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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIo8TuSZxQ6
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZzvD0cMNy
She slowly sits up.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvgVPadX3P
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xa1lFlE6Z
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRd5VQKnNIo
"He didn't," I tell her.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHj6pHgRwfP
"Wait. What?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf07SHLYrWN
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTG5gvHW3v
"So what? Am I dead?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0juyrHGKf
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFS4cJFrb9
"No. I can't be."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliCxwhBaw1
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqaH3qZcHC
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmf24vwOTar
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoM6nfqkE5e
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPUPOLKOSW
He watches me.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYh3lPD4Wds
"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."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRW9gtr8FL
"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."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJe5Bk0Gjj
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7A4z4LARZ
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IrdBFHeTB
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaW3MOHH5Je
"Jer," she greets.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaU2Tn0qz3T
"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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmT39Qprc4w
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPaN9hMKQm
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhIP69UHOj
"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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd63jfHz9L
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ymSJ09mJV
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlllb9OAt6
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSKUyNkd29
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPVkxKVcyA
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHwHjfyQYh
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxusA9gGD25
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbn72d0X46
Rebekah turns around to face me.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QOgKG23Dx
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IuEZ4msSG
Rebekah turns back around.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8t6oUngx6
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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAwhrcXxd2
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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKyu93RfjY
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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2JmjFwlop
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVwC5PuH1U
"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?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNBcICMhpf
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRCgT1CjMx
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkS4jRNviZI
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5rGO3S8QX
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPf5CSNoGQ
"Hey, is Elena here?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRbGqiWGjX
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSu5aK0pMI5
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbFxB6SKjg
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutqpKsm20c
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCOj43RrkY
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6GUr5tSx3
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rIFTW2VMC
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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHp9ZeQCt4P
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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgGivTEU0q
"Damon," she says.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyw4EWB4kJ
"Yeah?" I reply.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81IzvHFt82
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2znnq0rdZ1
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQwoOQQ46v
"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.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCO51KyCs9D
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
