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blackmail. When that fails Stefan threatens to turn Elena into a vampire if Klaus does not get his hybrids out of town; Klaus agrees at the last minute. Stefan and Elena get into a fight, but Elena chooses Stefan over Damon. Later, Elena and Matt are trapped underwater; Elena makes Stefan save Matt first and she drowns with vampire blood in her system. During season four, Stefan's relationship with Elena is tested. He becomes fixated on finding the cure to vampirism for her, which results in Damon telling
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but Damon can't enter the house to help him without invitation. Damon tells Elena that Stefan is in the house but he cannot get in. Elena wants to go herself but Damon stops her. He knows that they have to save Stefan but does not know how. They go to school to ask Alaric's (Matt Davis) help since he knows about vampires, has weapons and the ring that protects him. Alaric denies to help them but he accepts when Damon tells him that Pearl can lead him to Isobel
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believe in vampires and tries to convince her that those stories are just fiction. Stefan calls Elena who is still angry and demands to know how she is connected to Katherine. Stefan tells her that he does not know while Damon overhears the conversation and appears next to Elena when she hangs up the phone. Bree takes the opportunity of Damon being outside and calls someone to let them know that Damon is there. Bonnie gets to the Fell's Church but while she is looking around, she falls into a hole in the ground
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) appears and attacks him. Stefan tries to get Damon and Elena back together and he asks Caroline's help. Caroline does not want to help him but when Stefan explains her that Elena is good for Damon since she makes him happy and that way he is not walking around killing people, Caroline agrees to help him. Damon comes home and finds Enzo waiting for him on his couch with Aaron unconscious lying on the floor. When Damon asks him what does he want, Enzo tells him that he brought him the last
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to get the cure, Alaric keeps Damon company when Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre) arrives wanting to talk to Damon. Alaric warns her that it is not a good time to do so but she does not listen. Liz gets into the basement cell but Damon knocks her down and escapes searching for Elena. Alaric calls Jeremy, Bonnie and Caroline to find Damon before he finds Elena because he is in bad shape and he will hurt her. Jeremy finds him and the moment he tries to call Alaric, Liz comes and shoots
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Stefan. Elena sneaks into the basement getting herself in trouble before Damon appears to save her. They find Stefan and Harper and they free them. Damon goes to distract Frederick, who already got suspicious that something is going on, while Elena helps Stefan to get out. Damon fights with Frederick and two other vampires when Alaric shows up to help him. Frederick escapes and Damon searches the house to find him but he is not there. They try to get out to head to the car but a bunch of vampires appear
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the Salvatores. On his way out, he runs into Elena and Caroline who are tracking down Damon and Stefan. He threatens to kill Elena but Caroline manages to knock him out so, the two of them leave to get to Stefan and Damon. Caroline and Elena get at the entrance of the crypt when Caroline stops realizing that if she gets in to save the Salvatores, her mother will find out that she is a vampire. Elena gets in and tells Liz that she can't kill them when Caroline changes her mind
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


promises Elena to kill him if she will not bring her the device. Elena, Stefan and Bonnie try to figure out how to get the device from Damon who does not want to hand it over, especially now that he knows what it does. Bonnie convinces them that she can remove the spell Emily put on it and that way, Isobel or anyone else won't be able to use it to kill vampires. Damon has his doubts but he eventually gives in and hands the device over to Elena. Bonnie works on
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she refuses to go with him since she is determined to sacrifice herself to save everyone she loves. Cody arrives minutes later with two other vampires to take Elena and Damon gets ready to defend her. Elijah arrives and when he learns that no one else knows that Elena is there, he kills Cody and the two other vampires and then leaves, leaving Damon and Elena wondering why he did that. Elijah gets back to Jonas house and after he asks about Luka's health, he explains that he did not kill Damon because
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


meets Isobel in the town square. Elena came with Damon and Stefan while Isobel came with her two friends for back-up. Elena does not want to hand over the device until she knows Jeremy is fine. Isobel tells her to call home and she does. Jeremy answers the phone and says that everything is fine. Elena believes that Isobel was never going to hurt Jeremy, but Isobel tells her that she was sure Elena would get the device from Damon because Damon is in love with her. She hands over the
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In the midst of season two, she starts a relationship with Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's younger brother. She later discovers, from warlock Luca Martin, that the only way to kill Klaus, the original vampire who wants to kill Elena, is for her to get the power of one-hundred dead witches. Once she does this, she pretends to be dead in a scheme of Damon's to trick Klaus. But when she brings Klaus to the brink of death, Elijah does not kill him, as planned,
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. Things get awkward, Stefan does not answer the question and keeps saying that he did not lie about Enzo, while Elena prefers to leave and go take a bath. Enzo follows her and when she gets into the tab, he pushes her under the water. Elena tries to get on top and at the brief moment she does, she manages to shout out to Damon who rushes into the bathroom but cannot see anyone. Elena tells him that someone was pushing her under the water but could not see anyone.
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she slept with Stefan. Elena does not understand why Stefan prefers to be with Tessa, and Damon is forced to tell her what he and Silas did to him in order Silas get his power back so he can read Tessa's mind. Elena decides to go to Tessa’s house to check up on Stefan and when she walks through the front door she also falls victim to the spell. Silas, Damon and Jeremy arrive in New Jersey and start searching for the anchor but Silas does not know exactly where it is or
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that he messed up but Katherine, as Elena, tells him that the two of them are over for good and she walks away. She goes back to the tomb to find Nadia and tells her that she does not want to leave Mystic Falls but stay and get Stefan back. The episode ends with Enzo and Damon catching up on Aaron who was trying to get out of the town. Aaron tells Damon that he asked him to go away so he will be safe but Damon, after "Elena's" rejection,
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The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get (The Vampire Diaries)


, just like she knows about Alaric after trying to compel her. She warns Elena about the missing blood bags from the hospital but Elena wants to know how Jo knows and what she is. When Elena asks her if she is a witch, Jo does not answer and makes a deal with her to not ask her any questions about her if she does the same. Damon is at Elena's room when she decides to call him and asks him to meet but before they meet, Tripp captures him. Elena calls Alaric
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. Stefan is mad at her because she put herself in danger and also because Damon will kill her if he finds out. Caroline does everything to keep Stefan with her but he can figure out that she is doing it to cover Elena. He asks her where Elena is but Caroline keeps her promise to Elena and does not tell him. Stefan leaves upset to find Elena. At the Salvatore house, Damon asks Rose how they can get in touch with Klaus. Rose says that she got in touch with Elijah via Slater
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a werewolf and a vampire and Klaus to drink the doppelganger's blood. Elijah has an elixir that will bring Elena back to life but he cannot reassure them that the elixir will work. Damon does not like the plan and prefers to go with the original one where Bonnie will kill Klaus, but Elena does not agree. Alaric (Matt Davis) gets to the Salvatore house but Jenna does not believe that Alaric is really Alaric and holds a cross bow at him but Alaric proves to Jenna that he is himself by
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, Damon gradually becomes kinder to the other characters, showing brief moments of compassion such as erasing Jeremy's traumatic memory of vampires. Damon apologizes for turning Vicki Donovan into a vampire and admits it was wrong. Later, he admits to Elena he came to the town wanting to destroy it but actually found himself wanting to protect it. Damon and Elena begin to kiss passionately before getting interrupted – it is later revealed that it wasn't Elena he kissed, but Katherine Pierce. In season two, Katherine tells Damon that she
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that she died with vampire blood in her system, and is transitioning. Damon tries to kill Rebekah with a White Oak Stake, but she overpowers him and escapes. Later, Damon uses Matt as bait to draw out the deputies and Pastor Young. After dispatching the deputies, Damon is about to kill Matt when stopped by a vampiric Elena. Damon makes Elena drink his blood when she seeks his help from a new vampire hunter, which leads to a fight with Stefan over what kind of vampire Elena will become. Damon
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Family Ties (The Vampire Diaries)


Damon's drink but he fails since Damon figures it out and he does not drink it. Tyler arrives to the Gilbert house to get the box with the donated items his mother needs for the Founder's Ball. Elena gives it to him but later, Mrs Lockwood calls to tell Elena that the pocket watch was not among the items. Elena says she will look for it and bring it to the Ball. She goes to Jeremy's room and accuses him of stealing it. Jeremy denies that he took it but he
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and she tries to hide the fact that every supernatural being has to pass through her when they die. Elena wants to invite Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) to the party despite Caroline's wish for Damon not to come and Stefan not being in the mood to party after getting his memories back. Wes (Rick Cosnett) continues his experiments on Jesse (Kendrick Sampson) who is now a vampire. Wes transfuses him blood but while he does it, Jesse breaks his shackles and attacks Wes.
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when Elena tells her that if she does, Rose will turn her into a vampire. With Alice's help, they find another contact of Slater's, Cody (James Harvey Ward), and Elena sends him a message to deliver to Klaus: that the doppelganger is alive and wants to surrender. Rose realizes that this was Elena's plan since the beginning and not to learn more about the moonstone. She tries to change her mind but Elena does not want to hear it, so Rose calls Damon. In the
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Katerina (The Vampire Diaries)


and Trevor's lives but Katherine says that everything she did was to protect herself, something she will always do. Elena guesses that Katherine's return was to hand her over to Klaus something that Katherine does not deny. Elena asks what else is needed to break the curse and Katherine says: a doppelganger (Elena), a vampire (Caroline), a werewolf (Mason but since Damon killed him, she turned Tyler), a witch (Bonnie) and the moonstone. Luka gets back to the Grill to apologize
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Lost Girls (The Vampire Diaries)


she needs a date for the Founder's Ball and both brothers offer themselves with pleasure(hinting the brother's future rivalry). Back in the present, Stefan tells Elena that Katherine chose him to escort her at the Founder's Ball. Damon was not mad with her choice because he does not get mad but instead gets even. Stefan tells Elena that the night he took Katherine to the Ball, Damon was also with her. Back in 1864, where Katherine and Stefan are together in bed and it is revealed that Katherine was
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where Elena knew she loved Damon. In the meantime, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is hanging out with Sarah (Gabrielle Walsh) at Matt's (Zach Roerig) house. Matt does not like this idea because Sarah was attacked by Elena, but Jeremy tells him that everything is fine because Caroline (Candice Accola) compelled Sarah to forget about the attack. Damon and Bonnie are stuck in 1994 and they try to find a way to get back to present. Bonnie tells Damon that since magic brought them there,
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, as she can barely drink it. Damon can only guess Elena's Doppelganger side will not allow her to drink a substitute. Though this supports Damon's theory of her needing fresh blood, Elena still refuses for fear that she will kill a person by accident. Conner kidnaps April by stabbing her and tying her up. He waits on the balcony for a vampire to step up with a gun. During the memorial, Elena tries to take her place when she does not come up, but April's blood is dripping
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Man on Fire (The Vampire Diaries)


well. Enzo wants to kill Elena because he knows that Damon loves and cares about her but Elena fights back, so he snaps her neck. Stefan gets there in time to stop him before he stakes her and the two of them start to fight. Damon finds Elena unconscious and he takes her home so she will be safe. He leaves her on the couch and leaves. Enzo and Stefan keep fighting and Enzo wants to burn Stefan because he knows that if he does, it will hurt Damon to lose his only
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


(David Anders) and why she wants the Gilbert device. When they tell him that the only thing she wants is to meet Elena, Damon tells Elena that she does not have to meet her if she does not want it but Elena agrees and meets her later at the Grill. Elena and Isobel meet at the Grill while Stefan sits a few tables away for protection. Isobel is surprised of how much Elena looks like Katherine and says that Katherine found her after she became a vampire. Elena wants to know who her
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. Meanwhile, the vampires keep torturing Stefan by stringing him up on vervain-laced ropes and stabbing him. Harper (Sterling Sulieman) shows up and tries to stop them since Pearl would not agree to this but the other vampires tie him up as well and stake him on the legs. Damon and Alaric make their plan while Elena insists to go into the house with them. Damon refuses and explains her why she cannot get into that house that is, in case she does not know, full of vampires.
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brother daggers her. Bonnie, Elena, and Damon visit the college where Bonnie's grandmother used to teach, at which there is a Halloween party. As Professor Shane helps Bonnie, Damon shows Elena how to feed properly. At first, Elena lets her emotions get in the way of her feeding but later at the Halloween party, she finds that preying on wrong-doers lessens her guilt. Elena, intoxicated with the human blood, dances with Damon as they both drink. However, when she sees Bonnie looking on
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traveler who will cast the spell, along with the body. The traveler starts the process when Elena takes over and sees what is happening. She continues pretending she is Katherine till she figures out what to do. She finally attacks the traveler and Nadia and runs away before they complete the ritual. Nadia tells the traveler to finish the spell anyway, something that she does. Elena finds Damon but Katherine takes over her body before she manages to tell him what Katherine is doing. Damon tries to get her back telling her
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Black Hole Sun (The Vampire Diaries)


Matt Davis) to do and that she removed all her good memories about Damon just because she could not handle his death. Elena does not want to believe him and when she gets home, she asks Alaric if it is true. Alaric gives her a diary of hers where she wrote everything about her decision and when he asks her if she wants her memories back, she tells him no. Matt (Zach Roerig) decides to probe Tripp (Colin Ferguson) to find out how much he knows about vampires. When
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from the 1800s, something that seems to be interested in. Elena wakes up in Damon's car wandering what happened and where they are. Damon takes her with him to Georgia and despite Elena's demands to take her back to Mystic Falls he declines and pulls over. Elena's phone rings, Damon answers it and it is Stefan (Paul Wesley) who worries about her especially since she does not have her vervain necklace anymore. Elena does not want to talk to him and Damon hangs up on him. He promises
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is dead. She believes that she is the one who killed him and starts getting crazy. She calls Damon to ask him if it is true that Aaron is dead and if she killed him and Damon does not know what to tell her. Elena believes that everyone is lying to her and she hangs up on him. Damon knows that Elena is not fine and she will hurt herself and he wants to go to her. He calls Matt and manages to capture him, throwing his ring away. He threatens Jeremy that
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No Exit (The Vampire Diaries)


, one day he will kill him but Stefan tells him that they will find a solution. Damon points to Stefan that "Elena" provoked him to feed on her and then she kicked a stake towards him so he will kill him. Stefan does not believe that Elena would want that, he locks Damon up and gets upstairs where Caroline is. The two of them discuss what happened between Stefan and "Elena" and Caroline also tells him about Nadia and Matt and the text he sent to her. From Matt's
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for trying to kill her brother by telling her that he had seen Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) wearing the ring and he knew that he would be fine, but Elena does not believe him. They arrive at Isobel's office where her assistant Vanessa (Courtney Ford) is waiting for them. She acts friendly when they come and tells them about Isobel's research but when she gets out of the room she returns with a crossbow and shoots Elena. Damon jumps in front of Elena just in time and the arrow hits
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. Elena signs the papers to get Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) house where she can be safe from vampires and then she leaves for school with Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Stefan beside Damon's objection. Klaus arrives at school pretending to be Alaric. Matt (Zach Roerig) does not know how to act around Caroline (Candice Accola) since he has to pretend that he does not remember anything of what she told him. Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre) asks him to do whatever Caroline
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Fool Me Once (The Vampire Diaries)


not have choice but to help Damon get Katherine back. Sheila agrees to open the tomb as long as the rest of the vampires are burned. Elena has to earn Damon's trust back and leaves to go and find him and talk to him. She finds him at the Salvatore house and she convinces him to trust her again. Stefan, Bonnie and Sheila wait for Damon and Elena at the church ruins. Stefan brought along arsonist tools. Damon, who brought an IV bag of blood for Katherine, and Elena arrive
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Founder's Day (The Vampire Diaries)


that means she will have to take Stefan down as well. Elena comes home and finds Damon on his way out. The two of them have a talk with Damon opening up and thanking her for saving him today. They end up kissing when Jenna (Sara Canning) opens the door and sees them. Jenna orders Elena to come inside and she closes the door behind her asking Elena what is she doing but Elena does not want to talk about it. John is in the kitchen when Elena shows up. John tries
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threatens to kill herself and become a vampire, just like Katherine did, something the will make her useless for him. Elijah calls her bluff but Elena moves on and stabs herself in the stomach. Elijah freaks out, accepts the deal and asks her to let him heal her. When he gets close enough, Elena stabs him with the dagger and Elijah falls dead. Stefan gives Elena his blood to heal her and Damon is also there reminding to not remove the dagger from the body. Stefan and Damon take Elijah's
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both Salvatore brothers would do anything to protect Elena and for now, this is exactly what he wants too. Elena gets back home with Damon to learn from Jeremy that Stefan is stuck in the tomb with Katherine. Elena runs to the tomb but Damon follows her and stops her before she gets in. Elena leaves and Stefan makes Damon promise him that he'll protect her and keep her away from the tomb. Damon promises and leaves and Katherine points out to Stefan that this was the biggest mistake of his life. In
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bloodbath — and the episode doesn't disappoint in that department." Popsugar also commented on the Elena/Damon relationship saying: "Can you say sexual tension? Elena and Damon get into it while standing thisclose (in the rain, no less) as they argue about if Elena can go to save Stefan. They really have a nice mix of heat and genuine concern for each other. I guess time will only tell when/if these two get together." Zeba of "Two Cents TV" also gave a
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Children of the Damned (The Vampire Diaries)


grabs Elena and forces her to drink his blood. He would not kill her but he could turn her into a vampire without hesitation. Stefan knows that he would do that and gives him the journal while he walks away with a terrified Elena. Damon gets the journal and flashes back to the night he lost Katherine. He tried to stop his father but his father tells him that anyone who sides with the vampires will also get killed. Stefan finds Damon and promises to help him save Katherine but Damon is so mad at
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The Last Dance (The Vampire Diaries)


them that he is Klaus. Bonnie fights him and then they run away where they find Damon. Damon asks Elena to go to Stefan and Bonnie tells Damon that Klaus has a protection spell and that he tries to kill her by making her use her power. Damon asks if she is still determined to do anything and Bonnie agrees, making her go back and fight Klaus. Elena and Stefan try to stop Bonnie but they cannot. Bonnie collapses while fighting Klaus and when Elena and Stefan get near her, she is
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Lost Girls (The Vampire Diaries)


to become a vampire. Vicki does not believe Damon and she leaves to go to Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen). By the time she gets there, her eyes burn,the sun bothers her, she has a headache, and she is hungry. Jeremy thinks she is high and because of her strange behavior, he calls Matt (Zach Roerig). Matt gets there but he cannot do much to help Vicki when Stefan and Elena arrive. Stefan realizes what is happening and he compels Vicki to calm down and
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Masquerade (The Vampire Diaries)


preparing the room, Jeremy and Bonnie return to the party when Bonnie gets a weird vibe. She follows her feeling and gets to Lucy asking her if they know each other. Lucy says no and leaves and Bonnie tries to ignore her feeling telling Jeremy that they have to tell Stefan and Damon that the room is ready. Elena wonders why all her friends are at the Ball and asks Alaric what is going on but he does not want to tell her. He eventually does when she says that she will go to the
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Memory Lane (The Vampire Diaries)


up and Elena leaves. Caroline hears the whole conversation between them, as does Damon who sits at the bar. Later, Stefan gets into Elena's bedroom and it is revealed that the breakup was fake so that Caroline would inform Katherine about it. Elena figured out that Caroline's behavior was weird because Katherine asked her to keep Elena away from Stefan that day and they wanted to make sure that Katherine believes she and Stefan were done. The episode ends with a last flashback where Katherine gets out of the church and gives
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The End of the Affair (The Vampire Diaries)


removes the dagger from Rebekah’s heart so she will wake up. When she does, Klaus also compels Stefan to remember him and Rebekah from the ‘20s and he reunites with her. Klaus tells her that they need to contact the Original Witch and Rebekah starts searching for her necklace, saying that it is the thing that they need to make the contact possible. The episode ends with Elena and Damon getting back home and Damon talks with Katherine again. He asks where she is but she refuses to tell him. When
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (The Vampire Diaries)


family crypt where there are fewer people around. Damon gets a phone call from Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) and leaves, leaving Stefan alone with Elena. Elena tries to help Stefan remember by taking him to the school where they reenact the moment they met. Stefan still cannot remember, so Elena takes him to the bridge where he saved Matt's (Zach Roerig) life and she became a vampire. He does not recall any of the events. The two of them come very close, but before they kiss
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Katherine the cure and compels her to take it to Damon letting her go. In the meantime, Elena finds Damon wandering and tries to help him but he bites her thinking that she is Katherine. He stops in time before he kills her and Elena takes him back to the Salvatore house. Damon admits that he loves her and Elena kisses him when Katherine arrives with Klaus’ blood. Damon drinks it and gets healed while Katherine informs them that Stefan sacrificed everything to save his brother and he will leave town with Klaus.
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Damon (Ian Somerhalder) explains Stefan (Paul Wesley) where he was and how he came back. He asks him to hide from the others that Bonnie (Kat Graham) was there with him since now she is dead and she will not come back. Stefan informs Caroline (Candice Accola) and Caroline tells Elena (Nina Dobrev). Damon also finds out about Elena's compulsion from Stefan and he wants to see her but Elena does not want to and she avoids him. Alaric (Matt Davis) tries to
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of season six. "Damon and Elena's love story had hit a dead end and now the writers are desperately trying to dig a new road for them to go down." Lindsay Sperling of "We Got This Covered" gave a negative review to the episode saying that it was disappointing and more of a predictable nightmare than anything else. "Drama between Damon and Elena has become the go-to story arc on The Vampire Diaries, and frankly, it’s more than a little overdone. [...] Would
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Dead Man on Campus (The Vampire Diaries)


Jesse does not understand what is going on, so he locks up Wes at his laboratory and goes back to his apartment where he calls Caroline for help. Caroline gets there in time to stop Jesse from killing Aaron (Shaun Sipos) who had just entered his room and was asking him what happened and who made him a vampire. During the party, Elena sends Damon to find out why Wes is doing these experiments despite Caroline's fears that Damon will kill Wes. Damon injects Wes with different deadly viruses to make him
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Smells Like Teen Spirit (The Vampire Diaries)


be drunk to fool Stefan while Damon keeps Rebekah occupied. Elena manages to lead Stefan away from the others and Alaric shoots him with vervain. They put him in the car and try to leave, but Vicki sets the car on fire with Elena and Stefan trapped inside. Alaric manages to get Elena out, then Elena helps Stefan get out before the car explodes. Bonnie manages to send Vicki back before she does anything else. Meanwhile, Katherine tries to wake Mikael (Sebastian Roché). She manages to do it and
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Bringing Out the Dead (The Vampire Diaries)


(Nina Dobrev) live in peace. In exchange, they will give him the fourth coffin. Klaus does not agree since he wants Elena with him so he will be able to make more hybrids. Damon gets a text from Bonnie who informs him that they are close to open the coffin. Stefan refuses Klaus' offer and Klaus threatens to kill him if Damon will not bring him the coffin. Damon leaves to get the coffin and Klaus asks Elijah to go with him to make sure nothing will go wrong. A
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The Descent (The Vampire Diaries)


hometown and Damon is there with her. She is not afraid or suffer anymore and she is ready to meet her family again and Trevor. Off the dream, Damon takes a stake and stabs Rose in the heart killing her, crying while he does it. Elena tries to comfort Damon who insists he does not care about Rose's death but he finally admits that he does not like to feel because it hurts. He asks her to go home and leave him alone, Elena hugs him and leaves. Damon is lost
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Kai. Damon tried to win Elena back, though she lost all her memories of their relationship. Damon is devastated when Liz dies. He reunites with Bonnie when she escapes the prison world with the cure for vampirism. Damon gave the cure to Elena – which undoes Alaric's compulsion – intending to take the cure himself so they can be together as humans. However, Kai casts a spell which puts Elena into a magical sleep until the time of Bonnie's death. In season seven, Damon travels with Bonnie and Alaric
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Masquerade (The Vampire Diaries)


the room where Damon and Stefan are waiting for her. Meanwhile, Jeremy and Bonnie fill Elena in who thinks they are crazy before she bursts into pain exactly the same moment Damon fires a stake at Katherine's back. Bonnie figures out that Elena is linked to Katherine and tells Jeremy to run and tell Damon and Stefan to stop because they are hurting Elena. Jeremy gets to the room just in time to stop Damon from killing Katherine and in extent, Elena. Damon looks surprised and Katherine explains that she also has a
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There Goes the Neighborhood (The Vampire Diaries)


house, the four teenagers get back inside to find Kelly and Damon making out. Kelly walks out ashamed and Matt goes with her while Damon does not look bothered. Elena offers to drive Caroline home while Frederick spies the Salvatore house from afar. At the Gilbert house, Jeremy and Anna make sandwiches while Jeremy cuts his hand in purpose since he is suspecting Anna to be a vampire. Anna cannot resist and reveals to Jeremy that she is a vampire by drinking from him. Jenna returns home right on time to make
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Crying Wolf (The Vampire Diaries)


's (Michael Trevino) help. Elena wants to get away from everything for a while, so she goes away with Stefan (Paul Wesley) for a romantic weekend at her parents' house near the lake. When they get there, Elena remembers her parents and memories of them at the house come back to her mind. Stefan is there for her and they later find out a secret place where Elena's parents were hiding vampire weapons as well as other Gilbert journals. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) meets Elijah (Daniel
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


to each other after Tyler made out with Matt's mother, Kelly, even though Tyler tries to apologize. Meanwhile, Caroline (Candice Accola) asks Bonnie (Kat Graham) what is going on between her and Elena but Bonnie does not want to say. Alaric gets Elena and Stefan at his classroom to talk to them about Isobel's request. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) joins them a little bit later since Alaric called him. Damon is surprised hearing that Isobel is in town and wonders if she is working with John
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All My Children (The Vampire Diaries)


. Klaus finds Alaric (Matt Davis), Stefan and Damon while they are carrying Kol and removes the dagger. While Rebekah is down, Elena gets an opportunity and runs away getting to the cave where vampires cannot get in and protects herself. Damon and Stefan try to find another way to stop Esther and they decide that they have to break the Bennett bloodline so Esther will not be able to channel their power. They attack Bonnie and Abby and Damon turns Abby into a vampire just in time to stop Esther from
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loved Stefan and never loved him. Elena later says something similar, leaving Damon heartbroken. He snaps Jeremy's neck (though Jeremy is wearing a ring which reverses damage done by supernatural creatures), incurring Elena's wrath. Bonnie declares hatred for Damon when she learns his blood turned Caroline Forbes into a vampire. After saving Elena and Stefan, Damon confesses his love for Elena but then compels her to forget his selfish words. Damon joins Rose to find out why the Originals are after Elena; they have sex, and
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I'll Remember (The Vampire Diaries)


help her and she ends up attacking her. Caroline gets there and realizes that the vampire her mother is looking for is Elena. Sarah manages to escape and she runs into the protective area where Elena and Caroline cannot enter. Elena explains to Caroline why she is feeding on people again and about the herbs Luke has been giving her so she can see Damon. Sarah gets in Mystic Falls asking for help and Matt sees her and gets to her first. She tells him about a girl attacking her and when Tripp (
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Plan B (The Vampire Diaries)


, but Damon wants to know why Katherine wants it. Mason says she wants it to reverse the werewolf curse because she loves him, something that makes Damon burst out laughing. He tells Mason that Katherine is just using him and when he realizes that Mason does not know anything more that could help him, he kills him. In the meantime, Stefan gets to the well with Elena and he jumps in to search for the moonstone, but the water is full of vervain and he starts screaming for help. Caroline and
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Disturbing Behavior (The Vampire Diaries)


Katherine tells him that she knows the necklace Klaus is looking for, is the one that he gave to Elena. Stefan says that he will make sure Klaus will not find out about it. Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre) tells Damon (Ian Somerhalder) about Bill (Jack Coleman) and what he did to Caroline (Candice Accola) and that she wants him to erase his memory. They get to the basement, and when Damon makes sure that Bill does not have any more vervain in his system, he compels him
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Damon comforts Rose when she suffers a fatal werewolf bite. Elena and Damon then begin to mend fences, and Elena cares for Damon when he is bitten by Tyler at the end of the season. Expecting he will die, Elena gives him a kiss, but Damon is later cured by the blood of Klaus, the original hybrid. In the third season, Damon helps Elena bring Stefan back to Mystic Falls. He is at first reluctant to involve Elena in the rescue attempts, and employs her guardian, Alaric Saltzman,
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Growing Pains (The Vampire Diaries)


. In the kitchen, Stefan and Damon get into an argument over giving Elena hope about something that's never happened in the "history of vampirism." Stefan responds that Damon "wasn't there the day she looked me in the eye and told me that she never wanted this." Meanwhile, Elena is experiencing the sensitivity to sound and light. Even the buzzing from the electricity through the lightbulbs are maddening. In an attempt to unscrew one of them, Elena proceeds to crush it. Jeremy comes to check in
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The Ties That Bind (The Vampire Diaries)


. Outside the house, Elena runs into Stefan and they fight because Elena lied. Jamie shoots Stefan with wooden bullets and ties up Elena. Bonnie hears the gunshot and tries to get out to check what happened but Abby drugs her and gets her into her car. Elena manages to untie herself, knock Jamie down and helps Stefan remove the wooden pieces from his chest. She also tells him that she kissed Damon (Ian Somerhalder) while Abby takes Bonnie to the hybrid. Bonnie does not want to say where the coffins
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Man on Fire (The Vampire Diaries)


things. Enzo does not want to hate Damon because he is the only thing he has left and he prefers to turn off his emotions so he will not care about anything, something that he does despite Damon trying to stop him. Enzo attacks Liv and Damon and Stefan try to stop him but he runs away getting Elena with him. Damon asks Stefan to help Liv while he goes after Enzo believing that he can help him. Stefan gives Liv some of his blood to save her life and then runs after Enzo as
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Dead Man on Campus (The Vampire Diaries)


talk and Wes finally admits that he is trying to make a new kind of vampire that will not be a threat to humans because they will crave vampire blood instead of human blood. At the same time, at the party Jesse bites Caroline and then leaves to ask Wes what he did to him. When Jesse arrives at the laboratory he attacks Damon. Damon cannot escape but Elena arrives and kills Jesse before he kills Damon. Caroline is upset with what Elena did even thought Elena explains to Caroline that she could not
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No Exit (The Vampire Diaries)


. The two of them try to leave the last victim's house when Wes appears with travelers who spell the house so vampires will not be able to get out. Wes informs them that he wants to make one last test; how long can Damon last before he attacks his friends to feed on. Katherine (Nina Dobrev), still pretending to be Elena, tries to get closer to Stefan (Paul Wesley) so they can be back together. When Caroline (Candice Accola) arrives and tells them about Damon,
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


, Stefan tries to talk to Damon about what Isobel said; him being in love with Elena. Damon doesn't deny the accusation but Stefan makes it clear that Elena is not Katherine and history will not repeat itself. Damon, changes the subject and tells Stefan that Elena's birth father is John. Stefan asks if he has any proof for that but Damon says that he does not need one since he put everything together and it is clear that it is John. Isobel calls John to tell him that she left the
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Original Vampires (The Vampire Diaries)


stakes temporarily disable Original Vampires, but they recuperate in hours. This was demonstrated when Elijah pulled out the wooden stake that Damon had plunged into his chest when attempting to rescue Elena from Rose and Trevor. When an Original Vampire dies, all of the vampires from his or her bloodline die as well. This is demonstrated when Damon, Stefan, Elena and Matt kill Finn, resulting in the deaths of Sage and Troy, (Finn had sired Sage and Sage had sired Troy, thus creating a blood line). Thus
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Resident Evil (The Vampire Diaries)


thing, that he has to return to his body and tell the others what is going on to the other side so they can stop it, otherwise everything will fall apart. Elena and Caroline go to Damon's to discuss the visions "problem". Elena and Damon have a talk alone, where she asks him to be friends, but Damon changes the subject to her visions with Stefan. Elena says that it is like those visions happen in an alternate universe, and they are happy together. Damon gets the opportunity
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Stefan Salvatore


so intimate, that moment, because she accepts the darkest part of him." When the original vampire Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan) is feared dead, it is revealed that everyone in his bloodline will die, including Stefan and Damon. In what "International Business Times" called "the moment Vampire Diaries fans have been waiting for", Elena had to pick to say goodbye to Stefan or Damon. She ended up choosing Stefan. When Elena became a vampire, her feelings for Damon heightened, and it was later
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Catch Me If You Can (The Vampire Diaries)


town and meets Rebekah, who tries to stab him but is stopped by Klaus.In the forest Elena unsuccessfully tries to use her feelings to persuade Damon to ignore the compulsion, but he stops when Stefan subdues him. Stefan returns Damon to the Salvatore house, imprisoning him and telling him that they can do what they want. Elena appears, but Stefan forbids her from seeing Damon. When he tells her he does not love her, she says he is lashing out. Over dinner with Bonnie her father says that he
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Crying Wolf (The Vampire Diaries)


Before he leaves, he tells Damon once again to keep Elena safe. Tyler arrives at the Grill bar where Caroline is and manages to get her phone without her noticing him. Tyler uses Caroline's phone to text Elena so he can learn where she is and then he informs Brady that Elena is at the lake with Stefan. Brady and Tyler head to the lake so they can capture her. When they get there, Brady shoots Stefan and asks Tyler to keep him down while he will go to get Elena. When
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Growing Pains (The Vampire Diaries)


in order to capture Stefan, but also Elena, assuming she is still human, to use as bait to bring Damon. He takes them to his home where Stefan and Rebekah are locked up. Elena soon joins them when her transition/vampire reactions to light and her thirst for blood give away that she might be a vampire. Rebekah relishes the pleasure of getting to watch Elena die all over again. While in the woods, Caroline, who is so excited to have her boyfriend back, is ready to become romantic
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The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get (The Vampire Diaries)


Despite the writers disregard of following the series mythology, "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" was a solid, but somewhat predictable episode with yet again another obstacle for Elena and Damon to overcome." Leigh Raines of "TV Fanatic" rated the episode with 4/5 saying that the potential reunion of Damon and Elena was a bit intense: "The way they spoke through the door, mirroring hand movements, Elena's trembling as she reached for the knob, a truly emotional Damon...the writers were
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The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get (The Vampire Diaries)


looking to tug at viewers' heartstrings." Rebecca Jane Stokes from "Den of Geek" rated the episode with 2/5 saying that the writers tried to breathe life back to something that was never dead, referring to Damon and Elena's relationship. "Damon and Elena together are their own living, breathing, walking, talking (sort of) conflict. You never had to worry about getting bored with them as a couple because they are so fundamentally different as characters. Elena’s decision to try and avoid Damon and keep
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Memorial (The Vampire Diaries)


. She admits her fear at giving a speech. Elena tries to comfort her, but her blood lust causes her to run to the bathroom. She vomits all the blood Damon gave her all over the bathroom floor and gets some on herself. She calls Damon and asks him to bring her another dress. She has a close run-in with Conner, though Damon arrives on time to save her as she cleans the bathroom. Damon gives her a human blood bag to help her, but even this does not work
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Isobel (The Vampire Diaries)


device at his doorstep along with his ring. He promises to do what Katherine wants and he will kill all the tomb vampires. Isobel asks him to kill Damon and Stefan as well because she does not want their daughter (revealing that John "is" Elena's father) to have this life. John reassures her that he will take care of it. The episode ends with Bonnie talking to Caroline. She admits that she lied to Elena that she would do something but she did not and she knows that when Elena
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Ghost World (The Vampire Diaries)


Elena tells her that by staying she only holds Jeremy back, she gives the necklace back and Bonnie starts the ritual to destroy it along with her grandmother. Damon and Mason are in the underground tunnels of the old Lockwood property trying to find the hidden secret of how they can kill Klaus. They reach at a cave but Damon cannot get in since it is protected with a spell and no vampires can enter. Mason finds something but before he manages to tell Damon what, he disappears. Lexi also disappears letting Elena
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The Descent (The Vampire Diaries)


after everything that happened that he decides to go out and attack an innocent girl named Jessica (Ahna O'Reilly) after admitting to her that he misses being human. Jessica tries to get away but Damon catches her and feeds on her. Jules meets Tyler and tells him that Mason (Taylor Kinney) is dead and that Caroline and her vampire friends killed him. She also tells him that Caroline lied to him about being the only vampire in town but Tyler does not want to believe her. Meanwhile, Elena gets back home
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in order to conceal that Elena is alive. Stefan's change in attitude causes a rift between Elena and Stefan while Damon and Elena grow closer. Elena's refusal to admit this incenses Damon, who reverts to previous uncaring and reckless behavior. This continues until, in a heated moment, Elena admits to loving both brothers. Elena chooses Stefan and Damon seems to accept this decision and his death by Alaric, but rushes to the hospital when he realizes Elena has died. Damon starts season four at Elena's bedside after learning
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The Return (The Vampire Diaries)


, a vampire (he forces him to drink his blood), if he will not leave town and get out of Elena's life within 24 hours. Katherine arrives at Mayor's wake and Bonnie walks right over her. Thinking she is Elena, she tells her about Damon giving his blood to Caroline to heal her but when she touches her she realizes that she is not Elena. She walks away to call Elena but Katherine follows her and introduces herself. Bonnie try to cause her a headache using her powers but Katherine
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Ripper again. As an arrangement to save Damon, Stefan works for Klaus while trying to protect Elena by keeping Klaus away from Mystic Falls. Klaus later finds out Elena is alive and compels Stefan to kill her, making Stefan turn off his humanity when he resists. Stefan is later able to get his humanity back – seen when he saves Klaus' life to protect Damon – but pretends not to care about Elena. He later takes it upon himself to kill Klaus. He steals Klaus' family and tries using them as
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Fool Me Once (The Vampire Diaries)


but Sheila does not let her, so Anna goes into the tomb. Bonnie wants to know why her Grams let her in and Sheila says that "no" vampire will come out of the tomb. They managed to open the door but not break the seal spell so a vampire can go in but not come out. Stefan comes back and wants to run into the tomb when he hears Damon took Elena with him but Sheila stops him, explaining to him why. Inside the tomb, Anna finds Elena and explains to
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Memorial (The Vampire Diaries)


, which Stefan, Damon, Elena, Caroline, and Tyler can hear. Stefan gets Elena before she loses it, but she clearly needs fresh blood. Matt, still feeling guilty about her death, allows her to feed off him under the guise that he is comforting her, which helps her. Tyler, to distract Conner, steps up and is shot. Panicked, everyone runs out. Carol and Caroline help Tyler while Damon and Stefan go after Conner. Elena sets off to find April. Damon and Conner get
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The Departed (The Vampire Diaries)


Falls. Alaric Saltzman (Matt Davis) tries to convince Jeremy to tell him the location of Klaus, believing that Jeremy will also want to get rid of all vampires to protect his sister. Jeremy instead leaks false information to Alaric from Damon. When Elijah Mikaelson (Daniel Gillies) comes back into town, he strikes a deal with Elena, Bonnie, and the Salvatores, promising that in exchange for Klaus, he will revive Klaus generations later. Damon and Bonnie go to retrieve Klaus, but Alaric ambushes Damon. Rebekah
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Ghost World (The Vampire Diaries)


close the door again and to do it she has to destroy Elena’s necklace, since it is from where the Original Witch draws power. They try to find the necklace but they cannot and the girls believe that Anna took it because she does not want to leave Jeremy. Mason asks an apology from Damon and Damon refuses to give it. He kind of does it when Mason mentions that he knows a way to kill Klaus (Joseph Morgan). Mason asks Damon to meet him at the old Lockwood cell,
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Fool Me Once (The Vampire Diaries)


the bathroom locking her in. Elena finds Bonnie (Kat Graham) lying unconscious in the bathtub. She tries to help Bonnie and Elena informs her that Ben is with Anna and they want to open the tomb but they need a witch to do that. Meanwhile, Stefan (Paul Wesley) looks everywhere for Elena all over Mystic Falls but he cannot find her. He goes to Damon (Ian Somerhalder) asking for his help but Damon, who is still mad at him, does not want to help. Damon
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (The Vampire Diaries)


but he cannot remember who he is, who the people are around him, or even that he is a vampire. Damon presents Stefan with his diaries to jog his memory with, but he still has no recollection of his past. Elena (Nina Dobrev) meets the two of them later to find out that Damon did not tell Stefan about her yet. Stefan is conquered by his thirst and follows a waitress but Damon gets there in time before he hurts her. After the incident, they take Stefan to the
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Bad Moon Rising (The Vampire Diaries)


Elena asks Vanessa about her resemblance to Katherine and why she looks like her but Vanessa doesn't have much info to give her about that. On their way to the car to get back home, Damon gives Elena a book he found at Isobel's office with the title "Petrova", telling that it is Katherine's real name. Elena takes the book but she is still mad at Damon and at his question if he lost her friendship forever, Elena answers him that he did. Caroline and Stefan get back to
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The Hybrid (The Vampire Diaries)


starts to transform sooner than what they thought and they start running to get out of the mountains the sooner as possible. Ray (as wolf) gets to them and Damon makes him chase him to keep Elena and Alaric safe. The two start fighting when Stefan arrives and kills Ray. Stefan asks Damon again to stop searching for him, take Elena home and make her forget about him. Matt (Zach Roerig) and Tyler talk while Tyler drinks from the coffee Matt brought him. He feels the same weird taste he
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Founder's Day (The Vampire Diaries)


to prevent her from getting in. The spell calms the fire long enough for Stefan to get to Damon and help him get out. Elena and Stefan meet a little later at the Grill where Elena reassures Stefan that she loves "him" and not Damon, even though she cares about him. Damon goes to Jeremy's room to inform him about Anna's death and that he wanted to help her but he could not. He knows that Jeremy must be in pain and he offers to take the pain away like he
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All My Children (The Vampire Diaries)


completing her spell. Esther and Finn disappear, Rebekah lets Elena go and all the Original siblings, except Rebekah, decide to leave town leaving Klaus behind. Stefan asks Damon why he turned Abby when he was the one supposed to do it and Damon says because he can see that Stefan is trying to get back to his caring self. When Damon asks him how long it has been since he last fed on human blood, Stefan admits that he has not fed on human blood since the day he tried to drive Elena
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Rescue Me (The Vampire Diaries)


Luke who informs her about Hazel and she leaves in a hurry. Jeremy calls Bonnie to ask about Elena and when Bonnie tells him that she is at school, he says that Elena might be in danger. Liv finds Elena at school and attacks her. Liv and her coven did everything they could to protect her but since now she is dangerous they have to kill her. Damon gets there in time and stops her. Damon ties her and threatens to kill her if she will not tell him what she wants. Liv
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Family Ties (The Vampire Diaries)


end of the Ball, Jenna accepts to go out with him for lunch. Damon wants to stay alone with Elena so he asks Caroline to ask Stefan for a dance. When they stay alone, he apologizes for his behavior at the game and explains that the Salvatore brothers are cursed with sibling rivalry. He shares with her the history of the "first" Salvatore brothers and the woman they both loved. Elena tells Damon that she does not want to be in the middle of their rivalry and she leaves. While dancing
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