“
Katherine," he said. He was still smiling.
"Yes." She leaned closer.
"Katherine..."
"Yes, Damon?"
"Go to hell.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
You're talking!"
"I know I am."
"And making sense!"
"Thank you kindly."
"And in sentences!"
"I've noticed." - Stefan and Elena
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
The name is Salvatore. As in savior.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
Get away from my brother." - Damon
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
It doesn't matter if you can't say it right now. I'll say it for both of us. And someday you'll learn.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
You only want everything you don't have"
Matt from The vampire diaries
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #2))
“
Damon’s voice was no louder than before. “Get away from my brother.” Bonnie could feel it inside him, a swell of Power like a tsunami. He continued, “Before I tear your heart out.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Feeling better?” he asked.
“As warm as chicken-apple soup.”
“I’m never going to hear the end of that, am I?
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
I want him to love me as much as I love him.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
Elena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling.
I thought you had gravity!”
So did I! What do I do?”
Think heavy thoughts!”
What if it doesn’t work?”
We’ll buy you an anchor!
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
He put an arm around his brother to help him up. And then, for a moment, he just held on.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
Winter is coming, Elena," he said, and his voice was clear and chilling even over the howling of the wind, "An unforgiving season. Before it comes, you'll have learned what I can and can't do. Before winter is here, you'll have joined me. You'll be mine.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure, and even a little danger... I want you to get everything you're looking for. But for right now, I want you to forget that this happened. Can't have people knowing I'm in town yet. Goodnight, Elena.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Very touching. Do you want me to imitate a violin?
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3))
“
I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.
”
”
Jessica Sorensen (The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #1))
“
Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, “Bathroom door beside you,” and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.
I remember how to fly.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #2))
“
You,” Damon said somewhat indistinctly through the blood in his mouth, “have been a naughty boy, boy.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
I do believe in shooting the messenger.
You know why? Because it sends a message.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
I'm with you, my angel.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.
From an empty sky.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
You always were selfish. Your one fault. Not willing to share anything, are you?" Suddenly, Damon's lips curved up in a singularly beautiful smile. But fortunately the lovely Elena is more generous. Didn't she tell you about our little liaisons? Why? The first time we met she almost gave herself to me on the spot."
"That's a lie!"
"Oh, no, dear brother, I never lie about anything important. Or do I mean unimportant? Anyway, your beauteous damsel nearly swooned into my arms. I think she likes men in black." As Stefan stared at him, trying to control his breathing, Damon added, almost gently, "You're wrong about her, you know, You think she's sweet and docile like Katherine. She isn't. She's not your type at all, my saintly brother. She has a spirit and a fire in her that you wouldn't know what to do with."
"And you would, I suppose."
Damon uncrossed his arms and slowly smiled again. "Oh, yes.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
”
”
L.J. Smith (Moonsong (The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters, #2))
“
Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
You wanted us all back together again!" Bonnie shouted at Caroline, and pulled the scandalized girl into the dance. Meredith, her dignity forgotten, joined them too.
And for a long time in the clearing there was only rejoicing.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
There’s nothing to read into. I’m here to collect my beloved Damon and
Stefan is just helping me.”
Bonnie looked at her with her brows knitted and her mouth pursed, but
didn’t venture a word.
“Bonnie?”
“Um-hm?”
“Did I just say what I thought I said?”
“Um-hm.”
Elena, with one motion, gathered an armful of pillows and deposited them
on her face.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
You stole my bouquet? From the kistune?"
"I was very careful-"
"Do you realize what you've done?" Stefan shook Damon.
"Ow. That hurts! Do you want to break my neck.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
"I don't know; Killers are sort of romantic. Imagine your dying with his hands around his throat. He'd strangle the life out of you, and the last thing you would see would be his face."
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
”
”
Rachel Caine (Fade Out (The Morganville Vampires, #7))
“
It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower" -Elena
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Damon, leather and silk and fine chiseled features. Mercurial and devastating.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
There's nothing to read into. I'm just here to collect my beloved Damon and Stefan is just helping me.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
I am not an angel and I am not a spirit. I'm Elena Gilbert and I've been to the Other Side. And right now I'm ready to do whatever needs to be done, which seems to include kicking some ass!
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Well, the name is Salvatore. As in Savior - Damon Salvatore
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
You turned your back on me when I needed you.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
He let her get almost all the way there, just staring, before he stumbled towards her. They ended in a rush and then fell to the ground together,arms locked around each other, each holding on as tightly as possible. Niether of them said a word.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
You know why I don’t leave,” he said again to Damon, who wouldn’t look at him. “You can pretend you don’t care. You can fool the whole world. But I know differently.” It would have been kindest at this point to leave Damon alone, but Stefan wasn’t in a kind mood. “You know that girl you picked up, Rachael?” he added. “The hair was all right, but her eyes were the wrong color. Elena’s eyes were blue.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.
”
”
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
“
Then she went to Damon.
He was still lying where he had fallen. The ghosts had passed over him, taking no notice of him. Elena’s brightness hovered over him, one shining hand reaching to touch his hair. Then she bent and kissed the dark head on the ground.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))
“
Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: “Do you understand
these rights?”
“No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
You have to breathe," Sage was shouting in Damon's ear. "Take a breath, as if you were going to speak, but then hold onto it, as if raising your Power.Think about your insides. Get those lungs working!"
The words confused Elena.
"There!" cried Sage. "You see?"
"But it only lasts an instant. Then I need to do it again."
"But, yes, that is the point!"
"I tell you I'm dying and you laugh at me?" a disheveled Damon shouted. "I'm blind, deaf, my senses are haywire-and you laugh!
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
Something was shining on Damon's face. She reached toward it, touched it, and lifted her fingers away in wonder.
"Don't be sad," she told him, feeling the cool wetness on her fingertips. But a pang of worry disturbed her. Who was there to understand Damon now? Who would be there to push him, to try to see what was really inside him? "You have to take care of each other," she said, realizing it. A little strength came back to her, like a candle flaring in the wind. "Stefan, will you promise? Promise to take care of each other?
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3))
“
Life is too cruel, if we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live?
”
”
Katerina Petrova
“
Elena smiled and he had to smile back, at first just a quirk of the lip, and then a full smile. She was…Damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart…and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn’t turning away.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Damon: I wanted to apologize.
Elena: Good.
Damon: Let me finish. I said I wanted to. And then I realized, I’m not sorry.
Elena: You would rather die than be human, and you expect me to be okay with that?
Damon: I didn’t say you were supposed to be okay with it, I just said I’m not sorry. But you know what I really am? Selfish, because I make bad choices that hurt you. Yes, I would rather have died than be human. I’d rather die right now than spend a handful of years with you, only to lose you when I’m too old and sick and miserable and you’re still you. I’d rather die right now than spend my last final years remembering how good I had it and how happy I was, because that’s who I am, Elena, and I’m not gonna change. And there’s no apology in the world that encompasses all the reasons that I’m wrong for you.
Elena: Fine, then I’m not sorry either. I’m not sorry that I met you. I’m not sorry that knowing you has made me question everything, that in death you’re the one that made me feel most alive. You’ve been a terrible person, you’ve made all the wrong choices, and of all the choices that I’ve made this will prove to be the worst one. But I am not sorry that I’m in love with you. I love you, Damon. I love you.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Let me get this straight. You've just told me that I was bitten by a vampire, had sex with an angel, then I died, but I've risen again as a succubus. And you've wondering why I don't believe you?"
(Jackie)
”
”
Jill Myles (Gentlemen Prefer Succubi (Succubus Diaries, #1))
“
Anyone capable of love is capable of being saved.
”
”
Caroline Forbes
“
When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Vampires on TV give us an unhealthy body image stereotype too. Do you know how hard you have to work to get a body like those actors on True Blood or The Vampire Diaries? Try doing that when your blood vessels don’t work anymore and your muscles are slowly starting to waste away.
”
”
Jessica Verday (Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions)
“
Dismissed like a dog. Damon groped for his jacket behind him, found it, and wished that his groping for his sense of humor could be as successful. The faces around him were all the same. They could have been carved in stone.
But not stone as hard as that that was coming together again around his soul. That rock was remarkably quick to mend—and an extra layer was added, like the layering of a pearl, but not covering anything nearly so pretty.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Wings of PURIFICATION
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness.
”
”
Katherine Pierce
“
Damon: "What about me?"
Rebekah: "You have a nice behind.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Lucien shook Magnus off, who came over to Caia to make sure she was OK. She nodded numbly at her uncle but kept her eyes on the two males who looked ready to battle it out. And over her. Oh goddess it was like an episode of The Vampire Diaries, she groaned.
”
”
Samantha Young (Moon Spell (The Tale of Lunarmorte, #1))
“
I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You're strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Still, there was no point in hurting Damon. She loved Damon, too. “I’ll try,” she promised.
“We’ll take you home,” he said.
“But not yet,” she told him gently. “Let’s wait just a little while.”
Something happened in the fathomless black eyes, and the burning spark went out. Then she saw that Damon knew, too.
“I’m not afraid,” she said. “Well—only a little.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3))
“
Where does the flame of a candle go after is faded?
”
”
L.J. Smith (Midnight (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #3))
“
For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?
But he was tired of living in shadows. He was tired of the darkness, and of the things that lived in it. Most of all, he was tired of being alone.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, #1))
“
I would write, Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it's ok to give up. Stick with the status quo, now just isn't the time. But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses and the truth is, I'm scared Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for one minute, that the my world's going to come crashing down and I don't know if I'll be able to survive that.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Damon: I'm mad at you because I love you!
”
”
E.L. James
“
The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
It means she chose light over darkness. I want people to know that so they'll always remember.
I always will.
Bonnie McCullough
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3))
“
I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2))
“
I love you Stefan, never let that go.
”
”
L.J. Smith
“
I'm in the basement of a club with a porn star and bazillion vampires, and we're waiting for their queen. You tell me if I'm crazy." ~ Jackie Brighton
”
”
Jill Myles (Gentlemen Prefer Succubi (Succubus Diaries, #1))
“
I don't love men that love other women. I think more of myself then that.
”
”
Rose The Vampire Diaries
“
And this is how the ending starts.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and feeling such—such excitement, such affinity with him. As if he understood the flame that burned inside her as nobody else ever could. As if together they could do anything they liked, conquer the world or destroy it; as if they were better than anyone else who had ever lived.
I was out of my mind, irrational, she told herself, but that little flash of memory wouldn’t go away.
And then she remembered something else: how Damon had acted later that night, how he’d kept her safe, even been gentle with her.
Stefan was looking at her, and his expression had changed from belligerence to bitter anger and fear. Part of her wanted to reassure him completely, to throw her arms around him and tell him that she was his and always would be and that nothing else mattered. Not the town, not Damon, not anything.
But she wasn’t doing it.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3))
“
Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.”
“Ah, yes, sweet Bonnie. I wouldn’t mind one or two like her. One for Samhain and one for the Solstice.”
Damon snorted drowsily. “There aren’t two like her; I don’t care where you look. I won’t have her hurt either.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Asylum (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, #5))
“
Damon: Come back as a vampire and I will stake you myself cause I can't stand the idea of you hating me forever.
Elena: Witches are supposed to maintain the balance of nature. It's your duty to them. To keep this curse sealed.
”
”
L.J. Smith (The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Vreden och Återkomsten (the Vampire Diaries, #3-4))
“
The hell with your secrets,” shouted Bonnie.
“Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret all
their life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer—and I am
not speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. And
then there is the question of the true identity of Sage—good luck on your
research there!One of you has already had their memory erased—and I don’t mean
Damon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there is
the question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobody
but Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories about
Camelot.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2))
“
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Bloodlust (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, #2))
“
You didn’t feed from her,” he said, and this was not a question.
“Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother.”
One corner of Stefan’s mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were... knowing. Damon bridled.
“I told the truth!”
“Going to take it up as a hobby?
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?”
"He will not kill me,” Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. “He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Midnight (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #3))
“
Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...
”
”
L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1))
“
So," dark Susurre said quietly, "if you follow the curve... in a way your Damon did die to save Fell's Church from another massacre like the one on that Japanease island. He kept saying that was what he'd come to the Nether World to do. Do you not think he would be satisfied? At peace?"
"At PEACE?!" Stefan spat bitterly, and Sage growled.
"Woman," you obviously have never met Damon Salvatore before." The tone in his voice--more resonant, more threatening somehow--made Elena finally break off her staredown with the red-haired Idola. She turned and looked--
--and saw the enormous room filled with Sage's outspread wings.
”
”
L.J. Smith (Midnight (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #3))
“
Damon spoke without moving. “I’m not like you.”
“You’re not as different from us as you want to think,” Matt said. “Look,” he added, an odd note of challenge in his voice, “I know you killed Mr. Tanner in self-defense, because you told me. And I know you didn’t come here to Fell’s Church because Bonnie’s spell dragged you here, because I sorted the hair and I didn’t make any mistakes. You’re more like us than you admit, Damon. The only thing I don’t know is why you didn’t go into Vickie’s house to help her.”
Damon snapped, almost automatically, “Because I wasn’t invited!”
Memory swept over Bonnie. Herself standing outside Vickie’s house, Damon standing beside her. Stefan’s voice: Vickie, invite me in. But no one had invited Damon.
“But how did Klaus get in, then—?” she began, following her own thoughts.
“That was Tyler’s job, I’m sure,” Damon said tersely. “What Tyler did for Klaus in return for learning how to reclaim his heritage. And he must have invited Klaus in before we ever started guarding the house—probably before Stefan and I came to Fell’s Church. Klaus was well prepared. That night he was in the house and the girl was dead before I knew what was happening.”
“Why didn’t you call for Stefan?” Matt said. There was no accusation in his voice. It was a simple question.
“Because there was nothing he could have done! I knew what you were dealing with as soon as I saw it. An Old One. Stefan would only have gotten himself killed—and the girl was past caring, anyway.”
Bonnie heard the thread of coldness in his voice, and when Damon turned back to Stefan and Elena, his face had hardened. It was as if some decision had been made.
“You see, I’m not like you,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter.” Stefan had still not withdrawn his hand. Neither had Elena.
”
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L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #4))