Because, Stefan, you have Buffy and Elena has Dean. And I have the Mystic Grill.
( Maybe he held himself back, living in arrested development from a failed, but star-crossed relationship. He'd lashed out in the worst ways when it first hadn't worked with him and Elena, even went so far as to say that clearly human Elena was never meant to be with him. Invoking the sirebond, their toxicity. A few weeks later, and whatever crisis was next, he put his differences aside. But, he never came back from it. )
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( Maybe he held himself back, living in arrested development from a failed, but star-crossed relationship. He'd lashed out in the worst ways when it first hadn't worked with him and Elena, even went so far as to say that clearly human Elena was never meant to be with him. Invoking the sirebond, their toxicity. A few weeks later, and whatever crisis was next, he put his differences aside. But, he never came back from it. )