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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pUMceCtAS
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0M952w56c
She slowly sits up.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4noaaxm1WF
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdYagowKFH
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsFimRb21L
"He didn't," I tell her.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OzBxFnjXA
"Wait. What?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJAmYPKwWA
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFL7nSC6ZI
"So what? Am I dead?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bnqieKq5B
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywZaGWuSnU
"No. I can't be."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9Wyn0cJzQ
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaG4sUSk7La
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGd4GgTMUXq
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgc4dRsZRu
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQVHDm4c0S
He watches me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWvU2Gujpe
"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."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsMOzdIesT
"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."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPWAmm8Z2D
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCH4CejOQp
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvMa4HV5Jl
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPcpS58eJE
"Jer," she greets.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnGbmtcWkf
"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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvpxyDdLSE
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLAvxKkvpg
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQAPRLWyPG
"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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuaILqCXJf
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSktsDBDq9u
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfVcTesP3H
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQg62ZdyHTI
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡie17ftTPMX
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLfv9vcWDf
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGf5X4AcrRF
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaxrExGw8J
Rebekah turns around to face me.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOaQXFCpxk
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwltDkxTpV
Rebekah turns back around.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTE3C8w9s0
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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUL1U7Dr5q
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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS0VjPkPJk
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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1fgCMRLuz
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0mH92ZcNZ
"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?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUB64jhcXNS
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqPaMfLltu
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWQyozmBqs
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7B05WMzEWH
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRP8PheoENq
"Hey, is Elena here?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFf0IptZMz
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGZhWbZLkq
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPZdVQunCI
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQmFcAAEWI
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ494wYiijvw
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jTDBjFFzf
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBorYUJWOLl
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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuPDQT6FCO
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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZijG1eG7OT
"Damon," she says.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwa1rvvCoEr
"Yeah?" I reply.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGNu6IwCs6
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ujs9QqWBr
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfVzYQeQoc
"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.578Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡid9ibeGFVa
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
