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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrrbx6YjkI
I walk over and turn the radio off.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwPQ5SgZ8m
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqpYwv0fMy
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgx0S6uk0vp
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRsmRF0yX4
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1YoBW3SJ6
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxEDdAoswC
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQhqvY2HJg
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkNiBKNcAu
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifIQKom7Do
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bguCRM8r3
"Are you drunk?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwmknjv8Sg
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAX2jZJ12fr
"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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqqWqVIru9
"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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtQPA6O0KS
"I want to know where Silas is."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4U6k7rw0P
"I don't know where he is."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY85MGhvJj7
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHiOlAowb7
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmZYwudaoB
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡft86YKiD0C
"What is there to talk about?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2B2XWmCAul
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQE8gFvEmRC
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwdyLbjL88
I wince in pain.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZwqlzb6XH
"Are you okay?" she asks me.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6PjvRRQIA
"I'm fine."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngyqRVX2UI
"Take off your shirt."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVxjklIFCl
"No. Not when he's here."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRodrSj6N4
"Fine."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrczixwEAvZ
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMygtLlKrB
She looks at me.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzQke7D145
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrws062XoC
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHAquvyd3V
"We need Klaus."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhO8wgz8aW
"Klaus would rather let me die."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToPpv6XSNQ
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0VBY40VBL
"No," I respond.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAL7YnraguA
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjaMiCv5GB
"No, Elena."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhIw4se8bY
She sets it in my hand.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYbSx6WfCp
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2ktZ6ekbr
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPK8cedGSYd
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqT4YWakp5
She looks at her brother.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7bkhWunZU
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6oIeRzjtG
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8EJ1mbqJL
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5FmOWEDa8
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8N5spEEXm
"Okay," she says.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIklapohVY
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHDvRMNw8R
I stand by him.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nPeYgY80l
"He's up," Stefan said.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoHETOZpew
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFr4WWuw1f
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppXMR1HTbW
"To dig up Silas."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvlJAhCurC
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbo47YGa4O
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdWOQtOM2q
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNidO5nJxsP
The Hunter sees my neck wound.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EXKDClRb1
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIkegnfbO8
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNIGu9vFqG
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sCl8Ut652
I'm silent.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDclFP8LuqP
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmc4QMuaH8
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoo0OENdj1
I don't say anything.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Tm9MoIg41
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgt7moOvf2
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpTJMihanL
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ABnNEyCSH
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YuK8CkaE0
"You need this?" he asks.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dWRIwaRJg
"Yeah."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7iZTacfyO
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6fNucdG1z
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWekxXMK9Sj
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSqccJYGAR
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIizAqfji9
"Is it healed up?" she asks.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81wjAzQfpA
"Yeah."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHDJqU5uiJ
"So it's all better?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDIS5hYyNw
"Yeah."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LonZVuE8l
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKfjo4ryNT
"Ow."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NS1uBzqTh
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qHlQ4W20t
"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!"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjrdstSXx3
"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!"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9yLKN2RXp
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14yw4ZYFc5
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dAmJlohPd
"Ow."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tOH3oANtE
"Ouch," Lexi comments.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxs6NW2QKeE
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡny7F8NJyjp
Elena walks up to Stefan.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6HuhfP2Q1
"Can I talk to you alone?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTZUyoo5RT
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.410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZ0Xh96HhJ
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08UEGfHxdU
"No. Lexi is coming with me."410Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkQqtPPrT5
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
