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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqdaEj8iJO
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" I ask him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1L5QfvmvNW
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Td8LqgIgD
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4Caq4UhCk
"Yeah, that too."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2JCLKc9rZ
Shane holds up sunscreen and looks at me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCwDjKCRF1
"Sunscreen?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXG2WDiwfg
"Is that a joke?" I ask him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElSQXtaxWt
"Right," he says, as if he just remembered that I'm a vampire and I don't need it.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKb97pvYjq
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5z4DlHuxHP
"You know, you're not really helping," Stefan tells her.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCqlkCouzj
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot," she answers him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpfDYmb96d
"You giving Elena the evil eye isn't really helping."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELIZDc3MAb
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOMn5xs66a
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena responds from a distance away.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDziaWD4O1x
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah replies.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBO9UYCZW5
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdRCgRpYCa
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDPvDHoqwl
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzW2wB8l2D
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises," I comment.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9skR3Hr0kQ
"I'm not apologizing for not wanting her here."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcb0a7wATU
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENYYicFNH2
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2ijhPjvjo
"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybkZipxwYX
"You know, you've never talked about what you'll do with the cure, once we find it. Will you take it?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnyNswvkQ0
"I don't like to speculate."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbik0ktPvQe
A few minutes later, we start hiking.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQdac9G6FD
As we hike through the woods parts of the island, Shane's phone beeps and he says, "Satellite phone lost its service."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT52GdAOlkQ
"Well, that's a good sign," I say sarcastically.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAI2hrDvU6Q
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena asks.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyx7slGtPYQ
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary," Rebekah comments to her.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cNrDWYXwL
"Please don't start," Stefan tells Rebekah.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPPrCYv93D
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEEfMhkCFk
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYzcep8c6A
"You have a nice behind," is all she tells me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyk1Lu44XK
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlIDOVxtTf
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63xm8T10vj
"So, the well was magic?" Bonnie asks the professor.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYa1kTIZYUH
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZhZwHewtH
"And what do you believe?" Elena asks him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsIWPK6GZY
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWR30TY2SA
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers," I comment to him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlG3KHdXDoX
We continue to walk a few more minutes, before Shane stops and says, "Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiTFnPmkpv
We stop and he says, "Is everybody paying attention?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjokzTWwkqP
He picks up a large rock.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNGLKTmW2l
"Our first lesson in survival."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6LRKXGZkB
He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap and it swings up into the trees.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyIOycLidt
"Stay together. Keep your eyes open."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5njcva7SMy
We all continue to walk again.
Jeremy stops walking and falls behind us and says, "Ugh, I'm out of water."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDMaA8PJtc
"Here. Take mine," Elena offers.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWphl8bzMgr
"A magic well? Really?" I hear Jeremy ask.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIKVNQKhox
"I don't know. I mean... We've all lost someone. The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQIHCSBgfR
Suddenly, I smell the scent of someone else that I don't recognize, a moment before I hear Elena yell, "Jeremy!"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV89zhzzUdz
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0q3ShbzVcH
"What the hell just happened?" Jeremy asks, once he is beside her again.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOxq1yNWD4
"Somebody just saved my life," she replies.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvifhvIGHHS
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIwHFsgkjr
We reach a clearing in the woods and Stefan asks, "What is this place?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzMfvg7m4J
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzDsZ01F1j
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us. Who sleeps where?" Rebekah asks.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM492MNKhPg
Everyone starts to settle down around the site, while I talk to Shane.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaowwpqHPR
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Eok2wFxhM
"We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvtqsWzdZw
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceKQFBh247
"How stupid do you think I am?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHphCdyze7
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrEF2vdeYq
I walk away from Shane.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkcXxYSt2I
Elena gets up and goes to talk to me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTN32Yta3a2
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about," she tells me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBTZRP0E33
"Yeah, well we'll find out tomorrow."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8y6syTe7e
"Do you really think that I'm gonna take this cure, break the sire bond, and fall out of love with you? "389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBOBNxzZKL
"No. I'm saying we don't know. And if we find it tomorrow, we will."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAbF9YmQEA
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTxbNyFAgu
She smiles at me expectantly.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9r1unNmQyv
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ulxFx0bUN
"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iuFYRcLAM
"No, not everything. That's what I'm saying. Damon, not my feelings for you."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZy5o4GkGKQ
She kisses me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGHyx5A8Qw
We depart and she touches my face.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59jGqm6Rgc
I put my arms around her and we embrace.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeohMznYNq1
389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTQSeqMi8D
I'm going in search of where Shane and Bonnie went to, looking for Shane specifically, when I hear them in a shed.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf3Xjw1ZQl
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" I hear Bonnie ask him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPg9W6vgJ0
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LJcmeiTP9
I enter behind Bonnie.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfITa6ylLR
"You didn't answer the trust part."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxgvc2Pz99
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOh5XjDh9X
"How much worse?" I ask him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYnlaqmDVo
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaST3hxwSP
"Your wife was a witch?" Bonnie asks him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwATE40gD9
"She was a powerful witch. And incredibly undisciplined," he answers her.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6hx7DUkf7
"And you never thought to tell me?" she asks him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNaTyuBS77
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuX3H2UmMg2
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?" Bonnie angrily says.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjK8yzBOgm
"Yeah, but look, the upside is I've learned the warning signs, all right? I can keep Expression from consuming you."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwp6hRpvlJ
"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle," I tell him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6F7fBMJvYi
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IAQpx0UHG
"Jeremy!" Elena calls. She then says to Bonnie, "Did you find anything?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPGbyi6bCP
"He's not on the trail," she answers Elena.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qor8sDa4b
"His gear's still here," Shane says, holding up a bag.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKg0Evq2LO
"He's not at the quarry, either," Stefan says, as he and Rebekah enter the clearing.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoWZH3NrSp
"Let's split up," I suggest.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbNFB0g2bG
"I'm gonna stay and try a locater spell," Bonnie announces.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMjr5ZUCda
"Okay. I'll stay here. I'll make sure she's safe," Shane tells us.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcu9bXBq6d
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47PYgfT5MW
"Fine. We'll keep searching the island," Elena announces.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcG9riHgLF
I nod and walk off.
I enter the shed where Shane is trying to get a signal with his phone.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4agAaUMm2
"Thought it didn't work," I say, coming up behind him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnpAkLiApR
"Yeah. I'm just- just checking the signal."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LEV483OLd
"So you can call someone? Like whoever took Jeremy?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8y82qhRcpT
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf09Jl6HkFy
He shoves his phone at my chest and says, "See for yourself."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhulYGDn3i
"I'm done trusting you," I reply to him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21sOtjkBGO
At vamp speed I push him into a chair.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoqrdQNjya
"Where's the cure?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIjqN4Vlxu
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it," he replies to me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0I0d0XCo4q
"So, you've seen it?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcfJBpQM2y
"No. But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgfQN8b5yD
"So you have the rock, Hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in a sacrifice? Where do they fit into all this?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1EIe1o06Y
"As you can imagine, that was not an easy pill to swallow," he says.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmsrXdm07KQ
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjs6bRI7T9
"He just wanted to see his wife again."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6NLdDrZYI
"We need three massacres. Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5A1yzivMb
"You're not."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAgwkPFYgB
"You're not finished. Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number 3?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuz36QYS0lG
"It doesn't work that way, Damon."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnbzEM4QBq
"I think you need to tell me where this magical well is."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8VqZyzpFn
"You know I can't do that."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebNzGXTLpT
I look over at some rope on the floor.
"Oh, I know. I know."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDzhNzCvIG
I slap Shane's shoulder and walk away.
Later, I continue to interrogate Shane in the shed.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUauXBEKuAD
"Where's the cure?"389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmzXxKk6Iy
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhEUWhhd9x
I calmly break a metal rod in half.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6wLkuubtT
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMaQOWh6x4
I whack Shane with the halves of the metal rod.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9tknFez4L
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlFjmYnskH
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it," I reply.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pa7tsNxTj
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFK4EZvTU3
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKDjPawSSX
I bend down to talk in Shane's ear.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYj6nvxL8UE
"I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4348KWoM1y
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyhBj9QaE0
"What is wrong with you?" she says angrily.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBN0kaKa8XE
I walk out of the shed without answering her.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSxHFrDAU1
"What did you say to him?" I hear her ask him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDUDxdH5dN
"Your boyfriend's a maniac, Elena."
"Stop messing with my friends," she tells him.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1CZ6kGquo
I hear Elena leave the shed and follow me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3nwZeKydj
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY26MInLKKT
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OK1s6vbHg
"How can you say that right now?" she asks me.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZX6NfZgeR
"Because I don't want you to be cured."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jPmLzFZmB
"I'm not fighting with you about this anymore. Being human isn't gonna change my feelings for you."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEy7bX9eVLz
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeFfWrWAgy
"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."389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVdR0QJdkS
I turn around and start walking away.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcSVEnW8yL
"Take the cure with me," she says.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1l35BpHUN
I stop.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3DIAy2bYj
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNWmy4ijDg
"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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn763sVsImS
I walk away.
I'm walking in the woods, when an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in my arm.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJJWR9Dt2v
I groan in pain and pull it out, tossing it to the ground.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5dMG8dzxS
"You gotta be kidding me," I comment.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJTNewCRwr
Suddenly, a man jumps me and throws me to the ground.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3gz5oKD0E
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.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdr1zJWwVf
"You're one of The Five," I say.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejtd5LCd1z
The man gets free of my choke hold, flips me over and snaps my neck.
