Stefan and Lexi are seated on the couch at the Salvatore boarding house with the music blaring Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name," Stefan drinking a bottle of liquor.471Please respect copyright.PENANAh1AQtS7HmY
I walk over and turn the radio off.471Please respect copyright.PENANAfpM6fqRHhA
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.471Please respect copyright.PENANAWlY2qHJPTz
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."471Please respect copyright.PENANAwlpm2UZe3S
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.471Please respect copyright.PENANAJKVeq5urcM
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.471Please respect copyright.PENANAHirYEbyjHH
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.471Please respect copyright.PENANAs6vxxusvhc
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.471Please respect copyright.PENANAUW6vdurZZz
She releases me and walks over to stand by the couch, and snags the liquor bottle from Stefan. She takes a swig before Stefan takes it back and drinks some of it.471Please respect copyright.PENANAap4Dbr1Wie
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.471Please respect copyright.PENANA6sAHUByRzC
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."471Please respect copyright.PENANA4k6EHP5eGp
"Are you drunk?"471Please respect copyright.PENANAiXFZFaOVya
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.471Please respect copyright.PENANAqzI1kW5Osc
"So this is how we spend the day," I comment, before taking a sip from the shot glass of liquor I had poured for myself.
Later in the day, one of The Five walks inside the boarding house, when Stefan and I are in the living room.471Please respect copyright.PENANA2FZpy3Efin
"I got this from my good friend Connor," he says, talking about the gun he has in his hand, as he faces me. He then shoots me in the side of the neck.471Please respect copyright.PENANAN9UIKvUh83
"I want to know where Silas is."471Please respect copyright.PENANAEC7NICCq8x
"I don't know where he is."471Please respect copyright.PENANA8v07RQpuMq
Stefan and the Hunter soon fight and it ends with Stefan ripping his heart out, killing him.
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When I'm in my room, Elena, now with her humanity back on, walks into my room.471Please respect copyright.PENANAmBKEzTCkpw
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.471Please respect copyright.PENANAyVLcl81nX8
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.471Please respect copyright.PENANAbl8BqXh43E
"What is there to talk about?"471Please respect copyright.PENANAG8TWELxmAF
I walk over to my end table and take out a small box. I then open it and put the cure in her hand, as I stand in front of her.471Please respect copyright.PENANAcWR3VjmqvO
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."471Please respect copyright.PENANA1lxIRvBGFC
I wince in pain.471Please respect copyright.PENANAavQKKJgnMJ
"Are you okay?" she asks me.471Please respect copyright.PENANAtDG4oqb046
"I'm fine."471Please respect copyright.PENANA0EzqCY7XkI
"Take off your shirt."471Please respect copyright.PENANAGwsS9U41zr
"No. Not when he's here."471Please respect copyright.PENANAIL9UX2tciC
"Fine."471Please respect copyright.PENANA4QtUCyZ6uG
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.471Please respect copyright.PENANAowMctq5iPV
She looks at me.471Please respect copyright.PENANAprzXgqHQ3S
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"471Please respect copyright.PENANAfPAYpKwSGV
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."471Please respect copyright.PENANAhGoUJQrLAr
"We need Klaus."471Please respect copyright.PENANAOJPHMIxjsM
"Klaus would rather let me die."471Please respect copyright.PENANAVEfhuaCvQL
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.471Please respect copyright.PENANAp0lPTUVjoR
"No," I respond.471Please respect copyright.PENANAe9NHMljnay
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."471Please respect copyright.PENANAdWACDFmh0M
"No, Elena."471Please respect copyright.PENANAFzbeYOhyMc
She sets it in my hand.471Please respect copyright.PENANApbJR47d8dB
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.471Please respect copyright.PENANANz4wmtvctt
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"471Please respect copyright.PENANABBUYctldVD
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.471Please respect copyright.PENANAJWFYUIQjbu
She looks at her brother.471Please respect copyright.PENANAvzcNyDdtd3
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."471Please respect copyright.PENANAFt7H3KSAf1
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."471Please respect copyright.PENANAwVnHVBpKRE
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."471Please respect copyright.PENANAHlgUxLzvvd
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."471Please respect copyright.PENANALvfzeL96R8
"Okay," she says.471Please respect copyright.PENANA0sHxhXbOWK
I watch them leave.
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When one of The Five wakes up, Stefan and Lexi get to their feet and I'm in the living room with them again.471Please respect copyright.PENANAevhapFQpfs
I stand by him.471Please respect copyright.PENANANXL46ViIZm
"He's up," Stefan said.471Please respect copyright.PENANAyz4Yvpw6mh
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.471Please respect copyright.PENANAucCd03WvGY
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.471Please respect copyright.PENANABxz2ZQqnx2
"To dig up Silas."471Please respect copyright.PENANAQQrABDQxcX
We then leave.
The Hunter and I are in the woods standing by a cliff. There's a river below it and a few trees around us.471Please respect copyright.PENANAEtjgRtEvSg
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.471Please respect copyright.PENANAanjVxGhhgH
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."471Please respect copyright.PENANApKvde1ycy7
The Hunter sees my neck wound.471Please respect copyright.PENANAOou5WD7B8J
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"471Please respect copyright.PENANA5R19r4UNKd
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."471Please respect copyright.PENANADE1MDbAcvL
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"471Please respect copyright.PENANADGGwybSZYo
I'm silent.471Please respect copyright.PENANARDlvTF7IWO
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.471Please respect copyright.PENANApSpRWK6L3H
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."471Please respect copyright.PENANAOf5nz0twVa
I don't say anything.471Please respect copyright.PENANAWEAO5DbvK9
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.471Please respect copyright.PENANATT7AR1r1Ru
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.471Please respect copyright.PENANAdK1kO16Ch0
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.471Please respect copyright.PENANADk7C01z3Ju
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.471Please respect copyright.PENANA4Joy4J0mmt
"You need this?" he asks.471Please respect copyright.PENANAeQUFg0A1Kn
"Yeah."471Please respect copyright.PENANAcs8281Yzlj
Ric tries to get me to take the cure so I won't die, but I won't. That cure is for Elena. I'd rather die. So he phones up my brother.471Please respect copyright.PENANAUDgIpAWU2T
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."471Please respect copyright.PENANA1X8rvaWTQk
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."471Please respect copyright.PENANAfx9XwJ3tb0
Stefan hangs up.
Later in the day, I'm in my room. I have just put my shirt on, when Elena walks in and walks up to me.471Please respect copyright.PENANASWviAs9i99
"Is it healed up?" she asks.471Please respect copyright.PENANAs5YbANMesv
"Yeah."471Please respect copyright.PENANAPVt3G6Xh4f
"So it's all better?"471Please respect copyright.PENANAR1k1wbkwpQ
"Yeah."471Please respect copyright.PENANA3ya8TvaCjh
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.471Please respect copyright.PENANAAULlrMZWi5
"Ow."471Please respect copyright.PENANAosVJ1bvnrH
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."471Please respect copyright.PENANAztHy1a5yCQ
"I'm not apologizing, because I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I would rather die than be human! I am not sorry that I would rather die right now, than to spend the rest of my life with you, until I'm old and wrinkly and you're still here! I am not sorry, Elena!"471Please respect copyright.PENANAKlOuTpDFLj
"Then I am not sorry. I am not sorry that I meant you! I am not sorry that you have made me question everything about myself! And I am not sorry that I am in love with you!"471Please respect copyright.PENANAKA3Jmq04T9
I'm silent, but thrilled that she has finally admitted it. And then we kiss.
Later Elena, Stefan, Lexi, Alaric, and I are downstairs in the living room.471Please respect copyright.PENANAPkCJXakFU9
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.471Please respect copyright.PENANA25rt1xn2Vl
"Ow."471Please respect copyright.PENANARb7WhAGIPi
"Ouch," Lexi comments.471Please respect copyright.PENANA52Vw7udzcv
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.471Please respect copyright.PENANA1QsbPxNYCd
Elena walks up to Stefan.471Please respect copyright.PENANApbRjeAr4jv
"Can I talk to you alone?"471Please respect copyright.PENANAffENFpnQkD
Stefan follows her into the next room.
Later that night, when Stefan has his car packed, I stand in the doorway. "I'm not sorry for you," Stefan tells me.471Please respect copyright.PENANAjwWWYs0Dte
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"471Please respect copyright.PENANABwWsL3DzdR
"No. Lexi is coming with me."471Please respect copyright.PENANAsGwsT5OojK
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.