In the living room in the boarding-house…
"Do you remember anything that happened?" Stefan asked Alaric after he sat down on the couch between Elena and Jenna while Elijah stand next to Jenna and watched them in silence.
"No, it's like I black out and woke up three days later. Not only that, I also saw Ash and Katherine there with them. How did they get Ash and Katherine?" demanded Alaric as he glance concernly at Stefan.
"Katherine's under their compulsion. Damon managed to snuck her some vervain without them knowing about it, but she can't leave until either Klaus or Julianna tells her she can. As for Ash, they kidnap him during the school's dance and hold him hostage." said Stefan grimly to Alaric.
"Ash…" said Alaric as he covered his face with his hands in worry for Asriel.
"Where is Damon?" asked Elena when she saw that Damon's not with them.
"I saw him go upstairs." replied Jenna as she glance at Elena, who nodded before she stood up, left the living room and make her up the stairs toward Damon's room, went in and saw him standing and looking out the window.
"You disappeared." said Elena.
"I don't want to hear it anymore." said Damon coldly to her without looking (which make her sighed at him).
"I need you to understand on why I am doing this." said Elena to Damon as she stepped further into the room and stop near the bed.
"Why should I? Because it clearly doesn't matter what I think." said Damon as he glared at her and walked away from the window toward her and stop in front of her.
"I'll be fine Damon. I will drink the elixir that Elijah had, we'll save Asriel, Bonnie will kill Klaus and Julianna then all of this will finally be over." said Elena calmly to Damon as she crossed her arms.
"If the elixir works." scoffed Damon.
"It will work, Elijah very sure of it." insisted Elena.
"You think it will work, you want it to work. Am I the only one who's convince it won't? There has to be another way." said Damon desperately to Elena, trying to convince her that the elixir might not work at all.
"There isn't another way." said Elena as she shake her head.
"You're going to die, Elena. And it'll break Jenna, Jeremy and Asriel's hearts." said Damon.
"Yes, you're right. But I've faith that the elixir will work and I'll come back to life." said Elena reassuringly to Damon as she raised and clasped both of her hands around his.
"That is not a risk I'm willing to take. I'm sure that Stefan is thinking the same too, just that he won't admit it because he choose to respect your poor choice." said Damon as he glance down at his hands clasped in hers.
"But I am willing to take the risk and that's one of the reasons why I love Stefan. It's my life, Damon. My choice. Please respect it." said Elena.
"I can't lose you." said Damon worriedly to Elena.
"You won't. Same goes for Stefan and my family." said Elena even more reassuringly to Damon (wo kept on staring in silence at her) before she let go of his hands and as she turned and about to leave the room, Damon suddenly speed over and stop between her and the door, preventing her from leaving.
"There is another way that you'll live." said Damon flatly to Elena.
"What are you…" said Elena in confusion at Damon before she fell silent when she saw his face completely vamp out before he raised and bite his wrist, which make her gasped and widened her eyes when she realised what his intend to do to her.
"Damon, no! Damon, no!" protested Elena but Damon ignore her, firmly grip the back of her head and press his bitten wrist on her mouth, forcing her to swallow his blood while she struggle to free herself to no avail.
The next second, Stefan burst into the room with an angry look on his face, grab and pull Damon away from Elena (who fell to her knees and began coughing) and threw him toward a wall where he landed hard then fell to the floor.
"What did you do, huh? What the fuck did you just do to her, Damon!?" yell Stefan as he glared at Damon before he crouch down and stay near Elena.
"What did I do to her, you asked? I saved her life, Stefan." said Damon coldly to Stefan as he stood up and glance at Elena. "Since you're so hell-bent on sacrificing yourself, at least this way I know you'll come back." added Damon to Elena.
"A vampire… she'll come back as a vampire." gasped Stefan in shock at Damon.
"It's better than Elijah suspicious elixir and nothing else." said Damon.
"How could you do that to her? Taking away her choice?" said Stefan while Elena yell and grimace at the horrible taste of blood in her mouth that Damon force her to drink.
"Go ahead, Elena. Wish me an eternity of misery, believe me, you'll get over it." said Damon flatly to Elena, which make Stefan let out a loud, angry snarl as he vamp out, charge toward Damon and grab and shoved him hard against a chair, sending the both of them crashing down to the floor and destroy the chair.
"Stefan!" yell Elena as she watch with a worry look on her face at both Stefan and Damon before he stood up and shoved Stefan hard against the wall, which make Stefan grunt in pain.
"Admit it, Stefan. You wish that you had the balls to do it yourself." Damon coldly told Stefan, which make him snarl again as he clench and raised his fist to punch Damon in the face repeatedly while Elena slowly stood up from the floor.
Stefan next punch knock Damon to the floor again and as he went to punch him again, Damon picked up one of the broken sticks of the destroy chair, raised and plunge the stick deeply at Stefan's stomach, which make him groan in pain before he fell to his knees.
"No, Stefan!" yell Elena worriedly for Stefan as she ran toward him and Damon, shoved Damon away from Stefan and kneel down next to him then she glared at Damon. Samathea pushes Damon away as Elena help Stefan sit down. "Get out of here!" snarl Elena angrily at Damon just as both Alaric and Jenna came into the room.
"What the hell is going on?" said Alaric in confusion, shock and worry to them.
"Just get him out of here!" snarl Elena again.
"Oh my God." gasped Jenna when she saw the stick in Stefan's stomach while Alaric slowly walked toward Damon to bring him out per Elena's order, but Damon snarl and move away from Alaric, glance at both Elena and Stefan on the floor before he stormed out of the room.
"Ok, Jenna, downstairs in the basement there are some blood bags, go get them, now. Go." Alaric tells Jenna, who nodded and quickly left the room to get the blood bags in the basement while Elena grab and pull the stick out of Stefan's stomach and toss it away before she put her hand on his wound to apply pressure on it.
"It's okay. You're going to be okay, Stefan." said Elena worriedly to Stefan.
"I'm so sorry, Elena." groaned Stefan apologetically and sadly to Elena.
"Shhh. It's okay." said Elena as she apply more pressure.
"I'm so sorry." apologized Stefan again to Elena while Alaric watched them in grim silence.
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In the living room…
"It sounds like you won't be needing this anymore." said Elijah coolly to Damon (who came into the living room to pour himself a glass of whiskey) as he put the no longer useful elixir back into the box and closed it. "Since force-feeding Elena vampire blood rendered it useless. Tell Elena that we will be back before nightfall and we will proceed as plan." Elijah reminded Damon as he picked up the box, turned and walked past Damon.
"We both know that elixir of yours wouldn't of work anyway." Damon told Elijah, which make him stop and glance at Damon.
"The problem with you, Damon, is that you talk a good game, but you don't actually know anything. After what you just did to her and Stefan, she will never forgive you, we vampires hold grudges for a very long time and if I am correct, never is an awfully long time for a vampire." said Elijah in cold disappointment at Damon before he glance away and left the living room.