Are there grey zones or is there only black and white? (Damon)

I don't know how long I laid there on the ground but somehow I managed to stand up, bury the dead man in the forest and made me on my way back home.

When I entered the mansion I heard a noise coming from the living room. "Please don't let Elena be here with Stefan" was the first thing that came to my mind.

I slowly walked through the entrance and who I saw there sitting on a chair left me speechless.

"Jeremy? What are you doing here? It is already late. Shouldn't little kids be in bed already at this time?" I said while gripping my glace of Whiskey. Ah, my beloved Bourbon, just what I need right now.

"I wouldn't drink that."

I only looked at him with a puzzled expression on my face.

"I … I laced it with vervain."

I smelled at the glass. He didn't only put a bit vervain into it. Angrily I placed the glass back on the table and turned towards Jeremy.

"And why would you do that?"

"To kill you with this afterwards", he replied and threw a stake in front of my feet.

"You came here to kill me?"

"It's only fair. You killed me first."

"So tell me, why did you stop me from drinking then?" I said while sitting down on the couch.

"My father hated vampires. And so does my uncle. They are absolute. There is no grey zone. Only black and white. I thought, I had to do the same. To choose a side. But killing you, what would that change in the end?"

"Uh, I'm so thankful that you came to that thought", I said in my usual ironic voice.

Jeremy only looked at me angrily for a moment, jumped up and was about to leave.

"Jer, wait." I didn't know why I stopped him from leaving. Actually I should be happy about that but his words … they reminded me so much of my father. "My father hated vampires, too. Out of the same reason your father did. Only that it was 1864. There was only black and white for him. Vampires were only monsters, demons. He didn't want to understand that not all vampires were evil, that there were good ones under them. Some that only wanted to keep a bit humanity and live a normal life in a small-town under humans."

"And you didn't think only black and white?"

"No, I didn't." I said in a low voice.

"Why?"

"Because I knew some of them. Because I experienced that they weren't only pure evil."

Jeremy looked at me speechless. I didn't really know what forced me but I stood up and walked towards him.

"Listen, Jeremy, what happened yesterday … it had nothing to do with you. I … It was stupid and I know it was wrong."

Jeremy nodded slightly with an indefinable expression on his face. Then he turned around and left.

I poured Bourbon into a new glass, took a deep sip of the soothing liquid and made a decision. I placed the glass back onto the table, grabbed my leather jacket and left the manor.