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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqcpsllSXB
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSp0GwThWVB
She slowly sits up.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYAavgUetD
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAlXJeUsPe
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBcVOK8VCP
"He didn't," I tell her.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllqYrlxs0v
"Wait. What?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqFqxudiJc
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLFh3lI98T
"So what? Am I dead?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IbxJLOVOK
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xca2PkUIT
"No. I can't be."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNgi2OUref
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqJ69dg422
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGvDWuwjrY
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd4PfnwJBy
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpRgH7k8Rx
He watches me.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreLbTyGIwN
"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."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7M55cgdIeK
"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."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLpYK40VFU
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZx7OWzVkyZ
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwN1rST5Ki
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6erTxCAhv
"Jer," she greets.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3UWBuELmv
"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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4XNdn8LsK
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQn2V9WmF9
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bkAUQy6iY
"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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6SiqA2yTN
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4998R6CZ3
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS3CqXjIiZ
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuBfMqGO6U
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1DLr9uHOB
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBj8yHlrrjh
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn9L4AVWtf
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNFF19YJtt
Rebekah turns around to face me.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKkUnUGK6c
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasrli8rgyg
Rebekah turns back around.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGilV8n4LmT
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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVTgVdGWDN
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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskhLus9BMY
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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjw2FZG7X3H
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6RKvyjulL
"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?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4PPWruPz5
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5tf7dp2ar
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeDLu3WqIa
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxnCQZqgQlh
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjFBdrJgRi
"Hey, is Elena here?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfV8DaQLgFJ
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFkmzdPrt8
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSSO4RE0ht
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvX4VevcXV
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7xtWZ5501
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbyyU0X7GK
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCWgdEUrcS
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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTXfR43G0D
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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1ogEZ6ivt
"Damon," she says.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3ovfgFBsK
"Yeah?" I reply.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6HHWwo1lE
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UeuO0SmNq
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnOt6qLS1r
"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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZm2sKmCuV
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
