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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22XCVF6QTz
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB9sbQpUKP
She slowly sits up.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68bkC6qAkJ
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qVB6oHV6C
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CzXU1eeTF
"He didn't," I tell her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1MK82yKd6
"Wait. What?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UJrjDcTvL
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtbFoGyzAJ
"So what? Am I dead?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zsxoqJO21
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWhVbqNLWp
"No. I can't be."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxC2jpal7p
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnbHwAzR2W
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuIAbmcNml
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODp7wXawWe
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtph5D0tfJ
He watches me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUlpYHG1bg
"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."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqU38AvmmCC
"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."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMA2X6OG1P
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW98vmBWruI
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIANhVqIGm
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeGSqAIKak
"Jer," she greets.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcPKcR992X
"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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIkheyQop3
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMOfPojRn2
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcp8dz4ZCRr
"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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRH1te2bQS
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nX0Az5iSB
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHWQ3ZOfiY
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGyJR7kHmH
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknY7lYMvoF
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeK7DHLsHFU
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjdCKktPeK
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PHM9Y37Vw
Rebekah turns around to face me.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02WXwJlG7n
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cH45jOsSE
Rebekah turns back around.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVUUkpDc1T
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0jR2bINff
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroOOYSHEuS
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8n7IRgvAsk
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQIL3b83la
"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?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxTTwG8drs
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXur8Z9KGF
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3W9UFUZG1
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uZdvQOjie
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY32LnuhoBi
"Hey, is Elena here?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnykwfXxYpA
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysdzUBXytX
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEUCfG8L6G
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbS4AZ3hYAX
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCXJn3tjHj
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtbPKJXXU8
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dXYbUnF5H
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyB5CfhkuZ
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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe556GoTpir
"Damon," she says.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOa288vSYW
"Yeah?" I reply.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtv23mHjeP
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡip61g4SHmg
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkslUeQPQL
"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.504Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgvAHTdLYD
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
