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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBFgqYRaTn
I walk over and turn the radio off.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzBMiKqdRE
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZcQJ93OqD
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WJ570sPHq
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN6JoEv5YE
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfbcvGRF7I
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQywBKOohl
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnKvSq3uIz
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifMkSaOi6s
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3z0Xnt1TS
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvmYAsQ5KH
"Are you drunk?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJMYNc4lCm
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc6tKFiSJV
"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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyWRrlTbKJ
"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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrszNBrBtHr
"I want to know where Silas is."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6XiNzhui8
"I don't know where he is."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDOOxq52g1
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKmZ8QHbxJ
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54FrwmSutw
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaKT5XEMM7
"What is there to talk about?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQGmH9WoVG
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0oXsYebI3
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9pAiHeG9K
I wince in pain.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftSRhvSAqa
"Are you okay?" she asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFkYghlvcl
"I'm fine."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWt4dkvLap
"Take off your shirt."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmb59oKTNt
"No. Not when he's here."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8xgOdZJi4
"Fine."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqcooV1u9a
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteLMgrcckU
She looks at me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSg25MoSA3
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZutq4fgq2
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkDt2FYSQf
"We need Klaus."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkr5wkKTmBr
"Klaus would rather let me die."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF4g8haDdP
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1pDaWDbpM
"No," I respond.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocjGLljdDn
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7mxYyndY2
"No, Elena."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4y3evGAmH
She sets it in my hand.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5Eb3F6NsO
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXrTPVg9UD
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIqQCopx21
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOyfsx6Y0Y
She looks at her brother.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxjTVTzRBE
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF13bUrpaBG
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kc0s64V6N
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmp30ImRUq
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MCtxh4Y4f
"Okay," she says.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9u1N5mBZUB
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23DtKUaLcL
I stand by him.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShSbdp8DXI
"He's up," Stefan said.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCyIoVtsiR
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEu8mXOYDSD
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHJd0nwtoo
"To dig up Silas."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIINzVVAHq0
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8EktVPt5SA
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d7YqfJ83v
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwq6AiPzSH
The Hunter sees my neck wound.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshZUGBvz2r
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCp0AxRzVQ
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbSnfbMbhI
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2gStZrg84
I'm silent.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Q5nzStNxo
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEQmSSn1CR
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9IQMDoYxs
I don't say anything.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Nz4HChvMH
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZumdVCXWE
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNH8eDITz3C
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0nSx1fTk9
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZW5NS04Ef
"You need this?" he asks.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3kiSX1V77
"Yeah."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqSEpqhkNb
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcHGVmMBWA
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LWmeCoUXv
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnobiAYg5P9
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGBdIGDOUo
"Is it healed up?" she asks.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8esJWNZL0G
"Yeah."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoI968IVOo
"So it's all better?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ17hgO58sJ
"Yeah."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGamsRGXIa
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnCjFNK087
"Ow."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqvIZ3LhkM
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1p9oFAw3Vf
"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!"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLI3Xfa4laA
"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!"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcQLBhtjeS
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3N95EGlKAY
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPWUdTD9OW
"Ow."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlMw8iWGRZ
"Ouch," Lexi comments.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRXEaQpccK
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqp2GIEwJlI
Elena walks up to Stefan.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CFFzhTZSM
"Can I talk to you alone?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDodF2c0gs
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.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVidP6yl8V1
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMq9iAK9QEW
"No. Lexi is coming with me."500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRSbpXvNQ4
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
