A/N: I'm a huge Stelena fan and I just balled at the Season 4 finale, my poor Stelena heart shattered. This is my take on what happens afterwards (and the whole ending)
The CW owns The Vampire Diaries, I'm just a fan that can't wait till october.
Stefan unloaded the canvas bag that contained Silas' remains from the trunk of the SUV.
He had to be the one to bury Silas, just to get away from Mystic Falls; to get away from her. Lexi was right about moving on. But he couldn't just forget her; this wasn't like when he had fallen for Katherine. With Katherine it was an illusion of love, with Elena it was real, and it was epic. They had been through so much together; she had brought him from hell and back.
He shook his head, attempting to clear his head. He had to focus at the task in front of him.
He dropped the heavy bag and as the bag hit the ground he heard the sound of a bunch of pieces.
"That's odd" He thought to himself.
His eye brows furrowed as he kicked it and bent down and opened the bag. He reached inside and pulled out a shard of stone. The bag was full of broken stone pieces. He stared at in confusion.
"Don't bother. I'm not there."
He looked up and saw Elena. No it couldn't be, Elena was back in Mystic falls, she couldn't be here, it was impossible. He looked down in the bag; of course it had to be him.
"Silas" Stefan said out loud as he slowly got up and stared at the immortal in front of him. "You were stone, they saw you, the spell worked."
"That's the funny thing about spells - they're bound by Nature. Nature demands balance, so every spell has a loophole. The spell that turned me into stone was bound by a witch - a living witch. So when that witch died, the spell broke. "Elena/Silas wickedly grinned as he approached Stefan.
"Bonnie?' Stefan asked in confusion. Silas was trying to get in his head, he saw Bonnie yesterday at graduation. "Bennie's not dead".
"It doesn't matter, does it? And here's where the mystery of me comes full circle. I created the immortality spell two thousand years ago. I can never die, so Nature needed to find a balance - a version of me that could die. A shadow-self - a doppelgänger. "
" So, this is finally your real face?" Stefan asked cautiously as he looked at another one that looked like Katherine and Elena. "You're another one of them? "
"Not exactly." Silas Smirked, Stefan watched as he saw a mirror image of himself appear in front of him.
"Hello, my shadow-self" Silas grinned wickedly.
Stefan stared in disbelief at Silas; He was a doppelganger just like Elena, how was this possible?
Before Stefan knew it Silas was in front of him, and he staked him in the stomach.
"Awahh" Stefan grimaced in pain as he felt the wood stake piercing his stomach.
As Stefan doubled over, grimacing in pain as Silas got down close to his ear.
"Do you have any idea what it's like to starve for two thousand years?" He whispered. He pulled the stake out and watched as Stefan fell onto his knees.
Stefan gasped as he was paralyzed in pain and before he knew it Silas grabbed him.
Silas pushed Stefan into the body-sized safe that was meant for him, and locked him in.
Silas panted as he looked down at the quarry in front of him, He grabbed the safe and pushed it off the edge of the cliff; watching as it crashed into the water below him.
"Goodbye Stefan" Silas grinned as he turned around and headed back into the SUV.
Inside the safe Stefan struggled as the water around him was rising rapidly. He hit the door vault with all his supernatural strength, but nothing.
His life flashed in front him, all 176 years. Of him and Damon growing up together, their Father. Then those memories, the memories of her burned in him as he felt his heart go heavy.
"Were you following me?" She asked him as her eyes narrowed.
"No, I, uh, I just, I saw you fall" He lied.
"Uh-huh. And you just happened to be hanging out in a cemetery."
"I'm visiting. I have, uh, family here."
"Oh. Wow. Tactless. I'm sorry. It's the fog. It's making me foggy. And then back there, there was this bird, and it was all very Hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie, right? The Hitchcock...? I'm Elena."
"I'm Stefan."
"I know. We have history together."
"And English and French."
He gasped at the water was up to his neck. He struggled at the top of the vault, the entire safe almost filled entirely of water.
"You asked me what I wanted my future to be. I wanted to be a writer. My mom sort of pushed me into that direction from the time I was able to read. She supported me, encouraged me, bought me my first journal, and then she died. And I can't see myself being a writer anymore. That was something that we shared. I know that you think you put all of this bad stuff into my life, but my life already had it. I was buried in it." Elena explained
"This is different." Stefan said as he slightly shook his head.
"It doesn't make it any less painful."
'I know that it's - that's it's hard to understand, but I'm doing this for you. " Stefan explained to Elena as he got of the car. He walked towards the house.
"No" He heard Elena call out, and he stopped in his tracks.
"You don't get to make that decision for me. If you walk away, it's for you, because I know what I want." She declared, "Stefan, I love you."
Stefan cried as he remembered that night. That night that made him stay in mystic falls that night that changed his life, when he realised that he was falling in love with her. He gasped as there wasn't any more room left and he was submerged in water.
"Elena? You still with me? " Stefan asked as he leaned against the wall. Grimacing in pain from the wooden bullet he had removed from his leg.
Elena sat on the other side of the wall. Her face had grown pale and her breathing was getting heavy.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. I'm okay" Elena voice rasped.
Stefan shook his head.
"No, you're not. I can hear you breathing. Damon was right, you should have fed this morning. I'm so sorry. "
"Don't be. You had hope. That's all I ever wanted you to have and you had it."
Stefan felt his heart ache. He couldn't lose her, he just couldn't.
"I love you so much."
"Do you know why I was even on that bridge?" Elena asked as her breathing hitched." I was coming back for you, Stefan. I had to choose and I picked you."
Stefan felt tears falling down his face, as he cried silently.
"Because I love you. No matter what happens, it's the best choice I ever made." Elena said as she placed her hand on the wall that was separating them. "God. It sucks that I can't see you right now."
"I'm smiling. " Stefan lied not wanting to ruin this moment, which could be their last moment.
"Me too. "
Stefan let out a final scream in frustration as the water swallowed him up.
As the safe slowly sank its way to the bottom of the quarry, and the air was starting to run out of his lungs, Stefan wondered if anyone would notice he was gone.
He lost the love of his life and his best friend again, all in one night.
Elena was the only one that ever made him feel human again, made him forget the pain he felt being a vampire. He didn't need a cure with her around.
Maybe this was the best place for him, the bottom of the sea where he wouldn't have to feel like this.
He closed his eyes as the last breath of air escaped his body.
"I'll always love you Elena."