Abby's POV

I know I promised Bonnie I would try to be in her life and be the mother she deserves, but life as a vampire is not life at all. I became a vampire for the sole purpose of being there for her, but now I am choosing to leave her, choosing to be a sacrifice.

When Damon wakes up he will be in transition to become a new, more powerful vampire. In order to complete that transition, he will have to completely drain a vampire of blood. While loosing all of my blood won't kill me, his bite will.

I hear Damon wake up, gasping for breath. He looks over to Ester then to me, his eyes vacant of any emotion I saw earlier with Elena. Only an intense hatred and hunger is left. A hunger for me.

These are my last few seconds of my vampire life, and the only comfort I have is Bonnie will no longer be plagued by a world filled with vampires.

Damon's POV

I'm thirsty.

My throat feels like it is on fire. I look over to the witch. I guess she will do, I think to myself, but before I get up to drain Ester of blood, an intoxicating sent hits my nostrils. Looking for it's source, I see Bonnie's mom.

I put one foot on the ground, grasping my bent knee to help me get on my feet, and speed over to Abby.

I feel the veins crawl down my eyes all the way to my cheek bones, as fangs drop from my gums, dripping in a venom that sizzles when it touches the floor.

I don't think twice before sinking my teeth into her neck.

Elena's POV

Bonnie is dragging me through the woods, trying to get away from Damon and Ester as quickly as possible, but we both stop, slightly stumbling as we hear a loud scream.

"Mom," says Bonnie before releasing my hand turning in the opposite direction.

I grab her so she doesn't run off.

"Bonnie we need to go," I say.

"But. . ." she trails off.

"We will come back for her. You told me we had to leave so we could get to safety, well now I'm telling you. Lets go."

Now it's my turn to pull Bonnie away from the danger.

Eventually we make it back to the school, and find Stefan, Caroline, and Klaus still trapped in the school. Before Bonnie and I left the school to search for Damon when he went missing, she had been working on the barrier spell. I tell her to keep trying to break it as I run up to the three vampires.

"She has Damon," I tell them.

"What? Why," says a high-pitched Caroline.

"She's turning him into a stronger vampire to kill the originals, and with their death, the entire vampire species," says Bonnie as she works on the spell. I finish explaining everything that happened with Ester.

"Well I think the choice is obvious," states Klaus, "We have to kill Damon."

"NO," I shout at him.

"Oh come on. What is one death compared to thousands," says a clearly annoyed Klaus.

"Elena he's right," whispers Caroline.

I look at my "friend" shocked. How could she suggest I kill the man I love.

"And I bet you would be happy about that, wouldn't you Caroline?" Glaring at her, I continue to speak, not caring that I may hurt her feelings. "You have probably been waiting for the opportunity to get rid of him. You despise him, and while I understand he treated you badly as a human, I am in love with him," I see Stefan flinch at my words, but nothing is stopping me from giving Caroline a piece of my mind. "I don't care whether you or the rest of the world hates him because I love him, and I am going to save him."

I don't want to look at either of them so I walk over to Bonnie as she works her magic. While she never stops mumbling in Latin, she reaches down to grab my hand and give it a comforting squeeze.

Damon's POV

I drop the body of the drained vampire, leaving it and the grinning witch behind as I walk out into the woods. I follow the smell of vampire to Mystic Falls High School, and immediately spot Klaus. Maybe vampire blood is like aged wine, the older it is, the better it tastes.