This missing scene begins after the end of Season 3, episode 12 – "The Ties that Bind"…

"He hit you?" Elena wasn't screaming, but it was pretty loud.

Damon looked at her with a bit of a smirk.

"He had no right to do that." She said flatly.

"What did you expect, Elena? You told him that I kissed you."

They were crossing outside of the Grill, him leaving it, her approaching the door, when they saw each other and stepped aside to talk briefly.

"What is he thinking…" she began, before what he said registered in her mind.

When it hit her, she paused briefly, then said "Wait, you think I told him you kissed me?"

"Didn't you?"

"No. I told him that I kissed you. You didn't tell him?"

Damon shook his head.

She almost looked angry now. "Where does he get off? It's a little late for him to defend my honor. Hitting you for what I did."

"Actually," Damon said, "it was more of a sucker punch."

"What did he say about it?"

"Nothing." Damon said. "I asked if you were OK, and he just took a swing."

"I can't believe it," Elena muttered, closing her eyes and rubbing her head.

Damon could easily see that she was stressed. "Why did you tell him?" he asked "You're always telling me that when you two are together, all you do is yell at each other. The last time I saw, or heard, you two, you were slapping him."

She looked back up to him, then lowered her eyes and grimaced.

"After all he's done," Damon began, speaking softly, "after he kidnapped you and almost drove you off a bridge, why would you tell him that?"

She closed her eyes again to answer, "He apologized for the bridge thing."

"Of course," Damon sighed. "So you just opened up. One apology and you tell all."

"No," she said looking at him again. Now she was starting to look desperate. "There was wood inside him. He was helpless and I was helping him. I was pulling the wood out, and he told me that I had changed, that I was stronger. After he had been such a jerk to me for so long, while we were saving him," she let a breath out, then continued, "it was the…I don't know, the nicest thing he'd said to me in months."

She watched Damon take in a breath and move his shoulders and neck like he was stretching them. "I told him that I don't feel guilty about what I did, about kissing you." she said quickly.

"And what did Stefan do?" Damon asked. She could tell he was a little upset.

"Nothing. He just walked away saying that I'm better than you, better than both of you."

Damon snorted. "Well he got that right. But you didn't tell him that I kissed you?"

Elena shook her head. Looking uncomfortable.

"Why?"

"Why did you tell Bonnie?" she snapped.

He was taken aback by her tone and didn't immediately respond.

"You did it to humiliate me, Damon," she accused. "It can't be that way between us. You can't use what happens between us like that. Stefan did everything he could to do that to me. You can't do that to me." Her tone got softer as she spoke, she was whispering by the time she was done.

Damon nodded, serious expression, then said "So are you going to tell him about the other kiss, or not?"

Elena let out a small sigh, then looked back into his eyes. "I told him that I kissed you because he and I were together when it happened. I thought he should know that…that I did something like that."

Damon didn't respond, he just waited for her to continue. Finally, she did.

"I don't know if I'll tell him about the other kiss. I haven't decided whether or not what happens between us is his business anymore."

Elena gave him a small, tense smile and entered the Grill.

Uh oh…I can't tell if the Delena signs are looking up or down just now. Stupid show that I cannot stop watching…