The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #6: The Compelled by L. J. Smith & Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec

Author:L. J. Smith & Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Social Issues, Love & Romance, Juvenile Fiction, Paranormal, David_James, Mobilism.org, Adolescence
ISBN: 9780062113993
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2012-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

In one of my schoolbooks there was a painting called The Fountain of Youth, an Edenic image of young, beautiful people in the middle of an endless party. As a child, I’d glanced at it again and again, enchanted by the idea of immortality.

Now I knew better. Immortality wasn’t idyllic or enchanting. But it was powerful.

If I had to live forever, I had to make it count. And that was why I needed to get as far away as I could from temptation—and from Damon.

So that’s why I boarded a ship bound for New Zealand. I had no idea if I’d stay for a month, a year, or a century, and I liked it that way. I liked not needing a plan. I liked only depending on myself.

And I liked the way it was so easy to slip into conversation with a stranger and no longer feel like I was hiding a horrible secret.

I was Stefan Salvatore.

I still craved blood. The desire was relentless, all-consuming, a second heartbeat pounding away in the center of my being. I wondered what it would feel like if I could just give in to my dark side, like Damon. I wondered what would have happened if Lady Alice hadn’t come and saved both of us. When it mattered, in that final moment between life and death, would I have had the self-control to break the compulsion and pull myself off him?

I didn’t think so.

And I vowed that for the rest of eternity, I’d never be in the position to find out.

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THE HUNTERS VOL. 2: MOONSONG

1

Dear Diary,

I’m so scared.

My heart is pounding, my mouth is dry, and my hands are shaking. I’ve faced so much and survived: vampires, werewolves, phantoms. Things I never imagined were real. And now I’m terrified. Why?

Simply because I’m leaving home.

And I know that it’s completely, insanely ridiculous. I’m barely leaving home, really. I’m going to college, only a few hours’ drive from this darling house where I’ve lived since I was a baby. No, I’m not going to start crying again. I’ll be sharing a room with Bonnie and Meredith, my two best friends in the whole world. In the same dorm, only a couple of floors away, will be my beloved Stefan. My other best friend, Matt, will be just a short walk across campus. Even Damon will be in an apartment in the town nearby.

Honestly, I couldn’t stick any closer to home unless I never moved out of this house at all. I’m being such a wimp. But it seems like I just got my home back—my family, my life—after being exiled for so long, and now I suddenly have to leave again.

I suppose I’m scared partly because these last few weeks of summer have been wonderful. We packed all the enjoyment we would have been having these past few months—if it hadn’t been for fighting the kitsune, traveling to the Dark

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