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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgw2PJxVPA
"If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car…," I start.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheHsP6qtun
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBca3si7c0
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncJQdBSzSL
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJ3F47IVQY
"Yeah, well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlylgh50vv
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzFWWXCMVG
"Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne—if Elena is wherever it may be," I say, as I fill my tank with gasoline.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrpYWfFNrA
He smiles.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUuv9VkVLk
"Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdUaUjVOw9
"Ooh, silver lining: if Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tC9qgipGG
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHvqNFk29o
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS44rj7Jz4M
"Look at that. We're finally on the same page about something."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUoNzuV0iU
"Look at that," I agree.
Later that day, we're walking along the street, still in search of Rebekah and Elena.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzzMeZzj8u
"Something's not right. Katherine Pierce does not hold up in Hickstown, P-A.," I announce.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4nHN4sDPb
"Well, this is definitely the car they stole. We're in the right place," Stefan says.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLA3cCZdhB
"Points to them for their choice of vehicles," I say.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEwdvA9IDh
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWWGtmNtqa
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oQDLjOye1
"I'm serious."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Nb8pedtCk
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9N8ffevML
"So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?" Stefan asks me.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNhlEPlMu3
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FgDwZfgBF
Stefan and I walk in and walk up to them.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKLcIApjGh
"Ladies, playing nice?" Stefan asks them.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6CHeZY4M9
I sit down in a bench across from them, amused, and Rebekah let's go of Katherine's hand.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5fIkbgTcE
"There goes the neighborhood," Katherine comments.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqODTwxIGeP
"I see you got Katherine already," I say, before telling Katherine, "You're losing your touch, evil one."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWe19vWxgf
We all stare at one another.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5kvVLIodC
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkvGFWJPlZ
"What about you over there, smiley? Do you know where she is?" I ask Katherine.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AXNMNGEnU
"I can give you a hint. Start by looking at the town morgue. She's probably dead."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7gwkbjpk7
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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0wH78fJuS
"Elijah," Rebekah realizes.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrY4Y2QuEVy
"Elijah's here?" I question.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5liazKYK0
"Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with you," Stefan tells Katherine.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9FW8VZbzI
"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnqcZ22oNl
Rebekah and I groan in disgust, figuring out what she's getting at. Katherine and Elijah are in love.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL96lHa3Lat
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQiVlPtF7fs
"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?"409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhGtZZIn8x
"Fine. They were supposed to meet at the gazebo by the park," Rebekah answers.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssYkjjjeqL
"I'll go talk to Elijah," Stefan says, getting up from the bench.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvn6TeB0ab
"You go deal with Elijah. Katherine will take us to the cure," Rebekah tells him.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJrHkQvzUs
"No, she won't. The cure is my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus," Katherine interjects.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusIvKhK8dN
"You're gonna break a deal with Klaus?" I ask her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyUpHanxeQ
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JhMwXb2b9
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXqFPtDeni
I push Katherine inside and then tell her, "No sudden moves. No tricks either. No Katherine-ing."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfWZhtouYl
She walks further into the house, while we look around.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuQDcc0IpA
"Wow. A quilt inside a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?" I say.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKscB4606C
"A very old lady with dreadful taste," Rebekah answers me.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsb73ToVBLR
Katherine has been removing things from a bookshelf and opens a hidden safe. She moves her hands around inside it.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BCANBSjMc
"It's gone. The cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there," she tells us.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBGQhBbJci
I imitate a buzzer and then say, "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpSUU8JHEy
"I swear it was in the safe," she insists.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgaaBlFwHGv
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Qky9Jdlj0
"Yeah, it doesn't look like the Katherine I know," I agree.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckf479uiG1
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENkgSOiqGk
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8eaKABHOb
"Where is the cure?" Rebekah asks her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqeOWVHw5P
Katherine looks at her with a hint of a smile and Rebekah vamp-speeds at her. I throw my arm out to stop her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKC9CQYENY
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ANeX1mtta
Katherine smiles, while Rebekah walks away to go upstairs.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71rVi43jp9
"So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?" I say.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUjRlDzED6
"This should be fun," Katherine says, chuckling.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNwiYwEH7F
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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HmMk1JEMf
I stop in front of the fish tank.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkETyBLwC0
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdX0CEH1zw
I stick my hand into the water, but it immediately burns my hand.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQwtVpXLnq
"Aah! Gah! Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdZQatHwhB
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10B2L1XATp
"Give it to me, or you're dead."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJw8S9ctc5M
"You're gonna kill me anyway. So what's more important to you, huh? Killing me or getting the cure?" Katherine says.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3fHBVaf9u
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurRjNBjJCd
"Look, Rebekah... Don't even think about it," I rasp.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS398exV7NS
Rebekah gets up, still in awe that she finally has the cure. My voice still sounds very raspy.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExW8qeDPlT
"Let's just talk about this, like the two rational vampires that we are. Rebekah?"409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dgeZfWTu1
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkzNILlsfZ
"Don't do anything stupid," I try to reason.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMhlPWdmAB
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6LG1uJNtH
I don't say anything, still on the floor.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaPciWqcb0
Rebekah smiles and says, "That's what I thought."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GnL9cdFeU
Rebekah pops open the pill when Stefan arrives at the open front door. She tosses it back into her mouth.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQPY0ETD8D
"No!" Stefan yells.
Rebekah gasps for a few seconds and falls down onto the sofa.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzp1eTunb9
I rest my head on the floor.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59Nxa020wE
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbIcwdRKjd
"Did you even try to stop her?" Stefan asks me.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBITopyjvfh
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18y5Viv7V9
"All you had to do was stall her, Damon."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInuA8kHWWC
"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGNEO24IBm
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBJSjkSc3O
Suddenly, Rebekah gasps, waking up.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdnQOOgg2e
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaKcYAS3WR
"How do you feel?" Stefan asks.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIGeYZZxep
"I-- I feel good. I... I feel great. I feel alive," she answers, smiling.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jsi3xl6XA
"Slight problem with being alive--I can kill you, you know," I comment to her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEPXkQxa0E
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgV7l4RuYuA
"I'm still a vampire. The cure didn't work."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TyRaeMvdA
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNA1OKKunf
Rebekah is still in shock, her mouth hanging open.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgazKX567J
"Katherine," I say with a slight admiration.
That night, Stefan and I walk down a sidewalk.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLPG473aCN
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTY1eZxIufC
"So what's your point, Damon?" Stefan asks me.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNsTu8YXmh
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcw7TLn53l
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86dScod79O
"What are you talking about?" I ask him.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJCoF87FuJ
"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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxPaYDjFZB
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."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdMj7PHhdb
"You still want to get the cure, even if it means you might lose her?" he asks me.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsg7uXPzp2q
"It's a chance I'm willing to take, Stefan."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMbcknjCUm
"Well, I guess all we have to do is, uh, convince her."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0M0SIRDe5K
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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeretARqnji
"Sit anywhere you'd like," Jolene greets us.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyT5jmS9agn
We slide into the booth where Elena is seated at.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrDstJUrBh
"You all right?" Stefan asks her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbwGy5n39s
Elena looks at us, but doesn't say anything.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMKCTXWBtL
"What's up with the silent treatment? You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up," I say.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3ybkwg8g8
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTr1OFanDf
Stefan and I exchange a look.
"Yeah...no," I answer her.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKVPwutBhF
"Elena, this isn't you," Stefan says.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRsbRKXWSd
"It is now. And you two really need to accept it. Because if you don't, there will be consequences."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3B4ik6b4RU
Elena takes a sip from her mug and we look at each other again.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NzR5yl99T
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMquCGT1HhX
Elena sets down her mug. Jolene comes back.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdge8tvPuy
"Let me just top that off for you," Jolene says.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JVSVZVMtX
Elena smiles and says, "Thanks."409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfshsEsOeE3
Elena vamp-speeds up and snaps Jolene's neck. Her body falls to the floor as the pitcher of coffee shatters.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6VwRJDErr
"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.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbQ4pSZRq5
She walks away and leaves the diner, as we look at the body.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21tMR8otth
"Still ready to ride off into the sunset?" I ask my brother.
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