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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYMLbeD16A
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpc6Gw7cjN
She slowly sits up.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfYZivjoWz
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf17S4nJWwQ
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAiky3aj60
"He didn't," I tell her.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jfXXAhtj1
"Wait. What?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VhzBgfBPY
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIqjf30Qaf
"So what? Am I dead?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6gOLsyRXy
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtiDSIo6A5G
"No. I can't be."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVlGZx5ofu
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UKBRSS9Nd
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCZ7p0QUvM
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXh7rtAleG
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqnXsYgQ8M
He watches me.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVroebJyEg
"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."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMmD5v4sU2
"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."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uQN1oGSyN
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwz094yu7U
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0MsQQLsSS
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZew2lUGnxv
"Jer," she greets.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTo8l1C5dvb
"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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbvHIUdva6
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecvHwqGKgz
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeAgi0McoT
"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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTnVYNp5yq
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMXoVr17d0
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLAQzjhNwX
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1RAX96Jtm
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XduFMDiqK
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZF6N8xmMU
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hixVDOwt1
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PU5c4vrKR
Rebekah turns around to face me.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWf7YMHOr3z
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinRbnWe16H
Rebekah turns back around.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LiKrEcT9i
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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcI7iL26r6h
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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cGffFQgsX
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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCxNhdKZTK
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbasGQIKEXK
"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?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZODqZnBijD
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPQuror8pI
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefZNzY8J5g
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJXuy3M8Fc
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4v2ZWgHHDn
"Hey, is Elena here?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGfMTk25uP
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wlPyKnl17
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjpQgAIoEJ
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVH6EIMkS9
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRJE8PCfYx
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yhkczocD4
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJRwCh1jCk
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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ694zxdFsLn
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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnO3JybTirL
"Damon," she says.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVe6vszp3M
"Yeah?" I reply.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui9GT86q9n
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHj3eGUzlO
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4aLAhCpR9
"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.630Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzKMUYQ3ZD
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
