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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPPP4f3HYU
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCEqdCS0H9
She slowly sits up.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmprYMIEMr
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarODSkbZBQ
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fwNRcIQlo
"He didn't," I tell her.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskVxpb08rg
"Wait. What?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1rWXZt41Q
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcB45Qva00
"So what? Am I dead?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtCGVyQowy
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKv9oyB7Bo
"No. I can't be."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokSDCtoqRT
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxrqxymX5a
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnOWASyIFs
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lHerSplia
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsD5Tnqiet
He watches me.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nNErx1uoP
"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."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLAD9PR1bz
"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."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvqW2RBX43
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIE5chBHkNE
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAKh8hEDHl
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfA9sjAtV0c
"Jer," she greets.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAgRG0E5k3
"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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBkAQYK49b
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWFmXEMjl3
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlMQSjnjiG
"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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFiLSKVIAl
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yAKyreASr
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aVJpq25kf
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXTXTxQ6sz
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2jI4KkzpN
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G24SGnv9U
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxX7phGmD4p
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmuwuodqKw
Rebekah turns around to face me.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHI6AZE6xMp
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWdEBqG9HU
Rebekah turns back around.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ekqz6VWo2
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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ144mTLDVCi
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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSlGp4FyNA
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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOSUE5db5A
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8w2F3tKwfx
"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?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvkv4JVZbK
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1sHaUR1dJ
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3St1IetjR1
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAxPVSWmbT
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MsPwzg5SO
"Hey, is Elena here?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl70s7R95xA
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFkbs3FC93
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXxTT4v4U3
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KWbo8ocqa
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9OCP9vNxv
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxpdRiLIIW
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEa4AHEuF8N
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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2ZuJL1S2i
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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqwca5jilc
"Damon," she says.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWLvxfk0jl
"Yeah?" I reply.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdweItM03wB
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktIrpT7Tvt
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UiKLlQ4QA
"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.600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRrldn461K
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
