Paul Wesley as Stefan. Photo by Quantrell Colbert / The CW ©2009

“…there is a place called Shi no Shi—literally translated, it says, as the Death of Death, where they can remove this curse which has haunted me for almost half a millennium … If they can truly do this, Elena, we can be together for as long as ordinary people live.  That’s all I ask of life.”— Stefan to Elena, The Return: Nightfall

In The Return: Nightfall, Stefan writes the lines above in a letter to Elena.  It sounds as if he hopes to live a mortal life … if possible.  But after living for hundreds of years as a vampire, the idea of becoming human again must be hard for Stefan to imagine.

Consider the benefits of sucking human blood for all eternity: everlasting good looks, superhuman abilities and, most of all, immortality.  Stefan would have to give up all of the above if he ever became a human like Elena. Do you think he would regret it?