↳-my thoughts echo in my head-༉‧₊˚✧

Stefan's Pov
I brought my daughter home after she passed out. I would be lying if I said I didn't freak out because I totally did but Damon and Valerie kept reassuring me that it was okay and that she only passed out from everything that happened last night. I'm currently sitting on the couch she has in her room. I made her a promise that Julian would never hurt her and I broke that. I want to kill him. I want him dead for ever hurting my daughter. Right after I brought her home I was so full of rage I stormed out of the house ready to kill him the first chance I got. If it wasn't for Damon snapping my neck I think he would've killed me but I would take him down with me, would that be worth it? Would my life be worth her sadness? Thoughts like this keep coming to mind as I realize how stupid I was. He's almost 3 times my age. What if she never wakes up? What if the last picture I have of my daughter is as she screams when Damon removed the stake from her chest. I can still hear the echo of those screams in my ears like a nightmare that keeps replaying inside my mind. I hear the door creek and Damon steps in with some blood bag.

"Stefan we're all worried about her but starving yourself isn't going to help it" Damon says the same thing he's been saying it for the last 3 days. 3 days since my mother died. 3 days since Danie hasn't woken up. 3 days since I didn't leave her room.

"I don't want it Damon" I tell him and although the hunger inside me is getting stronger and stronger I can't. I just can't swallow any of the blood.

"Stefan if I have to put you on a feeding tube for you to eat something, trust me I will" He tells me with a serious tone. I look at him and the blood bag in his hands. I can smell it, it's smell so delicious it's like the sweetest candy you've ever tasted and then multiplied by a hundred. It's hard to resist. At last I reach for the bag in his hands and bring the straw to my mouth. The can feel the blood going down my throat. It's like I've been dying of thirst and now I'm drinking water. Wait that doesn't feel right. Feeling the blood coming up I vamp speed into the bathroom and throw up.

I see Valerie coming up the stairs after hearing the commotion. I feel another wave of nausea and throw the remaining blood in my system into the toilet. I turn to Damon and Valerie who all look worried out of their minds. Vampires don't get sick and they don't throw up. The last time this happened was when Elena was sired to Damon and he told her she can only drink from the vein. But I'm not sired so why does this keep happening?

I stumble a little and grab the wall for support. I can feel Damon helping me onto the couch from the bathroom.

"You okay?" He asks and I nod. Damon goes downstairs and comes back with a glass of water. I take it and swallow it. This feels a lot better.

"Stefan is there anything we can get you, maybe if you drink from the source it would help" Valerie suggests but I don't think drinking from a blood bag is any different then drinking from a bunny.

"I think you should sleep a little. It might help" Damon says and I shake my head. I can't, I have to be here for her when she wakes up. I want to know she's okay the moment she opens her eyes. Damon doesn't seem to take no for an answer and he and Valerie grab me from the couch and slowly get me to the other side of Danie's bed.

"Damon I can't I have to be there for her" I tell him –my voice getting weaker by the second– trying to go back to my seat but he places me on the bed. It's so soft, and comfortable. It's like laying on a cloud.

"It's okay, you'll be there" That's the last thing I hear before I fall into a deep sleep.

Damon's Pov
I know Stefan was worried about his daughter. When we younger it was his biggest dream to have a daughter one day. And he finds out that the person who almost destroyed that for him hurt his daughter. I don't think I ever told her that but I love my niece.

"When Stefan wakes up we should figure out a way to get some blood into his system or he'll desiccate" Valerie tells me bringing me a glass of alcohol.

"Yeah but how. He's fine physically but mentally he's convinced himself that he doesn't want to drink until she wakes up" I tell her worried about Stefan. Let's just hope that when he wakes up he's going to be better.

"Have you ever heard of a horse sleeper?" Valerie asks me and I frown what does this have to do with horses.

"No but what does my brother not being able to keep the blood down have to do with horses?" I ask her a little bit of anger in my voice. We don't have time for riddles. I need to know what's wrong with Stefan.

"The Norwegian people call them sleepers. That's a horse and a human that are connected together. So if one of them is sick the other gets sick too" Valerie says and it's starting to make sense.

"So you're saying that the love Stefan has for his daughter is so strong it created a phycological bond between them?" I ask unsure and she nods.

"Yes, Stefan won't eat until Danie wakes up and Danie won't wake up until Stefan eats" She finishes, that's perfect.

"So do these Norwegian people also know how to get them out of that state" I say and she shakes her head no. Damn it.

"No unfortunately not, but we're talking about people not horses so maybe it will be easier" She says and I sigh. Cause we didn't have enough problems as it was. Sometimes I miss the times when my problems were narrowed down onto only vampires and not mystical bonds made by love.

"Okay I'm gonna call Blondie maybe she can help" I say and go call Caroline. It took about half an hour until she understood everything. She arrived at the boarding house with 5 big books. She sat them down and I had time to look at them.

"Blondie what is this? Norwegian mythology. Culture of the Norwegian people. We're not writting a high school essay", I tell her and she glares at me and takes the books out of my hands.

"No but it's the best way to start" She says with a smile sometimes I wish I had her optimism.

"Caroline's right it's the best lead we've got"Valerie says and that's how we spent the night. Reading through books that lead us absolutely no where. I mean absolutely nowhere. There wasn't even one mention of that happening to humans or vampires for that matter.

Later that night a pale looking Stefan comes downstairs. He doesn't look tired, more like hungry. I hate seeing my brother like this. I don't think I ever saw him like that.

"Hey brother why don't you take a seat and I'll get you some real food" I tell him and he nods. Human food might not improve his condition but at least he can feel a little better.

I couldn't help but overhear part of their conversation.

"Stefan are you feeling any better?"Caroline asks my brother who nods but she's not convicted. It's hard to lie to Caroline Forbes, I know that from personal experience. "Stefan"She says and he looks at her with admiration and love. I never would have thought that Caroline and !y brother would be together.

Stefan sighs and buries his head into her neck and I can hear a few quiet sobs coming from him and muffles answer.

"I'm so worried like what if she never wakes up?"He says and Caroline runs her hand up and down his back and then through his back.

"If she's anything like her father she's going to be more than okay"Caroline answers and I can see Stefan. He looks paler and paler every minute. Caroline seems to notice that too so she bites into her wrist and places it in my brothers mouth. He's fighting against it at first but then he accepts it and starts drinking the blood. After a moment he looks up from Caroline's wrist and kisses her. And she kisses him back. Good think Valerie went on a toilet brake it breaks your heart to see someone you love loving someone else.

I walk out of the kitchen, I give Stefan the food and he stars eating. And keeps it down, well at least human food works. Then all of us hear a light groan coming from upstairs.

Stefan's Pov
I heard a light groan from upstairs and immediately ran up the stairs into her room. I saw her slowly opening her eyes and looking around the room. I walk towards her bed and sit on it. She sits up and smiles when she notices me.

"Hey sweetie" I say and hug her. I can feel her hands gripping onto my t-shirt like she's afraid to let go. I don't want to let go either.

"Dad you look a little pale how long was I out?" She asks me noticing my skin color from the lack of blood. Even if Caroline helped a little it still wasn't enough.

"It's almost 4 days now honey. You had us all worried" I tell her and she sighs.

"Come on its time to eat I'm sure you're hungry" I tell her and she nods. We walk down and she's immediately in hug from both Valerie and Damon.

My daughter drinks some animal blood while I do too sitting next to her.

Helooooooooo so this is far by my favorite chapter guys. I loved writing in Stefan's Pov. So I hope you had a good day.

Ps: I added a cute Steroline scene cause I know someone that wanted to see more of their chemistry 😁.