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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3F4DEDZG9
I walk over and turn the radio off.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qEtqwEHjE
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPHU2eGsHj
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01n4nm1yrF
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXtuMhqG0n
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlo83AnbW9X
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDvUAYDfuY
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbiWe1kVtr
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbiGYcjEpA
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eh6vrwqHb
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlapq8hCVTH
"Are you drunk?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xprArC4xH
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmggg3ynEmu
"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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckSKQHNanu
"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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfedI83Vgr
"I want to know where Silas is."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgtOACs62w
"I don't know where he is."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4wRhT5xCo
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHv0KnbnTI
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyfC3QXOwy
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGYQwJAMcH
"What is there to talk about?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNk1tEkORY
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmPUQ8idnX
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5VuzIaa0e
I wince in pain.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHK9FDLli4x
"Are you okay?" she asks me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl90F4tS5OE
"I'm fine."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rDCRfa1NA
"Take off your shirt."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHKCEsy8Pc
"No. Not when he's here."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgiBlJsztP
"Fine."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpfvFT5JPv
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpONeI36cx
She looks at me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8smVygUFOj
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Q68DcKkih
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0c42runfH
"We need Klaus."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaIPxCmOpf
"Klaus would rather let me die."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXueOMvnmy
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3gVGSUfRE
"No," I respond.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMRJZpIfxG
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nRIeEvbGh
"No, Elena."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtB06uQytCD
She sets it in my hand.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpMgxqCXNa
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQ9BvuXRmT
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ae6j6Y5rX
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5HOt2EhRM
She looks at her brother.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRkPcDERby
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nU11bRuPK
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSv6p1anU3
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg76Hy0A6MR
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKi3lMqRe6
"Okay," she says.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFI95NAUYbY
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh44c0AvRVq
I stand by him.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsDN2I2YDX
"He's up," Stefan said.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RhhbHQ4Z6
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjW8TELJuj4
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAURHtbA2B7
"To dig up Silas."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsrxozMBfY
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOl7PC4sD2
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCuFdUyS9G
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtGC8GOIfI
The Hunter sees my neck wound.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIEjawwsIX
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4B5NPKyJX
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLfdMmecUR
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJxbVKdPUT
I'm silent.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2wjwvUajy
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡex1zmRAW2N
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpzVMpr5gP
I don't say anything.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexTNytHdUP
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyuXIOMeiw
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfD4pX5wek
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6FPfRQNNa
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9xnUc9Xjh
"You need this?" he asks.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1Mi5GxaNS
"Yeah."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED6GL1RRfy
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpuTd7ahgh
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ahkXUnPvJ
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmKZnlpG9h
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZbHX8i2Bv
"Is it healed up?" she asks.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqcKfGWR8A
"Yeah."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJAOL4Ekul
"So it's all better?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04vWpLXzNH
"Yeah."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HlcHTk12Y
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcldluOdUYk
"Ow."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXs9iOyRqU
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6ZLRtC2ID
"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!"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBVBfJBEV1
"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!"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGzc0KXZ20
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrFD3PSiqX
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd17NRgAROX
"Ow."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDYGqfDd8M
"Ouch," Lexi comments.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHoaJhSJ6iu
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRljE1eCWB
Elena walks up to Stefan.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURB5f4C6Uf
"Can I talk to you alone?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gi69PwA1e
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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8qYq45nYb
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsdUvVdzuD
"No. Lexi is coming with me."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsZgSnZnda
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
