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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rE2fw1wQL
"If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car…," I start.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFgjCTGXck
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvgyfzIcU3
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d134wg9AG
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjYSwAf4Aw
"Yeah, well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59ywtmnYet
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptkQAolprl
"Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne—if Elena is wherever it may be," I say, as I fill my tank with gasoline.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDI2rW8k0W
He smiles.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9QYr7JRVR
"Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSMdAo4a57
"Ooh, silver lining: if Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZMOYms3b7
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtMjlIOxX1
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQs0wwEaYwy
"Look at that. We're finally on the same page about something."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPtHDN1IAG
"Look at that," I agree.
Later that day, we're walking along the street, still in search of Rebekah and Elena.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdX9TBzdCkb
"Something's not right. Katherine Pierce does not hold up in Hickstown, P-A.," I announce.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKn2aQZ9oX
"Well, this is definitely the car they stole. We're in the right place," Stefan says.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgUkwIjZ5i
"Points to them for their choice of vehicles," I say.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJCoo4USCM
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFGxdEXr0q
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxmyu5PQEt
"I'm serious."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vIZmG2hfT
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr93pl9SuJC
"So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?" Stefan asks me.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXX8ofTc4V
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezoSIJdRmh
Stefan and I walk in and walk up to them.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3N0ruRRWLO
"Ladies, playing nice?" Stefan asks them.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABJfJX9aAw
I sit down in a bench across from them, amused, and Rebekah let's go of Katherine's hand.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVTFu34RHa
"There goes the neighborhood," Katherine comments.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEWDD6HEKu
"I see you got Katherine already," I say, before telling Katherine, "You're losing your touch, evil one."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfunBjdH0Os
We all stare at one another.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOAFxF9LXe
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamEtGrJfMu
"What about you over there, smiley? Do you know where she is?" I ask Katherine.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVIHUYu2N8
"I can give you a hint. Start by looking at the town morgue. She's probably dead."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFz7LiAJxvw
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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZtgPUGv0a
"Elijah," Rebekah realizes.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoyNnvKFzg
"Elijah's here?" I question.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2mZVK8AVl
"Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's impeccable taste if he's friends with you," Stefan tells Katherine.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsY4pSVu2r
"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQrGsQ3pkU
Rebekah and I groan in disgust, figuring out what she's getting at. Katherine and Elijah are in love.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhv2rLhrnE
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ojEMSmS3N
"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?"413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA87fD5D35M
"Fine. They were supposed to meet at the gazebo by the park," Rebekah answers.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOex2h5YPbk
"I'll go talk to Elijah," Stefan says, getting up from the bench.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6mJvrq0WD
"You go deal with Elijah. Katherine will take us to the cure," Rebekah tells him.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzMlS4n2dG
"No, she won't. The cure is my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus," Katherine interjects.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Xs6GR5iZY
"You're gonna break a deal with Klaus?" I ask her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv35H0z20wq
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbClKfCX1g
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmYxWPoqvl
I push Katherine inside and then tell her, "No sudden moves. No tricks either. No Katherine-ing."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uvEccPBBt
She walks further into the house, while we look around.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIE1QRbbHh2
"Wow. A quilt inside a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?" I say.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2qhoWOReO
"A very old lady with dreadful taste," Rebekah answers me.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOfmEIJP2e
Katherine has been removing things from a bookshelf and opens a hidden safe. She moves her hands around inside it.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77cFHpmjpd
"It's gone. The cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there," she tells us.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5M6v1HOUf
I imitate a buzzer and then say, "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsFn1jcOuS
"I swear it was in the safe," she insists.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8o5j394fMt
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEAleJwMX6
"Yeah, it doesn't look like the Katherine I know," I agree.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5qGIHIFC2
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlh8izYwwZ
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgAggnl5YL
"Where is the cure?" Rebekah asks her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhqqBvJiVL
Katherine looks at her with a hint of a smile and Rebekah vamp-speeds at her. I throw my arm out to stop her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjFNdUWDex
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI88AhCKrBu
Katherine smiles, while Rebekah walks away to go upstairs.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QdHfUul6V
"So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?" I say.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtALOHBEojc
"This should be fun," Katherine says, chuckling.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPddpASZPjI
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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrvmIzqqoj
I stop in front of the fish tank.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtquuQsKfq
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82jN9fm2U3
I stick my hand into the water, but it immediately burns my hand.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MgVOzhtuc
"Aah! Gah! Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiu8l096iwa
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lwGlTawMz
"Give it to me, or you're dead."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNE1Vj9z4GC
"You're gonna kill me anyway. So what's more important to you, huh? Killing me or getting the cure?" Katherine says.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2jlEoxiI4
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHu1l72EWe5
"Look, Rebekah... Don't even think about it," I rasp.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRWc1ChdRN
Rebekah gets up, still in awe that she finally has the cure. My voice still sounds very raspy.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoSUasoRJZ
"Let's just talk about this, like the two rational vampires that we are. Rebekah?"413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78VbiK3C43
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AItO4wU3X
"Don't do anything stupid," I try to reason.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJfWlQZ95W
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbcfkOAWE7
I don't say anything, still on the floor.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vIvJKNYGL
Rebekah smiles and says, "That's what I thought."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAbcsxVIs5
Rebekah pops open the pill when Stefan arrives at the open front door. She tosses it back into her mouth.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmArQYltbG
"No!" Stefan yells.
Rebekah gasps for a few seconds and falls down onto the sofa.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvHIMG4Kl5
I rest my head on the floor.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyM7zD5rlOg
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNUzbsESHE
"Did you even try to stop her?" Stefan asks me.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKXKhnvubh
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXYlhBzs8r
"All you had to do was stall her, Damon."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUAzwEQD6l
"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRskOJtjdW
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AOde4oquh
Suddenly, Rebekah gasps, waking up.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSdNtf3I37
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmHqSIBII8
"How do you feel?" Stefan asks.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5gAxR7WAU
"I-- I feel good. I... I feel great. I feel alive," she answers, smiling.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODNPSEcIqc
"Slight problem with being alive--I can kill you, you know," I comment to her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWpJZh7Ma8
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ATeEpRM2A
"I'm still a vampire. The cure didn't work."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUymgV08F8
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAzjC6ZdAA
Rebekah is still in shock, her mouth hanging open.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGo45OMQN4
"Katherine," I say with a slight admiration.
That night, Stefan and I walk down a sidewalk.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pegLgal1z
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUs81AsWERL
"So what's your point, Damon?" Stefan asks me.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9O8d1KVLc
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7CD64gUII
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuoot2cNTRI
"What are you talking about?" I ask him.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTSAj89oRS
"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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1fDHbBQHe
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."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTMtarLi2u
"You still want to get the cure, even if it means you might lose her?" he asks me.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwOYlwKItD
"It's a chance I'm willing to take, Stefan."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuHaNoK25v
"Well, I guess all we have to do is, uh, convince her."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtYQtGc6ft
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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaR9L028iDv
"Sit anywhere you'd like," Jolene greets us.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKj9FewvFAf
We slide into the booth where Elena is seated at.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVK0M61ymp
"You all right?" Stefan asks her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKyNlG6UiK
Elena looks at us, but doesn't say anything.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCLdY2zqrC
"What's up with the silent treatment? You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up," I say.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQfSubJJJ1
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuRawzXG33
Stefan and I exchange a look.
"Yeah...no," I answer her.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAA4WnMqm5E
"Elena, this isn't you," Stefan says.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u7Kg51Dtq
"It is now. And you two really need to accept it. Because if you don't, there will be consequences."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhQ7v0zyIv
Elena takes a sip from her mug and we look at each other again.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWjJBmaSbo
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQKbk17ruI
Elena sets down her mug. Jolene comes back.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSAoI5exXE
"Let me just top that off for you," Jolene says.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MsVNNRuze
Elena smiles and says, "Thanks."413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevccvizAM0
Elena vamp-speeds up and snaps Jolene's neck. Her body falls to the floor as the pitcher of coffee shatters.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bP0Pj2Tf9
"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.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4oeRW7LqD
She walks away and leaves the diner, as we look at the body.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuRmuouXwO
"Still ready to ride off into the sunset?" I ask my brother.
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