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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrTGGGQQbL
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJcEOKkOmL
She slowly sits up.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3Cr7o3UQT
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRHnfwuXYm
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJULoFL4p6t
"He didn't," I tell her.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwLaSceoBJ
"Wait. What?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ySsDeDgW8
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmw8g7Hd6No
"So what? Am I dead?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYy1yxtaIwb
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8osvUqXqy
"No. I can't be."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffK6avzYQD
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvswFuZTGMS
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKzDWdj3o3
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpu0pasATyL
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwr5Oq90uy9
He watches me.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsB7bswUUJO
"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."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuYknnlHAK
"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."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjCSRnVk1N
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBqHHSsHDi
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8S0dQeQyQ
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4gyHAk02Y
"Jer," she greets.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wIzjzONuN
"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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiFQeYqNIx
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIlNyfpKGI
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVAD2AjYTj
"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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfVUTUarCP
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrJ5X3AQqT
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbN7hhCUByH
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpVsPsRTLe
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFtOc3Urrx
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyBR9BO9Dt
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyYGBqxRBy
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3btro1oLq
Rebekah turns around to face me.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcp9vW2UcRB
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVsEfsJNYc
Rebekah turns back around.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGVIK9W8aL
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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkPB42d9ju
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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBSVkuQBiR
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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6Gz25uaMR
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iAqfhxlVx
"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?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwS2arHsImi
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfXNXYHGdz
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlJlOsaote
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNtkKuPV5i
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlWj3BiD3d
"Hey, is Elena here?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaxvamQ09C
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXUB0PxVO7
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9K7rOVB4uh
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9t1rg7ZEiV
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1RzXOSQYH
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJNPzCs15l
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRJrpWQ9Qp
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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsE5QG12IoQ
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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrir1rnviQ
"Damon," she says.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUk1nQNjG6J
"Yeah?" I reply.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZ0JXwzJSi
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1n2sOEzeRX
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Y2X7DfhBn
"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.559Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qbVqAftr1
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
