Stefan and Lexi are seated on the couch at the Salvatore boarding house with the music blaring Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name," Stefan drinking a bottle of liquor.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7HOAdF7UD
I walk over and turn the radio off.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOw894xIyP
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ci9Ixk4AF
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93ZHbqmVuk
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdggezexbj
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPEC5nKNZA
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0XHBnlh4z
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsWz5WMvK6
She releases me and walks over to stand by the couch, and snags the liquor bottle from Stefan. She takes a swig before Stefan takes it back and drinks some of it.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsTILQjI8g
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6taZg7TU3
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktsGHig6kA
"Are you drunk?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNs3C0Lqy2
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItfm9WM9iJ
"So this is how we spend the day," I comment, before taking a sip from the shot glass of liquor I had poured for myself.
Later in the day, one of The Five walks inside the boarding house, when Stefan and I are in the living room.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9I3PL3nm5W
"I got this from my good friend Connor," he says, talking about the gun he has in his hand, as he faces me. He then shoots me in the side of the neck.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumG2bXPLVI
"I want to know where Silas is."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV42GLU24Y5
"I don't know where he is."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYY49mWUHv1
Stefan and the Hunter soon fight and it ends with Stefan ripping his heart out, killing him.
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When I'm in my room, Elena, now with her humanity back on, walks into my room.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPxTbaua1B
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz79HLv7tbF
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uuS7LFpgq
"What is there to talk about?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ899pW7wJoZ
I walk over to my end table and take out a small box. I then open it and put the cure in her hand, as I stand in front of her.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8E0qGvAL39
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxkf24p20r
I wince in pain.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCLsM0vYcU
"Are you okay?" she asks me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFg3e6FY5Y
"I'm fine."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYR4CLy67a
"Take off your shirt."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEpwGVXJcp
"No. Not when he's here."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fcqD9sWmF
"Fine."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ909pRKCsDa
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9ajxlEL5u
She looks at me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3rYP2P1V8
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlXJAtuSuE
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vAobWZFzR
"We need Klaus."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAQv3xcdTt
"Klaus would rather let me die."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbcvtxPfHs
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQv71IDDtD
"No," I respond.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLxUouDdjn
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZMNWGckrj
"No, Elena."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfp5jcQaJKi
She sets it in my hand.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZZZrvdeBX
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOLOdwmqi0
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOg1GUc2Sp
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qnTigstxB
She looks at her brother.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGceh44YPbL
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUDlU96yZE
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34MltxJiFl
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONOvDEpTX9
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrHGRyeBXX
"Okay," she says.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWaZH9oTVl
I watch them leave.
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When one of The Five wakes up, Stefan and Lexi get to their feet and I'm in the living room with them again.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLNKTaOamO
I stand by him.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabmhzrfg68
"He's up," Stefan said.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuXR4nSXw3
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5EUGjoqGd
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5JUkjBH2u
"To dig up Silas."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWkXBXAOp9
We then leave.
The Hunter and I are in the woods standing by a cliff. There's a river below it and a few trees around us.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcONRWLMiu
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztHUQrpnJY
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCe45HHfy4
The Hunter sees my neck wound.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDgdprkCHi
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaPwtdRtaC
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3evbhvjS2g
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1L3yLXIHb
I'm silent.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxj3b3srDvJ
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwe0ray4ou
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GdzbLHwV7
I don't say anything.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORtYVZ8P3m
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvDXNLIYeb
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn1Xg5rH8L
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmInXs7aZP
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEWY001tGS
"You need this?" he asks.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLIrpNHZQF
"Yeah."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNordDItdp
Ric tries to get me to take the cure so I won't die, but I won't. That cure is for Elena. I'd rather die. So he phones up my brother.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFjQZ58yGW
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEPTTc52ur
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcq4DF3qy2
Stefan hangs up.
Later in the day, I'm in my room. I have just put my shirt on, when Elena walks in and walks up to me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnuxokooZQ
"Is it healed up?" she asks.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEFUdag0iY
"Yeah."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPg9JMKwjU
"So it's all better?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvoz9izqOs
"Yeah."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAShk9cAgU
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHAHaNJCfv
"Ow."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJot1pU0pw7
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8at9jorKC
"I'm not apologizing, because I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I would rather die than be human! I am not sorry that I would rather die right now, than to spend the rest of my life with you, until I'm old and wrinkly and you're still here! I am not sorry, Elena!"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQWN0iAbMz
"Then I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I meant you! I am not sorry that you have made me question everything about myself! And I am not sorry that I am in love with you!"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUfN50OqxW
I'm silent, but thrilled that she has finally admitted it. And then we kiss.
Later Elena, Stefan, Lexi, Alaric, and I are downstairs in the living room.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNzTMUAyix
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZ2Rfe4tVq
"Ow."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdiXyqxyMiG
"Ouch," Lexi comments.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIVC4Zcj2d
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDkvzF90RI
Elena walks up to Stefan.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3LsgD4coN
"Can I talk to you alone?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyVuJ543Gv
Stefan follows her into the next room.
Later that night, when Stefan has his car packed, I stand in the doorway. "I'm not sorry for you," Stefan tells me.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmau3xvvbB
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CkDqY29dI
"No. Lexi is coming with me."487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapNaMNSjoS
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
