Identity, trust and denial; A Klefan Season 4 Meta

Klaus/Stefan:  4.01 – 4.09

There’s a lot of crazy supposition in this, possibly because the stuff that happens is more subtle, possibly because their relationship is moving into a different place and the show doesn’t want to make that explicitly obvious.

4.03

The episode that gave us vampires wearing helmets and the season’s first Klaus/Stefan scene. Klaus mentions to Tyler that he was on the way to Chigago, why? Possibly because it’s the home-land of Klefan and Klaus has a secret shrine he needs to update.

So, Elena is dying from having werewolf venom in her system and Stefan needs Klaus to heal her. This scene is clearly an inversion of the scene where Klaus and Stefan’s journey began in 2x22; Damon had a werewolf bite and Stefan needed Klaus to give him the cure. 3x21 ended that journey, ended that arc with Stefan desiccating Klaus, and this is them beginning again. This is them starting a new journey, from a different place.

I say inversion, not parallel, because even before Klaus enters the scene the contrast is obvious. In 2x22 Stefan goes to seek Klaus out fearing he might not return. Here Stefan phones Klaus, expecting the original to come to him, and willing to nag him until he does. Stefan knows if he calls Klaus will come, he believes this, he’s wondering ‘where the hell are you’, like there’s no question that Klaus would already be there if he was nearby. Even after ‘killing’ Klaus, he still believes Klaus will come, and he’s right because he knows that in a way he still has Klaus wrapped around his little finger. It’s not a big deal, which makes it vastly different from the scene in 2x22, when he was saying goodbye to Elena because he thought Klaus might kill him. Of course everyone’s more familiar with Klaus now, but that doesn’t change the fact that Stefan did just kill him, but he still has no fear.

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