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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMNWsNhQK4
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7XDgdYo1L
She slowly sits up.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVtRSBhIky
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRggrvgquuz
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OGTWyhChN
"He didn't," I tell her.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr74rsGDoy3
"Wait. What?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0Qe9X7gy5
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0DCvAb77g
"So what? Am I dead?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TeiuwluAE
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4hHQ8POAO
"No. I can't be."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKFAiQqS0M
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GzZUGKb1R
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6407OPp8t
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwKs1ZYyAv
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs80keRDBY
He watches me.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzn1XcqxYl
"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."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmg4DsWF5LH
"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."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAwoOwntPb
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVhBcjVz3n
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTxbwLLT4t
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPySAhvoEB
"Jer," she greets.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsTviZfd7j
"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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzErEgwlUCd
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgCinowHSA
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpM3FrCgbIC
"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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCvk8Yjryk
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpimCQYRvqI
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8tYP3kpNm
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL96z0dEUOp
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3VBBZ3l8A
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcilFNH4hCM
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnTbjajjYP
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH2M4U4glf
Rebekah turns around to face me.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8v3YciNQ0
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlLM7XdiuE
Rebekah turns back around.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JJmbKQyvG
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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS8rZ3j9NO
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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8egA1sK5ck
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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6jzYHHT2M
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMRaYzOTEh
"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?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmUOyicHXT
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39riRW9wyr
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡky8Q9JXYXk
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsBmrzTQqL
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtQ41lDzE2
"Hey, is Elena here?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnqlMfnono
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwicsjaeQPW
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmO04kYTJW
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJTFLTJk4O
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXBnnFCs6Q
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uCkQq6IHM
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGZRJ8xQ8M
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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8eNZBitRZ
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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRxAsdIkA9
"Damon," she says.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMT2aakBcb6
"Yeah?" I reply.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtsma5uuX1
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy90zs42AZt
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVbJ6CUgr3
"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.499Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZppiXwwKib
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
