This missing scene occurs sometime between the end of Season 4 and the Start of Season 5…
"How's Jeremy?" Caroline asked as Elena sat down across from her at the small table at the grill.
"Good," she responded, trying to read the face of the blonde vampire. "He's still getting used to being back, but seems to be adjusting."
Elena drew in a breath as the other vampire nodded. She was here to try to fix things between them, and knew it wouldn't be easy. Caroline had demanded an apology, but Elena wasn't sure she was ready to do that. Still, she needed to do something.
,"Thanks for coming, Caroline," Elena said. "We both know we need to talk."
Elena felt a little sick as she watched the blonde's face harden.
"We both know you need to apologize," Caroline corrected.
The doppelganger hesitated. She felt bad about what was said while she had her emotions off; but she wasn't sure she could deny the truth of it, though Caroline would probably demand it.
Elena hesitated for too long. "I'm waiting," Caroline demanded.
Elena decided that this was stupid. Did she still want Caroline as a friend even after everything the blonde had done? She felt her face harden slightly as she said, "So am I."
That caught Caroline off guard. "What are you waiting for? You need to apologize - you said some awful things, and you tried to kill me."
"You did some things that you need to apologize for," Elena shot back.
"Me? Apologize for what?"
"Telling Stefan about Damon and me. You promised you would let me tell him."
Caroline was incredulous. "It's not the same, and I did it to help you."
Elena snorted. "Help me."
"Yes" Caroline claimed, adamantly. "You were sired. You didn't have a choice."
"But you think I had a choice when I said what I said?" She was nearly yelling now, so Elena tried to calm herself. "It was never the sire bond. What I did with Damon, I wanted to do."
"So what you said to me you wanted to say?" the blonde demanded.
"I saw things differently then," the dark-haired vampire claimed. "I see things clearer now."
"That's not really an ans…" Caroline began, but Elena cut her off.
"And you didn't give me an apology! You're not dead an Stefan still knows!" Elena was glaring, but forced herself to soften it. "Look, we've both said and done things we wouldn't do or say now. Let's just call it even, OK?"
Elena hesitated while Caroline's expression, which was still pretty harsh, became resigned. "Fine."
"I'm just…" Carlonie began, then hesitated. "I'm worried about you. Since you've become a vampire, since you've been with Damon, you've gotten…darker."
Elena looked at her friend before repeating. "Darker."
Elena almost said something about Caroline getting judgey, but hesitated. Did Caroline really know what Damon had done for her, what he had said to her? Did she know that Damon had been willing to let Elena go, was willing to give her up because he didn't want to impose his will on her. She wasn't sure how to explain this to Caroline, but the blonde was speaking again anyway.
"Damon lives in a different world, a darker world. It's dangerous."
"So it's dangerous in the darkness?" Elena asked softly. "The 'light' I was in before wasn't free of danger. My parents died, my friends, my brother."
Caroline's expression changed. She really did look concerned now. "And I don't want to lose you."
Elena closed her eyes and rubbed her head. Maybe Caroline really was worried about her, but that really didn't change anything. Damon was changing for her, and she was changing for him. For some reason, she still wanted, or at least was willing to have Caroline as a friend, but things were different now and Caroline needed to accept that.
Elena raised her head and met Caroline's eyes. "So Damon lives in the dark? Maybe I'm taking him some light." She rose, and turned to leave. "You'll have to come into the darkness, if you want to see me. That's where I'll be."