Killed by Stefan catches ball and wins everyone over. Damon remarks that Elena is not looking so good, and they banter quietly about jealousy and keeping secrets. Stefan, Damon and Alaric travel to Portland to investigate the Gemini Coven. As Caroline darts away in another direction, Elena and Stefan run through a hallway, slamming a door and trying to use their collective strength to keep hybrid-Tyler out. Determined to change that, she later walked with him through the camp where they had met, asking him how he felt about the suffering war victims. He compels her to leave and never come back. Later, Caroline is watching the shed burn and Stefan joins her. In Christmas Through Your Eyes, Stefan's hand is forced when he has to be the bearer of devastating news to Caroline. She says that she doesn't want the cure and asks them if they'll accept her decision and let her be who she is or not. From the hospital, Elena calls Stefan, worried that her feelings will come back for Damon if she sees him. Stefan takes Caroline back to the boarding house and they talk about Elena. Elena and Elijah talk and Elena says that the original brother is not the same anymore because he has fallen for Katherine's trap. When they all receive the news of Damon being captured by Tripp, they all go at the Mystic Fall entrance. They dance and while the energy is intense they share a light hearted chat about Stefan's usual lack of enthusiasm for dancing. It is at the high school that Stefan inevitably and fatefully meets Elena Gilbert, who bears an unusual, and striking uncanny physical resemblance to Stefan's past love from 1864, Katherine Pierce. He almost always respects women's (namely Elena) choices and decisions, even if he doesn't agree with them. Flashbacks show that Stefan felt extreme guilt for the death of Lillian. When they came back, Damon told him two things. Stefan says, aloud, "Goodbye, Katherine" and Elena walks in and asks if she's gone. Given the degree to which he's tortured him, he thinks Enzo is telling the truth that Mystic Falls doesn't have much of a vampire problem, and that it's moved down to Savannah. Damon talks Stefan into drinking human blood. Caroline rang Liam again to see why he was taking so long. Stefan was the very first main character heard and introduced in the series. Stefan reveals that he is concerned that Damon won't be able to say goodbye to Elena. She begs him to stay, but he walks away. They joke about the bad luck they usually have at the dances and Elena responds saying that they need to live their lives. Damon, however, understands her intentions and says that it was exactly what he used to do. Stefan realizes that this was Elena's plan from the beginning-to bring too many people to the house as a distraction so that she could be free and do whatever she wants. They go to the tunnels, the Travelers are still gathered around, chanting. Damon urges Stefan to get Luke out of the burning building. He left Ivy's daylight ring at Caroline's dorm. As Katherine asks her about her body Stefan tells her that Damon only told him that he put it somewhere where is should have been long time ago. Stefan tries to make it sound fun by suggesting they see the world, just the two of them. Klaus, however, keeps to respond ironically. Rayna is in the chair across from him, telling him that she is exhausted. Stefan takes Caroline back to her dorm as they continue to make out. The Vampire Diaries presents Stefan Salvatore as virtuous, so it's fair to question why he became a bloodthirsty Ripper vampire once turned. Later, back at the boarding house, Stefan thanks Damon for not telling Elena about the cure, and that by killing Connor she may have lost her only chance to be human again. Stefan says that this isn't really her and she respond that she is and they need to accept it, because otherwise there will be consequences. When he notice Damon has been waiting for the day they had a fight because Stefan made him turn. Stefan asks him if he really still wants to get the cure, because that means he could lose her and Damon says that this is a chance he's willing to take. Later, the brothers are in the cellar and Stefan is shown to have bled Damon out because he didn't have vervain and needed to find a way to weaken him. He sees a small box in it and thinks that this might be the cure. They briefly reunite when Katherine comes back to try and destroy Mystic Falls, which classified them as enemies once again. When Klaus tells him to let bygones be bygones, and that an eternity of bad feelings gets old, Stefan counters saying that revenge never gets old, and reveals that he stole the coffins that hold Klaus' family. Lexi then says what ever Elena feels is for Stefan and Stefan tells Lexi that she is the love of his life and he would go back to her in a heart beat, but if that is not what Elena feels he thinks that it might be what he needs to finally leave. Rebekah takes the cure and Damon does nothing to stop her. It turns out that Stefan has begged her to do that as they've heard how reckless the elder Salvatore has become. Stefan says his scar opened up so he doesn't have much time. After a long fight, Stefan falls rendered next to a car, Enzo continues attacking and beating him. Stefan says that Elena is ruthless without her humanity and the cure is the fastest way to get her back. Later, Caroline is with Stefan waiting for him to wake up, when he wake up Stefan teases her calling her "Rebekah" and she cares for him, then he call her "Lexi" and she realizes it's a joke, Stefan asks her if the spell worked and then arrives Enzo, he thanks her for her call and says it's time to go, Stefan ask her what is happening and Caroline says as Sloan was going to fry his brain to kill his doppelgnger and that she wasn't about to let that happen, so she have volunteered to help Enzo deal with it, that mean kill him. Damon initially had no desire to rekindle any brotherly relationship with Stefan, but Stefan convinced Damon to join him for a drink, saying he had missed him. When Stefan pulled the stake out of his father's stomach, his bloodlust became too much for him to suppress and he tasted his father's blood, completing his transition into a full vampire. After Elena asks why he sent Damon to look for her, Stefan admits that Damon seems to have Elena's trust in ways that he doesn't anymore. While continuing to playfully practice defense techniques, Elena reassures Stefan that Damon is only teaching her how to feed, and that Stefan is really the one getting her through her adjustment period. Kai appears. As Elena is giving her speech, she and the other vampires smell blood dripping from the ceiling. There was a large part of Stefan and who he is deep down in his core that cares deeply and strongly for his own humanity as well as humankind. When they arrive at the dance and begin to slow dance Stefan mentions that he has been meaning to apologize to Bonnie. Stefan however, doesn't respond in any way and Elena hangs up the phone, trying to make Damon resist the compulsion but he's unable to do so and demands Jeremy shoot him in the heart. Meet Me on the Other Side Chapter 12, a Supernatural + Vampire Diaries It is unknown if Katherine had compelled Stefan to forget after she had bitten him. Stefan tells Jesse that he can smell the blood and he wants to drink it. When the Veil is restored, Lexi disappears, leaving Stefan alone. He continues, showing her a real memory of him and her mom. Stefan suggests Enzo has a witch performing a cloaking spell on him and doesn't want to be found. Back in their seats, Elena is barely holding it together, and Stefan and Damon argue under their breath about what to do. It was there that he spotted a girl in the shadows and tried to attack and feed on her. Throughout, Stefan repeatedly looks at Caroline, realizing what he has done to her and that he should of just told her what he truly felt about her. Stefan Salvatore was the hero, the male protagonist (opposite of Elena, the female protagonist), the deuteragonist, and a main character of The Vampire Diaries novel series. Klaus then calls out a teenage girl from behind the crate and forces Stefan to kill her and drink her blood as his initiation. Damon however interrupts his lecture and says that Stefan needs to be a good brother and keep Mystic Falls afloat for him. In the novels, when Stefan was a child, his mother always used to sing him a French lullaby. The throng of vampires pushed closer, their hissing turning from individual into one massive thing. She asks if Stefan has slept with her too, but he says no and adds that he was just a better person when he was with Lexi. He later discovered that this is due to the creation of a sire bond between Elena and Damon after Elena's transition to a vampire. Otherwise, I don't need to know, I don't want to know.". She brought him coffee and said that ever since he lost his memories she feels like she has lost a friend and she wants them to start clean. In Brave New World, at a carnival, Damon challenged Stefan to hand-wrestle Mason Lockwood but Stefan lost. They get back to the Gilbert house and see Caroline cleaning the floor from the burn mark where Kol died. As well as being shot by his own father, he has his heart ripped out, is stabbed twice by the Phoenix Sword, and sacrifices himself to the Hellfire in order to kill Katherine and save Damon. She tells them that in a tree stump, they should find a dagger. Their first relationship during Season Seven is strained a bit until Stefan and Caroline are forced to breakup for three years. Stefan throws the dagger, again undoing the cloaking spell on the house hitting a piece of wood on the exterior of the house. Klaus laughs at this and jokes about "The Salvatores and their unshakable bond." Unknown to Stefan, she ended up turning into a vampire. They grow distance after Elena's transition, and later break up, due to Elena's heightened feelings for Damon. Hearing a noise down the end of the corridor, he starts to text Caroline yet Rebekah soon shows up, pushing him against the locker, stating she wants the cure. It is assumed that the Travelers have found him. Born When he says he wants to talk to Caroline, Elena invites Stefan to the party. The car comes to a screeching halt. Stefan then steps inside the town and manages to save both Damon and Enzo in time. He would travel into town to buy tea and flowers, telling himself it was for her, but it was truly his way to avoid her.