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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6U9Ekbg0U
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" I ask him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MRIjXBsIG
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKGparACcr
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEiQnlvTST
"Yeah, that too."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2zixBFFAd
Shane holds up sunscreen and looks at me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeDosgi2vk
"Sunscreen?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuNUabSzQa
"Is that a joke?" I ask him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcnV7SX7Xq
"Right," he says, as if he just remembered that I'm a vampire and I don't need it.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhvlDM6oOn
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4CKImhYEg
"You know, you're not really helping," Stefan tells her.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyB5lkMmfa
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot," she answers him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8oazpXOYj
"You giving Elena the evil eye isn't really helping."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2OhKCudDe
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQkzT4QfyX
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena responds from a distance away.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00cP0gU8vU
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah replies.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht7b4nuCCk
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lAcAjmp84
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVMctUxeJ3
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9uTgfy4Re
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises," I comment.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYYfyrM29N
"I'm not apologizing for not wanting her here."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UG1SiXdtq
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUIcvGBDXh
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6flr1MyTx
"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI92eYXPp41
"You know, you've never talked about what you'll do with the cure, once we find it. Will you take it?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWzRP06C2b
"I don't like to speculate."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6x2gywq2x
A few minutes later, we start hiking.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBi8cWEw4x
As we hike through the woods parts of the island, Shane's phone beeps and he says, "Satellite phone lost its service."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQEOw1Xd4M
"Well, that's a good sign," I say sarcastically.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJXoEngUPI
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena asks.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qSPT9qdxN
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary," Rebekah comments to her.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKx4bIVRRq
"Please don't start," Stefan tells Rebekah.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhWcpGOCnD
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcpObIyPXe
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQkKcs503T
"You have a nice behind," is all she tells me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI868PxIvO
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysBYSQ9lw1
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfktoqCFQp
"So, the well was magic?" Bonnie asks the professor.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Np3t8wrmB
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsm7jqMPgB
"And what do you believe?" Elena asks him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwDZSJ7Yjg
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mx6TJvlLV
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers," I comment to him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo14abO5pDg
We continue to walk a few more minutes, before Shane stops and says, "Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqP2wRcDm3I
We stop and he says, "Is everybody paying attention?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt8lyg53zg
He picks up a large rock.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlI2SvRY4L
"Our first lesson in survival."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSb6Sgx4hve
He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap and it swings up into the trees.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyi6yMX8dxJ
"Stay together. Keep your eyes open."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmbDOHHSpK
We all continue to walk again.
Jeremy stops walking and falls behind us and says, "Ugh, I'm out of water."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacvgoN2gAp
"Here. Take mine," Elena offers.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKbJG7kF3P
"A magic well? Really?" I hear Jeremy ask.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQziTFhFM75
"I don't know. I mean... We've all lost someone. The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUqWoQKDph
Suddenly, I smell the scent of someone else that I don't recognize, a moment before I hear Elena yell, "Jeremy!"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmpKUQRFQf
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PDZc2uV2W
"What the hell just happened?" Jeremy asks, once he is beside her again.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQBl88Gy7t
"Somebody just saved my life," she replies.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEL4m6yKCaW
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9807EbLsx
We reach a clearing in the woods and Stefan asks, "What is this place?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkK4K8G3nx9
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENEHe0MMmJ
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us. Who sleeps where?" Rebekah asks.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrp1vQjO4qs
Everyone starts to settle down around the site, while I talk to Shane.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFw2MbRWCY
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAsmRNPMWc
"We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sXoJwyhjo
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc5YwUBEp7
"How stupid do you think I am?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPa8KaIVlpD
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrrpqaO1DR
I walk away from Shane.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyR9Cthh64
Elena gets up and goes to talk to me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0gJwaWCXW
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about," she tells me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcvn6FGo50
"Yeah, well we'll find out tomorrow."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJ9bbeiH9t
"Do you really think that I'm gonna take this cure, break the sire bond, and fall out of love with you? "423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vpZB0vq9U
"No. I'm saying we don't know. And if we find it tomorrow, we will."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvhkOrs5Wh
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnVKa2GReL
She smiles at me expectantly.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAF4yBuyPRy
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFzc2BpH3w
"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fQq7aBPgm
"No, not everything. That's what I'm saying. Damon, not my feelings for you."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BA7VWpvgJ
She kisses me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKLCbBQDBy
We depart and she touches my face.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5VhWHOO9K
I put my arms around her and we embrace.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPBdIUVstV
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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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwZcufEEfu
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" I hear Bonnie ask him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2iDLSKWHH
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpD8UgM0jh
I enter behind Bonnie.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQuAisxJ7r
"You didn't answer the trust part."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuIZgQkn3d
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyVyKzCsi4
"How much worse?" I ask him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9ggDJUD4M
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0C9c8lGuVb
"Your wife was a witch?" Bonnie asks him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhJQYUHBIv
"She was a powerful witch. And incredibly undisciplined," he answers her.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoO641EuFjI
"And you never thought to tell me?" she asks him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxRi5FnHf0
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsiS8usl0g
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?" Bonnie angrily says.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq1e0UIJhR
"Yeah, but look, the upside is I've learned the warning signs, all right? I can keep Expression from consuming you."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CQeJ7MnKg
"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle," I tell him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ243SoYeU32
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KBpQ5P5G4
"Jeremy!" Elena calls. She then says to Bonnie, "Did you find anything?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjEsgQjKYu
"He's not on the trail," she answers Elena.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvC6Iolvowi
"His gear's still here," Shane says, holding up a bag.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9l0VUHjPj
"He's not at the quarry, either," Stefan says, as he and Rebekah enter the clearing.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQ33MmUJJJ
"Let's split up," I suggest.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxtTDCKe3z
"I'm gonna stay and try a locater spell," Bonnie announces.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpUsrynbrg
"Okay. I'll stay here. I'll make sure she's safe," Shane tells us.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufYx81ya5a
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGKtrpGHmM
"Fine. We'll keep searching the island," Elena announces.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡafSVRVxsds
I nod and walk off.
I enter the shed where Shane is trying to get a signal with his phone.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1ON3pTsXe
"Thought it didn't work," I say, coming up behind him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3UNu0z4LQ
"Yeah. I'm just- just checking the signal."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVw7g7f1YS
"So you can call someone? Like whoever took Jeremy?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1qgyK803p
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgjKwXfBqK
He shoves his phone at my chest and says, "See for yourself."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKmqHfkyTe
"I'm done trusting you," I reply to him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAyb1ZJuaU
At vamp speed I push him into a chair.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jU8Cm04sp
"Where's the cure?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQyMzCDCS0
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it," he replies to me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vIGcx4zpa
"So, you've seen it?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCGtoJ0JYF
"No. But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eieOsJRTV
"So you have the rock, Hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in a sacrifice? Where do they fit into all this?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdCuzhOGqE
"As you can imagine, that was not an easy pill to swallow," he says.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70jb2nI2qi
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmfp2JYZ0h
"He just wanted to see his wife again."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡForqlT5Fys
"We need three massacres. Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesyhQBwXfD
"You're not."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoTrF3FsvV
"You're not finished. Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number 3?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qCuE9XA3p
"It doesn't work that way, Damon."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnFI8BgqYk
"I think you need to tell me where this magical well is."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkutpav6zSu
"You know I can't do that."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4JnUetG6g
I look over at some rope on the floor.
"Oh, I know. I know."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqikDBaZJSx
I slap Shane's shoulder and walk away.
Later, I continue to interrogate Shane in the shed.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNOPVdwjJY
"Where's the cure?"423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBRgeVAhpD
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2DpbdrTl9
I calmly break a metal rod in half.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWqcBrdoBK
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD678eHz3kt
I whack Shane with the halves of the metal rod.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdPsG8Uio5
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw59bq9xNsM
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it," I reply.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEXqS3W524
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw3GJ7vBmR
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrlKI9SeXa
I bend down to talk in Shane's ear.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWQP62ywKt
"I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcw0i34WXEF
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bj6O0PkOK
"What is wrong with you?" she says angrily.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHjU40iVqF
I walk out of the shed without answering her.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3ZSpdiWDl
"What did you say to him?" I hear her ask him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6Da6Ekwyw
"Your boyfriend's a maniac, Elena."
"Stop messing with my friends," she tells him.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L75uFC3YT
I hear Elena leave the shed and follow me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwHJRpyNjR
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdUBkWC6oG
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJCFPgTAju
"How can you say that right now?" she asks me.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftz3RMU5VL
"Because I don't want you to be cured."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYrqF7SkOq
"I'm not fighting with you about this anymore. Being human isn't gonna change my feelings for you."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAL5yzVHIt
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw36hMb4Gwr
"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."423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe547MXJxbG
I turn around and start walking away.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLj66I4Q4n
"Take the cure with me," she says.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiO2bgcK3g4
I stop.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbqZP4od8W
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXpoAlDxjF
"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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUT8kqJo2U
I walk away.
I'm walking in the woods, when an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in my arm.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYA3isWw04A
I groan in pain and pull it out, tossing it to the ground.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovFQzjVH3v
"You gotta be kidding me," I comment.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqBfZfjmav
Suddenly, a man jumps me and throws me to the ground.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoDPAe9PbB
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.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTxZtBV5Sc
"You're one of The Five," I say.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD49C70I5id
The man gets free of my choke hold, flips me over and snaps my neck.
