It's a beautiful day, as Stefan and I get out of our car on the side of the road and walk towards my car, me carrying two large containers.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwA781f9lUQ
"If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car…," I start.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXwrOg0dnp
"Well, just be grateful Sheriff Forbes was able to track down the car after you let them, ah, you know—steal it from you," Stefan interrupts.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpne3SXnOLg
"Remind me to send her some mini-muffins. Do we really need 10 gallons of gas, or are you making me just lug this around as punishment?" I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWt6V7U3N2
"Well, they ditched your car after it ran out of fuel. You gotta fill it up. Got a hundred miles before we get to Willoughby."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmJ60A5FQy
"Yeah, well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIfcPieTqy
"Oh, the list? The list they stole from right under your nose, after you let your guard down? They'll be there. Sheriff Forbes tracked down the car they stole after yours," Stefan amusingly says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR3klFVf7i
"Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne—if Elena is wherever it may be," I say, as I fill my tank with gasoline.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSifOTc9H5v
He smiles.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYjT2HEQ5B
"Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIsKbkfmzC
"Ooh, silver lining: if Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlasxIhjoq
"Ooh, dark cloud: Elena stays a vampire forever. Look, why don't you just table the revenge fantasies for now, and just keep your eye on the prize. Find Katherine, get the cure, get out before you get your neck snapped—again."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE17qWondXy
"Believe me, I learned my lesson. Elena without humanity is a stone-cold bitch, and I won't trust her until we get the old Elena back."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhS2Duy5AuG
"Look at that. We're finally on the same page about something."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSznxO2s7M
"Look at that," I agree.
Later that day, we're walking along the street, still in search of Rebekah and Elena.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7w31DVOgA
"Something's not right. Katherine Pierce does not hold up in Hickstown, P-A.," I announce.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy699SmAG6E
"Well, this is definitely the car they stole. We're in the right place," Stefan says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoumJ8lLdxT
"Points to them for their choice of vehicles," I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqmnAYSWVU
"So let me ask you something. What happens when we find Elena? How do we get her back to Mystic Falls? I mean, she's not exactly gonna go quietly, and she has an Original vampire as her bodyguard."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtBM9toRlH
"We do whatever we have to do. I don't care if we have to throw Rebekah under a school bus and wrap Elena up in a burlap sack. We do whatever we have to do."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxviL6tgRb
"I'm serious."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJJ1FnXeIj
"I am, too. I don't care what Elena wants right now. She's this close to going off the rails for good and that ain't happening. She's a pain enough as it is."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfTtHSYyIX
"So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?" Stefan asks me.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPJU7GCbKy
"That guy got his neck snapped in New York and this guy is royally pissed off," I answer him, and start to walk away.
When we find them, they're sitting in a diner in a booth. Rebekah is seated next to Katherine, but Elena isn't there.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2HSh29EMF
Stefan and I walk in and walk up to them.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIraATuyigI
"Ladies, playing nice?" Stefan asks them.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRFVcXg8pG
I sit down in a bench across from them, amused, and Rebekah let's go of Katherine's hand.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfvC0Kb6Us
"There goes the neighborhood," Katherine comments.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7qYcuivDl
"I see you got Katherine already," I say, before telling Katherine, "You're losing your touch, evil one."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRu6SEhtvX
We all stare at one another.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjX5MqZE0Zp
"Where's Elena?" Stefan asks Rebekah.
"So let me get this straight: I tell you where Elena is, you shove the cure down her throat, and then I end up in a box, right? I don't think so," Rebekah says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuLw1nrybZ
"What about you over there, smiley? Do you know where she is?" I ask Katherine.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0BQuOCKU1
"I can give you a hint. Start by looking at the town morgue. She's probably dead."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpvSfb9UkI
We wait for Katherine to elaborate, and after a moment, she does, saying, "She went to meet up with a friend of mine. You may know him—an Original brother, impeccable taste."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxfrQqWvwS
"Elijah," Rebekah realizes.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQB6MxJFxCi
"Elijah's here?" I question.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYe8DeDlZXD
"Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with you," Stefan tells Katherine.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylx7vpvcDx
"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfvsJnyaYJ
Rebekah and I groan in disgust, figuring out what she's getting at. Katherine and Elijah are in love.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWR6MqWNt4V
"It probably took him about 10 seconds to realize that she wasn't me, at which point he probably yanked her heart right out of her chest," Katherine says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpHaO0hFqW
"All right. Where are they?" Stefan asks her, but Katherine smiles and doesn't say anything, so Stefan says to Rebekah, "Rebekah, you do realize if something should happen to Elena, you have no chance of finding the cure, right?"430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6ezeu5gmF
"Fine. They were supposed to meet at the gazebo by the park," Rebekah answers.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCkV4IoKCp
"I'll go talk to Elijah," Stefan says, getting up from the bench.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVQeXW41Ma
"You go deal with Elijah. Katherine will take us to the cure," Rebekah tells him.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkWMxFp6Hd
"No, she won't. The cure is my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus," Katherine interjects.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gYfTLlJgH
"You're gonna break a deal with Klaus?" I ask her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWt04G1HnM
"No. She's gonna get Elijah to break the deal for her. That's why you need your little friend, isn't it? Some things never change, Katherine," Stefan says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVM62etR1Cb
"Nope," I say.
"Fine," Katherine says, before saying to Rebekah, "Move. You have to follow me."
We follow Katherine to her place and stop just outside the door.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jUzAWtWMU
I push Katherine inside and then tell her, "No sudden moves. No tricks either. No Katherine-ing."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6urjY4Ahkj
She walks further into the house, while we look around.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJ2c68sbFb
"Wow. A quilt inside a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?" I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81IhC9CcMo
"A very old lady with dreadful taste," Rebekah answers me.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGJXqXjesT
Katherine has been removing things from a bookshelf and opens a hidden safe. She moves her hands around inside it.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45hT5UNny5
"It's gone. The cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there," she tells us.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznEdfefV7s
I imitate a buzzer and then say, "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfkQ7sqoPu
"I swear it was in the safe," she insists.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5B60csFqGI
"What, just like Elijah's really your boyfriend and this is really your life? And for all we know, this isn't even your house," Rebekah says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEOFSZQ2Bq
"Yeah, it doesn't look like the Katherine I know," I agree.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecnGE19H7g
"Maybe you don't know Katherine at all. Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?" Katherine says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3g4sfTFA18
"Did it ever occur to you that you're not that deep? This whole small-town girl thing, we all know it's an act," I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWx3p7YXjPa
"Where is the cure?" Rebekah asks her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1Ej8oZiMR
Katherine looks at her with a hint of a smile and Rebekah vamp-speeds at her. I throw my arm out to stop her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7CQkiIM2E
"Whoa, whoa. Hang on. We need her alive. The cure's not here. You check upstairs. I'll check down. I got this," I tell Rebekah.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo52ovZqhQY
Katherine smiles, while Rebekah walks away to go upstairs.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nT6JHVR9r
"So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?" I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTLtqKHEpm
"This should be fun," Katherine says, chuckling.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DXjvjkOE1
I search the room. "Because I'd want it to be close, but not on me. Accessible but not obvious. I'd want to keep it safe, but not so safe that it'd be too difficult to grab and run."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyCHQxVnYe
I stop in front of the fish tank.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4FKJyqY7l
"Well, that is a fancy little treasure chest—in a tank with no fish." Katherine doesn't say anything and I continue. "I think I'm gonna have to check that out."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmBATJgnSY
I stick my hand into the water, but it immediately burns my hand.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvXbHUWsRr
"Aah! Gah! Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6d6A72zAA6
I pick up a large net to scoop out the chest. Before I can, Katherine vamp-speeds at me and shoves my head into the vervain water, holds me there for several seconds then throws me to the floor. I writhe in pain and Katherine gets the chest out. She runs to the door, but Rebekah appears in front of her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwd0fsyT4Zh
"Give it to me, or you're dead."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBd9w1Q03Ks
"You're gonna kill me anyway. So what's more important to you, huh? Killing me or getting the cure?" Katherine says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKLcMAXvDD
She holds up a small pill-shaped object and throws it into the air behind her. Rebekah runs to catch it, and Katherine dashes out the front door. I'm still on the floor, but my face is healing.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0oFhSIrWc
"Look, Rebekah... Don't even think about it," I rasp.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqwZszEtag
Rebekah gets up, still in awe that she finally has the cure. My voice still sounds very raspy.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWX8an98Ov
"Let's just talk about this, like the two rational vampires that we are. Rebekah?"430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HcQnRl38s
"Oh, give it a rest. Me taking this cure is the best thing that'll ever happen to you," Rebekah says, as she stares at the object in her hand.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTWkcMbiws
"Don't do anything stupid," I try to reason.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFik1zoWAy
"Admit it. You don't want human-Elena running back to Stefan whilst you're left out in the cold again. Go on, Damon. Tell me why you want Elena to have the cure," she says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQpOvqHmAk
I don't say anything, still on the floor.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDWgURRUte
Rebekah smiles and says, "That's what I thought."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTDYC0LMD1
Rebekah pops open the pill when Stefan arrives at the open front door. She tosses it back into her mouth.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGBVCMdPpJ
"No!" Stefan yells.
Rebekah gasps for a few seconds and falls down onto the sofa.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMi0WHa7Kd
I rest my head on the floor.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5lACoiaPZ
Rebekah is still unconscious on the sofa, as Stefan looks at the fish tank while talking to me. I've finally gotten to my feet and am drying myself off with a towel from the vervain.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8Q8dRTIiO
"Did you even try to stop her?" Stefan asks me.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYNvn7hlcg
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCZXe5Z3vw
"All you had to do was stall her, Damon."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUX0YlgAyN
"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EnAwGZjVN
"You let her take it, didn't you? You were never on my side. Now Elena will be a vampire for the rest of her life just like you wanted."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2l347KzKs
Suddenly, Rebekah gasps, waking up.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieh6duqJXo
She sits up, looking refreshed, her mouth open in wonder. I'm standing by a bookshelf and Stefan sits down on the coffee table opposite her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIDliTuHgD
"How do you feel?" Stefan asks.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNC3jptfFY
"I-- I feel good. I... I feel great. I feel alive," she answers, smiling.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1pgI77PUI
"Slight problem with being alive--I can kill you, you know," I comment to her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZ4HGsOC4Z
I throw a letter opener at her and she catches it with vamp speed. We all watch, as the cut on her hand heals. Rebekah gasps in horror, while Stefan sighs in relief.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMkWxIBDcp
"I'm still a vampire. The cure didn't work."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlaw3ljUAq
"It worked just like she wanted it to. The cure was a fake. It must've been a concentrated shot of vervain or something," Stefan says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvr7d7n9nsY
Rebekah is still in shock, her mouth hanging open.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0G6CROqx3
"Katherine," I say with a slight admiration.
That night, Stefan and I walk down a sidewalk.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCYrugZCrl
"All right, you're right. I let Rebekah take the cure." I stop and turn to face Stefan. "I thought for a second—I mean, literally just a second—If Rebekah takes this, then all my problems go away. And I couldn't think of one good reason to give it to Elena. And then Rebekah took it. And I realized how badly I screwed up," I admit.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3esOAYwpkJ
"So what's your point, Damon?" Stefan asks me.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBcU4ib0K9
"My point is, I'm sorry, okay? I had a moment of weakness, Stefan. It's my thing. It's like you and I falling for the same girl. It's our thing," I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15VuLJpNVn
"Was our thing. Look, we've been making the same mistakes for 150 years. We can judge Katherine all we want, but we keep repeating our own history just like she is. Nothing ever changes. It has to stop, Damon."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RsCJDxRef
"What are you talking about?" I ask him.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCIXQij4sG
"I'm done. I can't keep reliving my life like this. I owe Elena her shot at being normal again. Once we give her the cure, I'm getting her out of my life, and I'm getting a life of my own."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3ZcPJyUll
I nod and say, "Okay. Okay, let's just get the cure, and then we'll talk about you riding off into the sunset all by your lonesome."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZzCRpVlDc
"You still want to get the cure, even if it means you might lose her?" he asks me.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBs54RZVKB0
"It's a chance I'm willing to take, Stefan."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPh071ejXk1
"Well, I guess all we have to do is, uh, convince her."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKK7u7CFAV
He walks past me and we enter the same diner we had earlier, when Rebekah and Katherine had been there. Elena is sitting at a table by herself. Jolene, the waitress, sees us walk in.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYtMIGwCR0
"Sit anywhere you'd like," Jolene greets us.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLMEXUxoMC
We slide into the booth where Elena is seated at.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyuM74Zeys
"You all right?" Stefan asks her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7pmUPLAXq
Elena looks at us, but doesn't say anything.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tvDv7BCBL
"What's up with the silent treatment? You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up," I say.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC5Tx2A61b
"You know I don't want the cure. You need to know that I never will and I'm done talking about it. So... will you accept that and let me be who I am, or not?" she says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWcntTbzRu
Stefan and I exchange a look.
"Yeah...no," I answer her.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1LNtp1Hl2
"Elena, this isn't you," Stefan says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAw8r14AxX7
"It is now. And you two really need to accept it. Because if you don't, there will be consequences."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4OSdcUWyI
Elena takes a sip from her mug and we look at each other again.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEXN1MqT3p
"Listen, I was in the exact same situation that you're in right now. My emotions were off. I wasn't me. And you refused to accept that. You didn't give up on me. You didn't stop until you pulled me back," Stefan says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEg6PAEjYvM
Elena sets down her mug. Jolene comes back.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuy4kSwBWjM
"Let me just top that off for you," Jolene says.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdewM6lH2gY
Elena smiles and says, "Thanks."430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jd2Nci5RH
Elena vamp-speeds up and snaps Jolene's neck. Her body falls to the floor as the pitcher of coffee shatters.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPPWXVDbHR
"Like I said, consequences. That's one body you're responsible for. If you keep trying to fix me, there'll be a second, a twentieth, and a hundredth. It's your choice," Elena tells us.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQAM8UZSVy
She walks away and leaves the diner, as we look at the body.430Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNwnuIQiAU
"Still ready to ride off into the sunset?" I ask my brother.
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