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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtt2Fs1rPup
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" I ask him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcShVzUDKC
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBB2rQtU9Q
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJkmno2aY7
"Yeah, that too."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6rYRqTDjP
Shane holds up sunscreen and looks at me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSAQleW6hx
"Sunscreen?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJK0q7i5iTx
"Is that a joke?" I ask him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6yxRp0vDu
"Right," he says, as if he just remembered that I'm a vampire and I don't need it.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkX4RPtZrZb
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNJ4Q5MlXR
"You know, you're not really helping," Stefan tells her.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PhlmUAeiD
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot," she answers him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEnI4us0yE
"You giving Elena the evil eye isn't really helping."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UMNCxst3O
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lF0ECjUfy
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena responds from a distance away.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5gle0TB0A
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah replies.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZ3CWG1ua6
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNggbLApoj
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSxW7yfUQP
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImakHBSL0Q
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises," I comment.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszfh9xbbcU
"I'm not apologizing for not wanting her here."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQCM5VTl74
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TziLA8NmM
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwQPz03Zrv
"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJnWQUpsKR
"You know, you've never talked about what you'll do with the cure, once we find it. Will you take it?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFl5pjrazp
"I don't like to speculate."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXmg4Sj51N
A few minutes later, we start hiking.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡencziE79iD
As we hike through the woods parts of the island, Shane's phone beeps and he says, "Satellite phone lost its service."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTo0YXzu51s
"Well, that's a good sign," I say sarcastically.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nvlx3UcaY
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena asks.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAqZ7PuI6t
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary," Rebekah comments to her.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspo5MCjTaY
"Please don't start," Stefan tells Rebekah.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUohbyH3uh
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdw6G3xmJK
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrBAJiyk1f
"You have a nice behind," is all she tells me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EHgzLMQHI
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0XmGkGEfw
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4UiwDvSv2
"So, the well was magic?" Bonnie asks the professor.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwaQsom0WL
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYQ4jMSb5n
"And what do you believe?" Elena asks him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhScEM0rtN
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOILWjwYb8e
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers," I comment to him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nsFtR8xvI
We continue to walk a few more minutes, before Shane stops and says, "Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLl3SHiFlei
We stop and he says, "Is everybody paying attention?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgMxuzCp5s
He picks up a large rock.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPoCAGyv3x
"Our first lesson in survival."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uYoSw0SHY
He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap and it swings up into the trees.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5eRgDuqty
"Stay together. Keep your eyes open."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wiAkZSkpt
We all continue to walk again.
Jeremy stops walking and falls behind us and says, "Ugh, I'm out of water."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfP2sQqsxg
"Here. Take mine," Elena offers.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE55MV6jFLG
"A magic well? Really?" I hear Jeremy ask.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnX2nlMlx1H
"I don't know. I mean... We've all lost someone. The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdtrs8mBJg
Suddenly, I smell the scent of someone else that I don't recognize, a moment before I hear Elena yell, "Jeremy!"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgnyKcw93C
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ymu1iBZRn
"What the hell just happened?" Jeremy asks, once he is beside her again.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYV86g3xOkb
"Somebody just saved my life," she replies.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3iYqo0Q6c
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRsD4cQok0
We reach a clearing in the woods and Stefan asks, "What is this place?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFK0lxiLR5a
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDxZWjAqRr
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us. Who sleeps where?" Rebekah asks.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBImMgcIVW7
Everyone starts to settle down around the site, while I talk to Shane.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3np1ai10xd
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mYUBSJ4Tf
"We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeho5s58fh
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrWvG4jd2D
"How stupid do you think I am?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fIiyQKzyA
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwfSjaF0cz
I walk away from Shane.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPxbgNPqCh
Elena gets up and goes to talk to me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8dPAwS9JA
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about," she tells me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RCaxuRJT3
"Yeah, well we'll find out tomorrow."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4MMTtsh9q
"Do you really think that I'm gonna take this cure, break the sire bond, and fall out of love with you? "391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLqGc8UKvJ
"No. I'm saying we don't know. And if we find it tomorrow, we will."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Bpe6H3IQc
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzvkNSAdTs
She smiles at me expectantly.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyPsYY1Ntz
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uH6gpbI4y
"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQ3NksVARH
"No, not everything. That's what I'm saying. Damon, not my feelings for you."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡch7yiRnLnf
She kisses me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fOukctwbi
We depart and she touches my face.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsYUoSGQ6B
I put my arms around her and we embrace.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueAwt7EQAG
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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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUwpTPCAQy
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" I hear Bonnie ask him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3B0k7fOutD
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQLushdShg
I enter behind Bonnie.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69UmAXpoxo
"You didn't answer the trust part."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT72HdurlKO
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOwwwBupDV
"How much worse?" I ask him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1RPWohLoC
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LK7JVSslA
"Your wife was a witch?" Bonnie asks him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBaP2xBkQg
"She was a powerful witch. And incredibly undisciplined," he answers her.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzU5QgMwEM
"And you never thought to tell me?" she asks him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyzLEcQ5XN
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkyRSdvaYS
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?" Bonnie angrily says.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJhHwXqYwC
"Yeah, but look, the upside is I've learned the warning signs, all right? I can keep Expression from consuming you."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasTLO1hlqG
"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle," I tell him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJW0BEDhUna
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRcVPlUFDy
"Jeremy!" Elena calls. She then says to Bonnie, "Did you find anything?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9paDbpL2M
"He's not on the trail," she answers Elena.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMrLcBGf3H
"His gear's still here," Shane says, holding up a bag.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84mWqMZDJW
"He's not at the quarry, either," Stefan says, as he and Rebekah enter the clearing.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboUnloFvud
"Let's split up," I suggest.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAlAqghYRj
"I'm gonna stay and try a locater spell," Bonnie announces.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvb4XZSzQ0d
"Okay. I'll stay here. I'll make sure she's safe," Shane tells us.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPB4qZUtoG
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISbdg3OmfM
"Fine. We'll keep searching the island," Elena announces.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1uGjzWwYp
I nod and walk off.
I enter the shed where Shane is trying to get a signal with his phone.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTE5Mf0PRW
"Thought it didn't work," I say, coming up behind him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLkc3jEP3g
"Yeah. I'm just- just checking the signal."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMsnwloCDO
"So you can call someone? Like whoever took Jeremy?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfWe0Ps5Oq
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmcxYMZDE5
He shoves his phone at my chest and says, "See for yourself."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCQK0dUc8s
"I'm done trusting you," I reply to him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RSH5yEZRB
At vamp speed I push him into a chair.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcR4NVtePK
"Where's the cure?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsytxbmU0WJ
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it," he replies to me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBajfAHrey
"So, you've seen it?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtRkzGfWSZ
"No. But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhlqtmU3zx
"So you have the rock, Hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in a sacrifice? Where do they fit into all this?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtk65JE4v0Z
"As you can imagine, that was not an easy pill to swallow," he says.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uQNslN2Lj
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8j2yhPLN3
"He just wanted to see his wife again."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHNvFcM9jt
"We need three massacres. Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXgCo70SiB
"You're not."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLgUnADYZ7
"You're not finished. Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number 3?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQ1u3hOGcI
"It doesn't work that way, Damon."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoB2IHLPMWP
"I think you need to tell me where this magical well is."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JOkqBmhVD
"You know I can't do that."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gwvofDb8R
I look over at some rope on the floor.
"Oh, I know. I know."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocZGiPqywu
I slap Shane's shoulder and walk away.
Later, I continue to interrogate Shane in the shed.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzKLRIC4q3
"Where's the cure?"391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8wJLs3Spc
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UjIZWWjFx
I calmly break a metal rod in half.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyvOGU7GUK
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuT1Xr1sbhC
I whack Shane with the halves of the metal rod.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLuzXKr84S
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdfseLn9f3
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it," I reply.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bX0wzztGk
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hU3a3sP6e
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Z7EDTVCfI
I bend down to talk in Shane's ear.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSl8C9ru5ri
"I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0J5sIIum6U
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEvua5uqAK
"What is wrong with you?" she says angrily.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlITb576eaX
I walk out of the shed without answering her.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoPT3HyvbU
"What did you say to him?" I hear her ask him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfCt2qOdoz
"Your boyfriend's a maniac, Elena."
"Stop messing with my friends," she tells him.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Tzpr6Rcbf
I hear Elena leave the shed and follow me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbL95azm5ZI
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTqI9bjwv2
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHG5886KvQ
"How can you say that right now?" she asks me.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJgkmHznpV
"Because I don't want you to be cured."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymV9qCsCQm
"I'm not fighting with you about this anymore. Being human isn't gonna change my feelings for you."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeEr16ueF0
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2UpiyQbxs
"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."391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYvKbG9wjj
I turn around and start walking away.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pcQMrpSTy
"Take the cure with me," she says.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLDMlTfk1y
I stop.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7JFcx5yZc
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlihSUo0e5
"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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0hUSLEJ3x
I walk away.
I'm walking in the woods, when an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in my arm.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XyghoH9nK
I groan in pain and pull it out, tossing it to the ground.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDfkHXRB56
"You gotta be kidding me," I comment.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6it2yLgtGp
Suddenly, a man jumps me and throws me to the ground.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrBHwAcWkb
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.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6ADhsgSJv
"You're one of The Five," I say.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBhnV0vBMW
The man gets free of my choke hold, flips me over and snaps my neck.
