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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNizFcKKXoH
"If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car…," I start.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4rJWroauc
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiKM3kEq0L
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Yqkys7Wr0
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98thvp6xWq
"Yeah, well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIcEkZeu0y
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWg5xWAExDN
"Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne—if Elena is wherever it may be," I say, as I fill my tank with gasoline.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8MK608cM1
He smiles.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtueMV5l5KH
"Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpHI1bXl0q
"Ooh, silver lining: if Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBJLvGTcbU
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywM3bwHJVq
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY01wsY2crq
"Look at that. We're finally on the same page about something."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEYtXYq0iv
"Look at that," I agree.
Later that day, we're walking along the street, still in search of Rebekah and Elena.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsDYYawG31
"Something's not right. Katherine Pierce does not hold up in Hickstown, P-A.," I announce.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWb7o47Ei2
"Well, this is definitely the car they stole. We're in the right place," Stefan says.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9Mb4Uhype
"Points to them for their choice of vehicles," I say.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9QzKvOUso
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPdCuTJkz7
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxVMD1d2Mt
"I'm serious."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zFe6fSmDL
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxP3MjbMpxC
"So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?" Stefan asks me.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKH8RGoRmM
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82ax4yw7MO
Stefan and I walk in and walk up to them.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lLZfkuoFT
"Ladies, playing nice?" Stefan asks them.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcFCQjjxv5
I sit down in a bench across from them, amused, and Rebekah let's go of Katherine's hand.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO01kZkDdzs
"There goes the neighborhood," Katherine comments.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoe0Jw7eHs
"I see you got Katherine already," I say, before telling Katherine, "You're losing your touch, evil one."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvP0iVIHJwU
We all stare at one another.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbGVB1v9WV
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3u9XcBAj5
"What about you over there, smiley? Do you know where she is?" I ask Katherine.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7t2MjE9SoL
"I can give you a hint. Start by looking at the town morgue. She's probably dead."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmZsWd3lAK
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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P97vqVpFb
"Elijah," Rebekah realizes.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwIpMBPR5q
"Elijah's here?" I question.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIY1RuUGAuQ
"Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with you," Stefan tells Katherine.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBchmXqCW3C
"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXPW7l96eo
Rebekah and I groan in disgust, figuring out what she's getting at. Katherine and Elijah are in love.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xAB3BAdcc
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GEvAOjSE4
"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?"449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMrlqeenJo
"Fine. They were supposed to meet at the gazebo by the park," Rebekah answers.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTJ1gtFZgw
"I'll go talk to Elijah," Stefan says, getting up from the bench.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyTRf5N34q
"You go deal with Elijah. Katherine will take us to the cure," Rebekah tells him.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmtopCyYeG
"No, she won't. The cure is my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus," Katherine interjects.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNxj8rXfXB
"You're gonna break a deal with Klaus?" I ask her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9kU68Y4FV
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwqwwYsiDQ
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvQkMtEywy
I push Katherine inside and then tell her, "No sudden moves. No tricks either. No Katherine-ing."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhzSKB6ls0
She walks further into the house, while we look around.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZdoD1DhTJ
"Wow. A quilt inside a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?" I say.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK6gHsCHLo
"A very old lady with dreadful taste," Rebekah answers me.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2mlnrn1Sp
Katherine has been removing things from a bookshelf and opens a hidden safe. She moves her hands around inside it.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWdsu7dneb
"It's gone. The cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there," she tells us.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1tJZaXgZG
I imitate a buzzer and then say, "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdNhBHosGj
"I swear it was in the safe," she insists.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s279lqLYB
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡReiNLZaTCM
"Yeah, it doesn't look like the Katherine I know," I agree.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAixNtFmAAX
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaZmNZWFSb
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4I9P5YkY5D
"Where is the cure?" Rebekah asks her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzs1RT1lph
Katherine looks at her with a hint of a smile and Rebekah vamp-speeds at her. I throw my arm out to stop her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAXJ7XKktb
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuY3je548OC
Katherine smiles, while Rebekah walks away to go upstairs.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6FSM34KHF
"So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?" I say.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVYaO0Yn0k
"This should be fun," Katherine says, chuckling.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoRy5SN6Oj
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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgnUPomQOU
I stop in front of the fish tank.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKctJYsbEL
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GXNx1OE0f
I stick my hand into the water, but it immediately burns my hand.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZrf6pYAZ5
"Aah! Gah! Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Owsb022wQ
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp29xF857rC
"Give it to me, or you're dead."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUICOHwMdHD
"You're gonna kill me anyway. So what's more important to you, huh? Killing me or getting the cure?" Katherine says.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zxFQG71J5
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVj7Gq9Wszf
"Look, Rebekah... Don't even think about it," I rasp.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYV21t8OmcG
Rebekah gets up, still in awe that she finally has the cure. My voice still sounds very raspy.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3dRLzPwYk
"Let's just talk about this, like the two rational vampires that we are. Rebekah?"449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjezdLuWzIO
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKInv5CUPnw
"Don't do anything stupid," I try to reason.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD582uk0TWc
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOkC39HvCn
I don't say anything, still on the floor.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDzUoidVIe
Rebekah smiles and says, "That's what I thought."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEH16KZSeP
Rebekah pops open the pill when Stefan arrives at the open front door. She tosses it back into her mouth.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlCP8UEioU
"No!" Stefan yells.
Rebekah gasps for a few seconds and falls down onto the sofa.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9kyB3J68O
I rest my head on the floor.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOksqFY22Eg
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbokvPo04yd
"Did you even try to stop her?" Stefan asks me.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15VgHGnAsR
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRKXDYLQqI
"All you had to do was stall her, Damon."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWq224rtgh
"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB83JITDPst
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTs6RIM0IPe
Suddenly, Rebekah gasps, waking up.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnJU79AM5H
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mDjIEYIuE
"How do you feel?" Stefan asks.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyQvtlF4v2
"I-- I feel good. I... I feel great. I feel alive," she answers, smiling.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WVdNwTEet
"Slight problem with being alive--I can kill you, you know," I comment to her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KBWeiXkti
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jduvtXS4G
"I'm still a vampire. The cure didn't work."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡse2YtgU4hW
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Q8b8Yl8M8
Rebekah is still in shock, her mouth hanging open.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHekXDQm1F5
"Katherine," I say with a slight admiration.
That night, Stefan and I walk down a sidewalk.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSX7sWfGVNf
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUImktOxaDb
"So what's your point, Damon?" Stefan asks me.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFrthCNDYh
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOZyzcAnAB
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR90P5VSwZF
"What are you talking about?" I ask him.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJfEB5BQQC
"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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QNMjVdoId
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."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMFtyBDLJG
"You still want to get the cure, even if it means you might lose her?" he asks me.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqatIcIWCV
"It's a chance I'm willing to take, Stefan."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo1XKf2UMt
"Well, I guess all we have to do is, uh, convince her."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZRybGh0AT
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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GYKeLHAd1
"Sit anywhere you'd like," Jolene greets us.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIbxF8KT4N
We slide into the booth where Elena is seated at.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWcQChxfsG
"You all right?" Stefan asks her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDjlvvLlju
Elena looks at us, but doesn't say anything.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMezLRPBnga
"What's up with the silent treatment? You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up," I say.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTBAekIKLr
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHtrDVYC4H
Stefan and I exchange a look.
"Yeah...no," I answer her.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lWZy6O65a
"Elena, this isn't you," Stefan says.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqKITySJpi
"It is now. And you two really need to accept it. Because if you don't, there will be consequences."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vwbMOg6Z5
Elena takes a sip from her mug and we look at each other again.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zLBuzRNZH
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3piEZY1nb
Elena sets down her mug. Jolene comes back.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKvMcNvj6R
"Let me just top that off for you," Jolene says.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yyaJNqLCm
Elena smiles and says, "Thanks."449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRNtL9LggQ
Elena vamp-speeds up and snaps Jolene's neck. Her body falls to the floor as the pitcher of coffee shatters.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaVcunezx2
"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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAZsFMkYkr
She walks away and leaves the diner, as we look at the body.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGmp4t9icS
"Still ready to ride off into the sunset?" I ask my brother.
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