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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60aJZ6tqEE
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcG8VYBpyAg
She slowly sits up.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnA0CmmiZT0
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxFer6B2GM
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5ESzl644I
"He didn't," I tell her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHHrBaxIr0
"Wait. What?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKn3oBPuqTZ
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMvs8Edk5d
"So what? Am I dead?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZ7SUCbLRV
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpk0cZuKdK
"No. I can't be."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hDr6uTBzr
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTpdQgoPhH
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOMy7JfqAh
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEN7rrAXtwb
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzc5rIJdmm
He watches me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5OeETLEuX
"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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPCOr85c2S
"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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWSBDwkT2G
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDLzcLTyoH
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRilwkFX3v
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7RNNrXpys
"Jer," she greets.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTpnVjg8VB
"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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmic9MnSbd
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHS9sNYiOa
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTeFXzYrrX
"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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XV4o2DkEw
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIaP5HCdRl
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwnpTZ4vGX
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKurfZy3Zse
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3Ex5t4CyU
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLIgTcV6Ne
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RbYQfBLPL
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMfhzQnzRI
Rebekah turns around to face me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3dB6DCpuE
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ649CdtcEwa
Rebekah turns back around.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bOj4nHX2s
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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeDg6u1Dd9
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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJoDGIMHSr
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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVZf3YkyiO
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HNBYgT4z9
"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?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvirD1mnJ2M
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4y6x7sqkl
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡal0wKhjBEY
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uIoFJAkKa
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8YX42Ozxi
"Hey, is Elena here?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJ6u491Q2y
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRJwKROncP
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtjniO6qCW
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitZ8qY0wBT
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZTh3eMCtS
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NR7eK7lzw
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0KOikhmBK
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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCsQVumHBW
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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZBGlzPEFd
"Damon," she says.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGz2akWwJoG
"Yeah?" I reply.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡss9GywC5k8
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZV4Ps9D6PF
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJ6vZzQ1Wu
"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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmECX4Ik0yi
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
