These brief mind-reading sessions begin during and after the end Season 4, Episode 14 – Down The Rabbit Hole…
Damon
At least Damon was able to see Elena one last time.
Not that he wouldn't see her fairly often after she took the cure, but he was sure she wouldn't be the same person when she returned to being human. At least he got to see her hesitate while Stefan was trying to get her to leave after they found him. He saw her hesitate as his brother tried to send her on, hesitate until Damon managed to say "yeah" under his breath.
Not that he wanted her to go. He didn't want her to be sired to him, either, didn't want her to have to do what he said. Her constant disagreements with him, her belief in others that he didn't care about - this is what made her who she was. He wanted her to have total freedom from him again, but he was still glad to see her resist what Stefan was telling her, to have her listen to him.
Elena did what she always did when he told her to leave him - she grimaced as she resisted, though only briefly. Well, once she had kissed him before leaving, but the situation since then was so stressful that it hadn't happened since - not at the times he told her to leave.
Actually, he knew kissing her at all in the future was not likely to happen. He was coming to terms with that. He had decided to give her the cure she wanted so badly, and he had done all he could to get it for her.
She said she would still love him, and maybe she would, but that was a best-case scenario. Best-case and unlikely. But to give her the life she wanted was something he was willing to do before she had turned, and he was willing to give it to her now - even if her leaving him for Stefan or anyone else was the price. He had decided that long ago, and, though it was hard to actually do it, it was still true now.
So it was kind of nice to have her hesitate while Stefan was telling her to leave, to consider him over the brother that had been such a dick to both of them. Telling her to leave him one more time had been hard, but Damon was willing to do it.
The really annoying part was when Stefan argued with him about going to help her. Damon knew he wasn't strong enough to help her yet, but Stefan was, and having Stefan argue with him about who would be "the one" to be with her was annoying and idiotic. She needed help, Stefan was able, he needed to just leave. Having to prove to his brother that Damon loved her enough to let her leave him was maddening, especially while she needed help. At least Stefan finally did it.
And now, after fighting with his brother one more time, after helping Rebekah recover from the Hunter attack, he had to listen to the Original jabber on about him doing something selfless. Had she forgotten him telling her to leave while he faced Rick the Vampire Hunter?
He regretted saving her after he had done it, though he supposed he owed her his help just now - she had saved him from Vaughn the Vampire Hunter. He owed her, she had been paid. Now all Damon wanted to do was recover enough to find Elena and make sure she got the cure she wanted so much.
Elena
Elena couldn't stand it when Damon did this to her - sent her away from him. She understood the reason, and she understood that they needed to find Jeremy and Bonnie as well as the cure; but it was so hard to leave her sire, especially since he was hurt.
She felt a little better about Stefan now, and a little worse about Rebekah. The Original had betrayed them both, and she felt a little bit of satisfaction that Stefan had received some of the Original's betrayal this time.
She felt a little better about Stefan, she was happy to be on her way to find Jeremy and Bonnie, but she was upset to have to leave Damon. The vision of him walking away from her so recently was still fresh in her mind, and it killed her that she hadn't had a chance to fix things with him yet.
Then Katherine had shown up, disabled her, and taken off. She had no idea what her ancestor was doing here, but she was sure that Katherine was not playing nice. Katherine wanted something, and since the only thing that was here was the cure, she was probably after that.
It was another betrayal. It wasn't that she trusted Katherine, but the older vampire had helped Damon and Stefan keep Elena safe a couple of times. They were at least both anti-Klaus, but all Elena could think of was that her brother and best friend were going to the cure, and they shouldn't have to deal with Katherine as well.
Well, that was all she could think of other than Damon. He was hurt, needed help, but had sent her away.
So she had to rely on Stefan again - Stefan who had been a jerk to her, Stefan who was hanging around Rebekah to punish her. Stefan, who at least knew that the cure had to be forced on Klaus.
A lot ran through her mind as she ran with Stefan to find Jeremy and Bonnie, to get to the cure - why did Katherine really want the cure? If they managed to get Klaus to take it, would it have the same effect as the White Oak Stakes - cure all of his vampire family? If he was killed as a human, would she and the others survive? Was Stefan finally back on her side? Why had she been so trusting of Shane, even when Damon wasn't.
Mostly, though, she was thinking of Damon as she and Stefan arrived in the chamber, but her mind quickly shifted. Not to the unknown body on the ground, nor to the stirring figure on some kind of table or platform; not even to her best friend, who was also lying there, hurt but breathing. Her mind shifted to her brother, who was lying there looking dead.
For some reason, the Caroline/Tyler moments did not have the effect on me that the TV people wanted. Seriously, Tyroline or Caroler (or whatever) is…ugh. Damon walking away from Elena has more sizzle …is much more appealing to me. Maybe I just hate her…
Great. Now I've done it. I was so good for so long…
Oh, and I have been in love with Sydney Sage for some time. The Indigo Spell just forced me to update my status to 'madly in love'. So I took a brief Delena break to start a Bloodlines story, which I will continue…
Not that I'm done here…you and Julie Plec are not that lucky…