It's a beautiful day, as Stefan and I walk into the parlor.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84ti7lHPiA
"We're gonna lose her, Damon," Stefan tells me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvNckPM2yp
"She needs time. It's only been a couple days," I tell him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4kT591bC8
"Her humanity's off. She's basically numb to everything that makes her who she is."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BEzgJlRcn
I pour myself a glass of bourbon, as I say, "She's a vampire. Off switch is one of the biggest perks. If being undead gets you down," I snap my fingers. "voila, vampire Prozac." I take a swig of bourbon.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnAaqrADNu
"She burned down her family home with her brother's dead body still inside."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZCn8cIyP8
"Save us the trouble of having to do it ourselves. I call that a win. Worst case scenario: I'll invoke the sire bond and tell her to turn it back on."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjx7MYBpcf
"No, her brother just died. If you force all that grief on her at once, it's going to overwhelm her. We need to give her a reason to want to turn it on."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqgONRqA2L
"Fine, we'll show her a good time."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFpLzTF7GH
Stefan looks skeptical about my plan.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqnWqMziOE
"I know it's controversial, Stefan, but people actually like to have fun."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvq6OO9pi1
"You really think that's gonna work?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnr9LnFbEw
"There's only one way to find out."
That night, I watch Elena feed on a road from a woman that doesn't know us, but I realize she probably won't stop, so I walk up to Elena.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBsyWcj6x7
"That's enough," I tell her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEdgzFY6Gg
She ignores me and continues to feed.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlwwivoYXI
I grab Elena's arm and pull her off the woman.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mnDpZHoVa
"I said that's enough."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1iUEVDgfp
I turn Elena around to face me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48qXEGTTwx
"We agreed on no killing," I remind her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfvUmC2czC
"This is the first person I've seen in days whose body isn't laced with vervain and I'm hungry," she tells me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgDTrPUE2W
"If you leave a trail of bodies, people are gonna start asking questions."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8bM3PQgJQ
"I don't care."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghDA0ih5ez
Elena turns away and starts feeding on the woman again.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFAnaUnrjN
"I can't believe you're making me say this. Hey," I grab Elena's arm and pull her off her again. "Show a little restraint."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJN6kYELyhN
She looks annoyed at me, as she says, "I thought this was supposed to be fun."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7JS4ymMYt
She throws the woman's body aside and her body hits the ground.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIDdwIdXGW
Elena walks away with blood staining her mouth and I watch her walk away.
The next day at the Salvatore boarding house, Stefan and I are standing in my bedroom, while Elena showers in my bathroom.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkf4kT3o5w9
"So that's the plan? You're gonna take her back to school?" I ask him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyd5KEDlPn
"Well, the fun route didn't exactly pay off, did it?" he asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsIVw8g4uT
"I don't know. Got a free meal out of it."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YYvfYMkXj
"Look, do you think I want to go to school and play chaperone? You can't go because you're not a student. Besides, you've got to go look for Katherine. I mean, Elena needs this cure now more than ever."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YYIpSQheP
Caroline enters my bedroom with a bathrobe on and we both turn to look at her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTXVZNMHBq
"Not that anyone asked me, but I think taking her back to school is a great idea."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FNT26vNtK
"Why are you here?" I ask her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uEZ2vCvul
"Uh, blame it on your fancy water filters. Your house has the only vervain-free showers in town."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTk4XQipht
"Oh, yeah. The mayor put vervain in the water supply." I click my tongue. "So many people to kill."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EQIa1z7c9
"Yeah, my mom says it's about to get worse, so she could use a little help."
Stefan looks at me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmEchQKvuI
"Fine, I'll go after the psychotic doppelgänger. Stefan, you wanna go talk to the sheriff?" I say to him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqvXO4VcTV
He nods at me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLMq8pOJxq
"Blondie, take her to school," I tell her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sZj5k2kCJ
Caroline smiles at me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQk6sYA5OS
Elena emerges from the shower and walks into the room completely naked, and Stefan and I stare at her, while Caroline averts her eyes and smiles awkwardly.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGlSaDqpxb
"Sounds like fun," Elena says. "What? It's nothing you guys haven't seen before," she adds to Stefan and I.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLqRLfETpZ
Elena wraps a towel around her body and Stefan and I share a look.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhs66rxSh2
"And as for the, uh, "going to school" idea... I've got nothing better to do."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxe27jvel1W
Stefan clears his throat and looks at me, motioning towards Elena with his head, and I walk over to her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiAM3Qjo2f
"Elena, it would make me very happy if you went to school today. And studied hard--you know, get involved in whatever activities, and please, for me, no matter what, don't eat anyone. Okay?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhh5FO8y3kW
Elena nods at me.
I go to Klaus' place and he opens the door to see me there, and I grimace at him, before walking inside without an invitation since I've been here before.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOM95VESHpC
"Ah, what an unpleasant surprise," Klaus says to me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SwNd0fsKI
I stride into the parlor, a piece of paper in my hand.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZtrkLbQP9
"So I just came up with a list."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGf7nVQJ1r
Klaus closes the door and follows me into the room.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzG0QjYy4gb
"It's called "Things You Suck At"." I stop and turn to face Klaus. "Number one: Finding Katherine. Ever. Number two: covering up your secret phone conversations with that little backstabber Hayley." I wave the phone transcripts a bit and put them down on the end table. "Yeah, so where is she? What does she know about Katherine?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTUKxCJnJ5
"I should help you?" Klaus asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwz0ai8KwD
I nod and say, "Mhm."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwih89suM0l
"After you lot killed my brother and imprisoned me in the Gilbert living room?" Klaus asks.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXU9QkO3yi
I walk closer to Klaus.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3vNzFhDso
"You might want to prioritize, Klaus. You have much bigger problems."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsW77G7QWhg
Klaus looks at me blankly.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIGS9ywu37
"Katherine has the cure." Klaus looks displeased by this news. "My guess is she's gonna want to cram it down your throat. You help me find Katherine, I'll get the cure, I'll give it to Elena, everybody wins. Just let me question Hayley about Katherine."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1y3BFee4v
Klaus smiles and walks towards me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwOx4R1RZ2
"Can't help you, mate. Hayley's off limits." He walks past me and sits down on the couch. "Although, I did have a run in with a vampire who may know where Katerina is." I turn around and look at him, as he continues. "Too bad for you, I bit halfway through his bloody neck. He probably won't have much time for chit-chat."
I'm walking around and find myself at the truck stop, talking to Stefan on the phone.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9aKMgoykN
"What do you mean, she fed?" I question my brother. "I specifically told her, No Feeding. The sire bond should make her listen."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfZyRvG9ZN
"Right. That's what I'm saying. The sire bond isn't working," he says in a quiet voice.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6Om8FhIVg
"That's not possible."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPLCqxgzYy
"Think about it. Elena's sire bond stems from her feelings for you, right? With her humanity off, she has no feelings."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLfO5BKkJ3
"All I wanted was to break that damn bond. You're telling me now this whole time all she had to do was turn it off? What happens if she turns it back on?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVK3XUXokZ
"I don't know, but more importantly, where are you right now?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3C2nx2RZrB
"I'm at a truck stop in the boonies looking for a dead vampire that might lead to Katherine and the cure." I hear an engine and start to look around. "Look, just grab her and get her home. I'll be there when I can."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeDKNTvxUd
I hang up and look around suspiciously.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxFhbhptHJ
When I turn around, I see Rebekah a few feet away from me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt25q9TgqwQ
"You. I thought you were still vacationing on Numbskull Island," I greet, though it's not really a greeting. She's not exactly my favorite Original.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixiSweGWWj
"Well, I was looking for answers, and all I found was your Professor Shane, dead, and with him, anything anyone knows about the cure."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObPu1Qr838
"Guess you won't turn into a real girl after all."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKIAEW2IQI
I start walking away.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCrpcFnCLy
Rebekah speaks to me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs1GQkcfFp
"Oh, I'll get the cure. I just need Katherine, and I'm betting you can help me find her."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8t2bb1oxD
"Why would I help you?" I ask her, facing her now.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dppS3axVY
She holds up a vial of blood and says, "Because I was smart enough to bring a pinch of my brother's blood. How else would you interrogate a vampire who's practically dead from a wolf bite?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO24bjjGsDO
I try to grab the vial of blood, while she's talking, but she snatches it away.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BxZ7NNfY0
I grudgingly say, "Fine. Follow me. I might know where to look."
That night, I lead Rebekah down a hall in the hospital.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZSkyNvj27
"Why exactly would you think a sick vampire would check into a hospital?" she asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXFihGFWIl
I point upwards and answer her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9k2EInEDBc
"See that little bright thing in the sky? It's called the sun. He needs to avoid that. Plus, the hospital's open 24/7. Not to mention he's hungry and delusional."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2BEhj5KbS
I stop and surreptitiously push open a door into another room and Rebekah follows me. We then find ourselves entering a dark storage room.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgYcRvd2RZ
I open up a cooler, but it's empty. Confused, I close it and go to the next one. It's also empty. The trays labeled "AB Positive" and "AB Negative" and etc. are empty too.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzyw9jnPN9
"Impressive. You're like Sherlock Holmes with brain damage," she comments to me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCP896YazY
I continue checking the coolers to no avail, and groan in frustration.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGFUzAV4kL
"Stefan said the Mystic Falls Hospital had its entire blood bank raided, too," I inform the Original sister.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWptGAMdce
"It looks like our vampire gets around," she replies.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Icdbj72FP
"No. The guy's dying of a werewolf bite. He wouldn't have time to steal from both hospitals. This is someone else."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYt2Y3yOUaF
"Who?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfveCiXWjE
"That's another problem. But on the plus side, if our guy did by chance come here, he's got nothing, which means he's nearby and he's hungry."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVX7zy0OQu
I start to move to the door, but Rebekah blocks my way.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdScMfOnyrK
"This better not be a wild goose chase," she warns me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkAb6Pdf3e
"I want to find Katherine as much as you do," I answer her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuP67HVYEOp
"Really? Why? I heard your little chat with Stefan. I know Elena's broken the sire bond. So why would you wanna find the cure? You'd just cure her back to loving your brother. I think you're best off leaving it for me."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDNqQREF0Z
Rebekah leaves the room, leaving me there to think about what she just said.
Later that night, Rebekah watches me as I feed on a hospital employee outside of the hospital.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkqEYDDGEk
"Well, nobody could ever mistake you for subtle," Rebekah comments.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyjkBAH6XK
"You have to take pride in your work," I inform her. I then say to the woman, compelling her, "It's okay. Come here, come here. Now." She does as I tell her to do and I continue on, saying, "I want you to walk very slowly to your car. Off you go."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLlV6q1UnT
She walks away.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaW9JKCNGqg
"You know, I just don't see how this increases our odds any," Rebekah says.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEBafKCFjw
"I've been on the other side of a wolf bite. First you get really sick. Then you get really hungry. Since the sun's gone down, I'm imagining he's gonna be looking for his last supper. I just laid out a 3-course, 115-pound meal for him," I inform her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoU7L8ph8js
The woman stumbles towards her car and the dying vampire appears several yards away behind a tree. I then pin him against a tree at vamp speed. I get ready to swing at him, but I stop when I see his face. I know him very well. I turned him into a vampire all those years ago back in New York.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANNbHNZvtY
"Damon?" Will says to me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95pMBHXTaz
"Will?" I say to him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz4WeiD5QY
"Hey, buddy," he greets and pull his collar away from his neck. His bite wound looks ugly. He then adds to me, "I think there's something wrong with me. I need help."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihh5PXO48n
I sympathetically say, "Yeah, it's okay. I know what to do."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAPiZWXm9E
I plunge a fist into Will's chest and pull out his heart, killing him. He drops to the ground and Rebekah rushes towards us.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHetkLyQdg
"What the bloody hell are you doing?" she angrily ask me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubNSGgNNuw
"He was too far gone. I put him out of his misery," I tell her, before walking away, leaving her there.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtFKbwlw7H
He was one of my old friends, but I didn't want him to suffer or for Rebekah to ask him things he didn't know. Will wouldn't know anything about Katherine or anything else. He always kept a low profile. It grieves me that I had to kill my friend, but it had to be done.
Later at the Salvatore boarding house, I walk into the party with an amused face.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7b7RR2pZB
I take a bottle of liquor out of someone's hand.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfBcsO9DuA
"Thank you."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gYLTjCpyA
I take a swig from the bottle but then I sense Rebekah behind me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcwU10isny
"Will you please just take a hint and leave me alone?" I ask her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFuyNmxNEk
"What are you hiding? I know you knew that vampire," she says to me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfOfRBy5xU
I turn around to face her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zXPawU1Th
"I know a lot of dead people."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFv8gcbDu5
"You killed him to prevent me from finding Katherine to keep me from getting the cure."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlEHOn1daK
"Do you really want the cure? I mean really? Look. Let me give you a little bit of advice." I lead Rebekah a little farther into the crowd and point, as I continue, "See these girls? They look happy, now. In five years, they're gonna settle for a mediocre starter-husband and a mind-numbing career, and about that time, they're gonna realize something you're never gonna have to learn."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnJpoDhOXy
"And what would that be?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hbHzxkQJE
"Life sucks when you're ordinary. And what makes you exactly not like them? You're a vampire. You take that cure, become human, well, you're no one, nothing. Trust me. Losing this cure is the best damn thing that ever happened to you."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuIymIFX3A
I walk away, leaving Rebekah there. I then walk up the stairs and my phone starts to vibrate. I take it out and read a text message from Stefan that reads, Elena is AWOL. Need help.
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I arrive in the woods and go in search of Elena, which isn't hard. I hear Caroline and Elena fighting and soon arrive. I then see Stefan grab hold of Elena.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLxKAw5EmT
"Let go of me!" Elena yells, as she struggles against his hold.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLNByJP9UV
I take Elena from Stefan and it's all I can do to keep hold of Elena. She's so strong, because she's young and young vampires can be stronger than older vampires.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTjUpFOVyG
"I admit, under any other circumstances, this would be a major turn-on," I tell her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KmCRDyRHO
Stefan kneels beside Caroline who's on the ground after being viciously attacked by Elena.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjFiG6oh2k
"Get her out of here. Go," Stefan tells me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLtmpx72xC
I disappear with Elena at vamp speed, while Caroline and Stefan catch their breath.
Later that night, I'm upstairs looking through pictures through a wooden chest.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF6hSfLm3n
Elena is seated on my bed behind me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH8WKcpF6m
"How much longer am I supposed to sit here?" she asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRsZKsyaR4
"Well, I'm not big on goal-setting, but let's just imagine a time when you don't wanna kill your best friend," I answer her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyu81ekVGS
"Are you judging me?" she asks me, standing up. "How many times have you tried to kill Stefan?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoYz2gbLo8
I look at her over my shoulder, but I don't answer her. I just turns back to the chest.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwegkQ2Q1O
"What is that?" she asks, once she's standing at my side.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAewSoLCr2
I look at a photograph of Will and I from centuries ago.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ096Z5jdjRE
"One of life's many mysteries. Elena, look--" I start, but she cuts me off.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJbuqLXIpN
"Don't," she warns me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNHKKUnrPh
She turns and starts walking back over to my bed.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGu5nt4Kuam
"Every time someone starts with "Elena," I get some stupid lecture. Everyone just needs to stop telling me that I need to feel. I do feel, Damon. I feel amazing," she tells me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7U6F0xC0t
"You don't want to be like this," I tell her.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifrqfzWe5E
"Then how should I be? Should I go back to being the scared little girl who couldn't admit what she wants? Is that how you'd prefer me to go back to being, or-- Look. For the longest time, you wanted to be with me, but you were scared that I'd find out how awful you are. But it doesn't matter anymore because I don't care."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTVPgJ19IO
She grasps my lapel.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2elSoHVbzY
"Be honest. You like me better like this," she says.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNF8dlQ2fP
I look at her, but I don't say anything.
Later on that night, I'm in my car when my phone vibrates and I answer it.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi51rATXfL
"Hey," I greet.
"Where the hell are you?" my brother asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF442yLHdX2
"Out for a drive. I needed some space. It's not me, it's you," I lie to him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMOmbRLtMv
"Well, we got a little problem. You said blood was stolen from Grove Hills Hospital? The sheriff said there's been reports of six other blood bank thefts all within 30 miles of Mystic Falls. Somebody's stockpiling blood. It wasn't Elena, and it's not us."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcjL8vZJvV
"Okay, so..."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyarLItwdR
"I think Silas followed us back from that island. He hasn't fed in 2,000 years, so he would need to gorge on blood. It explains the thefts."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfsjKZjqWa
"You know, I'm really not in the mood to scooby-doo our way through the case of the stolen blood supply, so why don't you hold the fort down until I get back, and I'll be in touch, brother."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bSFjLmp7c
I hang up.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0jfifcDjT
"He's gonna hate you for that," Elena says, seated in the front passenger's seat of my car.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJZBJHC7O9
"Yeah, well, emotions are overrated."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZleQzT8lb
"So where are we going?" she asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7v3e2TthwX
I pull down a picture of Will and I from the visor.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvkQZnu0S8
"A place every newbie vampire should go at least once in their life--New York." I look at her mischievously, before adding, "The city that never sleeps."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTEOWgAZJh
I look at her and see that she's excited to be going to New York with me. But I have a secret. I'm not just taking her to New York because newbie vamps should go there. I'm also taking her with me, because I have to go there to see if Katherine has gone there. I have a lead that tells me that she should be in New York.
