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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZ5KulL5Ze
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8143niwyKH
She slowly sits up.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvkXTlBbeF
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNylto3epAA
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JbEASTEZF
"He didn't," I tell her.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHs9C846hB
"Wait. What?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhYSZvBwQv
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2M7zl9iHnW
"So what? Am I dead?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEl4V0P3hm
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaZN3mO0QK
"No. I can't be."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulSydytNJD
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0D8rqtt66A
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvDVNU3z2s
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CsEHFRxbW
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53eZOv0z5D
He watches me.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPdVm4m9R0
"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."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCl3sK8XQ9
"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."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLsM2iEk99
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcX16LhgSs
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡim8IO689zF
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMS8PXKtnnp
"Jer," she greets.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMjY4T0E8l
"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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8USo0bRjD
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Pfu4Oz3HI
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFeBI7wOF3
"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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANYqwTfqh9
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCCkBSltQr
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZXF9qPi00
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKgjLA2oKu
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbEne7Hy0V
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxIaAscRKr
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXU95w2Usw
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7kBgOTJST
Rebekah turns around to face me.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nSVAeBH8L
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57cv3eOgQG
Rebekah turns back around.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi22lbBDjDM
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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBM30GNkKV
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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBB6gQTZhO
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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLgxEMEjTf
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpcnJPkVPC
"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?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVdHZOyKOJ
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLJwUKWGpu
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaG4HzvajN7
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9EmyA7kfo
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JD8pvjnOn
"Hey, is Elena here?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pRAJkqZqc
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRyh93LVLv
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qfrKTyu8c
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcMT2a7ELY
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9czBTLQpp
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTk7CQsZhE
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHtXj0ud9Z
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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1C3zivVEh8
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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbAHCNcy2Y
"Damon," she says.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZozMLQwES
"Yeah?" I reply.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgF0nzL8zCE
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVG3jCYjov
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkX0iP2VfX
"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.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2MqodJZYe
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
