It's a beautiful day in the upper chamber in the cave. Stefan and I are the only ones there.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJgWJSJSNQ
"How'd this happen?" I ask.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMejw0GSFu
"It was Katherine. She must've been following us this whole time," Stefan answers me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc57fLpO37S
"What about the cure, or Silas?" I ask.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk7Dn7ydwp
"If there was anything in there at all, it's all gone."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZvDJlzfMY
"Where the hell is Bonnie?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvph1blIWx6
"I have no idea. She went looking for Jeremy last night. She never came back. Damon, Elena is in there waiting for the Gilbert ring to bring Jeremy back to life."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTz0Y2Pb8P
"Okay, fine. I'll wait with her."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMVdARJZtK
I start walking towards the well opening, but Stefan puts up a hand to stop me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zI8yDCa73
"Damon, listen to me. Jeremy was one of The Five, a hunter."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzOIUFbbZ1
"He's supernatural. The ring won't work anymore." I pause and then add, "She won't survive this. I'll find Bonnie. You get Elena off this island."
Later on in the day, I'm on the island in search of Bonnie.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF38mbX17VW
I enter the campground and peek into the tent.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFqrcEG9Uj
I walk a little further and stop, veins showing under my eyes, as I hear rustling in the trees.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgM3ZnTBXP
"Unless you're a blond, a Bennett witch, or a doppelgänger, I suggest you steer clear," I warn.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNhpV7AYRY
I approach the shack and creak open the door. And as I open the door wider, Rebekah appears next to me, startling me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8C80kfrRe
"Where is it? The cure? I know someone has it," she says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7zeE44CKZ
"Yeah, someone – Katherine."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrZNCABCaP
"Katherine? The doppelgänger?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUEZdu5xKM
"Yeah. Sneaky little bitch must've been spying on us for weeks. She killed Jeremy... or somebody did. He killed your brother. Let's not with the fake sad face."
"I didn't say I was going to miss him, but I'm not heartless. He was Elena's only family."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SpVrS2XkR
"Good. Well, you can send flowers after you help me find Bonnie."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6mt3u2RPv
We walk away, side by side.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOy2rCfvJtR
"We need to find Katherine," she says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkcpB40DYe
"If there's one thing that's a guarantee in this miserable little world, it's that Katherine Pierce is gone. We need to find Bonnie. Oh, and beware of the immortal Silas. If he was asleep in that cave, he's awake now."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFNLx0ScHG
I turn and start walking away.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QlXyiG4hp
A moment later, she follows me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4lOzdVp7c
As we walk through the woods, Rebekah asks me, "Do you think Bonnie is dead?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJocAYeXbxZ
"Never thought I'd say this, but I hope not," I reply.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedgjVlRpSZ
"I don't like being out in the open like this."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVqxc8BqJL
"What, afraid of the big, bad Silas?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFWyYTlLn9
"No."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7N1MrdH36
"Scaredy cat," I say in a sing song voice.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9uEpfY516
"I'm not a scaredy cat. My brother Kol drove himself mad worrying about Silas rising. It would benefit us all to be a bit concerned, and you're one to talk about being afraid. You're so scared, you're 1,200 miles away from where you're supposed to be."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkYpXqsujP
"Hey, somebody needed to find Bonnie."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYm2SqqOgPH
"Stefan could've done that. Aren't you Elena's current love? It's so hard to keep track these days. Shouldn't you be home comforting her, or are you terrified of being there when she realizes her brother is dead?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0x9H03a2d
Suddenly, I grab Rebekah, hearing something that she doesn't, and an arrow hits her back.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEunagWuqcQ
"Ow," she says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvt0GnysQWc
"Sorry. Better you than me," I apologize.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lYBRdaHRR
I toss Rebekah away and she falls to the ground.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU19bcLWFWR
I see Vaughn aiming his crossbow at me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yZlNf92MV
Another arrow flies at me and I catch it and throw it to the ground, before running at vamp speed out of sight.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFNdTyHpbF
He sets his crossbow and bag down and chases after me, but I reappear and throw him to the ground. He has a dagger in his hand, but I twist his wrist and he drops it, but continues to struggle against me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVRe58hTOf
"Mm, just the guy I wanted to see. Not really," I say to him.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaS66p6pEJx
I slam him to the ground, knocking him out.
When he wakes up, I have him tied up and propped up against a rock face, jabbing the point of a dagger into Vaughn's throat as I talk.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ih93lwG3w
"Here's the thing. I was completely willing to accept the fact that you were a one man on a lonely mission to kill ol' Silas, and then I got boned by my vixen nemesis Miss Katherine Pierce, and then I start thinking there's no way that this is a coincidence. So what do you know, huh?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaEFfjljLT
I sense Rebekah, as she walks up behind me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlC1VvW9foQ
"Took you long enough," I add to Rebekah.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSri1oO0tRx
"Sorry. I had to dig the arrow out of my spine. Thank you for that," she replies.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjdg6Sr1Ag
"Well, if you want a lead on Katherine Pierce, here's your guy."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLfm0ajqi9
I twist the point of the dagger in Vaughn's neck.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckyvbdEuKE
"Torture me all you want," he says, smiling. "You can't kill me. The hunter's curse will torment you forever."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8mAP2ogeV
"It'll be worth it," I say to him.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3EZxHXcIPy
"He's right. You can't kill him, but that doesn't mean we can't tear him apart piece by piece, nerve by nerve until the pain is so severe, that your brain shuts it off to give you one tiny moment of blessed relief, and then we'll heal you and do it again and again and again," Rebekah says to me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dNXB1CfDT
"You are creepy," I comment to her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76r6HGkTdp
"Thank you," she says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7KQ69kfYQ
"I was tracking dens of vampires across Colorado. Katherine found me, said she could help me find Silas. She already knew about the Hunter's mark, the cure," he tells us after a moment of squirming uncomfortably from the dagger at his neck.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJzufx7OG0
"How?" she asks him.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pm5BgSWsN
"Oh, she had someone on the inside, some werewolf girl, friends with your professor," he answers her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJArcACnr57
"Hayley, Tyler Lockwood's old friend. Ah, I knew she was shady. Where'd Katherine find her?" I say.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5MRUDNVh3
"New Orleans. That's all I know," he answers me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKYbtin2hb
"Ah. Good. Let's throw him in the well. If he starves to death, it's not our fault. I'm gonna go find Bonnie," I say, as I remove the dagger.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx90qD4ZJf7
"We've got a lead on the cure, Damon. I'm gonna find it, but I suppose you don't mind. You never wanted Elena to be human again, anyway."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBsHKCnkn9J
"I wanted that cure for her because it's what she wanted. You might think I'm afraid to go back, but I'm not because I know what she needs. She needs me to bring her best friend home."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUj2FOLdtU
I walk away and then call my brother.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCFfR7n200
"Did you find her?" he asks.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZo9NutF6g
"I'm still looking. How is she?" I answer.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenz87uPrVc
"She's losing it, Damon. We can do what we can to delay things here, but we've got to get Jeremy to the morgue before it gets ugly."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIzH1iAq06
"Damn it. I can't- I can't just leave her behind. I can't- I can't show up without Bonnie."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CpxN4m0JN
"I think you have to. At this point, the sire bond is probably the only thing that's gonna keep Elena together. I can go back to find Bonnie."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtgUsuRcwc
I nod and say, "I'm on my way."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRFIWzNIz2
I hang up and Bonnie emerges from the trees a moment later.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmqoE20k2D
"I could actually hug you right now," I tell her, before we embrace. "Where have you been? How'd you find me? " I add.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCpzCg6ksS
Bonnie pulls away.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡca0VScUTat
"Shane led the way. He told me what to do, Damon. I know how to bring Jeremy back," she answers me.
I soon arrive at the Gilbert house with Bonnie. And as we get out of my car, Caroline is there standing by hers.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCnEHgW9ae
"Thank god," she says, as she sighs. "We were so, so worried," she adds to Bonnie, before they hug.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQajmnGHv33
"I'm okay," Bonnie assures her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1Q2Ke72J6
"Could you get Stefan out here?" I ask Caroline.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP6YQFivw2
"They said that she knows what to do," Caroline answers.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiNxwXVqQS
"Caroline, I need to talk to my brother," I tell her with a serious tone of voice.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCVjv8omCG
"What's wrong?" she asks me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRXLUbBYYU
I gesture at Bonnie with my eyes.
It's a dark night. Everyone else is inside, while Stefan and I talk outside.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cG5LHr0Ms
"She's out of her mind, Stefan. The nutty professor's got her totally brainwashed. I mean, the whole flight back home, all she could talk about was how she's the one that can drop the veil between this side and the Other Side."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfCD9uBCv7
"Drop the veil? What does that even mean?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrfKeXvgo2
"What it means is, the myth about Silas being able to raise the dead is not just one, or some. It's every supernatural being over there. Three massacres, three hot spots, and the witch spell of the century, and every supernatural being over there is back with a vengeance. "435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2NMqxkRSe
A few minutes later, I walk inside and upstairs to where Elena is, and I go into Jeremy's room and stand at the doorway.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMajaieUdq1
"Elena..." I say, trying to figure out what to say.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYQmS4dWpJ
She's standing at her brother's bedside, where he lays with a blanket covering him.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxvXLJj3RW
She spins around and looks at me with tears running down her face.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pNQLbspDP
"He's dead. He's dead. Damon, he's dead, and he's been dead this entire time, and I--" Her hand flies to her face over her mouth. "Oh, my god." She looks down at her brother. "I can smell him." She looks at me again. "How long has he smelled like that?"
"Hey, talk to me. I can help you," I say, wanting to comfort her. I can't stand to see her like this. She's grieving so much.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKHLrpVU0z
"How? How are you gonna help me? How?" She sniffles and wipes her hand over her face. "Okay. Okay. We-- we have to- -we have to take care of his body. Bring him downstairs."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9QTg4ZsWZ
"We shouldn't--," I start, but she cuts me off.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbPaqYY9XH
"Just carry him down, please."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcu1P2YZRE
She leaves the room, leaving me there.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs95vEsfzbQ
I hear her go downstairs and ask, "Where's Bonnie?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTjCUfLUBo
"We told Matt to take her home. We thought it'd be best," I hear Stefan tell her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8rxtQylFN
"Okay. I guess we're gonna have to do this the old--fashioned way," she replies.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfh7Azy3XV6
"Do what?" Caroline asks.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolc4UZLmhu
I arrive downstairs and she tells me, "Put his body on the couch." She then goes into the kitchen and starts opening and closing cabinets, while I lay her brother's body down on the couch.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMPMhWj6jd
"Elena? Elena, you need help finding something?" Caroline asks her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEFnkaY5Tv
Elena takes a bottle of lighter fluid out of a cabinet and squirts it over the counter, as she answers, saying, "Got it."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJqbnVKkR2
Caroline stands there with an astonished face, while Stefan asks Elena, "What are you doing?"435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwBLmWo8j7
"We need a cover story, right? You think I didn't hear you guys talking earlier? Well, what are we gonna say- -animal attack, 'tumbled down the stairs'? No. We burn the house down with him inside of it," she answers, continuing to squirt the fluid everywhere. She then makes it to the living room and squirts it on the couch.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyKiho5kXQ
"Elena, stop it," Stefan says, raising his voice.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMW5HELymS
"Why? Because you want me to not be in denial? You want me to face the truth? This is the truth, Stefan. I don't want to live here anymore. I don't want these sketches." She sprays them with lighter fluid and kicks something. "I don't want this Xbox." She throws down the empty bottle and reaches into a cabinet. "Not gonna need this bourbon anymore. Alaric's not here to drink it, I mean, unless you guys are willing to bring back every supernatural creature on the Other Side to get him back." She turns to me. "Would you? I know you want your drinking buddy back." She walks toward me. "Would you, Damon? Because I wouldn't." She walks over to Jeremy's body and splashes bourbon over him. "I don't know, I mean, does that make me a bad person? I-- I have no idea." She takes the Gilbert ring off Jeremy's finger and tosses it to me and I catch it. "He's not gonna need that anymore."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhnv8U0JuM
"Elena, stop it. You're scaring me!" Caroline yells at her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMz3CrsiKs
Elena takes down a picture frame from the fireplace mantle, before saying, "What else are we supposed to do with the body, Caroline? I mean, there's no-- there's no room in the Gilbert family plot." She throws the frame down on the floor and the glass cracks. "Jenna and-- and John took the last spots." She throws the empty bottle of bourbon against the wall and it shatters, then grabs a match from the mantle and lights it.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhq3fzSgtDS
"No, no, Elena. Stop," Stefan says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpbn4uPp0u
"There's nothing here for me anymore, Stefan. Every inch of this house is filled with memories of the people that I love that have died-- my mom, my dad, Jeremy, and Jenna and Alaric, even John. I mean, they're all dead. Everyone is dead. So what am I supposed to-- I mean, how am I gonna-- I can't even--There's nothing left for me-- aah!" She shouts, when the fire on the match burns her finger and she drops it.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2unLzqzcDG
I catch it before it hits the floor.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iAZNj0u1G
Elena sobs and starts to fall to the floor.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXD6D8EdIDI
"Elena, I need you to calm down," I tell her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUrvueHU7X
"No, no, no, I can't. I can't. I can't. I--," she tells me, before falling to her knees, immeasurable pain and grief distorting her face. She grabs at her head and says, "No. It hurts. It hurts. Just make it stop. Please make it stop. It hurts," as she continues to sob.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPY9mMTOrx
"Damon... Help her," Stefan says.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlC13LaVGt
I crouch down next to her and pull her to me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUpZwLCUKG
"I-- I--," she says, as she cries.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpT9ZdZsgc
"I can help you. I want you to let me help you," I tell her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdYurWE4m1
Elena shudders as I touch her face.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6AMpVpHee
She sits up, pulling away as I gently caress her cheeks and smooth her hair back.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9Xavnb4LT
"I can help you," I tell her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPB2gPwgbu
"How?" she asks me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0wVckEUbK
"Turn it off," I answer.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oRi9TFJoe
"What? No, no," Stefan disagrees.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHKXaYCAwP
I hold up a hand to stop my brother from intervening.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIR2P2YabG
"Just turn it off, and everything will go away. That's what you have to do. It's what I want you to do. Just turn it off," I tell her.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvTMzczSCS
Then her humanity turns off at that. She stops crying and goes silent.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrW2yAw5Ip5
She and I both stand up and she throws a match down and we all soon leave her house, as her family home burns to the ground.
Later that night, Stefan and I talk outside our place.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jngXWEoYH
"It was a mistake," he tells me.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjDl6VCUJV
"It wasn't, and you know it. This is the only way she's gonna survive. We'll help her, keep an eye on her. When she's ready, I'll use the sire bond to bring her back," I answer.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48EdHQSTMC
"Her humanity, Damon, that was all she had left."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjqRB19acz
"Humanity means nothing when you don't have anyone to care about, Stefan."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvAg25QDuU
"She had you," he tells me, as he nods once.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOq6QJoxuq3
"She lost her brother. I'm not enough, not this time."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPMG0Y4IaQ
"Listen, Damon. I know that you and I, we've been through some... bad spots lately, especially when it comes to her."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLF9jtbhiJE
"Yeah. Well... guess none of that matters anymore."435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqg8VG6VRtB
"Well I just, um... I want you to know that, um-," he says, as he meets my eyes.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpzTrFvvyP
"I know, Stefan," I say, putting a hand on his shoulder and nodding once.
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