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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sI9ylkuEg
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90KsFmSfos
She slowly sits up.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRnrFSdRxc
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUu5Htqe9lW
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTeSQGSwJO
"He didn't," I tell her.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRwaCZmAHr
"Wait. What?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCxhpTCkbO
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaW0h232dF
"So what? Am I dead?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfY1RD8H93w
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTUC8z9Khh
"No. I can't be."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiep41IGGaf
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi6mXTA0jo
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoS8AFnYlHk
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqaE87Hbxe
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaFab55LMj
He watches me.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CFHnfqVz9
"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."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQbcmGgSqn
"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."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtGou35ab2
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqYMZ8XZ38
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QDDuZVJX1
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zCb5vb7ci
"Jer," she greets.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLzX9AoLXV
"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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KeuXvgl7b
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYjFpwPWsM
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL0QVDC3iZ
"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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpkXQzKaih
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht4A8UAgBk
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgbSVdKG1t
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtmwmFnNko
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHpOcregr5
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYT9hq1zdp
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbX9uai6vR8
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ904E8DojM9
Rebekah turns around to face me.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xmpKe1wL2
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0XjsCNA25
Rebekah turns back around.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQQ6p1v026
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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ELJ1a12ty
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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiOG4MRelD
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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Bf9nGURFJ
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMwAFgiFbu
"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?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5Tfv7aQKr
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAczJsAsyP
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2VizOfHw7
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4qFo5ZhDg
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4LpOyFtJS
"Hey, is Elena here?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZo87ZfePe2
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtEuvkftp3
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCj1znfdN2
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCKnbp9Nfn
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDcumtRYEh
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd9y24l9om
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VPz1BM2dV
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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd1ktqZDMv
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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhHokphtyg
"Damon," she says.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDek1uzLe0t
"Yeah?" I reply.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGjFS2wWFd
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSzNdXCb5D
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvMZCQ9zJ6
"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.558Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxz9Nbm6Pm
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
