Stefan's Hope

Chapter 11: What I Missed

She widens her eyes and frowns at me in shock and says "wait! Are you saying that they're-" she gets interrupted hearing someone get up gasping for air and it's Liv. Bonnie gasps and I just look at Liv. Liv asks "what happened to me?"

End of Flashback~ Stefan's POV

Kai continues "and after that, I've proven myself. Two months afterwards, me and Bonnie started dating and I just recently proposed to her. Our wedding is next year and Jo and Ric had a do over wedding which didn't end in people dying." Everyone laughs and Bonnie rests her head on Kai's shoulder.

I say "cool. Now uh... What about you two?!" I ask Elena and Damon. Damon says "well, I was going to take the cure with Elena when she woke up, but then Gabby told us you had to leave so before I did I wanted to try and find you because I didn't like how we left things. When we tried to, we couldn't. I wondered why, but now we know it's because of that bracelet on Hope's wrist."

I roll my eyes at that comment and Damon continues "any who, while we were trying to find you a vampire came into Mystic Falls and they really wanted to go back to being human, so they drained Elena dry and took the cure out of her. When they did, I took Elena and she was going to her regular age. The person that took the cure out of her ran off somewhere."

I widen my eyes at that, but nod anyway, telling him to continue "now to how she's a vampire again. When mom and her "family" was in town, they kind of got out of control and started to kill everyone in Mystic Falls but we had to put a stop to them and we sent away all the Mystic Falls residence. As you can see, we did succeed in stopping them. But in the middle of all of it, Elena got hurt and I fed her my blood. When we were trying to get rid of them, one of them slit Elena's throat with a knife and she died with the blood in her system. Now, they're gone, mom is over it and is our mom again and everything's all right in the world. Except, now you brought our enemy's daughter in our lives."

I glare at him and say "hey! I told you to mind your own business. As usual, you can't do that. You all just have to know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING." Damon says, agitated "yeah, well you do realize just by taking care of the little troll you're putting your life at risk."

I get up and say, angrily "I don't care what any of you say. Hope isn't her father. I raised her and took care of her, not Klaus. I'm sorry you're too blinded by anger to see that. I'm taking Hope and getting out of here. All you've done is proven to me that I can't trust any of you. You don't want Hope here? Fine, but if she goes I go with her."

I walk away and am about to leave when Brennon says "Stefan, wait!" I turn around and face them and Jontae says "don't leave. It's just going to take some time that's all. We promise you we mean no harm to her. Right guys?" Everyone except Elena, Damon, and Tyler say "right!"

Everyone glares at the three of them and Liv hits Tyler on his arm and they mumble "right!" Elena says "don't leave Stefan. We just got you back. I promise, I'll try and tolerate her." I look at Damon and Tyler.

Tyler says "yeah, me too." I see Damon is struggling a lot with it, but he says "okay, I promise, if it means you won't leave then I'll try and tolerate her." I say "thank you! Now, I better be going to try and find a place."

Damon asks "why not stay here?" And I say "because I don't trust you WITH HOPE just yet, so I'm going to go find a place to stay for a while. When I know I can trust you with Hope then I'll move back here. Until then, see ya."

I open the door and walk out with everyone behind me. I look and see Hope running around giggling and laughing. I can't help but smile at how happy she looks and Matt. I see Matt chase after Hope playfully saying "I'm going to catch you, Hope!"

Hope runs around giggling and Matt catches her and picks her up and spins her around and she giggles more, then he puts her down. I turn around and I see Elena, Caroline, Erin, and Alexis smiling at Matt. Probably because they've never seen him this happy before... Not since Vicky.

I hate to interrupt the moment, but we need to go. I say "Hope sweetie, come on, we gotta go!" She nods her head and says, while waving "bye Mattie." She runs to me and into my arms.

When she does I pick her up and hold her. She asks "Daddy S, can we come back tomorrow?" I smile at her and say "sure sweetie. Come on, time to go!" She says "bye everyone!"

Everyone except Elena, Damon, and Tyler say "bye!" I glare at the three of them and they say weakly "bye." Everyone glares at them and I roll my eyes at them and say "come on, Hope. Let's go."

I put her in the car seat and buckle her up and she says "you know, I can't wait till I'm old enough and I don't have to be in this car seat anymore." I laugh and I hear a little laughter behind me too. I guess everyone heard her.

I close the door and go to the driver's seat and when I buckle my seatbelt, I'm thinking about where to go. Then I remember the Mikaelson home wasn't sold; I can stay there.

I drive there and when I'm there, I get Hope out of her seat and she says "whoa, Daddy S, this place is HUGE!" I laugh a little and say "yeah, why don't you go look inside!" She squeals happily and goes inside and I follow behind her, bringing our bags in. Well, this should be a interesting year.