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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahRYNFI7AG
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDd3xZYWXi
She slowly sits up.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzfVuiQbHX
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18UqXzOT7x
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsOT67t3Ls
"He didn't," I tell her.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfMexGEDiP
"Wait. What?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SKNllG4mC
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPJW1k0ZLG
"So what? Am I dead?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvevpOuRpv
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOavXZ02VG4
"No. I can't be."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuKFaCfiQc
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8eu0OV2CR
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5dRbPiakG
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJExq6js9E6
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXeGy55tp2
He watches me.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81K3kmelwu
"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."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFuVcPpcrh
"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."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJUc2cbeaI
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTN6pMWATV8
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGn8nZTcZT
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7M3iJRR0Da
"Jer," she greets.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eqQQaXChZ
"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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7GF4TAh8x
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpD2rvLfW9
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4xivuMyN0
"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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvKPCt06CK
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Kgc1QVtIP
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljnMdgX0e8
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jeKy48eiS
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBHv3Os6y0
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgax8kncdjM
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnhpP0oNPB
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKvDFnegB7
Rebekah turns around to face me.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXlOoJ03hv
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1qDlCppZK
Rebekah turns back around.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYP6NOMZ5mO
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqk7ZWn0w1
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzCCzxJQYb
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1D4crzlx2
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdhqkfJMS8
"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?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3t9MUfB3N
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsJuMaR6x4
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3VIOaXX4c
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDIIuYAawt
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdhVjGtL4h
"Hey, is Elena here?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2AEXiGjp2
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdDr6hTstk
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNFZmTNdBk
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HJsPldyvd
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrfBxhAzao
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTZ5CFfwf2
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvd7WYWq3s
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFMEANKshk
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRVWM1Qs4A
"Damon," she says.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMZjvp7C0c
"Yeah?" I reply.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVosIazGjR
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCexbcA1eX
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tg5kriCKL
"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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsr71Ln2ORd
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
