This missing scene begins after the end of Season 4 Episode 21, She's Come Undone…

"Are you here to try to talk me out of it?" Elena asked, her back to Damon as he entered the bedroom.

She had just showered and was sitting on the bed, brushing her hair. She looked so normal, so much like she had when human, like she had when she was a vampire - before she had turned her emotions off. Just watching her, it would have been easy to think she was the old Elena. Hearing her, he knew she was different.

There was no way to know where he stood with her, not in her current state of mind. He was a little relieved when she didn't object as he sat on the same side of the bed as her, not quite next to her, but close enough to touch her. She didn't look at him, she just stared straight ahead of her as she continued brushing.

"No," he said softly.

When he didn't say any more for a few seconds, she put the brush on the bed next to her, between them, and turned to face him. Her expression was still angry, agitated. "You know I'm right."

He shrugged a little, and her face hardened. "You've tried to kill her yourself," she challenged.

"I did," he answered, hardening his face himself. "Stefan and I did, and do you remember what happened? Everything we did to her hurt you. It took her witch turning on her for us to take her down."

Her expression didn't change, though she started shaking her head a little.

"Even then you ended up hurt, alone and kidnapped…"

"I don't care," she interrupted. "So it'll be hard, she's not getting away this time."

"She's helped you before…" Damon began.

"She's never done anything but try to help herself," Elena interrupted. "She's screwed us all."

Damon made his face go blank as he looked at her. This was an improvement over the Elena she had been just a few hours earlier, and he could understand the anger, the revenge. But she still wasn't quite the Elena he had fallen in love with.

"How can you even argue with this?" she asked. "What has she ever really done for you, other than cause you pain?"

He didn't answer immediately. She scowled, stood up, picked up the brush, and started walking towards her dresser before he spoke.

"She made it possible for me to meet you," he said softly.

Elena froze. As she turned to face him, the anger was gone briefly. She looked like the old Elena, but it was quickly gone.

"She killed my brother," she said. The anger was still in her voice, though she was speaking softly.

"And mine," Damon countered.

Elena shook her head. "Don't even…"

"It can't be undone," he interrupted.

"It can be avenged," she said angrily before turning and finishing her trip to the dresser. She put the brush down and turned to face him again. "She deserves it. What else could we do to her anyway?"

She walked back to the bed and sat next to him as he answered. "Watching her run was pretty satisfying."

"She keeps coming back," Elena said softly, more frustration than anger in her voice now. She was looking down rather than at Damon.

"And if I asked you to not kill her?" Damon asked. "If I told you I didn't want you to kill her?"

She looked up sharply, searching his eyes. "Is that what you're doing? Are you trying to see if I'm bound to you again?"

Damon held her eyes only briefly before shaking his head. He was curious about the bond, but decided this wasn't the time to test it.

"Good," Elena said. Then her expression softened a little. "I know you used to be in love with her, but you I'm know I'm right." His expression remained blank, and he didn't speak, so she added, "and I know you'll help me. You and Stefan."

He forced a smile as he rose. "You know I will. You know me well."

He had gone to her to test their relationship, as well as to see how she was doing, but he decided this was not the time for that either. Damon decided that he would help Elena get rid of her anger, then see what she was like then.

He turned back to her just before leaving the room. He had to remind her of one more thing, one thing she seemed to have forgotten in her anger towards Katherine. "Just don't forget about Silas. He's still out there."

She didn't respond, and her expression didn't change in the brief time he looked at her before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

I actually wrote a page after episode 19, but couldn't force myself to finish it or post it. Elena was in no shape for these little scenes (actually, I should probably have not done anything with the preceding 2 or 3 episodes). And I felt completely cheated by episode 20 – good thing they're giving us an extra episode this year.

And are Originals as powerful and worthy of fear as Season 2 wanted us to think? Noble Elijah wiped out dozens of vampires that season, Klaus seems to be challenged by everyone everywhere nowadays…

But Elena is tolerable again (though I find the mixed treatment of Katherine – one side trying to kill her, the other going to make her invulnerable – annoying. I am, after all, still in love with her).

But the game remains afoot, and will be for a couple of more weeks, so I'm gonna play…