It's a beautiful day, as Stefan and I stand in Elena's room. Stefan is standing at the foot of her bed and I'm seated in a chair not far from the door.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ezJpyBlvR
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqzJWvDixt
She slowly sits up.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr4kkvfICN
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIwgfQmpc2
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyObioyFLJ8
"He didn't," I tell her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCs9rmyp3q
"Wait. What?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQlzyY03FL
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNicbBJ7MN
"So what? Am I dead?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qG16YiOUJ
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eHahOksvv
"No. I can't be."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQExAtvnC49
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQkiPMdmX8
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSBcBIwJNQ
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyZ1Kb8Hfq
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegkUD2mKQq
He watches me.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqL6mqPIAb
"You know, you can't do anything about it," I tell my brother. "If she doesn't feed by this afternoon, she'll die tonight."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7p9W74QfU
"Damon, you weren't there when Elena looked me in the eye and told me she didn't want to become a vampire. We still have a day before she has to turn."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAjApkAQA9
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaY4YGLO6b
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2htr5ynTL
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0jTNxtxOm
"Jer," she greets.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWIwRxuGlU
"Are you okay? I watched Vicki go through this, she was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place. All these old memories came flooding back," Jeremy says.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKp5LQep6zA
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PUt6e2D1b
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2icO1JCzBj
"I said I'm fine, okay?" she says all snappy. "I-I'm sorry. I…Have you talked to Bonnie?" she then says, more herself.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkTr3R0xqS
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ586aHAvaGk
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIdAFaXJg0
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aJ7BNiirs
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCfb6CKLFn
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYg66c4Qts
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDV327S1Rre
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRegJwXKVY
Rebekah turns around to face me.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyPSqt4vIh
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44wQBM4uoR
Rebekah turns back around.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsGdkIiOz2
I rush at her with the indestructible White Oak stake. She grabs my wrist and prevents me from killing her. She pushes me against a dresser and I drop the stake.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2yaDjAetP
Suddenly, someone starts firing wooden bullets through the window. I manage to escape, but Rebekah gets shot in the heart with an arrow and falls to the ground.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MHYPEGLJY
I'm picking things up that were knocked down during the commotion, when Liz walks into the Gilbert house and Meredith comes into the living room where we're at from the kitchen.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz64rNQotMB
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4TqKNyy2A
"I can't. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything," Liz answers me.
"So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKo0HBklmzi
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGH7FdLReSw
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkz0SSMkPKg
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUB3mjzzlZ
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1D9EGmCq5
"Hey, is Elena here?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsmJPhEsX9
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxHfAYmMXy
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1t5WjlboOS
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDucEHYdTLG
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAeZuFA6P4
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziBePPoE7z
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuc8iBcOpeA
I finally release him.
That night, we find out where the council have them at, and Matt Donovan and I go there. I feed a little from the side of Matt's neck before I yell, "Yoo-hoo, big, bad vampire out here!" to try and get someone out of the house. It doesn't work, though. Nobody comes out.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yyNHMRNKm
Suddenly, Donovan and I have an argument and I attack him. And just as I go after him, Elena, vamped out, puts herself between Donovan and I, facing me, and says, "Leave him alone!", so I back off.
Later that night, vampire Elena and I stand outside the boarding house, as we talk, facing one another.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWsu6KFuVF
"Damon," she says.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8BFBHOZRL
"Yeah?" I reply.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfJnaTD9Kb
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHuFCVJs98b
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjyXrMJKNR
"I care about you, Damon," she answers, though I know it's a lie. She just doesn't see that there's something going on between the both of us. Even my brother can see it. She's lying to herself, Stefan, and I every time she says that she cares about me. It hurts me every time she says that.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXQDMA6eMM
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
