Katherine quickly put on her clothes as Damon carried Elena upstairs. “You can lay her down on my bed, I’ll sleep on the couch” Stefan said. Damon held his steps, but didn’t turn around. Then he walked further to Stefan’s room where he lay Elena down on Stefan’s bed. He took off her shoes and left. He went to Elena’s room-yes, she had her own room in the house-and collected the dirty sheets, which’d been lying there since morning.
Downstairs Stefan was furious at Katherine.
“See what you’ve done? Now Elena will think I cheated on her and I didn’t do anything!” he raged.
“She’s sleeping, Stefan! She didn’t see shit!” Katherine shot back.
“When will you get in your head that I have no interest in you whatsoever? If you’re so eager on having someone to play with, try Damon” Stefan fired.
“That’s low, even for you” Katherine said. She got up to open the door; someone had ringed. A short, blonde girl was standing in the doorway. Her face was wet of crying. “Hello, I…eh…I need to talk to Stefan Salvatore”
Katherine raised her eyebrows and looked down on the visitor. “Who’s asking?” she said arrogant.
“Kelsey Lindy” Kelsey said who succeeded in keeping her voice under control.
“Let her in, Kat” Stefan said and Katherine reluctantly step aside. Kelsey walked into the room and Stefan got up. “I’m really sorry for what happened to your sister. You are her sister, right?”
Kelsey only nodded.
“I never meant for anything fatal to happen to her” Stefan continued.
“And that makes it okay?” Kelsey now said.
“No! Not at all! I’m not trying to make excuses” Stefan hastily said.
“Good” Kelsey said. “I couldn’t bear to hear them”
Katherine slammed the door and Stefan looked up. “Can you cut to the chase, dear, we don’t have all night”
Kelsey ignored her. “In ten minutes the moon will rise and I will turn. I should bite you and make you suffer the way Amber had suffered”
“I understand your pain” Stefan said, but Kelsey covered her ears not to hear it.
“Stop trying to talk yourself out of it! Stop trying to pretend you know how I feel! You can’t possibly know!” she cried. She breathed heavily. “You’re lucky I’m not like you. I don’t play with people, I don’t manipulate them, I don’t use them for my own personal gain, I don’t make them suffer”
“Tick tock, tick tock” Katherine teased. She yawned. “Stefan, please, snap her neck, rip her heart out, liberate her from her pain”
“Speaking of hearts…” Kelsey conjured a stake out of her pocket, the stake Derek had given her. She aimed for Stefan’s heart, but the moment she wanted to stake, she gasped. Her eyes bulged and blood came out of her mouth.