"I had to do that, for Enzo. Elena and Stefan talk about the cure and Elena says that she can't take it if it's only one dose. Now, Stefan is still teaching Lily to drive. Stefan and Elena defend Caroline against Damon. In Founder's Day, when the tomb vampires was about to attack the during the Founder's Day festival,, Stefan was affected by the device when John Gilbert started it like all other vampires in town. In The Birthday, Stefan and Klaus are in Tennessee. Valerie whispers to Stefan "I will find my way back to you". He thinks it won't work because he's never heard of anyone doing it. He says that this party won't last because they'll either drink all the booze and get bored or Damon will come home and kill everyone. Elena tells him how much she's enjoying her volunteer time at the hospital. Whatever was inside is gone now. In Kill or Be Killed, Stefan tried to make peace with Mason who told his secret to Elizabeth Forbes, the sheriff, who went about trying to destroy the brothers. However, they reunite in modern day and things become complicated between them due to their history and Stefan's romantic relationship with Caroline. In Catch Me If You Can, Rebekah comes to the Salvatore boarding house talking to Stefan while reading his diary and they decide to steal Silas' headstone, because the others are way ahead of them in search of the cure; Klaus has Jeremy (a hunter) and Shane has Bonnie. Stefan rips apart Alaric's engine to lure Tripp in to grab him. Elena responds that Katherine has killed her brother which was unknown to Elijah. While they continue to search for Julian's coffin, Stefan tells Valerie that Nora siphoned her spell from Caroline. Lily tells him that he is severely underestimating them and that he should run. Discovering that Stefan was a ripper- meaning he only fed and hunted and has lost his humanity, Lexi took it upon herself to help Stefan regain his humanity by not turning his feelings off, where she succeeded eventually. It turns out that it was Damon's plan all along to bring Stefan to the family. Stefanie Salvatore is the heretic daughter of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert, as well the younger twin sister of Stefan Salvatore. Stefan feels guilty for letting Damon go, but Caroline tries to cheer him up, saying that it isn't his fault and that no one could've stopped Damon from going after Wes the other night, Stefan says her that he have to find Damon. Then Enzo slams the door shut and stakes Stefan from behind with a pole. Stefan cuts Jeremy's wrist and gives his blood to the fugitive who completes his transition into a vampire. Eventually, Mikael shows up and drives his fist through Damon's heart in an attempt to get Stefan to tell him where Klaus is, after hearing that Stefan is connected to him. Elena had tears in her eyes. Stefan suggests that they also get Matt over there at the house. Damon spells the gas just before Enzo yanks down a light to ignite it. Another trait he kept was his attraction to Elena. Alaric is not happy to see him, reminding him about how he lied about being on the trail of a way to bring back Damon and Bonnie. In a selfless move, Stefan sacrificed himself so that his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder) could have his happily ever after with Elena (Nina Dobrev). Elena and Damon then locked Stefan up in the basement to try to get him back to normal. This was what had caused most the self-loathing and brooding which had become deeply associated with Stefan's personality. Stefan says his scar opened up so he doesn't have much time. Sloan says they need to go deeper and Caroline says he's seeing old memories but then Sloan starts the spell again, despite Caroline's concerns, Sloan goes back into Stefan's head to get more information Caroline stays on the phone and tries to help him, Enzo listens with interest. Stefan, Elena and Matt try escaping through the tunnels. Elena says that he got his memories back and he knows her better than anything and she's not going to give up on her plan. Then they are back at the Salvatore boarding house and Elena wakes up. But he shouldn't get her wrong-he's standing there and he looks good and she remember their sex and it was good sex but she just doesn't feel anything about it anymore. Stefan still refuses to leave without his brother, same goes for Elena when she joins them, but Bonnie grabs her, forcing her through. He even bribes her by offering her a clean slate, saying that while he is not necessarily willing to forgive Rebekah for what she did to Elena, he is willing to put his anger towards her aside and start over. Bonnie says that she knows how to bring Jeremy back-she has to complete the third massacre for Silas so that she could drop the veil between this side and the other side. Caroline compels Ivy and takes her upstairs as Enzo calls Stefan a coward and they throw each other around the kitchen. The bar people claps for the "happy couple". Trapped inside the room Stefan realizes something. Her last words is "I guess this is how our love story ends", Stefan just look at her and she dies. Stefan loves literature and loves to write, especially in his journal. This is evident in Stefan when he very quickly and easily became infatuated and fell in love with Katherine Pierce, which is evidence of his youthfulness, naivety and simplicity as a regular teenage human. She says that there is no science here, only magic and that they need to find Bonnie because she'll be able to bring her brother back. However, despite them becoming romantically involved, various and numerous obstacles begin to come between the two, making Stefan and Elena struggle and fight to be together. Caroline told him that every time he feels he's about to lose control she will be there for him. She starts to apologize, but Stefan instead urges her to be honest and admit to where she stands when it comes to him and Damon. Stefan took her off to the bathroom to clean the blood of her face. He and Damon have a conversation about un-daggering Elijah and Damon explains that Elijah's in the perfect mood to help killing Klaus. In the novels, Stefan is born in Italy and is foreign with an Italian accent at the beginning of the series. Later, Stefan is seen at the hospital looking for Liam. The gang then go on a compelling spree, compelling all the residents that their town isn't safe anymore and that they should pack up their stuff and leave immediately. Caroline looks to Enzo for an explanation of Stefan's rage. Stefan's cell phone number is 404-358-4345. She goes along with it, asking if Stefan Cooper is only proposing because she's pregnant. He rushes her to the hospital. Stefan tells Damon that he wants Elena to try the animal blood diet so that maybe she can avoid hurting or killing anyone, something that Stefan feels would be especially hard for Elena. Overwhelmed and shocked, Stefan tried to help him, but Giuseppe refused him, disgusted by what Stefan was becoming. Stefan's dependence on Damon due to his newborn vampire-ism and heightened emotions was example by a time right after he transitioned and then persuaded an unwilling Damon to complete his own transformation into a vampire. She's angry at Stefan for not feeding her more. He comforts Elena with his promise. She hands him the herbs and tells him not to worry because Shane won't be back any time soon, she has made sure of that. Stefan accuses her of being vain, and she says that she'd rather go glamorous. When Stefan returned home to Mystic Falls after many years, he unexpectedly "met" Elena on May 23, 2009, after he heard Elena and her parents' car accident while he was out at Wickery Bridge. Much to others dismay, Stefan can become dangerous when emotionally unstable as seen in Best Served Cold, Stefan was able to fight on par, and best Julian a vampire over 475 years old, to the point where it was likely Stefan would of killed him if it weren't for the intervention of Lily. Klaus lightly admonishes Stefan for his nosiness, but admits that he might be useful in persuading Rebekah to cooperate with Klaus. She agrees and wants to use the tree doppelgngers so she can preform the spell and make Bonnie the anchor instead of Amara. Elena, distracted by the bomb blast, looks up to find Jeremy; Connor takes advantage and overpowers her. Klaus tells him that they were 'in this together' and proceeds to show him Alexander's Sword, explaining that the sword decodes Jeremy's hunter's tattoo. Stefan goes up against Beau and nearly gets staked but is saved as Lily arrives and commands them to stop. Giuseppe retorted with disgusted disapproval that their mother would have been extremely disappointed in her sons, were she alive to see what they had become. Katherine asks Stefan why he's being to her. In regards to Damon, Stefan got Damon to feed on the blood of a barmaid by biting her neck and tempting Damon to drink. Caroline explains that control is the only thing she has left in her life, so her feeling for him will have to wait until the mourning and self-loathing is over. He says he is Stefan Salvatore and they have a small chat until he becomes convinced that he is still inside of the Phoenix Stone. She says that she doesn't want anymore lecture and he responds that he was impressed by her actions, because she played them all very well as her intentions from the beginning were to simply find a person to feed on. Caroline reluctantly agrees. 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. She dreams about packing her suitcase with baby shoes and pictures and telling Caroline she's leaving. After relocating to the living room, Bonnie explains that watching the spirits torture her Grams was like she was dying all over again. Tyler comes in to announce the problem of the week. He sensed Rebekah's panic when she responded cryptically "He's here," but before he could find anything out, Nik compelled Stefan to forget about him and Rebekah. He'd felt it, too. She is still suspicious, so he dangles the offer to talk Matt into giving her another chance, and finally Rebekah gives in. Caroline has given Stefan pivotal emotional support to the point where they now have a great friendship. Alaric enters with breakfast s'mores, the best reason to incinerate something. Stefan agrees and goes down while Damon is left up with Rebekah. Stefan nods and walks away in sadness. Appearance Discovering that the police were using wooden bullets, Stefan realized they knew there were vampires inside. When in a bar drinking together arrives the waitress, Stefan feels the need to drink her blood. She puts the phone down and Stefan looks worried. So the cure ends up at the original family-Elijah and Rebekah go back to Mystic Falls. Instead, she drove Stefan to the ground and turned out to be another, much older vampire by the name of Alexia Branson. Stefan responds by saying he's being himself, but she doesn't know what he looks like when he's not in love with her. In another Elena's vision Stefan was cooking her dinner for their anniversary. However, despite Damon's feelings for Katherine, it seemed to be evident that the younger Salvatore was Katherine's preference as it was Stefan that she had asked to escort her to the Founders Ball. In the last minutes of the episode as Stefan is burying Silas all those bad moments from the drowning appear in his mind again. This was an ability he shared with Damon, and was thought to be achieved through Cade's intervention post-death. Stefan, quickly leaves Tripp with Enzo and goes to Caroline's dorm to warm her, however, she is not there. Damon is in the room with Katherine who has been torturing, Stefan asks to Damon to stop and he leave the room. Stefan calls Caroline to let her know that the herbs are more rare than they thought. He flashes back to the day he became a vampire, when he was shot in the gut and left for dead. Jeremy won't tell Stefan anything as he can't be trusted, and Stefan tries to compel him into revealing how far the mark has grown, Jeremy however stakes Stefan in the stomach, saying he can't be compelled anymore before leaving. Stefan's 10 Year Killing Spree The Stefan audiences meet in season 1 is worlds away from the Stefan once known as the Ripper of Monterey. As Stefan stops Klaus' heart, Klaus looks on in shock and sadness and Stefan's expression seems conflicted as well. He admits that he was searching as a distraction, but eventually he had given up too. Interestingly, Klaus accuses him of putting on a "good show". Stefan sees a car approaching them from behind Elena, she turns around and sees the car, Stefan raises his thumb to hitchhike, but Elena makes him put his hand down. Later, Stefan is seen at the hospital with Damon and he says that he just "missed the donuts" and explains that he was burning off a few thousand hate filled calories with Elena and asks why he didn't help him and Damon was avoiding because he knew that her goal was to end Katherine's life and it wasn't going to simply disappear with Pilates, Sheriff Forbes is seen and they ask her why were they invited and she explains that hospitals kept the blood banks empty since they were raided and they thought it would keep the vampires away and then she shows them a dead body and that there were four other victims had been nearly drained of blood and asks if they think its Silas, Stefan assumes that he is fueling up for something big. At the church, Stefan finds Caroline alone before the ceremony begins. Stefan says, aloud, "Goodbye, Katherine" and Elena walks in and asks if she's gone. Klaus then says that he agrees but even if it was Silas who stole it he doesn't see how this affects him. She asks Stefan what has he done and he says that he brought her home before she could do anymore trouble. Stefan and Caroline and Enzo find Lily searching for her friends. ", In Before Sunset, Stefan appears the most upbeat he has been all season. Stefan then walks through the door and into the room Caroline is being held in. At that time Damon arrives and tries to convince Enzo to let Stefan and Elena free, Enzo reminds him that it was Stefan who killed Maggie and so he has to die, then Damon tells him that Stefan was not the one who killed Maggie, that he was the one who did it, Enzo is surprised and in shock, Damon tries to explain but Enzo is too hurt by it, so he decides to turn off his emotions. As Katherine see that her daughter is gone for good, she tries to escape but Damon stops her. Stefan was first seen as a mysterious, handsome and new high school student at Mystic Falls High School. Caroline suddenly stands after talking about Tyler's hybrid friends being un-sired, and after talking to through with Stefan, he realizes that Elena is sired to Damon. Caroline and Stefan are later waiting by an alley nearby the Grill and Stefan demands that Tyler stop or delay the plan to attack Klaus. When Stefan gets down he sees Shane trapped, but he decides not to help him, because now the professor can understand what it feels like to have hope and then to lose it. It was after their wedding that Stefan sacrificed his life to save Mystic Falls from hellfire and when Caroline learned of this called Stefan leaving him a message telling him, she understood his decision and would love him forever hoping he would get her message before he died which he did. Damon asks what is he talking about and Stefan answers that he's done and he can't keep reliving his life like this. Later, Stefan is lying in a car and Caroline comes and lies down beside him, she is saddened by Tom's death and tells him that she is a failure because she couldn't do it, Stefan tells her that he knew that she couldn't do it because she is good, then Caroline tells him that Enzo killed him. When they arrived, Elena took a few moments and went into the house, leaving Stefan outside. Klaus started using mind compulsion on Stefan in The Reckoning, to get Stefan to obey to his orders and kill two students, Dana and Chad. Valerie puts him at ease by telling him that those flowers have no medicinal properties, they are a wives tale. Unable to move he has to lie on the ground together with a tied up Elena. Caroline gasps as his skin starts to desiccate, before Stefan falls to the pavement; dead. Outside, Stefan demands to know what Klaus knows about Elena's hallucinations. Lexi starts teasing Stefan about Caroline, until they watch Sheriff Forbes talking to Markos about an open bar and gathering everyone there and realize there's a plan. They look at the professor's stuff and Stefan is amused by Rebekah's cultural knowledge. She explains that despite her feelings for Damon, she always loved Stefan. When Stefan lets his blood lust take over, (this was because unlike his older brother Damon, Stefan never learned how to control, his thirst for human blood), he often shuts off his humanity and his emotions to block out his suffering, guilt and pain. Enzo still insists that Stefan tells him what he believes is the truth, so he decides to threaten Bonnie, Stefan sees that Bonnie is in danger, so he admits that he was the one who killed Maggie. Stefan wakes up just as Damon arrives. Stefan was a member of the Salvatore Family. 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. Then they hook up and agree to not include feelings or any attachments in their relationship. 1. Damon tries to tell Stefan to control his blood lust and to accept the fact that he is a vampire. Whereas he pretended that he was doing it for her, Stefan was actually in denial about her impeding death and in fact, was afraid to see her in such a sick and grave condition. Stefan meet Elena in an alternative life. He has now started drinking vervain to build up tolerance to it. it turned out Caroline had kidnapped Sarah and compelled Liam to do whatever she said. Stefan was confused, worried and concerned about what was happening to Katherine and could not understand why Katherine appeared so sick and weakened all of a sudden. As they return to Elena's home Stefan realizes that someone is bleeding upstairs. Stefan wakes up in the middle of the road by a crashed car and a dead body inside of the car. First seen Stefan then tells Bonnie that he thinks they have a new vampire hunter in town. The two seem to have an instant connection as she's able to make him laugh and pull him from his dark mood. Katherine tried to return the favor by helping Stefan through his PTSD in the next episode, where sparks flew while locked in the safe. In Crying Wolf, Stefan brought Elena to a lake house where Elena and her adoptive family used to go. Jo begins her vows, but she's cut short when she's stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen. Stefan says she doesn't have to worry about that anymore because he realizes hating Klaus and getting revenge isn't worth it. Mary Louise arrives and tries to kill another Whitmore student. Elena said that it was her father who'd turned on the porch lights to put an end to their first kiss. Taking charge, Caroline feeds a cancer patient her blood and asks Stefan to join her. Both Elena and Rebekah seem shocked as Stefan jumps at the chance, telling her to 'do it'. Stefan agrees to deal with Rebekah's body and compel Jeremy to forget the day's events, as well as keep mum about the cure, while Klaus travels to Italy to retrieve the sword. Stefan runs over to Damon and starts to help him up, but decides to punch him instead. In Let Her Go, Stefan is first seen viewing Damon failing at his attempts at writing Liz's eulogy. Valerie clears up that notion quickly. Stefan says, "Some girl I use to date," as tears form in his eyes. Later, Stefan along with Damon is waiting for Elena to wake up. She has shut it all off, including her feelings for him. Stefan is the only character amongst the main trio that has never killed. He later receives a phone call from Caroline, but he ignores the voicemail and purposely breaks his phone, showing that he is still grieving. Back in their seats, Elena is barely holding it together, and Stefan and Damon argue under their breath about what to do. Matt approaches them about leaving but Sarah covers and the two take off. However, Stefan was not entirely different from the person he had been before the memory loss. But Katherine tells him that he needs to feel, because she needs him to get angry. They have a conversation. He's mad at his brother for not preventing the original sister from taking the cure. The truth of the vampire bloodlines is revealed and Stefan goes to rescue Damon, offering Klaus the remaining white oak stakes in exchange for Damon's freedom. They all end up showing up to the ball and Elena is escorted in by both brothers. At the school, Stefan and Elena join Matt, Jeremy, Caroline, Damon and Bonnie to have the memorial that they didn't have a chance to finish. Stefan's life has been fraught with constant change and various complications: from falling in love and being with Elena to mending his complicated relationship with Damon; from sacrificing his freedom for his brother's life to growing apart from Elena after her transition to a vampire, and suffering the guilt that came from making a split-second decision that resulted in Elena becoming a vampire. He also wears a large, silver lapis lazuli daylight ring on the middle finger of his right hand in order for him to walk around in the sunlight. Stefan and Elena agree that she should meet with Esther while Damon doesn't want her to go. When a human gets ravenously hungry, they eat a double cheeseburger but they kill people and that's just who they are. However, shortly after Stefan's breakup with Valerie, Stefan goes to Alaric and Caroline's home and sees that she is happy raising children with Alaric.