However, Stefan quickly remembered where he was and who he was with when he heard Klaus kick a branch out of his way and Stefan heard it snap in half against a tree trunk.

Stefan didn't want the hybrid to get suspicious, so the Salvatore vampire hurriedly got rid of his smile and tilted his head to the ground as Stefan soon grew confused as to how he just heard his girlfriend's voice in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky. There was no way that Emily could be in the woods, so Stefan didn't understand how he just heard Emily's voice.

I must have imagined it again, the Salvatore vampire told himself as a crestfallen expression quickly took over his face. Stefan silently shook his head in disappointment. He knew it was too good to be true. Stefan knew it was for the best that Emily wasn't here, though, but he just missed her so much. He would do anything just to be able to see or hear his girl right now.

The Salvatore vampire's mood got even worse as he continued to follow Klaus through the woods after he realized that Emily's voice was just a figment of his imagination. Stefan was constantly worrying about Emily and missing her almost every second of the day. Stefan craved to have a lazy day with Emily in his arms, so it pained Stefan to have that reminder that she wasn't actually here with him.

Stefan heavily slumped his shoulders and dragged his black boots across the wooded area with a deep frown imbedded on his face. Stefan's whole body language displayed his emotions but Stefan didn't care right now when he felt miserable and disheartened that he couldn't hold his girlfriend and take care of her after all the trauma that the hybrid in front of him had brought onto their lives.

The Salvatore vampire stomped on a beautiful white aster before Stefan suddenly stopped moving when he heard Emily's voice again as he heard her nervously utter, "I really hope you are getting this."

Stefan hurriedly glanced around him once more as he tried to figure out how in the hell he was hearing Emily's voice when Klaus wasn't even reacting to it. The Salvatore vampire stared holes into the back of Klaus for any signs that the vampire-werewolf hybrid did hear the Gilbert girl's voice.

"Glaring at me isn't going to get us there any faster, Stefan," the vampire-werewolf hybrid called out to the Salvatore vampire with a hint of amusement in his voice when he felt like Stefan was staring hard at him from behind. Klaus glanced down to the map app on his phone before he muttered, "we're only about ten minutes away now."

"Okay," the Salvatore vampire quietly responded to Klaus before he moved his green eyes back to the ground as he quickly realized that Emily's voice hadn't been out loud but in his head. Stefan didn't really know how it was happening but he wasn't going to question it. Instead, the Salvatore vampire slowed down his walking pace as he hoped and prayed to hear Emily's soft voice again.

Stefan almost immediately got his wish when he heard Emily's soft voice murmur through his mind, "I love you. I need you to know that. I love you and I'll always wait for you." The Salvatore vampire quickly looked up to the nighttime sky when he felt tears swell up in his green eyes from Emily's comforting words. Stefan knew he was constantly fighting the monster inside of him, so it felt good to know that Emily hadn't gave up on him.

"I know... I know it might be difficult right now but I need you to take care of yourself and stay strong, baby," Emily's soft voice echoed through the Salvatore vampire's mind. Stefan felt his hands tremor as the vampire was overcome with so much emotion because someone was actually believing in him when he's at his lowest right now.

"Don't let Klaus get to your head," the Gilbert girl told her boyfriend as Emily's voice entered Stefan's mind once more. "You can fight this. I believe in you," the Salvatore vampire heard his girlfriend's strong words echo through his mind. Stefan immediately looked ahead of him with a new feeling of determination. The fact that Emily was rooting for him and believing in him, Stefan wanted to make Emily proud by being strong for her.

There was a short pause in Emily's words and Stefan could tell that his girlfriend was hesitating from the way he could hear her shaky breathing. The Salvatore vampire grew worried for a second before he relaxed when he heard Emily's voice murmured, "just... Just focus on yourself, okay?"

Stefan furrowed his brows at his girlfriend's words. Stefan was immediately overcome with worry once more. Did something happen? Is Emily hurt? Did the vial of magic not work? Was there side effects to the sacrifice?

However, the Salvatore vampire's worrying instantly went away at Emily's next words as she told him, "I'm doing okay, so don't worry about me." Stefan felt his body slowly relax as his girlfriend added, "Damon and Bonnie are helping me out a lot." Stefan was relieved that Emily was being taken care of while he wasn't around. Stefan knew Damon cared about Emily like a little sister, so he knew his girlfriend was in safe hands.

"I'm more worried about you," the Gilbert girl's voice echoed through Stefan's head once more, "I need you to fight it. Fight whatever Klaus is making you do." The Salvatore vampire quietly sighed to himself. Stefan wished it was that easy. Stefan couldn't exactly escape the hybrid when Klaus is so much more older and stronger than him.

However, Stefan knew he could internally fight the monster inside of him. Stefan couldn't do much for his girlfriend right now but Stefan swore he would fight his inner demon for her. Stefan knew he didn't have the best track record when it came to that inner demon inside of him but Stefan swore he wasn't going to let it come out no matter how much the monster begs for it.

"You are so, so strong, baby. You got this," the Gilbert girl's soft but confident voice uttered through Stefan's head. There was a brief pause for a minute or so that Stefan thought the voice of his girlfriend was finished. Thankfully, Emily continued once more as she quietly whispered that Stefan almost didn't hear it if he wasn't paying close attention, "I love you so much. Please come home soon."

A sad smile slightly creeped onto the Salvatore vampire's face as he listened to the end of his girlfriend's message. Stefan craved for more of it --- more of Emily, more of her voice. However, Stefan knew he couldn't be greedy about it when the Gilbert girl was supposed to be dead right now.

Stefan knew the most important thing for him right now, though, was to fight. The Salvatore vampire already had been fighting that monster inside of him everyday he spent with Klaus but Stefan felt even more determined to fight it after actually hearing Emily's voice and knowing that she was doing okay. Stefan would rather be there with his girlfriend but he felt better knowing that Damon was taking care of Emily when he couldn't.

The Salvatore vampire was, obviously, still worried for his girlfriend but now it didn't take up all of his thoughts after knowing that Emily was safe in Mystic Falls. Stefan could focus more on fighting and surviving this journey with the vampire-werewolf hybrid. Stefan honestly didn't know when Klaus would stop trying to turn werewolves all around the world. That was the scary part because Stefan wasn't sure how long he could hold the monster inside of him at bay.

Stefan wasn't going to give up, though. Stefan was going to fight and fight no matter what happens. The Salvatore vampire didn't want to let down his girl when Emily was putting so much trust into him to come back to her. Stefan swore to himself as he and Klaus slowly approached the cave of werewolves that he was going to come back to Emily as the same man she has always loved. No one was going to take that away from him.

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Thank you to mrs. morgan 35 on Fanfiction.net for this idea!

I hope I'll start updating regularly now

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