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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAEocyd0fD
I walk over and turn the radio off.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kVEgXWcpr
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL07kHdZkmu
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9v7iYHHCEt
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OxLFXgLFP
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKkxkF6zUB
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw87dsFQjBy
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWF9YRrhuj
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi34EwPL8IK
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMhY5mwCfU
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhP7DAJOAcJ
"Are you drunk?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsVhc7md0o
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yNPoWWKY8
"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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIeeJO2mEu
"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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsejhvOZLB
"I want to know where Silas is."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFtK698Lld
"I don't know where he is."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTgXrSY9cm
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32lL4A8Y3L
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmgMdUCEad
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJi7ATjlgT
"What is there to talk about?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEA3DwxBKlj
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuuDdmz6FC
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3ExS0pxNi
I wince in pain.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11pqrc89vp
"Are you okay?" she asks me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwUYbJBkMr
"I'm fine."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh2J5j0avY
"Take off your shirt."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMorl2O0k5n
"No. Not when he's here."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIS3foUFz9w
"Fine."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpMqdpR4Tu
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3b665yNwdB
She looks at me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb78iBocO1B
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdHglMkrNK
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAkbphsYD7
"We need Klaus."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQsHH15gAO
"Klaus would rather let me die."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlt38IH7rMm
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAp5Ae1zwxq
"No," I respond.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qV0O0fR0t
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatgJZOKyf2
"No, Elena."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcS9iYCRXaz
She sets it in my hand.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCfD16ur16
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkQX34VQFh
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXmeZf9wF1
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2sUNPnBP5
She looks at her brother.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPjNRNvrPl
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzib0r6jPHK
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFBQzwp3X9
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArI3Tv58ay
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDnDbhRHTA
"Okay," she says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HJ6tNOR3r
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8o0cjE8Ek5
I stand by him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdSDyO5Cmu
"He's up," Stefan said.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOumIzL1th8
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLIJSOFtHV
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBeLYoyRTc
"To dig up Silas."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQksDhHoew
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6TYkRm0Y7
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVFcmuibZR
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZO1vsonM5
The Hunter sees my neck wound.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ557Bsgwg
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyp4ylLpIJ
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoiAM6B8hi
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhskumD3Xag
I'm silent.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4NqqeKoN1
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84Bb5Yibjq
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZc6WNezPr
I don't say anything.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzH3Zs2V5D
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyY3uqcHg0B
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlIRFvs64q
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pTCKJxq5Z
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXl3MLs1RtP
"You need this?" he asks.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCoebsMKQ1
"Yeah."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZmqysILzr
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZeqzcVJmW
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwY2YecvrZ
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlL3pGWZpJ
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5pFSSdJQR
"Is it healed up?" she asks.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJtTcGpSsW
"Yeah."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLv7XOaIBs
"So it's all better?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNK4Ewkclg
"Yeah."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3mtbMxT85
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbVFXb1kfr
"Ow."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISe9xtJ2iF
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVNPp0J40o
"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!"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiCTEYZ24F
"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!"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXb0zJWF95X
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqT5K5QGKP
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEiffl29RP
"Ow."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6y5176DIQ
"Ouch," Lexi comments.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XbAJMNwTj
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡab68VxcJKV
Elena walks up to Stefan.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7R2UAI2RZL
"Can I talk to you alone?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgkxSpaL3y
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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPFWTri6yR
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUqOuAJqLB
"No. Lexi is coming with me."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7I4l3otS6
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
