I Need Him - A Stefan and Elena Story

Chapter One : Have You Heard From Stefan?

I tell myself not to be silly and put my phone in my back pocket of my jeans and look around for any trace of Stefan in the living room but I see nothing.
I use my vampire speed and go into his room, I know it's a invasion of his privacy but I'm not going looking in his draws I'm just looking for anything that suggests where Stefan has gone.
Nothing. I walk over to his desk and see a photo of me and Stefan when we were dating and the memories come flooding back.
"He kept it" I smile and decide I need to call Rebekah I don't care if she hates me, I need to find Stefan.

The phone rings five times before Rebekah picks up,
"What the bloody hell do you want?" She asks in a confused voice.
"I need to talk to you, please?" I practically beg.
"I thought only friends talk and remember we aren't friends, you made sure of that" she says in a bitter voice.
"Rebekah, please" I beg, if she was in-front of me I probably would of been on my knees begging.
"What do you want?" she seems more interested now.
"Have you heard from Stefan?" I want to apologise for what I said in the Mystic Grill that night, my emotions were all over the place but I need to focus on Stefan.
"Salvatore?" She asks , I can tell I definitely have interest her now.
"Yes. He's went missing, well no one has heard from him and I know you have a past with him" I say awkwardly. Rebekah chuckles but tells me she hasn't heard from him.
"Has Damon not heard from him?" She asks.
"No. Damon says he probably just needs some time away from us?" I tell her.
"Well he's prob- wait why would he need time away from you two? - Oh god don't tell my you and Damon are dating?" Rebekah laughs but has a hint of disgust in her voice.
"Yes we are." I say, I'm curious to know what her problem is with Damon. I mean she slept with him.
"You slept with him" I raise my voice.
"Twice actually but he's a dick Elena, trust me" Something in Rebekahs' voice almost made it seem like she was looking out for me.
"He has a different side to him you know" I say jumping to my boyfriends defence.
"All I know is that he slept with me and when I was asleep he got someone to go into my mind and steal my thoughts" Rebekah says. This takes me back a bit as I didn't know Damon done that, that's low even for him.
"Oh" is all I can say.
"Yes. Oh" Rebekah says with a bit of hurt in her voice.
"I'm sorry" and I really mean it. Rebekah pauses for a second and I swear she was going to say something but then stops.
"Erm I should go" I say awkwardly.
"Wait, Elena!" Rebekah says quickly.
"Yeah?" I ask confused, what more could she say to me?
"Erm I'll let you know if Stefan contacts me" This takes me a lot by surprise but my heard kinda warms at the gesture.
"Thank you" I say smiling, I know she can't hear my smile but sometimes you can just tell can't you.
"Yeah" she says, I can tell she was smiling.

"Damon!!!" I shout, if we weren't vampires I would have to find him but seen as we are, might as well use all our powers.
"Yeah" he says whilst coming into Stefan's room with his vampire speed. "What are you doing in here?" He asks confused but also a hint of anger.
"Oh erm I was looking for something that might suggest where Stefan went" I say, his eyes look down to my hands where I realise I'm still holding the photo of me and Stefan. I quickly put it back on his desk. "Look I was on the phone to Rebekah and she hasn't heard from Stefan. Neither had Caroline or Bonnie." as I say this I try and read Damons' face to see what he is thinking but I can't figure out what he is thinking.
I'm not use to not being able to know what my boyfriend is thinking or feeling, I mean with Stefan it was different I could tell by that the slightest quiver at the top of his left eye brow means he's got something on his mind. Usually though I didn't have to use these tricks on Stefan because he always told me. Damon it's harder, it's like I have to force it out of him.
"What are you thinking?" I ask Damon.
"You called the girl who literally invented the term bitch" he asks cracking a smile.
"Look you might not like her but she has a past with Stefan" I can't believe he's focusing on who I'm calling then the fact that no one has been in contact with his brother.
"She killed you, Elena!" he shouts. I'm taken aback but for some reason I defend her.
"You know I wasn't the nicest to her either, plus I'm here now!!!" I scream. That shuts him up.
"Stefan is fine" Damon says whilst walking out of his room and leaves me here alone.

I eventually drag myself out of Stefan's room and go upstairs to bed and lie next to Damon
"Caroline is stopping tomorrow" I tell him and I turn around to face him and tell him what me and Caroline have planned but he just says "ok" and turns around.
I spend the early hours of the morning trying to sleep but I get no where, I'm eventually pulled out of my thoughts of the nagging feeling in my stomach when the photo of me and a drunk Rebekah flashes up on my phone.
"Hey" she says, happier then when I called her earlier.
"Hey" I say.
"So I hea-" Rebekah starts saying but I interrupt her.
"Wait...Damon is sleeping" I use my vampire speed and go into Stefan's room.
"Doesn't Damon care?" Rebekah asks.
"He doesn't believe that something is wrong" I say kinda annoyed.
"So I told you I would tell you if I heard anything about Stefan told after you called I was worried so I text him saying you are worried about him and he answered" Rebekah continues.
"What did he say back?" I ask.
"He says he's fine just drinking it up in France" I sigh with relief as soon as I hear these words that Stefan is fine, even though I feel relief something doesn't seem right with that.
"Thank you so much" I sink onto the floor and lean against his bed.
"Yeah, no problem" I was just about to hang up when Rebekah stopped me "Elena wait... be careful with Damon"
"Be careful Rebekah, people hear you talking like that to me they might think you care for me" I giggle.
"Shut up" she laughs and hangs up.

Now that I know Stefan is fine I can finally sleep but something about what he said to Rebekah makes me feel weird. I let the thoughts leave my mind and go back to Damon's room and fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.

"I'm here!" Caroline squeals excitability and we hug.
"So, what are we watching?" I ask whilst grabbing the bag of food in her hand and take it to the couch where I've put duvet covers and pillows for us to sleep.
"Don't know I'll have a look" Caroline says her blueish shining when the tv lights up.
"Ok I'm gonna get some blood, you want some?" Caroline nods her head and on my way to basement I realise my hunger, I haven't eaten in days. I hope Stefan is getting blood ok in France.

France huh... weird never knew Stefan liked France.

I grab the blood bags and use my vampire speed to get back to Caroline,
"You're favourite" I throw her a bag of B-positive blood and even though she isn't paying attention she catches it without looking.
"Ooh my favourite" she laughs when looking at the bag. "This is random but can we watch Ratatouille?" she giggles.
"Are you kidding me? I love that movie" I laugh and we play the movie.

Huh...Paris.

"That reminds me" I say pausing the movie and I catch Caroline up on everything with Stefan and Rebekah. We eventually fall asleep, I think I fell asleep on Caroline and she couldn't move and had no other choice but to sleep.

"Come on Stefan, it's a great movie" I giggle and slightly push him.
"I know a rat making food in a restaurant in Paris" he laughs and picks me up and I wrap my legs around his waist.
"It's a cartoon, Stefan. You know it's one of my favourites" I giggle and kiss him.
"I'm not denying it's not good. You know that I ha-"

I wake up in a cold sweat and my head is burning,
"He hates France" I budge Caroline awake. Everything is starting to make sense now, why I thought it was odd when Stefan told Rebekah he was in France.
"What?" Caroline asks wiping her messy hair from her face.
"Stefan" I can barely get the words out.
"Elena, are you ok?" She asks holding her hand out to my boiling skin.
"He hates France" I say, I can feel a knot in my stomach.
"So what, you woke up for that- Oh he hates France" Caroline realises what I'm saying.

All of a sudden the doorbell rings and I open the door to see Rebekah Mikaelson standing in the doorway.
"What... the...hell" Caroline looks around to see if someone can explain what Rebekah is doing here but I'm the only other person who is here and I have no idea.
"Stefan hates France" Rebekah says.

Damon comes running downstairs to see what all the noise is,
"What the hell is Barbie Klaus doing here? Thought you got the message that no one in Mystic Falls likes you" Damon says to Rebekah.
Rebekah was about to go for Damon when the sharp doorbell rang,
"Expecting any other unwelcome visitors?" Damon scowls at Rebekah.
"Watch it, dick" Rebekah responds and Caroline smirks.
I open the door to see no one but a small box on the doorstep,
"What the hell" Caroline is suddenly next to me and I open the box and see Stefan's daylight ring and a note attached,
His heart will be next.