These missing scenes begin after "The Sun Also Rises"
"All that talk about keeping me safe, about saving me, and he just leaves?"
Elena was in her home with Stefan. People and been coming all day, but it finally seemed to have stopped. She didn't know how long she could stay there, knowing that Jenna would never come back. Jenna and others.
She had alternatives – technically she owned the Boarding House, and there was the lake house as well. Did she have three houses now? Three houses and no parents. She'd rather have some family back.
Stefan could only shake his head to her comment. She was in mourning, devastated by what had just happened in her life. So much so that he really didn't expect her to even notice Damon's absence. Really, it was more hope than expectation, a futile hope.
She looked at him only briefly, then closed her eyes and shook her head. "How could he do this to me?" She was whispering to herself, really.
Stefan had no idea what she meant. "You kicked him out, Elena."
She narrowed her eyes as she looked at him again. "That never stopped him before. He's so selfish."
Really, she couldn't believe what she was saying out loud. She wasn't able to convey what she was really thinking to Stefan, wasn't even sure she wanted to. She felt abandoned. She was coming to realize something she didn't like, that she was alive because of Damon. Again.
"You know him Elena. I tried to get him to come."
Elena only nodded, then noticed someone in the doorway behind Stefan – someone not welcome. The arrival had been so quiet, not even Stefan had noticed. It was another sign that she wasn't safe in her own home – not this one anyway. She glared at the intruder.
"You're not welcome here."
"But I am invited," Katherine retorted. "I'm not here to see you." She turned to Stefan and asked "Is Damon here? I tried your house, though I couldn't enter," she shot Elena a quick glare before turning back to Stefan.
Elena let some of her frustration out as Stefan shook his head. "And why would you think he was here? He obviously doesn't care how I am."
Katherine's glare disappeared as she focused on Elena again. "I thought for sure he would..." She turned back to Stefan and studied him for a second. "She doesn't know, does she?"
Stefan just gave her a terse look, whispering "Damon doesn't want her to," softly enough that Elena didn't hear.
"Know what?" Elena demanded, still glaring at Katherine.
Katherine ignored her, she just stared at Stefan. "Do you really think she won't find out? She'll hate you for this."
Stefan just stood there with a helpless look on his face. It infuriated the other vampire and the human.
"Find out about what?" Elena demand again, looking from her ancestor to her boyfriend and back.
Katherine turned back to Elena. "I'm so sick of seeing Stefan and Damon fawn over you while you sit there leading them both on, blinded to the truth."
"Katherine!" Stefan interrupted sharply. "She's in mourning."
The elder Petrova's eyes remained locked with her doppelganger. "Yeah, I've heard. But I've suffered a loss as well. Isobel was not only family, but as close as I had to a friend."
Elena's glare didn't falter. "You don't seem too broke up about it,"
"Says the human who doesn't know anything, who trusts Originals and who hates the only ones trying to keep her alive. I've mourned more people than you'll ever meet. I gave up the teary-eyed part long ago."
Katherine shook her head and her glare softened slightly. "But you're as close to family as I have now."
Elena's reply reflected her continuing glare. "What's that supposed to mean."
"It means that if you learn anything from the past few days it should be that those you hate are the ones trying to protect you. That are protecting you."
Stefan had moved next to Elena and tried to touch her. She just shoved his arm away.
Katherine shook her head again and started towards the door when she heard Elena's yell. "You think I don't know that?" Then the human added in a much softer voice "I know who's doing what. I know I'm alive now because of Damon."
Katherine turned back to look at Elena, her face still hard. "Then maybe you ought to thank him. Thank all of us."
Stefan interrupted now, "Thank you? You're nothing but selfish. Who knows how many have died because you want to stay alive."
Katherine's eyes moved from Elena to the man she had loved as human and vampire. She was starting to wonder what she had seen in him. "Yeah, a trail of blood and bodies because I want to live. Because I'm selfish. But where did your selflessness get her?" Katherine nodded to Elena. "She would be dead. You would have selflessly let her die."
"We would have found a way," Stefan countered.
Katherine snorted. "Only Damon did." She turned back to Elena. "He and John kept you alive and kept you human." She shook her head and turned to leave. "Hate them all you want, for as long as you're alive to hate them."
Elena had closed her eyes before Katherine had disappeared. She kept them closed for a few seconds before opening then and asking Stefan "Is she gone?"
Stefan only nodded, a concerned look on his face. She couldn't keep looking at him. She closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead with her fingers. Katherine was right. Those she had hated most had been there for her, some had died because of her.
"You're not listening to her, are you?" Stefan's voice interrupted her thoughts. She still couldn't look at him.
"Was she wrong, Stefan? I am alive because of Damon, because he wouldn't let me die."
"We would have found another way. We had the potion."
Elena did open her eyes and found herself staring at a desperate Stefan. "Elijah's potion, who, as you told me, betrayed us. Betrayed me." She closed her eyes and rubbed her head again. "I'm trusting the wrong people," she added softly. Damon had known Elijah couldn't be trusted.
"We're doing our best, Elena, and you're still alive. You know I'm protecting you, and I'm not alone."
She looked at him again, the glare, the anger gone. "You try. You tried to save Jenna, to take her place."
"I knew you would live, I didn't want you to live without her."
"So you chose her instead of you for me, Stefan? What makes you think you have the right to make that choice for me? What makes you think I want you to die for me or anyone else, to leave me alive without you?"
Stefan closed his eyes and tried to calm himself. "Elena, you're in mourning. You're upset. You need to rest."
She stared at him briefly before breaking eye contact. God she loved him, but she was such an idiot.
She folded her arms on the table, rested her head on them, face down, and closed her eyes. She had realized that she wasn't upset with him, she wasn't upset with Katherine or even Damon. She was upset with Elijah, who had let those around her die and broken his promise. She was upset with Klaus.
"We need to kill Klaus." She had whispered it into the table.
She didn't look at him, but heard the concern, the fear in his voice. "He thinks you're dead, Elena."
Elena laughed humorlessly as she lifted her head. "Elijah knows better. They both need to die."
Stefan shook his head, his fear obvious to her. "Don't."
She just stared at him. "Damon will help me." His expression changed. She remembered he was still keeping something from her.
She loved him, but she was such an idiot. "What aren't you telling me, Stefan?" she asked, trying to be firm, trying not to show how tired she was.
Damon was trying hard to remember. He had been with Rose a lot after she was bitten, had seen her as she was dying. But he hadn't been concentrating on that – he had been trying to find a cure, a way to keep her alive.
He was trying so hard that he didn't notice she had become dangerous. He had left Rose in Elena's care, and Rose had attacked her – something he knew Rose wouldn't have done when in her right mind.
His biggest fear was that he would be just as clueless about himself, that he would not see that signs in him that he had not seen in Rose. That he would come to his senses and Elena would be next to him – dead.
He couldn't remember anything – how long after the bite before Rose was essentially bedridden. When she had become dangerous to everyone. Was his bite taking effect so soon? Was it affecting his memory?
Elena could tell him. Elena would know all of this. Elena had been just as upset about Rose's change, Rose's death as he was.
But Elena couldn't know. She would be suspicious if he or even Stefan asked her. She had been so distraught watching Rose, it would devastate her to see him like that.
He briefly considered leaving, maybe even going after Klaus and Elijah, but he couldn't be absolutely sure that, even in his mindless state, he wouldn't go to her, find her, hurt her. Besides, she was right when she called him selfish. He didn't want to spend his last days anywhere but near her.
He thought he had a few days. He could go back to her, talk to her, see her, keep the bite hidden. Then he would have Stefan lock him up. Stefan would at least try to protect her from him. The thought of leaving Elena's protection in Stefan's hands scared him as much as anything. He would have to talk to Bonnie and Jeremy – they at least would protect her from herself.
He started back towards the boarding house, not sure how she would receive him. Of course he was never sure just what she would say or do, it was one thing that kept him going back to her.
He was sure what his last conscious thoughts would be after Stefan locked him up, after she was safe from him. His last conscious thoughts would be of Elena.