It's a beautiful day on an island, as I sharpen a knife. The others are still unloading the boat, as Shane approaches me. Elena, Stefan, Rebekah, Bonnie, Jeremy, Shane, and I are here to get the cure for vampirism. All of us want it, though. I hope there's enough to go around, or there's going to be a big fight between us. I don't want a fight just yet. I don't rightfully know if Shane wants the cure though. I think he's helping us for another reason, but I don't have any proof yet. I can't prove it, so I can't tell anyone about my assumptions.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBkGbHbpAo
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" I ask him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEIqEpejTm
"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland. If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgRHxXlzIK
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtew3dFFzB7
"Yeah, that too."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMTfM3eib2
Shane holds up sunscreen and looks at me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwze2v66lte
"Sunscreen?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfymAxiw2X
"Is that a joke?" I ask him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBAyebOOVa
"Right," he says, as if he just remembered that I'm a vampire and I don't need it.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOe7uY753SF
I look across the beach part of the island to see Stefan tying a knot some rope. Rebekah is supposed to be helping him, but is standing there glaring at Elena instead, as Elena walks past her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KQedLXxRl
"You know, you're not really helping," Stefan tells her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXzOGBytbh
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot," she answers him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaOPlYKXjG
"You giving Elena the evil eye isn't really helping."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBQDxN1kDz
"She killed my brother, tried to get you to put a dagger in my back. She's lucky all she's getting is the evil eye."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEk5md38ha
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena responds from a distance away.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZc9f5Bb9V9
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah replies.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NCb11l1q4
Elena stops walking, and uses vamp speed to rush towards Rebekah, grabbing her neck and pointing the White Oak stake at her chest. Rebekah flips her over and pushes her to the ground.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUoHcAW4tH
"Go ahead, try and kill me. But then you'd have to face your real problems. Like the fact that Stefan invited me here, himself. I guess he likes me again."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJgR7FzJIb
Rebekah walks off and Stefan offers to help Elena up, but she ignores him and walks away looking irritated. Elena shoves the White Oak stake into her bag and I join her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiG1l7ilt2M
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises," I comment.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiG9cw8XmGg
"I'm not apologizing for not wanting her here."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qpE12pwNZ
"You know Stefan just brought her here to make it seem like he's moving on. He wants you to think that he's over you, and he wants me to think that I can't get under his skin."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwAl3xDH6F
"You know, you're right. With any luck, I'll only have to tolerate her for a few more days, and then we'll find the cure and I'll never have to deal with her again."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIOS3NvE9j
"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVyHg7BHt5
"You know, you've never talked about what you'll do with the cure, once we find it. Will you take it?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfUiqAaoTN
"I don't like to speculate."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySGMdCHpqJ
A few minutes later, we start hiking.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepVQiGO8Ke
As we hike through the woods parts of the island, Shane's phone beeps and he says, "Satellite phone lost its service."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHbR4NcU7H
"Well, that's a good sign," I say sarcastically.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjr3L26pPRL
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena asks.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzGNpc02yn
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary," Rebekah comments to her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmC4aBpJpI
"Please don't start," Stefan tells Rebekah.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEtmjX7iHS
"I'm merely stating the facts. Jeremy has the spell on his body. Bonnie is the witch that unseals the cure. Shane is the human compass. You and I have the tombstone, which does God knows what. And Elena has no point," she tells him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3ElSTF9i5
I could kill her right now just for everything she has done to Elena, if I could. But I can't. She's a lot older, which means she's a lot stronger and faster than any of us.
"What about me?" I ask Rebekah, curious of what she thinks of me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzmUYXx5Vt
"You have a nice behind," is all she tells me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOv1MUfo1S
I smile at that, happy that I'm at least useful in one way or another to Rebekah.
By the time it's night, we're still hiking in the woods.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQEoWvykJd
"Centuries after Qetsiyah died, there were these miners who were excavating a well on the island. Suddenly they went mad. They bled themselves dry. No apparent reason. So, the legend spread that these miners, in exchange for a drop of their blood, saw visions of their lost loved ones in the well they were digging. The word traveled and explorers sought out the well to see if the legend was true," Shane says.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2LwtENjxQ
"So, the well was magic?" Bonnie asks the professor.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXp3ZT3NZh
"Well, you know, some people believe the voices of lost souls were just a wind vortex whipping through the caves, and visions were caused by inhaling the island's poisonous plant life," he answers her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2jxLl6c4f
"And what do you believe?" Elena asks him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7KduvXM3w
"I believe in magic. My wife and my son died within months of each other. And so... I decided to try the well out for myself. I offered up my blood and waited. I saw my wife. I saw her eyes, her smile. My blood let me see her again," Shane answers my childe.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwu0S6pZvMl
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers," I comment to him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw59783TS6N
We continue to walk a few more minutes, before Shane stops and says, "Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDNBLLJG4o
We stop and he says, "Is everybody paying attention?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZWjsiHWAN
He picks up a large rock.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO4bumCAfW
"Our first lesson in survival."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbe6PzMTLie
He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap and it swings up into the trees.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDKIB7trMK
"Stay together. Keep your eyes open."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKePnBKmdg
We all continue to walk again.
Jeremy stops walking and falls behind us and says, "Ugh, I'm out of water."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JBx2GsaNh
"Here. Take mine," Elena offers.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6hYvlLIjH
"A magic well? Really?" I hear Jeremy ask.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRAHxm8BoP
"I don't know. I mean... We've all lost someone. The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzL6p0ibqGm
Suddenly, I smell the scent of someone else that I don't recognize, a moment before I hear Elena yell, "Jeremy!"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCndptrIkk2
I turn around to see Elena push Jeremy out of the way and an arrow misses them both. Then there's the scent of someone else that I don't recognize and the guy that tried to kill Jeremy gets an axe in the back and dies.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oZH3Yxlkv
"What the hell just happened?" Jeremy asks, once he is beside her again.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqzMdS3Azu
"Somebody just saved my life," she replies.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNwyQJ2gSd
They rejoin our group soon after, a few minutes after I do. They're okay, which I'm relieved about. Somebody saved her life and I don't know who, but there's one thing for certain. There are others out there.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloghpcga1s
We reach a clearing in the woods and Stefan asks, "What is this place?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWfVIzhulK
"According to island lore, a group of college kids came here for spring break. A few weeks later, they were all found dead, completely drained of blood," Shane answers.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOZQCDCi57
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us. Who sleeps where?" Rebekah asks.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvW5uvuyi6
Everyone starts to settle down around the site, while I talk to Shane.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzslHsYHOl
"Well, that's lovely. There's a mystery man with a hatchet lurking in the woods and we're just gonna camp?" I say to Shane.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUatMXU0wi
"We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBt2pcZ2Gtq
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsH1bsa2k1C
"How stupid do you think I am?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw56Wdn38UD
"Stupid enough to raise an immortal witch, so I'd say... incredibly."
"You know, I'm shocked you even want the cure, considering you've got the most to lose once Elena's human."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOpCJLkZv8
I walk away from Shane.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYipWurc2jU
Elena gets up and goes to talk to me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUZSZdHGjG
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about," she tells me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBX0W6EJhs
"Yeah, well we'll find out tomorrow."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7omAtExGT
"Do you really think that I'm gonna take this cure, break the sire bond, and fall out of love with you? "392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSVXBDpPVR
"No. I'm saying we don't know. And if we find it tomorrow, we will."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSk3ZS44kY
"This cure is gonna change so many things. Jeremy's not gonna want to kill me anymore. We're finally gonna get rid of Klaus. Bonnie's mom isn't gonna be a vampire. And anyone who wants to take this cure is gonna have that option. Caroline, Stefan, you. If you want it."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQoZKESXmx
She smiles at me expectantly.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gJtV0Yyu8
I know she wants me to take the cure so we can be together, but I don't want it anymore. Once upon a time, when I was a younger vampire, I would have given anything to be human again. But not now.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXYRCQ6CT8
"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVVmhSc3GU
"No, not everything. That's what I'm saying. Damon, not my feelings for you."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMK7DLp2wB
She kisses me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB5M6AzP4L
We depart and she touches my face.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYURPDJP4r
I put my arms around her and we embrace.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpqfGDRMAl
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I'm going in search of where Shane and Bonnie went to, looking for Shane specifically, when I hear them in a shed.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMXNwxoY1p
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" I hear Bonnie ask him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHFB4hcgHC
"Bonnie, listen, I taught you Expression so that you could access the cure. I'll be right there with you the whole time, I promise," he answers her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKywNvKrA8o
I enter behind Bonnie.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFR1hZbT1W
"You didn't answer the trust part."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7zASkLfWb
"All right. Let me put it this way. You need me to help you through it, Bonnie. Because as you've demonstrated, Expression can get messy. Believe me when I say I've seen it get a lot worse."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkB9Wtf8Ox
"How much worse?" I ask him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQH571OHtoJ
"When we lost our son in the car accident, my wife kind of lost it. She tried to resurrect his body using magic," he replies to me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIjUlGwxhT
"Your wife was a witch?" Bonnie asks him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsDvvoFD0d
"She was a powerful witch. And incredibly undisciplined," he answers her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVWTxYUa6I
"And you never thought to tell me?" she asks him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcD4olca9o7
"I just didn't want to scare you. The truth is, she tried to bring our son back using Expression, and it overwhelmed her, and she died."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVA5YscmvHA
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?" Bonnie angrily says.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkH7NEBXvA3
"Yeah, but look, the upside is I've learned the warning signs, all right? I can keep Expression from consuming you."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynFdHhl81l
"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle," I tell him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9UocIbxH1
"Don't you think I know how this ends? I came here to raise Silas so that he could bring back the dead, but you're never gonna let that happen. The second I point to a cure, you're gonna kill me. Now Bonnie has to keep me alive so I can keep her alive," he says to me.
The next day, we're all going in search of Little Gilbert.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3FyAGQHYn
"Jeremy!" Elena calls. She then says to Bonnie, "Did you find anything?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ427lEm13K3
"He's not on the trail," she answers Elena.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G786homMx
"His gear's still here," Shane says, holding up a bag.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzv3JI3wzFF
"He's not at the quarry, either," Stefan says, as he and Rebekah enter the clearing.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfUL6obPS7
"Let's split up," I suggest.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVRHWRW6yz
"I'm gonna stay and try a locater spell," Bonnie announces.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DPZINBQoQ
"Okay. I'll stay here. I'll make sure she's safe," Shane tells us.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCHbAeEDZt
"I'll stay here and make sure you're not lying," I tell him.
Elena looks at Stefan and Rebekah, and they look at each other.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhN4lagNbbs
"Fine. We'll keep searching the island," Elena announces.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDxHJNbOK1
I nod and walk off.
I enter the shed where Shane is trying to get a signal with his phone.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9YP9c8O8U
"Thought it didn't work," I say, coming up behind him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6m098mQ8ZE
"Yeah. I'm just- just checking the signal."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs25H4u3oPa
"So you can call someone? Like whoever took Jeremy?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYSWtNt0iV
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEkTMHWCFJ
He shoves his phone at my chest and says, "See for yourself."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mzpV8G0vN
"I'm done trusting you," I reply to him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpFqG9KeBy
At vamp speed I push him into a chair.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFpFbI9wH8
"Where's the cure?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqpDWyzHZb
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it," he replies to me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6gmAYHZMb
"So, you've seen it?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3AkSe6bdG
"No. But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOClvndFT9
"So you have the rock, Hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in a sacrifice? Where do they fit into all this?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcn22TAqK0e
"As you can imagine, that was not an easy pill to swallow," he says.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3Q3UKXmw0
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPphZq1zRQb
"He just wanted to see his wife again."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgcN9i8Rov
"We need three massacres. Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXdOpqSRx8
"You're not."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotV3OkTwrQ
"You're not finished. Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number 3?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kquxq9b7R
"It doesn't work that way, Damon."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevPnfPE2kF
"I think you need to tell me where this magical well is."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewzWnkTAr3
"You know I can't do that."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPXTz4uDGB
I look over at some rope on the floor.
"Oh, I know. I know."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoYNTbbM0F
I slap Shane's shoulder and walk away.
Later, I continue to interrogate Shane in the shed.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo95ql5Bn9l
"Where's the cure?"392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMLsQzpQMX
"Does it matter? I think we both know you'd rather just torture me. Torture gives you a sense of control, especially with your relevance slipping away."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT17oOQleLW
I calmly break a metal rod in half.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzIATzUHlg
"And look at you. Here you are, hours from Elena breaking her sire bond. You're starting to freak out a little bit. Listen, you want my advice? Leave. Go. Don't put yourself through this," he continues.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNQiBerO5Z
I whack Shane with the halves of the metal rod.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnZEwFfdjM
"Agh! Fine. Okay. Let's say her feelings for you are real. How does that end? She's human. You're a vampire," he continues. I strike him across the face with the rod and Shane groans in pain. "It's doomed, Damon. See, you're not torturing me, man. You're torturing yourself by helping them find the cure."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyQa2vURsl
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it," I reply.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75jFIZiXtP
"We've established that you can't kill me without sending Bonnie off the deep end. You can leave the island. Have a modicum of self-respect. Don't stay here and watch Elena walk away from you."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozDlMm0z62
"Right. Because if I'm not here, then I can't get in between you and whatever you're planning with Silas. Well, I'm not that easily manipulated, professor. And there is one flaw in your logic."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3WVO4FA3t
I bend down to talk in Shane's ear.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1HKHML9Ny
"I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlhEnPwzR1
I grab Shane's head like I'm about to snap it, but suddenly Elena runs in at vamp speed and pushes me away from Shane.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIV4Ea4tHJ
"What is wrong with you?" she says angrily.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4dhSSxzYi
I walk out of the shed without answering her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjBDyfdN16
"What did you say to him?" I hear her ask him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYBo9wJfJn
"Your boyfriend's a maniac, Elena."
"Stop messing with my friends," she tells him.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToOFGYkivQ
I hear Elena leave the shed and follow me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxe7LhIi5I
"Shane is the only thing that's keeping Bonnie safe, and you try to kill him? And you wonder why Bonnie hates you," she tells me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA119Vq7Rik
"I don't wonder, Elena, because I don't care. I don't care about her. I don't care about some lame-ass cure for vampires, either."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FdN6RikqB
"How can you say that right now?" she asks me.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjjBgw5RUl
"Because I don't want you to be cured."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXDlMkLBES
"I'm not fighting with you about this anymore. Being human isn't gonna change my feelings for you."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6lnvk53EY
"Fine. Say they're real. Say you've become human and you still love me. Then what? You grow old. You die. I stay a vampire. Face reality, Elena. We don't work."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uzJja6fy5
"So, things aren't easy and you're just gonna push me away now? That's what you do, Damon. You think that you don't---- you don't deserve something, so you ruin it. I'm not gonna let you pull that this time."392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Jzmc30oUB
I turn around and start walking away.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCU1iBIHZJx
"Take the cure with me," she says.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TZDZ6Rd2o
I stop.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mdPcUuiwJ
"That's how much I know this is real. That's how certain I am that I'm going to love you even after this is all over. Take the cure. Be human with me. We can be together. Grow old together. This doesn't have to be hard anymore," she continues.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLT2wnTEGLH
"That's not me, Elena. That's Stefan. You know, I used to miss being human. Now I can't think of anything more miserable on earth," I say, my back still facing her.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAkrMwDCde
I walk away.
I'm walking in the woods, when an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in my arm.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1JhF2ZjS8
I groan in pain and pull it out, tossing it to the ground.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZYvnlFubh
"You gotta be kidding me," I comment.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡac3B0N2FMT
Suddenly, a man jumps me and throws me to the ground.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MLFK19Tqk
We both get back up and go at each other. I manage to pin the man down, straddling his back and pulling at his head. I notice the man's hand on the ground has the Hunter's mark on it.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2XBmZAamd
"You're one of The Five," I say.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VyXI2aI3h
The man gets free of my choke hold, flips me over and snaps my neck.
