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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNb2DCKL9K
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoaFSJHfUY
She slowly sits up.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIpEtv1jv4
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOaG5KLiVv
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZyDpylCZL
"He didn't," I tell her.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKKDTd2iAb
"Wait. What?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm05pE3XlDf
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXMeVcZDeZ
"So what? Am I dead?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthjIlBb03q
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAmXupcZ4m
"No. I can't be."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPv2lXfwaSN
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSFfml5PVK
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70LinKuqbO
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UzUhoVEN4
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOa0DaKxMJ7
He watches me.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGS1JAuABc
"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."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYZmgvfrBJ
"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."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfCrBfYPig
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HtbHZBtOY
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTMj94IHCf
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrvXAHGJN6
"Jer," she greets.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyjNZKgtTp
"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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVp9G2CkmS
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuBD1XCVG2
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOCnZKaqve
"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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRYWhw1Kle
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX06cW1aC7y
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjJ47gGO6b
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJyuVfohv5
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6h6VjAbQYQ
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKD7yfYiqu
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzE0tudjef
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNYB10mlJD
Rebekah turns around to face me.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgJKGjUkMp
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTss2MuGLxY
Rebekah turns back around.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCZE64Ixlp
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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUP9STg6QOz
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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDO6BA6wr9
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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW39uJlyjZ
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFoLSQVbNh
"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?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSTyacLLDe
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ463qeg3R6U
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRv7eks1SsS
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35jfr3I8ry
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORNuPpcrv8
"Hey, is Elena here?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVrCzsuTS8
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9lVZYNbiA
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1mbKPN81k
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3LFg9yOyj
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSUcnur6k6
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm92hyqQy53
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd22iurCerD
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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lhqHZxOyv
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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw4RbXoThe
"Damon," she says.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMppiH6gpO
"Yeah?" I reply.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TmxVzLPOf
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoBJ87PSr0
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6dUE9fdWj
"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.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlMsC7x1kF
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.
