This missing scene begins a little before the scenes where Stefan and Damon have a heart to heart and Katherine wakes up to find Elena in her room, near the end Season 5, Episode 11 – 500 Years of Solitude….

"Are you sure you want to go in there?" Damon asked Elena as she entered the room where Katherine lay.

Elena turned to face him. She realized that she was as nervous as she had ever been when she was alone with him. "I have to," she said quietly. "I have to face her."

"Haven't you faced her enough?" Damon asked. He actually looked concerned about her, and all she could think of was that he might think she was too weak to confront the vampire that had made her life so miserable. His words seem to confirm Elena's fear. "Exactly what are you going to tell her?"

Elena hesitated, and he added "You know what I've been doing in there, right?"

She nodded. "You've been tormenting her."

Damon scowled a little. "And let me guess - you understand. You want to defend me."

Elena's heart sank. She wasn't sure how her first encounter with Damon alone after the breakup would go, but she didn't want to spend it arguing with him. She shook her head. "I'm not going to defend you, Damon, but I understand what you're doing. To some extent, I even want to do it." She chuckled to herself a little as she recalled her earlier conversation with Stefan in which he said he didn't hate Katherine. "Stefan's the one who's different. He says he doesn't hate her, that he wants her to find peace."

Elena felt a little better as Damon snorted and said "Of course. That damn doppelganger curse."

She cringed a little, afraid of where the mention of the doppelganger curse would go. "If there's a curse, you broke it."

He stared at her a little. "Stefan gave up on me," she said quickly, remembering the conversation where he told her that she had not given up on him, so she shouldn't give up on Damon. Stefan had it wrong, of course – he often did. It was Damon who never gave up on Elena. She knew that.

"I know you think I'm changing, Damon," Elena continued, "and I am. But not in the way that you're afraid of." At least that's what she hoped. She wasn't all that sure about people's changes anymore. For the longest time, she watched Damon help and protect her and others, and she would have said Damon was changing. But the more she learned about him, the more she realized that he had always been willing to help and protect those he loved.

Damon interrupted her thoughts by saying "So you're going in there to torment her?"

She shook her head. "I'm going in there to forgive her."

Damon stared at her briefly before asking, "Forgive her?Why? To show me that you haven't changed? That you're still the sweet, innocent Elena I've always loved?" He almost sounded upset.

"I have changed, Damon, but not like you … "

"You don't have to prove anything to me, Elena." Damon interrupted.

Elena held his eyes and shook her head. "I'm not trying to prove anything to you Damon. This is who I am."

She open the door a little bit and was about to enter, when she turned back to face him. "You don't have to prove anything to me, either, Damon. I already know that you love me so much that you would let me leave you, let me go wherever or to whoever I want."

She took a few steps towards him and was relieved he didn't back away – that he let her get close to him. "You showed me that time after time. You did everything you could to prove to me that I have a choice, to make sure that whatever I did, what I did was my choice."

She was right next to him now, but didn't try to touch him She was just glad he was hearing her out. "Whatever my choice was, you let me make it – without judgment or criticism. You watched me get close to Stefan, and though I knew you loved me, you still helped me." She shook her head at the memory. "Stefan watched be get close to you and did nothing but fight me, criticize me."

"Fight us both," Damon muttered.

"You would have let me stay with him and still done anything I asked of you. You don't have to prove anything to me, Damon. And you definitely don't have to prove that you love me to anyone else. They all know you love me. I heard plenty from them about it. I'm sure you did too."

He grimaced a little but did not speak.

"You don't have to prove to me that you love me by sending me away. You already did that, and I just came back to you."

She paused to see if he would react, but all he did was break eye contact with her.

"You gave me a choice, and I chose. I chose you." She hesitated and took a breath. "You say you're choosing to let me go. But Damon, if that's what you've chosen, if you've chosen to let me go wherever I want, you need to know that I will go to wherever you are. That's where I'll be, whenever I have a choice."

She left him and entered Katherine's room, hoping that, this time, she had had convinced him that her choice was made, and hoping that he knew what she wanted his choice to be.

What, is this some alternate, fanfic universe? Stefan wants Damon to be with Elena? Maybe he can only love her as a human…

And we see, again, the twit that Caroline is (though she and Klaus deserve each other). Why does Elena stay around her?

But Katherine lives, which is good. I was a little worried there for awhile, seeing as how I still love her, flawed though she remains…