It's a beautiful day, as Stefan and I stand in Elena's room. Stefan is standing at the foot of her bed and I'm seated in a chair not far from the door.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1w6uKyZb5T
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5czHoMLG6a
She slowly sits up.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65R5m05acW
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp37MxnQkGk
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuX1rxO079
"He didn't," I tell her.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIhjmK3YXp
"Wait. What?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJccmlr2Aly
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6pNG4luMV
"So what? Am I dead?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1F63t0W4S
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHn1EWrLQ1F
"No. I can't be."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ch91ujrVY
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1wJnO1yFp
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4POKpTqhL
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3QlKG5rwa
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKz34rlTLfR
He watches me.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBlQSba3pI
"You know, you can't do anything about it," I tell my brother. "If she doesn't feed by this afternoon, she'll die tonight."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDZrTc3o6R
"Damon, you weren't there when Elena looked me in the eye and told me she didn't want to become a vampire. We still have a day before she has to turn."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtH1aJHBtOy
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJYBK5guP2
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDgs7iag6r
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXG7M0YUGz
"Jer," she greets.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PdZB0ybbe
"Are you okay? I watched Vicki go through this, she was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place. All these old memories came flooding back," Jeremy says.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHdRtaBSNX
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDU426FsFt
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKbEI7Fx00
"I said I'm fine, okay?" she says all snappy. "I-I'm sorry. I…Have you talked to Bonnie?" she then says, more herself.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbJElaOeSA
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs11fOYIEuW
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzQUxYBlsy
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOk0FpjE70
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkMHeDlrY7
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcoora7dCQ
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9dXOo6zGA
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxeiUJBtfi
Rebekah turns around to face me.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DPocH2C3i
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0VcxtIxbE
Rebekah turns back around.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDBERbDsTh
I rush at her with the indestructible White Oak stake. She grabs my wrist and prevents me from killing her. She pushes me against a dresser and I drop the stake.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zisUhicf0
Suddenly, someone starts firing wooden bullets through the window. I manage to escape, but Rebekah gets shot in the heart with an arrow and falls to the ground.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhWEGdi8GN
I'm picking things up that were knocked down during the commotion, when Liz walks into the Gilbert house and Meredith comes into the living room where we're at from the kitchen.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aCpGPAqvJ
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlQOAacOBJ
"I can't. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything," Liz answers me.
"So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABWz0cCoZo
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbGBUylSGS
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLCyIlmIF8
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahc4hE33bi
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2TykAKxx0
"Hey, is Elena here?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRlT5CKP1p
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceTbHoHYvh
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqTM1jmlQg
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPTgcejlLG
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHgL3hJVc5
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGjAThBaVD
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUseQIwFzU
I finally release him.
That night, we find out where the council have them at, and Matt Donovan and I go there. I feed a little from the side of Matt's neck before I yell, "Yoo-hoo, big, bad vampire out here!" to try and get someone out of the house. It doesn't work, though. Nobody comes out.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzO9QdIA13
Suddenly, Donovan and I have an argument and I attack him. And just as I go after him, Elena, vamped out, puts herself between Donovan and I, facing me, and says, "Leave him alone!", so I back off.
Later that night, vampire Elena and I stand outside the boarding house, as we talk, facing one another.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVIvt07JjV
"Damon," she says.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhazJYrJ4n
"Yeah?" I reply.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMxcLHWAfv
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeEj526xQs
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7W5AfX1KUo
"I care about you, Damon," she answers, though I know it's a lie. She just doesn't see that there's something going on between the both of us. Even my brother can see it. She's lying to herself, Stefan, and I every time she says that she cares about me. It hurts me every time she says that.581Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQu5qV8HJUk
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
