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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGhToBdZCu
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJvQ6MtmCs
She slowly sits up.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdHzNKWPFP
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXwmaganzc
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxOHSHIRSe
"He didn't," I tell her.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwB0ax8zgQf
"Wait. What?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRoIrKMXen
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq0XApdJ7j
"So what? Am I dead?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SLt6cmeum
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPp5d9cHupK
"No. I can't be."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DITiuxEmp
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy38GNC5G5
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2JL9fJuso
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh56QwPGP2u
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUXH8X6ctC
He watches me.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURfxC9KX9n
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaEga09sPJ
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRN2DGXFKaL
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsA5JAWRRDm
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOipxyisXZ
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNOcrti6hU
"Jer," she greets.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pAGA3Vieo
"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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbXvCJMTnu
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0leEj2Sis
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDiRJuPtAg
"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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeShbll5drZ
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLDNwYYXUb
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXxg8ZJbkI
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeijlwggub
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvv0dFemN0R
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaCMQd2UHg
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYMDTpeNWI
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s11y2uh4Z
Rebekah turns around to face me.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe11EDTB2FO
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6I96zn0OWD
Rebekah turns back around.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSE6r4EXID7
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5d1noOQn9e
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6JxpJK55C
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngC53bR3DA
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FWduB6kRM
"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?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqeTxJEFvb
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiIpoQH0Oy
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCyrOlYmW0
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZPTSZANxz
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vTiiifNwg
"Hey, is Elena here?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4DwW3kyCu
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTKDEOQtEC
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFfxlTGpJ7
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6zLlyiQJL
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXacna50NZe
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJT98ULrnb
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSkrXSA2dO
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8NCUbtAa6
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnRWvHVn23
"Damon," she says.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8kZTCVRVR
"Yeah?" I reply.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUanRzZPX2e
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡek41nMmsQj
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpHMcZbPf4
"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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFqRqqYhk8
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
