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❝past, meet present❞
DAMON WATCHED ELENA AS SHE CAME OUT OF HER ADJOINING BATHROOM. He cleared his throat, announcing his presence to the doppelgänger that startled at the sight of him. "Cute pj's." His sarcasm was evident and Elena let out a sigh, nervously wringing her hands together.
"I'm tired, Damon."
He rolled his eyes and stood, dangling the silver necklace from his hand. "Brought you this." Her eyes widened at the sight of the vervain necklace that Elijah had ripped off her neck, and she looked at Damon gratefully.
"I thought that was gone," She breathed out. "Thank you."
She reached for it, but Damon pulled it back, just out of her reach. "I just have to say something."
"Why do you have to say it without my necklace?" She questioned, her eyes wide with fear as the raven haired vampire stepped closer to her with a careless shrug.
Damon dangled the necklace before her tauntingly, his eyes narrowed accusingly. "Letting you be in Stefan's life is one of the most sefless things I've ever done, Elena. I can't believe I ever thought you'd be different from Katherine,"
Elena frowned at his words, her brows furrowing. "Damon–"
"If I didn't think it would destroy Stefan, I would compel you to leave and never come back."
His interruption startled her into silence and her jaw dropped at the candidness of his tone. She took a step towards him and he took one back from her, keeping the distance between them. "Damon, I'm not Katherine. I'm sorry for what she did to your wife–"
"Don't talk about her as if you knew her." Damon cuts her off again, his tone full of hatred. He clenches his fist around the necklace chain and glares at Elena. "Every time I look at you I see her face, her attitude, her hatred for my wife. It's the exact same thing that led to her death all over again and I won't let her face that. She deserves to rest peacefully."
Elena struggles to find words to defend herself as Damon spits his hateful words at her. She's seen Damon angry, but it's never been directed at her and she truly doesn't know what to do about it. Stefan isn't here to defend her, and she's lost on her own.
"I can't stand by and watch Stefan fall in love with Katherine 2.0 when it's going to end the exact same way it did the first time; someone I love dying because of you, and Stefan and I falling out of touch for another century. You get that, don't you, Elena? Anything to protect your family? Well all I want is for you to leave mine alone, forever."
He takes a wary step forward, hesitant to get so close to a lookalike of the woman he hates. He knows that he can't do anything to Elena, not yet. Stefan would kill him as soon as he found out Damon had anything to do with it. Because no matter how much they all tried to deny it, Damon included, Stefan had already fallen back under the allure of the doppelgänger's beauty and he wasn't going to break free anytime soon.
