This missing scene begins the morning after Daddy Issues…

Elena had just left the Forbes house with Stefan and Bonnie when she saw Damon nearby. "Give me a minute, Stefan. OK?"

Stefan nodded. She couldn't help feeling relieved that he was acting normal again after all they had been through. His insecurity with their relationship seemed to be gone.

Damon watched from the tree he leaned against as she approached. Stefan watched from behind. She was the center of attention, and it still made her uncomfortable.

"Are you alright?" She asked Damon as she reached him. She noticed she had gotten closer to him than she intended, but did not back away. "Stefan told me what happened when you went after Caroline."

"Then he told you we all made it out alive."

"Thanks to Elijah's witch." She noted, her face clearing reflecting the unspoken words - 'I told you so.'

Damon scowled. "Yeah, Elena. We were trapped by a pack of werewolves while trying to save Goldilocks and were saved by a witch spouting about how it's all for you. I get it. You saved me again."

She didn't expect that reaction. "That's not what I meant, Damon."

His face remained hard. "Next time just send the witch after her. Don't send me into traps with orders to keep kidnappers alive."

"I didn't send the witch Damon, and I won't take Tyler so lightly now, but he didn't do it."

"It still happened, Elena. The love of your life almost died."

This caught her off guard as well. "You…he…nobody died, Damon. Elijah kept his word."

"What do you think that means, Elena?"

"My deal with him works. He's doing his part." She was able to hold his eyes though he still hadn't softened.

"It doesn't make him good. It doesn't make him truthful."

She couldn't believe what he was saying. She started to glare at him. "Who are you to talk about either?"

His expression did change now, it reflected the sarcasm in his words. "Haven't you heard? I'm good now – especially when you do the eye thing at me."

"What? You're the one with the eye thing.

"Like you don't know. 'Oh, I'm Elena. You love me. You do anything I ask. Everyone lives, even if they want you dead. Even if they want me dead'.

The human couldn't decide how to react. "Damon, no! I've never done that."

"Of course not. Because your heart is pure." He sounded bitter now. "Too pure for me. Too pure to see that not everyone can live, that some must die."

Elena shook her head. "Not for me. Not because of me. Too many have died already."

His glare was in place again. "Not too many Elena. Just the wrong ones. Those that want to sacrifice you or use you still live."

"I have a deal with Elijah, Damon. I'm keeping it, and you couldn't kill him anyway."

"I'm willing to try again." Did he look smug now? "Got a dagger and ash from your dad. He said it would kill an Original."

She looked at him, her face reflecting her disbelief. "What? You believe him?"

"Stefan thinks Uncle John is helping, don't you?"

She scowled. "No, and don't you ever tell him to keep me someplace again."

Damon glared back at her. "I don't trust him either, Elena. Rick will check into the ash/dagger thing. Maybe it will turn out that he's telling the truth. But Elena, it doesn't matter. He can tell you and me that he's here to protect you, but it doesn't make it true."

"I know that Damon. I told you I don't believe him."

"Elijah can send a witch to save me, but it doesn't mean he's telling the truth either."

For some reason, her anger left. She tried to control herself as she responded. "It's all I've got Damon."

"Not true, Elena." Damon said, his expression also returning to normal. "You have Stefan, Bonnie and Caroline. And you still have me. You may be stuck in a game between Originals, but one way or another, you're getting out alive."

"One way or another," he repeated as he turned and walked away from her.

She watched him walk away from her, thinking about how he kept telling her the same thing over and over, thinking that she might be starting to believe him.