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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAiJDm0VRRwc
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.556Please respect copyright.PENANAINAR7vwncq
She slowly sits up.556Please respect copyright.PENANAVKpgyOZThO
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.556Please respect copyright.PENANAjpxvUklJTc
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.556Please respect copyright.PENANADVBUMxBfm4
"He didn't," I tell her.556Please respect copyright.PENANApnTjPAXgcw
"Wait. What?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAR21aBkRe6d
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.556Please respect copyright.PENANApezVSHm3MZ
"So what? Am I dead?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAx8UD6FhRpd
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."556Please respect copyright.PENANAyoeNFJlXyR
"No. I can't be."556Please respect copyright.PENANAXCMIyw3h3n
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."556Please respect copyright.PENANAiNJfuJxY2z
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.556Please respect copyright.PENANAWaPt9OSNaX
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.556Please respect copyright.PENANAilSsmz81CN
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.556Please respect copyright.PENANAu1hpcM8Ax3
He watches me.556Please respect copyright.PENANAhonxyOt7I3
"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."556Please respect copyright.PENANAK7259inTzC
"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."556Please respect copyright.PENANAwWQNza9DHu
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.556Please respect copyright.PENANAZyfU2ocu7B
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.556Please respect copyright.PENANATHE8wpQWLX
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.556Please respect copyright.PENANAxxXuoumO1x
"Jer," she greets.556Please respect copyright.PENANAu8XtEFKVKG
"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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAFfOTGvNsJf
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."556Please respect copyright.PENANATQkfr81Txm
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."556Please respect copyright.PENANAw7xt4xS9zz
"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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAVzCSCGt5Ii
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."556Please respect copyright.PENANAgIBX7DGcoR
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."556Please respect copyright.PENANAuNA4CrubFa
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."556Please respect copyright.PENANAblQ2lvlSIg
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.556Please respect copyright.PENANAJEOMuw3U7e
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.556Please respect copyright.PENANAYjoolBgJXL
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."556Please respect copyright.PENANA4yrMrKJoZu
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAS7r1gTUPbt
Rebekah turns around to face me.556Please respect copyright.PENANAVYG0b6M30h
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAGN5DWKCovJ
Rebekah turns back around.556Please respect copyright.PENANAsEKY6uVSZu
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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAj5P9CqR5Wl
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.556Please respect copyright.PENANATVFYRjscF7
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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAUgvSclWDff
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.556Please respect copyright.PENANAvt6G3alMof
"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?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAyUm5KL170D
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.556Please respect copyright.PENANAhOX0bdqUdu
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.556Please respect copyright.PENANAvjKYNjFR81
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.556Please respect copyright.PENANActwKQfSEMG
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.556Please respect copyright.PENANADkRlbx0Wfv
"Hey, is Elena here?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAUWmzAUJMIX
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.556Please respect copyright.PENANA1JSpf6UukY
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"556Please respect copyright.PENANAMGst2v51iO
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.556Please respect copyright.PENANAK7MSOp6XaI
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.556Please respect copyright.PENANAPew45MuTQA
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.556Please respect copyright.PENANAiU1dFDjJGc
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.556Please respect copyright.PENANARAuHIfPz9w
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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAqVlreYsOzp
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.556Please respect copyright.PENANAmET4OeBLen
"Damon," she says.556Please respect copyright.PENANAM0BJQCcLkM
"Yeah?" I reply.556Please respect copyright.PENANA0qtrI9KZw3
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"556Please respect copyright.PENANAFQIUn5VMJN
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"556Please respect copyright.PENANA6SyuM8KhRs
"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.556Please respect copyright.PENANA2tnRoGphh4
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.