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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAYE8Ol9fajE
Elena opens her eyes, when she finally comes around.435Please respect copyright.PENANAeiKrmCK6fd
She slowly sits up.435Please respect copyright.PENANALrpJoOQFS2
"You've been in and out for hours," Stefan informs her.435Please respect copyright.PENANAXYiuWtPULX
"What happened? How did you save me?" she asks.435Please respect copyright.PENANAWmd6YgKdOY
"He didn't," I tell her.435Please respect copyright.PENANAi7jWw67FGP
"Wait. What?"435Please respect copyright.PENANA8UOmblwd9z
Stefan explains to her what Meredith had done.435Please respect copyright.PENANACeqnUvJ9Xk
"So what? Am I dead?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAjKDMRvbKGz
"You're in transition. You're not fully alive and you're not fully dead."435Please respect copyright.PENANAm0fr8Zs2P3
"No. I can't be."435Please respect copyright.PENANAZFLxlHU20b
"I have Bonnie looking into it. She might be able to reverse it."435Please respect copyright.PENANAGHifP0mtyY
"No. You feed or you die. There's no third door," I say, before getting up and leaving the room.435Please respect copyright.PENANAfYld4sTXig
I go downstairs to the kitchen to get a shot glass of liquor from Elena's cupboard.435Please respect copyright.PENANAcKYHqtrWNP
Stefan comes down the stairs just then and into the kitchen.435Please respect copyright.PENANARksb1EvVbZ
He watches me.435Please respect copyright.PENANAPLVimoBnn1
"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."435Please respect copyright.PENANACmGlQuTeIl
"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."435Please respect copyright.PENANAp11zWVoKTb
"Whatever. Always the hero," I comment, grabbing my glass from the counter and slowly sipping it.435Please respect copyright.PENANA4WabVbb3Ic
Stefan leaves the room, as I finish my drink.435Please respect copyright.PENANApRwBcUfWhV
From the kitchen, I hear Elena and Jeremy from the hallway upstairs with my vampire hearing.435Please respect copyright.PENANAjZLEVhkG9i
"Jer," she greets.435Please respect copyright.PENANAOEfjaMbElg
"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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAtipwzQhB73
"I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."435Please respect copyright.PENANAs91VXkl3LT
"No, you're not. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you, but you need help."435Please respect copyright.PENANAUQgEjo67OU
"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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAh0efEmQsrt
"Yeah, she said when I was shot, she made some plea to the witch spirit to bring me back and they listened."435Please respect copyright.PENANAzOS668kzTA
"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible."435Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5GGWXPUir
"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them."435Please respect copyright.PENANAfam5YTLv5N
"We're going to find a way out of this. Everything's going to be okay," she tells her little brother.435Please respect copyright.PENANAvSq7U2otJw
"I hope so," he says.
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I enter the room at the Mikaelson house behind Rebekah.435Please respect copyright.PENANAxiqlg5EZIv
"You should know better than to sneak up on a lady."435Please respect copyright.PENANAIwNQIbuBLc
"Good advice. Have you seen one?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAFzIv4GVRGh
Rebekah turns around to face me.435Please respect copyright.PENANAJKiKscwojk
"Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAtfNxBxTmP7
Rebekah turns back around.435Please respect copyright.PENANAAVcvKOo13L
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.435Please respect copyright.PENANA04h9xBJABu
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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAuQF9OrO0Wm
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.435Please respect copyright.PENANApq3O56Azrl
"They're gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything," I say.435Please respect copyright.PENANAUMn5iQ0MiV
"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?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAr6tbvgPuQk
"Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away, did they know where they were planning to take her?" Meredith says.435Please respect copyright.PENANA7B2ehGXACr
"No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape," Liz answers her.435Please respect copyright.PENANAj917qgK8EL
"Perfect. We've narrowed it down to nowhere," I imply.435Please respect copyright.PENANAv88JwVYIjd
Someone knocks on the front door and then Matt enters the house.435Please respect copyright.PENANAfe949bRGn2
"Hey, is Elena here?"435Please respect copyright.PENANATVCQpTNIbo
I turn around and rush towards Matt. I grab him by the throat and pin him to the wall, choking him.435Please respect copyright.PENANAqpyxUZkVwg
"In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"435Please respect copyright.PENANA08tOvwVKYh
Meredith tries to pull me off of him.435Please respect copyright.PENANA7w2HSOwemM
"Damon, stop! It wasn't his fault!" Meredith says.435Please respect copyright.PENANAURbtQ5lCI2
"Let him go, Damon! Now!" Liz says.435Please respect copyright.PENANANpY3SGqZwq
Matt tries to pry my arm off his throat.435Please respect copyright.PENANAcOs84XspZK
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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAzQN7SHDUS0
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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAEHROYREhQW
"Damon," she says.435Please respect copyright.PENANAQ0Lup6fw4U
"Yeah?" I reply.435Please respect copyright.PENANABHv7ZT4Hig
"I remember; everything. Why didn't you say something?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAp1nb1p5tuy
"It wouldn't have mattered," I answer, before adding, "What is it that you feel for me?"435Please respect copyright.PENANAws4eMqMjuf
"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.435Please respect copyright.PENANAmiaeHweQIx
I walk inside quietly, leaving Elena outside alone in the darkness.