After that, they give Elena their house to protect her from vampires. Finishing up, she flashes a smile and wonders why the director has no comments. Klaus and Rebekah bicker until Stefan reminds him that he would rather be eating dinner with anyone else. Underground, Stefan is leading Connor by force through the tunnels when they run into Damon, who wants to kill Connor. She tries to siphon the wound but it doesn't help. Stefan is the only character amongst the main trio that has never killed. While Stefan was seen as a good guy because he refused to drink from humans, that was just a way of trying to stave off his ripper state, a strategy that only worked for so long. Elena gets angry and says that he should look at himself, because his whole life revolves around her and maybe he's the one who needs to turn it all off. She can't believe he was going to dump Ivy on her and leave. Maria tries hitting the brakes, but it nothing happens. Elena asks Stefan if he is okay and he replies telling her they always have a plan for evil, but there is no plan for telling Caroline that she is losing her mom. Stefan removing wooden bullets from Tyler's chest. She asks Stefan and Klaus if it's a trick, wondering aloud how this hunter could be one of The Five if he doesn't have the tattoo. Then Caroline asks where is Elena and Stefan points out to her only to see her dancing with the others. Damon tells him that he was right, Elena is sired and Damon holds up a photo Stefan realizes of being from New Orleans in 1942. In the novels, Stefan is born in during the Renaissance period in the fifteenth century in Florence, Italy. Stefan quickly realizes who it is and immediately throws her over the couch. Stefan and Katherine at Tyler's welcome party. He sits at the bar and a drink is then slid over to him. Stefan shows up at the school in search of Rebekah, checking his text messages for any word from Caroline. When Katherine steps inside and cuts herself and makes Damon drink on her, Stefan interferes and cuts himself to distract Damon from feeding on Elena (Katherine) and snaps his neck. Stefan keeps trying to explain that he was in the exact same situation and she didn't accept the way he was when his emotions were off. She asks where and he answers that he knows a bar out there off the beaten path. When she dies the final time, everyone with that mark will die too. She can see he's surprised and tries to make an awkward exit, thinking they're in different places with the relationship. Then Stefan attacks Enzo by clutching his heart but without taking it out. Stefan compels a boy to give him his cup of beer, and he gives it to Elena. Damon sees an aquarium with no fishes and than understands that the water is vervained. He tells Elena that the best thing for them to do is to go to their graduation and with Jeremy thinking the same thing, they go to their graduation. Throughout the fifth season, Stefan loses his memories due to Qetsiyah's attempt at incapacitating Silas and suffering effects due to Silas' confrontation, he slowly finds closure with Katherine as she helps him overcome his demons. In The World Has Turned and Left Me Here, Stefan gets a call from Tripp, who updates Stefan on his torture of Enzo. It was then that Stefan miraculously saved Elena's life, but was unable to save Elena's parents, Grayson and Miranda, who did not survive the tragedy. Damon says that everything she says is a lie and that this isn't even her house, because it doesn't look like her. Species He agrees at the last moment. Caroline compels Jesse to go and hide. Klaus proceeds to tell Stefan that the brotherhood of the Five was a group of highly skilled vampire hunters and that Klaus and his siblings had crossed paths with them in the 12th century in Italy. Stefan and Caroline are at the Whitmore party babysitting Nora and Mary Louise. It is there that Stefan confesses his regrets about Elena not feeding in order to complete her transition. They argue about Elena going to Damon for help instead of Stefan, and Elena admits that she felt that Damon would understand. At the Grill, Lily almost loses control. Stefan was his father Giuseppe's favorite son. Bonnie tagged along to keep Damon in check. Later, Elena and Stefan are collecting firewood and discussing about their secret situation unaware that Enzo is planning his revenge from the other side. In The Ties That Bind, When Bonnie shows Elena the coffins, Stefan gets angry because Elena shouldn't have seen those. Damon admits that he didn't do anything to stop Rebekah but he thought that if she takes it all of his problems go away and then when she really took it he realized how badly he screwed up. Katherine tells Stefan that what he is suffering is called PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder). Episode Count She also kills not only Aja but the other witches too as they are all linked as one. Stefan keeps an eye on Sheriff Forbes and he is approached by Elena. Stefan then tells him about Elena's compulsion which shocks Damon but he still has faith that the moment they will meet, everything will be okay again. He met Lexi in New Orleans and she got him to feed on animal blood. However, on the show, Stefan only loved Katherine before finding out that she was a vampire and before she had betrayed himself and Damon. The news is on. In the novels, Stefan and Damon have never had a close relationship since their childhood. All of a sudden Stefan takes a deep breath and opens his eyes. He is invited to the party that Caroline and Elena are organizing but he refuses to go to the party. Klaus is mad and yells at her while Bonnie says that the triangle is now complete. In Mystic Falls, Caroline sits upon a bench dedicated to her mom while writing. Klaus informs her that his tattoo is invisible, and suggests they sit down to eat. Stefan spied the fight from a far and witnessed Mason's unusual fighting against Carter. Stefan resents that Elena thought he wouldn't understand, and goes on to explain why he's angry that she fed on Damon. She opens a safe and says that the cure is not there. In the same moment Matt also comes and when he sees his friend dead he starts to cry. Stefan helps Elena take down and feed on her first deer. Damon orders Tyler to commune with the Traveler inside him to find Markos and tells Stefan that they're going to take their ex-girlfriend on a secret trip to keep her and Stefan safe from the Travelers. Seasons later, after Stefan sacrificed his life to help save Mystic Falls from hellfire, they are reunited in peace, in death. She's slowly getting better at this. Stefan's mother visited him in his sleep after her "death". Stefan remembers that the hunter had werewolf venom, and Elena must have been poisoned with it. Damon, of course, claims that he doesn't care about Klaus, but Stefan tells him again to let him go. Stefan was the very first main character heard and introduced in the series. Despite this, Stefan has engaged in fights with Damon numerous times since, sometimes besting him easily. With his hands full, Stefan's phone rings, so Caroline awkwardly fishes it out of his front pocket and answers it to hear her mom on the other end just checking in. Stefan changed his decision about taking the cure, but it changed again upon seeing an old couple in love. 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. Klaus lightly admonishes Stefan for his nosiness, but admits that he might be useful in persuading Rebekah to cooperate with Klaus. Stefan seems satisfied at finally being able to stop Klaus but a part of him appears sad as well. They later marry hoping to lure Katherine out, at their wedding who had become the Queen of Hell following Cade's death. Stefan proposes Elena in an alternate life. Stefan had all the typical weaknesses of a human/doppelgnger. Stefan responds that it is June 5, 1473. In The Murder of One, Stefan and Damon make a plan with Elena, Matt and Caroline to kill the Originals. Katherine got under Damon's skin and Damon killed Jeremy with the intention of turning him into a vampire, but due to Jeremy's ring, Stefan was able to identify that he was still human. At school, Stefan and Elena endure harassment from Rebekah until Elena tries to retaliate: she throws a pencil forcefully at Rebekah, who catches it and throws it into Elena's chest. Damon says that they won't. Unlike Damon, Stefan had a very close relationship with his father Giuseppe and Stefan was Giuseppe's favorite son. Stefan disagree on that but then she tells him but Caroline tells him that they only want one doppelgnger alive, so is Stefan or the other. Gloria sets up everything to torture him for the information, and finally sees where the necklace is. However, in the novels, Stefan has only claimed to have been in love twice in his 500 years of existence; first with Katherine and then with Elena. However, he later tells Damon that he did it to get freedom from Klaus, not because of any feelings for his brother. In American Gothic, Stefan and Damon manage to track Damon's car that Elena and Rebekah stole from New York. In Death and the Maiden, Stefan's having a dream about how Silas stabbed him and put him in the safe. Valerie was healed of her injuries from Julian's beating by Lilian and drowned herself. The brothers try to persuade her not to do it but she refuses to listen to them so she sets everything on fire. Silas drains the Little Gilbert and kills him while Katherine manages to take the cure and run away. Later, once Stefan goes to Caroline's house to see if she was alright, he finds Elena's dead body laying on the floor, he quickly runs over to her, realizing what Caroline has done. Caroline, who sees them joking says "For a couple of Doppel targets, you two seem to be taking this all in stride," Stefan replies "Yea, well, a tribe of ancient wannabe witches wants to drain us of our blood and eliminate supernatural beings -- I've had worse.". Outside the school, Stefan and Caroline try to soothe Elena, who is still furious about Rebekah's antagonism. In After School Special, Stefan is drinking alone at the Grill, expressing his bitterness over the phone to Caroline about Damon and Elena sleeping together. Paul WesleySawyer Bell (Young, age 10)Luke Judy (Young/Child)Ryan Dorsey (Possessing Marty Hammond) They go to look for her in the forest but can't seem to find her. Stefan tells her that not yet, but she won't open her eyes again. They briefly reunite when Katherine comes back to try and destroy Mystic Falls, which classified them as enemies once again. Valerie is trying to help him as he tells her his chest hurts. However, on the show, Stefan and Damon were best friends since their human lives and became rivals later on. Then Stefan chains Damon and vervains him to weaken him, and when Damon wakes he tells him that he shouldn't have told him to leave and that he will never give up on him. Later, Sloan finds another Silas doppelgnger that is in Atlanta, Caroline tries to make her stop because Stefan is suffering and they have already found the doppelgnger but Sloan ignores her, Caroline is fed up of seeing Stefan suffer and she comes behind Sloan and holds a knife against her throat, Sloan tells her that the if she hurts her, the Travelers are going to kill her but Caroline says that she tell them to stop and that there's a way they can all get what they want. At first, it seems as if Klaus' compulsion made it so that he didn't care, but he eventually agrees to lure Klaus to Mystic Falls. Stefan finds Enzo who is about to stake Elena, they start fighting and moving away from the place. Katherine says that she doesn't want to, because she wants to see him. They exchanged their final, heartfelt goodbyes to one another. Damon, Elena and Stefan discuss the situation and Elena says that they need to hide Amara and keep her alive so that they can use that again Silas. Damon begins to speak loudly waiting for Enzo's reply, Enzo is looking at them as a ghost, Caroline says that it doesn't make any sense because if Enzo wanted to kill Elena, drowning her wouldn't have worked, Enzo tells that she is smart and he see why they like her so much. Stefan accepts and drinks the number of blood bags Klaus gives him. Stefan catches her right on the moment which she is about to hit the ground. Him and Damon worry after Bonnie shows up with news of Alaric and it is revealed that Elena is missing.