You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure and even a little danger. I want you to get everything you're looking for.
As soon as the blood touched her lips she remembered everything, she smelled and saw and heard things that she couldn't before that moment.
The compulsion wore off. And the heightened emotions came. With her anger came her strength and she broke through the cell and broke the lock on Stefan's and Rebekah's cell door.
Stefan came out and went to Elena wanting to embrace her. She just pushed him away and ran outside. As soon as she saw Damon and Matt she ran at the vampire and pushed him as hard as she could. Her face was not her own anymore. She stared with red eyes at him in anger.
"You compelled me!" she screamed at him.
"You remember." He whispered.
"I remember everything! You compelled me to love, to get whatever I was looking for." Her face returned to normal and her eyes filled with tears. "Do you even know what you did Damon?"
"What does it matter? You choose him right before you died." He snapped at her.
"You don't know." She whispered in shock. She shook her head in astonishment. "I love you."
"What?" he asked with wide eyes.
"Damon. I love you, but sometimes you can be such an idiot." She smiled at him. "You compelled me to love someone, to feel passion, experience danger. Tell me do you know someone who a girl could love and is dangerous?"
"Stefan?" he shook his head in denial.
"The first people I saw after your compulsion were my parents and then Stefan. I never understood why I loved him, but I always felt that I had to. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Elena… I didn't know… " He went to her and hugged her. "Can you ever forgive me?"
"I already did. But Stefan… he will suffer and I don't care that he's your brother. I won't let this go… I can't" she whimpered and fisted his shirt in her hands, pulling him closer to her. "He compelled me so so many times that I feel like my head is spinning in circles and I don't know how to deal with these memories. The things he… made me…" she began sobbing and held onto him like her life depended on him. "Damon. I'm so sorry for rejecting you so many times… I had no choice. Just please don't leave me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
Damon was in shock at the things she said. The anger was eating at him. What had Stefan done to her.
"What did he do?" he whispered and lifted her head by her chin.
"He made me have sex with him. He compelled me to let him in my house, he compelled Jeremy and Jenna." She looked so broken in his arms. "I just want to forget. I don't want to remember."
"Everything is all right."
"Don't leave?" she said, but it sounded like a question.
"Never." He said passionately. He lifted her in his arms and started walking towards the boarding house.
