DamonOctober 1852.
You broke my nose trying to teach me how to throw a right hook.
Damon
But not on purpose just to be clear. How much did you pay for that hunk of junk motorcycle that you ride?
That's a trick question. You bought me that motorcycle, although I'm guessing it was pretty expensive.
Damon
So Tessa just gave you back your memories, no strings attached?
Well, it wasn't exactly a gift. It was a lot to take in all at once, everything from blowing out the candles on my first birthday cake...drowning in a safe.
Relax. I'm-- I'm just bringing dinner.
AAmara
You're the Hunter. I never forget a face, but Silas killed you. You're dead.
AAmara
How? I said how? (to Bonnie) It was you, wasn't it? You're a witch. You brought him back.
AAmara
Of course I can see you. I'm not blind. I have eyes. Or are you dead? I get so mixed up. I can't tell the difference between the living and the dead.
Can you see people on the other side?
AAmara
I am the anchor to the other side. I can see everything. Gah! Don't touch me! Please don't-- don't touch me.
Jer, I think I've got an idea.
(Scene shift)
Amara could see Bonnie, and Bonnie could touch her. They made physical contact. It's like Amara's got a foot on each side or something.
Amara exists in both places at once, here and the other side?
Damon
Then she's not crazy crazy, she's just talking to dead supernatural beings roaming around in our basement.
The point is, if Silas isn't going to help us, what if Bonnie could be the same thing? What if she existed on both sides at once? What if she became the anchor?
You're right. Jeremy, you're right. So all we need is someone who could do that spell.
Damon
Oh, please don't say who I think you're gonna say.
Think about it. Silas wants Amara to die, and Amara wants Amara to die, so who besides us is the one person with the biggest stake against letting that happen?
(Scene shift)
Damon
I was hoping we could talk.
And I was hoping you were my Chinese food. Good-bye.
Damon
You remember Amara, right, brunette, brown eyes, I'm surprisingly not in love with her?
Damon
Well, she took the cure, she wants to die, and we have her.
Damon
For now. Silas is literally on his way here to kill her. He's completely obsessed with destroying the other side so that he and Amara can live happily ever after in the great beyond. Man, you were right about these Doppelgängers. They do always end up together. So how does it feel to say, "I told you so"?
Like I want to shoot fireballs at Silas and drown him in acid.
Damon
See? That's what I thought. So how would you feel about making us a deal?
Damon
So here's my pitch. In order to keep the other side in place, you need something to anchor the spell, right, something powerful, like an immortal being powerful. Now Amara was obviously a great choice until she downed the cure, so would you consider someone who's dead but stuck on the other side a viable candidate?
Damon
Because I've got a volunteer.
I'd be making a ghost a human toll booth between our side and the other side, giving her the power to interact with our physical world and the supernatural purgatory.
Damon
So what's the problem?
I need a massive amount of power to do a transfer spell like that.
Damon
Fine. Name your poison.
I need something to draw on. The moon's not full, I don't think there's a worthy comet for another couple billion years.
Damon
think hard. I have a girlfriend at home who misses her best friend and a wacky stowaway on suicide watch. It's ridiculous.
Doppelgängers. They're powerful, mystically, naturally recurring.
Damon
You want Doppelgänger blood? I got Doppelgängers coming out of my ears. How many do you want?
What the hell happened to you?
Damon
Ditto. Elena's not here by any chance, is she?
I haven't seen her, not that I've been looking.
Damon
Stefan, you awake?
You know, he hasn't seen her either. I know because we were together ... All night.
Damon
Look, I've had a really crappy couple of days, ok? If you're implying what I think you're implying--
Why? What were you thinking? That our hot, naked bodies collided in one unforgettable night of passion?
Damon
I'm gonna barf.
Great. Then my work here is done. Too-do-loo.
Where the hell have you been?
Damon
Aw, you know, being held against my will, shot in the head, and now I can't find Elena. How was your evening? Anything out of the ordinary happen?
Wait a minute. What do you mean you can't find Elena?
Damon
I mean, she's not picking up her phone, she's not in her dorm, she's nowhere in this house, which leads me to believe that Dr. Creepy Ken doll has her somewhere.
Are you talking about the Whitmore bio teacher?
Damon
Yeah, the one that operates on vampires during business hours, yeah, that one. Put your hero hair on, Stefan. Let's go get Elena.
You just said you don't know where she is.
Damon
I don't, which means we're gonna have to find us some leverage. So come on.
I'm not defending you. I'm not defending your decision to kill Aaron's entire family, to go out of the town and kill his aunt while we are so together.
Damon
So why are you still here? I'm bad Elena. I'm bad for you! So why wouldn't have you run away from me as far as humanly possibile?
'Cause I love you, Damon. Because I chose you and I stand by my choice.
Damon
Now I'm choosing. And I'm choosing to let you go.
Damon
I'm choosing to not to think about you must feel every time some ghost from my past comes in our lives. I'm choosing to relieve you of having to defend me for every awful thing I've ever done.
Stop acting like I'm perfect! Damon, I've done horrible things too. You think I wanna stand here and judging you after you've tortured for 5 years?
Damon
Stop defending me! I won't change who I am. I can't. But I refuse to change you.
Damon
Rule number one, think of the worst thing Katherine Pierce has ever done to you. Rule number two, toast to the glory of her impending death. Rule number three, if you come across something that's worse-- which you will-- repeat rules one and two. She pretended to be buried in a tomb for 145 years while I waited for her lying ass. (Damon drinks) Wait. Does that beat pretended to be Elena and kissing me on the front porch of your old house?
Damon
I don't think so either, damn. Quarterback, go.
Damon
Think on that. Little Gilbert.
She fed me to Silas, and I died.
Damon
Doozy.
Then she made me crash my car into a pole and left me for dead. Again.
Damon
Doubly doozy. Drink.
My sister's dead because of her.
Damon
Yes, she is because I wouldn't have even been in town to turn Vicki into a murderous vampire if I wasn't trying to get Katherine out of the tomb she wasn't in. Group shot.
Elena, we were just, uh--
I know what you're doing. (to Jeremy) You're cut off. If anyone is drinking to Katherine's last days, it's gonna be me. She impersonated me repeatedly... Made Aunt Jenna stab herself in the stomach and cut off Uncle John's fingers.
He might have deserved that.
My Grams died trying to close a tomb. She wasn't in.
Tyler's werewolf curse got triggered because of her.
Klaus followed her to Mystic Falls, and because of that, we lost Jenna.
Damon
And Alaric.
We're gonna need more booze.
She tried to kill me at least twice.
She did kill me, although I'm weirdly better off.
Damon
Rumor has it she burnt down the entire city of Atlanta once.
All right. Knock it off or take it somewhere else. You guys are being insensitive.
Damon
Come on, Stefan. Don't let the sight of a frail, human, Elena look-alike cloud your memories of the manipulative psycho that she is.
In 1864, Katherine moved into my home, she compelled me to love her, seduced my brother, fed us full of vampire blood, and then started a war with the town that got us killed.
Damon
Exactly. Bottoms up.
But centuries before that, she was just an innocent girl who was shunned by her family, so for 500 years, she lied and manipulated and did whatever she had to do survive, and she did. She's a survivor, right. So that's the girl that I will drink to today. Cheers.
Damon
Please. One night of hot sex with her, and your brainwashed?
Oh, my-- I forgot to tell you. You were kidnapped and hostages and--
Damon
That's why you never send a busboy to do a man's job. Nadia, the devil's spawn. Hey, Caroline. Did you remember to tell Elena that?
I think my mind just exploded.
You know, I was in a dark place, Damon.
Damon
And Katherine pulled you out of it. Irony abounds.
You know, whatever is going on with you and Elena, you need to fix it. She's the best thing that ever happen to you.
Damon
You think I don't know that? I can't live without her... But when you think about it, I'm no better than Katherine. Elena will be happier without me. What, I'm being selfless? Don't give me that look.
I'm not giving you a look.
Damon
Katherine fricking Pierce has a selfless moment, I'm not allowed to? Fine. Fine. When I get Elena back and the whole universe freaks out because the fated Doppelgängers are torn apart, just remember you-- you're the one that pep talked me out of doing the right thing for the universe and all mankind.
I will keep that in mind.
Damon
You do that.
So this anchor thing, does it mean that you'll, like, be able to feel Katherine's death or whatever?
I think so. I mean, she's human, but she's also a Doppelgänger and Traveler apparently.
So who else do you see over there? Anybody I know?
I see lots of people. My Grams, the other witches. Vicki. I just don't talk about it, you know, I just--
Because it's depressing as hell. Tell Matty I love him.
She's here. She said she loves you.
Tell him that I watch over him and no more knocking around with that blond original chick who almost got him killed.
Wait. Wait. What's happening? What am I missing?
Rebekah says to tell you that I'm her parting gift. Hey, Care.
We've really gone through four bottles of bourbon today?
Can someone really tell these idiots to lay off the booze?
Damon
Ric's here?
Where the hell have you been? I thought you bailed on us to go find peace or something.
Do you honestly think I'd leave Damon in charge and never look back?
Damon
He's talking about me, isn't he?
Damon
Cheers, buddy.
Damon
Ding-dong. Does that mean the witch is dead?
No. Uh-uh. It's too soon. I can't.
You're not gonna hurt me. Elena would--
Damon
Elena would what? Hurt me, dump me? Been there, done that, wrote the country song.
Kill you. She would kill you.
Damon
Cool. And then me and all her doppelgängers could start a baseball team on the Other Side.
Damon
She's brilliant.
We haven't noticed that Katherine's been inhabiting Elena's body for weeks, and that's all you've got to say?
Damon
Yep.
And you realize that it was Katherine who broke up with you, it wasn't Elena?
Damon
Eh-huh.
So, your little murder spree with Enzo where you killed Aaron, you nearly killed Jeremy, tried to kill Wes but you got infected with that ripper virus-- that was all you reacting to Katherine.
Damon
I'm trying to figure out why you decided to tell a starving, bloodthirsty, vampire-feeding ripper that his nemesis is still walking around alive and well while I am stuck in this cell and can't do anything about it.
Damon
I'd love to hear this.
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