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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDL8f5tHDJ2
I walk over and turn the radio off.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaitcSKqVS5
"Damon, you remember Lexi," Stefan greets.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPo4NInIeV
"Lexi," I say. "Back from the dead."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWq4Ugr9nPh
At vamp speed, she pins me against a wall, hand tightly around my throat.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAaqu6IMaA
"You're just going to sit there while she takes her revenge out on me?" I ask my brother.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9lIuqPegu
"Whatever time I have left here, I don't plan on spending it on you. Got it?" she informs me.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1qxUR3BJo
"Okay, okay. Got it," I reply.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPaesjhEzt
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdJgcn9b92
"Something might've gone wrong with Bonnie's spell and here you are," I comment.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOQSAeNiKU
"So you're saying I should be dealing with the supernatural, instead of spending the day with my ex best friend."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tfgV0vIok
"Are you drunk?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0o8v7pxUO
Stefan takes another swig of the liquor.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07svsAqo6r
"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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWiGfSzNtN
"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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQmvuR6Nlq
"I want to know where Silas is."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT4t4tfScQ
"I don't know where he is."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26ewGSqIDH
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uudlO4Ccm
I watch her enter, as I stand in my room, Jeremy standing at the door.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgCiOV56lB
"Damon, we need to talk," she announces.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiOV3wnFUd
"What is there to talk about?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7YkwujtMe
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCqsBZJXRP
"Here. Consider this a graduation present."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApEICWKR7Z
I wince in pain.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMEy6hEE8s
"Are you okay?" she asks me.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfzrdicqRe
"I'm fine."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVUBQwkqo9
"Take off your shirt."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnwYTJ7BQa
"No. Not when he's here."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumc9De36mI
"Fine."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzRMkZDFOU
She walked up to me and pulls part of my shirt off the wound, showing that it has spread to half of my shoulder.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyWHHyUp9p
She looks at me.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcO5fbsQXl
"Damon, why isn't this healing?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVcRBEuIhI
"Because the bullet is laced with werewolf venom."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9tFB3QCYU
"We need Klaus."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX51XVZXx4P
"Klaus would rather let me die."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvo3OPYgB7V
"What about the cure?" Jeremy asks.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5drpKdXUW
"No," I respond.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI64yksUvw
"He's right. If you're human, the werewolf poison won't hurt you."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjVb6rHYGL
"No, Elena."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVcDwUMb2N
She sets it in my hand.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0KNHzk9iC
"Take it."
I look at her. I then look at Little Gilbert.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbN8HAzn4t
"Why is it that even dead, you're the bait of my existence?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodP2N0OgSs
"You should go or you'll be late to your graduation," Jeremy tells Elena.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6VBJYniFY
She looks at her brother.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4ecajgVZE
"Jer, no. Not if you can't be there."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCDmOGBUUE
"It the best time of your life before you go off to college."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKFZax7W5l
"I haven't even sent in my application yet."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZjZPAUYX2
"It doesn't matter. Go. Mom and dad would be pissed if there wasn't a picture of you at your graduation."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6RQFRV7QR
"Okay," she says.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1c7KlRQ82
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctm8eryOkt
I stand by him.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJ5UDvGvSS
"He's up," Stefan said.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PmWuimZMt
"Okay. Let's do this," I say, heading for the door with the Hunter.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjeZmq3IOK
"Where are you going?" Stefan asks me.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNKxAMFj5p
"To dig up Silas."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48CYSdVKLF
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAigSYWBgp
"Where's Silas?" he asks me.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKS4SMw63kX
"Well, let's see here. I dragged his body to the edge, dropped him here, and lost him somewhere in the rock."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlc1aSa8vIy
The Hunter sees my neck wound.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5APSWNni6
"That looks nasty. It hasn't healed yet. Why?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXCLNS2R9w
"Those bullets are laced with werewolf poison. You're as dumb as you look."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnoSMoEFCG
The Hunter shoots me close to my left side.
"Where did you dump the body?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15S2cbiBqB
I'm silent.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAcnamZDj6
The Hunter shoots me in the left leg.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0NhJJcTqr
"Two more rounds and you'll be dead within minutes."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34Wo9mh3Mg
I don't say anything.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKP7QhIywzu
"Looks like you won't be getting this back," the Hunter adds, looking at the cure around his neck.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kSvqbD7rx
Suddenly, Alaric arrives and beats him up, before killing him and tossing him in the river.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQ9254m3fa
"One slight problem," I say from the ground on my knees.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcT4h9Gzy78
Alaric turns around with the cure in hand.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjCmTWfs7l
"You need this?" he asks.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerY2v99GPt
"Yeah."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lnPYcJL0A
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqHYCt65kt
"What do you want me to do, Stefan? He won't take the cure."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHqMzsOYzX
"Caroline is calling Klaus again. I can find a way to buy Damon more time. Just stay there."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw47aCe4el9
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcBfbUkgDs
"Is it healed up?" she asks.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1rCdSrfKh
"Yeah."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2FpQswYD4
"So it's all better?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6ScB5QDC9
"Yeah."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDBzafvsoj
She stands in front of me and slaps me once across the face.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRxGFV6VTR
"Ow."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyZ7MeeNlo
"That's for choosing to die over taking the cure."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOXLTDpwyL
"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!"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPvlrUXLks
"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!"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WraFCbbP3
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UXxd3Pc3R
I say something and she smacks me on the shoulder.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsd5HcVRHc
"Ow."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1N7w4gL6WI
"Ouch," Lexi comments.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPIU80GzI1
"I taught her that swing," Ric says.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoVxXLsKUb
Elena walks up to Stefan.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQH2EZTQpn
"Can I talk to you alone?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj54B7vpqhT
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.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXuFb7OiS5
"Then I'm not sorry for you, either. Do you need me to come along?"432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9g7EJjVe2
"No. Lexi is coming with me."432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIibJ0ptOYR
I watch him drive off in the SUV with Lexi.
