Love bends the rules of possible. Silas and I were the two most powerful members of a gifted people called Travelers. When we were engaged to be married, we decided to reach even further.
(flashback) I don't ever want to be parted from you, even by death.
We wanted to find a way for our love to last forever.
StefanYeah, look. I know the story. Everything was great for Silas until some witch named Qetsiyah or whatever came by and screwed him over, right?
Wrong. You don't know the story. Silas convinced Qetsiyah that he loved her so she would make the immortality spell, but when she found out that he was just using her, she dumped him in a tomb with a cure, hoping he would take it and die because she had created a supernatural limbo to trap his soul.
Stefan
Like any other sane, rational, well-adjusted woman would do.
Which catches us up to today. Now Silas wants to destroy that supernatural limbo. Once the other side is gone, he can take the cure, become mortal, and die, and finally pass on and find peace.
Stefan
Look. If you really are Silas' one true love and you're not dead, then why don't you just do us a favor and run off into the sunset together?
Silas was my true love. I never said I was his. I'm Qetsiyah, that sane, rational, well-adjusted woman you seem to know so much about. Clearly you've heard the man's version of the story, the one where I'm a back-stabbing lunatic who ruined everything for Silas, a raging bitch witch whose obsession with vengeance created a whole new dimension of suffering in the afterlife.
Stefan
What are you doing here? I thought you were dead and on the other side?
I was for 2,000 years, but I came back... For you.
Stefan
So Silas was the first version of me and your friend was the first version of Elena?
Amara was hardly a friend. When they drank the immortality elixir, they violated the natural law that all living things must die, so nature found a balance by creating mortal shadow selves.
Stefan
Doppelgangers.
Like you and Katherine and Elena, all caused by the ripple effect from Silas and Amara's sin.
Tell me what Qetsiyah said back at the cabin.
She told me that...we don't stand a chance.
And what does she know about us?
Well, she told me a very interesting little story about the history of Doppelgangers; how they're fated to fall in love with eachother. Basically, the universe programmed you to fall in love with Stefan, not me. Which means...we're a lost cause no matter what we do. (pauses) I'm paraphrasing.
Maybe. Maybe she's not...
Look. I know I spent the last couple days focusing on trying to find Stefan, but that has nothing to do with how I feel about you, and I'm not gonna let Silas' 2,000-year-old ex-girlfriend screw things up between us.
You think I am? I mean, no one tells me how I live my life, no one tells me who I love. Especially not some vindictive, prehistoric witch and definitely not the universe. And I'm not gonna let someone else's idea of destiny stop me from loving you, or being with you, or building a future with you, because...you are my life.
(Elena leans in to kiss Damon, Stefan wakes up)
Stefan
Uh, I'm sorry. I--I have no idea who you people are.
Stefan
(holds up blood bag) Is this supposed to fill me up?
Well, yes and no. Technically yes, because you're a vampire.
Stefan
Weird.
Realistically no, because you're, you know, you.
Stefan
Ahh, yes. The insatiable and blood-lusting vampire ripper of Monterrey.
And we're only in the 1920s, baby.
Stefan
Well, sorry, but this is a lot to process. (starts to toss the empty blood bag out the window)
(grabs it from him) You're a vampire - not a cave man.
Stefan
So let me get this straight. I helped you steal this car, I found out I was a vampire who killed his own father, and yet I don't litter?
You're a man of principle, Stefan, who had his memories erased by a 2,000-year-old witch.
Stefan
Yeah, well I bet that 2,000-year-old witch probably drives a little faster than you.
Stefan
This town always so upbeat about dead people?
Well, in the theme of morbid town tradition, you go back to the 1820s when everyone was so paranoid about the cholera thing that they would occasionally bury a body a wee bit before its time.
Stefan
So we have a holiday dedicated to burying people alive?
Well, they were so paranoid that they would actually request to be buried with a string attached to a bell above the ground, and then the whole family would hang around the grave for 24 hours in hopes of hearing the bell and that their loved one would come back, but now it's just really-- it's a really kick-ass excuse to get hammered.
Stefan
Well, I, uh, I certainly hope your family history was happier than mine.
Well, let's see. In the last three years, I lost my adoptive parents, my birth parents, my aunt, our guardian Alaric, and my brother Jeremy died, although he came back to life, so there's that.
Stefan
Wait. Jeremy that lives in our house?
Yeah. After I had a breakdown and burned my house to the ground.
Stefan
Hmm.
Stefan
How do I not remember you? I mean, you're smart, you're pretty, you're funny. Obviously, you're the strongest woman in the world if you managed to figure out a way to get through all that.
I surround myself with amazing people who help me through it. Like you. You're one of those people.
Stefan
So bonded by death? Please don't tell me that we meet in a cemetery. (Elena grins) Really? We met in a cemetery?
Well, no. Officially, we met somewhere else first, but... Um, you want to see?
Stefan
Yeah, sure.
Stefan
I'm good right? I'm compassionate. I live with this burning hunger inside of me that allows me to stay in control... But what do I have to show for it? Huh?
JJesse
I don't know you man!
Stefan
I have no memories because my brain was fried, my brother, who's been my brother for 160 some odd years, stole my girlfriend....and my girlfriend let him. So, you tell me... what's the point of being good?
Where I come from, open bar meant ceramic jugs of Phoenician wine.
Stefan
Ok.
You have no idea who I am, do you?
Stefan
No offense, but actually, I have no idea who a lot of people are.
Tessa, formerly known as Qetsiyah.
Stefan
The girl who wiped my memories.
Nothing personal, little ex-boyfriend drama. Let me make it up to you, buy you an "I'm sorry" drink.
More like an "I'm sorry" keg. Pardon us.
Stefan
You broke my nose trying to teach me how to throw a right hook.
But not on purpose just to be clear. How much did you pay for that hunk of junk motorcycle that you ride?
Stefan
That's a trick question. You bought me that motorcycle, although I'm guessing it was pretty expensive.
So Tessa just gave you back your memories, no strings attached?
Stefan
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.
Stefan
Look, I thought that killing Silas would allow me to move on with my life, but I was wrong. I spent my summer locked in a safe. One minute, I think I'm fine, the next minute I feel like I'm dying all over again.
Oh. Classic PTSD. You survived a pretty traumatic event, and now you're back, and you've got nothing but free time to just relive that terrible experience in the safe. Well, allow me to give your life a purpose. Help me with one little favor.
Stefan
Should have known this was gonna come around to you needing something from me.
I'm just trying to help. What would I know about post-traumatic stress? I only had my newborn ripped from my arms by my judgmental father ,and then had to run 500 years after my entire family had been slaughtered by a psychopath. But hey, that didn't have any lingering side effects...
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