They go to the diner where Elena is waiting for them. Again, believing that he is drunk, the police officer arrests him and handcuffs him. Bonnie tagged along to keep Damon in check. Stefan then tells Bonnie that he thinks they have a new vampire hunter in town. They then continue their relationship (albeit physically only) as they go on a killing spree. Valerie tells him that she killed herself and accidentally became the first Heretic. An unseen person removes the chains and the lock that bind Stefan to the table. Later Stefan and Damon is in the room were Bonnie had cast a trapping spell. Stefan responds that they can't give up on her, because when he was at his worst she didn't give up on him. Stefan says to her to unlock the doors, but they can't do it, suddenly, the pedal pushes itself down and the vehicle moves forward. So, unless you're gonna stake me, why don't you get the hell out of my house. In 500 Years of Solitude, Stefan is in the hospital worried about Katherine. Stefan seems satisfied at finally being able to stop Klaus but a part of him appears sad as well. As he walks away Elena stops him, implying that she wants to say something to him but then she changes her mind. He may have felt guilty about his kills, but Stefan was definitely the top killer on The Vampire Diaries. Damon tells Stefan that he needs him to investigate the Connor situation while Damon takes Elena to college. Desperate to save Elena, Stefan quietly plots with Rebekah. Unknown to Stefan, she ended up turning into a vampire. He had a moment of weakness, that is his thing-like them falling for the same girl-that was their thing. Then they are back at the Salvatore boarding house and Elena wakes up. Stefan then offered her to have dinner with him that night. By telling her the names, he can control himself. In the present . Tyler comes in to announce the problem of the week. Furthermore, given he was on the run for numerous years, he unlikely killed anyone during those years either. Unable to control his bloodlust, he spent over 10 years slaughtering his way through North America - including a stint with Klaus and Rebekah in the 1920s - until Lexi pulled him back from the edge. Klaus emerges from another room, clearly having listened, and after Rebekah argues with him some more he daggers her. Beau casts a spell and high frequency noise causes Stefan to fall to his knees. In the novels, Stefan is born in during the Renaissance period in the fifteenth century in Florence, Italy. Stefan and Elena defend Caroline against Damon. Stefan says, "Some girl I use to date," as tears form in his eyes. As Elena and Stefan start falling deeper in love with each other, Elena discovers Stefan's deep, dark secret: Stefan is a century old vampire with a mysterious past. Damon reminds him again that he doesn't want to be saved and Damon tells them that he plans to find Wes and that Enzo has Jeremy as hostage and that if Bonnie doesn't help him to get a witch, Enzo will kill to Jeremy. 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. Enzo tells to Stefan and Caroline that they will find another doppelgnger of Stefan and that he don't know the Traveler lore, he also says that the last remaining pair of doppelgngers are special. Damon says "What, I'm gone a couple months, you think it's ok to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon." In The Downward Spiral, Stefan is first seen on the phone to Elena, walking around Caroline's empty house. At the cabin, Stefan talks with Elena about their secret regarding Enzo's death. Stefan grew up in the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. She tells Stefan to care enough about Damon to save him. Damon ends with an ominous statement to his brother: "She's back, and she's not going to stop until you're dead.". Klaus elaborates that Rebekah had in fact been in love with the hunter, and during that time had learned many of the brotherhood's secrets. Stefan jokes, saying, "Who gave you that horrible advice?" He suggests they leave the party instead, and Elena finally hands over the stake. Klaus, however, reveals to Damon that maybe his little brother has moved on since he caught him sneaking out of Rebekah's bed this morning. He tells her that he comes here with flowers everyday. Caroline says it was a Valerie-sized day full of surprises. 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. In Plan B, Stefan jumps into a well to try and find the moonstone that Mason hid, but didn't realize the water was full of vervain and he couldn't move, his face and body beginning to burn; Elena comes down to rescue him. Stefan had also briefly displayed much more dismissive and almost callous behavior towards the victims he had supposedly murdered in the past since he was unable to feel sorry for things he couldn't remember. He admits that he was searching as a distraction, but eventually he had given up too. Elena confesses that while she loves Stefan for helping her through her transition, she can't deny her relationship with Damon has intensified since she became a vampire. She calms him down by telling him to remember and name the people he has killed in order, starting with Giuseppe Salvatore. Back at the Forbes cabin, Stefan starts to apologize to Damon, but Damon punches him. He then followed Elena and Bonnie to Abby's House, talking to Elena. They are hoping that Damon will carry out a plan to kill Silas because Qetsiyah has threatened the life of Elena. Out in the woods, Stefan tries to defend turning over Enzo to Tripp, but Caroline isn't feeling forgiving. Julian is angry and says them that someone's going to pay for her. 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. They are both sad, but Elena expresses that Stefan came into her life at a time when she needed someone and she fell for him instantly. Stefan is reunited with the others in the room and he was upset that they are celebrating the death of Katherine, Damon invites you to celebrate too and he takes a drink, but he reminds them of all the bad things that have happened in her life, Damon taunts of him and reveals that Stefan slept with Katherine, everyone is surprised especially Elena. The cabin is quickly engulfed in flames. Elena apologizes, and Stefan scoffs whether she 'sorry that it happened, or sorry he found out' before Rebekah appears, striding into the room with a grin on her face. Just as Elena was getting there, Stefan asked what he could do to make her stop. When Damon killed her, he was furious. Stefan, confused, wondered how that was possible if he had never drunk Katherine's blood, but Emily confessed that Katherine had compelled him for weeks to drink her blood, while Damon drank from Katherine willingly. She does not give an answer, and Stefan finds a spelled coffin. However, Elijah made a deal with Elena; to get Stefan out of the tomb, and so he kept the deal and got Stefan out and compelled Katherine to stay in the tomb until he told her to come out. All of Stefan's girlfriends who were main or recurring characters on the show were administered vampire blood to heal them. They joke about the bad luck they usually have at the dances and Elena responds saying that they need to live their lives. Turned Whilst their relationship will continue to be tested through highs and lows, it is clear that the two share a strong brotherly bond. Back in their seats, Elena is barely holding it together, and Stefan and Damon argue under their breath about what to do. Tyler takes them to the Lockwood Cellar where he tells the hybrids to keep them down there until they're ready to bring in Klaus, Stefan tries to persuade him that it isn't about revenge for them, to no avail. Stefan tells Elena that he wouldn't let Qetsiyah hurt her. Later, in Stefan's bedroom, Elena finishes leaving a message for Caroline to ask for help adjusting as Stefan walks into the room with two glasses and a bottle of champagne. Elena says that he's bluffing but Stefan reminds her that he also had his switch flipped in this town too and he knows where to take someone to have a good time. Valerie is trying to help him as he tells her his chest hurts. Standing on the porch, they share a kiss. He was in the car with his sister Elena. Stefan tells Matt that the only reason he saved Matt first was because Elena insisted upon it, that Elena sacrificed her own life to save Matt and instead of bemoaning what has happened, maybe Matt should try to live up to the sacrifice Elena made for him and earn the life he has because of it. This episodes exhibits more growth for Stefan as he apologizes to Bonnie and tries to comfort Caroline and Tyler. They fill it with gas while they talk. She says if she could do anything to help she would, but the spirits won't allow her to use magic. 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. After his mother's passing, Stefan lived with his father and his brother Damon. Damon and Stefan realized that they have a new secret weapon: Bonnie. 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. Elijah than says that Katherine may have been a liar but she didn't lie about Elena's transformation. Then, she's convinced that she sees an age spot on her hand, and Stefan tells her it isn't one and holds her hand. She asks Stefan why he's inflicting so much pain on himself for such a hateful person. From 1864 to 1912, Stefan lived on a strict animal blood diet and no longer fed on human blood. Damon turns down Stefan's offer to help, reminding him of their deal that whoever Elena didn't choose would leave town. Matt approaches them about leaving but Sarah covers and the two take off. Katherine arrives and stabs Gloria in the neck. After he tells him, Stefan sets the timer on the bomb to 1 minute. She bites Jeremy's neck and puts it in Silas' mouth. After that Elena says that he clearly cares about her. Unbeknownst to Stefan, Katherine was in the club while the police were searching it; she spotted Rebekah's necklace on the floor and went to pick it up, but fled when she heard Stefan approaching. Valerie had told Lily that Stefan had moved on from her "death" but Stefan says his mother was ripped from his arms and you don't move on from that. Poor humans. 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. Elena says that she was hungry and she gets out of bed and starts undressing in front of him. Stefan was known to be respectful, polite, courteous, and chivalrous towards women. They start dancing and Elena goes to them, showing to be a bit jealous although she denies it. Damon and Stefan start arguing and Elena says that she is drunk and wants to go to sleep, she leaves. 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. His best friend, and supposedly one of his few friends, was a vampire named Lexi Branson. 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. Everyone are surprised and Stefan says that they have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with her. Damon tells him that he killed Rayna several times but she only has eight lives. Just when he thinks his first day will be awful, he meets a boy named Stefan Salvatore who's new to Mystic Falls. Klaus, however, questions that and adds that Stefan mustn't underestimate the allure of darkness because even the purest hearts are drown to it. They stop at a warehouse and Stefan and Valerie bicker as Damon moves all the planks away from the door. Light Brown When Stefan enters to his room meets with Qetsiyah, who is angry for his betrayal and to revenge on him, she puts all his painful memories, Stefan is dismayed after that. Later Caroline is in the Salvatore house, Stefan arrives and sits down to talk to her telling her that he had been looking for her everywhere, Caroline tells him that he is her friend and she need to hear what he really thinks about she and Klaus, but Stefan starts joking, making smile to Caroline, he also looks at her with a tender smile. Enzo lets go to Bonnie, and tells Liv to take her to the second floor, he gets a wooden stick and he throws it at Stefan's chest, Stefan screams in pain. In Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take, after the aftermath of Elena's 'death', Damon takes Alaric to Europe, where he gets Alaric drunk every night. Liz is rushed back to the hospital. But she says that maybe everything is a blessing in disguise and that even if she can be human again she won't be the same person because thing changed the minute she got off the bridge. They go to Shane's office and try to find the headstone and Rebekah comes across some "herbs" and suggests that they have fun. Klaus convinces Stefan that he needs to help him dagger Kol because then Damon will be free, Jeremy will live and they'll be able to find the cure. Katherine says that she won't do that because the cure is the only way for her to get her freedom back. Nik is there because he needs a dagger in order to put Kol down, but Rebekah refuses to give her last one to him as she doesn't want to leave herself unprotected. But then he became addicted to human blood, and drank it behind Elena's back. With that, Sloan finally takes her hands off Stefan, breaking the link. Finally, Elena rushes in and ends it by compelling the man to go home and forget everything. Stefan wakes up and tries to stop Damon from going after Lily so that they could find Valerie. He says Stefan will never stop caring about his family, but the blood makes it easier to let go. 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. Eventually Stefan walks into the church and, after briefly talking to Tyler and Caroline, finds a seat as Carol begins the service for Pastor Young and the council. Stefan is of slightly above average height, about 5'11", and he has a lean, flat-muscled and athletic physique.