Stefan and Lexi are seated on the couch at the Salvatore boarding house with the music blaring Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name," Stefan drinking a bottle of liquor.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAo1Ye2YjNF
I walk over and turn the radio off.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQK6Kr9clxR
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAB6X9gdT0
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXCxIJIcgt
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLO9xY1TUF
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmnnyfRqa0
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp7goFoGWE
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOG9Fmci3y
She releases me and walks over to stand by the couch, and snags the liquor bottle from Stefan. She takes a swig before Stefan takes it back and drinks some of it.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBvhx2MWaM
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5AjNuhspYn
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xjr7THJWj
"Are you drunk?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVeQsgw4TH
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHglgWINLkK
"So this is how we spend the day," I comment, before taking a sip from the shot glass of liquor I had poured for myself.
Later in the day, one of The Five walks inside the boarding house, when Stefan and I are in the living room.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvI0xtISQRV
"I got this from my good friend Connor," he says, talking about the gun he has in his hand, as he faces me. He then shoots me in the side of the neck.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfyK8TEjwP
"I want to know where Silas is."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvrrQKKAOW
"I don't know where he is."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5S49pYnvo
Stefan and the Hunter soon fight and it ends with Stefan ripping his heart out, killing him.
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When I'm in my room, Elena, now with her humanity back on, walks into my room.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNujXTA2q7L
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt67N7tkjVr
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3wkAx5K5V
"What is there to talk about?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPGkF7w0La
I walk over to my end table and take out a small box. I then open it and put the cure in her hand, as I stand in front of her.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TTv47YBX3
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZi7ebQ4ha
I wince in pain.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5VBxdGnhB
"Are you okay?" she asks me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEozw72x3ot
"I'm fine."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4D1WiQSc8V
"Take off your shirt."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz33jfnHliE
"No. Not when he's here."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF79jVaP3sW
"Fine."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dz8PDpSlt
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTO7lOWQUVM
She looks at me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTQIHBL4FN
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUK5VuY4eCo
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7cjX2WD8c
"We need Klaus."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmRhfKhBho
"Klaus would rather let me die."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ160noyUDAp
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoqAvwfeoQ
"No," I respond.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnpQzqiw68
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfIw3l46Pv
"No, Elena."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKM4ezih7i
She sets it in my hand.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Yfery8EcP
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfvK8tuEfy
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKqVmPnSxc
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifI6cWUyY3
She looks at her brother.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4Gh40uN2R
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOonY4tcBif
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6u2B1Ylf6R
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqxFUzFOJY
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJ58K64VHb
"Okay," she says.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡed4AagY5AK
I watch them leave.
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When one of The Five wakes up, Stefan and Lexi get to their feet and I'm in the living room with them again.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9VoNYIQYw
I stand by him.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsfknw0Z65
"He's up," Stefan said.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvqOHDstQO
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡou9tHdOpLM
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Kz6L1fyhs
"To dig up Silas."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JixiFPx6j
We then leave.
The Hunter and I are in the woods standing by a cliff. There's a river below it and a few trees around us.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuYwIyxI33
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXfc9QpiJK
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZZsHp1ciM
The Hunter sees my neck wound.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWQYZiEJOx
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLKqM7LBQI
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5Qs5afFND
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4LPVeavWE
I'm silent.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbymlIWwXi
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRDqcs6bBg
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGF772WO0QQ
I don't say anything.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6anSUdU2v
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEdLMv0nra
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2Fg1AOoE8
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6aiUtnQTMF
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ232J0Eov5
"You need this?" he asks.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG10oVyZXJP
"Yeah."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMjsKEHvhp
Ric tries to get me to take the cure so I won't die, but I won't. That cure is for Elena. I'd rather die. So he phones up my brother.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjSJFKnFxo
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhQ3W2qCTy
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqPnWrieRM
Stefan hangs up.
Later in the day, I'm in my room. I have just put my shirt on, when Elena walks in and walks up to me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhvHmvJ5xO
"Is it healed up?" she asks.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVmbxfm48M
"Yeah."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3eOL7pgas
"So it's all better?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo5qmBMkBe
"Yeah."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35NvdQXLtJ
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BwIHZtv9y
"Ow."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxK1On8Yff
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4Qp8dCFuy
"I'm not apologizing, because I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I would rather die than be human! I am not sorry that I would rather die right now, than to spend the rest of my life with you, until I'm old and wrinkly and you're still here! I am not sorry, Elena!"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYfFVC5RNg
"Then I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I meant you! I am not sorry that you have made me question everything about myself! And I am not sorry that I am in love with you!"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcffehxcEYh
I'm silent, but thrilled that she has finally admitted it. And then we kiss.
Later Elena, Stefan, Lexi, Alaric, and I are downstairs in the living room.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLo3inPS0V3
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0fEUZ0SdY
"Ow."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYjsNpjRTy
"Ouch," Lexi comments.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBqa7oHuEV
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaSFJzWRnK
Elena walks up to Stefan.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBpyN2uS2h
"Can I talk to you alone?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6ZsFCO25M
Stefan follows her into the next room.
Later that night, when Stefan has his car packed, I stand in the doorway. "I'm not sorry for you," Stefan tells me.416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uFV36ZO2E
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3E8EaqOaFp
"No. Lexi is coming with me."416Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGymqhgvKD
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
