It's a beautiful day on an island, as I sharpen a knife. The others are still unloading the boat, as Shane approaches me. Elena, Stefan, Rebekah, Bonnie, Jeremy, Shane, and I are here to get the cure for vampirism. All of us want it, though. I hope there's enough to go around, or there's going to be a big fight between us. I don't want a fight just yet. I don't rightfully know if Shane wants the cure though. I think he's helping us for another reason, but I don't have any proof yet. I can't prove it, so I can't tell anyone about my assumptions.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuh9zzTQafM
"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" I ask him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2m48jccK5
"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland. If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0sjRbkZfq
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtE3QQgyGNo
"Yeah, that too."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9zgro5KrA
Shane holds up sunscreen and looks at me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjUx4sCvlR
"Sunscreen?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvySHzMHUzL
"Is that a joke?" I ask him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3xehIjSD8
"Right," he says, as if he just remembered that I'm a vampire and I don't need it.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68gniQgw1g
I look across the beach part of the island to see Stefan tying a knot some rope. Rebekah is supposed to be helping him, but is standing there glaring at Elena instead, as Elena walks past her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMVm39uUwq
"You know, you're not really helping," Stefan tells her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbWS9G9cjz
"You're perfectly capable of tying a knot," she answers him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zJa1SrKWh
"You giving Elena the evil eye isn't really helping."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLTIfRwhPP
"She killed my brother, tried to get you to put a dagger in my back. She's lucky all she's getting is the evil eye."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0PBwRvzS6
"You know I can hear you, right?" Elena responds from a distance away.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDhhIEP2Fg
"You know I don't care, right?" Rebekah replies.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNsxXUfxNH
Elena stops walking, and uses vamp speed to rush towards Rebekah, grabbing her neck and pointing the White Oak stake at her chest. Rebekah flips her over and pushes her to the ground.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXbZvbfQgh
"Go ahead, try and kill me. But then you'd have to face your real problems. Like the fact that Stefan invited me here, himself. I guess he likes me again."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NJCXiEa53
Rebekah walks off and Stefan offers to help Elena up, but she ignores him and walks away looking irritated. Elena shoves the White Oak stake into her bag and I join her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfQ0VPAvrl
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises," I comment.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKt6Iml07tr
"I'm not apologizing for not wanting her here."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRCHozIeSk
"You know Stefan just brought her here to make it seem like he's moving on. He wants you to think that he's over you, and he wants me to think that I can't get under his skin."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIjkjJLk0G
"You know, you're right. With any luck, I'll only have to tolerate her for a few more days, and then we'll find the cure and I'll never have to deal with her again."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZvF75U2Ym
"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPn2lYBjV6
"You know, you've never talked about what you'll do with the cure, once we find it. Will you take it?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxynFpKFFJ
"I don't like to speculate."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1KtFTPkXZ
A few minutes later, we start hiking.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FVtGVAym5
As we hike through the woods parts of the island, Shane's phone beeps and he says, "Satellite phone lost its service."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4we8wbP27J
"Well, that's a good sign," I say sarcastically.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSNXILeK3P
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena asks.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKw7DJH7ex
"So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary," Rebekah comments to her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wfhWuJNi4
"Please don't start," Stefan tells Rebekah.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6FHiglzno
"I'm merely stating the facts. Jeremy has the spell on his body. Bonnie is the witch that unseals the cure. Shane is the human compass. You and I have the tombstone, which does God knows what. And Elena has no point," she tells him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKxIuyR051
I could kill her right now just for everything she has done to Elena, if I could. But I can't. She's a lot older, which means she's a lot stronger and faster than any of us.
"What about me?" I ask Rebekah, curious of what she thinks of me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEUBNRD47s
"You have a nice behind," is all she tells me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsPwnyXSbg
I smile at that, happy that I'm at least useful in one way or another to Rebekah.
By the time it's night, we're still hiking in the woods.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPJkPiFdSa
"Centuries after Qetsiyah died, there were these miners who were excavating a well on the island. Suddenly they went mad. They bled themselves dry. No apparent reason. So, the legend spread that these miners, in exchange for a drop of their blood, saw visions of their lost loved ones in the well they were digging. The word traveled and explorers sought out the well to see if the legend was true," Shane says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23Ow0T3dcF
"So, the well was magic?" Bonnie asks the professor.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAnSHtwO1S
"Well, you know, some people believe the voices of lost souls were just a wind vortex whipping through the caves, and visions were caused by inhaling the island's poisonous plant life," he answers her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEguj5qqU8j
"And what do you believe?" Elena asks him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiydm2Mxb2E
"I believe in magic. My wife and my son died within months of each other. And so... I decided to try the well out for myself. I offered up my blood and waited. I saw my wife. I saw her eyes, her smile. My blood let me see her again," Shane answers my childe.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3yGRBTlNK
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers," I comment to him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhry8j5d7N3
We continue to walk a few more minutes, before Shane stops and says, "Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDneo3XpPO9
We stop and he says, "Is everybody paying attention?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBmVJ0Jex6
He picks up a large rock.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPSGYSTlg2
"Our first lesson in survival."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQlNt6tWRrD
He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap and it swings up into the trees.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0aY6VhiOl
"Stay together. Keep your eyes open."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvDx6XlnNc
We all continue to walk again.
Jeremy stops walking and falls behind us and says, "Ugh, I'm out of water."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiXSMZ2nep
"Here. Take mine," Elena offers.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1nUd7ESOM
"A magic well? Really?" I hear Jeremy ask.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1keaUke5iE
"I don't know. I mean... We've all lost someone. The chance to maybe see them again? I kinda get it."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3neXGsprJy
Suddenly, I smell the scent of someone else that I don't recognize, a moment before I hear Elena yell, "Jeremy!"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60b4nPpVlF
I turn around to see Elena push Jeremy out of the way and an arrow misses them both. Then there's the scent of someone else that I don't recognize and the guy that tried to kill Jeremy gets an axe in the back and dies.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwbKeSRU34
"What the hell just happened?" Jeremy asks, once he is beside her again.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJMMpx2oUB
"Somebody just saved my life," she replies.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxDeeryKEQ
They rejoin our group soon after, a few minutes after I do. They're okay, which I'm relieved about. Somebody saved her life and I don't know who, but there's one thing for certain. There are others out there.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPWTq2vypH
We reach a clearing in the woods and Stefan asks, "What is this place?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbUKlL50T9
"According to island lore, a group of college kids came here for spring break. A few weeks later, they were all found dead, completely drained of blood," Shane answers.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGWBXD09VX
"Well, tragic for them, brilliant for us. Who sleeps where?" Rebekah asks.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DThrpXaNB
Everyone starts to settle down around the site, while I talk to Shane.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWphsQB6E0f
"Well, that's lovely. There's a mystery man with a hatchet lurking in the woods and we're just gonna camp?" I say to Shane.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQn8DmRsQG
"We're safer here than we are hiking in the dark."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7VecIB2iX
"Let's just keep going. You know? Get the cure. Get in, get out. Where is it?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYpTNkH9QD
"How stupid do you think I am?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFchKSB8hIb
"Stupid enough to raise an immortal witch, so I'd say... incredibly."
"You know, I'm shocked you even want the cure, considering you've got the most to lose once Elena's human."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsN8gWDsLM
I walk away from Shane.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4OKlSXOY0
Elena gets up and goes to talk to me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6rplSGZ6gy
"Shane doesn't know what he's talking about," she tells me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3H4fBBBnNO
"Yeah, well we'll find out tomorrow."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSQkV1vWA6
"Do you really think that I'm gonna take this cure, break the sire bond, and fall out of love with you? "455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1gpJjpyQ4
"No. I'm saying we don't know. And if we find it tomorrow, we will."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSL3qZnDnYA
"This cure is gonna change so many things. Jeremy's not gonna want to kill me anymore. We're finally gonna get rid of Klaus. Bonnie's mom isn't gonna be a vampire. And anyone who wants to take this cure is gonna have that option. Caroline, Stefan, you. If you want it."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9V0wGLnxC3
She smiles at me expectantly.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2VLWisKJv
I know she wants me to take the cure so we can be together, but I don't want it anymore. Once upon a time, when I was a younger vampire, I would have given anything to be human again. But not now.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92dDY7wMVI
"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAZOmzN8bq
"No, not everything. That's what I'm saying. Damon, not my feelings for you."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoyys3HEY9
She kisses me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uIpwPEP8A
We depart and she touches my face.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcLwHlIbe7
I put my arms around her and we embrace.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2sKB1k81k
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I'm going in search of where Shane and Bonnie went to, looking for Shane specifically, when I hear them in a shed.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡel6Gev4QpC
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" I hear Bonnie ask him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDbvq8dO5c
"Bonnie, listen, I taught you Expression so that you could access the cure. I'll be right there with you the whole time, I promise," he answers her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpS2DkDzPYm
I enter behind Bonnie.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMuz4Crmhj
"You didn't answer the trust part."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5T0pp8EX9O
"All right. Let me put it this way. You need me to help you through it, Bonnie. Because as you've demonstrated, Expression can get messy. Believe me when I say I've seen it get a lot worse."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZOkz7kEVp
"How much worse?" I ask him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptF1yoKuFx
"When we lost our son in the car accident, my wife kind of lost it. She tried to resurrect his body using magic," he replies to me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCgdbZz2o9
"Your wife was a witch?" Bonnie asks him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdBwdQdRQU
"She was a powerful witch. And incredibly undisciplined," he answers her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5l3XXNQKPP
"And you never thought to tell me?" she asks him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbGFsxmc1j
"I just didn't want to scare you. The truth is, she tried to bring our son back using Expression, and it overwhelmed her, and she died."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUmS5egPeW
"You taught me the same magic that killed your wife?" Bonnie angrily says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNQ7ax7243
"Yeah, but look, the upside is I've learned the warning signs, all right? I can keep Expression from consuming you."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit3HVI9DmR
"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle," I tell him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hhTjx7lFZ
"Don't you think I know how this ends? I came here to raise Silas so that he could bring back the dead, but you're never gonna let that happen. The second I point to a cure, you're gonna kill me. Now Bonnie has to keep me alive so I can keep her alive," he says to me.
The next day, we're all going in search of Little Gilbert.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLHG7rzhb6
"Jeremy!" Elena calls. She then says to Bonnie, "Did you find anything?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHDinsLTMd
"He's not on the trail," she answers Elena.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAwcmpXAfr
"His gear's still here," Shane says, holding up a bag.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgsl8qirLF
"He's not at the quarry, either," Stefan says, as he and Rebekah enter the clearing.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOa8KfAv8g
"Let's split up," I suggest.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjLKiJSUYK
"I'm gonna stay and try a locater spell," Bonnie announces.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALuBIf2ZmV
"Okay. I'll stay here. I'll make sure she's safe," Shane tells us.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXIf82DvnH
"I'll stay here and make sure you're not lying," I tell him.
Elena looks at Stefan and Rebekah, and they look at each other.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZldIzF5dS
"Fine. We'll keep searching the island," Elena announces.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKNydJSh5g
I nod and walk off.
I enter the shed where Shane is trying to get a signal with his phone.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrdlzAQErT
"Thought it didn't work," I say, coming up behind him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPNCPlhkfM
"Yeah. I'm just- just checking the signal."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSugguGoRG9
"So you can call someone? Like whoever took Jeremy?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySkb8oODmv
"This place has a habit of getting to you, doesn't it?455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKee5OAT5C
He shoves his phone at my chest and says, "See for yourself."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWH6uXiky6
"I'm done trusting you," I reply to him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDunOuS3vRy
At vamp speed I push him into a chair.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYKhZ7KVHZ
"Where's the cure?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBEsOjFIAE
"You know that magical well I was telling you about? Silas and the cure are buried deep below it," he replies to me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jWbiSqZjx
"So, you've seen it?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvOxfoxSuw
"No. But you could say I heard it from a reliable source."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8A74Xvl7vp
"So you have the rock, Hunter, Bennett witch. What about the dozens that died in a sacrifice? Where do they fit into all this?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwqKdw0oKe
"As you can imagine, that was not an easy pill to swallow," he says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqe3TwJzeO
"Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzO1b8UuXa
"He just wanted to see his wife again."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVaaxtsAP6
"We need three massacres. Fire at the Young farm. Holiday hybrid slaughter. What mass blood-letting am I forgetting?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMe58HcfvW
"You're not."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFjhAFiOYC
"You're not finished. Is that why you brought us all out here in the middle of nowhere? To complete massacre number 3?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RwJjsihsp
"It doesn't work that way, Damon."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5CupwCQ1h
"I think you need to tell me where this magical well is."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrpo8LwMUe
"You know I can't do that."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCZk7g5kdZ
I look over at some rope on the floor.
"Oh, I know. I know."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFB4kK52ZR
I slap Shane's shoulder and walk away.
Later, I continue to interrogate Shane in the shed.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyGrM46dsX
"Where's the cure?"455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEtoyufF3j
"Does it matter? I think we both know you'd rather just torture me. Torture gives you a sense of control, especially with your relevance slipping away."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyIeLcTIs1
I calmly break a metal rod in half.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrzJOGskbn
"And look at you. Here you are, hours from Elena breaking her sire bond. You're starting to freak out a little bit. Listen, you want my advice? Leave. Go. Don't put yourself through this," he continues.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwPvfMJUqz
I whack Shane with the halves of the metal rod.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyv4JbA9Ib
"Agh! Fine. Okay. Let's say her feelings for you are real. How does that end? She's human. You're a vampire," he continues. I strike him across the face with the rod and Shane groans in pain. "It's doomed, Damon. See, you're not torturing me, man. You're torturing yourself by helping them find the cure."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUkYrzTAoD
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it," I reply.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZ2c9MfhPX
"We've established that you can't kill me without sending Bonnie off the deep end. You can leave the island. Have a modicum of self-respect. Don't stay here and watch Elena walk away from you."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTKg4c9mcy
"Right. Because if I'm not here, then I can't get in between you and whatever you're planning with Silas. Well, I'm not that easily manipulated, professor. And there is one flaw in your logic."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewdTRFSwBV
I bend down to talk in Shane's ear.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVLz6Bva1i
"I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6gC9N9hUA
I grab Shane's head like I'm about to snap it, but suddenly Elena runs in at vamp speed and pushes me away from Shane.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqtOMv8sgv
"What is wrong with you?" she says angrily.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjX6nDnk5J
I walk out of the shed without answering her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfX6QEAq5s0
"What did you say to him?" I hear her ask him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQc75jmpeaJ
"Your boyfriend's a maniac, Elena."
"Stop messing with my friends," she tells him.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPqo1RwcKU
I hear Elena leave the shed and follow me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvYhvS95HX
"Shane is the only thing that's keeping Bonnie safe, and you try to kill him? And you wonder why Bonnie hates you," she tells me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0GaLnoCdW
"I don't wonder, Elena, because I don't care. I don't care about her. I don't care about some lame-ass cure for vampires, either."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmokkPMjrbR
"How can you say that right now?" she asks me.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenqCeyHtWt
"Because I don't want you to be cured."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyaDYQSZu9
"I'm not fighting with you about this anymore. Being human isn't gonna change my feelings for you."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IKZcCLWW3
"Fine. Say they're real. Say you've become human and you still love me. Then what? You grow old. You die. I stay a vampire. Face reality, Elena. We don't work."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkTrT5Vyr1
"So, things aren't easy and you're just gonna push me away now? That's what you do, Damon. You think that you don't---- you don't deserve something, so you ruin it. I'm not gonna let you pull that this time."455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOF9m8zInLl
I turn around and start walking away.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBm2rTklUf
"Take the cure with me," she says.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLV8UHlIBPq
I stop.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa3q9sUI4i
"That's how much I know this is real. That's how certain I am that I'm going to love you even after this is all over. Take the cure. Be human with me. We can be together. Grow old together. This doesn't have to be hard anymore," she continues.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtIFzHPgRX
"That's not me, Elena. That's Stefan. You know, I used to miss being human. Now I can't think of anything more miserable on earth," I say, my back still facing her.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hUWzEwN0l
I walk away.
I'm walking in the woods, when an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in my arm.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63k5IirkV4
I groan in pain and pull it out, tossing it to the ground.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl1j64qVns
"You gotta be kidding me," I comment.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHd4yJpkiPy
Suddenly, a man jumps me and throws me to the ground.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlmXEKdS5S
We both get back up and go at each other. I manage to pin the man down, straddling his back and pulling at his head. I notice the man's hand on the ground has the Hunter's mark on it.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtslbSaNXP
"You're one of The Five," I say.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3jz8EU0d4
The man gets free of my choke hold, flips me over and snaps my neck.
