Damon Salvatore

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## Biographical information

### Born

* June 18, 1839 (Mystic Falls; Age 25/178)

### Turned

* By Katherine Pierce on September 25, 1864 (transition initiated by Giuseppe Salvatore)

### Occupation

* Confederate Lieutenant Soldier of the American Civil War (1864)
* Prisoner of Augustine (1953-1958)
* College Student (Formerly)
* Leader of the Founder's Council (2010)
* Phoenix Stone Prisoner (Formerly)
* Arcadius's Soul Harvester (Formerly)
* Ordained Minister (Licensed)
* The Cure (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Dungeon Boy, Vampire Gigolo, Man Slut, Dr. Damon (all by Caroline)
* The Fun Brother, Mate (both by Klaus)
* Grandma (by Elena)
* Dick (by Jeremy and Alaric)
* Eternal Stud (by himself)
* Deputy Matt Donovan (alias)
* My Sweet Boy (by Lily)
* Hemingway, Buddy, Bro (all by Stefan)
* Older Sexy Danger Guy, Stranger (both by Bonnie)
* Honey Pie, Baby (both by Bree)
* Dude (by Logan, Jeremy and Tyler)
* Love Struck Idiot (by Anna)
* Cave Man (by Rebekah)
* My Handsome Henchman, Good Boy (Both by Sybil)
* Darling (by Kol)
* Grumpy Pants, Mate (both by Enzo)
* Gorgeous (by Kelly)

### Species

* Human
* Vampire (Niklaus' bloodline/Broken) (Cured/Formerly)
* Augustine Vampire (Cured/Formerly)
* Ghost (Formerly)
* Spirit of the Phoenix Stone (Formerly)
* Spirit (Currently)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Silas † (Distant Paternal Ancestor)
* Unnamed Doppelgängers Of Silas † (Distant Paternal Ancestors)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother)
* Stefan Salvatore † (Younger Brother)
* Caroline Forbes (Sister-In-Law)
* Unborn Niece/Nephew † (via Stefan and Valerie Tulle)
* Unnamed Paternal Half-Brother †
* Zachariah Salvatore † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zachariah's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph's Unnamed Son † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zach Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Tom Avery † (Descendant)
* Sarah Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Niece)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Adoptive Mother-In-Law)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Adoptive Father-In-Law)
* John Gilbert † (Father-In-Law)
* Isobel Flemming † (Mother-In-Law)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Brother-In-Law)
* Elena Gilbert † (Wife)

## Supernatural information

### Significant sires

* Charlotte (1942)
* Isobel Flemming † (2007)
* Vicki Donovan † (2009)
* Caroline Forbes (2010)
* Bill Forbes † (2010)
* Abby Bennett Wilson (2010)
* Elena Gilbert † (2010/Cured)

### Significant kills

* Grandma
* Deserter #1
* Samantha Gilbert (1st time)
* Charlotte (as a human)
* 12 Humans (For Valerie LaMarche)
* Joseph Salvatore
* Maggie James
* Gail
* Isobel Flemming (as a human)
* Joanne Harris
* Darren Malloy and Brooke Fenton
* Jason Harris
* William Tanner
* Zach Salvatore
* Tony, Summer, and Jared (Vicki's Stoner Friends)
* Vicki Donovan (as a human)
* Logan Fell (as a human)
* Lexi Branson (as a vampire)
* Bree
* Samantha Gibbons
* Jacob (as a vampire)
* Several Tomb Vampires (as vampires)
* Jeremy Gilbert (1st time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Alaric Saltzman (1st and 3rd time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Sheriff #2
* Mason Lockwood
* John Gilbert (1st time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Rose-Marie (as a vampire) (mercy kill)
* Jessica Cohen
* Luka Martin
* Maddox
* Greta Martin
* Abby Bennett Wilson (as a witch)
* Will (as a vampire)
* Matt Donovan (1st time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Dr. Whitmore
* Kristoff
* Rene
* Whitmore Family
* Joey (as a vampire)
* Farmer John (as a vampire)
* Wes Maxfield
* Traveler Clan
* Markos (2nd time)
* Elena Gilbert (3rd time/resurrected; as a vampire)
* Himself (1st and 6th time; as a vampire)
* Colin Phelps (as a vampire) (mercy kill)
* Kai Parker (as a hybrid/resurrected)
* Malcolm (as a hybrid)
* Ellis (as a vampire)
* Cooper
* Kyle (as a vampire)
* Unnamed Vampire (as a vampire)
* Sampson (as a vampire)
* Rayna Cruz (6th and 7th time)
* Beau (as a spirit/vampire possessing Lewis, 2nd time)
* Phoenix Stone Vampires
* Tyler Lockwood (3rd time)
* Lou
* Group Leader
* Tara

### Cause of death

* Gunshot wound to the chest (as a human)
* Explosion (as a vampire)
* Stabbed with the Phoenix Sword (2nd time, as a vampire)
* Staked (3rd, 4th, and 6th, as a vampire)
* Siphoned of Magic (5th time, as a vampire)

### Killed by

* Giuseppe Salvatore (as a human)
* Himself (1st and 6th time, as a vampire)
* Julian (2nd time, as a vampire)
* Alaric Saltzman (3rd time, as a vampire)
* Stefan Salvatore (4th time, as a vampire)
* Malachai Parker (5th time, as a vampire)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'9 ½" (Feet)
* 1.77 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played by

* Ian Somerhalder
* Gavin Casalegno (Young, age 12)

### Last seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic*

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**Damon Salvatore** is one of the two main male protagonists of *The Vampire Diaries*. Damon was a 178-year-old vampire and distant descendant of Silas. Since his younger brother, Stefan Salvatore, injected him with the Cure, he is now human. He was a major antagonist in the first part of Season One. He was born in 1839 and lived in the colonial town of Mystic Falls with his brother Stefan, his father, Giuseppe Salvatore, and also with his mother Lillian Salvatore until her death in 1858. He became a vampire in 1864. At the time of his return to Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan hadn't seen each other in fifteen years due to their bitter and violent relationship.

In the 1950s, Damon was captured and tortured by the Augustine society, led by the Whitmore family, who experimented on vampires for a "bigger purpose". During his five years of captivity, he met another prisoner, Enzo, with whom he became best friends. Eventually, the plan the two made failed at a critical moment and, thinking that Enzo "died" because of him, Damon turned off his humanity to suppress the guilt and sadness. He sought revenge, an act of hunting down every member over generations that left one alive to carry on the family name until he finally killed the last descendant in the Whitmore family, which ended with Aaron Whitmore's death.

Damon's sole purpose in coming back to Mystic Falls was to free his sire Katherine Pierce from a tomb she was never in. Damon deeply loved her after 145 years. After realizing that Katherine never loved him, his love for her faded as his friendship and love for Elena, Katherine's descendant and doppelgänger, grew. Due to her impact on him and the strengthening relationship with his brother, they began working together to protect Elena, along with her friends and family. He lived with his brother Stefan, girlfriend Elena (when she wasn't away at college), and her brother Jeremy Gilbert (after Elena burned their house down) in the Salvatore Boarding House.

In the Season Three, Damon filled the role as a deuteragonist in the first half of the season due to Stefan falling prey to Klaus.

Throughout the series, his bond with Elena continuously grew and they eventually fell in love with each other. Shortly after her death and subsequent transition into a vampire, Elena's feelings for Damon were heightened which made her admit her love for him and they started a romantic relationship in Season Four. The relationship was complicated when they realized that, due to the fact that it was Damon's blood that turned Elena, she was sire-bonded to him, so nobody was sure whether Elena's feelings for Damon were real or because of the sire bond, but most of the people they knew insisted that, once the sire bond was broken, Elena would return to Stefan. When Jeremy died, Elena turned off her emotions; after she turned them back on, the sire bond was broken and Elena revealed that her feelings for Damon were real and she was still in love with him.

In Season Five, he discovered Enzo's undead status and they became friends once again. However, once "Elena" broke up with him, he put an end to his diabolical plan against the Whitmore family and was then injected with a dangerous compound by Wes Maxfield, causing him to become the only Augustine Vampire in existence. This injection caused him to crave vampire blood and he would not be able to stop feeding until he had killed. He was later cured, thanks to Enzo, Stefan, and Caroline's actions. Due to the Other Side collapsing, Damon gave up his life to save his loved ones and this caused Elena, Stefan, and Alaric much grief.

In Season Six, Damon and Bonnie were trapped in a 1994 Prison World, which Damon initially believed was his own personal hell, as they were continually reliving a day from his history that Damon believed was the worst thing he ever did. Bonnie was convinced her grandmother sent them there and that there was a way out. They worked together to find a way back to Mystic Falls. They also formed an alliance to take down Kai. During this time, he was able to form a healthy friendship with Bonnie, and they were able to move on from their past and become friends. When Bonnie had a chance to send him home, leaving herself alone with Kai, she did so. Damon initially believed Bonnie was killed in the process, but when he realized she was still alive, he became determined to find a way to bring her back. After returning home, he learned that Elena had Alaric compel away all her memories of their relationship and he attempted to win her back. Damon soon learned of Liz's sickness and, soon after, she passed away in the hospital in front of him, leaving him devastated. He was soon reunited with Bonnie who made it out of the prison world and showed him a video of a mysterious lady, who turned out to be Damon's mother. Bonnie had managed to escape the 1994 prison world by going to Nova Scotia and regaining her magic through Qetsiyah's calcified blood in Silas' tombstone. She also picked up the Cure for vampirism and gave it to him, who in turned gave it to Elena. He expressed the desire to take the Cure with her too and become human. At the end of the season, Kai placed Elena under a sleeping curse and tied the spell to Bonnie's life, which was supposed to keep the now human Elena in a mystical coma until Bonnie died; until then Elena would remain asleep. Damon was devastated by this and said a difficult goodbye to Elena as they locked her in a coffin while his best friend, Bonnie, lived out her remaining days.

As of Season Eight's *I Was Feeling Epic*, Bonnie managed to break the spell, allowing Elena to wake up, while not killing herself in the process due to the spell, and Damon being able to reunite with her. In the final flash forward, the newly human Damon married Elena Gilbert and they lived a long and happy life together before passing away and finding peace.

His best friends are Elena Gilbert, Alaric Saltzman and Bonnie Bennett. He was close friends with Elizabeth Forbes until her death. His friendship with his sister-in-law, Caroline Forbes, has improved during the last season and they now consider themselves as close friends. Damon was also best friends with Enzo from the time he first met him, until the latter was killed by Stefan, despite the two occasionally being at odds.

**Damon** is a member of the **Salvatore Family** and was a member of the **Town Council**.

## Early History

* Human Life
* 1850s
* 1863
* 1864
* 1912
* 1942
* 1953-1958
* 1960
* 1977
* 1994
* 2007

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Damon Salvatore was born on June 18, 1839, to Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore in what would eventually become the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the oldest and firstborn child of Giuseppe and Lillian. During his human years, Damon was seen and described to be rebellious, carefree, emotional, independent, troubled, insecure, misunderstood, principled, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. People of the town of Mystic Falls even described Damon to be irresponsible and cowardly, including his own father Giuseppe. The reason for this is because Damon rebelled against the town's and his own father's wish, by leaving the Confederacy on his own terms during the time of the Civil War after an inspiring conversation with Oscar, one of the Heretics that his mother sent to look after her sons.

In his human years, when it came to love, Damon was always seen to be the chaser and the pursuer, the opposite of Stefan, who appeared to be harder to get and challenging with women, especially in regards to Katherine. Damon during his human years also displayed womanizing tendencies. Damon and his father, Giuseppe, never got along or had a good, close relationship and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in the elder Salvatore. Despite his very strained relationship with Giuseppe during his human life, Damon was very close to his younger brother Stefan and they shared a very close relationship and bond. Damon described Stefan as his best friend or companion and the person who trusted the most. However, the brothers eventually became strained after Katherine Pierce came into their lives and both brothers started to compete fiercely for Katherine's affections, with both of the brothers not being aware of Katherine playing them against one another. He was turned into a vampire in 1864, when he was 25 years old after he drank Katherine Pierce's blood willingly and was shot by his father, Giuseppe, after attempting to save Katherine from being buried burned in Fell's Church.

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When he was 12 years old, his father was very abusive towards him, burning him with a cigarette at a thanksgiving dinner. In his father's eyes, it was a lesson for his elder son, as he thought that Damon had stolen his money. Damon, over 150 years later, learned that it was his mother who stole Giuseppe's money in order to run from her abusive husband and that she planned on taking Stefan and Damon with her, but the plan failed, as Giuseppe found out about it.

At the age of 17, in late May 1858, his mother died of consumption (he later learns in 2013 this was not the case). Damon had promised Stefan that he would write his mother's eulogy and say it at his mother's funeral. Just before the funeral, Damon comes to Stefan and helps him get dressed. Stefan says that their father told him not to cry. Damon replies that he is a child and that if he feels the need to cry that he is allowed. Saying all of this, Damon doesn't even go to the funeral. Instead, he got wasted, returned to his younger brother who was angry with him for not showing up.
As a young man, Damon joined the Confederate Army on his father's order, to defend the South during the American Civil War. However, Damon secretly hated everything the South stood for and had been planning to desert for some time before his squad joined the army at Gettysburg. The only thing stopping Damon was fear of Giuseppe's disapproval. Eventually, he met a man named Oscar who convinced him to follow his own beliefs rather than his father's. That night, Damon deserted while his squad was decimated during the following battle.

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It is uncertain how or when Damon found out that Katherine was a vampire, but unlike Stefan, he did not fear or reject her and willingly drank her blood. She once demonstrated to him one of her tricks for securing victims, which was lying in the middle of a road to stop any travelers that may come to pass. Though he showed an initial hesitance, Damon even kissed her while a victim's blood still stained her lips.

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Damon wanted to give up his human life and spend eternity with Katherine, and he begged Stefan to keep the secret from their father, who was a member of the Founder's Council and a vampire-hater. When Stefan inadvertently revealed that Katherine was a vampire, she was taken away by the townspeople. Their father was furious and scolded Damon for trying to conceal her secret and protect her. Damon was furious with Stefan, but Stefan agreed to work with him to rescue her. In the midst of their daring plan, they were both shot and killed by Giuseppe, who was ashamed of his sons for sympathizing with and loving a vampire. They both died with Katherine's blood in their systems, but Damon awakened first and witnessed the burning of Fell's Church, where the townspeople had imprisoned the vampires, including Katherine.

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When Stefan awoke the next morning, Damon told him that Katherine's death meant his reason for living was gone, and he wouldn't complete his transition into a vampire. Later that day, when Stefan returned after being unable to resist feeding on his own father, and inadvertently completing the transition, he forced Damon to drink from a young woman's neck, causing Damon to also complete his transition. He promised Stefan an eternity of misery, not for making him turn but for the fact that Katherine had turned Stefan as well, instead of just Damon. At some point Damon received a daylight ring from Emily Bennett. She told Damon that she had spared the vampires in the church, which Damon kept secret from Stefan until 145 years later when he would be able to free Katherine from the church.

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Damon saw Stefan in 1912 for the first time in 48 years since they transitioned; both had returned to Mystic Falls for their nephew's funeral. After initial hesitation, Damon agreed to have a drink with Stefan and catch up. When he was feeding on a human alone, the vampire Sage found him and commented on his lack of enjoyment for the feed. Damon seemed content to feed just enough to survive, but Sage encouraged him to enjoy it, to take pleasure in being a vampire. Once he was persuaded, he tried to get Stefan to enjoy the feed and talked him into feeding on human blood again. Stefan fed so hard on his victim that he tore her head off, shocking both brothers. Furious with Damon for making him drink human blood, he ran off and Damon did not pursue him.

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Damon was living in New Orleans with a vampire he had turned named Charlotte. Damon soon noticed a pattern of strange behavior from the woman, in that every order he gave her, even seemingly innocuous ones, she followed with frightening enthusiasm. He sought guidance from the witch Valerie LaMarche to break the sire bond between him and Charlotte, and the witch told him she needed a human sacrifice of 12 people to do the spell. Damon killed the 12 people, but could not find Val to perform the spell he needed. He ended up ordering Charlotte to count every brick on every building in New Orleans and meet him at the corner of Bourbon and Dumaine. He left New Orleans soon after.

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Stefan and Lexi found Damon while he was in New Orleans. At Lexi's insistence, Stefan sought to make peace with his brother before shipping out to the North African front of the war. After an initial hesitance, Damon seemed happy to reunite with his brother after thirty years apart, and the two spent the evening talking. Damon even suggested he might join Stefan and leave for war with him, but Lexi made it clear she did not approve of the idea. Her concerns seemed warranted especially after Charlotte brought a bleeding victim to the bar where they were talking and Stefan started to lose it at the sight and smell of human blood. Later, Damon was all ready to ship out with Stefan when Lexi talked him out of it, citing his profligate lifestyle and how Damon's behavior would not be good for Stefan's rehabilitation. Realizing she might be right, Damon decided not to go and he left the train station without explaining to Stefan.

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In 1953, Joseph Salvatore lured Damon to Mystic Falls in order to hand him over to Dr. Whitmore. After Joseph injected Damon with vervain, Damon killed him, but Dr. Whitmore entered the room shortly after and injected Damon with another dose of vervain. When he woke up he was strapped to a table and Dr. Whitmore cut one of his eyes out, in order to experiment and study vampire healing abilities. Damon was brought to a cell and in the cell next to him was another vampire named Enzo. The two vampires bonded and it was Enzo's friendship that allowed Damon to hold on to his humanity. Dr. Whitmore continued to torture and perform experiments on him and he called him 21051.

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Every year Whitmore would show the rest of Augustine Damon and Enzo and demonstrate his research on the annual New Year's Party. Enzo then came up with a plan for one of the two would drink the other blood ration in order to build up his strength until the coming New Year's Eve. Damon was the lucky one and when the next New Year's Eve Party came he broke free from his chains and he slaughtered every member of Augustine while the building was set ablaze. Enzo was still trapped in his cage and Damon tried to free him, but the cage bars were soaked with vervain and couldn't get him out. Damon knew that if he was going to save himself he had to stop caring about Enzo so he turned his humanity switch off. Now not caring he left Enzo to burn alive. After finally being free from five years of torture, Damon kept the promise he made to Enzo to kill every member in the Whitmore family, but one and let that person have a family and kill them too but one and to the same thing again and again. Damon did exactly that and among the ones he killed were Aaron Whitmore's parents and Aaron was among the ones that he kept alive.

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It had been two years since Damon escaped the Augustine cell, and he still had his humanity switched off. On November 8, 1960, during Election night, a lady asked Damon for an interview. She asked him questions related to the terrible fire at Whitmore House and then tried to attack him with a vervain injection, but Damon easily stopped her. When he found out that she was an Augustine member he ripped her head off. Decades later Damon finds out that the girl he killed was actually Enzo's one true love, Maggie James.

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Damon lived in New York City during the '70s, where he maintained a wild life full of parties and feeding off of people. At the time, he still had his humanity switch off and he killed locals of New York; a soon to be fed upon victim asked if he was the Son of Sam, to which Damon replied, "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough". Damon was friends with Will, another vampire, who ran a bar and let Damon feed on the people there, while in exchange, Damon stole his victim's IDs for him.

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Lexi had eventually found Damon and told him that she and Stefan had heard all about Damon's current life and that Stefan was worried for him. Lexi tried to help Damon get his humanity back, but Damon rejected her offer. However, Lexi was stubborn and she stuck with Damon for the following six months. She had gotten Damon to talk about Katherine Pierce, thinking that if he talked about her, his switch would flip on. Damon tricked Lexi into thinking that his humanity was back and the two had a night full of wild sex.

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The next morning, Lexi woke up on a roof because the sunlight was burning her skin. She tried to escape by opening the door to get into Billy's, but it was locked. Then she found out the truth: Damon had tricked her. Damon told her that it was his way of getting back at her for annoying him for the past six months. He ditched Lexi on the roof thereafter, leaving her trapped until nightfall. It was revealed in *The Cell*, that Damon turned off his humanity in the 1950s because he couldn't deal with the pain of leaving Enzo behind while escaping from the Augustine Society.

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In April 1994 (after Kurt Cobain died), Damon with his humanity still off, showed up on Stefan's doorstep, wanting to make amends. Zach Salvatore, the owner of the house and their nephew, allowed Damon in on Stefan's promise that he would keep him in line. Zach had been living with Gail who was pregnant with his child. Stefan warned Damon to stay away from them, claiming that both of them were on vervain.

One day, at a party, Damon flirted with a young Liz Forbes. Stefan took a picture of Zach and Gail and noticed bite marks on Gail's wrist. He then confronted Damon about feeding on Gail and after Damon compelled Liz to forget ever meeting him, Damon breezily confessed that he swapped out Zach and Gail's vervain coffee for a little in-house feeding. An angry Stefan reminded Damon that they trusted them and then snapped his neck.

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Damon woke up in the shed without his daylight ring. Stefan wanted to know what Damon was really doing there and Damon said he wanted to feel a connection to his humanity again. He tried to convince Stefan to go on a road trip with him. Instead, Stefan reminded Damon of all the times he had ruined his life and how he could not seem to help but do it. Damon got that there would be no road trip for them.

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On May 10, 1994, Stefan and Zach heard screams and rushed to the library to find bodies everywhere and Damon covered in blood, holding Gail hostage. He demanded his daylight ring back from Stefan, who returned it, realizing he would never be rid of Damon. Damon gave his own version of their past. Damon said, *"In 1912, I showed you who you were, Stefan. In 1942 I gave you your freedom and in 1977 I almost killed your best friend because it should have been you there to help me. You owe me. It'll take you an eternity to pay me back."*. Then he killed Gail by attacking her and left.
Damon turned Isobel Flemming into a vampire after she asked to be turned by him. He would later meet and fall in love with her daughter, Elena Gilbert, who would also be turned into a vampire by his blood but not on purpose.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6
* Season 7
* Season 8

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Upon arriving in Mystic Falls, Damon torments his brother Stefan by constantly threatening Stefan's new love interest, Elena Gilbert. He remarks that Elena is a "dead ringer" for the brothers' former shared love, Katherine Pierce. He also displays his strength in comparison with Stefan, pointing out how much of a disadvantage it is for Stefan to drink only animal blood.
In *Pilot*, Damon claims his first two victims at the very opening of the episode but makes his presence known in a more theatrical way by attacking Vicki Donovan in the woods. Later, when Elena visits the Salvatore Boarding House in search of Stefan, Damon is there instead, and he implies that his brother is on the "rebound" from a recently lost love. When Elena leaves, Damon taunts Stefan because it is harder for him to effectively compel Vicki Donovan to forget a vampire attacked her. In the end of *The Night of the Comet*, Damon charms and beds young Caroline Forbes, a friend of Elena's, ending the night by viciously biting her neck and feeding from her.

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In *Friday Night Bites*, Damon drives Caroline to her cheerleading practice, having compelled her to keep his secret and to be unafraid of him. He also takes her to dinner at Elena's house, antagonizing Stefan as he continues to fill Elena's head with lies about Katherine. Elena surprises him by asking which one of the Salvatores dated Katherine first, and she renders him speechless by telling him that she was sorry, because he lost her, too. Later that same night, Damon follows Elena to the parking lot before the football game and attempts to compel her to kiss him, but due to her vervain necklace, she is free of his influence and slaps him in the face. Angered, Damon confronts Stefan on his way to the field, but he's further enraged when Stefan claims that he still has humanity in him. Damon responds by killing William Tanner, who is Stefan's football coach and teacher of Elena. That night, when Stefan is writing about how there is nothing good left in Damon, Damon is in Elena's room, gazing at her and stroking her cheek.

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In *Family Ties*, Damon wakes Stefan by manipulating his dreams and creating a nightmare in which Elena becomes the older Salvatore's next victim. He claims that he can do this because of Stefan's animal blood diet. Stefan responds by throwing a knife into Damon's chest, something Damon doesn't seem to feel, and though Damon admits he deserves it, he later stabs Stefan back for ruining one of his John Varvatos shirts. He also used a large mountain lion to cover up his murders, saying he would be staying in town for a while. He's later shown lounging in Caroline's room reading a book from the Twilight series, expressing his distaste for how 'whipped' the character Edward is. When asked why he doesn't 'sparkle' in the sun, he replies that he has a ring, and that it protects him. Caroline wonders if the bite-marks covering her body will turn her into a vampire, and Damon describes the process of turning as an 'ordeal,' explaining it to her casually. Damon also reveals his extreme disregard for human life in this episode: When Caroline asks him if he's going to kill her, he calmly tells her that he will, but not yet. Later in this same episode, Damon is reading on the couch when Zach approaches, asking him why he's in Mystic Falls. When Zach angers him by saying that he always has a motive, Damon holds him up by his neck, further displaying his volatile personality. Stefan arrives to spare Zach before Damon kills him.
Damon also expresses his pleasure with never growing old while getting ready to attend the Founder's Party. He nearly drinks alcohol spiked with vervain, a part of Stefan's plan to disable him, and remarks that, going to the party angry, "Who knows what I'll do?" At the party, Damon is first invited into the Lockwood Mansion by Carol Lockwood. He appears behind Stefan and Elena just as Elena is reading both of their names on the original registry for the First Founder's Party. Elena expresses interest in hearing more about Stefan and Damon's lineage and, as he's compelled her to distract Stefan, Caroline requests to dance with the younger Salvatore. Left alone with Elena, Damon begins with a very mocking apology, and he spins a tale about the 'original' Salvatore brothers. He says that someone they loved very much was burned in the church during the Battle of Willow Creek, and that when the brothers went to rescue the woman, they were both shot. Later, Damon leads Caroline upstairs and takes a yellow crystal from a secret compartment in one of the objects on displays; a large wooden box. He says he put it there a long time ago. He seems to blend into the party until Elena sees the bites on Caroline's back and confronts him, threatening to go to Caroline's mother. Angered by this, Damon takes Caroline out near the lake. He claims to forgive her, but then says he's over her and bites her neck. He didn't realize that Stefan had spiked her drink while dancing with her, and that he'd just consumed enough vervain to render him harmless. Stefan took him back to the Salvatore mansion, injected him with more vervain, and locked him in the dungeon under their home.
In *You're Undead To Me*, Damon manages to establish a weak mental connection to Caroline, despite being locked in the dungeon under Salvatore Boarding House. He contacts her first in her room, though this proved rather ineffective, and then again in the hallway at Mystic Falls High School, while she was getting more towels for the Sexy Suds Car Wash. She comes all the way to the boarding house and attempts to release Damon, though Zach tries to keep him locked up. Damon snaps Zach's neck and chases Caroline through the house, though he's severely weakened and unable to walk in the sun because Stefan took his daylight ring. He waits until nightfall to stalk a group of young people, including former victim Vicki Donovan, and kill all of them, excluding Vicki herself.
In *Lost Girls* continues with Damon feeding on his new victims and burning their corpses, using one of their arms to wipe the blood from his mouth. Strangely enough, these actions were performed outside of a crypt with the word 'Salvatore' carved in it. Damon calls Stefan as he burns the dead, demanding to have his daylight ring returned, going so far as to threaten Elena's life.

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After hanging up with Stefan, Damon finds that one body isn't burning, but when he goes to set her on fire, he realized that Vicki is still alive. Damon seems intrigued by her resilience, and he takes her back to the Salvatore Boarding House, where he feeds her his blood to heal her. This episode (during Stefan's story to Elena), also shows Damon and Stefan playing an early version of football in front of their home in 1864, only to be interrupted by Katherine. In the present, Damon feeds Vicki more of his blood while also feeding on her, and the two of their get drunk together and begin dancing around the house. They end up in Stefan's room, where Damon tears things from their places as he moves around. The two start slow-dancing, at which point Damon snaps Vicki's neck. When she wakes up, he tells her that she must feed to completely the 'process,' but, smiling, he suggests she go to Jeremy's house, where he knows Elena will be. He even shows up there later, forcing his way inside and sarcastically warning Elena about who she invites in. When Stefan is shot by Logan Fell, who was using the Gilbert Compass to track down vampires, Damon appears, kills Logan, and extracts the wooden bullet from Stefan's chest, though he demands to have his daylight ring back. He seems uncaring when Vicki feeds on Logan's body, completing her transition into a vampire.
In *Haunted*, when Stefan is trying to help Vicki adjust to her new life, Damon acts offended that the murder of Logan Fell isn't in the newspaper, and he says that someone is covering it up. He also tells Vicki about the compass he took from Logan. He also taunts Stefan about giving Vicki animal blood, and when he opens the front door to find Elena standing there, he acts arrogantly toward her. Later in the episode, Damon invites Vicki outside, where the Salvatores lose her in the forest, and while the events at the Halloween Party take place, Damon sits down with Carol Lockwood. When he tells her his last name, she wonders if there is a relation to Zach Salvatore, but when he attempts to compel her to tell him how she knows Zach, he realizes she's wearing a vervain bracelet, which keeps him out of her mind. He doesn't relent in his quest for information, mentioning the vervain to get Carol talking freely to him. When she mentions the Town Council, Damon seems interested, but Carol quickly changes the subject. Damon continues his relentless flirting and manages to find out how they're eliminating names on the 'vampire suspect' list: Anyone who arrived at the Founder's Party during the day was eliminated, which would include Damon and Stefan. He offers to escort her to the school, where he runs into Bonnie. He asks her where Caroline is specifically to antagonize her, but then he realizes she's wearing the yellow crystal he took it at the Founder's Party. He tries to take it, but it burns his hand when he touches it and Bonnie runs away from him. Stefan calls Damon after he's forced to stake Vicki, and when Damon shows up, he finds Elena sitting beside her body. His cool demeanor enrages Elena and she tries to hit him, but he catches her hand. He tells her that none of this matters to him, so when he releases her, she slaps him. Damon seems angered, but he remains calm as he tells her that she needs to leave because of the blood coming from her wounds. He later shows up on Elena's porch, offering to erase Jeremy's memory because Stefan's diet prevents him from effectively compelling humans. Elena accepts his offer in order to help "Jer".

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In *162 Candles*, Damon first appears beside Stefan's napping guest, Lexi Branson, who has come to town for Stefan's birthday. She expresses immediate displeasure when she sees him, remarking that he's "only the bad parts" of being a vampire. When he gets too close, Lexi pins him to the bed and tells him not to ruin her time with Stefan, threatening him with bodily harm. He later goes to Sheriff Forbes' office to deliver a package of vervain, supposedly in Zach's stead. Damon uses this to get more facts about the Founder's Council, and to put himself in their 'small circle.' He also encounters Caroline at the school and compels her to throw a party at the grill so he can make sure Stefan and Lexi show up. He speaks to Elena, who has concerns about what he compelled Jeremy to believe, though he insists that he only "took away his suffering."

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To further antagonize his brother and give the Town Council a scapegoat, Damon kills a man in the alley near the Mystic Grill and compels a woman to tell everyone it was Lexi that killed her companion. When they remove Lexi from the bar, she breaks free of the sheriffs and attempts to kill Sheriff Forbes, who repeatedly shoots her in the chest. Damon arrives and stakes her, much to the shock and surprise of Stefan and Elena. Stefan later attacks Damon in their home and stakes him in the stomach, which, for a moment, makes Damon believe that his brother actually killed him. Stefan says he's only sparing him because he saved his life, but he's done with him.
In *History Repeating*, Damon shows regret for killing Lexi and attempts to apologize to Stefan, declaring he won't feed on a human for at least a week. While the two are sarcastically impersonating one another, Stefan tries to get Damon to tell him why he's returned to Mystic Falls. Damon immediately shuts down and leaves, taunting Stefan once more on his way out. Later in the day, Damon steps up his harassment of Bonnie in an attempt to get his yellow crystal back. He also reveals that he knew Bonnie's ancestor Emily Bennett, who has been haunting Bonnie through her dreams. He tells Bonnie to relay to Emily that "a deal's a deal." When he encounters Stefan at the Mystic Grill later, he refers to Stefan's personality as a ‘lesser place' while impersonating him. The two brothers engage in a game of darts, where Stefan continually tries to get the truth out of Damon.

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They also play a short game of football, during which Stefan tries to convince his brother that their love for Katherine wasn't real. He asks Damon what he wants with Katherine's crystal (the yellow crystal he'd been pursuing so long), and Stefan also reveals that he was the last one to see Katherine the night she was taken away. Damon finally reveals his motivation for returning to their birthplace: "I'm gonna bring her back." He explains that he went to the witch Emily Bennett and begged her to spare Katherine, so the witch magically sealed Katherine in a tomb beneath Fell's Church. He also says that, in order to gather the power into the crystal, Emily used the comet passing overhead that night. Damon even says that the only reason he didn't kill Bonnie to take the crystal is because he promised Emily he would protect her family. When Elena calls Stefan to tell him about Bonnie leaving with the crystal, Damon overhears and vanishes from behind his brother. He confronts Emily (in Bonnie's body) in the woods near Fell's Church. When he nears her, she uses magic to throw him into a tree, where he's speared by a broken tree branch. Stefan arrives and pulls Damon down, but he's shocked to learn that instead of just Katherine, Emily saved twenty-seven vampires in the tomb, which is the reason she stands in the center of the clearing and destroys the crystal. Emily immediately leaves Bonnie's body, but, enraged, Damon bites her. He's seen in the background, grieving the destruction of the crystal, apparently in a state of shock. He's seen again in the very end of the episode, sitting by the church staring sadly into space.
In *The Turning Point*, Damon and Stefan seem to have decided to leave Mystic Falls, but Damon continues to be humorous about it, suggesting they try out for the 'Amazing Race.' Sheriff Forbes rings the doorbell while they talk, requesting to speak to Damon. She tells him of another vampire attack and asks him what he thinks they should do. The moment he re-enters the house, Stefan assumes that he's killed someone, but Damon denies it. He taunts Stefan by seeming to care little about the 'new vampire in town': "What do we care? We're leaving anyway, right?" Not following his own humor, Damon gets Caroline to use the Gilbert Compass to track down the vampire, and they end up at an abandoned warehouse.

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Damon enters, but is shot multiple times by the newly transitioned Logan Fell, who accuses Damon of turning him into a vampire. Logan keeps him there, questioning him about vampires, but Damon refuses to tell him how he can walk in the sun. After Logan leaves, Stefan and Damon talk on the phone and Damon tells Stefan what happened to him in the warehouse. The two brothers team up and ambush Logan, who has kidnapped Caroline and planned to turn her into a vampire. After Stefan leaves, Damon interrogates Logan and Logan reveals that he knows about the tomb beneath the church. Expressing interest but pressed for time, Damon tells him to pretend to attack him and then get away so they can meet up later. When Damon goes to the church to meet him, he's shocked by a call from Sheriff Forbes, who thanks him for leaving Logan's body.

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In *Bloodlines*, Damon starts of the episode with a bang when he rescues Elena from her crashed SUV. When she awakens, Damon reveals that they're in Georgia. He takes her to Bree's Bar, where he reveals that he's known Bree since she was a college freshman, and that she's a witch. While Elena's on the phone, Damon questions Bree about another way to open the tomb, and he's disappointed to find that there is no other way. When she calls Stefan, Damon goes outside and asks if she's okay, to which she responds, cautiously, "Don't pretend to care." Inside, the two both eat a plate of fries with a burger while Damon explains that Elena can't possibly be descended from Katherine, because Katherine never had a child.

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He also tells her that vampires can't procreate, and that as long as he keeps a healthy supply of blood in his system, his body functions normally (to digest human food). The two end up getting drunk together and doing shots at the bar, where Elena gets very, very intoxicated. Damon's later seen at the bar, where Bree asks him where Elena is. She seems to have vanished, but when Damon goes looking for her, he falls into the trap of Lexi's vengeful vampire boyfriend, who was originally understood to be human. Elena manages to save Damon's life by talking about Lexi, but, angry that Bree betrayed him and sent the vampire to kill him, Damon goes back to Bree's Bar and confronts her. She attempts to spare her life by telling Damon that there is one more way to get into the tomb, through Emily's Grimoire, essentially the book she uses to write down her spells. Damon kills by ripping her heart out. On the ride home, Elena points out that she saved Damon's life. At the very end of the episode, Damon goes to the Mystic Grill and requests a bourbon at the bar, where the new history teacher Alaric Saltzman also happens to be sitting. Alaric has a flashback of Damon killing his wife, Isobel.
In *Unpleasantville*, Damon is first seen rummaging through the Salvatore library, where Stefan confronts Damon for taking Elena to Georgia. He later encounters Bonnie at the Mystic Grill, saying "we need a fresh start." She warns him to stay away from her, but the conversation is ended by Ben McKittrick, who comes to Bonnie's 'rescue.' Later he's seen writing the names of the town's founders, and Stefan brings him their father's journal, saying he knew Damon was looking for it. Stefan assures him that the journal has nothing helpful in it, but offers his help to Damon if only Damon will leave Mystic Falls. Suspicious of his motives, Damon rejects his offer. Damon also answers Stefan's phone when Elena calls, telling her that Stefan is on his way (relieving her worry that another vampire is in her home).

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Damon comes over after Elena is attacked, and the two of them, realizing that he was invited in and therefore able to harm her at any time, decide to go to the 50s Decade Dance to hunt the vampire down. Alaric notices Damon enter with Elena and Stefan. Damon later sarcastically asks Bonnie to dance, though he still seems to be trying to reconcile with her. He then asks Elena to dance, but she dances with Stefan instead. While Damon is watching the two of them dance, he's approached by Alaric, who wonders about his presence there. He asks Damon a long series of questions, but when they become too personal, Damon becomes suspicious and stops answering, which leads to Alaric leaving. Damon's seen dancing with a blonde girl later, and Elena remarks, "You really can't take him anywhere, can you?" When her vampire stalker attacks her, Damon and Stefan come to Elena's rescue, but Damon notices Alaric lingering near the cafeteria door. When he confronts him, he attempts to compel him to tell him what he knows, and satisfied that he knows nothing, Damon leaves him there. It is revealed that Alaric has vervain crushed in his fist to keep Damon out of his mind, indicating that he was prepared for Damon to confront him.
In *Children of the Damned*, Damon is first seen in a flashback to 1864, where he and Katherine feed on a stagecoach full of people. In the present, Damon is sitting on the end of Stefan's bed when Stefan and Elena wake up, happy to team up with them. He tells them they need to find Johnathan Gilbert's Journal, which will hold the location of the Grimoire. In flashbacks, Damon is revealed to have a particular distaste for his father's opinion, while in the present, he's in the Gilbert House talking to Jenna Sommers. When Elena arrives, the two of them talk in the kitchen, and Damon questions the absence of Stefan. He asks Elena if he can trust Stefan's help, asking her, for once, without sarcasm.

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This episode flashes again to Stefan and Damon in 1864, when Damon's trust for Stefan was first broken. In the present, he and Jeremy are playing a video game. Stefan arrives and tells him that the Gilbert Journal was missing. Damon realizes that Jeremy also knew where the journal was, so he asks him who he showed it to. When he reveals that Anna knew about the journal, Damon takes him to meet her at the Grill. Damon follows Anna back to her hotel room and attacks her, but as they're at equal strength, he relents and they both release each other. While Elena and Stefan are digging up Giuseppe Salvatore's grave, Damon realizes that the grimoire will be in his father's grave. He confronts Stefan and Elena at the grave, finding that they've betrayed him and they were going to stop him from bringing Katherine back. Damon declares that he can only trust himself, though he seems hurt by the fact that Elena had him fooled (earlier she told him he could trust her). In order to get the grimoire from Stefan, Damon feeds Elena his blood and threatens to turn her into a vampire. Once he has the book, the others leave and Damon recalls how he and Stefan were both killed trying to save Katherine.
In *Fool Me Once*, Stefan comes to Damon after Elena is kidnapped, but Damon refuses to help, not even giving up the location of Anna's motel room. He tells Stefan that he hopes Elena dies. He goes to Bonnie's grandmother, Sheila Bennett, looking for Bonnie, but when he threatens her, she uses her magic to immobilize him. Anna suggests that Damon and she work together, but when she threatens Elena's life, he agrees to it. When Elena comes to Damon later, requesting they work together again, she takes off her vervain necklace so he'll know she's honest. She also asks him why he didn't use compulsion on her in Georgia, to which Damon replies, "I wanted it to be real."

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He puts her necklace back on and tells her that he's going to trust her. They gather in the tomb, and when the door is finally opened, Damon takes Elena inside to make sure they won't close the door back on him. He searches the inside with a blood-bag in his hand for Katherine, and he's devastated and enraged to find that she's not there. He throws the blood at the wall, where it splatters, and he nearly refuses to leave the tomb. It takes both Stefan and Elena to coax him outside, where he stares vacantly into space. Elena comes over and says that she's sorry, and she hugs him, though he seems too numb to react. He later appears in Anna's hotel room, threatening her mother, Pearl, who was retrieved from the tomb, and confronting Anna about knowing Katherine wasn't in the tomb. Pearl tells him that Katherine got away, and Anna points out that Katherine always knew where he was, but didn't care. Stefan finds his older brother sitting by the fire, staring into the flames. He sits nearby, but doesn't speak.
In *A Few Good Men*, Damon is in a take of near-constant intoxication, indulging in compelled college girls with loud rock music playing in the Salvatore Boarding House. When confronted by Stefan, Damon gives him a drunken speech about freedom, claiming that he's perfectly alright. Stefan questions him about a woman named Isobel, though Damon doesn't seem to remember her. He says "Nothing is important. Not anymore." He speaks to Alaric again at the bar, though he still seems suspicious of him. Sheriff Forbes comes to sit with Damon, hoping he'll be one of the bachelors in the Bachelor Auction. Later, he tells Elena that he'll be doing the auction, and, too drunk to do it himself, he asks her to button his shirt. He also say "she left you, she sucks" instead of listening to Elena's news about finding her birth mother. Stefan questions Damon again about Isobel, and this time Damon realizes that someone else must want to know. When Alaric mentions his dead wife, Damon realizes the connection between Stefan's questioning and decides to torment Alaric about it. Little does he know, the woman he killed was Elena's birth mother, and when she confronts him about it, he reacts with extreme surprise. Later, in the boarding house, Alaric demands to know what Damon did to his wife and where she is. When he attacks Damon, Damon stabs him, killing him. He sits on the couch by the body until Stefan arrives, at which point he claims self-defense and leaves.

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In *There Goes the Neighborhood*, Damon is visited in his home by Anna and her mother, Pearl. Realizing she's stronger than him, he sits down and listens to her. She reveals that some of the twenty-five vampires in the tomb are living with them in a farmhouse just outside of town. She also knows about the Town Council and wants a list of their names. She wants their supply of vervain to stop as well. It's Pearl's plan to re-take Mystic Falls, and to get him to help her, she offers him Katherine's location. He says that he doesn't want to see Katherine, but to further convince him, she pushes both of his eyes in, threatening his life. He later meets Kelly Donovan, the mother of Matt Donovan and Vicki Donovan at the Mystic Grill, soon joined by Jenna. The three of them sit down and start drinking. Jenna leaves when Damon and Kelly begin flirting more heavily, and somehow the two of them end up at the Salvatore Boarding House, where Stefan, Elena, Matt, and Caroline happen to be on a double-date. The kids see them making out, which ruins their night. Stefan and Damon remain at the house and are soon attacked by Frederick and Bethanne, two tomb vampires. Stefan manages to kill Bethanne, which sends Frederick running.
In *Let The Right One In*, Damon is at the boarding house, where Damon, Stefan, and Elena are discussing what to do about the tomb vampires. Damon storms out after Elena calls him a "self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities." When Stefan later goes missing, Damon appears at Elena's house worried that neither of them have heard from the younger Salvatore. He and Elena drive out to the farmhouse, where Damon demands Frederick let his brother go. He's unable to enter the house because of a human resident.

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She has been compelled to never invite Damon into the house. When he comes back to the car, he and Elena meet in the rain; Elena wants to go in on her own, but Damon stops her out of concern for her safety. The two of them go to Alaric, and Damon lies to Alaric by insinuating that Pearl would know something about Isobel because of her connection to Katherine. Damon continually refuses Elena's attempts to help them, eventually allowing her to drive the 'get-away car.' During the mission to save his brother, Damon manages to kill several vampires without being badly injured, and when Elena and Stefan leave together, he and Alaric remain behind to face the tomb vampires. Pearl comes back before they're attacked, admitting that she had no idea Stefan was being tortured, and that it shouldn't have happened. He's at the bar at the end of the episode, admitting to Alaric that he lied about Isobel. Alaric punched him and left the bar, but Damon seemed rather unaffected. Damon comes home to find Stefan devouring as many blood-bags as possible.
In *Under Control*, Damon tries to coax Stefan to drink human blood to get his strength back. He even leaves his glass full of blood behind and sarcastically runs back to get it, smirking. Damon is later seen attending a Town Council meeting, where he first encounters Elena's uncle, John Gilbert. After she begins fearing Stefan is out of control, Elena invites Damon over and asks him how long Stefan will be this way. While perusing her room, Damon tells her that John is in the town council, also suggesting that since Stefan was ‘under control' so long, the Damon-like monster inside was fighting its way out.

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At the Founder's Day Kick-Off Party, Damon taunts Stefan about drinking to stop the blood cravings. Damon later compliments Sheriff Forbes, who he calls 'Liz' in a friendly way. She tells him that they might have more vampires in town, because what John Gilbert said about blood-banks being robbed was completely true. Damon seems suspicious when Jeremy asks about Vicki Donovan. When they encounter one another at the bar, Elena asks if Damon knows what his brother's been up to, and he says he's been too preoccupied with hers, expressing concern that Jeremy is asking so many questions. When John Gilbert and Damon talk outside of the party, John reveals that he knows what Damon is, and Damon responds by snapping his neck and pushing him from the balcony. Damon later reports to Stefan that he killed Elena's uncle. Damon later sees John Gilbert standing to give a speech, and he expresses shock and, to Alaric, points out that John is wearing the same ring. They talk again later (with Alaric present), and John reveals that he knows Katherine and he knew Isobel; that he gave Alaric's ring to Isobel in the first place. At the end of the episode, Damon leaves another glass of human blood in Stefan's presence, but this time Stefan drinks it.
In *Miss Mystic Falls*, Damon is visited by John Gilbert and Sheriff Forbes. John suggests that he and Damon work together to track down whoever is stealing from the blood banks. Anna comes to visit him later, and though he warns her about the Founder's Council being onto the tomb vampires, she says she hasn't been to the blood bank in at least a week, and the other vampires are gone. Damon goes home and confronts Stefan for being the thief, though he seems elated by Stefan's new diet. He also finds Stefan's fridge of human blood.

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John Gilbert comes back to the Salvatore Boarding House to tell Damon that he wants the Gilbert Device. He wants Damon to get it from Pearl, who was ‘friendly' with Johnathan Gilbert back in 1864. He rejects the idea of helping John, but when he sees Anna again at the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, he inquires about the device. Later, he comes to the changing room upstairs and tells Elena about Stefan's fridge full of blood. When Stefan vanishes before the dance begins, Damon steps in to escort Elena onto the dance-floor. When the dance is over, Elena pulls Damon aside and they realize one of the contestants is missing. They search for him in the woods, only to find him feeding on Amber Bradley. Bonnie arrives and manages to subdue Stefan, but, in his right mind again, Stefan flees. Later, Pearl brings Damon the device she stole from Johnathan Gilbert as a peace-offering because Anna wants to stay in Mystic Falls. After Elena tranquilizes Stefan, Damon carries him to the dungeon and locks him inside, and the two of them sit in the hallway together.
In *Blood Brothers*, as Elena and Damon take turns 'baby-sitting' Stefan at the boarding house. The two brothers slowly let Elena in on their history, how they both became vampires. Damon completes the story by telling her that Stefan forced him to feed on a human. Damon also taunts Elena by telling her that Stefan prefers golden retriever puppy blood. Damon and Alaric also go on a quest for information about Isobel, where they encounter one of the tomb vampires, Henry. The vampire reveals that John Gilbert has been working with him to keep an eye on the other tomb vampires. They end up killing him and having a moderately deep conversation about searching for their ex-lovers. Damon returns to Elena, where he concludes the story of their vampiric origin. Stefan later approaches Damon while he's drinking in the living room, and Damon tells him to stop feeling his guilt. He then says that he hated him for all those years not because he forced him to turn, but "because she turned you." Damon thought Katherine's love was only for him.
In *Isobel*, Damon expresses distaste for Stefan's new 'cured' personality while on the phone with Elena. He also seems concerned by Elena meeting Isobel for the first time. While they're meeting, Damon is pacing beside Alaric just outside the Grill. Damon explains that Isobel has a 'switch' she can use to turn off her emotions, though he denies that he has humanity himself. Isobel later finds Damon in her temporary home, playing a game of cards involving stripping. She attempts to threaten him, but Damon continues questioning her about the Gilbert Device. When she kisses him, Damon pins her to the ground and threatens to 'rip her to bits' for what she said to Elena. He told her to tell Katherine to come get the device herself. Later, Elena tries to get the device from Damon so Bonnie can de-spell it; Elena hopes to trade the device for Jeremy, who has been kidnapped by Isobel. Bonnie displays her powers by retrieving Damon's favorite book, Call of the Wild, from the library shelf with only the power of her mind. He admits that he doesn't trust Bonnie, but he will trust Elena, so he gives her the device. Damon is also present for the 'de-spell.' When they make the trade with Isobel, Damon and Stefan are present. Elena asks Isobel how she knew Damon would give her the device, and Isobel responds, "Because he's in love with you." After the exchange, he is standing in the same spot, silently watching Stefan and Elena hug. Stefan later confronts Damon about it, but he seems to be alright with his love for Elena, because it means he'll protect her. Damon also reveals that John Gilbert is Elena's real father, and he's amused that the others didn't put the pieces together as quickly.
In *Founder's Day*, Damon is shocked when Elena arrives looking just like Katherine. When she and Stefan are on the parade float waving to the crowd, Elena waves, smiling at Bonnie, and Damon appears between them and waves back. He then turns to Bonnie and thanks her for de-spelling the device, surprising Bonnie with his sincerity. He sees Elena at the Mystic Grill later and tells her that he likes her better in normal clothing. She says that Stefan is worried about their 'friendship.' When Damon overhears her attempting to apologize to Jeremy, he's angered by Jeremy's response and follows him outside; he tells him to give his sister a break. Stefan 'rescues' Jeremy from him and insists Damon is only doing it for his own benefit. While wandering around during the Founder's Day Celebration, Damon encounters Anna, who tells him the tomb vampires will be killing the founding families as soon as the fireworks start. Damon goes straight to Alaric]], and then to Elena and Stefan, who he warns to leave the party as soon as possible. He goes to the building where John Gilbert is setting up the device, but, unfortunately, Bonnie never de-spelled it, and it made him collapse. He was injected with vervain and put in the basement of the Gilbert Building to be burned alive. Stefan, with the help of Bonnie, manages to save Damon's life. After being rescued, Damon visits Jeremy to tell him about Anna's death. He offers to wipe Jeremy's memory again, but Jeremy tells him he still feels 'empty' inside, and forgetting will fix nothing. He also admits that what he did to Vicki Donovan was wrong and apologizes for his part in it. When asked if vampires can shut out their humanity, Damon told him the truth, not realizing that Jeremy was going to kill himself. While leaving, Damon encountered who he thought was Elena on the porch. He thanked her for seeing something in him worth saving, and after kissing her on the forehead, he kissed her on the lips, only to be interrupted by a very confused Jenna. It turns out this was not Elena, but Katherine pretending to be her.

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In *The Return*, directly following the events of the season one finale, Damon arrives at the hospital, expressing worry to Sheriff Forbes about her daughter, Caroline. She tells him that the mayor, Richard Lockwood, is dead, but that he couldn't have been a vampire. He comforts her, but seems incredibly intrigued by the fact that Lockwood was affected by the Gilbert Device. When Elena arrives at the hospital worried about Caroline. He points out that Bonnie doesn't know how to cure Caroline with a spell, and offers to give Caroline enough blood to make sure she lives. Elena turns it down immediately, but Bonnie agrees. When Bonnie leaves, Damon attempts to bring up the fact that they kissed, but Elena blows him off, saying she has no idea what he's talking about. He grabs her arm, saying, "If you wanna forget this happened, fine, but I can't."
Jenna arrives at that moment, telling Elena something that Elena claims was never said. This is when Damon first realizes that Katherine Pierce is in Mystic Falls impersonating Elena. He recruits Elena and heads back to her home, where they find Stefan, who had just got out of a fight with Katherine. The three of them sit down in the dining room and talk about what Katherine wants, where Stefan asks Damon exactly what happened between them. Damon admits he kissed her, thinking she was Elena, and Stefan attempts to attack him. Elena stops him, claiming that she wouldn't do that. While trying to formulate a plan, Damon leaves, declaring that he'll just ignore her and see where that gets him. Damon goes to the Lockwood Mansion and breaks up a fight between Carol Lockwood and Elizabeth Forbes, who are discussing the death of the mayor. He questions Sheriff Forbes about Mason Lockwood and finds out that he's Tyler Lockwood's uncle, and the brother of the mayor, but he knows nothing about the Founder's Council.
When Bonnie goes to talk to Damon in the dining room, wondering if he's suspicious about both Tyler and the mayor being affected by the Gilbert Device, he ends up irritating her until she uses magic to hurt his head. He later speaks to Elena out on the Lockwood's porch, where she asks him how he's doing. He doesn't admit that he's hurt until Elena tells him that she's surprised he thought she'd kiss him back. He also appears after Katherine stabs Stefan, trying to pick a fight with his little brother, though he doesn't seem too serious about it. Stefan warns him that Katherine will get between them, but Damon, sarcastically, denies that it's possible.

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That night, Damon encounters Katherine in the Salvatore Boarding House, where the two share a heated kiss. He stops them before they have sex, asking extremely modestly if she'll just tell him the truth. She tells him that she's never loved him, which literally rockets him off the deep end. He shows up at Elena's house drunk and angry, demanding that Elena admit she has feelings for him. He forces her to kiss him, but when she denies him with the same line Katherine used, "It's always gonna be Stefan," he seems momentarily emotionally broken. Jeremy interrupts, and Damon pins him to the wall and snaps his neck. While Elena falls to her brother's lifeless body, Damon steps further into the background, appearing to, in some capacity, realize the magnitude of what he's done. Elena declares her hatred for Damon, he's seen hurling a glass into the fireplace, his face contorted with anger.
In *Brave New World*, Damon is first seen having tea with Carol Lockwood. She asks Damon to spearhead the Founder's Council while she's acting as interim-mayor. He accepts just as Mason and Tyler come back to the house, and listens to their conversation about anger problems. When Stefan comes home later, he seems to have occupied himself with investigating the Lockwoods' family secret. He later attends the carnival, where he speaks to Jeremy. When Jeremy threatens to tell everyone about vampires, Damon grows serious and drags him behind the concession stand, where he takes his ring and puts him in a headlock, pointing out how easy it would be to really kill him. He also watches Mason and Tyler arm-wrestling, where he volunteers Stefan to go up against Mason. Stefan admits that he's supernaturally strong after losing to him, which further interest Damon. He compels a carnival worker to pick a fight with Tyler to make him angry. Later, the newly-transitioned Caroline confronts Damon in the school hallway, telling him that she remembers everything he compelled her to forget. He goes straight to Elena, and, along with Stefan, they meet in Alaric's classroom. He is convinced that killing Caroline is the only thing they can do, and, locating her by the dead body of her newest victim, he attempts to stake her. He's stopped by Stefan the first time and Elena the second, who bravely steps between him and Caroline. He's in charge of disposing of the body, and when he says something particularly crude in the presence of Bonnie, she sets him on fire. Elena manages to stop the witch before Damon is killed. When Damon returns to the boarding house, Jeremy is there, and he's laced Damon's alcohol with vervain. He admits that he was there to kill him, but decided against it because of the blind hatred of his parents.

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In *Bad Moon Rising*, Damon is first seen in the Salvatore Boarding House talking to Alaric, Stefan, and Elena Gilbert, discussing if it's possible for Mason and Tyler to be werewolves. They decide to go to Duke University, where Alaric's wife, Isobel, still has an office full of research. Stefan doesn't come, as he's still watching over Caroline, and when Damon taunts him for this, Elena kisses Stefan to spite him. Throughout the drive, Damon tries to convince Elena that he knew Jeremy would come back to life when he killed him. When they arrive on campus, Isobel's old research assistant Vanessa Monroe lets them into her office, but attempts to shoot Elena with a crossbow, as she knows who Katherine is. Damon moves in front of her, taking the arrow in the back, and Elena is the one to pull it out. Alaric discovers a book describing ‘the sun and the moon curse.' She tells them that werewolves are hard-wired to hunt vampires, and that a werewolf bite is fatal to vampires. Disturbed by this, Elena calls Stefan to warn him.

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Also, she asks Vanessa what she knows about doppelgängers, which seems to interest Damon. He taunts her again with the information he claims to know. When Elena tells him that friends are supposed to help each other, he follows her to the car and gives her a book, which bears Katherine's original last name. He admits that he doesn't want to lose their friendship forever. Near the end of the episode, he walks her to her door, where she asks him if he honestly knew Jeremy was wearing the Gilbert Ring. He genuinely apologizes, but Elena tells him that he's lost her forever, revealing that she manipulated him to get information about Katherine. Hurt, Damon tells her that she has much more in common with Katherine than her looks.
In *Memory Lane*, Damon appears in the Mystic Grill to taunt Elena about a party he'll be attending at the Gilbert House. He wants to find out more about Mason Lockwood, and throughout the evening, he continues to drop innuendos to Tyler's uncle, like drawing a wolf while playing Pictionary, and trying to get him to serve the pie with a silver utensil. Mason confronts him in the kitchen, hoping to keep the age-old rivalry out of their lives. Damon continues to antagonize him, suspicious about his presence in Mystic Falls. Eventually, he agrees to a truce, but he takes a knife from Jenna's silver set and follows Mason outside, where he stabs him in the stomach. Mason heals immediately, warning Damon that he's made an enemy. After Elena and Stefan have their fake fight at the grill, Damon leaves and encounters Katherine outside, who he reacts to coldly.

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In *Kill or Be Killed*, Damon continues to listen in on Stefan and Elena's fake arguments, revealing that he knows it wasn't real. He takes a cup of lemonade from a little girl, but is shocked to learn that it's been spike with vervain. It was part of a plan executed by Mason to show Elizabeth Forbes that Damon was a vampire. Furious, Damon attempts to kill Mason, but he and Stefan are shot with wooden bullets in the forest, falling right into Elizabeth's trap. She takes them to the Lockwood Cellar, where she demands to know how he can walk in the sun. Damon doesn't tell her, but says that he thought they were actually friends. She shoots him repeatedly with wooden bullets until, eventually, Caroline manages to save their lives. Damon feeds on one of the dead deputies and tries to convince Stefan to do the same. And then, staggering because of his injuries, he confronts Sheriff Forbes, who asks him to kill her. Damon refuses on the basis that they're friends, keeping her locked up until the Vervain leaves her system so he can compel her to forget that he, Stefan, and Caroline are vampires. Later, when he encounters Elena in the living room of the Salvatore house, she tells him that sparing Caroline's mother was more like the Damon that she was friends with.
In *Plan B*, Damon is visited by Jeremy Gilbert, who tells him that Mason Lockwood is looking for the moon stone. Alaric comes by later, surprised to see Jeremy. He gives Damon the research from Isobel's office. Damon wants Jeremy to retrieve the moon stone from Tyler, and, upon finding out that Katherine and Mason are together, he speculates that Katherine wants the moon stone. The brothers ask Bonnie to touch Mason Lockwood to find out what he wants with the stone. He also asks what's happening when she ‘ju-jus' his brain, suggesting they do it to Mason or Katherine. Though he asks rudely, Bonnie agrees to help them. She uses her magic on Mason, effectively subduing him so that they can capture him. Damon takes him to the Salvatore Mansion and chains him into a chair. While there, Bonnie attempts to get into Mason's mind, revealing that the moon stone is being kept in a well of some kind. When Mason grabs her, Damon pries his hand away, thanking her as she's leaving the room.

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He cruelly tortures the young man by shoving a red-hot fire-poker into his chest repeatedly. He questions him about Katherine, but gets no response. Jeremy later delivers wolfs bane, which Damon uses to further his torture of Mason. He shoves the plant into Mason's mouth, causing him immense pain. Mason reveals that he's getting the stone for Katherine so she can lift the curse of the moon, because she supposedly loves him. Seemingly entertained, Damon tells Jeremy to leave or get over his sympathy. After Jeremy leaves, he ends Mason's life by ripping his heart from his chest. Stefan arrives later, while he's cleaning up the body, giving Damon the moon stone to hide. Finding that the last number Mason dialed was Katherine's, Damon calls her, much to Stefan's disapproval. He taunts Katherine with Mason's death, angering her. After Jenna stabs herself, on Katherine's compulsion, Damon confronts Elena and apologizes for provoking her.
In *Masquerade*, Damon participates in a conversation with Stefan and Caroline, claiming that he's going to the Masquerade Ball to kill Katherine. Bonnie comes over later, while Damon and Alaric are discussing weapons in the background. Stefan and Damon show up at the Masquerade Ball with masks on, discussing how one of them might hesitate while killing Katherine. They meet up again after Katherine kills Aimee Bradley; Stefan wants to call the plan off, as he didn't anticipate human death, but Damon objects and they agree to go through with it. When they trap Katherine in one of the Lockwood Mansion's rooms, they attack her viciously, stabbing her multiple times with their supply of stakes.

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Jeremy arrives to tell them that their every action toward Katherine is being reflected onto Elena, which stops the in their tracks. Katherine continually tries to hurt herself to cause Elena pain, but she's stopped by the Salvatores. She tries to make a deal with them; she wants the moon stone back. She also tells Damon that he used to be boring, and tries to antagonize them by pointing out Damon's love for Elena. Damon is the first to give in to her taunts, attempting to stake Katherine after pouring her a drink. Stefan stops him, but Katherine continues to play with his emotions, wondering when Damon got so hot. The witch Lucy uses the moon stone to subdue Katherine, apologizing to the brothers for her involvement with Katherine. Damon carries Katherine's body to the tomb, throwing both her and the moon stone inside. As he shuts the door, she tries to stop him by claiming that Elena is in danger. He listens to her momentarily, but then shuts her inside. Damon, again, seems to have been emotionally affected by Katherine as he walks away.
In *Rose*, Damon appears at Caroline's house, whose explaining how Tyler killed a girl at the Masquerade ball. He questions what Caroline has told Tyler about him and Stefan, convinced he knows something. He tells her not to befriend Tyler. Later, he talks to Stefan about Elena's disappearance. He tells him that Katherine knew Elena was in danger. The two of them take a vervain grenade from Alaric and, using Bonnie's instructions, go to rescue Elena. Stefan thanks him for coming, but attempts to get him to admit he only came because he loves Elena.

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Before they get to Trevor and Rose's hideout, the two of them share a blood-bag, where Damon taunts him with the darkness in his past, wondering if Elena would ever ‘open her veins' to the old Stefan. The two have a brief conversation outside before coming in to rescue Elena from Elijah. Damon drives a large piece of wood through Elijah's chest, and while Elena is hugging Stefan, she mouths a thank-you to Damon, as well. Later, when Damon is drinking at the boarding house, Stefan approaches and tells Damon they should learn to work together, or they won't be able to protect Elena. He also apologizes for making Damon turn into a vampire. Damon seems surprised by his words, and this prompts him to visit Elena in her bedroom, where he reveals that he found Elena's necklace. He doesn't give it to her at first, holding it as he tells her that he loves her, but that he doesn't deserve her; Stefan does. Tears can be seen in his eyes as he says this. He compels her to forget what he said and, after returning the necklace, leaves her room.
In *Katerina*, Damon expresses immediate distrust toward Rose, who comes back to tell them that a legendary vampire named Klaus is after Elena. He doesn't want Elena to believe that she's in danger. After Elena leaves to talk to Katherine, Damon spends the day with Rose. He asks her if she knows where Klaus is, and convinces her to take him to see the vampire who supposedly knows where to look. When they meet up with Slater at a vampire-friendly café, he threatens her against tricking him, but she proves that she's much stronger than him by turning the tables. She tells him that he can trust her, and the two of them go inside. Slater immediately recognizes Damon; he knows the year he was turned and the person who turned him, which seems to make Damon suspicious. They talk about Slater's very long link to Elijah, which was severed when Damon killed him. Slater tells them that, if Elijah wanted the moon stone, he might've been planning to break the vampire-side of the curse so that the werewolves wouldn't break their side.

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Damon wonders how to break the curse, but they're interrupted by an attack from Elijah, who breaks the windows of the café. Rose is seriously injured by sun exposure and Damon is forced to carry her back to the car, where she tells him that they're all going to be killed by Klaus. Later, Rose apologizes for the surprise attack, expressing a desire to save Elena. She tells him to turn the ‘switch' off of his emotions, and the two of them have sex. They're seen sitting by the fire in their underclothes, where Rose points out that having a ‘switch' is a lie, and that they can't actually shut off their emotions. Rose gets a call from Slater, who tells her she needs the moonstone to lift the curse, and a witch to figure the rest out.
In *The Sacrifice*, Stefan and Damon visit Katherine together, as the moonstone is in the tomb with her. They come directly to Elena's home afterwards, explaining that she wanted out of the tomb, if they wanted the moonstone. They also tell her that they must "release" the spell from the moonstone so Klaus won't be able to sacrifice Elena. When Elena tells them that she doesn't want Klaus to kill everyone she cares about, both brothers express extreme surprise. Damon appears later during their meeting with Bonnie, where Jeremy tries to convince them to let him retrieve the moonstone. While he's planning to incapacitate Katherine to get the stone, Damon gets a call from Rose, who tells them about Elena's plan to give herself over to Klaus.

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She tells him that she would rather die than let Klaus kill the people she loves. He threatens her, grabbing her arm, and when she attempts to hit him, he menacingly warns her to never do that again. Three men arrive and Damon immediately tries to protect Elena, even from Elijah, who was supposed to be dead. Elijah flees, leaving Damon to drive Elena home on his own. The two of them bicker on the front porch, but Elena is surprised to find an injured Jeremy waiting for her. When she finds that Stefan has been trapped in the tomb with Katherine, Damon stops her from entering, restraining her against the doorway until she leaves. Stefan makes him promise to protect Elena while he's unable to.
In *By the Light of the Moon*, Damon visits Stefan in the tomb to tell him that they trapped Elena in her own house. He tries to give him blood, but Stefan refuses, not wanting to share with Katherine. He comes to Elena's house later to be one of her ‘babysitters,' taunting her about not being able to leave. She's angry with him, but Damon continues to have a care-free attitude. He gets a call from Alaric, who tells him that a woman from Florida has come searching for Mason Lockwood. He meets Alaric at the bar, who's been having a conversation with the woman.

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While Damon is distracting her, Alaric pours wolfsbane into her drink. Damon talks to her about Mason, claiming to be one of his friends, but she responds suspiciously when he tries to get her to have a drink with him (in other words, to sip the wolfsbane so he can tell if she's a werewolf.) She doesn't fall for it, able to smell the wolfsbane in his drink. Damon threatens her, but she responds by declaring how strong she is on this night in-particular (the full moon). Alaric warns Damon to go home and stay inside, because one bite from the werewolf will effectively end his life. He goes home, where Rose has been waiting. He acts coldly toward her as she tries to apologize about helping Elena, admitting she has nowhere else to go. When Jules, the werewolf he taunted in the bar, leaps through one of the Salvatore's windows, she bites Rose's shoulder before Damon stabs her, getting her to run off. The bite heals immediately, mystifying both vampires. Rose is terrified that her life almost ended, and Damon comforts her with a hug. The two are seen again in the living room, where they begin another heated sexual encounter, but they're interrupted when Damon discovers that the bite on her shoulder has resurfaced. This is particularly devastating news to Damon, because the two of them were just beginning to develop a friendship.
In *The Descent*, Damon cares for Rose trying to convince her that she'll get better. When he looks at the worsening wound, he pretends that it's getting better. He asks Elena to watch over Rose, but he rejects the fact that he's upset about Rose's impending death. Damon goes from there to the Mystic Grill, where he immediately goes for Jules. Stefan stops him, but he continues, sitting down at her table. Though he pretended he didn't care about Rose, he asks how to cure a werewolf bite. She won't tell him, and she taunts him about how much pain Rose will be in, and how she'll soon be rabid from dementia. He tracks Rose down after she slaughters a man. He meets up with Elena, who he arms with a wooden stake. He stops Rose before she takes yet another victim, pinning her to the ground in a parking lot. He comforts her when she realizes what she's done, picking her up and carrying her back to the Salvatore Boarding House. Damon watches over her after putting her back in his bed, where he reacts coldly to Elena's presence. He also snaps at Rose, denying that he cares about her. When Rose tells Elena that what it was like to be human ‘haunts her,' he turns to watch, surprised when she begins writhing in agony.

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He sends Elena away, getting into bed with Rose and holding her against his chest. He sends her a dream of the place she was born and raised, where the two of them sit together in a beautiful meadow. Just as she admits that she's no longer afraid of dying, actually hopeful she'll see Trevor again, Damon stakes her to end her suffering. A tear goes down his cheek as he does this. He delivers her body to Sheriff Forbes to explain the earlier attacks on humans and when he returns to the boarding house, Elena is waiting. She tries to comfort him, but he denies that there's anything wrong with him. He responds angrily, saying that he feels emotions, and that ‘it sucks.' He feels guilty because Jules was coming after him, not Rose. Elena hugs him anyway, and Damon's eyes begin to visibly water. That same night, Damon is lying in the middle of the road when a woman named Jessica stops her car to check on him. He tells her that he's lost (existentially, metaphorically). When he drinks alcohol from a flask, she runs back to her car, but he compels her not to move. He admits that he can't be what other people want him to be, and he tells her that he misses being human more than anything in the world, debating whether or not he should kill her. After he tells her she's free to go, he pursues her and kills her anyway.

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In *Daddy Issues*, Damon first appears in the shower, a very dark look on his face as he listens to a news report about the people Rose killed. They mention the woman he killed in the road. He's angry with Stefan when Stefan brings John Gilbert back to Mystic Falls in an effort to save Elena. When Stefan tries to comfort him about Rose's death, Damon reacts sarcastically and leaves. He goes to the Gilbert House, where he demands to know John's location. They share a distrust for John, where he says ‘I'm the good guy now, remember?' Elena decides to go with him to find John out of concern that Damon will harm him. They find John at the grill, where he's interrupting Jenna's date with Alaric. He tries to get information out of him, threatening his life because he's lacking his resurrection ring. His threat is ineffective because John doesn't trust him. When Jenna tries to get him to date her friend, Andie Star, he blows her off. Elena receives a call from Stefan regarding Tyler Lockwood, and Elena and Damon have a heated discussion in the bathroom. He wants to kill Tyler because of what he knows. Elena tells him to be the better man. When John arrives, wondering what's happening, Damon tells John to keep Elena there so he can go rescue Caroline, who is being held captive and tortured by Jules and her boyfriend, Brady. Stefan and Damon are almost killed during this rescue, but they're spared by the warlock Jonas Martin, who was working with Elijah. John later gives Damon a bottle of white oak ashes and a silver dagger with which to kill an Original.

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That night, Damon invites Andie Star to his house and the two of them share a bubble bath. Damon tells her that he's in love with a woman he can never have, and that he doesn't trust himself around anyone. He says that he kills people, but he compels her to be unafraid. When asked why he kills people, Damon says that he likes it, and that Elena wants him to be the better man, but his nature won't allow it. While kissing her, Damon slips down her neck and bites her, filling the bathtub with her blood.
In *Crying Wolf*, Damon has bandaged Andie's neck, and they walk downstairs together. She reveals that she's going to the Historical Society Tea Party, something Damon invites himself to. He also gets her story straight so she won't tell anyone he bit her, and he tells Alaric, who has just come in, that she's his new girlfriend. He tells Alaric about the dagger, and Alaric says that he and Jenna will also be at the party. He claims his goal isn't killing Elijah, but meeting him for the first time. At the party, which is being held in the large Lockwood Mansion, Damon meets up with Andie, also greeting Carol Lockwood and introducing himself, officially, to Elijah. Damon and Elijah have a conversation in the sitting room, where Damon questions his motives and goes so far as to physically block him from the exit. Elijah responds with physical violence, stabbing Damon in the neck with a broken pencil.
Damon returns to the Salvatore home, where he and Alaric are talking about how difficult it will be to kill Elijah. After Alaric leaves, Damon finds that someone has stabbed him in the stomach with a stake, and that same person leaps onto Damon's back and injects him with vervain. Jules is behind the attack. She chains him to a chair, which is ironically similar to the way he tortured Mason to death, and questions him about the moonstone. Elijah shows up and kills four werewolves, saving Damon's life for the third time. Later, while on the phone with Bonnie, he's told that Elijah and Elena's deal called for Elena's death. He calls Stefan and relays this information.
In *The Dinner Party*, Damon acts on his plans to kill Elijah. He's first seen on the phone with Stefan. He tells his brother that Tyler has left town, leaving them with only one problem: Elijah. He reveals that he's going to be careful when killing Elijah. He speaks with Alaric, who expresses distaste with Damon and Andie's relationship. He invites Jenna and Elijah, who have been speaking of historic Mystic Falls, and Andie tells them they should have a dinner party. Damon jumps at the idea, and Elijah agrees. Damon goes to the tomb and, now that the spell is lifted and he can move around freely, he brings Katherine blood and clothing, wondering if what John Gilbert said about killing Elijah is true. Katherine tells him that if Elijah dies, she's stuck in the tomb forever, begging him not to kill the Original. By doing this, she confirms that it's possible to kill an Original. Damon denies (to Alaric) that he'll do anything to antagonize Elijah, but when Alaric leaves the room, he pulls the dagger and the ash from its hiding place. The party continues into a tense dinner, where Damon and John Gilbert, who arrived uninvited, prod Elijah for information. Meanwhile, Elena and Stefan figure out that if a vampire wields the dagger and kills an Original, it will die. Stefan calls Alaric and warns him, who is barely able to stop Damon in time. When they return to the dining room, Damon tries to convince Elijah to kill John Gilbert, and the two of them seem to put Elijah on the defensive. He threatens to take Elena away and protect her himself, so neither of them will see her again.

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In the middle of this, Alaric uses the dagger to kill him, and the two of them lock him in the basement. Alaric is angry that Damon plotted Elijah's death without him, and that he had to kill him with Jenna in the house. Stefan calls again to tell Damon that removing the dagger will bring Elijah back to life, and, panicking, Damon runs down to the basement. He finds it empty. Knowing that Elijah will come after Elena, Damon participates in a plan to bring him down, helping Stefan transport the body back to the basement. He finds the moon stone in Elijah's pocket and decides to hold onto it. Elena then tells both Salvatores that she doesn't want to be kept in the dark anymore, if they truly want her to keep fighting. They agree, and Damon wonders how he changed her mind; when Lexi is mentioned, Damon recalls the first time he ever met her, and that he told her to take care of his brother. She warns him that his hatred will get the best of him, which is ironic, because it eventually consumed his life. At the very end of the episode, Damon enters his room and finds Katherine naked in his shower. She reveals that killing Elijah removed his compulsion over her, and that she was able to escape the tomb. She claims she wants to help him.
In *The House Guest*, Damon first appears as Elena is leaving the house. He attacks her and pushes her against the wall, believing she's Katherine and inevitably revealing to both Elena and Stefan that Katherine has escaped the tomb. It turns out that the person Damon attacked was actually Katherine, and that when Stefan went back to his room to attack who he thought was her, he nearly choked Elena. Damon talks to her down in the basement, where Damon is using a blow-torch on Elijah's body. He wonders if she knew that using the dagger would kill him, and, angry, he points the blow-torch at her instead. She continues to try to convince him that she wants Klaus dead as badly as they do. She even told him that she didn't care if he died, as long as she got out of the tomb. Damon remains in the house with Katherine. He's trying to find out where the witches were massacred. She antagonizes him and he ends up pinning her to the piano seat, where she says she's glad he's not dead. She gives him sparse information about the location while also asking why he cares. Stefan appears and suggests they find the Witch Burial Ground. When Luka Martin enters the Salvatore house using his mind, it leads into a scene between Katherine and Damon in which she leans over his shoulder and points out how her old friend, Emily Bennett, was burned alive in the same place the other witches were.
Stefan comes they speak as if they're at a loss, but use gestures to reveal information to each other so that Katherine won't know anything. Katherine calls for Damon when she's attacked by Luka, and he pulls the stake from her stomach, using the blow-torch to burn Luka alive. He later brings Katherine a blood-bag, but stabs her after she takes it, revenge for not telling him that the dagger would take his life. She tells him that John Gilbert and Isobel want Damon and Stefan out of Elena's life. He knew that killing Elijah would get her out of the tomb, so he gave Katherine a choice: either she stay and help them with Klaus, or he would kill Stefan. Damon points out that John Gilbert still tried to kill him, and Katherine tells him that, since she could only save one of them, she chose Stefan. Damon tries to go to Elena's aid when Jonas Martin comes after her, but Katherine stops him, as she plans to step into Elena's place at the house and kill him. He later tells Elena that it was Katherine's idea in the first place. He hovers in the background as Elena and Katherine argue, where Katherine tries to convince them that she's not a threat. In his bedroom, Katherine jumps onto his bed in a very short dress. Damon wonders how everyone knew that Emily Bennett was a witch back in 1864. He finds that Katherine was the one to expose her, and she reveals that he knows where the witches were burned, because he would've been there. She tries to kiss him, but he pushes her off, telling her to find somewhere else to sleep. This strengthens his resistance to the power Katherine has over him.
In *Know Thy Enemy*, Damon and Stefan are rushing downstairs, discussing why Isobel would show up on Elena's doorstep. Katherine tells them not to reveal her presence in Mystic Falls, because it would be easier to keep ‘swapping places' with Elena if no one knew about her. Damon, Bonnie, and Jeremy go to Jonas Martin's apartment, where she tells Damon that if she can find the place where the witches were burned, she can harness their power. Damon's also in the living room when Katherine asks them all about their plan, which they refuse to tell her. Damon, Jeremy, and Bonnie later go to the Witch Burial Ground, where a mansion stands. As soon as he enters, Damon finds that the spirits there are vicious toward vampires, and they temporarily disable his ring so the sun will burn him. He manages to get out before he's burned too badly. While Bonnie and Jeremy work inside the house, he hovers on the porch. When he tries to enter, the door slams shut of its own accord.
Carol Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes call Damon when John Gilbert is ‘killed' at a social gathering. He tells them that John will come back to life and carries John's body back to his house. His hands are bloody, so he washes them, and after receiving a frantic call from Stefan, he finds that Katherine has taken the moon stone from the soap dish, where he ‘cleverly' hid it. He finds the place where Katherine is most likely to be hiding, and he and Stefan find Isobel's bags inside. At this point, Katherine, Elena, and the moon stone have gone missing. After Elena is released and Isobel dies in the sunlight, Damon approaches with the deed to the house, which will make Elena the owner. When she signs it, the Salvatore Boarding House will be inaccessible to any vampires she doesn't allow inside. Damon and Stefan figure out that Bonnie is their "secret weapon," now that she's harvested the power of the dead witches.
In *The Last Dance*, Elena signs the deed, giving her ownership of the house. Outside, Damon and Stefan talk about Klaus. Damon wonders if she's dead, though he seems rather disturbed by the idea. Once they're finished, Elena invites Stefan in immediately, but makes Damon promise to listen to her. After Klaus sends Elena a message telling her that he'll be at the dance, Damon invites Alaric to the house and tells him to put him down as a chaperone. He attacks Bonnie, trying to prove that she's not strong enough, but she blows him across the room, revealing that she can kill any vampire, no matter how strong.
At the dance, Damon suggests that everyone blend into the party. He goes to talk to Alaric, unaware that he's actually Klaus. Elena wants to warn Caroline and Matt about Klaus, but Stefan decides to do it himself, calling Damon over to dance with Elena. Damon is lucid and comforts Elena while they dance, drawing a few giggles despite their serious situation. He later dances with Bonnie, as he heard her and Jeremy talking earlier. He wants to know if killing Klaus through magic will kill her, and he wonders if there's any way to keep her alive. After Klaus reveals his identity, Damon sends Elena to find Stefan, grabbing Bonnie and making a plan with her to fake her death so Klaus will give up in his attempts to kill her. He returns when Elena is grieving over Bonnie's lifeless body, coldly telling them he'll deal with it. When he gets back to the house, having dealt with the body, Elena accuses him of knowing what would happen, and she slaps him. He finally explains that it was all a plan to save her life and keep her as their secret weapon. He leaves her there, but Stefan follows, upset that he didn't tell him about the plan and that he put Elena through so much emotional pain. Damon calls it ‘collateral damage,' assuring Stefan that, at the end of the day, he'll keep Elena alive regardless of the cost. This is brought up again when Elena visits him in his room. She tells him that she won't let Bonnie die for her and he responds in a similar way, telling her that he would let anyone die to keep her alive. Her life will always be his first choice.
In *Klaus*, Damon sees Andie off to work while Stefan searches for Elena. He follows Stefan to the basement, where they find that Elena has brought Elijah back to life. He's convinced Elena will get herself killed, deciding to do something about it regardless of Stefan's resolution to trust Elena. He and Andie go to Alaric's apartment, where Katherine is being held prisoner. Damon can't enter, due to the fact that Alaric is still alive and hasn't invited him in, so he talks to Katherine through the door, offering her a small vial of vervain, which will protect her from Klaus' compulsion, in exchange for the answer to a question: he wants to know why she turned on them with Isobel. She admits that she knew they wouldn't be able to kill Klaus, and, pointing out where that betrayal got her, Damon hands over the Vervain. He returns as Elena is trying to leave again and physically restrains her, antagonizing Stefan. Andie tries to comfort him as he drinks by the fire, but he sends her away, leading to Stefan's entrance. Stefan darkly thanks him for being in love with Elena, if only it means Elena is being protected. The two get physical when Stefan claims that he has one thing Damon will never have: Elena's respect. Elena appears with Elijah and stops them, explaining that Elijah knows a way to bring her back to life after she's sacrificed. Elijah only requests an apology, which Damon refuses to give. He leaves angry and encounters Andie, in only her bra and underwear, waiting in his room. She wants to comfort him, but his anger gets the best of him and he bites her. He shows remorse by gently telling her to leave again, before he accidentally kills her. He's last seen sitting there with watering eyes and bloody lips, staring after her.
In *The Last Day*, Damon is lying in bed listening to Elena, Stefan, and Elijah talk about the sun and moon curse. He approaches after Elijah describes how powerful Klaus will be, wondering why they can't just kill him beforehand. He suggests that they go through with their original plan to let Bonnie kill him, channeling the power of the witches, but Elena objects because a spell that powerful would claim Bonnie's life. Damon replies sarcastically, saying he'll write her a good eulogy. When Elijah reveals that Klaus will truly have to kill Elena to complete the ritual, Damon becomes aggressive, rejecting that the Elixir will work and positive that Elena won't survive this new plan. After leaving, drink in hand, he's approached by Stefan, who would rather trust Elena's choices. Damon rejects that idea, and when Elena later comes to his room to assure him that he won't lose her, he forces her to drink his blood as a more definitive way of making sure she'll come back to life – as a vampire. Stefan intervenes and the two have a violent fight, which ends in Damon stabbing his brother through the stomach with a large piece of wood. He leaves angry once again, speaking briefly to Elijah in the sitting room. Elijah tells him that vampire blood nullifies the Elixir, pointing out that Elena will never forgive him for what he's just done.
Damon then goes to the grill, where he and Alaric are approached by Klaus. The Original warns him against protecting Elena, or doing anything ‘stupid,' telling him that the ritual would be happening that very night. Being himself, Damon does just that, visiting Katherine in Alaric's apartment to ascertain the location of the vampire and werewolf Klaus will be using as sacrifices. She unwillingly tells him to go to the tomb, where she says both Tyler Lockwood and Caroline Forbes are being held. He's nearly stopped by the warlock guarding the tomb, but assisted by Matt Donovan, who he subsequently knocks unconscious for turning a high-powered rifle on him. Damon receives a call from Stefan as they are fleeing through the woods; Elena has already been taken by Klaus. Then, to make matters worse, the full moon bears down on them and Tyler begins his transformation, putting both Damon and Caroline in great danger. Tyler tries to bite Caroline immediately but Damon blocks him, receiving a bite on his forearm, near the crook of his elbow.

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Damon goes straight from there to Alaric's apartment, where Klaus has been staying. He boasts about what he's done to keep Klaus from completing the ritual, but Klaus reveals that he has the werewolf Jules as a backup. Klaus then knocks Damon unconscious, and when Katherine wakes him up, he demands to know why Klaus didn't use him in the sacrifice, instead of Jenna Sommers. Katherine tells him that Klaus said Damon was already as good as dead, questioning him about the bite on his arm. Damon admits that he was bitten by a werewolf, which both of them know means the death of a vampire.

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In *The Sun Also Rises*, the ritual begins and Damon and Katherine are still in the apartment, examining the wound on his arm. Katherine seems upset that he'll die, but Damon reacts coldly because, again, she chose to save herself instead of Jenna. He returns to the Salvatore Boarding House, and he seems to be in pain from his bite, as his walk falters when he goes to answer the knock of John Gilbert. He tells Elena's father that Klaus has Elena, but that, since she has his blood in her system, she'll come back as a vampire. The two of them go to the Witch Burial Ground, where he has a heated conversation with Alaric. He still appears to be in pain, which concerns Alaric. He's present for the conversation about transferring John's life-force into Elena's body, though he seems to think it won't work.

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He impatiently waits for the spell to be complete. Bonnie and Damon head out, leaving Alaric in the house. As Bonnie goes through with her plan to kill the transitioning hybrid, Damon kills Greta Martin and retrieves Elena's lifeless body. He carries her back to the old witch house and sets her on the couch in the main room, waiting by her side. When Alaric asks about Jenna, he gives him a sad look and a genuine apology. As Elena comes back to life, Damon makes sure she's not in transition, and he's extremely relieved that she's alright. After the ritual, Damon attends the funeral of Jenna Sommers and John Gilbert, where he tells Stefan about his werewolf bite. Stefan assures him that they'll find a cure, but Damon believes that he'll soon die. He doesn't want Elena to know so she won't have another grave to mourn.
In *As I Lay Dying*, Damon goes to Elena's house to earnestly ask for her forgiveness, not because he wants it, but because he needs it. Unaware that he's dying, she asks for more time to consider forgiving him, and Damon agrees wholeheartedly. He returns home and, directly after pouring himself a drink, he removes his sunlight ring in front of the window, planning to let himself burn to death. Stefan stops him and locks him in the basement, where Damon begins coughing up blood. His condition deteriorates rapidly from that point. He starts hallucinating about his time with Katherine in 1864, and the choices she gave him while they were together, such as feeding from her. The wound on his arm is significantly larger by the time Alaric comes by to watch over him. Damon grabs Alaric's neck with one hand, begging his old friend to kill him, but Alaric knocks him back and refuses.

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As he lays on the ground, he whispers Elena's name. Later, Liz Forbes shows up with her deputies, but inevitably sets Damon free. He wanders through the showing of "Gone with the Wind," where he's found and escorted to the Mystic Grill by Jeremy. The sheriff finds them here and tries to shoot Damon, but when Damon flees, Jeremy is shot instead. He goes back to the movie, wandering around behind the screen, and encounters Elena. His hallucinations have become more extreme, and he pictures himself feeding from Katherine's neck back in 1864, transferring that memory to Elena in the present. When he realizes that he's biting Elena, he stumbles back and collapses. She hits her knees beside him, holding him against her chest as she searches for someone to help them.

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Elena takes Damon back to his room, where she watches over him. Damon worries that he'll be dangerous like Rose, but Elena refuses to leave his side. She gets into bed with him and holds his head to her chest, where Damon talks about the bad decisions he's made. He tells Elena to apologize to his brother for him, admitting that he deserves to die, after everything he's done. He apologizes to Elena again and tells her that he loves her, which brings tears to her eyes. He then tells her that she would've liked him better as a human, to which she responds she likes him now, the way he is. She kisses him just before Katherine arrives to deliver the cure, which she says Stefan paid for by giving himself over to Klaus. She tells Elena that it's alright to love both Salvatores, because she did. She leaves and Elena and Damon remain to contemplate what's going to happen to Stefan.

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Elena arrives at the Salvatore Boarding House to tell Damon that Sheriff Forbes gave them another lead. In secret, Damon has a whole map of Stefan and Klaus movement, Damon is recording all the reports of animal attacks, tracking Stefan and Klaus' trail as he doesn't want to involve Elena.
Andie is able to get Damon the address of the last victim's family member, to where Alaric and Damon travel. As they, Alaric and Damon enter the house, they find blood splatters on the furniture and walls. Two female bodies are in a sitting position on the couch. Damon immediately recognizes that Stefan did it, by the way the bodies were ripped apart, then pieced back together. The duo find a trap door that leads to a basement where chains were kept, making them believe werewolves sometimes came there or the two girls were werewolves themselves. Afterwards, Damon sets fire to all the evidence of the remains of the two ripped apart girls.

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As Elena is dressing for her birthday party, Damon arrives and gives her a present which is actually the necklace she had lost, saying Alaric found it in his apartment. He accompanies her downstairs, where they find a huge party going on. Appearing to be worried about Andie's whereabouts and her being late for the party, he travels to her workplace, finding Stefan there.
Stefan compels Andie to stand on top of a rig and stay there until he commands her to move. When he tells her it is alright to move, she falls towards the ground. Stefan attacks Damon and keeps him against the wall, keeping him from saving her. It was his message to Damon, telling him to let him go. When he gets back to the house, Elena confronts him about all the leads he was gathering, and he tells her to stop looking for Stefan, because he's gone and never coming back and also that the Stefan, Elena use to know isn't there anymore.

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Elena is still headstrong on bringing Stefan back, determination-fueled as she believes he called her. Damon still doesn't want to help her, and burns the papers containing the data he's been collecting. After Elena ropes in the help of Alaric and headed off the mountains in search of Stefan, Alaric secretly contacts Damon and tells them where they are, as he doesn't want Elena there without being protected. Damon comes running up behind up Elena and pushes (throws) her into the lake, telling her that she should go home, but Elena convinces him otherwise.
They find Ray Sutton and bind him to a tree; unfortunately, being a hybrid, Ray starts to transform and Damon leads a rabid Ray away, where Stefan saves him. Damon appears in Elena's room, telling her that he will help her bring Stefan back, because even in his darkest place, he still wouldn't let him die. Damon doesn't want to compel her, he wants the time they spent together to be real and he also wants her to remember what she felt for Damon in Stefan's absence.
Katherine calls Damon with news that Stefan and Klaus are in Chicago. Damon informs Elena of it, and they drive to Chicago. They first go to visit Stefan's old apartment, where Damon shows Elena Stefan's list of killings. Damon then goes to Gloria's Bar, asking Gloria where Stefan is. Gloria proves a bit helpful, telling him that they will be back later that evening. Elena and he concoct a plan where she will be able to talk to Stefan and Damon will distract Klaus. As Elena talks to Stefan, Damon faces Klaus, almost being killed if Gloria hadn't saved him. Katherine again calls Damon, and he tells her she was right but unfortunately they couldn't get him back.

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After Stefan broke up with Elena, Damon keeps an eye on her by helping her make chili for the Founders Party, to make sure she doesn't break down. Elizabeth later requests the help of Damon to compel her ex-husband Bill to leave town. Alaric later approaches Damon and tells him to take a beat, meaning to stay away from Elena. At the council's meeting, Elizabeth reports that there hasn't been any vampire attacks. Bill then enters, accusing them of being blind, baffling Damon how Bill could have resisted compulsion.
As Damon, Elena, and Alaric walk out of the Lockwood mansion arguing about the return of Bill and whether or not vervain should be added to the water supply, they believe now that Stefan's not there, Damon needs help to keep himself in check. Damon temporarily kills Alaric as he didn't let him past.

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Damon later goes back to the mansion, where Bill is. They talk about how he could have resisted compulsion, and Damon then attacks Bill, feeding off of him. Caroline intervenes and feeds him some of her blood to heal him. Damon and Caroline fight, and she runs off with her father.
Elena enters and they argue about him being so reckless, and that she doesn't want him to be that way. Damon replies that he's not Stefan and not even like him. At the Salvatore boarding house, Damon waits until Alaric is revived, apologizing, but saying that he's fed up that everyone wants to change him. Katherine shows up at the front door with Elena's necklace, offering him to go on a road trip, to find a way to beat Klaus once and for all.
Damon and Katherine and driving away from Mystic Falls. Along the way, Katherine pities Elena for trying to change Damon, and tries to seduce him, only Damon resists. He stops the car, demanding to know what Katherine's plan is. She tells him that Klaus is searching for the necklace, and that means she has leverage. She shows him that she has Jeremy in the boot. Katherine reveals that Pearl had information on a vampire hunter that could kill the Originals. Pearl had shared all her information with Anna, but with them both dead, Jeremy is the only one able to contact her, which is why Katherine kidnapped him.

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After Damon hurts Jeremy, Anna's ghost is quick to tell them her secrets, and give them a name: Mikael. Katherine had been keeping Damon's phone and Damon demands it back, where he finds out that Bonnie has been searching for him and Klaus is back in town. Damon goes back to town, having a face down with Klaus, scaring him away by telling him Mikael has been released. He then goes to save Elena, and takes her back to the boarding house, where he tells her he will never leave her again. Stefan interrupts them, informing them he will be staying there to keep an eye on Elena for Klaus' sake.
Damon finds out that Stefan is holding parties in the house where he is recklessly drinking from young girls if they loose a game of Twister. Rebekah enters, telling them that Klaus left her alone. She walks off to find herself a room, even after Stefan and Damon denied her the invitation of staying there. Damon calls Katherine to find out how far she is with waking Mikael, but unfortunately she has had no luck. Damon then calls Elena at school, telling Elena rather not to visit their house not only because of Rebekah, but because Stefan is wild.

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Elena is training at Alaric's apartment, and Damon comes to give her a lesson on where a vampire's weak point is, and where she could stake one. Alaric, Damon, Elena, and Caroline devise a plan to capture Stefan and lock him up. Tyler disagrees with the plan, and Damon figures out that he's been sired and so is loyal to Klaus because his blood transformed him.
Damon distracts Rebekah with his charms, but she suspects that he has only been distracting her and trying to hide something from her. She stabs him with a piece of wood and walks away. Later, at the Salvatore boarding house, Damon is applying first aid to Elena's face after she almost got barbecued. They both talk about how they acted that night, and how they executed their plans. Damon is later knocked unconscious, and it is revealed to be Mason who attacked him.
Damon tied to a chair with a hit poker in his chest. Damon believes it to be Stefan that did it, but Mason had actually been the one who tortured him. Damon drives downtown to the set-up of the Night of Illumination, telling Bonnie that she screwed up with the spell, and that she needs to fix it, because Mason is after him for revenge. Alaric and Damon are at the bar when Mason appears, hitting Damon in the head with a glass. Mason tells him that he only wants an apology. Damon gives him an apology that he doesn't really mean and Mason accepts, telling him they should meet down at the old Lockwood cellar, where he will help him with the Klaus problem.

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Damon goes to the cellar as he had hit a snag in his other lead to defeat Klaus. Damon breaks through a wall that reveals a tunnel, and the duo traverse through it. Unexpectedly, Damon is stabbed with wooden stakes from different directions. Mason goes to fetch a shovel to break the stakes apart, and then removes them.
Damon can't believe Mason trusts him after all he's done. Mason confesses that he's not after revenge, but redemption, and that he wants to help Tyler. They find a cave, but somehow Damon can't enter it, and Mason goes on ahead. When Bonnie does the spell to send the ghosts back, Mason disappears, and Damon is in need of a person to get into the cave. He calls Alaric, as he's the only person Damon trusts other than Elena who he doesn't want to place in danger. Damon repeats the same apology to Alaric, but meaning it this time.
He frees Stefan from his captivity in the cellar and goes to a bar with him. There they talk about brotherly bond and he helps to hide the fact that Stefan bites the barkeeper several times. They meet Mikael who says he will rip Damon's heart out if Stefan doesn't tell him where he can find Klaus. Then, he spares Damon after Stefan says he could lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls. Outside, Damon beats Stefan and goes away. At the Gilbert house he lies in Elena's bed and when she lies down as well, she states that Damon maybe will be the only one who can save Stefan.

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He plans together with Mikael how Klaus can be killed. Mikael shows him the White Oak Stake, the only weapon that can kill an Original. When Stefan comes, Mikael feeds on him, incapacitating him. At the homecoming dance, he kills a hybrid and confronts Tyler after he injected Caroline with vervain. When Tyler almost bites him, Bonnie stops Damon from staking Tyler with the White Oak Stake. When Mikael and Klaus have a conversation he surprises Klaus after Mikael stabbed Katherine, who was impersonating Elena. He stabbed him in the stomach and was about to stake him in the heart when Stefan stopped him. Stefan is free and Damon gets home, angry. He tells Elena that he had Klaus and could have finished him off. He receives a phone call from Katherine, saying goodbye. Elena calms Damon down and they promise that they will survive life without Stefan.

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Damon is with Alaric at the Grill, drinking. Elena approaches him, while he is playing darts. They have a conversation but Klaus interrupts them. Together with his hybrid, Tony, he has come to ask Damon and Elena to find Stefan. Later, Klaus comes to the Salvatore Boarding House and reveals that Stefan stole the coffins of the Originals. Damon was called to the Gilbert House after Klaus almost killed Jeremy and splits the news. Then he and Elena go to the Witch House, trying to find Stefan. While waiting outside because the witches don't want to let him in without burning his skin, Elena talks to Stefan unsuccessfully. Finally, he bares to go inside the house to talk to his brother.
Damon beats the truth out of Stefan by staking him in the stomach several times. Stefan reveals that he saved his brother because Klaus' hybrids would have killed Damon. After telling him to stop saving his life, Damon leaves. Later, Stefan reveals that the dead witches are hiding the coffins, making them invisible for Klaus. After he came to Elena's house, she gets Damon to compel Jeremy. Damon sits down and compels him to leave town to go to Denver. Outside, he and Elena discuss if it was right to compel Jeremy and they also talk Stefan. Damon thought he doesn't have to feel guilty anymore and is about to go. Then, however, he says he only has one thing to feel guilty about now and they share a passionate kiss.
Damon takes a shower and then teams up with Stefan to go to the Witch House because they are meeting Bonnie. They find out that a hybrid was there and Damon killed him by ripping his heart out. At the house he sums up that three Originals are in the coffins but there are four coffins. He goes with Alaric to a fundraising for the Wickery Bridge. As they talk about Elena and that there is something changing with her, Damon leaves and finds Klaus talking to Carol.
He has to find out that Klaus has convinced the mayor that his hybrids would protect Tyler and the town. After Stefan captured Elena and wanted her to turn into a vampire, he calls Damon, informing him. Then, Damon talks to Klaus that he has no idea if Stefan is really going to kill Elena and advises Klaus to obey. He picks up Elena after Klaus obeyed to get his hybrids out of Mystic Falls and takes her home. He hopes she will be okay and leaves. He went with Elizabeth and they find Brian, Meredith Fell's ex-boyfriend, staked although he's not a vampire.
He gives Bonnie and Elena the information about Abby. He later meets Alaric in the Grill and they talk about Meredith Fell and Damon hints that she could have killed her boyfriend. To talk to Meredith, he went to the hospital and accused her of having killed the medical examiner. When Damon was about to go, Meredith injected him with vervain to take his blood. He then wakes up and went to Alaric, telling him what his "girlfriend" has done.
Damon went to the Witch House, unaware of Klaus following him. He found out that the coffins were them and after the spirits stopped torturing him, Klaus got them to show him the coffins. After he figured out the fourth was gone, he threatens Damon that he will rip out his heart. After Klaus took the coffins, Damon went home and Stefan came in. They have a conversation where Damon asks how Elena is. As a response Stefan punched him, hard, because Elena told him she had kissed Damon. Damon states he doesn't want to talk about it. He then holds up a White Oak Ash Dagger which he has removed from Elijah's heart, bringing him back to life again.

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Damon is with Stefan at the dinner hosted by Klaus. Before that, he had met up with Elijah, and they spoke. He helps Elijah remove the daggers from the Originals and bring them back to life. Then, he leaves and lets Elijah, Rebekah, Kol, and Finn take care of Klaus. After they leave the Originals, Damon and Stefan talk, and Damon thanks Stefan for saving his life all the time, and tells Stefan that he loves Elena. Damon is with Stefan and Elena at the Gilbert house when discussing how Esther was in the coffin, and when Elena receives her invitation Damon does not want her to go because it is dangerous. Damon is at the ball talking to Carol when Elena shows up. He tells Elena she is not supposed to be there but then offers his arm, along with Stefan, to Elena as they accompany her to the Mikaelsons' ball. He tries to protect Elena from the Original Witch, Esther, saying that it is to dangerous to go and he won't let her. Damon then offers his hand to Elena with Stefan looking on as they go and dance together. Damon tells Elena that she looks stunning.

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When it is time to switch partners, Damon ends up dancing with Rebekah. Damon is then shown walking into a room where Stefan is informing Elena he got her text, but he has his neck broken by Stefan who respects Elena's decision to meet Esther. When he wakes up, he is angry at Stefan but then understands Elena's decision but he then implies to Stefan that he cares too much and is not happy about the revelation. Damon finds Elena and tells her they are going home but Elena refuses. Damon says he is just trying to protect her and tells her that he is mad because he loves her. Elena then says that his love is a problem and Damon is severely hurt. When Kol tries to kill Matt, Damon, who is now unstable and angry, saves Matt and throws Kol from the balcony and breaks his neck. Damon, who is now drunk, goes up to Rebekah and they talk a little and after some persuading, they sleep together.

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Damon is in bed beside Rebekah. When Damon and Rebekah go to the door, Elena is standing there looking shocked. Damon turns Bonnie's mother in to a vampire in order to break the witch bond with Esther. Later, it is revealed that Stefan lost the coin toss and should been the one to turn Abby into a vampire.
Damon spends some time with his brother in the time after that. He is worried because Stefan refuses to drink blood. Damon wants to help Stefan learn moderation and teach him how to control his bloodlust instead of being controlled by it. Damon promises whenever Stefan would go too far, he would pull him back. When Stefan asks why he would do this, Damon confesses to Stefan that he is all that he has left.
Damon enlists Sage's help to get into Rebekah's mind and see what she is hiding. He ends up sleeping with Rebekah, and through Sage's special ability to get into people's minds, she discovers that White Oak tree from the Old World which potentially could kill the Originals is not totally burned down.
Damon then looks through old records from his bookshelf, and discovers that the White Oak was used to make Wickery Bridge. He then goes to Wickery Bridge to retrieve the Oak, only to be disappointed as Rebekah is burning it. Damon reveals to Stefan he sold his rage to Sage after she crossed him by telling Rebekah about the White Oak, and that Rebekah left out a part of the bridge made of the same white oak: the Wickery Bridge sign.

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Damon meets Elena at the door and refuses to let her in. He assures her that the history teacher is okay. She suspects he is up to something but eventually takes his word for it. Alaric, Stefan, and Damon have spent the night turning the old Wickery Bridge sign into white oak stakes. Apparently, Rebekah's more than a bit annoyed at Damon for seducing her and then using Sage to read her mind so she sneaks into the Salvatore boarding house and knocks Alaric out.

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Before Damon can figure out what's happening, Rebekah's within kissing distance. She greets him as her lover. She then stabs Damon in the gut. Damon dreams that Elena has come to save him. When he wakes, he realizes that Rebekah planted the dream in his mind. Once he finds out about the bloodline issue, Stefan marches over to Klaus. He drops a bag filled with eight of the remaining daggers on the floor, tells them Finn is dead, and offers to trade the weapons for Damon. It sounds too easy but Klaus compels a nearly drained Damon to go home. Before Damon amputates his own hands in an attempt to free himself from the chains, Klaus tells Damon to stop. Then, he compels Damon to tell him how many stakes really exist and Damon tells him the truth that there are eleven.
This prompts Klaus to make a big speech about how he gave Stefan's life purpose by giving him something to hate. He's so full of himself that Stefan can't help but try to kill him. Klaus easily squashes his attempt. Then, Rebekah frees Damon and tells Stefan that if he turns in the remaining three stakes she and Klaus will let them live. Later, Damon goes over to Alaric's to get the last stake but Alaric can't find it. Its been moved from its hiding place behind the bookshelf. After snarking Alaric for hiding it in such a cliched place, Damon asks if Alaric is really telling him that he is missing a stake that could kill his line of vampires. Alaric tells him that is what he's saying.

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Damon and Stefan worry after Bonnie shows up with news of Alaric and it is revealed that Elena is missing. Stefan, Damon and Klaus finally agree to save Elena and Caroline together. As they fight Alaric, both Damon and Stefan are beaten as Klaus takes Elena. Later on, Damon, Stefan and Tyler begin to desiccate Klaus' body with help from Bonnie. Damon helps Elena up and takes her out of Klaus' manor. As Damon and Stefan take off to put away Klaus' body they talk about Elena and Stefan mentions that if she chooses Damon he will go away and let them be happy. Damon agrees to do the same and implies towards the trouble they go through for "one girl". Stefan responds saying, "She is a pretty special girl" and Damon agrees. This episode reflects one of the strongest points in the relationship between both brothers.

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That night, Elena has one final talk with Damon, letting him know that she is choosing Stefan. Damon is hurt, but accepts her decision. He reminisces about the past, revealing that it was he who met Elena first, not Stefan. Damon saw her there on a road and mistook her for Katherine. He told her about what she really wanted: a love that consumes her, passion and adventure, and even a little danger, before compelling her to forget meeting him.

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Much later, in a fight with Alaric after leaving town, Alaric dies. Damon realizes with horror that this means Elena is dead. He begins to break down, realizing that he has lost his best friend and the girl that he loves. He goes to the Mystic Falls Hospital, demanding to know where Elena is. Meredith tells him that she injected vampire blood into Elena to heal her cerebral hemorrhage, and that she would have died without her help causing him to be upset and shocked.

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In *Growing Pains*, Damon is with Elena and Stefan in Elena's room, explaining to her that she died with vampire blood in her system and that she is in transition. He speaks bluntly and tells Elena that she has two options: to feed and become a vampire or die. He visits Rebekah and tries to stab her with the white oak stake. Rebekah unhands him easily but someone else shoots her in the back with an arrow, and Damon escapes. Damon, Matt, Dr. Fell and Liz meet at the Gilbert house and try to sort out where Caroline, Elena and Stefan could be. Matt realizes they could be locked up at Pastor Young's ranch, so he and Damon leave to check it out.
Damon and Matt arrive at the ranch, and instead of going on the offensive, Damon lures the pastor out by viciously biting Matt. After being shot, Damon plays possum, kills the officers that approach him, then turns his attention back to Matt, threatening to kill him.

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When Damon is apparently about to kill Matt, Elena attacks Damon to stop him, revealing that she has completed her transition and is now a vampire. She tells him she remembers everything he compelled her to forget, including the fact that she met him first, though she alludes to the fact that it wouldn't change anything. She asks Damon what he would have done if he had been in Stefan's position and he answers with the truth: he would have let Matt die to save her. He asserts his own selfishness, saying that he would have been selfish enough to let her friend die so that Elena could have the life she wanted: a human one. After he reminds Elena of another compelled memory she got back, she doesn't respond and Damon leaves.

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In *Memorial*, Stefan wants Elena to get used to animal blood right from the start and Damon disagrees with this approach. They argue about it until Elena arrives, and Damon tells Elena that, now that she's a vampire, she should *be* a vampire and feed on human blood. After the news comes out about the explosion at the Young farm that killed the town council, both the sheriff and Elena ask Damon if he did it, but he denies it. Elena also confesses that she has been having trouble keeping blood down, and asks Damon for help. After she refuses to drink from a human, Damon offers his own blood, but asks Elena not to tell Stefan about it.

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Later, Damon gets a call from a frantic Elena, asking him to bring her a change of clothes. When he shows up at the church, he finds Connor sitting just outside the bathroom where Elena is. Damon manages to hand Elena a bag of her things without Connor seeing the bloody mess she's made, and waits until Elena is ready to go, making tense small talk with Connor. Outside, Damon tries to get Elena to drink from a blood bag, but once again she can't keep it down. Elena starts to get hysterical but Damon calms her down and she goes back inside the church. Stefan meets Damon outside and they argue again about what is best for Elena. Damon reveals that she hasn't been able to keep blood down for days, and casually mentions that Elena drank from him earlier.

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Later, after Connor opens fire on Tyler in the church, Damon goes after him and catches up with him in the parking lot. He rips the door off Connor's truck and pulls him out, but Connor fires at Damon with wooden bullets and is about to stake him when he hears Stefan coming. Choosing flight over fight, Connor makes away in his truck. Rather than pursue Connor, Stefan stays behind with Damon and starts to help him up, but then sucker-punches him instead. Damon is indignant at first, but Stefan tacitly indicates it was payback for letting Elena feed from him.

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That evening, Stefan gathers everyone together for a Japanese lantern ceremony. Damon doesn't think they should put the brakes on finding the hunter, but Stefan insists they take the time to grieve. The group takes turns releasing a lantern into the sky after memorializing lost loved ones, but Damon refuses to participate and leaves. Instead, he grieves in his own way at Alaric's grave alone, "talking" to Alaric about everything that's going on and, in a roundabout way, how much he misses his friend. Unbeknownst to Damon, Alaric's ghost sits beside him the whole time, listening.

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In *The Rager*, Damon and Stefan banter about being in a fight because Damon blood-shared with Elena, and Damon reveals his intention to take down the hunter and then leave town. He takes it upon himself to snoop around Connor's trailer, but quickly gets caught in one of the hunter's booby traps: if he moves so much as an inch, the trap would detonate strategically placed bombs. He calls Meredith, who arrives and helps cut the arrow out of Damon's back. While she works, Damon ignores a phone call from Elena, and Meredith comments that Damon is a good brother. He objects, but she points out the good in taking on the dangerous, necessary jobs so that Stefan can mentor Elena.

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When Damon returns to the boarding house, Elena is in his room ostensibly looking for bourbon, but he quickly calls her bluff and says he knows she is looking for the white oak stake. He starts undressing in front of her, and when she doesn't leave asks her suggestively if she'd like to stay for the show. Elena snaps out of it and leaves, announcing her determination to find the stake.

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After Jeremy has lured Connor to the hospital, Damon, having recruited Jeremy and Klaus in his plan to take down the hunter, traps Connor with a setup identical to the one that trapped Damon earlier. Even though he has an arrow in each arm, Connor still reaches for his gun. Just as he's about to pick it up, Klaus appears and kicks it out of the way. Damon and Klaus tag team their captive with an interrogation, but Connor remains tight-lipped. After Damon mentions Connor's invisible tattoo, Klaus seems intrigued. Connor tries to stake Klaus, but is easily disarmed. Damon observes while Klaus mentions something about Connor being one of the Five, but doesn't have time to find out what he means before Connor detonates the bomb and Damon is blasted into the hallway.

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In the fallout of the explosion, Meredith chastises Damon for using the hospital in his dangerous plan and advises him to mend his relationships with Stefan and Elena. Later, when Elena is losing control while feeding on Matt, Damon vamp-runs into the house and pulls her off of him. Damon compels Matt to forget that Elena almost killed him and to go home, then turns to a distraught Elena and promises to help her learn how to be a vampire.

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In *The Five*, Damon and Stefan search for more clues about the mysterious Five and the hunter, Connor, who is missing. Damon leaves Stefan to search for answers while he takes Elena to Whitmore College to learn how to feed. Under the guise of accompanying Bonnie on a visit to see the professor that took over for her grandmother, Damon hopes to teach Elena how to do the "snatch, eat, erase" method of feeding. She fails to bite her first victim after seeing a picture of the woman's little sister on her phone; she loses her nerve and sends the woman away. Damon is annoyed, wondering aloud why Elena cares about a stranger. She reminds him that she's still herself and has the same feelings as when she was human. Bonnie arrives with a flyer about a frat party that night, and Damon is delighted at the chance to find Elena some victims she won't feel so sympathetic about.

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That night they arrive at the ‘Murder House'. Decked out in costumes like the other party-goers, Damon and Elena have no trouble blending in and feeding at their leisure. Elena's first victim is a guy who had just slipped a roofie into a girl's drink. She lures him away from the action into an empty room and feeds on him. Damon coaches her, warning her not to kill him. She finishes and compels the guy to leave and forget what happened. Excited about her first successful snatch-eat-erase, Elena hugs Damon and tells him she wants more. They return to the dance floor, dancing and feeding on people, and then dance together, blood dripping from their mouths. Elena sees Bonnie return, snaps out of her blood high and runs outside, mortified.

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Damon joins Elena and Bonnie outside. Bonnie accuses him of wanting Elena to be like him, and he argues that she already is and needs to learn to revel in the feed; not hating herself and enjoying it will be the only way she, like him, can make feeding fun and not get carried away. Damon walks away, leaving Elena crying about what had happened. He accompanies her home and she apologizes for letting things get out of hand at the party, confessing that she hates that, deep down, she agrees with Damon's point of view. She starts to say she doesn't want to be that way, and Damon finishes her sentence to say she doesn't want to be like him. When Stefan opens the door, Damon leaves.

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In *The Killer*, Damon arrives at the Gilbert house to see Elena and ask about Stefan, who hasn't answered Damon's calls. Damon surmises that Stefan is dodging him after finding out about Elena dancing and feeding with Damon at the frat party, but Elena reveals she didn't tell Stefan about it. Damon teases her about being in a shame spiral, but they both get worried when Stefan doesn't even answer a call from Elena's phone. When Stefan finally shows up at the Lockwood mansion, Damon and the others already have a plan in motion to rescue Jeremy, Matt and April from Connor: Caroline and Tyler got the sheriff and the hybrids involved, and Damon asks Caroline to get Bonnie to help out as well. Stefan clashes with Damon about how to go forward with the rescue mission.

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Later, up in Alaric's loft, Damon finds Alaric's map of the town's tunnels, one of which leads to the Grill. After a brief phone call with Stefan, Elena proposes to offer to trade herself for the hostages, since Connor does not yet know she's a vampire. Damon shoots down this idea, suggesting she wouldn't be able to handle a fight against a professional hunter. A mock fight ensues that ends with Elena straddling Damon on the bed, the crossbow pointed at his heart. She tells Damon that Jeremy is the only thing holding her together, and he promises that they will get him out. When Stefan rejoins them at the loft, Damon wonders aloud why Stefan has involved Klaus in his plan. When Damon suggests he's going to go rogue, Stefan stabs him with a vervain dart.

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When Damon wakes up, he discovers Stefan stole his daylight ring. Elena decides that she's going to the Grill, and Damon tells her to get as close as she can before killing Connor. Later in the tunnels, Damon runs into Stefan, who has Connor. Damon immediately wants to kill the hunter, so Stefan tells Connor to run as fast as he can. Stefan tries to restrain Damon, but Damon eventually thrusts his hand into Stefan's chest and grabs his heart, threatening him until he confesses what he's been up to with Klaus. Stefan finally reveals that there's a cure to vampirism and Connor's tattoo is the key to finding it. Damon releases Stefan, shocked.

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Later, Elena is crying while she digs a grave for Connor in the woods. Damon and Stefan try to soothe her, but she wants none of it. Back at the boarding house, the brothers agree not to tell Elena that she killed her chance at becoming human again. Stefan mentions a plan to go forward with finding a new hunter, and Damon says he will help, but he wants to know one thing: Does Stefan want to cure Elena because she's not cut out to be a vampire, or because he can't love her if she one? Stefan says he'll always love her, but she's not supposed to be a vampire. Damon makes it clear that he's fine with her either way, so if he helps find the cure, he's doing it for Stefan.

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In *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*, Damon arrives at the Gilbert house after Elena called him, though he wonders why she asked him to come and not Stefan. Elena admits she doesn't trust Stefan at the moment, and Damon in turn admits that *he* called Stefan as the younger Salvatore walks in the front door. After Elena finishes showering, she has another hallucination, and this time she imagines that Damon is Connor. She bolts out of the house, where Klaus grabs her and speeds off. Bonnie meets up with Damon and Stefan and they ask for her help in breaking the curse Elena is under. She says the spirits won't let her do that kind of magic to break the curse, but she suggests that Shane might be able to help.

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Later, Damon waits to meet Bonnie and Shane in Alaric's old classroom, where, alone for a moment, he reminisces about his friend. Bonnie and Shane arrive and Damon shows the professor the drawing of the hunter's mark and asks if he knows anything about the Hunter's Curse. Shane explains that if a hunter is killed by that which he hunts, the killer will walk the world in torment until a new hunter is awakened and the legacy is passed on. Damon realizes this means Jeremy has to get involved, and he and Bonnie explain to Jeremy he needs to kill a vampire to break the curse. Stefan calls Damon to ask him to find Elena, who has escaped.
Later, he finds her on Wickery Bridge, and somehow she sees that he's really there. Jeremy and Stefan kill the hybrid Chris in time, ending Elena's hallucinations. Damon is relieved, but soon realizes their new problem is that Elena ditched her daylight ring, and the sun is beginning to rise. She panics as her skin starts to blister, and Damon grabs her and jumps off the bridge into the water.
Later, Elena wakes up in her bed at home with the daylight ring back on her finger, and Damon explains that he fished it out of the river. She takes his hand and thanks him for saving her life. The moment starts to feel more intimate, so, realizing the awkward position he is in, he pulls back and tells her about the cure, the reason behind Stefan's secrecy lately.

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Back at the Grill, Matt approaches Damon with information he had found out about the explosion at the Young farm. Having heard from April that the pastor knew Professor Shane, who suspiciously knew about the hunter's mark and curse, Matt decided to have Sheriff Forbes check the pastor's phone records. The pastor had made a call a day during the last month that he was alive, and 10 calls on the day of the explosion, all to the same phone number—Shane's office.
Later, Stefan and Elena break up, and their conversation has a lot to do with Damon. They talk about trust, and how Elena seems to rely on Damon more lately, instead of turning to Stefan. Elena admits that since she has become a vampire, everything she felt for Damon as a human has become magnified. His suspicions confirmed, Stefan breaks it off, and Elena agrees.

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In *My Brother's Keeper*, Damon learns about Stefan and Elena's break up. He offers Stefan his support, but Stefan brushes him off. Later at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant, Damon advises April on which dress to wear, and Elena changes her earlier opinion to agree with him, which Caroline finds bizarre. Elena follows him out of the room and down the stairs. He tells her he knows about the break up, but that he can't say he's sorry to hear it. Elena tells him Damon was the reason they broke up, and he is clearly surprised. They gaze at each other for a long moment, but Shane breaks them out of it and asks to talk to Damon. Damon leaves, glancing back to smile at Elena. Outside, after skirting around the issue, Damon accuses Shane of convincing the pastor to blow up the council. Shane stonewalls him and walks away.

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Later, Elena is worried about Jeremy, but Damon assures her that Jeremy's probably fine. Damon confirms with Stefan over the phone that Stefan is with Jeremy and getting him to kill vampires. He later finds Tyler and suggests that Hayley talking to the professor is suspicious. Cornering the professor again, he threatens to kill Shane unless he gives up the name of another hunter, and instead Shane reveals that a Bennett witch is needed to get to the cure.

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During the pageant dance ceremony, Damon and Elena catch one another's eye and smile at each other. Later, Elena moves into the boarding house, no longer safe living with Jeremy, and Stefan leaves for the night. Over drinks, Elena vents about the strain her new vampire status has put on her relationships with Jeremy, Stefan and Caroline, and her doubts about being cut out to be a vampire. Damon responds that he's never seen her more alive. Elena admits that she had wanted to dance with Damon earlier, remembering their dance at last year's pageant, and so Damon stands up and offers Elena his hand. They share a slow, intimate dance which escalates into passionate kissing and clothes-ripping, and finally they have sex with each other for the first time. Back at Caroline's house, Stefan and Caroline figure out that Elena is sired to Damon.

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In *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*, Damon awakens the morning after he and Elena finally consummated their relationship. He admits to Elena that he's happy, and they have sex again. When Elena leaves for school, Damon makes one request -- that they wait just one day before they tell Stefan about them. Stefan arrives just as Elena is leaving, and he confronts Damon with his theory about the sire bond. Damon resents Stefan for suggesting it and wants to dismiss it completely, but Stefan only asks that Damon test the theory by asking Elena to try drinking from a blood bag again, and to emphasize that it would make Damon happy if she did. Damon reluctantly agrees to try, though he makes it clear that if Stefan is wrong, he should be very sorry indeed. Damon meets Elena at school and gives her a blood bag. She's doubtful that it will work, but when she is able to drink it without a problem, she's thrilled. With the sire bond seemingly confirmed, Damon is dismayed, though he doesn't let on to Elena what is going on.

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Damon returns to the boarding house to look through some of his old things, and Stefan finds him in the midst of his search. Damon explains that this had happened to him once before, back in 1942 in New Orleans, when a girl named Charlotte was sired to him. Seeking a way to break the bond, he had enlisted the help of a witch named Valerie LaMarche. The brothers head to New Orleans looking for answers to their current problem, and reminisce about the time they briefly reunited in 1942 before Stefan left for the war. They arrive in the French Quarter, and continue to be at odds about the sire bond and Elena's connection to Damon.

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They arrive at the address Damon had for the witch in 1942, as Damon couldn't remember where her shop was and they needed a place to start. Stefan suggests they look for Charlotte after Damon admits that the last time he saw her, he'd told her to count every brick in every building in New Orleans and he'd meet her at the corner of Bourbon and Dumaine—and he was gone by morning. After Stefan makes a comment about seeing how literal the sire bond is, they head to the corner and continue to argue about how to handle the sire bond and telling Elena. Damon, frustrated and angry with Stefan, leaves to get a drink and blow off steam, but on his way he is attacked by another vampire. Stefan hears the commotion and rushes to Damon's aid, but it turns out to be Charlotte, who hadn't attacked Damon but kissed him. She reveals that she has been counting the bricks of New Orleans all these years, but insists that she's not crazy and has lived a life beyond that as well. Damon and Stefan enlist her help in finding the witch's shop.

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Later, they enter a shop and ask the shopkeeper, Nandi, for a spell that could break a vampire sire bond. Damon insists that the witch Val had had a grimoire with a spell to do it, and recounts the time in 1942 that he had visited the shop and Val had told him of a spell that required the sacrifice of 12 human souls. Nandi says she doesn't practice at all, and all of her grandmother's grimoires were lost during Hurricane Katrina. The brothers leave the shop, though Damon knows Nandi was lying—he recalls seeing a young girl in Val's shop whose name was Nandi, so she must have used magic to slow her aging. Damon reenters the shop angrily demanding her help, and she retaliates by using magic to cause Damon pain until Stefan steps in and brings the negotiation back to talking. Nandi explains that her mother had used Damon to access the power left behind by the sacrifice in order to practice a brand of magic called "Expression". She also reveals that a sire bond cannot be broken with magic, that a vampire only develops a sire bond with her maker if the feelings were there when she was human, and vampirism only heightens those emotions. The only way around the bond is to sever all ties with the person in question - to tell her to live her life without him, to never think of him again, and to stop caring for him - and he must never see her again.

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Before the brothers leave New Orleans, Damon does his best to set Charlotte free, telling her that it would make him happy if she could forget about him and make a life of her own. He leaves her and rejoins Stefan, who worries that Damon won't be selfless enough to do the same with Elena. Damon responds by recounting what really happened in 1942 when Damon never showed up to leave for war with Stefan: Lexi had convinced Damon that Stefan would be better off without him, and that he should think about what was best for Stefan instead of himself. Stefan seems touched to learn of this, and assures Damon that above all he wants Elena to have her free will back.

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Damon arrives back at the boarding house to find Elena cleaning up after girls' night. She already knows about the sire bond, and asks if he and Stefan found a way to break it. Damon implies that there is no simple fix, but before he can try to set her free, she insists that she's happy and the sire bond doesn't change anything between them. Damon believes the opposite, and professes that although he usually doesn't do the "right" thing, he has to do right by Elena because he loves her. To strengthen her case, Elena takes Damon's hand and holds it against her heart, and they look at one another as they contemplate how to know what is real and what isn't, silently considering the future of their relationship.
In *O Come, All Ye Faithful*, Damon awakens next to Elena in his bed. Although he had not sent her away to free her from the sire bond, he refused to have sex with her. They instead slept beside each other, fully clothed. Still, Damon feels guilty about not following through on his promise to Stefan. Elena insists that their relationship feels real to her, and she dares a reluctant Damon to send her away. He deflects by bringing up their other problem - that Stefan doesn't yet know they had sex. After their discussion about how to proceed leads to an almost-kiss, they are interrupted by Elena's phone. Elena says she has to meet Bonnie, who is trying to teach Jeremy not to kill Elena. Elena asks Damon if he wants to come.

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At the Gilbert Family Lake House, Jeremy is chopping wood when Elena and Damon pull into the driveway. After Bonnie takes a tensed-up Jeremy inside, Damon sees Shane standing in the doorway and wonders aloud what he's doing there. Elena reveals that she invited him to help with deprogramming Jeremy's hunter instinct. They approach the house, but it is now in Jeremy's name, so he has to invite them in. He does, and immediately tries to stake Elena. She disarms him easily, but it's clear that they have their work cut out for them.

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Later, Stefan calls Damon to tell him the sword is missing. Damon flippantly suggests two plans involving killing Tyler to stall the plan to kill Klaus. Changing the subject, Stefan asks sensitively if Damon knows where Elena is, assuming that Damon had sent her away after they returned from New Orleans. Damon responds vaguely about her possibly helping deprogram Jeremy. Later, after the first attempt to hypnotize Jeremy fails, Elena sits on the dock and tells Damon how strange it seems that the last time she'd been there, she was so in love with Stefan, and now that's barely a memory. She wonders aloud whether this was the sire bond, or just being so happy to be there with Damon. This conversation, apart from making Damon uncomfortable, gives Damon an idea: Shane should have used someone other than the person Jeremy wants to kill to attach Jeremy's "detour feelings" to. He goes inside to suggest that they use Bonnie as Jeremy's detour whenever he feels the need to kill Elena.

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Outside, Shane and Elena talk about her relationship with Damon. After Shane shares with her that he had lost his family, Damon interrupts them to threaten Shane's life (again), but Shane diverts their attention with another reveal: that he knows where the cure is because he has already been there. Later, Shane tells Damon and Elena the story about Silas and how he was trapped with the cure; thus, in order to find the cure, they need to find Silas. When Jeremy's mark is complete, it will contain the spell needed to dig up Silas. He refuses to reveal Silas' location, using it as leverage against Damon killing him. Damon calls Stefan with the news that they no longer need the sword. Alone again, Damon tells Elena his theory about Shane having orchestrated the massacre at the Young farm. Shane enters and makes excuses about the pastor being depressed and coming to Shane for supernatural assistance. They are interrupted by Jeremy and Bonnie, who are ready to test Jeremy's control around Elena. Jeremy walks toward Elena with a wooden stake in his hand and Damon steps in between them, but Jeremy, after looking at Bonnie for reinforcement, hands the stake to Damon. Jeremy reaches Elena and hugs her.

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As Damon watched Elena and Jeremy decide which Christmas ornaments to bring back to their house, Damon sat outside on the deck and watched her. Elena took out plastic mistletoe and wanted a kiss, but Damon wouldn't do it. He said it was good to see her normal like that with her brother. He wants that for her. The truth is, of course, that Damon wants that with his brother, too. He misses celebrating Christmas with Stefan, which used to be their favorite holiday when they were human. Damon was ready to do the right thing: He told her she's gonna go home. He's gonna stay there with Jeremy and teach him how to hunt, protect himself, and kill vampires without her. "I'm setting you free Elena. This is what I want. This is what will make me happy," he said.
Later, we saw Jeremy thank Bonnie and hug her goodbye. Bonnie was going to drive Elena home. Elena told Damon she was prepared to fight him on this, but suddenly, every part of her body was telling her she needs to get in the car and leave him. She kissed him goodbye. Simple and gentle, they clearly felt the kiss, but she was very confused about the intense push to leave him still. Damon was surprised by the kiss, but still saddened that he had to send her away.

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In *After School Special*, Jeremy and Matt sparring lakeside in tank tops while Damon listened to a voicemail from Elena for presumably the 100th time. Jeremy wanted Damon to teach him something new -- and what we learned was that Jeremy is still no match for a vampire. A pizza delivery girl arrived, for the third day in a row. Damon told her not to return, no matter how much the boys begged. Damon wanted to finish that message from Elena, who misses him and wishes he'd let her come to him, so he told Jeremy and Matt to run around the lake twice.

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Later, Jeremy practiced slowly loading a gun while Damon fished for information on Elena's mood. Their conversation was interrupted by Klaus, who wanted to know how many vampires Jeremy had killed. He needs that hunter's mark to grow so he can find the cure and make more hybrids (since he just murdered 12 of them). Damon said Jeremy wasn't ready, and Klaus said he wanted to help. So Damon told Jeremy to watch and learn -- and then he fired two bullets into Klaus. "That was for Carol Lockwood," Damon said.

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Meanwhile, Damon's sitting in the woods outside of the Gilbert lake house, whittling. Klaus vamps up. Surprisingly he's not mad that Damon shot him. He's more worried about Jeremy's hunter mark. He suggests they turn more townspeople so Jeremy can kill them and grow the mark. Damon hesitates and Klaus accuses him of trying to appease Elena by doing the right thing of not involving innocent civilians. Damon doesn't deny it. So Klaus tells him he's already started working on his idea. His first victim is the local pizza delivery girl. Earlier that evening he'd turned her then compelled her to go to Jeremy's house. While Klaus and Damon sit in the woods, Pizza Girl knocks on Jeremy's door, claiming car trouble. Too honest for his own good, Little Gilbert admits that he's about to hop in the shower then he invites her inside to wait for the mechanic. Pizza girl attacks Matt faster than you can say "extra pepperoni, please." Jeremy hears the struggle, comes in and stakes her. Damon vamps in and together they all watch Jeremy's tattoo grow.
Elena called Damon on the phone and had a heartening discussion about her feelings for him. For the first time she confesses that she loves him. He promised to find the cure for her and would maybe do things she wouldn't like, but it was for her. And, then he asked her to come see him. Jeremy, Matt, and Damon showing up at a bar littered with patrons Klaus had in transition to become vampires. He thought Damon was going to convince Klaus there was another way to do this. "Well, I thought about it," Damon said, "and then I realized his idea was better."

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In the next episode, *Catch Me If You Can*, Damon was disappointed that Jeremy wanted to retreat from the newly turned vampires, but then he softened -- caring about Jeremy and Matt. Damon said he'd slow the vamps down and ripped one's heart out. When Elena arrived, she was naturally upset with Damon, but she agreed to let him stay with Jeremy and go hunting while she took Matt home. Damon and Jeremy headed back to the bar to hunt the new vamps. Damon told Jeremy, "I'm trying to keep you alive, dumbass." Inside, they followed a blood trail -- and found a pile of dead bodies. Kol was there, looking adorable as always. He still had blood on his hands when he offered the guys a drink. "He's underage and I don't like you," Damon cracked.

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Kol cut to the chase and told them that finding the cure risks the awakening of Silas. Damon didn't care so much. So Kol continued: A few hundred years back, he came across a group of Silas' followers. They said Silas would rise again and trigger the end of all time, which sounds dangerous even to an immortal. So he murdered all of them. He can't sit back and let this race for the cure happen. Kol didn't want to kill Jeremy and suffer the hunter's curse. So he decided to rip off his arms. Solid plan, actually. Damon told Jeremy to run and fought Kol. Kol had Damon slowly staking himself to confirm that Damon could be compelled. Kol told Damon he wouldn't remember him saying this, but he was to find Jeremy and kill him.

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Later Damon went to see Elena and asked where Jeremy was. At the Grill, she said, checking on Matt. Damon said he should go apologize to Jeremy for being tough on him. At the Grill, Jeremy senses something was up with Damon when they came eye-to-eye. He started after Jeremy, and Elena called Damon's name and he stopped -- for a second. He told Elena that Kol must have compelled him because if he finds Jeremy, he'll kill him. He saw Jeremy had gone down in the tunnels they used when Connor took hostages at the Grill. He followed. It's deliciously creepy that while Damon was hunting Jeremy, he was yelling ahead to tell him to run and get out of there because he was coming and going to kill him. Jeremy stopped in the tunnels and cut his hand and let it bleed on his jacket. Damon smelled the bait and when he picked up the jacket, Jeremy attacked him. Damon bit Jeremy's arm and tossed him. Damon said Jeremy was stupid, he couldn't fight him in close quarters. "Worth a shot," Jeremy said, and he shot Damon twice in the stomach. Damon told Jeremy to shoot him in the heart because he won't be able to stop himself from coming after him. *"Do it. Do it*," Damon said. He lunged at Jeremy, and he fired a shot.

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Damon woke up and Jeremy had shot him in the head. Damon thought Jeremy was stupid. Damon was still on the hunt. Jeremy ran through the woods bleeding. Elena caught up to Damon and tried to tell him that he can resist the compulsion because she loves him, and he loves her, and he'll do anything for her. "Sorry, Elena," he said and continued the chase. When he found Jeremy, Damon again did the most decent thing he could. "Shoot now," he told Jeremy. Jeremy fired a shot, and Stefan pushed Damon out of the way. "Hey brother, long time no see," Stefan said. And he snapped his neck. Damon was taken back to Salvatore Mansion and drained of most of his blood to weaken him. He couldn't even get off his back. He wanted to see Elena, but Stefan said they can't let him do that because with the sire bond, he'd be able to get Elena to let him out. Stefan's plan: Damon stays in there until they find the cure and the sire bond and compulsion are broken. Then Elena and Damon can do whatever they want.

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In *A View to a Kill*, Damon, who was still on the ground in the Salvatore family cellar. Stefan tossed him a vial of blood and offered him a bottle of water. When Damon got up, he was greeted by Klaus, who was going to play the role of Original Babysitter. Stefan told Klaus to give Damon a vial of blood every couple of hours so he doesn't desiccate. He gave him permission to bleed him out again, if needed. Damon told Klaus that Stefan was still mad at him for sleeping with Elena, and Klaus told Damon about catching Stefan sneaking out of Rebekah's bed. Revenge sex, Damon knows it well. Klaus was inside the cellar with Damon villain-bonding. Klaus asked Damon how he gets Elena to overlook every horrible thing he's done: "What is it you say to her?" Damon knew what this was about: Klaus is afraid Caroline won't forgive him for killing Carol Lockwood. Damon gave him a real answer: Damon is the bad guy so things get done, Klaus is a bad guy just to be a dick. "If you're gonna be bad, be bad with purpose; otherwise, you're just not worth forgiving."

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Klaus, meanwhile, freaked out after Kol called him and asked Damon what Stefan and Elena were planning. Damon genuinely didn't know. Klaus thought he'd compelled Damon to stay in the cellar, but Damon had been drinking that bottled water Stefan gave him, which had vervain in it. Damon was reunited with Elena now that he's no longer compelled to kill Jeremy, and Stefan arrived home with Silas' headstone. Elena assumed Rebekah was daggered so they just needed to get Professor Shane and they'd be set -- but Stefan said he didn't dagger Rebekah because she's on their side. How could he trust her? Damon was more than happy to tell Elena that Stefan had slept with Rebekah. Elena had nothing to say until the brothers started bickering, and then she told them to stop. "Why don't you tell her to calm down, Damon. You've managed to use that sire bond pretty well so far, haven't you?" Stefan said. Damon punched Stefan. Then Jeremy screamed and ripped opened his shirt. The mark grew, and now they all could see it. "Here we go," Damon said.

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After arriving at the island, Shane offered Damon sunscreen with Damon asking, "Is that suppose to be a joke?"Damon declined to tell Elena if he'd take the cure when it's found. On the island, the hiking began. Rebekah recapped what everyone brings to the table including Elena (nothing) and Damon ("nice behind"). When Shane skated the question of whether Bonnie should trust him, Damon pressed for answers. What Shane means is that after his son died in a car accident, his witch wife tried to resurrect him with Expression. It overwhelmed her, and she died. Bonnie was understandably pissed that Shane taught her the same magic that killed his wife. But his wife, Shane said, was undisciplined, and he's learned the warning signs so he can keep Expression from consuming Bonnie. That's why they can't kill him once he points to the cure: Bonnie needs to keep him alive so he can keep her alive.
The gang came to their camp for the night. After Shane made a comment about Damon having the most to lose when they find the cure, Elena had to assure him that her love for him won't change. She clearly wants him to take the cure. In the morning, the group had to split up: Bonnie wanted to stay behind and try a locator spell, Shane wanted to stay with her, and Damon wanted to stay with Shane. Shane used the satellite phone he said earlier no longer worked, which set Damon off. He demanded to know where the cure is, and Shane said it and Silas are entombed in caves deep beneath that well. Flashback: Shane's wife told him that if he helps raise Silas, Silas will help those who've helped him, which means Shane can raise both his wife and their son, Sam. She explained the necessity of the hunter's mark, the spell, and the power of a descendant of Qetsiyah. He asked about the massacres. Shane's wife told him that he wouldn't have to perform three massacres of twelve himself -- he just had to convince someone it was possible for them to see a loved one again, too, and they'd do it for him. They'd all come back, too, she said. Damon counted two massacres -- Pastor Young's, so he could see his wife again, and Klaus' holiday hybrid spree. Shane assured Damon that he hadn't brought them all along to be part of massacre number three, but he wouldn't tell him where the magical well is.

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Shane tried to tell Damon he should leave the island rather than watch Elena find the cure and choose Stefan. He assumed Damon wouldn't kill him because then Bonnie would die when she did the spell to access the cure. But Damon doesn't care about Bonnie, he told Shane. And right before Damon snapped his neck, Elena arrived to stop him. She freed Shane and told him to stop messing with her friends. Damon finally admitted to Elena that he doesn't want her to be cured. Even if she still loves him, she'll be human and he'll be a vampire, and they won't work. She told him to take the cure with her so they could grow old together. That's Stefan, not him, he said. He used to miss being human, but now he can't think of anything more miserable than being human, then walked away. Damon went walking through the woods and got hit by an arrow. He realized it was from one of the Five from the mark on the guy's hand. The hunter snapped Damon's neck.

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In *Down the Rabbit Hole*, Galen Vaughn, the Hunter who captured Damon, had him tied to a tree and wanted to know why his mark suddenly completed itself two days ago. Damon insisted he knows nothing about tattoos. "Look at my skin, it's flawless," he cracked. A new classic Damon line. Vaughn took a poker to Damon's neck to show he should be taken seriously. Vaughn now had Damon walking toward the well. His plan was to use Damon to make Bonnie open the crypt to Silas for him. He'd make Silas take the cure, kill him, and complete the Brotherhood of the Five's mission. Damon noted that Bonnie would not do anything for him, but good news for Vaughn: They didn't give a crap about Silas, they just wanted the cure, so yes, Bonnie would open the crypt regardless. Vaughn dropped the bombshell we all kind of saw coming: There's only one dose of the cure.

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The Hunter and Damon officially entered the playing field. Since Vaughn no longer needed Damon because Bonnie had done her part already, they were ready to kill each other. Damon said he was going to do away with Vaughn and get the cure for the girl he loves. Vaughn said Damon's attachment to his friends would be the end of him. We heard a noise. "You don't know my friends," Damon said. Enter Rebekah. "Or my enemies," he finished. He knocked Rebekah out with some kind of stake grenade he buried in her chest and fired some kind of vervain yo-yo around Damon's neck.

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Stefan and Elena caught up, and Vaughn fled through the passage. Stefan sent Elena on, and he stayed behind to try to help Damon. Stefan finally freed Damon, and Damon insisted Stefan go help Elena get the cure while he sat, sulked, and recovered. Stefan didn't waste time telling Damon that they had to save the dose for Klaus. Damon had crawled over to Rebekah and picked the stake shrapnel out of her back. She knew he hadn't gone with Elena and Stefan because he wanted Elena to have the cure, even if she may not love him back then, which meant he was being selfless with her and was now a "halfway decent person."

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In *Stand By Me*, Stefan told Damon that because Jeremy was one of The Five, he's supernatural, so the resurrection ring would no longer work. Damon said Elena won't survive this. He asked Stefan to take Elena off the island, and he'd look for Bonnie, who'd gone missing. Damon's witch hunt was interrupted by a noise in the woods. "Unless you're blonde, a Bennett witch, or a doppelgänger, I suggest you steer clear," he said. Rebekah appeared shortly there afterward. He told her about Katherine's return and Jeremy, and what Rebekah said: She's not heartless. She won't miss Jeremy, but she knows he was Elena's only family and she understands loss. She wanted to find Katherine, but Damon said she'd be gone. They had to find Bonnie. Oh, and in case you were wondering, Silas is up and about.

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Rebekah assumed Damon wasn't strong enough to handle a grieving Elena, and he used her as a shield to stop an incoming arrow from Vaughn. Damon caught up to Vaughn and knocked him out. Damon had a large knife to Vaughn's throat because he assumed Vaughn had helped Katherine "bone" him. They couldn't kill him, but Rebekah was prepared to go Zero Dark Thirty on him (which Damon always approves of) and Vaughn spilled everything: He was tracking vampire dens in Colorado when Katherine found him and said she could lead him to Silas. Katherine already knew about the Hunter's mark and cure, having found Hayley in New Orleans. Damon left Vaughn with Rebekah, so she could pursue her lead on the cure, and he was off to find Bonnie. That really is why he stayed behind: He knows Elena couldn't survive losing her best friend, too.

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Luckily, Bonnie walked out of the woods and found Damon, who hugged her. Bonnie and Damon drove up to Elena's house, and Damon immediately told Caroline to get him Stefan. Apparently Bonnie had shared her plan with him on the trip home. Damon told Stefan about how Bonnie needed to complete the Expression Triangle in order to gain enough power. She mentioned about dropping the veil between this side and the Other Side, so all supernatural creatures have access and they can all see Jeremy, Alaric, Vicki and everyone that they ever lost.
Back inside the Gilbert House, Damon tried to get Elena to talk to him but she wouldn't listen to him. She went downstairs and asked for Bonnie. Matt was taking her home, so Elena said they'd have to do this the old-fashioned way. She wanted to burn the house down with Jeremy in it. It was a good cover story. Plus, she didn't want the memories of everyone she's lost. After Elena breaks down, Damon tries to calm her down and comfort her. Then he told her to turn off her humanity in order to help her. He said it would all go away. It's what he wanted her to do. She stared ahead.

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Outside, Stefan told Damon it was a mistake to turn off Elena's humanity, since it was all she had left, and Damon said humanity means nothing if you don't have someone to care about. Stefan said she had Damon, and Damon said he wasn't enough this time -- she'd lost her brother. He truly thinks she wouldn't survive losing her brother because he couldn't. His plan is for them to keep an eye on her, and then Damon will eventually use the sire bond to bring her humanity back. Damon told Stefan their differences over Elena mean nothing now, and Stefan started to tell Damon what he couldn't actually say -- I love you. Damon said he knew and put his hand on Stefan's shoulder. The brothers went back inside to find Elena with another lit match. This was still the best cover story, she said. Stefan tried to tell her that maybe one day she'll want to come home, but she said she wouldn't. She dropped the match, and then they all walk out as the flames built.

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In *Bring It On*, Damon is out on the road with Elena while she pretends to play dead and feed off of her victim. Damon stopped her from nearly killing the woman and had to ask her to show a little restraint. They'd agreed no killing. The next morning at the Salvatore Mansion, we learned that house has the only vervain-free water supply thanks to their fancy filter. While Elena showered, Caroline, Damon, and Stefan made their game plan: Damon would work on finding Katherine and Caroline would take Elena to school for some normalcy. "Sounds like fun," Elena said, not yet wearing the towel she had with it. "What, it's nothing you guys haven't seen before," she said to the brothers. She was fine with the school plan because she had nothing else to do. They all assumed the sire bond was working and trusted that she wouldn't feed there because Damon asked her not to.
Having obtained Klaus' phone records off-screen, Damon paid Klaus a visit to tell him he sucked at two things: Find Katherine and covering up his secret phone conversations with Hayley. Damon tried to convince him to let him speak to Hayley since they're back on the same side again: Katherine most likely wants to shove the cure down Klaus' throat, which neither of them wants to happen. Klaus said Hayley was off-limits but told him about the vampire who should soon be dying of a wolf bite who'd attacked Hayley on Katherine's behalf.

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Stefan called Damon, and we got the explanation: the sire bond was based on her feelings for him, so without her feelings, the bond was gone. Damon was busy anyway. He was now at the truck stop, where he was quickly joined by Rebekah. She was back from the island, where, she told him, she saw Shane's dead body. Now she's looking for Katherine, too. They joined forces because she'd brought some of Klaus' blood, which they could use to save the vampire and interrogate him about Katherine. Damon and Rebekah had made their way to the Grove Hill medical center, where Damon believed the wolf-bitten vamp would go to avoid the fun and feed. After seeing the blood supply there was gone and thinking about what Stefan had told him about the Mystic Falls hospital having been robbed, he figured they had another vampire to worry about -- but not now. Rebekah distracted him by telling him that he's better off if she gets the cure because if Elena takes it, she'll go back to Stefan. In Elena's current state, she's still leaning Team Damon.

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Back at the medical center, Damon bit a nurse and sent her bleeding to her car as bait for the bitten vampire, who'd be looking for his last meal. Damon grabbed the guy and knew him. His name was Will. Will asked for help, and Damon ripped his heart out. He didn't tell Rebekah he knew him, he just said he was too far gone for help. She had to know he was lying. Damon arrived home and smiled at all the beauties there. He told Rebekah that losing the cure was the best thing that ever happened to her. If she wasn't a vampire, she'd just be ordinary. Stefan text Damon that Elena was AWOL and he needed help. The brothers arrived just in time to stop Elena from staking Caroline after a pretty badass fight sequence in the woods. When the Salvatores stepped in, Damon noted that under other circumstances, Elena fighting another chick would be a major turn on.

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In Damon's bedroom, Elena sat impatiently as he looked for something that turned out to be a picture of him and Will. I assume the life mystery he spoke of was how Will knew Katherine. Elena was annoyed that Damon of all people was judging her when he's tried to kill Stefan multiple times. She told him she doesn't care how bad he is now, and that if he were to be honest, he likes her better like this. Next time we saw them, they were in his car on their way to New York City.

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In *Because the Night*, Damon told Elena that they were in New York City so she could feed -- "There's so much life, a little death goes unnoticed." While Elena was off getting her hair done, Damon gave Stefan an update over the phone: He's there because his buddy Will used to get fake IDs for vampires, and he thinks Katherine was one of his clients. He then saw Elena's new haircut and thought it was hot. Damon took Elena to Billy's, the underground club he frequented in the '70s. He used to kill people to get their IDs for Will, and Will would let him feed in the club. Damon was asked to get a lot of 5'7" brunettes for Will to give a client who was a runner. In a flashback, he was about to feed when Lexi stopped him. "You got Lexi'd?" Elena asked in present day. And then Damon's head was down on the table. It was Rebekah, pissed that he left without her. Rebekah told Elena that Damon was there following a cure lead, but Damon seemed to save it. It was revealed that Stefan had heard about Damon being reckless all the way in Mystic Falls and sent Lexi to find out what had flipped his switch. Elena pretended she was mad because Damon was clearly going to try to Lexi her. He went to the bar, and Elena admitted to Rebekah that she was returning the favor and playing him right back. She wants to find the cure first so he and Stefan can't shove it down her throat.

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Lexi didn't heal Damon with Bon Jovi concerts because she could feed with Damon. Flashback to them double-teaming a woman in the club, which is what Damon and Elena did now. He then relinquished his side of the neck to Rebekah. Elena saw Damon sneak off. He was in Will's apartment, Damon phoned Stefan as he searched Will's files. He thought the clients were filed under their birthdates, and he couldn't remember Katherine's. "June 5, 1473," Stefan said immediately. He discovered a sheet of addresses for Katherine, mostly post office boxes. Elena found him, and they went back downstairs. She wanted him to finish his story about Lexi. Lexi had partied with Damon for months, and late every night, she'd torture him asking him to talk about Katherine. Love is the most powerful emotion, Lexi said, so she thought she could flip his switch if he'd just let himself remember what it was like to love Katherine. Lexi wasn't giving up -- Damon had asked her to help Stefan back in 1864, and now Stefan had asked her to help him. Damon told her that the person he cared about wasn't Katherine, it was her. They had one hot and heavy night together that ended on the rooftop. Elena grabbed a bottle and wanted to hear the rest of the story on the roof. As Damon led her away, Elena smirked at Rebekah.
Elena made a move on Damon, telling him she'd never done it on a roof and that he didn't have to take the high road now because the sire bond isn't in play. She put her hand in his back pocket, which would have been hot had she not been looking for the sheet of addresses. Damon said he was trying to save Elena from doing the one thing when her emotions were turned off that she can't take back. When he got his humanity back, Lexi was a walking-talking reminder of all the awful things he'd done. He avoided her until she showed up for Stefan's birthday that time. With the rush of memories came a rush of guilt. That's why he killed her. Out of sight, out of mind. Elena still insisted she's not taking the cure, and Damon assured her she would, even if they have to break her neck or tie her up till they find it. Rebekah was there to break his neck. Damon later wakes up and realizes that Elena is missing. Elena then calls him to tell that Rebekah and her have taken his car and are now going after Katherine for the cure.

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In *American Gothic*, an off-screen Sheriff Forbes proved efficient this episode: She tracked down Damon's car after Elena and Rebekah ran out of gas and abandoned it. She'd also tracked the car they'd stolen after it, so once Damon filled up the tank, he and Stefan were off to the cream corn capital of Pennsylvania, too. Damon was looking on the bright side of things: If Rebekah takes the cure, they can kill her. But then Elena is a vamp forever, Stefan reminded him. "Elena without humanity is a stone cold bitch, and I won't trust her until we get the old Elena back," Damon said. Finally, they're on the same page. Later, the boys showed up in the Pennsylvania town, and Damon again insisted that he's over vampire Elena and wants to do whatever it takes to get her home and to take the cure.
When Rebekah was breaking Katherine's hand, the boys sat down, and after Damon gloated about Katherine's predicament, Stefan asked where Elena was. The answer: Off getting kissed by Elijah, who believed she was Katerina. And that's why Rebekah was reminding us how Katerina had come between Elijah and Klaus. Katherine came clean about her being "friends" with Elijah. Rebekah told Stefan where Elena was meeting "em," and Katherine agreed to take Rebekah and Damon to get the cure. Katherine took Rebekah and Damon to a home that didn't belong to her. She tried to pretend the cure was stolen from her safe, but they weren't buying it. Rebekah took upstairs and Damon looked downstairs. He noticed the fish tank had no fish in it but a large treasure chest. When the water had vervain in it, he knew he'd hit the jackpot. Katherine dunked his head in the tank as he went to fish out the cure, and she almost got out the door before Rebekah stopped her. To save her life, Katherine gave Rebekah the cure and bolted. Stefan went at Damon, assuming he didn't really want to stop Rebekah from taking the cure, but Rebekah gasping for air interrupted that. He threw a letter opener at her head, and she caught it. Her hand was cut, but it healed. She was still a vampire. Meaning the cure was still out there.

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Damon admitted to Stefan that he had a moment of weakness and let Rebekah take the cure. But afterward, he realized what a mistake he'd made. Stefan said they can't judge Katherine for repeating her past when they do it, too. Them falling for the same girl has to stop: Once they give Elena the cure, Stefan said, he wants to get her out of his life and get a new one of his own. Elena had called a meeting in the diner with Damon and Stefan to ask them whether they were going to respect her decision not to take the cure and accept who she is now. If not, there would be consequences, she said. The boys didn't seem to hear that part. Stefan reminded her how she never gave up on him, so he's doing the same. She asked for another refill and snapped the waitress' neck. If they don't let her be, they'll have more bodies on their hands.

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In *Pictures of You*, Salvatore brothers tossing a football back and forth and talking about distributing the cure to Elena without instigating her to commit mass murder. Stefan suggests making her want the cure. The two brothers plot about how to get Elena's humanity back and they decide to bombard her with emotions. And Stefan admitted that it would be Damon to help her through it when she gets her humanity back. That night, Damon presents her with a corsage and she refuses to put it on her wrist so he does it for her. They get in the limo and drive off. The Salvatores and Elena walk into prom arm in arm. The decor is very elegant and nostalgic, which is emphasized by all the digital images of high school memories flashing on digital screens throughout the room. Suddenly, a photo of Elena and Matt from their first day of freshman year pops up and Elena's face flickers with pain and recognition. "My mom took that when she dropped us off at school," she reveals. And as that photo fades out and is replaced with one of her and Jeremy she becomes overwhelmed by the sight of it and dashes off.

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Elsewhere in the room, Elena pulls out a flask and Damon swoops in to take it from her. "You're underage," he states. "You're overage and honestly it's kind of creepy," Elena retorts. "Oh, c'mon," Damon says. "What badass senior is complete without a prom date that's slightly too old for high school?" "Please don't refer to yourself as my date," Elena groans. "Oh sorry," Damon says in a mocking a tone. "Your boyfriend." Upon hearing the "b" word, Elena practically chokes on the hard liquor she's gulping down from the flask. "What are you doing?" she asks. "Trying to stir some feelings in me? Ironic since you, my Sire, are the one who had me turn them off." She then tries to tear at his heartstrings by telling him that he's nothing to her and that the only reason that she ever told him that she loved him was because of the whole sire bond. With those words, she walks away, breaking his heart again.

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Damon then sees Stefan and Elena dancing and he is pain-stricken. Seeing Caroline is standing around looking lonely and Damon stands next to her with his flask. She laments about how the prom sucks and this is not how she wants to finish off her senior year. He offers her an understanding glance and some booze. "Well, if anyone asks, I'll be at the after party," she states after taking a sip. At that very moment, Bonnie rushes in to tell the Salvatore brothers that Silas is appearing to her as Jeremy. The conversation is interrupted when April takes the stage to announce this year's Mystic Falls prom king and queen. Stefan suggests that they take Elena home but Damon refuses to because she's safer around people. And then April announces the winners — Matt Donovan and Bonnie Bennett. Damon and the others congratulate them. Damon is getting totally plastered. Stefan joins him and, right away, Damon bombards him about flirting with his girlfriend on the dance floor. Stefan reminds him that they're trying to retrieve her humanity: "I mean, I don't mean to be a dick, Damon, but Elena and I have history. Memories, laughs, up and downs…it was a real relationship. I mean, what you had was a one night stand that was probably the result of a sire bond." Damon vamp-speeds in for an attack but Stefan stabs him and says, "Your mind is a dark and riveting place, Damon." As Damon keels over, clutching his wounded abs, he strains out, "Silas. Where's my brother you psychic freak?" Silas casually tells him that Stefan is in a bit of pain in the woods as well. He pats Damon and walks away.

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Damon, who has shaken off his stab wound from Silas, is in the woods searching for his younger brother. He finds Stefan pinned against a tree. "Let me guess, an extremely handsome man came up to you, claiming to be?" Damon jokes. While Bonnie tries to kill Elena, Damon rushes to Elena's side as she whimpers, "Damon, help!" Stefan gently asks if she's okay and Bonnie freaks out, "I almost died, the shell of my best friend almost killed me, none of this is okay!" The Salvatores then inject a weak Elena with vervain. "Plan B," says Stefan. As they lock Elena in the Salvatore board house cellar, Damon and Elena accidentally stumble upon a Plan C. Fear — which just happens to be one of those "pesky human emotions." "I could see it in her eyes," Damon contemplates. "Elena thought she was going to die. She was scared." So they join forces to make Elena's life a living hell from now on and to work alongside Bonnie even though Damon is cautious about teaming up with her since he doesn't want to underestimate Silas' influence on the witch. And then, out of curiosity, Damon asks Stefan what Silas had said to trick him? Stefan shrugs it off and says that fake Damon had led him out in the woods pretending to have seen Silas. Stefan then asks Damon what went down and he fabricates a story, "[He] talked about his hair. Figured that'd be you." Stefan forces a quick grin and they make their way upstairs.

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In *The Originals*, Elena is still in no humanity zone. Damon and Stefan are wondering what to do when Katherine walks in. She says Hayley, the werewolf girl, will get Klaus out of their lives for good. Later, Damon feeds Elena blood with vervain in it. He wants her to feel angry or mad or scared. Elena says it'll be interesting to see who breaks first.

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In *She's Come Undone*, Damon gets into Elena's head and shows her all the normal things that she's missing out on, like high school, etc., to bring back old Elena, the girl who has feelings/has humanity all through his special vampire mind tricks and it doesn't work. Caroline, who tries her hand at turning Elena back to her old self, uses the made-up word "intervention-ing." When it doesn't work, she's come around to Stefan and Damon's more aggressive tactics.
Damon and Stefan turn to pain to get Elena back to the way she was, by pulling back the curtain and burning her. They're hoping that by inducing fear, the old Elena will return. "I'll hate both of you for it," Elena says before Damon settles on that unpleasant fact: "Worth the risk." Elena's rage is the first stage of the Salvatore brothers' planning at getting to her core. Instead, she hits targets Damon's sire bond and the fact that she was the one who dumped Stefan. Elena outsmarts the brothers by pulling back the curtains herself and catching on fire, proving to them that they actually wouldn't hurt her -- even though they've repeatedly claimed they would. It was Stefan's idea to bring Katherine in so they resort to using Katherine, their last chance, to scare Elena into some humanity. After Elena escapes the Salvatore cell, thanks in part to Katherine, Damon teams up with Matt to find her, and they come up with a plan along the way.
When Matt finds Elena, she starts feeding on him until Damon and Stefan arrive at the scene. threatens to kill her oldest friend if she doesn't flip her humanity switch. "You're bluffing," Elena replies, after which Damon snaps Matt's neck. That finally does the trick as the emotionless vamp is overcome with tears. While she's reeling at the idea that Matt is really gone, Damon reveals that her friend is wearing the Gilbert ring. This was all Matt and Damon's plan. Thanks to them, Elena got her humanity back.

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In *The Walking Dead*, Damon and Stefan ended up at the hospital because Sheriff Forbes needed to be brought up to speed on Silas because at least five patients in the hospital had been drained of nearly all their blood. He was fueling up for something, they presumed. Later, Elena wanted to go searching for Bonnie with Damon. She wanted him to tell her where Katherine is. Damon ultimately did, because she's with Bonnie. Damon and Elena came inside, but he didn't want her to go underground because he was afraid Katherine would kill her or Elena would kill Katherine and then feel too much. So Elena staked him and went on her way.

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As Damon struggled above in a hallway to get the stake out of his gut, someone walked up...Alaric. Need a hand?" he asked. Alaric pulled out the stake, but slight problem: Damon wasn't sure it wasn't Silas. "So this is either really good or really bad," Damon said. "It's good to see you, too, Damon," Alaric answered. He proved it was really him by opening up Locker 42, and taking out a bottle of their favorite booze. And they hugged. Alaric told Damon the veil is only down within the triangle, so not everyone has a reason to come back to Mystic Falls. Then Damon told Alaric to find Stefan.
Damon stumbled into Silas when he looked like Alaric and put a chain around his neck. Bonnie literally worked her magic and made Silas turn into stone again, like Qetsiyah had. He was becoming his true self, Bonnie said, before it was complete. Alaric and Damon were off burying Silas' body and having a drink themselves. Damon said he thought Alaric had cut back, and Alaric said he thought Damon would take care of the children. Alaric had found the cure in Silas' pocket and gave it to Damon. Damon didn't know what the hell to do with it. "Get the girl," Alaric said.

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The day of *Graduation*, Vaughn shoots Damon with a werewolf venom-lace bullet. Vaughn is temporarily incapacitated after Stefan rips his heart out. Damon hands the cure to Elena, saying he wants her to take it, but she refuses. Now knowing that the sire bond is broken. When Elena figures out Damon is dying, Jeremy suggests that Damon take the cure, but he too refuses and leads Vaughn to dig up Silas. Stefan mentions that Damon is stalling because they haven't moved Silas. When Vaughn almost kills Damon, Alaric shows up in time, throws Vaughn into the lake, and snatches the cure again.
Later, Damon is shown to be cured thanks to Klaus. Elena asked Damon if he was alright now and he told her he was fine then she slapped him which made Alaric proud and Lexi laugh. Damon was standing in front of the fireplace and said he wanted to apologize, but then realized he wasn't sorry. Yes, he'd rather die than be human, both because he didn't want to age and because he didn't want to age while she remained the same. He's selfish, and no apology would encompass all the reasons he's wrong for her, he said. Elena said she wasn't going to apologize either then. She's not sorry she met him. Not sorry that in death, he's the one who made her feel more alive. Not sorry that even though she knows it'll be the worst decision she's made, she's in love with him. "I love you, Damon," she said. And then they kiss passionately.
As Stefan is loading Silas' body into the trunk of his car, Damon comes out. After agreeing that the quarry will be deep enough to hold Silas's body, Damon offers to keep him company during the ride, but Stefan turns him down, saying that Lexi is going with him. As Damon heads back inside, Stefan tells him that he isn't happy with Elena's choice, but that he isn't unhappy for her and Damon either. Damon thanks his brother and goes back inside. Alaric is looking out the window and sees that the moon is full and that the ritual will soon begin. As Damon pours them a few drinks, Alaric smiles and says that he had finally gotten the girl. He then tells Damon that he'd better not screw it up. Damon looks down and says that with Alaric looking over him, he wouldn't. When he looks back, Alaric is gone.

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Damon and Elena have spent all summer being together. While Elena was heading to Whitmore College, Damon promises her he will take care of Jeremy. When Katherine shows up and begs him to protect her as she feels someone is after her. When she picks up the phone and pretends to be Elena, she tells Damon about Jeremy's issues at school. Luckily for Jeremy, Damon is able to compel the principal to lower the charges to a three-day suspension. Unfortunately for them they soon realize they have bigger problems.

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Silas walks into the bar as Stefan and greets Damon. He sits and talks but is only there to read Damon's mind. After getting the information he wants, he says bye to Damon, pats Jeremy on the back, and then heads to Salvatore Boarding House. Jeremy and Damon arrive just in time and Damon instructs Jeremy to take Katherine somewhere and not tell him. This leaves Silas to give Damon a crash course on why he looks like Stefan and to tell Damon what he did with Stefan. This leads Damon to call Jeremy and explain he's had a change of heart. Later, Jeremy is on the precipice of death. Damon finds is able to get to him in time, feed him vampire blood and hold him until he comes back to life. And Damon doesn't tell Elena anything that happened.

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In *True Lies*, Damon is trying to find Stefan with the help of Sheriff Forbes. Later he is talking to Elena on phone when she sees Silas (who she thinks is Stefan) on campus. Damon tries to tell Elena that it isn't Stefan but she is compelled to hang up by Silas. Damon quickly hurries to Whitmore and visits Caroline and tells her that Silas is with Elena posing as Stefan, Caroline tells him about the nagging pit that Elena has about Stefan and he tells her that they have to go look for Elena.

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Elena and Jesse are talking when Damon arrives and knocks out Jesse. Elena takes him to her dorm room, seduced him in order to tie him to a chair and ready for the kill but Damon figured out that Silas used his mind control power over Elena so he tried his best to make Elena resist the "rage" by thinking about her worries of Stefan. Later, Damon showed her that he'd snagged Stefan's daylight ring back from Silas the day before. And then Damon said he's secure enough in their relationship that her having psychic dreams about her ex-boyfriend doesn't bother him, but it still sucks. They kissed, and Elena told Damon they were going to save Stefan and she would still love him. Then they passionately kissed.
In *Original Sin*, Damon and Elena along with Katherine go in search for Stefan when Elena and Katherine both have a same nightmare about him. While traveling Katherine taunts Elena and Damon about their relationship, annoying them both. After reaching Jo's bar,the place which appeared in their dream, Elena and Damon happily leave a sleeping Katherine in the car.

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In the bar, they find Jo whom has a bandage around her neck. Damon compels her to tell him what happened and she reveals about Stefan attacking her and then him burning before Qetsiyah threw him into a truck. She mentions how she knows who's truck it was and directs them to the hut. Before though she offers Damon a drink and he accepts until he realizes it is filled with vervain. Nadia comes in telling them that she threatened Jo's life if she didn't do it. After a violent confrontation with Nadia, Elena decides to save Katherine from Nadia while Damon goes to find Stefan. Before parting ways Damon tells Elena not to risk her life in saving Katherine as she is not even worth a hair on Elena's head and then they kiss.

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Damon finally reaches the hut and finds Stefan tied up in veins on a chair. He tries to free him but can't. Stefan mentions how Qetsiyah is back. Qetsiyah reappears and tells them that she is going to create a link between Stefan and Silas so that she can disable Silas' mental powers. Despite Damon's reservations, Stefan agrees to it. She does the spell, in which she begins to fry Silas' brain. Stefan falls unconscious. Damon tries to wake him but it doesn't work. Qetsiyah reveals that he will wake up in time and then mentions to Damon how his relationship with Elena is doomed. She reveals how every incarnation of the doppelgängers, always meets and falls in love and conquers all, saying it is the doing of the universe. She mentions to Damon, that he can leave Stefan with her so that he can continue his relationship with Elena with no interference. But Damon decides to kill Qetsiyah, but she is able to knock him out. Qetsiyah leaves and Elena arrives and goes strait to Stefan not even noticing Damon. Damon is clearly hurt by this.
Back at the Salvatore house, Stefan is still unconscious while Elena appreciates Damon for being a good brother but he doesn't say anything. Elena asks what Qetsiyah said to him back at the cabin. Damon tells her about how she explained that the universe is working against them to bring Stefan and Elena together and so they don't stand a chance. Elena responds by saying that Qetsiyah is crazy and she won't let Silas' 2,000-year-old ex-girlfriend screw things up between them. Damon emotionally tells her how he won't let a stupid idea of destiny stop him from loving Elena or being with her or building a future with her because she is his life. Elena, touched deeply by his words, leans in to kiss him but they are interrupted by Stefan who wakes up and tell them he has no idea who Elena and Damon are.

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In *For Whom the Bell Tolls*, Damon is helping Stefan remember his past. While enjoying a ride together Stefan assumes that Damon is the safe brother while Stefan is the fun one which amuses Damon. Then Damon flips the car and Stefan realizes Damon is actually the fun one. The next day in the grill, Elena visits them and she and Damon discusses about how to deal with Stefan. At the Salvatore mausoleum, Damon is honoring their dead family members by ringing the bell when he gets a text from Jeremy for meeting him alone and so Damon leaves.

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Back at the house Jeremy is trying to tell Damon about Bonnie's death. He starts of by telling him that no one can be brought back from the dead without consequences and Damon starts to realize what he is hinting at. Damon begs Jeremy not to say it but Jeremy finally confesses that Bonnie is dead. Damon is furious and starts to walk towards Jeremy angrily looking like he is about to hit him but instead he hugs him.
Elena calls Damon to help him find Stefan while he is trying to tell her about Bonnie's death. They finally find Stefan back at the house but he is still upset with them as they didn't tell him about them being together and leaves the house. Elena tells Damon that they need Bonnie to fix Stefan's memory and Damon finally tells her about Bonnie's death which shocks her. Later, Elena is freaking out as she can't find a dress for Bonnie's funeral and breaks down into tears telling Damon how she can't do this again. Damon hugs her affectionately and tries to calm her down. At Bonnie's funeral Damon consoles Elena as they both mourn Bonnie's death.

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In *Monster's Ball*, Damon showed at Elena's school as she has been avoiding him to accept her invitation to the Whitmore Historical Ball. It's the one time of year that the college's entire collection of artifacts is put on display and people dress up as historical figures. Back in Mystic Falls, Damon told Jeremy that he wants to work with Silas. Since Silas wants to die to reunite with his own true love, why not use his death to reunite Bonnie with Elena. Nature loves a balance. When Silas takes the cure and becomes a witch, he might be able to do a spell that swaps his life for Bonnie's. Silas can't be trusted, and there are consequences when you abuse magic (especially when you're resurrecting someone). She said not to do this, but Jeremy told Damon that she was in.

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During Damon's conversation with Silas, we learned that Silas saw Qetsiyah buying a Cleopatra costume, so she'd be at the costume ball as well. And Silas needed Damon to kill Stefan. At the costume ball, Elena and Damon were dressed as Anne Boleyn and and Henry VIII. Damon wanted to dance but Elena wasn't in the mood. She said it's not her fault that Bonnie died but it is her fault that she didn't figure it out sooner. She's not gonna let Megan's death fall through the cracks, too. Qetsiyah approached Stefan at the bar and wanted to buy him an "I'm sorry" drink. It would take a keg, Damon said, and led Stefan away. Stefan critiqued Damon as a wing man -- "Trust me, the last guy to hit on her is still paying for it," Damon responded -- and then Silas was there. "Hello, me." Damon snapped Stefan's neck. When Stefan is "dead," the link between them is gone and Silas has his psychic powers back. Silas was going to pose as Stefan.
Later, Stefan came to. He was pumped with vervain, so Damon could easily snap his neck again after he explained he was doing this to get Bonnie back for Elena. When Silas had a headache again, Stefan tricked Damon and snapped his neck. "How's it feel, brother?" Damon and Elena found Silas. Elena thought it was good that Silas is out of commission. But Damon knew it wasn't. Because they needed him to get Bonnie back.

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Back at Salvatore Mansion, a desiccated Silas was on the couch as Elena and Damon talked. The only way for Silas to trade his life for Bonnie's is if he's a witch. The only way to become a witch is to have the cure. Someone was knocking on the door and it turned out to be Katherine. Katherine thought she was there so they could show her that she'd eluded death yet again. They finally did something right for once. How did it feel? "Thrilling," Damon said. And she figured it out. Damon bit her neck and she begged him: She said Silas would need all of her blood and she didn't want to die. "Goodbye, Katherine," he said, and he held her head down to Silas' mouth. Silas' hand came up to her head. Katherine dropped to the floor. But then Damon heard something. Her heartbeat. She awoke. "Am I in hell?" she asked.

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In *Handle with Care*, when Damon and Elena are snuggling on the couch and having a sweet moment, Silas comes in ruins their blissful moment to discuss their plans for his death. Elena is having trouble trusting Silas' word that he will bring Bonnie back before he departs the mortal world for good, so he snarkily offers to pinky swear. Everyone is looking for the anchor now. Silas wants to die and find peace. Silas then refuses to allow Elena to come along when she looks like his true love and doesn't want to stare at her all day. As Elena gets annoyed, Silas uses his magic to shoot the crossbow at Elena's leg. This upsets Damon and he hurries to help her.

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Damon, Silas and Jeremy take a road trip to New Jersey only to end up at a huge warehouse full of junk that holds the anchor, so they begin the search for the anchor. When Tessa lures Elena to the cabin in order to use her as leverage against Damon. She wants Damon to kill Silas before the sun sets, or she will kill Elena. Damon tells Jeremy that the deal is off and Bonnie isn't returning because he has to kill Silas to save Elena. Damon walks back into the warehouse and is greeted by a Traveler speaking a foreign language, and is soon ganged up on. They manage to neutralize his daylight ring (reminiscent of the witches in Mystic Falls), and say that they don't want Silas dead yet... right before Damon kills them both. At the warehouse, Amara is stumbling around murmuring to herself, "leave me alone." Damon finds her.Damon and Jeremy are throwing a pity party for themselves due to their failure to bring Bonnie back. They let Elena in on the big twist for the episode though, and Damon introduces Elena to Amara.

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In *Death and the Maiden*, after Silas is no longer interested to bring Bonnie back, Damon turns to Qetsiyah for help.He asks Qetsiyah to perform a spell which can make Bonnie the new anchor to the other side.She agrees to help them since with that switch, Amara will die and the Other Side will remain existent so she can be there with Silas for the rest of time. To perform the spell she needs blood from all three doppelgängers, Elena, Katherine and Amara to which Damon sarcastically replies "*You want Doppelgänger blood? I've got Doppelgängers coming out of my ears*."

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During the spell, Silas intervenes and tries to stop it. The power goes out and in the chaos, Stefan who just wants revenge against Silas after what he has done to him kidnaps Amara while Silas and Qetsiyah start fighting. Damon comes in and catches up with Elena on where is Amara gone and she tells him to go find Stefan because he wasn't thinking right. Silas might have put him in that safe but they were the ones who were supposed to get him out of it. Damon reaches the scene and finds Amara dying. He does everything he can to keep her alive for a few more minutes so that Qetsiyah is able to complete the spell. They are finally successful as Qetsiyah completes the spell in time and Bonnie becomes the new anchor. At the end of the episode, Stefan admits to Damon and Elena that he wanted it to be them who would find him and get him out of that safe.
In *Dead Man on Campus*, Elena calls Damon to invite him to her party and also suggests to invite Stefan. Then Damon tries to talk to Stefan, but he's freaking out, reliving his repeated drowning. Damon can tell something is wrong, but Stefan won't tell him.

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Later, at Elena's request, Damon decides to get answers from Dr. Maxwell. In Maxfield's lab, Damon pokes through his lab samples. He explains to Maxfield that he's going to inject him with a disease and he'll heal him with his vampire blood if Maxfield talks. Damon thinks that it's sick that Dr. Maxwell turns innocent kids into vampires just for an experiment. Damon gets another tube of some kind of virus, it's "rabies" into Maxwell. Then Maxfield explains he was trying to create a new kind of vampire that doesn't feed on human blood but instead he feeds on vampire blood. Damon tells Elena about Jesse feeding on vampires, and she makes him promise not to kill Maxfield.
In the lab, Damon slices his wrist to heal Maxfield of the various diseases he's injected him with, but Jesse storms in, wanting answers from Maxfield. He sees Damon's bleeding wrist and attacks him. Damon isn't worried, since he's a much older vampire than Jesse, but he soon finds out the usual strength-age rules don't apply. Jesse tackles him out a door and into the hallway. Jesse overpowers Damon and begins to feed on him when Elena finds them. With Jesse attached to his neck, Damon tells her Jesse's about to rip his head off. Elena grabs a shard of the broken door and stakes Jesse, killing him, just as Caroline runs up in time to see it. Elena feels awful, but Damon tells Caroline she had no choice and leaves to deal with Maxfield.

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Back in the lab, Damon cleans up as Maxfield secretly works his way free from his restraints. Damon plans to compel the whole thing out of Maxfield's head. When he sees a bag of labeled blood in the fridge, the number jars his memory. Damon remembers his own number from trials 60 years ago. Maxfield realizes Damon was an Augustine vampire, too. Maxfield breaks free and Damon is unconcerned as he runs to the opposite side of the lab. But then Maxfield hits his "emergency procedures" button and atomized vervain fills the room, dropping Damon. Damon wakes up in a cell that is hauntingly familiar. His initials are scratched into the wall and memories of his time in captivity, being tortured, come rushing back.

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In *The Cell*, Damon wakes up in a cell with Wes Maxfield injecting him with vervain. He tells Damon that because he killed their test subject last night (Jesse), Damon's going to take his place. Maxfield tells Damon that after training Jesse to crave vampire blood, he's ready to take his research to the next level. Later Wes captures Elena too in a cell next to Damon. She wakes up and Damon confesses he's been there before and tells her about Whitmore's torture, including cutting up pieces of them every day. He was there for about five years. He made a friend, Enzo, a soldier in Europe during WWII, who was also a vampire. Elena tells Damon that her dad worked with Whitmore and was an Augustine. She doesn't want to believe he'd be part of a place that would cut Damon's eyes out and breaks down. Damon confronts her and promises her that he'll get her out of there.
Damon continues to tell her about his past and also tells Elena that Enzo's friendship is what kept him alive and holding onto his humanity. But the craziest part is that he also reveals he never told anyone, including Stefan, what happened during his Augustine imprisonment, so Stefan won't know where to look for them if he even notices that they're both missing. Damon explains how he escaped. They let the vampires out once a year for the Augustine's New Year's Eve party to show them off. They were weak from vervain and captivity. Whitmore demonstrates vampire blood's healing powers, using Mrs. Fell as a volunteer. She drinks vampire blood to heal her hand after he cuts it. Enzo comes up with a plan, suggesting one of them drink both of their daily rations of blood for a year so that when they're let out next New Year's Eve, one of them will have the strength to fight. They play rock paper scissors and Damon wins. Elena wants to know what happened, but Damon is not forthcoming with the details, saying only that it wasn't pretty. Elena convinces him to tell her by saying that she loves him and doesn't care what he did to escape. Damon finally tells Elena his shameful secret: he left Enzo to die during his escape. After massacring the party on New Years Eve and knocking over a candle, he tried to break the cage to free Enzo but the bars were vervained and he couldn't get him out. Damon flipped his humanity switch so he would stop caring about Enzo, and left him to die in the ensuing fire. Elena was horrified that Damon left Enzo.

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Aaron comes down to the cells in the basement with his gun. He accuses Elena of killing Megan and possibly of killing his parents. Damon stops him, and says it was him. Damon explains that with Enzo dead, he had to carry out his revenge plan himself. He planned to kill all the Whitmores in a generation, except one, then let him grow up and start a family, and then kill all of them except one, and so on. Elena is disgusted and asks when the last one was. A few months ago, Sarah in Charleston. It was a weekend trip. Elena realizes they were together then. Aaron shoots Damon leaving Elena upset. When Damon wakes up, he finds Elena's cell empty realizing that Wes has taken her.
In *Fifty Shades of Grayson*, Damon uses the last of his remaining strength to punch at the stone wall until a chunk falls out. He reaches through the grate for the bullet Aaron dropped when he came down. Damon puts the bullet in the lock and bashes at it with the rock, then kicks the door until it opens.

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Damon visits Stefan and tells him they have to go get Elena, but he doesn't know where she is, so they need leverage. Damon and Stefan find Aaron Whitmore and Damon tells Aaron to call his uncle to get Elena back, or Wes gets to try to reattach Aaron's arms. Aaron calls Wes and he agrees to meet them in his classroom. The Salvatores arrive with Aaron at Wes's classroom and find Enzo waiting for them. Damon tries to skip over introductions, but Enzo is eager to tell him how he survived the fire that Damon left him to die in. He reveals that one of the scientist spared him. Damon is ready to get on with killing Aaron, but Aaron mentions some files Wes gave him that are in his dorm room. Enzo tells Damon to stay with him as Stefan goes with Wes.
Back in the classroom, Damon continues refusing to react to Enzo's guilt trips. Enzo mentions that Wes poisoned him and he has to return for the antidote. Damon suggests they work together to save both Enzo and Elena. Instead, Enzo tells him that Wes said he couldn't return until Damon was dead. Then Enzo throws him out the window. Enzo keeps trying to come after Damon, but Damon refuses to fight him. Enzo is too weak from the poison to really attack. Damon tries to get him to tell him where Elena is, but Enzo desiccates before he can talk. Enzo wakes up in a lab. Damon tells him he injected him with everything labeled antidote. Damon reaches inside Enzo's chest and tells him he had to flip off his humanity to leave him. Enzo tells Damon that he was the most important person in his life and he ruined him and that he is just a monster and always will be.
Later at the Salvatore house, Damon finds Elena reading through her dad's journal. She found a reference to Megan in her dad's journal. He cured her from a congenital heart defect, which is why Megan had a picture of Grayson Gilbert in her phone. Damon isn't surprised that Elena is able to find the one positive thing out of all the torture. He doesn't understand how Elena can keep looking past all the terrible things that he has done. She says she loves him and accepts him and because she chose him. Damon replies that now he is choosing and he chooses to let her go. Elena begs him not to run away because she has done horrible things too and that she won't judge him after finding out that he was tortured for 5 years. He shouts at her to stop defending him. Damon confesses that he can't change who he is but he refuses to change Elena and leaves. Elena is devastated and starts crying.

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In *500 Years of Solitude*, Damon is having a tough time dealing with his break up. Jeremy and Matt find a drunk and depressed Damon at the Grill. Both are shocked as to why Damon would dump Elena. Later in the boarding house, Damon pours Matt and Jeremy shots for all the horrible things Katherine has done to them through the years. Elena,Caroline and Bonnie also arrive and join the toast game. Stefan comes downstairs to tell everyone they're being insensitive, but Damon warns him not to let the fact she's an Elena lookalike could the fact she's a manipulative psycho. Stefan mentions her seducing both him and Damon, turning them into vampires and starting a war with the town that got them killed. But he goes on to say that before that she was just a frightened girl shunned by her family, and she became a survivor, so that's what he'll drink to. Damon mocks Stefan for being so easy on her after one night of passion. Their moment is interrupted by Nadia who explains she has found a way to save her mother. Damon forbids anyone to help, which Nadia expected, which is why she buried Matt in the safe somewhere on the property, without his ring.

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When Elena and Stefan volunteer to save Katherine in exchange for Matt, Damon decides to spend his time torturing Katherine by controlling her mind. Damon picks up a pillow to smother an unconscious Katherine. But Liz Forbes comes in and stops him. "Every awful thing I've done is linked to her. She taught me how to kill, how to enjoy it. She ruined me and I can't take any of that back," he says. "Look at how much control she still has over you, Damon. Prove her wrong," Liz says. Damon continues to toy with Katherine but is stopped by Nadia by snapping his neck. Damon wakes up on the floor but stays still and listens as Katherine tells Nadia that she's been selfish her whole life and just wants to do the right thing for once. She asks Nadia to let her go. Damon is surprised by Katherine's act of selflessness.

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After Stefan says his goodbye to Katherine he and Damon talk about their eventful days. Damon understands why Stefan was being nice to Katherine. She helped pull Stefan out of a dark place. Stefan tells him to fix whatever is going on with him and Elena. Stefan tells Damon that she is the best thing that has ever happened to him and Damon doesn't deny it and confesses that he can't live without her but he doesn't think he's any better than Katherine and Elena will be better off without him. He's trying to be selfless. Stefan gives him a look and convinces him to get her back. Damon jokes that when he gets Elena back and the whole universe freaks out for keeping the doppelgängers apart, Stefan should remember he's the one who talked Damon out of doing the right thing for all mankind.
Later, everyone gathers in front of the fire, going through bourbon. Jeremy hears Alaric. "Where the hell have you been? I thought you bailed on us to go find peace or something," Jeremy says. Alaric replies "Do you honestly think I'd leave Damon in charge and never look back?" Jeremy translates to Damon that Alaric says you are a dick. Damon's face lightens up as he realized Rick is here too and they toast.

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In *The Devil Inside*, Damon has buried Katherine's body and won't tell Stefan where. Nadia is also there telling the Salvatore brothers she wants her mother's corpse. Damon tells her she's out of luck. Nadia gets mad and tries to make Damon give it to her but he quickly tells her no. At the grill, Stefan is trying to talk Damon into giving Katherine's body to Nadia. Stefan is also giving him a pep talk about Elena. Caroline shows up, Damon starts calling her out on her hate for him.

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Enzo is waiting for Damon at the Salvatore mansion, with a huge body bag. Inside is Aaron - still alive. He did some research into Damon's revenge plot and thought that he would want to finish it off. Damon is trying to mend his ways and get back with Elena, so when Aaron wakes up, Damon snaps Enzo's neck. "I didn't see that one coming," remarks Aaron. Damon rips off his vervain watch and compels Aaron to leave town immediately. Then he is off to the party. Elena makes it to the party and sees Damon and she falls into his arms, but Mia completes the ceremony, and in the comforting hug, Elena becomes Katherine for good.  File:Elena-and-damon-hug-5x12.jpg   Damon makes an impassioned speech for them getting back together - that he knows he screwed up and gave himself too much credit for thinking he would change her and her not enough for thinking she couldn't change him. Katherine is having none of that. "I'm glad that I make you a better person, but that is too much pressure. I can't be the only thing you live for." Damon is absolutely crushed when Katherine/Elena says goodbye.
Aaron is on his way out of town, just as Damon compelled him to do. He stops when he sees a man laying in the road, and gets out to help. The man sits up - it is Enzo. Damon appears behind Aaron and informs him that he is here because of Elena. "She thinks I am a monster. She's right." Then he brutally feasts on Aaron's blood.
In *Total Eclipse of the Heart*, Damon is first seen in Salvatores living room, when he is sleeping on the couch. Stefan comes to him and asks about this mess he has done to the room and about Aaron's corpse in his car. Damon and Enzo are telling Stefan that they are going after whole Augustine institution, to get the full revenge on them. Stefan says to Damon that he is better than this, but Damon says that he is better *like* this.
Enzo and him have captured Diane, who works for the Augustine and compel her to talk all she knows about Wes Maxfield. When they get all the information from her they kill her and are trying to find Wes on their own. Damon then seeks out Bonnie and Jeremy, so Bonnie will find someone to do the locator spell or Enzo is going to kill Jeremy. While Jeremy says that Damon is not going to hurt him, because Elena would never forgive him, Damon proves him wrong and says that Elena has already given up on him and takes Jeremy hostage while Bonnie is trying to figure out how get some witch for locator spell to save Jeremy. When the witch seems to fail, he tells Enzo to give them more motivation when it is taking too long to find Wes. When Katherine and Stefan find Jeremy, Stefan and Enzo then fight each other. Damon then appears and tells Enzo he found Wes' location as Damon is about to walk away, Stefan tells Damon "Don't bother coming back" and Damon replies "I wasn't planning on it."

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Damon leaves with Enzo to kill Wes, with Stefan looking upset about Damon's bad choice to leave with Enzo. But they then walk straight into a trap and are ambushed by Travelers who are attacking them. While the Travellers are holding Damon and Enzo down, Wes infects Damon, turning him into an Augustine Vampire. Damon then tells Enzo that if what Wes injected him with what he thinks he did they're going to have a problem. At the end of the episode, Damon finds another test subject vampire who is bleeding and then begins to feel his body elevate at the smell and sight of his blood. Damon then violently feeds on the test subject to the point where Damon rips his head off. Damon then turns to a shocked Enzo seeing they have a problem then stares at Damon who stares menacingly back at him in shock of what has happened to him. The episode ends, with Damon looking at the camera with him covered in blood.

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In *No Exit*, Enzo and Damon just got done killing a couple at a farmhouse. Enzo is keeping tabs on Damon, tracking his eating habits. Enzo is making their victims into vampires so Damon can feed. The farmer tells them his wife left him for a pharmacist, then Damon kills him. The Travelers appear and trap the pair in the house. Wes is also there, he wants to run another test, trapping him in there with his only source of food, his best friend. Later, Damon and Enzo are still stuck in the farmhouse. Damon is getting antsy. Enzo tells him "calmer heads will always prevail". He also tells them he should call one of the Mystic Falls gang for help. Damon tells him he won't feed on him and he'll find another way. Enzo ties him up. He tells Damon that Damon's problem is that he runs. Enzo tells him that he's calling for backup. Damon gets mad. Enzo calls Stefan's phone and tells her what's going on. Katherine tells him to text her the directions and they would be there soon. Wes shoots Enzo so Damon can smell his blood. Wes wants to know how strong and desperate Damon will get for blood. Damon starts feeding from Enzo whom is begging for him to stop. Damon starts choking. The Travelers did a spell to make Enzo's blood like acid. Wes tells Enzo he can come with them or stay with Damon. Damon tells him to go but Enzo is hesitant. He leaves with Wes.

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Katherine shows up, Damon is begging her not to come in. Damon asks them to leave but Stefan tells him he's not leaving. Stefan tells Damon he isn't afraid of him when he goes to attack him. Katherine walks inside saying "neither am I" but then gets stuck in the house. Katherine even cuts her hand, Damon is trying so hard not to hurt her. Katherine keeps pushing him. Damon starts feeding from her and Stefan tries to get Damon to stop. Stefan picks up a piece of glass and cuts his arm. Damon goes to feed off Stefan then Stefan snaps his neck. Stefan is talking to Damon whom is strapped to a chair in the basement. Damon tells him one day he will kill him. Stefan tells Damon he isn't going to give up on him and he never will. Damon brings up Elena, he knows that Elena has given up on him and that "she" wanted to kill him.

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In *Gone Girl*, Stefan fills Damon in on Katherine is in Elena's body. "She's brilliant," is all Damon has to say. Stefan assures him to not to worry and that he has a plan. Later, Stefan feeds Damon 4 ounces of his blood, figuring that some every few hours will stave off his hunger. Stefan decides to call Katherine feeling that she won't say no to him like she has shrugged of everyone's attempt to meet her but Katherine instead calls Damon, wanting to talk. He invites her by the house. When she hangs up, Katherine assesses that Damon would never put Elena in harms way again after nearly killing her so he must have known that its Katherine. Stefan and Damon come to the same conclusion: Katherine knows that they know about her being inside Elena's body. Caroline and Stefan try to figure what to do next and then Damon suggests a locator spell.

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Later, Tyler is guarding Damon and sits outside the cellar. Damon asks him what he's still doing in Mystic Falls with his whole family dead. He thinks Tyler is convinced there's still a chance with Caroline. Damon taunts him about Caroline until Tyler comes close enough and then Damon bites him and breaks free running to find Wes. Damon reaches Wes' lab and threatens him to make him a cure for the ripper virus but Wes refuses and Damon ends up killing him.
Damon reaches in time at the Salvatore house when everyone is planning to kill Katherine for good. Katherine taunts him by saying "But I never got to say what I needed to say to you. I'm sorry. You blame me for who you are, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry I turned you. I'm sorry I drove you to abandon the war. I'm sorry that you didn't get to die as a forgotten nobody on a bloody battlefield, that your father didn't get to live another day to be disgraced by you. Damon, I'm sorry that I gave your life passion, purpose, drive, desire. I'm sorry that you are who you are, because I'm the one who taught you how to love." Damon simply ignores her and adds ""I'll see you in hell, Katherine." Stefan then daggers Katherine with the Traveler's Blade killing her permanently.
Later, Damon along with Stefan is waiting for Elena to wake up. Damon tells Stefan that he plans on to tell Elena everything he did in her absence and is ready to face the consequences. He's determined not to be another Katherine and spend his whole life running. Elena then wakes up and Damon smiles at her. Elena greets Damon happily and assures him that its really her. It is then revealed that Katherine injected Elena's body with the enhanced Ripper Compound that Wes had made making Elena a vampire ripper just like Damon.

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In *While You Were Sleeping*, Damon is being fed blood and watched by Jeremy and Matt. They taunt him about how Elena doesn't know Damon killed Aaron Whitmore but he warns them he will be the one to tell her. Elena is also locked in her dorm room because of the ripper virus and calls Damon after Stefan informs her of the ripper situation. They both are happy to hear each other. They are flirting when Elena asks him how Katherine broke his heart. He shrugs it off saying he doesn't remember. She then says *"The last thing I remember I was running into your arms and I felt so safe,"* and he replies *"It was all downhill from there."* Elena then tells him how she wanted to fight for him and still want to, Damon joyfully replies *"Oh Elena... the second we are cured of this and don't want to rip each other's heads off, I am going to hunt you down and give you the most mind-blowing night of your life."* Elena excitedly says that she can schedule him in.

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The werewolf venom insides Elena makes her hallucinate stuff which leaves her disturbed, she calls Damon again and ask him to distract her. He mischievously asks what is she wearing making Elena blush. He then tells her about Klaus and Caroline. Elena asks why they don't just hunt down Wes for the antidote and Damon confesses he killed him. Elena is upset saying that he was the only family that Aaron has. Elena's hallucinations start going worse and makes her believe she killed Aaron. Elena calls Damon in a panic, she can't tell what's real anymore. She tells Damon she thinks she killed Aaron. Damon promises to tell her everything, but says now isn't a good time. She freaks out, yelling that everyone is lying to her. Damon gets worried and manages to free himself from the cell while Elena threatens Liv to drop the seal and then goes out of the campus.
Damon finds a disturbed Elena and tries to help her. He gives her Stefan's blood to drink. "She won, Katherine won," Elena said. She rants about nearly killing Liv and killing Aaron Whitmore. Finally, Damon tells her she didn't kill Aaron but he did. Damon then reveals why he did, because the only person he believed could change him from being a cold blooded killer to a better person instead told him that he could never change. He waits for her to say something, but she sees Enzo there with the antidotes.

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Back at the Salvatore Mansion, Damon offers Elena a drink to which she declines and then goes says how Damon should have noticed that it was Katherine not Elena. If he had, Aaron would still be alive, there'd be no virus. Damon points out she's blaming Katherine for his mistakes and making excuses for him. Damon says he killed Aaron because she broke his heart and this is how much control she has over him while Elena says that even after all this she is still here and this is how much control he has over her. He calls their relationship toxic and Elena confesses how she has to compromise her morals again to make excuses for him and she does it because she loves him. He tells her to stop loving him, but she yells that she can't. Damon replies that this is the problem and they mutually decide to end their relationship. However they both gaze at each other longingly and Damon then kisses Elena to which she reciprocates. They begin to make out and Elena rips his shirt. They are then in Damon's bed and end up having hot passionate break up sex.

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In *Rescue Me*, Elena and Damon stay woken up for 3 hours without saying anything after their night together, post break up. Elena's phone buzzes to remind her to go to Jeremy's parent-teacher conference. She starts putting on her clothes while Damon greets her. Elena says they're still bad for each other and still broken up and last night was a mistake. "Maybe we should keep making mistakes," Damon replies. She leaves, despite his offer of a naked breakfast. Damon heads to the Grill to drown his morning sorrow in booze. He seeks relationship advice from Tyler and Matt and mentions that Caroline is off doing something with Stefan, although he taunts Tyler by assuring him they're just friends. Later he sees Bonnie's new witch friend Liv hanging with Jeremy.

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Damon then visits Jeremy's school to attend his parent teacher conference and surprises Elena. Waiting for the teacher at school, Damon flirts with Elena, who tries to keep him on task. Damon mentions seeing Jeremy with Liv and a bottle of booze this morning at the Grill. Elena is sure Jeremy's not a cheater. Then the teacher comes in and complains about Jeremy saying "Jeremy's missed 11 days of school, he's started three fights and he's been caught cheating in math class twice." When the teacher realizes that Damon and Elena have broken up she tells them that Jeremy needs a stable living situation.

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After talking with his teacher, Damon points out that Elena is making excuses for Jeremy, just like she always does with people she loves. She thinks he wants to talk about last night. He corners her near the locker and admits he doesn't know what to say, but just wants to take her into one of the classrooms and kiss every square inch of her body while people who drive minivans listen and wish they were them but then adds that it is probably a bad idea. Elena tries hard to breathe and with great difficulty whispers right. Damon leaves by saying see you in class while Elena is left completely shaken. Later in chemistry presentation, Damon wakes a lost Elena. Unknown to him she was daydreaming making out with him and frustrated with their sexual tension she leaves the class room. Damon then finds Elena with Liv who is about to kill her. Damon saves Elena and starts torturing Liv for information. Liv doesn't cooperate and he is about to kill her but Jeremy stops him. He convinces Damon and Elena that Liv will help them protect Elena from the Travelers.

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At the Salvatore house, Jeremy tells Elena and Damon that he has decided to live with Matt and Tyler leaving both of them upset. Later, Elena is packing her stuff and Damon asks her to not leave but she says that when they are together they do bad things for each other and she can't live with that. Damon offers to drive her to Whitmore but Elena confesses that if he does that then she won't be able to control herself around him and thus they are gonna end up back here. Damon then slowly walks up to Elena, then she believes he is going to kiss her. Instead Damon then shushes her and does the selfless/right thing, he takes his hands around her neck then slowly kisses her forehead and tells her Travel safe. Elena then seems shocked by Damon's act of selflessness as he walks away, she then seems upset that he finally let her go.

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In Resident Evil, Damon is playing pool with Enzo to distract himself from Elena. Enzo tries to understand how things are going with Damon and Elena. Damon turns things around on Enzo and asks about his missing girlfriend, Maggie, who the Travelers were supposed to help him find before they all attempted suicide. They then get a call from Caroline who informs him about the weird visions Stefan and Elena are having about each other. He asks her to bring a witch and come to the house. When Caroline and Elena arrive at the house, Damon and Elena have an awkward post break up reunion. Caroline and Enzo leave them alone and eavesdrop their conversation from another room. Elena and Damon try to act normal but when she suggests to be friends, Damon cringes at the idea. Damon then changes the subject to her visions about Stefan. Soon they are interrupted by Liv's brother Luke who happens to be a witch as well.
Luke tells them about Travelers' leader Markos and how he is back from the other side. He suggests the visions are the Travelers drawing Stefan and Elena to them, but they need more clues. Later that night, Damon drinks outside, *"listening to the universe laugh at me,"* he tells Elena. *"We were doomed from the beginning, Elena. We were always going to end up here."* She assures him the universe doesn't control anything and the dreams are not real. She then has another vision in which she sees the house address and hence announces where to find Markos. Damon and Enzo go in search of Markos and he explains to them that the doppelgänger prophecy is not true and the reason why doppelgängers are drawn together is because of a spell that he casted 1500 years ago because Travelers needed their blood.

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Markos then takes Damon to a walk and reveals the history of travelers that when Silas and Qetsiyah created the immortality spell, it created a schism in the Traveler community and gave rise to the witches, who tried to keep the Travelers scattered because they're more powerful together. The witches put a curse on them that kept them from settling down together as a tribe. doppelgänger blood can fix it. He tells Damon they don't want to hurt him and he'll end the visions. Damon then watches several Travelers coming forward who have passengered themselves inside residents of Mystic Falls. All the Travelers together finish the spell and the visions stop.

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Damon returns to his room and finds Elena waiting. She tells him that the visions were indeed a fantasy but they weren't real and even though Damon and her are messy and complicated they are real. But Damon replies they are still bad for each other. Elena says she still wants him in her life but Damon becomes flustered and tells Elena that he doesn't want anything to do with her as he can't be friends with her. Elena then leaves the room while trying to control her tears.

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In *Man on Fire*, Damon is focusing on dealing with the Travelers situation. He drops in on Matt and Jeremy at Tyler's house to take the Traveler knife but unfortunately they can't find it and neither have they heard from Tyler. Damon becomes angry and calls Enzo asking him to go on field trip in search of the Travelers but Enzo refuses as he has some other plans. However later he calls Damon and asks him to check Stefan's journals from November 8, 1960. Damon tells him Stefan burned them all. Enzo then reveals how he thinks Stefan is responsible for killing his one true love, Maggie and that he has Stefan and Elena captured for revenge. Damon leaves a message for Caroline while meeting with her mother to get the report on Maggie's death. Damon looks at the crime scene photos and recognizes it. *"Stefan was right, he didn't kill Enzo's girl. I did,"* Damon tells Liz.

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He then hurries to Whitmore and finds Enzo with Stefan and Elena tied with vervain ropes. He reveals to them that on November 8, 1960, he got a message at the house that a woman wanted to interview him. He didn't know she was Enzo's Maggie. She wanted revenge from him for leaving Enzo behind in the fire but she didn't stood a chance against Damon. Damon had killed her and made it look like Stefan did it because of his grudge of Stefan not coming to get him the five years he was in Augustine captivity. Damon asks Enzo to resolve this among themselves and not to include others. Enzo confesses he can't hate Damon because then he has nothing left. He realizes there is another option and switches off his humanity.

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No humanity Enzo is in a joyful mood. Damon suggests Enzo to leave with him and slips Stefan a shard of glass to free himself. Enzo bites Liv and attacks Damon on his neck with a broken glass. Stefan breaks free and pulls Enzo off, but Enzo gets free and grabs Elena and runs. Stefan stays to feed his blood to mortally wounded Liv and Damon goes after Elena. He leaves Enzo a message begging him not to kill Elena. He then finds an unconscious Elena outside Whitmore College and carries her to her dorm room. He lays her on the bed and caresses her face. As she starts gaining conscious he vamps speed out before she can see him.

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Later at the Salvatore house, Damon tells Stefan that he will find Enzo and fix all of this. Stefan hides the fact that Enzo is dead and tells him that what happened with Enzo wasn't his fault. Damon talks about how Enzo kept him sane in captivity, reminding him he was lucky to have any family at all. Every time Damon wanted to give up on Stefan, Enzo urged him not to lose faith in his brother and hence Damon owes him. Enzo's ghost watches over the brothers as they share a drink. *"It's too late to make amends, Damon. You know me, never let go of a good vendetta. And this one is just getting started,"* Enzo says.

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In *What Lies Beneath*, Damon is seeking Luke's help to track Enzo who is unable to find anything. Damon tells Stefan a vampire with his humanity switch flipped who wants him dead is worth finding, but Stefan suggests Enzo has a witch performing a cloaking spell on him and doesn't want to be found. Tyler comes in to announce the problem of the week. After some conferring, they expect the Travelers will be coming for Stefan and Elena today to break the witches' curse so they can settle in Mystic Falls. Damon orders Tyler to commune with the Traveler inside him to find Markos, he tells Luke to perform an anti-locator spell to hide doppelgängers Stefan and Elena from the Travelers and he tells Stefan that they're going to take their ex-girlfriend on a secret trip to keep her and Stefan safe.

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Damon, Stefan, Elena and Caroline decide to hide in Caroline's father's remote cabin from the Travelers. They take Luke along with them so that he is able to perform an anti-locator spell which will hide them from the travelers. While Elena is unpacking her stuff, Damon visits her and they talk about the cabin and Caroline's father. Damon then mentions how he should be avoiding her and Elena asks him if that is what he still wants. Damon replies *"Yes. No. I don't know."* Elena offers him an out and Damon asks if she is kicking him out. She repeats his words saying *"Yes. No. I don't know."* They share a flirtatious smile and the conversation soon becomes awkward when Damon mentions Enzo. Elena is feeling guilty about lying to Damon about Enzo's death by the hands of Stefan and leaves making an excuse.

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Later, Damon preps cocktails while Caroline makes clues for charades. The theme is *"secrets people think they're getting away with,"* and she thinks "Team Stelena" will do fine. He picks up on her "judgy little hinty voice." She thinks they're being secretive. Damon thinks she got cagey when he brought up Enzo, but Caroline thinks it's more about the two of them. In the evening, the gang is playing charade and there is still no sign of any secret. Then Damon suggests to play "Never have I ever." It goes around until Caroline says *"Never have I ever kissed a Salvatore brother -- today."* Then Damon says *"Never have I lied about where Enzo is."* Stefan and Elena are silent and the evening comes to a screeching halt. Elena gets up and leaves for bed.

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While Elena is taking a bath, a ghost Enzo who now has the power of touching things in the real world tries to drown her for revenge. When she's able to come up for air, she screams for Damon. He comes to rescue her and wraps a towel around her. He tries to calm her down while Elena panics about what happened. Damon then wonders why a ghost would wanna attack Elena. She finally admits the truth about Enzo's death. Damon joins Stefan and Caroline and they figure out that drowning Elena was just a distraction, Enzo figured out a way to kill them all. He has taken Luke somewhere making it possible for the Travelers to track them.

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Damon asks Stefan what he thought he'd do when he found out Enzo was dead. *"Hate me,"* Stefan says. Before Damon could answer him, they hear a voice from the shed and find a barely alive Luke inside. Damon spells the gas just before Enzo yanks down a light to ignite it. The cabin is quickly engulfed in flames. Enzo manages to trap both Stefan and Damon inside the shed by attacking them. Damon asks Stefan to run with Luke while he manages to convince Enzo to let go of his revenge by promising him that he will bring him back. Damon then runs away from the shed. Back at the Forbes cabin, Stefan starts to apologize to Damon, but Damon punches him. *"I had to do that, for Enzo. But it's the last time you'll hear about it from me,"* Damon says.

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Later, Damon is packing up the car in order to move to a new location when Elena approaches him. He tries to brush her off and warns her to hurry as the Travelers must be coming. She apologizes for keeping Enzo's death a secret and he says he doesn't care about her lies. She is confused and asks him why is he behaving like this. He then confesses that he knew she lied because she was afraid that he will spiral out of control again but he didn't this time despite every nerve in his body wanting him to because for her. Elena smiles slightly to herself and playfully asks if he is still mad at her. He further confuses her when he says *"Of course I'm still mad at you because being around you drives me nuts, and not being around you drives me nuts."* They stare at each other for a while when Damon finally runs towards her and kisses her passionately. Elena whispers what was that for and he mentions how he had a really bad day and he needed it. He goes inside the cabin while Elena has a brief moment to enjoy the glow when suddenly the Travelers arrive there paralyzing her brain and Markos grabs her from behind.

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In *Promised Land*, it has been four days since the travelers took Stefan and Elena and Damon has been desperately searching for them. He is torturing a Traveler inside a guy named Sykes. He asks him where Markos is as the Travelers want to break the witch curse so they can settle, it also reverses the witch's spell that created vampires and they all die. Damon ungags the Traveler long enough for him to say there's nothing they can do to stop Markos. Later, he gets a call from Stefan who informs him that he and Elena have managed to free themselves from the Travelers but don't know where they are. When Stefan tells him that he has Elena hunting squirrels, Damon jokes that Elena will shoot Stefan's eyes. Damon tells him that he will find and kill Markos and asks him to have both him and Elena return home safely.

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Damon gets off the phone and gets a knife in the chest from ghost Enzo, reminding Damon to keep his promise to bring him back. Damon points out to Bonnie that he's busy with Markos, so he suggests she get Liv to include Enzo in her spell to save Bonnie from the collapse of the Other Side. Bonnie doesn't get a chance to tell her there is no such thing because Damon leaves with Jeremy to get the real bodies of the Travelers which are lying inside the caves. He along with Matt and Jeremy return with the unconscious bodies of the Travelers and start placing them around the boarding house. When Damon is dismissive of passengered Tyler, chained up in the basement, Caroline accuses him of just being grumpy over Elena. Caroline warns him to not to go against the passenger inside Tyler until she figures out how to save Tyler.

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When Markos finds Damon's note in the caves telling to contact him for missing wannabee witches a.k.a the Travelers, he decides to visit Damon at the boarding house. At the house, Markos seems unconcerned about the fates of his people. He stabs one in the neck to prove his point, telling Damon he doesn't care if they never get back in their original bodies. He explains that Travelers are everywhere and are willing to die for a better life. Markos also tells that after they perform the spell and it's affects ripples out from Mystic Falls, only Traveler magic will remain all over world. While they are talking, Julian whispers to Damon from the basement that Markos doesn't know he's there and Damon should use that. Damon makes an excuse to go downstairs and slip Julian a key to free himself.

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Julian finally manages to attack Markos but it's too late as the Travelers have already started the spell and hence his fangs start disappearing and Damon's ring stops working. As the spell is being performed, the Travelers inside the Salvatore house start waking up. Damon suddenly gets a bullet wound in his chest, exactly similar to the one he got when he died as a human. Markos explains that as the spell will unravel spirit magic, vampires will continue to die as they were supposed to die as humans. Damon and Julian start running away to the door to run away from Mystic Falls. Before Damon leaves, he takes one last look at the place he has called home for over 100 years and is clearly upset. Damon makes it to the road, where Jeremy picks him up.
Elena, Damon, Stefan, Bonnie and Caroline plan to meet in Whitmore and travel far away so that they are unaffected from the Travelers' spell. When Damon reaches Whitmore, Elena rushes to him and kisses him passionately. When he asks what was that for, she repeats his words from their last kiss, "I had a really crappy day and I needed it". She also confesses that she thought she would never see him again and couldn't think of a worse way to die. They are both enjoying their little happiness when Stefan says that he will wait for Caroline and Bonnie. Damon and Elena then leave in the car together and Elena says her goodbye to Jeremy.

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In *Home*, Damon and Elena find out about Stefan's death from Caroline. Damon knows that Bonnie has a plan to bring her and Enzo back and thus he is confident that they will bring Stefan back as well. When Bonnie reveals that the Traveler who knew the spell to get people back from the other side is sucked into darkness, Damon breaks down. He starts throwing things around as the realization of losing Stefan forever hits him. He even threatens Bonnie to do something. Enzo interrupts them and reveals he has found another Traveler. Damon then meets Matt and Jeremy at Whitmore to plan their Travelers massacre. Killing them all will overwhelm the anchor and with the help of a spell they will be able to bring people back from the other side.
Later, Damon tells Elena that Matt and Jeremy are going to blow up the Grill and then he tells her that someone has to set off the explosion. Elena says no and asks if he sees a future with her. He says it's all he has seen since the moment he met her. She asks why then would he go on a suicide mission and he says it's only half of one because if he dies, he will be brought back with the others. He tells her it's his choice and she has to respect it. He promises her that he will make it back to her. Elena looks at him for a moment and then kisses him passionately. When they pull apart Damon says it again *"I promise."*

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While waiting for the signal from Liz, Damon sits outside of the Town's city line and drinks a bottle of alcohol. When he gets the confirmation from Liz that the plan is on go, he sits in the driver's seat of his car and proceeds to drive into town, but Elena gets in the passenger seat besides him. Elena says, *"You said to respect your choice. Now you can respect mine."* Damon looks somewhat shocked that Elena would be willing to die with him so that they're together rather than let Damon die alone. Seconds later the car plows through the Mystic Grill filled with the Travelers, Damon and Elena give each other one last longing look. Elena is about to tell Damon that she loves him but he tells her he knows. They both die ending up on the Other Side.

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Elena and Damon find Bonnie. She tells them to pass through her, find their bodies on the Other Side and come back quickly. They both nod and pass through Bonnie. Damon wakes up on the Other Side but sees Liz on the ground. He tries to help her but struggles. Alaric finds him and together they rescue Liz. He then says *"Friendly advice, when you get the girl, don't blow her up."* Damon laughs and says *"Good to see you too, buddy."* Later they both go to Bonnie to pass through her and return to the land of living. Alaric goes through Bonnie and Damon pauses to find out where Elena is. Bonnie assures him that she has returned and then Damon tries to pass through her but nothing happens. They realize that Liv who was performing the spell to bring them back has stopped it making Damon unable to return.
It is time for Damon to say goodbye to Elena. He finds her crying hysterically in the crypt and she says *"You lied to me"*. A ghost Damon says *"Even if I wanted to apologize, you couldn't hear me, so I won't."* He strokes her face and she appears to feel his touch but can't see his hand. Damon then says to Elena, *"You are by far the greatest thing that has ever happened to me...The fact that I got to die knowing I was loved... is the epitome of a fulfilled life...It is never going to get better than this. I peaked."* Elena distraught with grief makes one small plea to Damon, *"Please, please come back to me."* Damon then says goodbye and disappears.

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Later, Damon finds Bonnie and the ground begins to shake underneath them. *"This place is going down isn't it?"* Damon says. She knows there are a thousand other people they'd both rather be with, but they take each other's hand as the light gets brighter and they wait for whatever is coming. *"Think it'll hurt?"* Bonnie asks. *"I don't know-"* Damon says, and then he's cut off by the bright white light. The fates of Damon and Bonnie are left unknown at the end of the episode.

In *I'll Remember*, its been four months since Damon and Bonnie died. Unable to accept Damon's death, Elena is seen eating special herbs that lets her hallucinate Damon. She describes her day to him and asks about his. Damon jokes about Alaric coming back to life to become a college professor. They both laugh and then embrace each other. Later, Elena hallucinates Damon in a car, he wonders if she's not visiting Bonnie because he knows Bonnie would agree with Luke that she needs to move on. Elena asks him to not talk about this.

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Taking these herbs is making Elena very thirsty and so she decides to feed from a girl who she encounters on the road. Elena gets out to offer directions, but instead chomps down on her neck. Damon tells Elena to go easy, saying she nearly killed the last one and the one before that, and the one before that. Elena says she's still hungry and continues. She is later stopped by Caroline who confronts her about what she has been up to. After her talk with Caroline, Elena returns to her car and is comforted by Damon.

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Later at the crypt, Elena chugs another potion of her herbs and when Damon shows up she tells him he's not even real, just her subconscious tricking her. She says seeing him is making her hurt people. He tells her to move on if she needs to. Elena thanks him for saving Stefan and Alaric and giving her a love full of passion and adventure. She tells him good-bye. She kisses him and expects him to be gone, but he's still there as Elena can't let him go. Then he starts asking her how long until she goes running back to Luke, telling her she's going to feel a lifetime of agony and grief. She trashes the crypt and collapses crying. But Damon is still there. At the end of the episode, we finally see Damon and Bonnie. He makes Bonnie breakfast and the two smile at each other, leaving it unknown where they are.

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In *Yellow Ledbetter*, it is finally revealed what happened to Damon and Bonnie. The episode starts with the continuation of the ending scene of Season Five finale, *Home*. After the bright flash of light on the Other Side. Damon and Bonnie open their eyes to find nothing has changed. They're still standing in the forest, but now it seems like they're alone. They walk into Mystic Falls and Damon can tell he's still a vampire. The Mystic Grill is still standing despite the fact Damon blew it up an hour ago. There are no people anywhere.

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After a while, Damon and Bonnie still haven't found anyone but notice all the cars seem at least 20 years old, but new. They come upon Elena's not burnt to a crisp house and Damon picks up a newspaper. It's May 10, 1994. Bonnie recognizes it as a week before something. Suddenly, there's a solar eclipse. Bonnie reminds Damon about her Grams telling Bonnie that she made a sacrifice so Bonnie could find peace. She figures Damon tagged long when they held hands as the Other Side disappeared and if magic got them there, it should be able to get them out. Bonnie tests her magic, but it's still gone.

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Later, Bonnie comes home to the Salvatore house to find Damon making pancakes, chugging booze and dancing to Salt N' Pepa's "What a Man." She got a grimoire from her Grams' empty house and hopes she can reteach herself magic. The paper says May 10, 1994 again. They're both surprised when suddenly there's another solar eclipse. Sometime later, a sad Damon is seen reminiscing about a memory of Elena. During dinner, Bonnie tells him she misses everyone too. Damon notices Bonnie finally got the crossword clue that was stumping her (Yellow ledbetter). But she didn't. It's filled in, but neither of them did it. They both realize there are not alone after all.

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In *Welcome to Paradise*, Damon and Bonnie go for shopping in a grocery store. He is not willing to admit that someone else must have filled in Bonnie's crossword puzzle. Then she notices pork rinds aren't on the shelf where they have been for the last four months. He doesn't argue. They hear music playing and Bonnie goes outside to see a kid's carousel turning. Damon tries to look for a mechanical reason for the carousel starting. Bonnie reasons that if there's someone else there, it's not Damon's hell, which means her Grams put them there and there's a way out.

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Damon is ranting about Bonnie being useless without her magic when he notices his car in the parking lot. Overjoyed on seeing his car, he goes and sit inside it. He then remembers his last moment with Elena when she was about to say I love you. He then tells Bonnie that when he returns to Elena, the first thing he will say to her is how much he loves her. Damon is forced to admit someone must have put his car there. Then they both see something between the cars.

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Damon and Bonnie inspect the cars in the grocery lot and realize what they saw was a tarp on a truck blowing in the breeze. Then the carousel starts itself, on a timer. Damon thinks he left his car in the lot in 1984 and Bonnie finished the crossword puzzle. He thinks it means they're never getting out. Bonnie gets angry about his lack of hope and tells him to just end it if he's serious. Damon heads to the empty, full-stocked liquor store. He sees someone eating chips in a lounge chair. He introduces himself as Kai and offers Damon a pork rind.

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Damon quickly loses patience with Kai, who he realizes has been following them. Kai urges Damon to have a drink before he explains. Damon takes a long pull of his favorite bourbon off the shelf as Kai confesses the reason he's been following them is because he wants to kill Damon. As Damon has a sip of his bourbon, he spits out vervain realizing Kai spiked his drink. With Damon lying wounded on the floor, Kai breaks an umbrella in two and jams it through Damon's hand. Damon manages to get up and comes after him, but Kai cracks all the bourbon bottles with the umbrella, shattering their vervain-laced contents all over Damon. Then Bonnie shows up. He taunts her as the "useless" one. Bonnie surprises him when she is able to lit a candle with her magic. She asks Damon to run, then she surrounds Kai with flame as Damon comes up behind him and knocks him out. Kai wakes up tied to a chair by Damon's fireplace. Kai tries to convince them that he is on their team. He knew Bonnie would save Damon and get her magic back. He says her having magic is the key to them getting out of there.

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In *Black Hole Sun*, Kai wants to know what Damon did on May 10, 1994 but Damon doesn't want to talk about the worst thing he ever did. But he finally starts telling his story. In 1994, a no humanity Damon shows up on Stefan's doorstep, wanting to make amends. Zack Salvatore, the owner of the house, allows Damon in on Stefan's promise that he'll keep him in line. He further tells about Zach and Gail, the girl who was pregnant with his child. Kai guesses that Damon killed the pregnant woman. Damon then threatens him to reveal answers. Kai explains that they will return home by harnessing the power of the eclipse using a mystical relic called an ascendant and he just made a replica of it. He tells Bonnie his family had it last in the Pacific Northwest and asks Bonnie to perform a locator spell.

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Later, Bonnie's locator spell works and homes in on Mystic Falls, and something very close to her. She puts her hand on Kai's pocket and he reveals he had the ascendant. He says it was another test of Bonnie's magic. Kai announces that Bonnie is ready and it's time for them to go home which makes Damon very happy. Kai stares at the sun through the ascendant. Bonnie notices a newspaper headline that reads "Family Massacred in Portland." The whole family was killed and the 22-year-old son Malachai is missing. Kai points out that not everyone died, he had a soft spot for one of his sisters. He cheerily tells Bonnie and Damon how he slaughtered his siblings members of his coven, although he has no powers. He says the Gemini coven banished him here. Bonnie deduces that this place is actually a prison created for Kai to which he replies *"Yep. This isn't your hell, Damon. It's mine."*

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Bonnie announces to Damon that they can't let Kai out. She asks Damon if Kai killing a bunch of kids isn't a big deal to someone who's murdered a pregnant woman. Damon then finally reveals he in fact did killed the pregnant women. He says it was a relief when he killed Zack as he reminded Damon of his terrible deeds. At night, Damon is shown seeing a pic of him and Stefan showing that he misses his brother too.

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Later, Damon finds Bonnie eating pancakes. She reminds Damon that Gail liked pancakes and Damon has made them every day. She thinks he's punishing himself, which means he feels remorse and this is what makes him better than Kai. Damon suggests they take the ascendant from Kai, but Kai sneaks up and explains why that won't work. He doesn't have magic of his own, but he can take it from others temporarily. He grabs Bonnie, then uses her magic to paralyze Damon as he lays out his ultimatum that he can either kill them both and use Bonnie's magic to go home, or they all can go home together.

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In *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*, Damon is extremely excited to return home and is already planning a date with Elena. However, Bonnie is skeptical as she still doesn't trust Kai. Kai then greets them and asks Damon to dig into the tunnels below because that's where they will wait for the eclipse as Bonnie performs the spell. Kai still doesn't tell Bonnie the spell and leaves to get some important things for the spell.

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Damon finishes his hole and Kai comes back with his things. Bonnie insists that he show her the spell, but he refuses. So she dares him to take her magic. He grabs onto her, but she assures Damon it's ok and he won't kill her. Kai leaves her and Bonnie is now sure that Kai doesn't know the spell which means they no longer need him. Then she uses her magic and kills Kai. Bonnie pores over a spellbook as Damon drowns his sorrows over a drink as he thinks she ruined their chance of getting home by killing Kai. Bonnie suggests the Gemini Coven used a Bennett spell to make Kai's prison and that's why her Grams sent them there. She recites a few lines of a spell and Kai's ascendant opens. She realizes Kai couldn't kill her because he needed a Bennett witch to open the ascendant. With the eclipse about to start, Damon and Bonnie get ready to start the spell.

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They go inside the tunnel and Bonnie puts a few drops of her blood on the ascendant and begins reciting. The ascendant responds and Damon takes her hand. She's about to start the spell when suddenly an arrow hits her in the side. Damon turns around and sees a very live Kai standing there with a crossbow. He tells them he's tried to kill himself many times but this dimension doesn't let him. Damon rushes to Bonnie and starts to feed her his blood, but then has to rush to Kai when he goes for the ascendant. Kai stabs Damon in the ribs with an arrow and Bonnie tries to inch toward the ascendant on the ground.

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Kai and Damon continue struggling, with Kai twisting the arrow in Damon. Bonnie makes it to the ascendant. She tells Damon she's not going to make it, but he will. She uses her magic to flip Kai off Damon and drag Damon into the shaft of light caused by the eclipse. Then as Damon is yelling at her to stop, she tosses him the ascendant. It opens and the spell works, lifting Damon up into the real world.

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Damon first visit Stefan who he is in their family crypt talking about how depressed he is post Damon's death. He confesses he's not doing well without Damon and can't seem to start over because he's lost. He throws his bottle and to his surprise Damon catches it. Damon says *"What, I'm gone a couple months, you think it's ok to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon."* Damon assures him he's back. Stefan can't believe his eyes and touches Damon to make sure he is real. Both of them hug tightly while crying with joy.

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In *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get* starts with where the previous one ended. Damon and Stefan are hugging each other and Damon tells Stefan he missed him too. He then tells him about being stuck in 1994 with Bonnie and that she sacrificed herself so that he could return. But the version they tell others is different that Bonnie was never there with him so that they don't feel the pain of losing her all over again. He then says he has to go meet Elena. But Stefan stops him and tells him about her compulsion to forget her love for Damon. Damon is shocked to hear this but ensures Stefan that the moment their eyes will meet, everything will be okay again.

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Damon goes to see Elena, but she won't let him in her dorm room. He tries to reminder her how she felt about him and that the compulsion is a lie. Elena is about to open the door when Damon says *"I hear you breathing. You have no idea how long I wanted to hear you breathe."* This makes her scared again and she stops. Damon tries a little more but at last says he is gonna kick the door open. Elena then finally opens the door, but jumps out of the window before he can see her. Damon then visits Alaric in his office who is happy to see him and asks him how he has been. Damon sarcastically says that he is great. He is not happy with Alaric's compulsion of Elena, but Alaric explains that Elena was a mess without him. He'll lift the compulsion when Elena is ready. Damon is not pleased, but leaves peacefully.

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Later, in Elena's dorm room, Damon notes that there are no pictures of him anywhere. So he picks Elena's graduation picture and draws a cartoon picture of himself around her. Jeremy enters and wants to know why Bonnie didn't come back. Damon says Bonnie wasn't with him and found peace in a better place. Damon calls Bonnie's phone to thank her and apologize when he gets a call from Elena who says she can't avoid him forever so she is ready to meet. She asks him to come by her dorm room and Damon says he will be there in a bit lying about the fact that he was already there waiting for her. Damon then checks his appearance in the mirror and hears someone walk in. He think its Elena but its actually Tripp who manages to capture him.

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Damon wakes up chained in the back of Tripp's van with Enzo, who tells him Stefan probably didn't tell him about the hunter in town because Stefan's the one who put him there. As they are approaching the Mystic Falls border, Alaric shows up and asks Tripp for a lift. Tripp ends up driving them all across the border. Stefan manages to save both Damon and Enzo in time but not Alaric. Though Jo, the Whitmore doctor saves Alaric, it is only after he has turned human which means he can no longer give Elena her memories back.
Later, over drinks, Damon is whining about how Elena is happy while he is miserable to Stefan. Stefan gives him the kick he needs to go see Elena and see what happens. Damon goes to see her and knocks at her door. They both take a deep breath and Elena finally opens the door. The episode ends with a cliffhanger of Damon and Elena coming face to face for the first time since his return. Damon has a look of awe on his face while Elena looks at him nervously.

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Going into the next episode, *Do You Remember the First Time?*, Damon and Elena finally face each other for the first time since he returned. Damon is hopeful that Elena might be remembering something but she confesses that all she remembers is the pain he has caused all the people she loves. She apologies and says she just doesn't feel anything anymore. A heartbroken Damon leaves. Later, he visits Alaric in the hospital and says that he is glad that he is alive but still taunts him saying that if he would have actually died then the compulsion would have worn off and Elena would have remembered loving him. Jo then arrives and releases Alaric so he can come as her date to the hospital fundraiser.

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At the fundraiser, Damon meets Alaric and Jo and she is surprised to see him. Alaric teases him and says he is here to stalk Elena. Elena enters then but she is not alone, Jo tells Damon about Liam who is Elena's date at the fundraiser. He introduces himself to Liam, prompting Elena to have to explain why Damon isn't actually dead. Damon says it was more of an emotional death. He compels Liam away to dance with Elena. During the dance, Damon tells Elena about the first time they danced at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant and how they both got lost in that moment. She tries to explain again that she doesn't remember them and leaves to get some air. However after some time, Elena finds Damon and tells him she wants to try to remember them. She asks him to take him to the last place she told him she loved him.

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Damon takes her to the Mystic Falls border, the last place she told him she loved him. But Elena doesn't remember joining him in the car to crash into the Grill. He tells her about their most memorable moments, a motel ice machine, the night of her graduation when she told him she was in love with him, and his favorite, the summer night before she went off to college when she took him to watch a meteor shower and it started raining. Elena stops him and says that this is not working and confesses that all she sees in him is a stranger. Elena then takes a deep breath and crosses the Mystic Falls border while Damon tries to stop her. Memories come flooding back but unfortunately she starts drowning. Damon yanks her back across just in time and tells her that he wont risk her life for her to remember their love.

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Damon walks Elena back to her room and she tells him she remembered a tiny bit of the meteor showers and the rain. She asks him what happened after that, but he tells her that she's better off without him and he lets her go. She again asks him what happens after it starts raining but he lies and says they both got wet and muddy and hence drove home. Out in the woods, Damon remembers what actually happened the night it rained under the stars. She wanted to wait for it to stop raining but they ended up kissing each other. In between their kisses, she asks him to promise her that this is forever and he does that. Back in the present, Damon carries his bottle of bourbon through the cemetery, drowning his sorrows. Then he sees Bonnie's teddy bear leaning against a crypt and knows it means she is still alive.

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In *Fade Into You*, Damon, Stefan and Alaric make a trip to Portland to talk with Gemini coven so that they can help them bring back Bonnie. On their way, Damon and Alaric tease Stefan about Caroline. They keep telling him about her wonderful qualities and so Stefan should date her. They reach the supposed location of the Gemini coven that Stefan visited four months ago but its just an empty field. Damon taunts Stefan with Bonnie's bear about how he broke Caroline's heart. An annoyed Stefan grabs it and drop-kicks it into the field. As the bear crosses an invisible plane, the bear's Bonnie magic kicks in, revealing a house.

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At the Gemini house, Alaric remembers what Jo said about putting her magic somewhere and they deduce Bonnie put hers in the bear to keep Kai from using it to get out. Stefan and Damon can't enter the house as they haven't been invited in so Alaric gets inside and looks around. Alaric has found pictures of Jo and news articles about the attack. Damon notices a picture of Jo and Kai together and realizes they're siblings. A man joins them out in front of the house and introduces himself as Joshua Parker, Kai's father. Damon shakes his hand and Joshua uses magic to make everything invisible again. As a result, Alaric and Stefan can't see them while Joshua paralyzes Damon and takes him inside.

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Damon wakes up inside the Gemini house and Joshua explains he just wants answers. Damon is happy to provide them in exchange for the ascendant, but Joshua isn't inclined to give him the key to his sociopathic son's prison. He explains to Damon that if Kai gets out, he'll go straight to Jo and kill her for her power. Damon suggests he could just kill Kai, but Joshua says if Kai manages to kill Jo he becomes everyone's problem. Joshua starts a spell to kill Jo as she has the ascendant. Damon tries to stop him from hurting Jo but he paralyzes Damon again. Stefan manages to enter the house after Jo invites him in over the phone. He tries to stop Joshua but he uses magic and becomes invisible again.

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Damon, Stefan and Alaric prepare to leave Portland, but Alaric refuses to get the ascendant from Jo and risk her life by possibly freeing Kai. So Damon compels him to do it. Later, Damon is drinking at the bar and Elena joins him. She tells him that he should have told her about Bonnie and then taken her to their search trip. He continues to taunt her about the compulsion thing. Elena then asks him about what did he and Bonnie did for months. He says bicker mostly. He tells how he still can't really believe she sacrificed herself so he could come back, but knows it was because of how much he talked about Elena. Elena tells him about her break up with Liam and then says there is this feeling inside her that she can't seem to shake. But she is at a crossroads if she should live a normal life or risk everything for this feeling. Damon asks what is its gonna be and she asks Damon to help her bring Bonnie back so Bonnie can help her decide what to do with her feelings. She holds his hands and Damon smiles and says sure.

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In *I Alone*, Damon and Stefan are waiting for Alaric to show up with the ascendant after stealing it from Jo. Stefan warns Damon that Alaric is going to hate him for compelling him. But Damon instead taunts him about his and Caroline's ruined friendship. He says it might seem easy being the bad guy but soon you will feel lost and talk to strangers on the road. Alaric then shows up with the ascendant and Damon compels Alaric again, to forget any of it any happened. After getting the ascendant, Damon and Elena meet Liv in the woods. She gives them vials of her blood to drink to link them to her so she can find them and bring them back, plus an extra for Bonnie. She tells them they have about eight hours to find Bonnie and bring her back. They her blood and then Liv pours the Bennett blood on the ascendant and recites the spell. They both land up in the Prison world.

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Elena and Damon first go to Salvatore House and search for her but she isn't there which makes Elena wonder if Kai has done something to her. Damon tells her to not be negative but Elena finds Bonnie's blood on the cushion. Damon then uses a pager to contact Kai. While waiting for Kai's call, Elena wonders around the house and comes across Damon's video journals which he made during his time in the prison world. She starts playing it but Damon stops her from seeing it. He tries to cover it up by saying its an audition tape but Elena doesn't believe him. She tries to ask the truth but then the phone rings. Its Bonnie and she reveals to them how Kai left her to die in Portland and stole her blood. She tells them that she can make it to Mystic Falls in seven hours. As she hangs up, Damon starts to worry that Kai might be already out.

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Later, Damon and Elena make blueberry pancakes together in the Salvatore kitchen. They sit down to eat them but before Damon can eat his, Elena makes fangs with the cream just like he used to do. Damon smiles and they start eating. Elena sees the news story about Kai's murderous rampage and wonders why Jo would hand over the ascendant. Damon tries to change the topic but is finally forced to admit that he compelled Alaric to steal it from her. Elena storms out of the kitchen and Damon goes after her. She thinks that his dedication to bring Bonnie back is only for her to see what a great guy he is and so she falls for him all over again. Elena lashes out at Damon for being so selfish and leaves.

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Damon goes to see Elena on the Gilbert porch. He tells her that on May 10, 1994 he was mad at Stefan and acted out and a lot of people died. He has felt guilty ever since, which is why he thought that this was his personal hell. But Bonnie wouldn't let him believe it and had hope for both of them. He confesses that they finally managed to become friends and that he is doing this for Bonnie and not for her. Elena smiles at this and Damon goes and sits beside her at the swing. When Elena says that the swing used to squeak, Damon says it did but he fixed it. He confesses that he used to come here everyday because this was the closest he had of a picture of her. Elena starts to get nostalgic about her old house and Damon encourages her to go inside. Before opening the gate, she apologizes to Damon for compelling away the memories saying it was of both of them. He smiles and say they will make new ones and touches her face gently. They both smile and are having a moment when they feel something changing around them. They find themselves back in the cemetery in real world. Tyler and Liv are there and they both look sorry as Tyler says Kai is after Liv and they have to go to Mystic Falls.

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Elena and Damon are sitting beside the grave site, sad that their plan failed. But Damon gives her hope saying that as long as they have the ascendant they can try anytime. But then Kai finds them and uses magic to break the ascendant. Damon is eager to kill him, but Kai still has Liv's magic and incapacitates him. He goes towards Elena who is trying to fix the ascendant but he starts a spell to burn both of them. He uses invisibility to protect himself from Damon but he manages to locate him and sends Kai across the border to Mystic Falls. The fire stops but the ascendant is destroyed. Damon comforts Elena and asks if she is okay as Kai tells them he is ready to create havoc in Mystic Falls without any vampire to stop him.

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Later, Alaric confronts Damon in the woods. He doesn't want to hear Damon's excuses that Kai getting out isn't their fault and punches him. Elena arrives and tries to comfort a sad Damon. He tells her he left Bonnie a note to meet them at the porch and knows she has probably reached there right now. He confesses how she sacrificed so much for all of them and they were supposed to be there for her but now is left all alone in the prison world.

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In *Christmas Through Your Eyes*, Elena and Damon are still looking for a way to bring back Bonnie. They are looking in Alaric's books for something that resembles an ascendant. When Damon catches her staring at him, he asks her if she is watching him sleep. She teases him that she is watching him drool all over Alaric's textbook. Damon continues to search while Elena keeps staring him. When Damon notices it, she thanks him for helping Bonnie. Alaric then calls them to inform that Jo has gone missing. They all gather at Jo's apartment and Elena reports about the stabbing victims brought into the hospital last night and now one of them is missing. She also says that no one has seen Jo. Damon says they should find Kai and kill him. He thinks that since he hid the knife in a painting at Jo's apartment, Kai will come looking for it and he will kill him. But when he sees the back of the painting the knife is not there.

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Later, Damon is searching for the twins at Whitmore and finds Luke. Rather than threatening him, Damon points out how dangerous Kai is and if he merges with Jo then how powerful he will become. Luke seems convinced and spills Kai and Jo's location. Damon and Alaric go to find Kai and Damon tries to apologize to Alaric for compelling him but Alaric doesn't forgive him. When they reach the tomb where Kai is holding Jo captive, they try to lure him out. Damon rushes towards him but Kai pushes him over the magic border. Damon starts to burn and steps back across, then Ric sneaks up on Kai on the other side and holds a gun to his head. He is ready to fire, but Jo comes out and tells him not to, because Luke and Liv will have to do the merge if Kai dies. Jo says she can beat Kai with some time to get stronger. Damon tries to convince Alaric otherwise but Alaric listens to Jo and spares Kai's life.

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Sometime later, Kai is chained up across the border but Damon still tries to hurt him by throwing rocks. Alaric finds Damon and tries to reason with him. Damon is angry they won't let him kill Kai and Alaric points out how selfish Damon is being. Damon is talking to Elena through phone but the reception is horrible as unknown to him, Kai is sucking all the Travelers' magic which was used in the anti-magic spell in Mystic Falls. As he takes away all the magic, Mystic Falls is no longer magic-free which means they all can go home again.

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Damon tells this to Elena over phone who says that she doesn't know what they were or are supposed to be but after a horrible day she wants to see him and has something to tell him. Damon asks her to come over, he will cook her dinner and they can talk about their crappy days. While he is preparing for their dinner, he hears a familiar noise of his car and finds it hard to believe. He goes out and sees Stefan has repaired his car. He is rejoiced and hugs Stefan. When Elena reaches the Salvatore house, she sees a Mistletoe hanging on the door and laughs at Damon's clever antics. She knocks and Damon opens the door but he sees no one there. He closes the door and Elena is shocked when Kai appears behind her saying that he put a cloaking spell on them and then knocks her out.

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In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Damon wakes up in Liz's room, who has been hospitalized after learning of her disease. He tells Liz that Elena texted him that something came up so she had to cancel their dinner date and that he is letting Jo practice magic in his house as he feels guilty for compelling Alaric. Caroline enters the room to check up on Liz. She tries to convince Liz to drink vampire blood and asks for Damon's support. However, Damon tells Caroline that he has never heard that vampire blood can cure cancer. He then leaves to check on Alaric and Jo.

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When Damon reaches the Salvatore Boarding House, he gets a call from Elena. She quickly says that Kai has her at Mystic Falls High School and cuts the call. Damon then reaches Mystic Falls High School with Liv and waits for her to perform a cloaking spell on him so that he can free Elena from Kai. But Luke appears and makes Liz disappears as they have something important to do. Damon then calls Alaric for a back up. Jo agrees to help them as cloaking is something which she has performed as a child as well. Jo arrives at the school and cloaks Damon and herself. When they are sure that Kai can't see them, they go to find Elena.

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Damon finds Elena in one of the class rooms and frees her. Jo is able to make Elena invisible as well but she isn't strong enough to hold the spell for long. While in the hallway, Jo is ready to fall over and Kai finds the trio after her cloaking spell wears off. Damon tells her to run as he faces Kai, not prepared for how powerful he is. Kai cloaks Elena then stops Damon in his tracks. Damon is able to throw a broom handle into Kai, but it's only an illusion of him and it is actually Elena. Kai brings Damon to his knees then he takes off after Jo. However, Alaric and Jeremy arrive in time and manage to knock down Kai.

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Later, Damon removes the spear from Elena, but she is still weak and gasping. She thinks there is a splinter still insider her. As Damon tries to find it, she gasps for breath and tells him if there is anything he wants to say, now is the time. Damon starts panicking but then she starts laughing, revealing that she was tricking him. They both hold hands as they smile at each other. Alaric and Jo arrive and he asks Elena if she is okay. Elena looks at Damon and says, "I have never felt more alive".

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Later, they all are at Alaric's apartment, making arrangements to keep Kai unconscious. Elena asks Damon on a dinner but Damon tries to tease her saying that every time they try to go on a date, something bad happens like him being sent to a prison world or Elena's feelings getting compelled. Elena tells him to stop sulking and let her take him to dinner tomorrow. Damon replies that they are going to find out about it tomorrow and both share a flirtatious smile. Jo then offers to clean Elena's wounds and Elena leaves with her. Alaric arrives and tries to convince Damon that Jo will be manage to defeat Kai and win the merge. Damon still remains skeptical but toasts with Alaric to their women making crazy decisions and them loving them more.
In *Prayer For the Dying*, Damon is with Elena in Alaric's room and notices she has a new daylight ring due to Kai melting the other one. Elena tells him it's his job to keep a watch over Kai and not smother him with a pillow. They joke a little bit before she walks out the door and is called to down to find out that Caroline fed Colin vampire blood and and it sped up the cancer and killed him instead. Jo and Damon then talk and since it's a magical problem with Liz, he hints that he has solution. He and Elena then talk and says that everyone cares about Liz and they'll fix what's going to eventually happen to her. Colin confronts Caroline and tells her he wants to die, and then Damon extracts Colin's heart out. He tells her that the blood transfusion didn't work and she didn't just kill him, but also her mother. He catches Tyler pulling out the wires and oximeter from Kai, but Damon grabs his throat and hears what Tyler has to say and thinks Kai can siphon the magic out of Liz.
Damon calls Liv using Tyler's phone and tells her that he wants to talk to Joshua. He asks him if the Mercury-Venus conjunction could help with the Merge and tells him to get the twins to merge since Kai is going to be on the loose and hell-bent on merging with Jo instead. Kai wakes up and tries to use magic on Damon but can't since it all drained away. Damon tells Kai that he can get more magic for him and where to get it, but Kai has a fee he wants. He tells Kai to siphon the magic out of Liz and Jo walks in asking what he's doing there. They talk and he tells her that Kai wants to merge that night and she says she can't since she's not ready. Before Damon can say anything else, Kai breaks his neck. After waking up, Damon walks in and sees Elena trying to compress Liz when she doesn't respond and she tells him to find a doctor. He comes in with one and the doctor shocks Liz. Unfortunately the doctor cannot get Liz to wake up. A few minutes later she does wake up and he and Elena then kiss after she wants to get out of the room for a few minutes. Damon arrives at the park where Luke and Kai merged, and notices Jo cradling Luke's head in her arms. He offers to give Luke some blood, but she says it wouldn't work and Luke takes a breath and opens his eyes, but unfortunately dies. Kai is standing near them grinning and Damon moves towards him, but Kai disappears.
In *The Day I Tried To Live*, in the kitchen, Elena lets Damon know she's OK with them having kissed by kissing him again. They're interrupted by Kai. He needs their help finding Jo. He explains that after the merge, in which he killed Luke and took his powers, he seems to have absorbed some of Luke's humanity. And he feels bad, which is really harshing his sociopath buzz. He tried writing a letter to Jo and found himself crying over Jo. "I really feel strongly that Jo needs to know how sorry I am for destroying our family," Kai says. Elena thinks of something he can do for them in return. Kai says he can't repair the ascendant. Damon plays on Kai's newfound emotions about it being Bonnie's birthday and convinces him to send a message about where to find magic. Damon suggests they tell Bonnie to go to Nova Scotia and find Qetsiyah's magic-soaked blood on Silas's tombstone. Kai prepares Elena, Damon and Jeremy to pay a ghostly visit to Bonnie. He recites a spell and suddenly they're in 1994 Purgatory. But she can't hear them and they can't touch anything. They see Bonnie watching footage of her with Damon and then cracking the oldest bourbon in the house. Damon tells them about a pact they made if they couldn't take Purgatory anymore: drain the bourbon then kill themselves.
Suddenly they're all back in the real world. Kai's nose is bleeding from the magic drain. Damon scribbled notes about Nova Scotia in a book, they just need to get her to see it. Jeremy volunteers to go alone, even though it could mean he gets stuck there. Damon heads for the same bottle of bourbon Bonnie is drinking, determined to drink it with her. Elena wonders if she'd be with Damon if she were still human. He says she wouldn't. Elena doesn't love the answer and tries to leave the room, but she's blocked by a spell. Liv goes looking for Kai. Damon hears Liv below them and kicks a hole in the fire place, then drops the special bottle of bourbon down. The booze hits the flame below and knocks Liv off her feet and frees them. Damon feeds Kai his blood to heal him, Elena is able to wake up Bonnie. Later, Elena tries to give Jeremy permission to move on. She encourages him to go to art school like he wants. Elena finds Damon and gives him a speech about being ready to move on from her human past, and acknowledge that no matter what happens, she keeps finding her way back to him. He kisses her and they fall into bed.
In *Stay*, Elena and Damon sit down with Jeremy's principal to try to convince him to let him graduate early to go to art school. The principal isn't buying it, so they try it Damon's way. They already compelled him into art school, so they compel the principal to let him go. At the Grill, Damon and Elena bring Jeremy the good news that he "graduated," although Elena 'fesses up to the compulsion. Damon even got him a going away joint. Damon finds Liz in her office with her open case files. Damon helps her close a few by confessing to most of them. She worries that Damon is behind Elena's parents' death, too, but he promises he's not. She plays him an urgent message Miranda Gilbert for her two hours before her death. Liz asks Damon why he and Stefan were in town the night of the crash. He came to lay flowers on his mother's grave. Liz doesn't entirely believe him, but he changes the subject to why the Gilberts were on Wickery Bridge when it was out of the way, pointing out there were no skid marks and the trunk was full of luggage. They were going somewhere.
Liz calls Elena and Jeremy, but Elena is too stoned to answer. When Damon calls, he tells her to sober up and get to Liz's. Damon sees Liz get light on her feet. Later, Elena relays the news to Damon, who tells Liz. Jeremy remembers his mom caught him smoking pot in his room that night and put on a big show of getting mad and calling the sheriff. The luggage was from a planned surprise trip to the lake house that was ruined by a storm. Liz remembers the storm also put a power line across the shorter route home, which is why they were on Wickery. The bridge had a drainage issue before it was renovated and was probably slick, thus no skid marks. Liz sadly realizes there's no mystery. She asks Damon to call Caroline and tell her she can surprise her tomorrow. Liz leaves her badge on her desk and walks out. At the Salvatore house, Elena gets the update from Damon but urges Jeremy to go on with his plans to leave town. Alaric offers to take him to the airport.
Damon gets Liz settled into her own bed. He can tell she's disappointed there's no bigger reason for the Gilberts' death. Liz allows herself a few moments of self pity and gets upset that she's lived a life as a good person and is still dying. Liz tells Damon to tell Caroline how proud she is of her, but he says she can tell her herself. Damon tucks her in and takes her hand. Damon shares that he wrote his mother's eulogy but then didn't go to the funeral. Liz asks him to write her -- just nothing dirty. Liz asks for a drink. Damon turns around to get it but when he turns back, Liz is unconscious. He takes her to the hospital and she slips into a coma. Stefan shows Caroline how to share dreams and Liz slips away while everyone is at her bedside.
In *Let Her Go*, in the kitchen, Damon is trying and failing to write Liz's eulogy. He thinks it's Liz's way of making him deal with not being there when his mom died. Caroline is just trying to get through the next few days, but Damon tells her those aren't the bad ones, when she's surrounded by friends trying to make her feel better, it's what comes after.In the morning, Caroline makes a to-do list following her mother's death. She wants her mom celebrated and buried by the end of the day. Damon remembers back to after his mother died. Stefan can tell that Damon is struggling with the eulogy. But Stefan has other things on his mind. "I need your advice, and I need you to not be a dick about it because I have no one else to ask," Stefan says. Stefan tells Damon about kissing Caroline. Damon asks Stefan if he's in love, then seeing that Stefan isn't, advises him to bail now before Caroline gets hurt -- just not today. Damon is still laboring over the eulogy.
Elena worries that Caroline isn't handling things well. Elena suggests the eulogy isn't about Damon, or even Liz, but about Caroline and what she needs to hear. Damon remembers the past, arriving after his mother's funeral. Young Stefan is in tears and upset that Damon didn't just stay good-bye. Liz receives a full policeman's funeral. Then it's Damon's turn. "Liz Forbes was my friend. In her last moments she asked me to pass along a message to her daughter....Your mom wanted you to know how proud of you she was, and she should be. You're a beautiful, strong woman and a generous friend. A bright light in a sea of darkness. She said you were extraordinary and you are, and so was she," Damon says, adding that Liz was a hero to everyone including him. Stefan keeps looking at Caroline as Damon talks. Caroline gets up and sings "Go in Peace" for her mother. At the Grill, Stefan compliments Damon on his eulogy. He remembers failing Stefan by not doing their mother's eulogy and he didn't want to fail anyone. Stefan tells Damon he thinks he was wrong, he definitely feels something for Caroline. Damon tells him to stop wasting his time with him. "I think she could use a piece of news like that today," Damon says. Damon comes home, leaving a voice mail for Elena and finds pancake fixings in his kitchen -- and Bonnie, surprising him, leaps into his arms. Bonnie tells him she was in his house in 1903 in the prison world. She still had her camcorder on and plays it for him. Damon sees the woman Bonnie saw. It's his mother.
In *The Downward Spiral*, him and Kai are at The Salvatore Crypt. Damon is breaking open his mothers coffin. Kai talks about Bonnie and how happy he is she's no longer stuck in the 1994 prison world. Damon is annoyed with Kai and continues to break open Lily's coffin. Damon tells Kai that his mother died and that wasn't her in the recording in Bonnie's camcorder in the 1903 prison world . Kai tells Damon its possible if she's a vampire. Damon finally breaks open the coffin to see no one is in there. He realizes now its possible his mother is a vampire. Later at the at the Salvatore boarding house. Damon receives a phone call from Stefan. They talk about Caroline, her humanity being off and her feelings for Stefan. Stefan asks Damon to look in the area for any missing people. Kai is there listening to their conversation he asks Damon why he didn't tell Stefan about Lily. Damon tells him its not the right time. Damon asks Kai for the ascendant so he can send him to the 1903 prison world to confirm if his mother is alive or not. Kai agrees only if Damon take him to go see Bonnie. A while later Bonnie and Damon talk over the phone to talk about Caroline, Elena and Kai. Damon tells her to have fun at the rave. Kai heard the phone call and still wants to see Bonnie. Kai tells Damon about Lily he tells Damon that Lily was in New York on her way back to Mystic Falls. Damon and Kai arrive at the the rave where Kai sees Bonnie. Damon arrives at Bonnie's dorm. She's angry at Damon so she tortures to make him feel what she felt what Kai did to her he leaves. Damon goes back to the boarding house. Damon has a talk with Kai and he wants to know why Lily is stuck in the 1903 prison world. Kai tells him she's there for a reason. Damon is very angry so he grabs Kai's throat and forces him to talk. Damon wants to get Lily back. Kai tells Damon that Lily is a ripper. Kai then tells Damon that she and the heretics were captured and sent to the 1903 prison world. Kai also mentions that Lily has killed thousands of people. Damon doesn't want to hear anymore he demands Kai to shut up.
In *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*, when Stefan arrives home, he quickly asks Damon where they keep all of the weapons. Damon confronts him about turning off his humanity. But Stefan breaks Damon's arm before he can inject him with vervain, then warns him to stay away and leaves. Elena comes home to find Damon working out his rage on the furniture, hitting a chair repeatedly with a bat. He tells her his mother is alive and a ripper. "It makes perfect sense, Stefan was always a mama's boy," Damon says. Elena gets an idea, but Damon thinks you don't fix one ripper problem by unleashing another. Damon goes to Bonnie for her help to work with Kai to get to 1903 which she reluctantly agrees after some convincing. At the Salvatore house, Bonnie, Kai, Damon and Elena prepare to go to the 1903 prison world. Once they transport, they are greeted by the world covered in snow, Bonnie and Kai break off to look for the 1903 ascendant, because it can't travel between worlds, and Elena and Damon go to look for Damon's mother.
Damon and Elena find his childhood home. Elena finds a picture of Stefan but thinks that it is Damon and makes a comment that he was so cute. Damon replies with "that's Stefan" and hands her a photo of Damon. Once Damon is done swearing that his mother is dead to him, she arrives. Lily serves Damon and Elena tea and explains her life. She drained all the blood nearby and now survives on two drops a week. When laughs when Damon tells her that Stefan ripped their father's throat out. When Lily admits she hated her husband, Damon guilt's her for leaving him and Stefan with him. After Damon and Elena explain the need to turn Stefan's humanity back on, she agrees. Then she mentions her "traveling companions". She introduces them to a table full of mummified vampires. Lilly explains the mummified vampires saved her from herself and her ripper tendencies. She says they gave up their blood rations for her and she learned to control her blood lust. Damon thinks she's wackadoodle. When Lily goes to get the last of the blood to revive them, Elena notices the ascendant is on the table. Damon tells Elena that Bonnie isn't looking for the ascendant. As the aurora borealis begins, Bonnie joins Damon and Stefan. When Damon explains to Lily that they're short one witch and her friends can't go, Lily refuses. She insists that the vampires are her family and she won't leave without him, but Damon threatens to leave her, too. As Bonnie recites the spell, Kai arrives and watches Damon, Elena, Lily and Bonnie disappear out of the prison world.
Back at the Salvatore house, Lily admits to Damon that she did visit Stefan the night of her funeral. Stefan only remembers her as an angel. But when she leaned down to whisper in his ear, all she could hear was the pound of his blood, so she fled for their sake. She assures Damon she missed them twice as much as they missed her. When Lily asks again about getting her friends back, he assures her they'll be going back soon. Elena tries to convince Damon to give his mother some time. She points out it's never a waste of time to look for the best in someone. Damon and Elena start taking each other's clothes off making out very heavily. To then be interrupted by Bonnie who looks startled. When Elena leaves, Bonnie thanks Damon for helping her find closure. Damon turns on the water so his mom can't hear, then tells Bonnie the crazy woman upstairs wants to go back to 1903. But he agrees they're never going back. Bonnie gives him something from the 1994 prison world, the cure for vampirism that she got on her road trip to Nova Scotia. He's not sure if he wants it for Elena anymore. "It's up to you," Bonnie says.
In *I Never Could Love Like That*, inside the house, Elena and Damon have a cozy morning with his mother playing house downstairs. When Elena goes to get dressed, Elena nearly stumbles upon the cure but was luckily looking the other way when it was is sight. Damon looks at the cure, and then shuts the drawer. At breakfast, all Lily can talk about it returning to her prison world to get her friends. Lily casually brings up the fact of being human hinting that she heard Bonnie and Damon last night. Elena then gets a text from Jo that someone has been killing people at Whitmore, and apologizes for having to leave. Damon makes an angry gesture to his mother as Elena leaves. On the road to Whitmore, Damon tries to prepare his mom to talk to Stefan and bring his humanity back. She states that she overheard Damon and Bonnie talking about the cure. She knows he's afraid he'll lose Elena if he gives it to her. He tells his mother that she needs to give a performance of a lifetime because she claims that she wasn't coming back to America for Stefan and Damon like he thought.
At Whitmore, Lily worries how she's supposed to connect with Stefan. Damon suggests she tell the story of how she came back to get them, but Damon realizes she wasn't coming to get them. Lily admits she's been struggling to reconnect with how it felt to be their mother. She explains her "new" family helped her find herself again, but she lost any feelings she had for her old family in the process. Damon calls Elena, who then suggests that Lily would just simply try lying to Stefan if they hope to get him back. Damon orders Lily to give it her best shot, but she was assurances that they'll go get her people. She points out he's lying to Elena by not telling her about the cure and he gives her the ascendant as assurance. Stefan and Caroline are interrupted at the bar when Damon and Lily walk in. Damon gives Tyler his keys to his car to take Matt for help. Caroline realizes Lily is there to turn Stefan's humanity on, and then he's supposed to turn on hers. So she stakes Stefan in the back and runs out of the bar. With Stefan, Lily tells her she's a ripper like him. She pours on the motherly warmth, telling Stefan the story he wants to hear about visiting him the day of her funeral. Damon watches as she reacts the sweet sentiments he fed her earlier. She promises never to leave him again. It works. He turns his humanity back on and hugs his mother with tears in his eyes. Stefan takes a few moments to contemplate all the killing he's responsible for then resolves to go find Caroline. Elena tells Damon she was jealous when she heard about Jo's pregnancy because she always wanted a family and knows it's never going to happen not that she's a vampire. Damon asks how she could feel if things could be different, but doesn't elaborate.
In *Because*, Stefan takes Caroline to a B & B for a break, telling her his mom was full of lies. It's part of his plan to convince Caroline his humanity is still off, then torture her until she breaks. He calls for towels, planning to eat whoever brings them. Going over the plan with Damon and Elena beforehand, Damon is delighted to tell Elena that Stefan and Caroline slept together. They plan to drain Caroline and make her weak, then overwhelm her emotions. Elena has a letter from Caroline's mom that arrived after Caroline flipped her switch. Damon arrives with the towels and shoots Caroline with vervain darts, then Stefan to stage the scene. When they wake up, Stefan tells Caroline they got caught. Their room has been vampire-proofed. Damon drops by Bonnie and breaks the news about leading his mom on about returning to the prison world. Bonnie isn't happy to learn Lily might be her problem soon. She also can't believe Damon hasn't told Elena about the cure yet. Elena is reeling from the fact Caroline burned the letter from her mom. Damon asks Elena where she'd be in five years if she was human. In a loft in Tribeca, with Damon owning a bar and Elena working in the surgical residency program. She wants two kids.
From upstairs, Caroline gets annoyed eavesdropping and decides to distract herself by kissing Stefan. Damon interrupts with crime scene reports of all Caroline's kills, asking Caroline what her mom would think of it. Caroline turns on them and asks Damon what it feels like to not be able to give Elena the life she wants. With Damon, he prods Elena into admitting she will never be 100 percent OK with being a vampire, but she's OK with that if it means spending eternity with Damon. They're interrupted when Lily calls to demand Damon return the ascendant. She found the cure and threatens to destroy it if he doesn't.
Damon finds Bonnie in the dorm at Whitmore about to destroy the ascendant. He tells her his mom has the cure, but Bonnie doesn't want to risk her life by letting the heretics out. Bonnie says if he wanted to give Elena the cure, he would have by now. She dares him to take the ascendant, knowing it could mean a life without Elena. He walks away. Damon goes to see his mother. She tosses the cure box in the fire when he says he didn't bring the ascendant, saying she's doing him a favor. Lily tells Damon the last thing she wants is for him to get to spend eternity with Elena. She tells Elena that Damon was never going to give her the cure. Elena realizes what Damon was getting at asking about her thoughts for five years from now. He confesses to Elena that he didn't stop his mother when she threatened to destroy the cure because he's a "selfish idiot" who doesn't want to lose her. Elena suggests they give it to someone else, but Damon tells Elena she's going to take it -- and so will he.
In *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*, Alaric grades papers alone at school at night when he sees a figure streak past the door. Suddenly, someone throws a bag over his head. At the Salvatore house, the bag is removed from Alaric's head and Matt, Damon and Stefan wish him a happy bachelor party in a room filled entirely with hot young girls. Damon tells Alaric his plan to feed on Elena after she becomes human, becoming human himself. Alaric can't believe that Damon hasn't told Stefan yet. Damon texts Elena telling her to meet him on the clock tower. At the top of the clock tower, Elena worries Damon will resent her if he becomes human. They enjoy the perks of being vampires and jump gently down to the ground stories below. Damon asks Elena her favorite parts of being a vampire. He likes the heightened sense and being able to compel people and plant memories. He shows Elena her old house. He tells her he'd give everything up to spend a lifetime with her. He has the cure with him. She admits she wants to take it and he says he's ready. "I love you," she says. "'Til death do us part," he says. Elena drinks it. She gets woozy and starts remembering her erased memories of Damon. She remembers their first date, then kissing him on her porch, then everything else wiped away. She pricks her finger and it doesn't heal.
Stefan calls Damon to warn him not to take the cure because their mom is on the loose. When Damon gets off the phone, Lily appears and snaps his neck, leaving Elena human and alone with her. Stefan finds Damon and tells him Elena is safe. Stefan is upset at Damon for not telling him about the cure, but they pause their argument to find Lily. She inside the Grill, wallowing in self pity. She doesn't see any point in getting better if she's alone. She grabs a table leg and prepares to stake herself but Stefan pleads with her to stick around for her sons. Lily charges Stefan to attack, but Damon injects her with vervain. Damon finds Elena at home. She remembers every moment in their relationship, including when she asked him to take the cure with her on the island and he walked away. She tells him he needs to think things through. Lily wakes up in the cell in the basement with Enzo waiting outside. She begs to be let out and Stefan arrives. Lily shuns him. Stefan is prepared to wait centuries until she sees him as her son again. She promises him she's going to get her people back, no matter what it takes, and then he'll know devastation.
In *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*, Stefan drives Damon to a house in the suburbs, one of the ones he lived in during one of his many attempts to turn human. He doesn't think Damon has thought things through, like neighbors and a mortgage. Stefan is trying to give Damon a taste of what it'd be like to be human, complete with nuked TV dinner and stacks of paperwork. Damon will also have to figure out a way to make money. He won't be able to get any from Stefan because if Stefan knows where Damon is, anyone could torture him for information on Damon. Stefan explains that sooner or later word will get out that he's human and all the people who've wronged him will come after him. But Damon has a plan. They'll live above a bar that Damon owns in the Northwest. Stefan calls Elena to check in. She's on her fourth champagne. Stefan explains that, despite Elena's fears, Damon has thought through his life with her. Elena urges Stefan to push Damon and make him see that he wouldn't be happy. Stefan pulls out the big guns, asking Damon what happens if he and Elena break up. He reminds Damon that four years ago, he and Elena were soul mates, too.
Stefan gives Damon a glimpse of their future two years in, when Elena comes home late from work with no time for Damon. Then seven years in, when Damon comes drunk from the bar and blames her for not being able to do the things he did as a vampire, saying that becoming human was a mistake. Damon snaps out of the vision and accuses Stefan of trying to change his mind because Stefan doesn't want to lose Damon and Elena. Finally, Stefan points out that Elena is human and could die at any time. He gives Damon a look at his booze-filled, sad and lonely life without Elena. Stefan confesses that this look at his human life was Elena's idea. When Damon asks what he should do, Stefan says Damon has to want to be human for himself. Damon finds Elena her. After Stefan left suburbia, Damon saw an older couple getting out of their car, in the chapel and explains to her that he will take the cure and become human for still flirting and in love and he made up his mind. They finish their literal roll in the hay in the barn and realize how late they are to the ceremony. The ceremony begins. Jo's dad walks her down the aisle. Jo and Alaric wrote their own vows. Damon and Elena picture themselves as Alaric recites his vows to Jo, talking about the many ways they've dodged fate in their lives. Jo begins hers but suddenly starts gasping. Stab wounds appear in her abdomen, then Kai appears. He cripples everyone in the barn with his magic then blows out the window, sending Elena crashing to the floor.
In *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*, Damon attempts to feed a wounded Elena his blood. Damon worries that Elena won't take his blood and that she won't wake up. Stefan and Caroline awaken, brush the fallen rubble off of themselves before rushing over to find a broken hearted Damon hovering over a lifeless Elena. They suggest that Damon rush Elena to the hospital, and like that, Damon picks up Elena in his arms and using his vamp speed, races over to the hospital. Damon calls Bonnie to tell her Jo is dead and Elena won't wake up. Bonnie tells him that for some reason, Kai drained hers and Matt's blood but left them both alive. They both seem confused. Damon gets a text : "Ty werewolf, Kai vampire". Then Kai shows up with the werewolf bite in his neck. Damon offers to go get the cure in New Orleans (from Klaus) if Kai tells him what he did. Damon finds Bonnie bleeding internally with a collapsed lung. Kai tries to encourage Damon to walk away, to leave Bonnie to die and go live the life he always dreamt of with Elena. Damon apologizes to Bonnie, then kisses her on the forehead, Bonnie attempts to move her head out of the way, then walks away.
Kai is outraged Damon gave up on her so easily. But Kai doesn't stay upset long as Damon sneaks up behind him and suddenly takes off his head with one clean swipe of his arm. Damon then rushes to feed his blood to Bonnie whilst stroking her head, comforting her. The next day, everyone regroups at the Salvatore house. Elena is asleep in a coffin. They take turns saying good-bye. Caroline and Bonnie go first. Jeremy arrives and rushes over to his sleeping sister and grabs her hand. Damon and Stefan close Elena's coffin in the crypt. *"If word gets out that her body has the cure in it, every vampire will come after her. Bonnie is going to spell it shut."* It's Damon's turn to say good-bye. Elena finds Damon lying in the road where they first met. She gets up and start to question Damon and claims that she knows something bad has happened. Elena asks Damon again how bad it is. He tells her what Kai did. She tells him to live his life and enjoy himself. They slow dance in the middle of the road. Stefan sits down with Caroline, and tells her he made a list about all the ways loving her has changed his life. He understands if he has to wait for her, and says he will. "When you're ready for me, I will be ready for you," he says. Damon and Elena finish their dance and Damon prepares to spend the next 60 years of his life without her in it. He sadly kisses her. An unknown amount of time passes. As it appears, Mystic Falls is now a war zone; Matt still looks like he did as he patrols the abandoned streets in his sheriff car and Damon stands on the clock tower, watching over a, seemingly, destroyed Mystic Falls.

In *Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*, Damon, Alaric and Bonnie have been traveling in Europe trying to get over their grief. He saves Bonnie from getting hit by a car even if if she would've died, Elena would be there. Damon arrives back in Mystic Falls and sees that the Heretics have moved into his house. He goes to Bonnie and they talk about how he almost got her hit and that she is his best friend. She tells him that she wants to fight the Heretics and take their town back. After Bonnie is attacked by Malcolm, Damon comes up from behind him and extracts his heart.
In the flash forward of three years, Stefan feeds a desiccated Damon in Brooklyn, New York and tells him to wake up. He tells him he didn't want to be awoken until Elena was. Stefan tells him he needs his help, but arrows and bullets start flying towards them and Damon says she's back and she won't stop until Stefan is dead.
In *Never Let Me Go*, Damon and Stefan have decided to crash at the Lockwood Mansion. Stefan realizes Damon killed Malcolm and reveals that Lily took Caroline in retaliation of Malcolm's death. Stefan tells him that he's going to over to the house and fix what he's done. Damon is at the house and he tells Lily that he was the one who killed Malcolm, not mentioning that Bonnie was involved. He tries to bargain with her to swap him for Caroline and when he tries to walk in, he wonders why he can't walk in. Lily reveals some papers that the deed was changed and she tells him she has to go bury her son. Damon sees Stefan go over blueprints and tells him that they no longer own the house. He calls Bonnie and she reveals to him that Alaric wants to raise Jo from the dead. He and Stefan talk while waiting for Bonnie's text that her spell worked and when they receive word, Damon takes the front door. Enzo answers the door and they bicker a little bit. Enzo reveals that Lily and the Heretics went to the Salvatore crypt where Elena is and Damon then leaves quickly.
Damon arrives at the cemetery and the group appears behind him. Lily tells him that Malcolm was a vital part of the group and how he helped all of them. She reminds him of the time when he broke Lily's grandmother's vase and he wouldn't admit it. Damon tells her that Elena isn't a toy soldier and she tells him Malcolm wasn't a vase. After hearing what they say about Malcolm, Damon then asks what she wants. Damon tells Stefan that Lily wants him out of town for good and away as far as he can, and that Lily has Elena. Damon then says that Lily wants him and Stefan to be mad at each other and they make a plan. Damon says he's going to find the last member of the Heretics and that they're going to negotiate a trade.
In *Age of Innocence*, Damon, Alaric and Bonnie head to Myrtle Beach to find Oscar and negotiate a swap with Lily. At the Myrtle Beach hotel, they make a plan on how to capture Oscar and they go to his room. Oscar opens the door and recognizes Damon, which leaves him a little confused. It is then revealed that Oscar knows Damon is Lily's son and that he met him at a bar near Gettysburg in July of 1863. Oscar then tells him that Lily just wanted to know that Damon and Stefan were okay and that she did love them. Damon asks Oscar if he can siphon the visions Bonnie saw and they don't tell Lily they saw him. After siphoning, Oscar asks where the phoenix stone is and uses magic on them. Damon catches up to Oscar and tells him he does remember him. He then fights with him, while Bonnie uses a pain infliction spell on him and Alaric shoots Oscar with three vervain darts. He calls Lily and tells her he knows about 1863 and that he has Oscar detoxing from vervain. He tells her to give him Elena and she'll Oscar back.
In *I Carry Your Heart With Me*, The episode starts with a flash forward to three years from when Damon's standing in the Alaric's doorway. Ric says "step behind daddy," to the girls, proving that they're his children. Damon threatens Ric that if Ric doesn't oblige to what he wants to be done, he'll kill someone. And in present Damon getting a phone call from Lily, who asks to see Oscar. Once Damon tells her that he's about to wake Oscar up from a "vervain nap" Lily tells him that once he gets Elena's body back from her, she'll still be asleep and in a box. Damon hangs up the phone and opens the curtain to the room in which he's keeping Oscar's body, and finds that he isn't there. He opens the closet door and finds Oscar's dead body. Stefan and Damon start arguing about how Damon was using Oscar to get back and that the way Stefan sees it, that Elena was in more trouble than ever because of Damon. Damon accuses of Stefan of being on Lily's side, to which Stefan responds that because Damon can't be with Elena, he makes all of his bad decisions about her. The scene ends with Damon telling Stefan that he needs to get rid of Oscar's body and Stefan tells him that he has to get rid of it. Nora and Mary Louise go to the university in which Stefan and Damon are to ask for Oscar back, while they're moving his body. Mary Louise asks for Oscar back and Damon tells her that he just left. Damon tells Nora that he's been binging hence the reason he smells like blood. She walks around breaking things until Damon changes his story, saying that Oscar knocked him out and took off and that he lost his bargaining chip.
In *Live Through This*, Damon and Stefan corner her and ask to go find Julian with Valerie. They drive down to Myrtle Beach to get Julian,So while Damon tells Valerie every little word that his little brother wrote (and Damon memorized) in his diary about her breaking Stefan's heart, she tells them about how awful Julian is. She says he once massacred a whole coastline, but Damon says that's just run-of-the-mill vampirism. We know the real reason, and we know it's understandable why she wants to set the guy on fire. So she's going to do exactly that once they finally find his body — yes, as well all suspected and Damon and Stefan are just learning: Julian is dead. Valerie tells the Salvatore brothers that's the reason Lily needs the phoenix stone. and they learn It's not a stone to bring people back to life; it's a stone that captures vampire souls.And Damon calls Bonnie so she can tell Alaric about whoever's hanging out in Jo is not Jo. Valerie is trying to kill Julian, but it doesn't take. And before she can say "incendia" (again), Mary Louise, Nora, Beau, and Lily arrive. Valerie spits out that Lily was the one who gave Kai the idea for the Elena "Sleeping Beauty spell.Damon is so outraged to hear about Lily's part in Elena's coffin-ing that he wants to kill her. But once he finds out that Enzo has the phoenix stone, which of course he hands over to Lily without question, Damon hopes that Lily brings Julian back. He wants his mother to see the man she's missed for 100 years and to be able to hold him — so that when Damon rips off Julian's head in front of her, he'll be breaking her heart, as well. "I want to destroy her," he says.
In *Best Served Cold*, three years from present Damon arrives at Rick's home to talk about Caroline, who is now a production manager at a news channel and engaged to Alaric, appears on television bloodied announcing there is a message for Stefan Salvatore. Heretics are ready for a peace party inviting the whole town, which means Stefan and Damon. Damon doesn't want to go. He wants Lily to enjoy her life with Julian — for exactly six months, when maximum happiness has set in, so then he can kill Julian and really hurt his mother. Stefan wants to kill her boyfriend tonight. Damon decides to attend the party simply to stop his brother from killing Julian so that he can kill him himself six months later. Damon prods Stefan repeatedly throughout the party to explain why he needs Julian dead so quickly, but he never gives the full answer… He keeps saying it's not his secret to tell. Matt takes out Damon with his own bourbon: He vervains it and then vervains him even more with a syringe to the neck. With Damon out of the way, Stefan goes to the kitchen to stab Julian and throw him in the fire. But when Lily comes in and saves him, Stefan loses his nerve. Damon comes to just in time to get the fallout from the attempted murder on Julian.
Back at the Lockwood mansion, Stefan finally tells Damon why he's so eager for Julian to die post-haste: He killed his unborn son. Like any good brother would, Damon agrees to help Stefan kill Julian now, and abandon the six-months-from-now plan.
In *Mommie Dearest*, Stefan invites Lily over so he can calmly remind her that she's shacking up with a psychopath. He tells his mother than he got Valerie pregnant in 1863, and when Julian found out, he got rid of the baby. Lily isn't buying it. Valerie is a liar. Stefan concedes, pours his mama a drink, and watches as she falls to the floor from a nice glass of concentrated vervain.
Lily wakes up tied up to a chair. Her two sons take turns comparing Julian to their father a man who served a 12-year-old his pet turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. We learn that Giuseppe Salvatore forced Damon to eat poor Sammy. Bring on the nightmares. Over at the Lockwood Mansion, Damon goes back to that awful Thanksgiving night. As if eating your own pet turkey wasn't bad enough, Giuseppe accused Damon of stealing money. It's clear that Damon didn't take it, but he confessed in order to protect Stefan. His punishment? A cigar to the forearm. Current-day Lily looks wounded and defiant at the same time. She claims that she knew Giuseppe was a monster. And then, her neck begins bleeding. Through choking breaths she reminds her boys that she bound herself to Julian. If he dies, she dies.
Damon shoves the miniature sword he snatched from Enzo into Julian's body. He scoffs at the Hamlet Community Theater of it all — his mother linking her life to a boyfriend who engages in a duel with the one guy who pines after her. Enzo didn't know Lily was linked to Julian. He punches Damon out of anger before Julian cracks Enzo's neck. Julian stabs Damon; Stefan arrives and cracks Julian's neck. Everyone lives because the "special sword" doesn't permanently kill vampires. Julian runs to Lily, tattling on Damon for trying to kill him, ergo, trying to kill her. Julian picks up the sword and leaves with his bloody girl. Notice that Julian picked up the sword.it just needs one thing to possess the power against immortal foes — the phoenix stone. Without it, the sword is just a blade.
In *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*, Lily, Damon and Stefan carry out a risky plan to take down Julian which requires Lily and Julian unlinked with the help of heretics. Valerie discloses about Julian to the rest heretics who are now on her side completely except Mary Louise. Damon and Stefan finally corner Julian, but are interrupted by the heretics. Julian forces Lily to choose between killing Valerie, or Damon. Not realizing they are no longer linked, Lily decides to kill herself in order to protect her actual children. The heretics and Stefan bid heartfelt goodbyes to Lily while Damon in his unforgiving self, gives a crisp one "You made your bed. Have a nice nap!"
Rewinding back to the three-year flash forward at the beginning of the episode, Damon is held captive by some woman whom he hallucinates as Lily; he asks for forgiveness as he bid her goodbye in the harshest possible way. At the end of the episode, the unknown woman says that Lily's been dead for years and that Damon will die soon as he has been poisoned with werewolf toxin. She kicks him on his face and the screen goes blank.
In *Cold as Ice*, Damon, Stefan, Nora and Valerie put Lily to rest. Later, as Christmas rings in the air, Stefan and Damon's search for Julian leads them to a town outside Mystic Falls, they end their search at a bar filled with dead Santa's. After a while, Julian appears and there is a tiff between the brothers and him which later aggravates back home. Later at Salvatore boarding house Julian arrives and Damon burning Lily's clothes and asks for Mary Louise which Damon didn't know Stefan had kidnapped and Stefan arrives. The Salvatore brothers-Julian fight finally leads to Damon being staked by the Phoenix stone-dagger and getting trapped inside his hell.
Three years from now in Chicago, Stefan is picking up some stuff from Valerie's place. He burned his Porsche so he has to borrow her car to travel to Dallas to rescue Damon. Nora pushes the dagger inside him, after siphoning out Bonnie's magic. It is shown that Damon is reliving his Civil War days while being trapped in the Phoenix stone.
In *Hell Is Other People*, Damon's soul is trapped inside the phoenix stone, where he's stuck reliving his own personal hell in the middle of the Civil War, with his dead mother wandering around creepily. He wakes up to a groundhog day amidst war and receives a sad letter from Stefan asking him to return. According to higher orders, in order to take leave Damon has to arrest deserters and union sympathizers. So he and his pal Henry, round up deserters — and they end up shooting all of them. Its all weird until Lily shows up and he starts to realize that nothing is real. In the next moment, Bonnie is shown to bring back Damon who wakes up only to realize that his brother is also stuck in the stone and his body has disappeared. Bonnie does a locator spell figuring out that Stefan's body is with Julian. Damon rushes to Julian who's miffed with Damon and thus scorches Stefan's body – Lily shows up again. Damon quickly realizes he's still stuck in hell. He keeps shuttling between the war day and real life on a loop unable to save the deserters.
Eventually, Damon is exhausted and under the influence of Stefan, he realizes that he needed his mother the most. Finally, as he returns back to the very first vision of hell he had, he sees Lily. Overwhelmed by emotions, Damon starts sobbing and apologizes to her saying that he missed his mother when he needed her the most and how angry he has been at himself for not bidding her goodbye the way she deserved in the last two chances. He begs her to give him one last chance to serve her and receive her love but death intervenes. Lily dies in his arms and Damon is left devastated.
This time he actually comes back to real life, broken and perplexed, unable to believe that he lost his mother again and begs Bonnie to send him back. As Stefan tries comforting and explaining to him that all of it was hell faux, he loses it completely and goes on an attacking spree over Stefan, Caroline, Matt & Bonnie, killing them all. As the show ends, Damon is mentally & emotionally drained as he staggers to stand still, looking around and realizing that this time... this was real.
In *Things We Lost in the Fire*, Damon is standing among the bodies of his friends and family. Luckily it doesn't take him too long to realize this might be real, so he gives blood to the mortals in the room. And just as he's apologizing to Bonnie, Caroline stakes him. When he wakes, he's chained up in the Lockwood mansion. Damon starts yelling and wakes up his brother from a strange dream. Damon expects to get the regular repent for what you've done" speech from his little bro, but Stefan says because of what Damon had to endure in the Hell Stone, he gets a free pass. And then he shares this little tidbit from his own experiences: "Post-hell is much worse. Stefan explains that even once you're free from the phoenix stone, its effects bleed into the real world. Stefan is haunted by Damon, and Damon is haunted by Henry. And if the phoenix stone effects weren't enough, Julian has converted Mystic Falls into a haven for the extras of Sons of Anarchy. Damon is not going to like this. When Stefan frees him, they head to a bar, where Julian "welcomes" them. He says that this was Lily's home, now it's his, he's not going anywhere. Julian has been through this whole phoenix stone rebirth before. maybe he has some tips? These two clearly aren't handling it well on their own.
Damon wanders out of the bar when he sees Henry, but Henry just follows him out. Damon doesn't want to hear what he has to say, though, so he just rips out his heart … and then sees that it's a total stranger. Stefan walks by and gives his characteristic "you should be better" look to his brother. Stefan finally opens up to Damon, explaining to his older brother that he saw him everywhere when he woke up from the phoenix stone. He couldn't think of anything except Damon. He was so consumed with it, he didn't even notice Julian taking over the town. He thought the only way to rid himself of Ghost Damon was to burn up the body of Real Damon. So he doused him in gasoline and was about to light him up when Caroline saved them both. It's a touching story … except he's been telling it to no one a fact he realizes when Julian busts his window with a baseball bat and tells him as much.
Damon calls Tyler, who's back in town for the twins' baby shower, and asks him to see Elena. Tyler says no for a hot second, but then drives him to a nearby shipping yard. Damon pulls Elena's coffin out of the container and opens it, only to find Henry. Tyler tries to shoot Damon, but Damon puts him to sleep instead. Nothing good is going to come of this.
Damon dousing "Henry's" body with gasoline and setting it on fire. Ghost Henry appears behind him, and in that moment, Damon sees he's burning up Elena's body, but there's nothing he can do to stop it.
The next we see him, he's sitting back at the Lockwood Mansion staring into the fireplace. Stefan comes in and asks him where he's been. Damon explains that he's been dealing with his demons: "My true self is dark." Stefan explains that his demon is Damon, but that he won't let him go: "You're also my brother. I'm not going to give up on you. Not now, not ever. "Damon looks as if he's going to tell Stefan what he did, but instead he just tells him they need to refill their bourbon.
In *Postcards from the Edge*, old school Damon waiting for a victim flat on his back in the middle of a wooded highway. When a guy named Cooper avoids hitting him, gets out to check on the person in the middle of the road, and asks him what he's doing there, Damon says, "I don't know. I thought it would make me feel better." Cooper, give Damon a hug. He just burned up his girlfriend. Cooper can kind of relate: He ran over his girlfriend's cat. Instead of eating him, Damon asks Cooper for a ride. He spills his guts to him, saying how he thinks the lesson of the phoenix stone was that he's always going to be damaged. Damon then says he doesn't think he can feel for anyone ever again, so he decides to go ahead and eat his ride anyway. Sorry, Cooper, maybe you should have hugged him.
Next Damon Salvatore spiraling-out-of-control tour: picking on the Big Bad. Julian is shooting apples off the heads of his friends, while blindfolded, at the local bar. Damon makes his entrance into the bar by chopping some guys head clean off. Julian's mad… until he realizes that Damon wants to make Julian mad. He puts two and two together, Damon must have lost, or killed, his. Damon finally admits what he did: "I burned her alive." Julian takes a little bit of credit for this and says he wants to play a game with Damon. Damon dealing with Burning Elena by becoming a member of Julian's fight club. There's only one rule. The rule is losers die. Julian says this raw, physical brutality is the best way for Damon to get over his mental anguish. When Valerie is telling Stefan that his brother has a death wish. She observed it at the bar while she was there telling Julian about the notecard she received from the huntress. And she's right: Damon makes quick work of his first challenger, so Julian has a better opponent for him: Sam, who has never lost a fight. This fight is tougher for him, and Damon is only able to win because a woman from the crowd throws him a stake to use to kill Sam.
That just pisses Julian off, so he says he's going next. And that's when Stefan comes in to save the day. Valerie tells Stefan about Damon and he takes off. When Valerie returns to the room to tell Caroline, the pregnant lady gets angry. She says that Valerie just wanted Stefan to kill Julian to defend her and prove he still cares about his first love. She sends Valerie to the fight club to help Stefan.
And he needs it. Stefan is trying to talk Damon out of fighting Julian, but no one wants to listen. Julian tells his goons to drag Stefan out of the room, and Damon gets on with the fight.
Julian has 300+ years on Damon, as Julian makes fun of Damon and attempts to rip out his heart, Stefan and Valerie use magic cloaking and headaches to try to get Damon to safety. Only problem is Damon doesn't want to leave. He wants to lay there and die. But he doesn't want his brother to die, Stefan says if Julian killed Damon, Stefan would have to kill Julian, and then Julian's friends would kill Stefan so Damon agrees to go.
Once outside the fight den, Damon tries to wander off. Stefan tells him not to turn off his humanity, and what his brother says surprises him: Damon doesn't want to turn off the switch, he wants to feel the pain. And then he tells him why: "I killed Elena." When Stefan realizes what Damon says, he gives his brother the pain he wants; he punches him over and over and walks away.
Damon is back home, well, the Lockwood home, when the mystery woman who threw him the stake during his fight with Sam walks in. She's brought tequila with her and clearly has one thing in mind. When she kisses him, he pulls back and it's not just for a second. You can almost see him truly contemplating it.
In *This Woman's Work*, Enzo calls Damon and threatens that he'll tell Bonnie what Damon did to Elena, if they don't bring him Rayna's sword. Damon doesn't want his friend Bonnie who found out about his fling from last week, "Krystal with a K," and was super cool about it to find out about his other, bigger mistake. They go to Bonnie's dorm room, where she pulls out the sword, but she doesn't want to hand it over before Damon tells her what Enzo has on him. "Damon, it's me I'm your best friend," she says. Damon asks her to leave it alone, but she gives him the sword anyway. They take it to Alaric's old classroom, where they find Enzo tied to a chair. Next thing they know, Rayna is there, demanding her sword. When they say no, she shoots Bonnie in the stomach with an arrow. This woman is not very patient. So Damon throws the sword out the window for her to go retrieve.
Damon and Bonnie arrive at the hospital: He takes on Rayna while Bonnie goes to help Valerie with the baby magic-stealers. While Damon is telling Rayna how much she looks like Elena ("You look a lot like my girlfriend and her three doppelgängers") Damon is barely putting up a fight with Rayna; he's ready to go back to hell, but just as she's about to stab him, Stefan steps in front of the blade. It doesn't go all the way in, but he's been marked and as his moments with Caroline flash before his eyes he realizes he has to get out of town. "I'll see you brother," he says before fleeing. After his brother takes yet another fall for him, Damon is feeling particularly angry, so he goes to take it out on Enzo, who's still tied up in Ric's old classroom (Whitmore). He's ready to end him when Enzo shouts out what we all knew/suspected: Elena is alive. It turns out that Tyler has been working with a group Enzo is mixed up in. The coffin Damon burned up was empty; the real Elena coffin is safe in New York. Damon calls his brother to give him the good news, but even that can't cheer up Stefan.
In *Moonlight on the Bayou*, Damon has promised Stefan a way to rid him of Rayna so Damon and Bonnie head to the mysterious Armory where they meet Enzo, who has been working for the Armory for several months to help capture Rayna Cruz. He tells Damon that if they can get Stefan to come to the Armory, Rayna will follow and they can capture her. Damon and Bonnie agree to this so Damon contacts Valerie and tells her of their plan. When Damon mentions "Armory", Valerie warns Damon that it is "a black hole of lies". And once they capture Rayna they'd be happy to let her kill Stefan. Damon goes back into the Armory and tells Enzo that he can't get a hold of Stefan and it's time for him and Bonnie to leave. Enzo knows this means Damon knows exactly where Stefan is and Damon tells that he also knows Enzo allowed him to believe Elena was dead so he'd help him kill Rayna. He tells Enzo they are leaving and are going to come up with a plan "B" just as Enzo shoots Damon with vervain darts and pistol whips Bonnie over the head.
Damon wakes up on a cot with an unconscious Tyler Lockwood on a cot next to him. Tyler has apparently been in a coma since Damon beat him when he hallucinated burning Elena's body. Enzo tells him Tyler also works for the Armory and that it is a full moon, thus the reason for Damon's cellmate. If Damon gives up Stefan's location, Enzo will let him out. Damon tries to break out, but this wakes the sleeping Tyler who starts to transform despite the sedative Damon gave him. Damon calls Stefan who happens to be in New Orleans at a bar with Klaus so Damon ask if there was any chance he could bring home a cure for a werewolf bite. Stefan tells him that he will see what he can do. Meanwhile, Bonnie shoots Enzo with a vervain dart and drags his hand to open the door to find Damon. When she sees the trouble Damon's in she runs back to Enzo and chops off his hand with an ax. She opens the door and Damon and Tyler tumble into the hallway wrestling around while Bonnie tries to hit Tyler with and I.V. pole. Tyler snatches it from her hand and rams it into her causing her to fall back against the wall, hitting her head so hard it bleeds and knocks her unconscious. Damon tells Tyler to get out or he will kill him. Tyler sees Bonnie and runs away. Damon tries to heal her with his blood but nothing happens because Enzo gave her something to mute her magic. Damon picks her up and carries her away.
Next Bonnie is in a hospital bed, still unconscious. Damon is telling her that as soon as the crap that Enzo gave her is out of her system, he will heal her. He tells her that she is a terrible friend for almost dying because he'd have to go through years of guilt and self-loathing. He tells her that since she and Stefan won't stop trying to help him all the time he's going to "take himself out of the equation."
In *I Would for You*, Damon and Bonnie are still at the hospital. Bonnie's magic is returning again. Damon seems very cheerful as he has a plan for killing Rayna Cruz. He tells Bonnie he will be executing his plan alone, but Bonnie is doubtful that he even knows how to kill her. Enzo has continuously been calling her but Damon refuses to let her answer her phone as he wants her safe.
At Mystic Grill, Rayna, with her sword pointed at a vampire; Matt, with gun pointed at the vampire; and Penny watching, Rayna is instructing them on how to get information out of a vampire. Damon startles her from behind and engages her in witty banter and tells her he has an ally who told him where she was. Matt turns his gun on Rayna and shoots her as Damon vamps over and rips out her heart. Penny is horrified at Matt. Damon gives Matt Rayna's sword and tells him to get rid of it. He also asks Matt where he can get a buzzsaw.
Damon has Rayna's body dismembered and stuffed into several trash bags at the bottom of a well. He casually waits in a lawn chair for her to phoenix back to life. Smoke starts coming out of the well. Once it's cleared, Damon throws down some of Elena's clothes for Rayna saying again "you two look exactly alike". She tells him it is her very nature to kill Stefan after Damon kindly asks her not to. Damon receives a text from Bonnie stating that Rayna's lives are limited and she only has two left. So Damon shoots her down in the well and then buries her so on her last life she will suffocate in the ground. Meanwhile Bonnie learns that when Rayna dies her last death everyone who bears her mark will die too. Damon frantically digs Rayna up and tries giving her blood. He then does mouth to mouth resuscitation and then tries chest compressions. Finally Rayna sits up and coughs up lung full of dirt. Rayna grows stronger with each life and as this is her last life she easily grabs Damon by the throat and throws him across the clearing. They fight in the clearing, Rayna clearly an equal match for Damon; when she is about to stake him several people from the Armory show up and shoot her with two dozen tranquilizer darts before she finally is put down.
Stefan is finally able to come home. Damon tells Stefan that they can't actually kill Rayna and why. Stefan says they need to find a way to get rid of the scar. Damon tells him to get on it and hands him two sealed envelopes. He tells Stefan he's not a good brother when he's not with Elena so he's gonna stay by her side and desiccate until she wakes up. Damon tries to reassure Stefan that it's temporary and they'll see each other again. He walks out the door.
Damon is in New York with Elena's coffin and his. He hears Bonnie's voice behind him say "You weren't even gonna say goodbye." She can't believe he would leave her because if he desiccates until Elena wakes up then she'll never see him again. She says she is not ok with his decision and it's selfish and he does not get to say goodbye. Damon gets in his coffin and desiccates.
Three years later the coffin opens and Stefan is frantically trying wake him and feed him blood. He says he needs him; that his scar opened up that morning. Rayna has caught them both. She tells Stefan there's a way to transfer the mark to Damon since he's the one who deserves it. Stefan asks "You want to pit us against each other?" Damon speaks from behind Rayna saying "Except it wasn't her idea. It was mine."
In *Days of Future Past*, Damon and Rayna Cruz are still in the news studio trying to convince Stefan, who is all tied up to a chair, to trade his mark over to Damon. Damon is bent over and very sick from the werewolf venom. Finally Stefan says his phone is in his back pocket and Damon can use it to call Valerie to do the transfer spell. As Damon is pretending to get Stefan's phone, he unties Stefan's hands and tells Stefan that he is so full of werewolf toxin that he can't even feel his face. Stefan stands up quickly and shoves Damon halfway across the room and into Rayna, knocking her down. Stefan quickly grabs her sword and speeds away with it. Damon and Rayna fight with each other until Damon chokes her with cables; right before she passes out she's able to grab her vervain dart gun and shoot Damon. They both collapse to the ground, passed out.
Damon wakes up only to find Rayna already awake, suturing her own arm that had been deeply cut. Rayna says she would love to kill Damon first but her target (Stefan) and her sword are on the move. She says her "mystical nature calls". She reminds Damon that if he transfers Stefan's scar to himself and she lives another sixty years or so he'll never see Elena because when Rayna dies, so do all those who carry to the mark. She leaves him there to contemplate all that she has said. The phone rings at the news studio; Damon groans in pain as he struggles to get up to answer it. Stefan is on the other end and tells Damon that Valerie is coming to siphon Damon's werewolf poisoning. Damon tells him to come back to the studio. Stefan doesn't like the idea so Damon tells him to just keep driving. Damon has rigged a way to charge his cell phone and calls Enzo and asks him if he is still friends with those "nut-jobs" from the Armory. Damon tells him he needs to set up a meeting with them. Enzo tells him he knows the perfect spot: the Armory uses an airfield near Dallas.
Damon is sweaty and shaking with fever as Valerie approached and siphons the werewolf venom out of him. She mentions he is healthy now so they can do the transfer spell. Damon quickly jabs Valerie with a vervain dart and she falls asleep instantly.
Damon is driving with Valerie just waking up in the passenger seat. Her hands are tied with vervain-soaked ropes. Damon confronts her about how long she's known about the transfer spell: he thinks she's known all along. Damon accuses her of lying to Stefan; knowing that she could have transferred the scar three years ago but she knew he'd spend it with Caroline. She confesses that she did know all along but the spell requires transferring it to a blood relative. And Damon has spent the last three years in a coffin. Damon tells Valerie that he was a piece of crap before, then he met a girl and she made him good. Stefan calls and Damon says he has a good plan. Stefan says "so you're not taking the scar?!" Damon simply says "I have a plan". Valerie, sitting next to Damon in the car tells him she should never have trusted him. Just then Damon and Valerie hear a shot from a gun through the phone. Rayna gets on the phone and says to Damon "I'll catch you later". Valerie tells Damon that they're too late and blames Damon; Damon says "screw it I'm in". He wants her to give him the scar immediately. Damon and Valerie finally pull up the airport to see Stefan laying on the ground. Valerie says she can bring him back: she's done it before. Damon is wondering aloud where the sword is. Valerie and Damon each blame themselves. Damon reassures Stefan's body that he'll get the stone and make it right.
In *I Went to the Woods*, Damon sat next to Stefan's body on the blacktop at the airport. Valerie tells Damon that Nora and Mary Louise didn't know that Rayna had stabbed Stefan and his spirit was trapped inside the phoenix stone. Damon tells Valerie that they need the get going. Valerie tells Damon that she's not going anywhere with him and that he could have prevented all this by taking Stefan's scar, putting Stefan first for once in his life. Damon tells her that he is trying to make it right. He wants to find Rayna and get Stefan's spirit back in his body. Valerie argues that the stone is destroyed and Stefan's spirit with it. Damon isn't convinced but she continues to insist that logic and a sense of reason dictate that since the Stone was destroyed so was Stefan. Damon tells Valerie that if Stefan is truly gone, he will feel a tremendous amount of responsibility, and spend and eternity haunted and will see his own self-loathing reflected back at him in everyone's eyes. He's not ready for those kind of things. Therefore, Stefan isn't dead. He begs Valerie to try things his way: it's less depressing. Damon suggests that Valerie do a locator spell to help him find Rayna. Valerie walks away saying she's going to do exactly what Damon suggested, only she's going to do it on her own. She mutters "invisique", turning herself invisible so Damon cannot follow her.
Damon goes back to where they left Stefan's body only to find it gone. He calls Valerie while while driving slowly through town and gets her voicemail. He starts to questions her voicemail about why she took Stefan's body when he sees "Stefan" walking toward him.
Damon and "Stefan" go out to dinner where "Stefan" isn't at all shy about being a vampire: he bites right into the waitress' wrist. Damon eyes him carefully and gets up from the table and makes a call to Alaric asking him "when did you realize Jo wasn't Jo?" Valerie is with Alaric and she tells him that Damon needs to keep "Stefan" close as they will need his body. Alaric tells Damon that that is not Stefan. Furthermore, if the real Stefan is in a human body, he has about three days to live. Alaric and Valerie piece together that the real Stefan is living inside a body wanted by the police: a Marty Hammond in Arkansas.
Damon gets off the phone and sees that "Stefan" has exsanguinated everyone in the bar. They leave and as Damon drives, "Stefan" reads Stefan's journals, making snide comments and pretends to actually be Stefan. Damon tells him to give up the act, as he knows he isn't Stefan. "Stefan" says that he had to try and that he never plans to give back the body. "Stefan" rolls down the window and chit chats with Damon for a minute, asking how far away Memphis is. Then he bails out of the car through the open window. Damon screeches to a halt but cannot find him anywhere. Damon calls Ric to tell him what happened.
Damon goes to a police station and puts on an officer's coat, and pretends to be Matt Donovan. An officer tells him they raided a cabin where "Marty Hammond" had been staying at, but it looked as though he had left. With the snow storm rolling in, there's no way he'll survive the night in the woods with these temperatures. A woman comes in to the police station saying that she saw Marty Hammond and he attacked her. Damon tells the officer that he'd like to question her. She tells him exactly where she saw "Marty". Damon tells the rest of the cops to head the opposite direction. The woman also tells Damon that she dropped her cell phone on the ground when "Marty" supposedly attacked her. Damon calls her number and Stefan is so relieved to hear Damon's voice on the other end. Damon is already on his way to get Stefan. He tells Damon that he his legs are totally numb and he can't tell if his tremors are from withdrawal or hypothermia. Damon tells him to get up: this is not how Stefan Salvatore dies! Stefan tells him that he sucks at playing the hero. Stefan is finally able to stand and start walking. Stefan asks Damon if he remembers playing hide-and-go-seek when they were young. They reminisce for a minute until Damon asks him why he asked about hide-and-go-seek in the first place. Stefan replies "Because you're never gonna find me". He then collapses into the snow, in the middle of the road. Damon pulls up seconds late and carries him to the car. When Stefan wakes up, Damon gives him donuts and Stefan eats greedily until his nose starts to drip blood onto the donuts.
Damon tells him that they have less than forty-eight hours to find his real body since human bodies cannot sustain vampire spirits.
In *One Way or Another*, Damon and Stefan (who is still trapped inside Marty Hammond's body) are in the car. Marty's body is deteriorating rapidly. Damon encourages him to stay alive by sitting back, relaxing, and finding his happy place. But Stefan continues to vomit blood into a bag. Damon dials 911 to get an ambulance to come to them. Alaric also meets up with them. Damon had planned on Valerie arriving with Alaric so they could do a soul-swap. Damon sees that Alaric has come without Valerie and says "where's my witch?". Alaric tells Damon that Valerie was able to do a locator spell on the vampire inside Stefan's body. His name is Ambrose and he is hiding out in a frat house by Memphis College. Alaric recommends that Damon stay with his brother and say his good-byes; Damon gets mad that he would suggest such a thing when they could be out, saving Stefan's life. Damon and Ric head to Memphis College. On the way there, Damon fishes for information regarding his best friend: Bonnie Bennett. Damon apologizes to Alaric for not saying good-bye in person before his three year nap.
Damon breaks down the door to the fraternity house where all the frat boys were encouraging Ambrose to chug on someone's neck until they died. Damon cannot enter the house, as he's not invited in. He runs back to the car and tells Ric that he's up. But Ric isn't as enthusiastic as he once was. Damon tells him that he is "still in the game", he can tell because Ric pointed a rifle at him when he knocked on his door. A girl knocks on Damon's window with a cell phone in her hand. She says that if Damon doesn't answer the phone she's supposed to run into traffic.
Damon talks to Ambrose. Ambrose tells him he doesn't care much for the taste of blood. He likes the mind games, the eavesdropping, killing college kids; but making them kill each other is his favorite. Ambrose proposes a deal. He wants Rayna Cruz dead. She made his life a living hell. Ambrose says he'd be willing to jump into the body of a transitioning vampire and he'd gladly give Stefan's body back. All Damon has to do is find a witch who can soul-swap him.
Damon and Alaric find the taxi Rayna was in. The driver seems very rattled and afraid. He had been compelled to stay where he was. He tells Damon that some guy with an accent shot at the car and dragged his passenger away. Damon immediately calls Enzo and tells him to bring Rayna back. Enzo plays dumb and then he asks Damon how Bonnie is. Damon tells him they aren't talking about Bonnie they are talking about Stefan who is currently dying. Enzo suggests they find another way to save him because they aren't getting Rayna.
Alaric explains to Damon that Bonnie and Enzo are in a romantic relationship together. Ambrose calls Damon while him and Ric are on the road. Ambrose tells Damon that "modern Greek life is even less dignified than it once was". Damon tells him about the snag in their plan.
Damon and Alaric arrive at the frat house to see a girl, with blood all over her and carrying a broken beer bottle who does not look at them when they call out to her. Damon and Ric head to the doorway of the frat house and this time Damon is able to enter without being invited in. Everybody is dead inside. Damon tries to call Ambrose; the phone rings next to a body on the floor. Alaric gets the idea that perhaps Ambrose heard Damon say where they were taking "Marty". Damon calls the EMT and finds out that they are just meandering along on their way to the motel to meet Valerie. Damon yells at them to drive as fast as they can with their lights on. Just then there is a crash.
Stefan is hiding from Ambrose in a house that Ambrose can't get into. Ambrose rolls into the house an open tank of gas and as he throws the flame toward the house, Damon shows up on the porch and catches the flame. Damon says "Fun's over". Ambrose retorts "On the contrary. Fun's just begun". He splits a piece of wood in two, forming a stake. He's about to throw it at Damon when he is shot from behind with a vervain dart by Alaric, who states "I hate how good that felt". Damon gets a smug grin on his face: his old buddy is back.
Damon and Alaric get both Ambrose in Stefan's body, and Stefan in Marty's body to the motel for Valerie to perform the spell. Damon makes her promise she can do the spell. She promises. During the spell Valerie gets weak and starts to bleed from her nose. Damon catches her as she falls, demanding that she finish the spell despite Alaric's protests that she isn't strong enough. Valerie continues. Stefan awakens, in his own body.
Alaric storms out the door with Damon on his heels. Alaric tells him he wants to go home. Damon is full of apologies for abandoning him. He begs Alaric to tell him what he needs to do to make amends. Alaric tells him that the last three years of his life have been the best ever for several reasons but the last reason is: Damon wasn't there to barge in and screw things up. Alaric does not want things to go back to the way they were like Damon does. Damon thanked him for his honesty. Just before he leaves, Alaric tells Damon where to find Bonnie: undercover at a psych ward. Damon stands at the door to Bonnie's room in the psych ward with a bouquet of flowers. Enzo has just delivered some terrible news to Bonnie and they are embracing. Damon says "Bonnie" quietly. She walks toward him with tears falling down her cheeks only to slam the door in his face.
In *Somebody That I Used to Know*, Damon goes to see Bonnie again, flowers in hand. This time Bonnie and Enzo are packing. Damon says to them "I have an idea".
Enzo takes Bonnie to a small cabin and Damon follows them. He tells Enzo that he can see why Enzo likes it: it's lonely, cramped, and like a prison cell. Damon enters the cabin and remarks on its coziness and on how it's a big step to move in together. Enzo takes Damon down to the storm cellar where Rayna has been kept. They find her scribbling on scraps of paper that cover the floor. Enzo explains to Damon that Rayna's brain is full of visions and that she is still connected to all of the vampires who escaped when the phoenix stone was destroyed.
Damon has an idea an tells Rayna that Enzo and he would be a hit squad for all the vampires left on her list because they want her to die. Since she's on her last life, and is sick of living, they would take her life and transfer it to Bonnie, who is dying. Rayna isn't sure it'll work; however, Bonnie who is schooled in the kind of thing thinks that it will. She tells them that they need to prove that they can kill the vampires on her list so she can clear her head. Damon asks for the list and Rayna hands him a stack of messy papers. She tells them that those vampires could be anywhere and they better get started since the anti-magic pills in Bonnie's system will wear off within forty-eight hours. The Armory will then be able to track her again.
Damon calls Rayna while they're on the road for instructions. She wants them to head back toward Texas. That's where the Hell Stone was destroyed so all the souls blasted outward from there. She says their next target is in Richmond, inside a bright clean room. Damon sarcastically replies "Oh yeah. I know exactly where that is". Then Rayna says she's seeing a lot of teeth.
They catch the vampire at a dentist's office. It takes Bonnie, Enzo and Damon to take him down. Ultimately, it's Damon who chops the vampire's head off. Damon realizes how much work this is going to be so he calls Stefan and asks him if he can get his hands on a vamp arsenal and that needs backup. He tells him that Bonnie is in trouble. Stefan tells Damon that he's with Ric and asks what they can do.
Damon, Bonnie and Enzo go after vampire, after vampire. After shooting a couple vamps through the heart Bonnie remarks to Damon "I just picture your face as the target".
Alex tracks Enzo down to a furniture warehouse. Damon and Bonnie overhear part of the conversation before Damon grabs Bonnie and vamps her to safety and they drive away. As they are driving, Damon tries to comfort Bonnie by telling her that Enzo can take care of himself. Bonnie says she tired and doesn't want to talk to him. She's worried about Enzo so he needs to stop trying so hard. Just then Enzo calls Bonnie. While she's on the phone, Damon noticed a huge sore appearing on the back of Bonnie's left hand. Bonnie asks Enzo how much time she has after the first scab appears. Damon hears Enzo say "A week, maybe less". Stefan calls to inquire as to Bonnie's health and Damon tells him.
Rayna calls with more leads. They arrive at a restaurant and begin killing all the vampires when one says "Lorenzo! Don't! I'm a friend!" Enzo doesn't recognize him and apologizes for that fact. The vampire says "It's me, Beau!", one of the heretics who, in his natural body couldn't speak due to Rayna's scar. Damon wants to kill him. Bonnie wants to save him because he helped save Caroline's life and the lives of her children. Damon vamps over to Beau and rips his heart out.
Damon and Enzo get into an argument in the parking lot. Damon reminds him that sparing Beau's life would've been a deal breaker with Rayna. He goes on to say he does things others don't want to do. He reminds Enzo that he gave his girlfriend pills that will kill her. Enzo just keeps his cool as always and reminds Damon that he just goes and lies down in a coffin, hoping that when he woke up all the messes he made will have been cleaned up. Damon grabs Enzo by the neck and explains that he chose to desiccate because he didn't want to hurt his friends and that he is holding Enzo personally responsible if anything happens to Bonnie.
Bonnie interrupts them saying "DAMON"! Enzo storms off. Damon admits to Bonnie that he shouldn't have run away three years ago. Bonnie whispers back to him "But you did". She tells Damon that she got over it. He remarks on how she still carries the letter he sent her. She says she keeps it as a reminder not to trust the wrong people. Bonnie tells Damon how Enzo has been there for her every day: hiding her, protecting her. Damon yells "Poisoning you"!
Back at the cabin, Damon goes to Rayna to get another name for the list. He calls Stefan about how Rayna was going to add a few more names to the list. While he is on the phone he is seeing Rayna passed out and the floor and walls are covered with new names.
In *Kill 'Em All*,
In *Requiem for a Dream*,
In *Gods and Monsters*,

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In *Hello, Brother*, the episode opens much like the first episode of season one with a couple chit chatting, driving through the fog when they have to swerve to avoid hitting Damon but they actually do hit Enzo. The couple sneak over to check on Enzo when Damon starts clapping from behind them, leaning against their car. Damon tells them it's a slow night as Enzo sits and pops his broken bones back into place. The two vampires drive the couple to an old slaughterhouse.

Damon and Enzo chat about how they are serfs, slaves or lackeys who are being mind controlled. And their job is to bring the worst of humanity to the slaughterhouse. Damon makes each of them tell him what the worst thing they have ever done was. The man is the winner so the woman gets a quick death by Enzo, feeding on her. He then takes he body to dispose of it while Damon takes the man into the main part of the slaughterhouse where many pieces of humans are hanging all around. Damon takes him to where they are standing over a grate. Below the grate is a pool of blood. Damon jabs a giant hook into the man's back; he screams out in pain. Damon pushes some buttons that lift the man up, open the grate and dips him down into the blood. The hook comes back up with only a small piece of the man remaining.

Later, Damon is kicked back in a lounge chair reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" by the bloody pool without the grate. Enzo asks Damon how many more bodies does that "thing" need?! Damon reminds him that it can hear him. Enzo asks Damon if he has any control of his own mind left. Damon tells him that he has flipped his humanity switch. Enzo yells at the bloody pool that has started to bubble "I'm sorry, did we wake you? When does this end"?! He wants to know how many more bodies until its full. Damon then kicks Enzo into the bloody pool. The monster grabs his face with clawed hands and pulls him back under. He is then released and able to climb out. Damon asks him if he got an answer.

Stefan finds the slaughterhouse where Damon sees him and says "hello brother". Damon starts mopping the floor and tells Stefan that he's doing daily chores. Stefan asks him what has a hold on him and what was in that vault? Damon says that it doesn't matter; only that he's been killing bad people. Damon tells Stefan to go home. Stefan observes out loud that Damon has flipped his switch and that he can help him flip it back. Damon tells him that he's seen how this ends and his humanity can't save him from it. He tells Stefan that he's talking about hell; he's seen it, tasted it, touched it. Stefan tells him that he's not making any sense. Damon replies with an "okay". Damon tells Stefan that he needs to go because "it" doesn't want him yet. Stefan says "not without you".

Bonnie finds her way to the slaughterhouse just as Damon says that Elena doesn't matter to him anymore. That he hasn't just flipped his switch, he's ripped it off the wall. Every bad decision he's ever made sealed his fate. His path and Elena's are not the same. He tells Stefan again to go but Stefan snaps a mop in two and stabs it through Damon's body, making him fall down. Bonnie approached and tells Stefan to get him in the car while she finds Enzo. When Stefan looks back Damon is gone and Enzo mouths the word "go" to Stefan, showing he still has his humanity. Enzo then fakes being emotionless toward Bonnie and they leave unharmed.

Damon and Enzo go to and art show where they confront and artist who painted entirely with blood. The artist whispers in Enzo's ear what he did with the victim that he got all the blood from for his art piece. As they leave with the artist, Damon tells Enzo that he might want to consider flipping his switch so "it" can't hurt those he cares about.

Damon and Enzo take their latest victim to feed the monster. When out of the bloody grate climbs a woman, who is singing to them without opening her mouth.

In *Today Will Be Different*, Damon chats with a businessman about guns. Damon tells him that he is going to bring him to his buyer as she will find him irresistible. Damon takes him to meet Sybil who is swimming in a pool and she begins to sing to the man. The man starts walking down into the pool toward her. Sybil asks Damon if he enjoys this and Damon answers in a bored tone "I don't know. You're the psychic, you tell me". She tells him she needs Enzo to be like him: all in. She then drowns the man.

Later, Damon is catching a nap in a lawn chair and dreams of when he first met Elena. He watches himself like a spectator as he calls her "Katherine". Sybil then yells at him to wake up.

Damon and Enzo sit on a park bench while out on a hunt for Sybil when Damon suggests a game of twenty questions. Damon describes Enzo to a tee. Enzo tells him that that isn't how you play twenty questions but what Damon is tying to do is get Enzo to realize that while he is here, looking for Sarah Nelson aka Sarah Salvatore, he isn't having any fun. Enzo tells him he doesn't understand what the "boss lady" is up to; why she's pushing pause on her master plan. Damon tells him that her new priority is to give Enzo a spanking, to get him to flip his switch. Damon confesses that he's not so much afraid of Sybil as he is of the eternal damnation she showed them when she got into their heads. Enzo insists those were just mind games and none of it was real. Just then, Sarah Nelson walks toward them on the sidewalk. They pull her aside and down to the parking garage where she jabs Damon with a vervain dart.

Damon rushes up behind Caroline, who has been talking to her kids on the phone in the hallway of Sarah's apartment. Damon removes her daylight ring, throwing it down the sunlit hallway along with her phone which he smashes.

Damon jumps through Sarah's window where her and Stefan are talking. Damon grabs her, wrapping his arms around her head, with a murderous look on his face. Stefan pleads "Damon don't"! He quickly explains to Damon who she is but Damon thinks it's impossible. Stefan tells him that Sarah isn't on his list of sins; he didn't kill her in utero. Stefan tells him that letting her go is what Elena would want. Damon lets her go, telling her to run. As soon as Sarah opens the door to escape, Sybil is there blocking her way and she stabs Sarah in the abdomen. Stefan vamps over to Sybil and breaks her neck the goes to give Sarah his blood but just before he gets to Sarah, Sybil whispers in his ear "I'm a lot tougher than I look". She makes it so Stefan cannot move then she asks "So, who's Elena?"

Sybil reprimands Damon, as it he did not kill Sarah. She wants to know how he is disobeying her. It takes a shred of humanity to defy her. She reaches inside his mind and sees Elena. She sifts through every memory of Damon and Elena; she replace Elena with herself. Meanwhile, Sarah is still bleeding out on the floor and she dies. Damon is completely devoted to Sybil.

Back at the swimming pool, Damon is feeding off a victim's wrist while Sybil makes out with the victim who appears to be dead. Damon rushes over to Enzo and thrusts his hand into Enzo's chest, grabbing his heart. While Enzo is weak, Sybil gets a peak into his mind.

In *You Decided That I Was Worth Saving*, Damon and Sybil are bystanders at the Gilbert car accident on Wickery Bridge. It's revealed that he's reliving a past memory though Sybil has changed the memory so that Elena has died too. Altering his memory results in Damon telling Sybil that he had never met Elena.

Back at the hotel, Sybil is having trouble unlocking Enzo's mind. She encourages him to be more like Damon who looks quite content, sitting in a chair reading *Fifty Shades Darker*. Damon suggest they kill Enzo as he has a high tolerance for torture. Sybil says they are moving onto to Bonnie; Enzo assures her that Bonnie means nothing to him. Sybil asks Damon to kill Bonnie, which he has no problem with.

Damon interrupts Caroline's wedding dress shopping with Bonnie by killing the attendant and catching the practice bouquet toss. Caroline tells Bonnie to run and tries to attack him but Damon grabs Caroline around the throat as he realizes Stefan's getting married. He tells Caroline to consider this his R.S.V.P. and throws her across the room. He hunts Bonnie down but she fights back allowing Caroline time to stab a wooden pole deep through his stomach, pinning him into the adjacent wall, allowing time for the girls to flee.

Enzo and Sybil track him down and as Enzo removes the pole from Damon, Sybil is admiring herself in the mirror with a wedding dress held up to her. She says to Damon "So you got beat up by a girl." Damon explains that there were two girls which makes Enzo laugh. This makes him susceptible to Sybil's interrogation methods and she is finally able to see what Bonnie means to him. Since Damon doesn't fight her, she looks for Bonnie in his mind and finds their friendship. She replaces Bonnie with herself.

Damon calls Stefan from the high school and tells Stefan he needs a favor. He says that whatever desire he has to save him, he needs it right now. Stefan finds him sitting on a picnic table outside the high school. He tells Damon that if this is a trap he might as well spring it. Damon assures him that he just needs his help but can't tell him what he needs help with. He tells him that Sybil has LoJacked his brain and when he tries to form the words to tell Stefan it just comes out as "applesauce penguin." He opens the trunk of his car to reveal a knocked out and tied up Enzo.

Damon and Enzo are compelled to fight each other to the death when the clock strikes three. Damon brought Stefan as backup to help him kill Enzo. Damon and Enzo argue about their friendship. Stefan tells Damon that if Enzo can fight this, he should be able to also. Stefan tries to reason with him on all points. Enzo tells Stefan it isn't going to do any good because Sybil has been toying with his brain.

When the clock strikes three Damon and Enzo go for each other. Stefan puts himself in the middle, pushing them apart. They continuously push him out. Damon gets himself in a position where wooden handle is piercing through his back and Enzo is dangerously close to staking him. Damon calls to Stefan for help and Stefan throws Enzo off. Stefan is about to chop Enzo's head off with a shovel when Caroline stops him saying she promised Bonnie. Damon snaps her neck and Enzo snaps Stefan's. Enzo goes after Damon with a saw while Damon can almost reach Enzo's chest. They fall and Damon plunges his hand inside Enzo's chest. Bonnie enters and pleads with Damon not to do this. Sybil shows up behind her and tells her to choose which one to save. Bonnie chooses Enzo. Sybil tells Damon to remove his hand from Enzo's chest.

Sybil tells everyone that no one has asked her what she wants. Damon is an asset. Enzo is a burden. Sybil tells Bonnie that she chose wrong so she's going to have Damon kill Bonnie and then she will kill Enzo herself that way everyone can go on with their lives. Unless Enzo flips his humanity switch and pledges his loyalty to her. So Enzo flips his switch. Sybil asks her two loyal subject if they would mind if she were to take back her promise to spare Bonnie's life. Enzo replies coldly "No objections here". Bonnie runs.

Damon grabs Bonnie at her car but Ric runs him down. Damon recovers from being hit after a while and snaps his bones back into place. Stefan tells him it's over (they captured Sybil with the tuning fork). But Damon says his work is just getting started. Stefan asks, "What work"? Damon answers, "Applesauce penguins, brother."

As Damon is driving, he gets a loud ringing in his ear, Sybil is humming in her cell. She is in his memory of the 1994 prison world, eating pancakes. She has replaced Bonnie with herself. Sybil tells him he has too many people willing to fight for him still. True devotion to her is the only way to save him from that which he fears the most (hell).

Tyler Lockwood is driving along, only to find Damon playing his favorite game of laying in the road. He asks Damon if he is alright. Damon smiles lazily and gets up. Tyler tells him that his fight isn't with him as he turns around he draws a gun out of his jacket. He turns around only to find Damon right behind him. Damon grabs his arm with the gun in it and disarms him. Tyler tells him to do what he needs to do to get his life back so he's not the slave to some siren bitch. Tyler tells him that if he kills him he'll be the face that haunts him as the moment he gave up. Damon turns to leave him but gets a ringing in his ears and sees Sybil lay down on a mattress. He turns to Tyler. Then he sees Sybil again. His fangs come out and he heads toward Tyler, bites into his neck and drains him.

In *An Eternity of Misery*, Damon pulls up to a mechanic's shop in his Camaro. Damon interrupts a man who's welding and tells him he's looking for Peter Maxwell. The man introduces himself as Lou and tells Damon that Pete will be back soon. Damon tells Lou that Sybil wants Pete and they talk about women that "screw with your head." Lou tells Damon he's been married five times. Damon compels Lou to tell him the worst thing he's ever done. Lou confesses that he killed one of his wives and made it look like an accident. Damon pours gasoline all over him and tells him to get back to work. As soon as Lou fires up the welding torch he goes up in flames.

Peter Maxwell runs into Damon who has been waiting for him. Damon tells that he's the one who set Lou on fire. Damon asks Pete if he's ever met Sybil. Pete says that he hasn't so Damon compels him to tell the truth which confirms that he indeed hasn't. Pete thinks everything Damon is saying sounds crazy. Damon tells Pete that he has something Sybil wants. Pete tells Damon to take whatever it is and leave. Damon tells him that he doesn't exactly know what he's looking for but that it is a Maxwell family heirloom: he will know it when he sees it. Pete tells Damon that a couple years ago his grandmother died and left him a box of stuff that he never opened and that his son was looking for the box so maybe he had found it. Damon tells him to call his son.

Damon is playing on a pinball machine when Pete approaches with an ornament which Damon quickly dismisses as not being the heirloom. He accuses Pete of bringing him a bunch of junk when he notices Pete's watch and inquires about it. Pete tells him that his son gave it to him. Pete tosses the watch to Damon and Damon gets burned, as the leather on the watch must have been steeped in vervain. Damon realizes his compulsion hadn't worked on Pete. Damon accuses him of being on vervain but Pete denies it saying "I don't know what you're talking about." Damon tells him liars go straight to hell as he pierces Pete in the gut with a metal object. Just then Damon gets shot with a wooden bullet from behind. He turns around to see Matt Donovan who fires at him again. Damon falls flat on his back. While Damon is unconscious, Matt slits Damon's wrist and feeds his blood to Pete.

When Damon regains consciousness, he finds that Matt has chained him to a chair. Matt has a stake and Damon tells him that if he's trying to scare him it won't work as he has turned his emotions off. He tells Matt that all he senses from him is desperation. Matt confirms that yes, he is desperate and jabs Damon with the stake. Matt just wants to know why Damon tried to kill his father. Damon tells Matt that he didn't know Pete was his dad. Damon uses Tyler as leverage by telling Matt that if anything happens to him, Tyler dies. Matt tells him that he knows Damon isn't that stupid; Elena would never forgive him for that. Damon tells him that he and Elena are through and he's actually been seeing another woman. Damon goes on to tell Matt the exact details of how he "ripped into Tyler" and left him bleeding in the back of a green Mustang and where the location of the car is.

Damon is left alone, struggling against the chains. He knocks over a tall metal shelf and it falls right on top of him. He manages to free himself, snapping broken bones back into place. From the shelf he finds the heirloom he's been looking for: a mysterious iron-looking sphere about the size of a grapefruit. It appears to have the letter "M" stamped into it with a small X-like shape above the letter.

In *Coming Home Was a Mistake*,

In *Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell*,

In *The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You*,

In *We Have History Together*,

In *The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch*,

In *Nostalgia's a Bitch*,

In *You Made a Choice to Be Good*,

In *What Are You?*,

In *The Lies Will Catch Up To You*,

In *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*,

In *We're Planning a June Wedding*,

In *I Was Feeling Epic*,
## Personality

* Human
* Vampire
* Augustine Vampire
* Ghost

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Damon was originally a very free-spirited young man, who was best friends with his younger brother Stefan Salvatore, both of whom were instantly smitten with the vampire Katherine Pierce. He had a positive relationship with Stefan and he held his position as elder brother in high regard, being the one to teach Stefan how to fight when they were younger. As a human, Damon also held a sense of duty as he enrolled in the confederacy, however their father saw him as very irresponsible and reckless, proving he was very much a free spirit who did things on a whim, taking no mind to what people thought.

Damon could be considered much the opposite to his brother in many regards. Whilst they both were respectful and polite, Damon had a dark side which came to play when he fell in love with Katherine, whilst initially terrified at the prospect, his love for Katherine and dependency for her affections made the choice easy and he willingly drank her blood and conspired with her to kill innocent humans, a trait which passed on to his vampire lifestyle. Damon was very naive as a human, he loved Katherine deeply and recklessly, regardless of the consequences and not caring that his father was ashamed of him. His carefree life fell apart when Stefan betrayed Damon by alluding to their father that Katherine was a vampire; information that resulted in Katherine being trapped and taken to a church to be burned, also doing whatever he could to get her back, even if it resulted in his death.

After he became a vampire, he left Stefan's side, wanting no part in the life of the man who betrayed him. He selfishly kept the fact that Katherine was still alive from Stefan, jealous that his brother had also been turned by their shared lover. By the time he appears in season one, he's been away from Stefan for at least eighty years (including the meeting in *1912*), and he immediately begins taunting his brother, as a colder, more calloused version of his human self.

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Throughout season one, Damon pretends to be arrogant and sarcastic, showing little to no regard for human life and using whatever people he can get his hands on as his personal playthings. He shows pity to neither Caroline Forbes nor Vicki Donovan, even going so far as to kill Stefan's football coach to "prove" that he has no humanity left. He is also portrayed as a very impulsive vampire, known for his self-destructive behavior and his devious, sadistic mind. Despite this, he stays focused on his only goal: getting Katherine out of the tomb. This shows his ability for planning and forethought, and certainly the patience to wait one hundred and forty-five years for the necessary comet to return.
After Katherine is discovered to have been alive the entire time, and his reason for doing the things he has been doing shattered, Damon becomes more dangerous because he drinks alcohol constantly, bonding with others at the bar. He destructively taunts Alaric Saltzman about being the one to kill his wife, Isobel Flemming, but is confused when he finds that Isobel is Elena's birth mother. He tempts his brother with human blood, though he knows exactly what Stefan used to be, and when Stefan goes off the deep end, Damon helps Elena detox him. He also genuinely thanks Bonnie Bennett for disabling the device that could kill him, surprising her with his sincerity.
Every time his brother is put in a situation that endangers his life, Damon protects him, but he's not afraid to cause Stefan non-lethal harm. Despite his anger with Stefan for his actions in the past, he hangs around, protecting him and working with him, sometimes destroying the good in his life. Their perplexing relationship seems to center around Elena, who anchors them to Mystic Falls.

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Elena is the oddity of Damon's behavior, the anomaly that makes his personality far from psychopathic. In the beginning of the first season, Stefan is prepared to give up on his brother, believing him to be an irreparable monster, but Damon displays true feeling for Elena. Elena Gilbert is physically identical to Katherine, the woman who turned him into a vampire, making her not only a constant reminder of what happened to him and Stefan, but a temptation to let history repeat itself. When Katherine reveals that she never loved him (in the beginning of season two), Damon reacts by trying to get Elena to admit that she loves him, and when she tells him that she loves Stefan, he reacts impulsively, set off by both Katherine and Elena choosing his brother instead of him. He kills Elena's brother, spending many weeks afterwards trying to make it up to Elena, showing true regret for his actions. Their relationship began with taunting and cruelty, but she became what he clings to for humanity; he became her occasional protector, a guardian of sorts. His impulsive actions often drive her away but she refuses to let him die, and he does the same for her.
With Elena influencing him throughout the second and third seasons, Damon becomes slightly kinder, if only for the fact that he no longer mindlessly kills and torments humans without good reason, and he controls himself to be strong for Elena's sake. He proves that he is capable of love, nobility, loyalty, and selflessness, masking the most intense of his emotions to spare himself from seeming weak, but expressing just enough to draw in a very small circle of friends (which he later drives away). He continues to claim that his emotions can be turned off, but several older vampires reveal that this is a lie; after a certain amount of time, a vampire has to pretend they can't feel. The only time Damon had ever admitted his pain was when Elena told him that she would never kiss him back, to which he responded, "Now I'm hurt."
About halfway through the third season, Damon believes that Elena is trying to turn him into Stefan by constantly telling him to be the 'better man.' Others continue to underestimate him and, to display that he doesn't care at all, he kills Alaric, with whom he'd developed a strong friendship. He also spends time trying to make it up to Alaric after his ring brings him back to life, treating him like a friend even though Alaric is extremely angry with him. He also snaps and feeds from Caroline's father, and, after a very violent fight with Caroline, he is confronted by Elena. He's even cruel to her, accusing her of trying to make him into something he's not. His inner turmoil continues when Katherine reappears, and he recklessly takes her offer of a 'road trip,' leaving Elena defenseless only because he is mad at her. When he returns, he displays genuine regret and, in one of his most tell-all, modest moments of the show, he tells her that he will never leave her again, showing his extreme love and devotion to Elena, and his regret for making another impulsive decision.
By the end of Season Five, Damon makes the biggest decision he's ever made; sacrificing his life to saved his brother and everyone else he cares about over on The Other Side. He was unable to come back in the process but was thankful to Elena that she had became a part of his life and for falling in love with him.
Elena's Impact

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He compels her to forget that he said this (late in season two), because he believes it would be selfish to confuse Elena with his feelings. This is right after Stefan apologizes for making Damon turn in 1864, something that surprises Damon to the point of revelation: He realizes what he's been doing to his brother, all following one stupid mistake. In reality, what Damon said to Elena proves that she has been molding him into a better person, because before that moment, he never would've done something so selfless. Damon also admits to missing his human life before he drunkenly kills Jessica Cohen in the middle of the road; this secret is kept from everyone around him. He lets the girl go, but immediately chases her down and kills her anyway in an effort to prove that he doesn't really care. When his spirits are down, Damon solves his problems with alcohol (mostly bourbon), but he often uses violence and murder to console himself.
By his own testimony, Damon claims that the reason why he can control his vampiric urges is because he embraces what he is.
Damon is also very self-confident, given that he'll confront older, stronger vampires like: Lexi, Anna, Pearl, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Kol, Katherine and Rose, without hesitation, and without regard to manners, even when they themselves pose no signs of hostility towards him. He often taunts them, which results in him nearly being killed quite often as they are undeniably stronger than him; though of course, there were cases when he was able to best some of them on some occasions, as in the case of Kol and Silas. Further into Season Four, Damon seems to have lost part of his authoritative and dominating personality, most likely because of Klaus, who is much stronger, older and more powerful than him.
Despite Elena's influence, it seems that he is a very vengeful person and it is routed in his core. After the torture he and Enzo experienced in the 1950s, he continued to carry out the revenge he swore to take even well into his and Elena's relationship. This also proves him to be very secretive, as he told nobody of his experiences, not even Stefan in the aftermath of the torture until it was revealed in the present.

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When Damon fed on Joey in *Total Eclipse of the Heart*, he was shown to have no remorse or guilt over ripping the young vampire's head off.
Damon's personality as a ghost was much like his personality as a vampire. He did, however, seem to grow closer to Bonnie Bennett, and the two met Malachai Parker and grew to have a mutual hatred of him.

## Physical Appearance

Main article: Damon Salvatore/Appearance

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Damon is very handsome, standing 5'10" in height with a well-built, toned physique. His physical appearance is of around a 24-25 year old despite being over 170. Damon has a light complexion with olive undertones and has a strong bone structure with high cheek bones and a solid jaw line. He has dark brown almost black hair, which hangs just over his ears, usually styled in a casual disarray yet sometimes gelled for special occasions. With striking, intense light blue eyes contrasting wonderfully against dark eyelashes and eyebrows, a "bad boy" smile, he can be described as relatively athletic, tall, strong, sexy and seductive. He also considers himself the "eternal stud".

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Damon's clothing style has remained somewhat similar throughout the series, usually favoring darker clothing; black shirts, t-shirts and boots underneath darkened jeans and black trousers, although on occasion has been seen wearing lighter colors. Damon is rarely seen without his leather jackets and his favorite clothing designer is "John Varvatos". On special events, such as dances, he wears smart attire such as tuxedo's and dress shoes. As a vampire, he wears a large lapis lazuli daylight ring enchanted by Emily Bennett, as a means to walk around in the sunlight as a vampire. The ring has the Salvatore crest and an embedded "D" for his first name.

In flashbacks, as a human in the 1860s era, Damon generally wore the same attire as his younger brother; Stefan, including dress shirts with suspenders, waistcoats, dress coats, hats, cravats and leather laced boots as his usual style. His color scheme as a human was much lighter, Damon was seen wearing a red waistcoat, yet still formal, showing the Salvatore family's wealth. His hair was slightly longer in style, with slight curls, showing a much more youthful appearance.

## Powers and Abilities

* Vampire
* Augustine Vampire

Damon possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. He has shown himself to be an experienced fighter easily able to subdue his enemies. Being that Damon is over 170 years old, he is an old and powerful vampire.

For vampire standards, he is a relatively young non-Original vampire to appear in the series, along with his younger brother Stefan. Damon's initial advantage (being stronger and faster) over his brother was due to him being older and regularly consuming human blood. Due to this Damon is physically able to easily beat younger vampires, although he has been shown capable of standing up to vampires much older than him, this is in part due to his determination. Though ultimately still inferior to those of much older vampires like Katherine Pierce, Pearl and Annabelle Zhu and the Originals to name a few. However given his intellect, he has been shown to take vampires down through surprise attacks, such as fighting the ancient vampire, Elijah Mikaelson with his brother's help and surprising Kol using his super-speed.

Damon, when at full strength, can be extremely dangerous, especially when fighting for the ones he loves. Such as when Damon, alongside Stefan, were able to fight Katherine Pierce, a non-Original vampire of 538 years of age, though she still bested both of them. Damon is also a very skilled user of mind compulsion. Damon has been shown to use this power effectively many times throughout the long course of the series. Mind compulsion remains to date as one of Damon's most frequently used powers of being a vampire.

Stefan has noted that when at full power and angry, Damon can be very dangerous.
This is evidently shown in situations concerning Elena Gilbert. In *Live Through This*, Damon became emotionally distressed when he learned that it was Lily's idea to place the sleeping spell on Elena. This led Damon to become angry and lash out at his mother, strangling her.

Initially Damon's strength was much more powerful than Stefan's due his to frequent feeding spree on humans, Stefan was unwilling to face him without an advantage and told his nephew he wouldn't be able to beat Damon without feeding on humans himself, something that Damon told him earlier. Later in the series the power distance between the brothers shortened as Damon fed less frequently and usually on blood bags, and Stefan may have moderated at some point as demonstrated by the battles where Stefan is able to fight evenly against his brother, though Damon still usually wins the fights.
In *No Exit*, Damon appeared to have an increase in strength whenever he felt the urge to feed on Vampire blood, he had all the abilities that a normal vampire would have except, enhanced to further levels making him much more powerful than vampires that are much older than him. For example, Damon was able to break free from his chains in a matter of seconds when Enzo chained him up. Though this is something any-other vampire might not be able to do.

## Weaknesses

Damon had the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.

## Relationships

### Giuseppe Salvatore

Giuseppe was Damon's father.

Not much is known about the relationship, however, based on flashbacks and what has been mentioned, Damon never had a good relationship with Giuseppe, because he was physically abusive towards his son for no apparent reason, as a child Damon was terrified of his father. When he was 12 years old, Giuseppe made Damon eat his pet turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. During dinner Giuseppe demanded to know who took his money from him, Damon took the blame (for something he didn't do) because he was afraid of what Giuseppe may do to Stefan, as a punishment for stealing his money, he burned Damon with a cigar, he presumably continue to abuse him until he was an adult.

As an adult, Damon was no longer terrified of father, to the point where he openly disrespected him, when he saw that his son Damon, along with Stefan were trying to rescue Katherine after she had been captured, he decided to shoot and kill them to spare himself the embarrassment of having vampire-sympathizer as sons, he had no guilt or remorse for this vile act of his, it can be assumed that Damon now despises Giuseppe for what he did to him, after learning that his own father was his killer, it is likely that he did not mourn or grieve over his death after Giuseppe was killed by Stefan.

In the present day, Damon rarely speaks about his father, when he does speak about him; it is in a negative way, and he (correctly) believes him to be nothing more than a monster.

### Stefan Salvatore

Main article: Stefan and Damon

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Stefan is Damon's younger brother. When they were human they were very close, best friends up until the arrival of the beautiful Katherine Pierce. After Katherine's "death", Damon swore to make Stefan's life a misery, and succeeded in 1912 by making him lose control of himself, fifty years after their last meeting. In the 1940s, for the first time since their transition, Damon showed a rare selflessness by backing out of his plan to join Stefan in war, so that Stefan could try to control his urges, as Damon would've been a bad influence. Despite unknowing the truth of Damon's selfless act, Stefan still returned the favor to his brother in the 1970s, sending Lexi to help Damon turn on his humanity. From these glimpses of the past, it is shown that while they may outwardly despite the other, deep down they truly care. Before season one, the brothers hadn't seen each other since the early 1990s, their relationship having taken a steep turn for the worse, as their relationship was described as "violent and bitter". Due to Katherine's influence they became enemies, yet have recently began repairing their strained relationship due to Elena Gilbert, ironically Katherine's descendant and doppelgänger. Through the seasons, both fell in love with Elena and whilst she was the factor bringing them together, she is also the biggest strain in the brother's complex relationship. In the season four finale, although Stefan was heartbroken at Elena's choice, he admitted that he was happy for Damon. Through this, they have proven just how far their relationship has come from their violent past. Whilst their relationship will continue to be tested, through the highs and lows, it is clear that the two share a strong brotherly bond.

In Season Five, they have some issues but appear to be getting along better as brothers and appear to show much more care and concern for one another, though their bond is tested through time. After Damon's sacrifice, Stefan breaks down over losing the only family he has left. Several months later, Damon returns to the living, reuniting the brothers. In *I Was Feeling Epic* things get worse for the Salvatore brothers. They both decide to sacrifice themselves to kill Katherine for the last and final time. And to save Mystic Falls from hellfire. As Damon holds Katherine with a knife. Stefan sneaks up behind Damon and injects him with his blood which contains the cure. Turning Damon into a human again. As Damon lays on the ground knocked out. Stefan takes his place in killing Katherine. Before Stefan dies he says goodbye to his brother. In the afterlife they reunite.

### Elena Gilbert

Main article: Elena and Damon

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Elena Gilbert is the love of Damon's life. She is not just his wife but best friend as well. As the series progressed, he fell in love with Elena. He first met Elena when he was in Mystic Falls looking for his object of obsession for over a century, Katherine Pierce. He then talked to Elena but afterwards, compelled her to forget their meeting. He then met Elena again at the Salvatore Boarding House when she was looking for Stefan. After a while, Elena started to view Damon as self-centered, violent, sociopathic and cruel, especially when she found out that he continuously abused, used and bit her best friend, Caroline Forbes against her will. She was horrified to discover that Damon was also behind all of the murders and unusual "animal" attacks in Mystic Falls. Originally, Damon pretended that he disliked Elena and was rather apathetic about whether Elena lived or died (later in season 5 he confessed the future he'd seen all along: "Elena, I've seen it since the first second I laid eyes on you."). However, Damon was drawn to Elena, mostly due to the fact that Elena bears an uncanny resemblance to the object of his obsession for over a century, Katherine.

Although Damon and Elena often bicker and don't get along, Elena began to slowly warm up to him as she got to know him, befriending him in the process. But she still kept her distance due to Damon's constant immoral and impulsive behavior. Damon and Elena's friendship deepens with time and the two become closer, with Damon haven fallen for Elena and Elena developing feelings for Damon. Damon has repeatedly admitted that he is in love with Elena, however, Elena has admitted that she loves him too. Damon once told Elena that he loved her, but that he didn't deserve her, but Stefan does. He then compelled her to forget his confession afterwards. As opposed to Stefan, Damon is seen to be extremely selfish when it comes to Elena, willing to put the life of Elena's before anyone else's, including Elena's loved ones. It has been a consistency throughout the series that even though Elena cares deeply about Damon and has feelings for him, she still strongly loves Stefan and has repeatedly chosen him over Damon much to Damon's disappointment. But Elena and Damon are still closer than ever, and the sexual tension between them has even increased as Elena's emotions were heightened.

During Season Four, Stefan ends his relationship with Elena because of her no longer fighting the feelings she has for Damon. Elena admitted to Damon that he was the reason of her breakup with Stefan and with Jeremy trying to kill her, Elena had to move with Damon. Stefan moves out when she moves in because of the relationship between her and Damon. Damon and Elena also had sex for the first time and became a real couple the night she moves in with him. Despite being sired to him, her feelings for him are real and she loved him before she was a vampire. Vampirism only magnified what what already there. She will not be giving up on him. He may be selfish with his feelings but he doesn't regret it – when push comes to shove, he'll always put her first and it's for that same reason that he's always saving her when she needs him. Damon brings out a side of Elena that none of her past loves have been able to and challenges her in a way that no one else can. He hasn't taken advantage of Elena when he's had the opportunity. He's usually played fair with her, and he's always saying that she's the one woman he has to do the right thing by.

When Damon and Elena are in the same room together, the sexual tension between them crackles and pops like a sparkler. And even when they aren't saying anything, the pair can carry on entire conversations through eye contact and body language. Damon loves her unconditionally without expecting anything in return because that's who he is. He loves her either way, human or vampire. He is currently trying to find his identity without Elena in his life due to Malachai Parker's spell-linking Elena's life to Bonnie Bennett's (Elena entered a deep slumber and will stay asleep until Bonnie dies a natural death). Due to Elena's wishes of keeping Bonnie alive, Elena chose to stay asleep and wished Damon a happy life while she slept. Elena's absence left Damon in a bad place, losing the one he loved the most had a hugely negative impact on him. Damon has waited for the day that Elena awakens, so that they can share a human life together due to Elena's decision to taking the Cure to vampirism. In *I Was Feeling Epic*, Stefan injects him with his blood, turning Damon into a human, allowing him to marry and grow old with Elena after she awakens from her magical slumber.

### Alaric Saltzman

Main article: Damon and Alaric

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Alaric is Damon's best friend. It started out antagonistic towards each other since Alaric knew that it had been Damon who had possibly killed his wife but it later turned out that she wasn't dead and that she had in fact been turned into a vampire by Damon. From that point on, they have been shown as becoming closer and they often team up to fight the usual threats to the town. Alaric is the only one (other than Elena) to call Damon a friend. They are seen often drinking together; it's often seen that they do taunt each other as well though. Throughout the series, they become like brothers. Towards the end of Season Three, Alaric was turned into an Original vampire by Esther Mikaelson and fed on Bonnie Bennett to complete his transition and then took the White Oak Stake from Bonnie. Alaric died in Damon's arms in the season 3 finale, moments after Elena's death causing Damon to break down having lost his best friend and the girl he loves, as Alaric and Elena's lives were linked. But when Alaric appears as a ghost to we learn that he will always be watching over Damon. In the season 5 finale, Damon gives up his life to save their loved ones, including Alaric, whom were still on the Other Side, which causes Alaric much grief of losing his best friend. When Damon returns, he is furious with Alaric for compelling away Elena's memories of their life and passionate love they shared. After a while, Damon sort of gets over it and forgives Alaric. Towards the end of Season 6, Alaric has Damon as his best man at his wedding. In season 8, Alaric says that Damon is the closest thing he ever had to a brother.

### Bonnie Bennett

Main article: Damon and Bonnie

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Damon's relationship with Bonnie originally started out antagonistic, particularly from Bonnie. Bonnie would only save Damon for Elena's sake and the two were often forced to work together for the sake of their friends and loved ones. By Season 4, Damon seemed to actually care about Bonnie when she got lost on Nova Scotia and refused to leave without her. In Season 5, he was surprisingly upset at hearing of Bonnie's death and attended her funeral. In the Season finale, they got stuck on the Other Side and hold hands as it collapses. They end up trapped in a 1994 Prison World for four months. This time impacted their relationship significantly, working together to find a way out and bonding as much as they argued. Damon was shown to be protective of Bonnie by threatening Kai: "We may be having a bit of a disagreement, but don't ever lay a hand on her." Bonnie sacrificed herself to let Damon go home. In return, Damon worked to bring her back. They later reunited in *Let Her Go* and hugged. When Bonnie is magically linked to Elena put in a sleeping curse in the Season Six finale, Damon ultimately chose to save Bonnie on Elena's behest even though it was very hard for him to.

At the start of Season 7, Damon started to resent Bonnie living while Elena is cursed and hesitated once to save her life. Damon, however, acknowledged Bonnie as his "best friend" and that she's stuck with him until Elena wakes up. The two overcome this and look out for each other. They band together against Rayna and the Heretics. After Bonnie nearly dies to protect him, Damon chooses to desiccate until Elena wakes up to stop himself from endangering her and his brother. This hurts Bonnie, as he did not say goodbye, and this strained their friendship.

Three years later, Damon is awakened by Stefan as Rayna Cruz is after them once again. Stefan, Enzo, Damon and Bonnie work together to stop Rayna. This strains Damon and Bonnie relationship even more though, but they ally together anyway while Damon asks for Bonnie's forgiveness. However, once they defeat Rayna, her supernatural vampire huntress powers are transferred to Bonnie. Bonnie is wired to hate Damon once again, only worse than ever as magic is controlling Bonnie. Damon tries to get through to her, including by insulting her and ripping her heart out in a dream by trying to get the real Bonnie back, but this doesn't work and only infuriates Bonnie more. Damon says he wishes Elena was alive in her place in an effert to awake Bonnie, and Bonnie says although he denies its truthfulness, those hurtful words came from his heart. Damon later burns the last Everlasting, connected to Bonnie's huntress side, and this cured Bonnie of the vampire huntress curse. Shortly after that, Bonnie and Enzo joke with Damon on the other end of the phone and this confirms that Bonnie has forgiven him and that they are best friends again. However, Damon mysteriously hears Elena's voice in the Armory's vault and is drawn to it, despite Enzo and Bonnie's protests over the phone to try and stop Damon from following the voice. It is too late being that Damon was drawn into the Armory monster's trap. Bonnie sends Enzo first to see if he could save Damon, but Enzo too is captured. Bonnie was devastated that Damon and Enzo were missing and she was desperately trying to find Damon, along with Enzo. When she achieved, she soon reconnected with Damon after Sybil's influence disappeared.

### Jeremy Gilbert

Main article: Damon and Jeremy

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Jeremy is Damon's new roommate and Elena's younger adoptive brother/biological cousin. Their relationship is similar to the relationship Damon has with Alaric. It's complicated between them but Damon is a father figure to Jeremy. Even though Damon goes about things the wrong way, Jeremy knows he means well and has good intentions in helping people and trying to do the right thing. There are times when Damon has treated Jeremy like a little brother and is a mentor to him. After Alaric's death, Damon trains Jeremy in how to fight and kill vampires. There are even times when they protect each other. Damon does his best to keep Jeremy alive for Elena's sake as he is the only family she has left and multiple times when Damon has told Jeremy to kill him but he refuses to do so, proving they do care about each other. Currently, they have reverted to enemies due to Damon's uncaring persona and that he held him hostage and had a hand in his near-death. As of S6, Jeremy and Damon appear to mend cautious fences after his time off the deep end in S5. Damon gives Jeremy pot as a "going away" present when he supposedly leaves Mystic Falls to go to art school, but is in reality hunting vampires. Jeremy comes back to Mystic Falls after his sister's awaken, and he's now family with Damon, as he married Elena.

### Lorenzo St. John

Main article: Damon and Enzo

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Enzo is Damon's best friend. They were cellmates in 1953 where both of them were captured and used to be tortured by the Augustine society for scientific purposes. They both became close as they spend more time together. Enzo got an idea to free them from Augustine, however on the night when they executed their plan, Damon accidentally started a fire and was unable to free him from a vervain-coated cell. Damon then decided to turn off his humanity to escape the pain of leaving Enzo behind. They both meet again in 2011 and rekindle their friendship. In Season Six, Enzo works with Caroline to try and find a lead of how to get Damon and Bonnie back from the dead. Eventually, Damon managed to return to the living due to Bonnie's sacrifice and the two were reunited. They continued to work together fighting their enemies throughout the series. In season eight they eventually fought together to fight the Sirens Seline and Sybil. Things get worse between Damon and Enzo. When Damon gets a phone call from Bonnie. Informing him that Enzo was killed by Stefan. He was shocked and saddened by his death. This showed how much Damon cared about Enzo and their friendship.

### Other Relationships

Salvatore Family, Petrova Family, Gilbert Family, Saltzman Family, Mystic Falls Gang, Town Council, Augustine

* Damon and Lily (Mother and Son/Enemies)
* Stefan, Katherine, and Damon (Former Love Triangle)
* Damon and Katherine (Ex-Girlfriend/Enemies)
* Stefan, Elena, and Damon (Former Love Triangle)
* Damon, Elena and Alaric (Best Friends)
* Damon and Elizabeth (Close Friends/Former Allies)
* Damon and Caroline (Ex-Girlfriend/Friends/Allies)
* Damon and Matt (Allies/Frenemies/Former Enemies)
* Damon and Isobel (Ex-Fling/Enemies)
* John and Damon (Enemies)
* Damon and Lexi (Exes/Frenemies)
* Damon and Andie (Former Girlfriend)
* Damon and Elijah (Frenemies)
* Damon and Klaus (Partners-in-Crime/Frenemies)
* Damon and Rebekah (Ex-fling/Frenemies)
* Damon and Kol (Enemies)
* Damon and Meredith (Friends/Former Allies)
* Damon and Sage (Former Friends/Enemies)
* Damon and Atticus (Former Allies)
* Damon and Charlotte (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Damon and Galen (Former Enemies)
* Amara and Damon (Former Allies)
* Damon and Aaron (Former Enemies)
* Damon and Kai (Former Allies/Enemies)

## Appearances

The Vampire Diaries

* *A Darker Truth (Part 1)* (Archive Footage/Fangs Only)
* *A Darker Truth (Part 4)*

**Season One**
* *Pilot*
* *The Night of the Comet*
* *Friday Night Bites*
* *Family Ties*
* *You're Undead to Me*
* *Lost Girls*
* *Haunted*
* *162 Candles*
* *History Repeating*
* *The Turning Point*
* *Bloodlines*
* *Unpleasantville*
* *Children of the Damned*
* *Fool Me Once*
* *A Few Good Men*
* *There Goes the Neighborhood*
* *Let the Right One In*
* *Under Control*
* *Miss Mystic Falls*
* *Blood Brothers*
* *Isobel*
* *Founder's Day*

* *The Return*
* *Brave New World*
* *Bad Moon Rising*
* *Memory Lane*
* *Kill or Be Killed*
* *Plan B*
* *Masquerade*
* *Rose*
* *Katerina*
* *The Sacrifice*
* *By the Light of the Moon*
* *The Descent*
* *Daddy Issues*
* *Crying Wolf*
* *The Dinner Party*
* *The House Guest*
* *Know Thy Enemy*
* *The Last Dance*
* *Klaus*
* *The Last Day*
* *The Sun Also Rises*
* *As I Lay Dying*

* *The Birthday*
* *The Hybrid*
* *The End of the Affair*
* *Disturbing Behavior*
* *The Reckoning*
* *Smells Like Teen Spirit*
* *Ghost World*
* *Ordinary People*
* *Homecoming*
* *The New Deal*
* *Our Town*
* *The Ties That Bind*
* *Bringing Out The Dead*
* *Dangerous Liaisons*
* *All My Children*
* *1912*
* *Break On Through*
* *The Murder of One*
* *Heart of Darkness*
* *Do Not Go Gentle*
* *Before Sunset*
* *The Departed*

* *Growing Pains*
* *Memorial*
* *The Rager*
* *The Five*
* *The Killer*
* *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*
* *My Brother's Keeper*
* *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*
* *O Come, All Ye Faithful*
* *After School Special*
* *Catch Me If You Can*
* *A View to a Kill*
* *Into the Wild*
* *Down the Rabbit Hole*
* *Stand By Me*
* *Bring It On*
* *Because the Night*
* *American Gothic*
* *Pictures of You*
* *The Originals*
* *She's Come Undone*
* *The Walking Dead*
* *Graduation*

* *I Know What You Did Last Summer*
* *True Lies*
* *Original Sin*
* *For Whom the Bell Tolls*
* *Monster's Ball*
* *Handle with Care*
* *Death and the Maiden*
* *Dead Man on Campus*
* *The Cell*
* *Fifty Shades of Grayson*
* *500 Years of Solitude*
* *The Devil Inside*
* *Total Eclipse of the Heart*
* *No Exit*
* *Gone Girl*
* *While You Were Sleeping*
* *Rescue Me*
* *Resident Evil*
* *Man on Fire*
* *What Lies Beneath*
* *Promised Land*
* *Home*

* *I'll Remember*
* *Yellow Ledbetter*
* *Welcome to Paradise*
* *Black Hole Sun*
* *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*
* *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*
* *Do You Remember the First Time?*
* *Fade Into You*
* *I Alone*
* *Christmas Through Your Eyes*
* *Woke Up With a Monster*
* *Prayer For the Dying*
* *The Day I Tried To Live*
* *Stay*
* *Let Her Go*
* *The Downward Spiral*
* *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*
* *I Never Could Love Like That*
* *Because*
* *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*
* *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*
* *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*

* *Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*
* *Never Let Me Go*
* *Age of Innocence*
* *I Carry Your Heart With Me*
* *Live Through This*
* *Best Served Cold*
* *Mommie Dearest*
* *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*
* *Cold as Ice*
* *Hell Is Other People*
* *Things We Lost in the Fire*
* *Postcards from the Edge*
* *This Woman's Work*
* *Moonlight on the Bayou*
* *I Would for You*
* *Days of Future Past*
* *I Went to the Woods*
* *One Way or Another*
* *Somebody That I Used to Know*
* *Kill 'Em All*
* *Requiem for a Dream*
* *Gods and Monsters*
* *Hello, Brother*
* *Today Will Be Different*
* *You Decided That I Was Worth Saving*
* *An Eternity of Misery*
* *Coming Home Was a Mistake*
* *Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell*
* *The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You*
* *We Have History Together*
* *The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch*
* *Nostalgia's a Bitch*
* *You Made a Choice to Be Good*
* *What Are You?*
* *The Lies Will Catch Up To You*
* *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*
* *We're Planning a June Wedding*
* *I Was Feeling Epic*

The Originals

* *A Streetcar Named Desire* (Mentioned)
* *Behind the Black Horizon* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *High Water and a Devil's Daughter* (Indirectly Mentioned)

Legacies

* *Death Keeps Knocking On My Door* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True* (Mentioned in Wish Reality)
* *This Year Will Be Different* (Mentioned)
* *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Kai Parker Screwed Us* (Mentioned)

* *Salvatore: The Musical!* (Mentioned)
* *Do All Malivore Monsters Provide This Level of Emotional Insight?* (Mentioned)
* *We All Knew This Day Was Coming* (Document/Mentioned)
* *Someplace Far Away From All This Violence* (Mentioned)

## Stefan's Diaries

Damon comes home from the Confederate Army where he served with "General Groom's boys". He drinks and gambles as a human. Damon is often criticized by his father, or by his father to Stefan. Even though he is the second one to see Katherine, he is the first of the brothers to be with her. He wants to die rather than become a vampire but Stefan brings back the barmaid, Alice, for him to feed on. When they first turn, Damon is weaker than Stefan because he refuses to feed often. Damon often points out to Stefan that the blood is a weakness to him because it consumes him and makes him a killer, because he can't control his urges. Damon is better at compulsion than Stefan and it is assumed that Katherine taught him how to compel people. He kills Callie Gallagher, the daughter of a vampire hunter who captured Damon and used him as a circus act, when trying to kill Stefan.

## Novels

Main article: Damon Salvatore (novel)
As with the series, he initially serves as the main antagonist until the third book, where he becomes an anti-hero. In the books, he is born in Florence, Italy and is described as arrogant, charming and seductive, but he is known to keep his word. Ian Somerhalder's television portrayal is faithful to the handsome, hedonist of L. J. Smith's creation. Damon loves the undead life and all that it entails, and no one's ever quite sure if they should love him or hate him. He leaves countless broken hearts in his wake, but the heart Damon desires the most is Elena's.

## Name

* **Damon** is a masculine name of Greek origin, from the Greek *δαμαω (damao)* meaning "to tame" or "subdue".
* The name **Damon** is a Greek baby name. In Greek the **meaning** of the name **Damon** is: Gentle. To tame. A. In Greek legend **Damon** was a loyal friend of Pythias. Famous bearer in modern times: American author **Damon** Runyon.
* **Salvatore** is of Italian origin and means "savior".

## Trivia

* Damon is extremely fond of dancing.
* Damon killed the most main characters on The Vampire Diaries with a total of seven. He killed Vicki Donovan, Alaric Saltzman, Jeremy Gilbert, Matt Donovan, himself, Elena Gilbert, and Stefan Salvatore. However none of these deaths were permanent.
* Damon doesn't like Taylor Swift but is willing to listen to her to impress girls.
* In the books, Damon has the ability to shape-shift into a crow and wolf. In the series, Damon can control a crow and the mist but they were removed from the plot after the pilot.
* In the books, Damon owns a black Ferrari, and in the series, a blue 1967 Chevy Camaro convertible.
* Damon read a bit of one of the *Twilight* books at Caroline's and hated it, while reminiscing Anne Rice's vampire novels. Also, he said *Edward* is whipped.
* As a child, Damon used to have a pet turkey called Sammy, until his father made him eat her for Thanksgiving when he was twelve.
* Damon's ethnic background on the show is half-French (from his mother) and half-Italian (from his father). However, in the novels, both he and Stefan are of full Italian descent.
* Damon has read *Gone With The Wind* by Margaret Mitchell, a classic romance novel.
* Damon is a veteran of both the American Civil War (1861-65) as a soldier, Second Lieutenant, in the Confederate Army until 1864 and the US Army in World War II (1939-45) when he joined in 1942. During his time in the Civil War, Damon was a part of the 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment.
* Damon mentioned that he attended college, rather admitted to having been on a college campus, but never to having attended classes, at one point with Bree.
* In the books, Damon is constantly shown as a very strong and powerful vampire. He has many powers and it is always noted that he really is an exceptionally powerful vampire. In the show, he is as strong as an average vampire of his age, but he is not compared to others like in the books. All of his unique powers are rarely shown in the show, nor is how he is naturally powerful compared to others: However, he was an Augustine Vampire at one point, which granted him considerable more power than he had previously had before he was returned to normal.
* In the books, Damon is considered by others as very dangerous, sadistic, and cruel. In the series, Damon is manipulative and cruel, but changes to help Elena in the search for information about Katherine and protects her from being taken by Klaus; he helps protect Elena from constant hazards and makes a promise that will keep them safe and away from the tomb; Caroline as Damon gives his blood to her to prevent her death.
* Damon was the second vampire to be bitten by a werewolf after Rose and before Katherine, and the second to be cured, after Katherine.
* Damon in the books loves being a vampire and he tried to return to that state when he was accidentally turned into a human; Damon in the series seems to love his hedonist life style as a vampire but, as he said to Jessica, he misses being human beyond anything else.
* Out of the three regulars that he turned, Vicki, Caroline and Elena respectively, he killed only Vicki. Caroline was suffocated by Katherine and Elena drowned, because of Rebekah.
* Damon is the only known vampire whose blood was used to turn a mother and daughter into vampires, Isobel Flemming and her daughter Elena Gilbert. Damon is also the only known vampire whose blood was used to turn a father and daughter into vampires, Bill Forbes and his daughter Caroline Forbes.
* Damon is the only known character to have killed both a werewolf-vampire hybrid and a witch-vampire hybrid.
* It's implied by Julie Plec that Elena and Damon may have had children. Though they were not shown or mentioned in the series finale.

## Quotes

Damon (to Stefan) : " *Hello, brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*She took my breath away. Elena. She's a dead ringer for Katherine. Is it working, Stefan? Being around her, being in her world? Does it make you feel alive?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Tell me something, when's the last time you had something stronger than a squirrel?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Where's your ring? Oh, yeah, sun's coming up in a couple of hours, and, poof, ashes to ashes. Relax. It's right here."*
- *Pilot*

(To **Elena**) : *"You must be Elena. I'm Damon, Stefan's brother."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste. I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Yeah. Katherine, his girlfriend? Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now. Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I'm a fatalist."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Great gal. Whoo. She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Were you worried, Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game, "I'm a high school human"?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*That's for me to know and for you to. . .dot dot dot."*
- *The Night of the Comet*

Damon (to Caroline) : "*This could have gone a completely different way."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many... Adjectives."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I saw Elena today, BTW. That means "by the way." She was at cheer leading practice. She looked so perky in her little short shorts. Just... simmer down, I didn't even go near her. I've got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me, I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty palms. Wish me luck."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I like you. You know how to laugh. And you make Stefan smile, which is something I haven't seen in a very long time."*
(To **Elena**) : *"She was beautiful. A lot like you in that department. She was also very complicated and selfish and at times not very kind, but very sexy and seductive."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*That's not a problem. Because I've been invited in, and I'll come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with your little cheerleader whatever I want to do. Because that is what is normal to me."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me. And right now, You want to kiss me."*
Damon (to Stefan) : " *Nice trick with Elena. Let me guess, vervain in the necklace? I admit, I was a bit surprised. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion."*
Damon (to Stefan) : " *Guess I could just seduce her the old-fashioned way. Or I could just eat her."*
- *Friday Night Bites*

Damon (to Stefan) : " *Bad dream? Do you know how easy it was to get into your head just now? You really need some human blood. It might even the playing field. Football reference. Too soon."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well, the vervain keeps me out of her head. Maybe that's not my target. Believe it or not, Stefan, some girls don't need my persuasion. Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style and my charm and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*This is John Varvatos, dude. Dick move."*
Damon (to Caroline) : "*What's so special about this Bella girl? Edward's so whipped."*
Damon (to Caroline) : "*Because I live in the real world, where vampires burn in the sun."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I admire your effort, Stefan. Pouring yourself a drink then spiking the bottle with vervain. I'm not some drunk sorority chick. You can't roofie me. But I can't help but feel a little used. I thought we were having a moment. I have to go to the party angry. Who knows what I'll do?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"A woman, I guess. Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?"*
- *Family Ties*

Damon (to Stefan) : " *I'm stronger than you think."*
Damon (to Zach) : " *I don't guess I could talk you into bringing me a rabbit or something? I'd settle for Stefan's diet at this point."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You won. You got the bad guy. Now nothing could come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies will catch up to you, Stefan. As long as you keep lying to yourself about what you are."*
- *You're Undead to Me*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm at the sizzler. I had the buffet. Where's my ring?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Where are you, Stefan? I'm trapped at the house, and I'm getting really bored and really impatient, and I don't do bored and impatient. Bring me my ring. Damn it."*
Damon (to Vicki) : " *I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated."*
Damon (to Vicki) : "*Yeah, well, let's not make a big deal out of it. You drank my blood, I killed you, and now you have to feed in order to complete the process."*
(To **Elena**) : *"You're afraid of me. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess. Stefan finally fessed up."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes. Girl's gonna thank me for what I did to her."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Oh, tip for later, be careful who you invite in the house"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*If anyone's gonna kill you, it's gonna be me."*
- *Lost Girls*

Damon (to Tyler) : "*Dude? Really, dude?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Yeah, what is it? Is it a skunk? Saint Bernard? Bambi?"*
Damon (to Vicki) : "*You don't have to kill to feed. Just find someone really tasty and then erase their memory after wards. It's so easy."*
Damon (to Vicki) : "*Don't listen to him. He walks on a moral plane way out of our eye line. I say snatch, eat, erase."*
(To **Elena**) : *"And good morning to you, little miss " I'm on a mission"."*
(To **Elena**) : *"And how can you be so brave and stupid to call a vampire arrogant and glib?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"He's upstairs singing "the rain in Spain". Knock yourself out."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*She's been cooped up in your room all day, she's not Anne Frank."*
Damon (to Vicki) : "*Come on Vicki, live a little. No pun intended."*
Damon (to Mrs. Lockwood): "*Let me escort you to the school. It's not safe out there, alone. I mean I've seen ten vampires tonight."*
- *Haunted*

Damon (to Lexi) : "*Oh, you mean you didn't come all this way to see me?"*
Damon (to Lexi) : "*Teach me to be good."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Oh, you're right. Poor Stefan persecuted throughout eternity by his depraved brother; does it get tiring being so righteous?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"Ouch! Well, consider this psychopath's feelings get hurt."*
Damon (to Lexi) : "*Okay, I have a diabolical master plan."*
Damon (to Lexi) : "*If I told you it wouldn't be very diabolical, now would it?"*
- *162 Candles*

Damon (to Stefan): " *I got the town off our back. It was for the greater good but I'm sorry. And to prove it, I'm not gonna feed on a human for at least a week. I'll adopt a Stefan diet, only nothing with feathers."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*And I can go back to sulking and Elena-longing and forehead brooding. This is fun, I like this."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Yeah. I'm done. "That's just like you, Damon. Always have to have the last word." "*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I don't, Damon. I can't trust you to be a nice guy. You kill everybody, and you're so mean. You're so mean, and... You're really hard to imitate, and then I have to go to that lesser place.."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm on edge. Crash diet, and I'm trying to keep a low profile."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm onto you. Reverse psychology. It's a little transparent, but I admire the effort."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm impressed Stefan. Fun with Booze and darts, sentimental with football, and now starry night. What do you want, Stefan?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I could rip your heart out and not think twice about it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I have a bigger surprise, Stefan. I'm gonna bring her back."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*There's a tomb underneath the church. The spell sealed Katherine in that tomb, protecting her."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*If that's what you wanna call it. She's been trapped in a mystical holding cell for the last century and a half, but you're an expert on starving a vampire, so how do you think she's doing, Stefan? Did you know that witches can use celestial events to draw energy into their magic? Me either. But in order to give the crystal its power, Emily used the comet that was passing overhead, and in order for that crystal to work again..."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Downside, Long time in between comets and a couple of hiccups along the way with the crystal but the comet passed, and I got the crystal. And then Caroline got the crystal, and now Bonnie has the crystal and here we are."*
Damon (to Emily) : "*I don't care about them. I just want Katherine."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Katherine never compelled me. I knew everything. Every step of the way. It was real for me. I'll leave now."*
- *History Repeating*

Damon (to Stefan): "*You're right, Stefan. I only have you. So, where are we going?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*But we're a team! We could travel the world together. We could try out for "The Amazing Race"."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Get off of me. A--don't touch me. B--if I had, I wouldn't have been so obvious about it. C-- There's another vampire in town."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Let the adults handle this, Stefan."*
Damon (to Logan) : "*Well, you probably love her. Anything you felt before will be magnified now. You're gonna have to learn how to control that."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Logan Fell is a vampire and when I find him again, I'm gonna destroy him limb by limb."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*No, I'm not okay. I was ambushed. I was shot. Now, I'm vengeful. Just got to find him."*
Damon (to Logan) : "*Payback's a bitch, isn't it?"*
Damon (to Logan) : "*I don't side with anyone. You pissed me off. I want you dead."*
Damon (to Logan) : "*If you're lying to me, I will end you."*
- *The Turning Point*

(To **Elena**) : *"Oh you were so much more fun when you were asleep."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, you're IN Georgia. Without your magical little necklace, I might add. I can very easily make you agreeable."*
(To **Elena**) : *"A little place right outside of Atlanta. Oh, come on, Elena. You don't wanna go back right now. Do you? What's the rush? Time-out. Trust me. Your problems are still going to be there when you get home. Look. Step away from your life for 5 minutes. 5 minutes!"*
(To **Elena**) : *"If I've never met him, I wouldn't know him. I mean, it's not like we all hang out together at the Vamp Bar & Grill."*
Damon (to Bree) : "*I rocked your world."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Vampires can't procreate. But we love to try."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Dead? It's not such a bad word. As long as I keep a healthy diet of blood in my system, my body functions pretty normally."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Sorry I can't unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol."*
Damon (to Bree) : "*And I believe you. My dear, sweet Bree. That's why I'm almost sorry."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, you're not the worst company in the world, Elena. You should give yourself more credit!"*
(To **Elena**) : *"You were there in the road, all damsel-in-distress-like. And, I knew it would piss off Stefan. And... you're not the worst company in the world, Elena."*
- *Bloodlines*

Damon (to Stefan): "*You're pathetic when you're fishing."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm not surprised. Man could barely spell his own name."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*He's my little brother. I'm his legal guardian, hence the chaperoning."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Well, his attendance record's a little spotty. Family drama."*
Damon (to Noah) : "*Hey, dickhead"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Look at you putting the pieces together. Good for you. I was half-right. Well, it's out there now. Let the games begin."*
- *Unpleasantville*

Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*Rise and shine, sleepyheads."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*Oh, stop being smutty."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*If I see something I haven't seen before, I'll throw a dollar at it."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*So, in order to open the tomb, we need to find the journal to get the grimoire to undo the spells. First things first-since you are Elena Gilbert, you're on journal duty."*
Damon (to Giuseppe) (Flashback) : "*Well, I never asked for your respect."*
Damon (to Giuseppe) (Flashback) : "*You're being cryptic now, father. Why don't you just say the word?"*
Damon (to Jenna) : "*My father never approved of anyone I dated, which only made me want them more. Of course. What about you?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, yeah, I was deliberately trying to get to the sink."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Hot trumps weird, trust me."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*This is an interesting turn of events."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*So am I. For thinking for even a second that I could trust you."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*Of course I was going to do it by myself, because the only one I can count on is me! You made sure of that many years ago, Stefan. But you...You had me fooled."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Give me the book, Stefan, or I'm snapping her neck. And you and I will have a vampire girlfriend."*
- *Children of the Damned*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Yeah, I got that from your 600 voice mails."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well, then at least you know you'll see her again."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I mean this sincerely. I hope Elena dies."*
Damon (to Anna) : "*Got a hot date or are you just plan on nabbing the entire Gilbert family?"*
Damon (to Anna) : "*I told you. I work alone."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I'm gonna have to change the locks. You stage a jailbreak?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"Fool me once, shame on you."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I didn't compel you in Atlanta because we were having fun. I wanted it to be real. I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."*
Damon (to Caroline) : "*Long story, no time to tell it."*
Damon (to Matt) : "*Matt, there's a reason we haven't met. You and I are going that way. "*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going. Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap. Admit it - you can't wait to get rid of me."*
Damon (to Sheila and Bonnie) : "*You think I'm gonna go in there by myself so you can seal me in?"*
- *Fool Me Once*

Damon (to a girl he is feeding on) : "*Oh, so much better than your friends. But shh. Don't tell them. They might get jealous"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You're worried about me. That's nice. Don't be. There's no need. I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be? I spent the last 145 years with one goal: get in that tomb. I succeeded. Granted, Katherine wasn't in there to be rescued, but why dwell? You know, it's so liberating not having a master plan, because I can do whatever the hell I want."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Relax. I haven't killed anyone in too long."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Nothing is important, not anymore."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Great chat. I have to go and exploit some women in the name of grief, which I'm sure you understand."TTFN", said the Tri-Delt. Heh. "*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Behold the teacher. Don't you have some papers to grade?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Well, most things in life are. Sober's depressing."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*You say that like you know me."*
Damon (to Liz) : "*Have you ever been so bent on someone, just to have your heart ripped out by them?"*
Damon (to Liz) : "*Is this what you do when there's no, um... Vampires? Organize bachelor raffles?"*
Damon (to Liz) : "*You know, a room full of women clamoring to win a date with me. Sounds tasty."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Dashing? Gorgeous? Irresistible?"*
Damon (to Elena) : "*No reason why. Do you know that I am one of Mystic Falls' most eligible bachelors?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"What can I do for you? I'm a barrel of favors today. It's my new found purpose -- how can I help people?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Where'd our girlfriend go?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Hey, are you coming? The Real Housewives of Mystic Falls await."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Oh, yeah. L.A., New York. Couple of years ago, I was in North Carolina. Near the Duke campus, actually. I think—I think Alaric went to school there. Didn't you, Ric? Yeah, 'cause I-- I know your wife did. I had a drink with her once. She was—she was a great girl. I ever tell you that? Cause she was Delicious. Mmm..."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*She came to me. All pathetic, looking for vampires. There was something about her, something I liked. There was something special."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*No, I slept with her because I liked her. I turned her because she begged me to. Yeah. But you knew that, too, didn't you? Hmm. I guess she wasn't happy at home, wasn't happy with life in general, wasn't happy with you."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Ah, this is a shame. We're kindred spirits, abandoned by the women we love. Unrequited love sucks."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Sounds like I got a lung. Which means I get to sit here and watch you die."*
- *A Few Good Men*

Damon (to Pearl) : "*Ever hear of knocking?"*
Damon (to Pearl) : "*What, are you crazy? It was 1864. Wake up woman. The world has moved on."*
Damon (to Pearl) : "*You wouldn't even know where she was. You've been under the ground for the last century and a half"*
Damon (to Pearl) : "*I no longer have any desire to see Katherine ever again. And there's no way in hell I'm gonna play the role of your little minion."*
Damon (to Kelly) : "*On the contrary, I'm very old."*
Damon (to Kelly and Jenna) : "*You'd be surprised. My primary reason for existence has abandoned me and after today's events, the remains of the shaky ground that I walk on are about to go kaboom. Let's get hammered."*
- *There Goes the Neighborhood*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night."*
Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : "*It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice. She's scary. Besides, she's gonna help me get Katherine back."*
(To **Elena**) : *"How long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I've got 2 liters of soccer mom in the fridge. No?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*All right. Give my regards to the squirrels."*
Damon (to Pearl) : "*Pearl! Open this door. I swear to God I'll bust through and rip your head off."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Let me recap, You tried to kill me. I defended myself. You died. Then according to my brother, your ring brought you back to life. Am I leaving anything out?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Am I? Why don't you ask her for yourself? Coward."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Oh, I understand. I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I can't protect you, Elena. I don't know how many vampires there are in there. That's how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with your safety. Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from including Stefan. I know. I get it. I understand."*
Damon (to Pearl) : "*Your merry little band of vampires spent the day torturing my brother."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*That was fun. Oh, don't look at me like that. I know you hate me. Guess what? Everyone hates me. But you can't deny it. We were bad ass."*
- *Let The Right One In*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Oh come on. Just drink already. Come on, this self-detox is not natural."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*How long did it take you to wean yourself of it the last time you indulged?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I don't get it; you know, you don't have to kill to survive. That's what blood banks are for. I haven't hunted in a human in...God way too long"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well, what are those holier than thou reasons? You know, we never actually discussed this. You know, I'd- I'd love to hear this story."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You do? Well, then you should just carry on, making the rest of us vampires look bad."*
(To **Elena**) : *"No Elena, I will not go to your bedroom with you."*
(To **Elena**) : *"It is what it is Elena. The Stefan you know was "good behavior Stefan", ‘reign it in Stefan", "fight against his nature into an annoying excessive level Stefan" but if you think there isn't another part to this then you have not been paying attention."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, he doesn't want to be me. That doesn't mean that deep down that he's not."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Come on, don't be a downer, it's a party for the founding families! That would be us. That would be rude to skip it"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Oh I still do. I just love that they love me."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Have I entered an alternate universe where Stefan is fun?"*
Damon (to Liz) : "*You know I love a woman in uniform but I have to side with this one. You look...you look smashing"*
(To **Elena**) : *"Really? "Oh but sheriff, someone buried her. Who would do that?" I know I know! Me! I mean I could compel him but he's wearing vervain"*
Damon (to John) : "*You know that I could rip your throat out before anyone would notice?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You want to hear the bad news or the really bad news?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Yeah, and that would be a big coincidence if he didn't just came back from the death 5 minutes ago. Where the hell did you get that ring?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*We have a problem Stefan and when I say problem I mean global crisis."*
- *Under Control*

Damon (to John) : "*How lucky for us, we have John."*
Damon (to John) : "*John, whatever I can do to help keep this town safe; even if it means spending time with you"*
Damon (to Anna) : "*I suppose I should be grateful, you learned how to use the bell"*
Damon (to Anna) : "*You're playing house with half of a tomb of really pissed off vampires. What do you think was going to happen?"*
Damon (to Anna) : "*Well, it's a coincidence, ‘cause I don't do forgiveness. Just run along. And if you're going continue playing house with these little vampires pets, you might wanna stop robbing the blood bank dry because they're onto it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I don't want to brag but I would definitely take responsibility for this new and improved you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Fine, whatever man, drink up. Just remember, we're trying to keep a low profile. Why don't you just walk up to Sheriff Forbes and ask her to tap a vein?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Who do you think you're talking to? I know what it's like. That Jekyll and Hyde feeling, that switch, sometimes it goes off and you snap. Right now is not a good time for me to be worried about you snapping."*
Damon (to John) : "*Go for it! I'll kill every last one of them. Then I'll sever your hand, pull your ring off, and I'll kill you too. Do you understand that?"*
Damon (to Anna) : "*Ah, nostalgia's a bitch."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I was just filling Elena on your extra-curricular activities."*
- *Miss Mystic Falls*

(To **Elena**) : *"I couldn't have him running around chewing on people. While the town was looking for vampires, now, could I?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"You're a complete nuisance."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Brought you something to eat...100% Stefan diet approved. You know what will happen if you don't eat. You'll get all rotting and crusty."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Stefan likes, Puppy blood, Little golden retriever puppies with cute, floppy ears. That's his favorite."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I don't have any friends, Elena."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*This is where it gets tricky. I may or may not be able to get in."*
Damon (to Alaric) : " *"Let's not not kill anyone tonight." Your words. Just pointing that out."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Let me ask you a question. In all this important soul-searching and cleansing of the demons of Stefan's past, did you ever manage to get the rest of the story?"*
Damon (to Stefan) (Flashback) : "*You got what you wanted, You and me for all eternity. But here this, brother. I will make it an eternity of misery for you"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*No, Stefan, thank you. You're back on Bambi blood, and I'm the big bad ass brother again. All is right in the world."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Witches... Judgy little things."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Cause I didn't want you to know. Cause I hated you and I still do."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*But not because you forced me to turn. Because she(Katherine) turned you. It was just supposed to be me, Stefan just me."*
- *Blood Brothers*

(To **Elena**) : *"He's just back to boring, straight-laced, off the junk. You've successfully cured him of anything that was interesting about his personality."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Did words completely escape you?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*I'm not going to kill her in a crowd restaurant"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*You can turn it off, like a button you can press. I mean, Stefan's different. He wants the whole human experience. He wants to feel every episode of How I Met Your Mother, so he shuts his feelings out. The problem is, as a vampire, your instinct is not to feel. Isobel chose the easier road — no guilt, no shame, no regret. I mean, come on, if you could turn it off, wouldn't you?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Of course I have Rick. It's why I'm so fun to be around."*
Damon (to Cherie) : "*Oh Oh Cherie, you won again. I hope I'm wearing my good underwear"*
Damon (to Isobel) : "*Well you caused quite a stir, you blew into town. Saw everyone except for the man who made you. I'm a little hurt. "*
Damon (to Isobel) : "*Now that I have your attention, listen up. You do not come into my town; threaten the people I care about. Going after Elena? Bad move. You leave her alone or I will rip you to bits because I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message. Katherine wants something from me? You tell that little bitch to come get it herself."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I'm not gonna give the device to Isobel so she could give it to John who is going to turn it to kill me. I like being a living dead person."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I don't trust you, I tried to kill you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Would you like one? Say it, whatever it is, purge, get it out."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Same here, Elena is a very good friend. Actually, she might qualify as my only… friend. Is that a problem?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I don't need any proof, that's a DNA test for John, Elena and Maury Povich to deal with but I know how well you deal with these bombs so… Sleep tight."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Oh and when you do tell Elena and she needs a friend to talk to about anything, I'm here for her."*
- *Isobel*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Why wouldn't I be here? Bonnie deactivated the Gilbert invention, Isobel is gone and it's Founder's Day! I'm here to eat cotton candy and steal your girl."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Oh, you started this Stefan with that whole "I'm insecure, leave Elena alone" speech. I'm enjoying that."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You have no sense of humor, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : " *'Damon humor'… Hey look, I get it, I get it. I'm the better, hotter, superior choice and you're scared, now that Katherine is out of the picture, that I'm gonna turn all my attention to Elena. But don't worry, Elena is not Katherine."*
(To **Elena**) : *"I like you better like this. The period look, it… didn't suit you."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Actually Elena, it is a compliment of the highest order."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Good cop, bad cop, I like it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Oh, there's only one "do-gooder" role available. My bad. I'm sorry"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*What I did to Vicki was wrong. I'm sorry for my part."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Life sucks either way, Jeremy. But, at least if you're a vampire, you don't have to feel bad about it if you don't want to."*
Damon (to Katherine): "*You know, I came to this town wanting to destroy it. Tonight, I found myself wanting to protect it. How does that happen? I'm not a hero, Elena. I don't do good. It's not in me."*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Because she did it for you. Which means that somewhere along the way, you decided that I was worth saving. And I wanted to thank you for that."*
- *Founder's Day*

(To **Elena**) : *"I know this is probably the last thing you want to do right now but we should talk about what happened tonight.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Really? Earlier, on the porch, we were talking, all cathartic, feelings exposed. Come on, we kissed, Elena."*
(To **Elena**) : *"If you want to forget what happened fine but I can't.*"
Damon: (to Stefan) : "*Woman certainly knows how to make an entrance.*"
Damon: (to Stefan) : "*Katherine wants you dead; there's zero you can do about it; you would be dead but you're not. So clearly she has other plans.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*She's Katherine. She loves to play games and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's been up to before she wants you to know.*"
Damon (to Elena) : "*Yes Bonnie, I would love to know why a non-vampire was tortured by the vampire torture device that you let John Gilbert use against us. Speaking of your guilt, how's Caroline?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I kissed you; I thought you kissed me back. Doppelgänger hijinks ensued. How do you think I'm doing?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You're scared. You think Katherine is gonna send me off the deep end, don't you? I don't need her for that.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You know, why - why is it such a surprise that I would kiss you?*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Brother, don't you worry, our bond is unbreakable.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Don't pout. It's not attractive on a woman your age.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I have a question. Answer it and it's back to fireworks and rockets red glare. Answer it right and I'll forget the last one hundred and forty five years that I've spent missing you. I'll forget how much I loved you, I'll forget everything and we can start over. This could be our defining moment because we have the time. That's the beauty of eternity. I just need the truth, just once.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"That's me, your trusty bodyguard. Calm in crisis.*"
Damon (to Elena) : "*No, I'm not upset. Upset is an emotion specific to those who care.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You're surprised that I thought you would kiss me back? You can't imagine that I believed that you would want to?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"That what we've been doing here means something? You're the liar, Elena. There is something going on between the two of us and you know it.*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*You want to shut out the pain? It's the easiest thing in the world. The part of you that cares just goes away, all you have to do is flip the switch and snap!*"
- *The Return*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Are you worried that one day, all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk.*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*A hundred and fifty years too old."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her and A plus B equals...*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Because Katherine is a manipulative nasty little slut.*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Look, I don't do the big brother thing very well. Sorry, I don't have any milk and cookies to offer you.*"
- *Brave New World*

Damon (to Alaric) : "*I've been on this planet one hundred and sixty some odd years, never came across one. If werewolves exist, where the hell are they?*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Rick, we need to know what we are dealing with. If this wolf men thing is true, I've seen enough movies to know it's not good. It means Mason Lockwood is a real life Lon Chaney and that little Tyler punk may just very well be Lon Chaney junior which means Bella Lugosi, meaning me, is totally screwed."*
(To **Elena**) : *"How are you doing back there? You know, this whole pretending to hate me thing is getting a little silly.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Elena, I saw the ring! It's a big tacky thing, it's hard to miss*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Pull it out. I can't reach it Elena. Just pull the damn thing out. It hurts.....That bitch is dead.*"
Damon (to Elena and Vanessa) : "*I'd be extra nice to me right now.*"
Damon (to Elena and Vanessa) : "*You know, if you want to see me naked, all you have to do is ask.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You're not gonna be able to hate me forever.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You have every right to hate me, I understand but you hated me before and we became friends. It would suck if that was gone forever. So, is it? Have I lost you forever?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I thought friends don't manipulate friends. You and Katherine have a lot more in common than just your looks.*"
- *Bad Moon Rising*

(To **Elena**) : *"So, this is where you spend your time when you're not stabbing people in the back.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*Really? That's weird ‘cause I'm a dick.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*Really? I always pegged you for a lone wolf.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Bad century.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I don't do jealous. Not with you, not anymore.*"
- *Memory Lane*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Stefan, please tell me you don't seriously think a hand shake just solved our problem.*"
Damon (to Caroline) : "*Relationships are about communication."*
- *Kill or Be Killed*

Damon (to Jeremy) : "*And you're a Gilbert and you just can't help yourself. Wow. Your search for life's purpose is as obvious as it is tragic.*"
Damon (to Alaric and Jeremy) : "*If we start believing in some supernatural witchy-woo legend from a picture book, we're idiots. "*
Damon (to Alaric and Jeremy) : "*It's the same book that says a werewolf bite kills a vampire. Ignoring it would make me an even bigger idiot. Let's go.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*That's the beauty of Katherine; she's always up to something.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*He (Jeremy) is playing Indiana Jones. He involved himself.*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*How inconvenient. Although, let's talk about that little witchy juju thing you do with me. You know, the fun one where my brain burst into flames? What is that?*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Mason Lockwood's a werewolf, Katherine's evil. They're the bad guys. Really? You're gonna play morality police with me right now? Let me put it to you another way: they're a threat to Elena. So you, witch, are gonna get over yourself and help us*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*You can hurt, good to know. I was afraid you were gonna be some beast mass with no affinity for pain.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*Now, now I get it. You're just stupid. Katherine doesn't love you. She's using you, you moron.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*You know, I look at you I see myself. A less dashing, less intelligent version.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*Oh, I know! I've been where you are. But Katherine will only rip your heart out. Let me do it for her.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Aww, did I put a kink in your master plan? I'm so sorry.*"
- *Plan B*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well that is the fork in the road between you and me my friend. I don't hesitate.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*What? Who's hesitating now? Hey! Don't do this to me! This woman ruined our lives, she destroyed us! Tonight it ends. We can do it together. I got your back. Alright?"*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*And the evil slut vampire who only loved herself.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Sorry about your pet wolf, probably should have kept him on a tighter leash.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*The second the spell is lifted, I'm gonna drive a stake right through your heart.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Death would have been too kind.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Then I'll protect her(Elena), while you rot in hell.*"
- *Masquerade*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Can we not do the whole road trip bonding thing? The cliche of it all makes me itch.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*The elephant in the room lets out a mighty roar."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well, because what I'm about to say is… probably the most selfish thing I have ever said in my life.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Elena and it's because I love you that… I can't be selfish with you. Why you can't know this. I don't deserve you but my brother does. God, I wish you didn't have to forget this but you do.*"
- *Rose*

Damon (to Rose) : "*Alright Rosebud. I need some answers. Oh please don't tell me you're crying ‘cause your buddy Trevor lost his head.*"
Damon (to Rose) : "*Just one thing. If you're setting me up in any way, I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat. It's something I'm very good at.*"
- *Katerina*

Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Gee, thanks, you 16-year-old child.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Who's gonna save your life while you're out making decisions?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"Get your ass out the door before I throw you over my shoulder and carry you out myself.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"What are you talking about? I was too busy saving you from your crazy kamikaze mission.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You martyr yourself in a tomb and I get partnered with a semi-competent witch. Wonderful.*"
- *The Sacrifice*

(To **Elena**) : *"You should really lock your door. Oh, come on, pouty. At least give me two points for ingenuity.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Yes Elena. I find hilarity in the lengths that I have to go to repeatedly save your life."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Well A: he can't do anything about it; and B: ... what I just said.*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*No, she's on moonstone duty and I'm on Elena patrol.*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Vampire Barbie asked me if she could handle it, and I said, why not? Figured if she screwed up, he'll bite her and then I'll be rid of two of my problems.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Hey you know, you should get out, enjoy the sun. Oh wait, you can't.*"
- *By the Light of the Moon*

Damon (to Rose) : "*You know, if you're gonna be morn, I'm just gonna kill you myself just to put me out of your misery.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Death happens. We come, we go. Sooner she dies the better. It's gloomy as hell in here."*
Damon (to Jules) : "*You won't live to see another full moon unless… unless you tell me how to cure a wolf bite and then I won't kill you.*"
Damon (to Rose) : "*I‘m not nice. I'm mean. I like it*"
(To **Elena**) : *"What do you want to hear? That I cared about Rose? That I'm upset? Well I didn't and I'm not.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I feel Elena, okay? And it sucks! What sucks even more is that it was supposed to be me. Jules was coming after me.*"
Damon (to Jessica) : "*Hi Jessica. I have a secret, I have a big one and I never said it out loud. I mean, what's the point? It's not gonna change anything, it's not gonna make me good, made me an adopt a puppy. I can't be what other people want me to be, what she wants me to be. This is who I am, Jessica.*"
Damon (to Jessica) : "*But I have to, Jessica because I'm not human and I miss it. I miss it more than anything in the world! That is my secret but there is only so much hurt a man can take.*"
- *The Descent*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*You brought back John Gilbert? That was your big "Save Elena" move?*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*We're not that desperate, Stefan. The guy tried to barbecue me!"*
Damon (to Stefan) : " *I am still waiting for the part where John Gilbert is the answer.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Great work Stefan. Top notch. As if I didn't have enough problems.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*It means I care, Stefan. It means I'm changing, evolving into a man capable of greatness. Better watch your back, because I may just have to go get a hero-hairdo of my own, and steal your thunder.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I'm joking. Okay, I'm a little serious.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Yeah, but stupid is so much more fun.*"
Damon (to John) : "*It's an acquired taste. I don't see that magic little ring on your stitched finger, so if you know something about Klaus, you better start talking, or I will kill you in your sleep.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*My glass is all full, Andie. Thank you.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I'm steering clear of all women at the moment.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Trust me, it's in the best interest of women everywhere.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"He's a werewolf, he needs to die. I'm willing to kill him, it's win-win.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You need to stop doing that. Assuming that I'll play the good guy because it's you who's asking.*"
Damon (to John) : "*First dad duty: ground your daughter. Keep her here.*"
Damon (to Jules) : "*My brother the peacemaker. Since Stefan got here before me I'm gonna let him try it his way before I resort to my way, which is a little bloodier.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*I like a woman who knows what she wants.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*I'm not that tall. I need a distraction.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*You see, the thing is, Miss Sexy-Reporter-Girl, I have a problem I need help with. It's really messing with my mind.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*I'm in love with a woman I can never have.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*Yeah. but that's not the point. The point is, I'm in love with her, and that drives me crazy. I'm not in control.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*I don't trust myself around anyone, Andie. I'm bad, Andie. I do things. I kill people.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*Because I like it. It's in my nature, it's who I am. But then, I have to stay together to protect her, and she wants me to be the better man, which means I can't be who I am. Do you see the problem I'm having, Andie?*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*Just stop talking. Just kiss me, be my distraction.*"
- *Daddy Issues*

Damon (to Alaric) : "*My new girlfriend --Andie Star, action news.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*I want to know his endgame before I kill him, but I do think it's time Elijah and I officially met."*
Damon (to Elijah) : "*You can't kill me, man. It's not part of the deal.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*If I did, who would report her death?*"
Damon (to Jules) : "*Oh, if you only knew the irony of this moment right now. Let me tell you how this is gonna go. You're gonna torture me, I don't talk, someone loses a heart. Last time, it was your boy Mason.*"
Damon (to Jules) : "*Get over it, honey. You're never gonna get it.*"
- *Crying Wolf*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well, I showered. I shaved. Had breakfast. Very relaxed.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Yes, Stefan, I've become you. How tragic for both of us. Got to run. I've a murder to plan. Busy day."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*You sounded jealous. Sound a bit jealous?*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed awesome ones.*"
- *The Dinner Party*

Damon (to Katherine) : "*You're the unwanted house guest. Go feed yourself.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*So you chose Stefan. Of course you did."*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I don't need your help. I don't want it.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Katherine, there are six other bedrooms in this house. Go find one.*"
- *The House Guest*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*We'll have to put that on our list of things to do today. Harness ancient dead-witch power.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Don't mistake the fact that we haven't set you on fire in your sleep for trust."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Founders thought it was poetic burning her where the other witches burned.*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Because I tried to save her. Emily was just my key to getting Katherine back before I knew what a nasty little bitch Katherine was.*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Whatever witchy prank you're playing, don't. It's not funny.*"
Damon (to Elena & Stefan): "*Which is why we need to take some precautions, 'cause we got played, all of us.*"
- *Know Thy Enemy*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Something tells me he's not going to be 16 and pimply.*"
Damon (to Elena & Stefan) : "*That was a lame, cheap shot. He's just trying to bait us."*
Damon (to Elena & Stefan) : "*It's a party, people. Blend. Let him come to us.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Cool as a cucumber. Come on, remember the last decade dance? The vampires were all, "rargh!" And you were all, "aahh!"*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I've got moves you've never seen.*"
Damon (to Bonnie): "*The part about you having a 50-50 shot of surviving? Is that true?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You need to listen to me, and prepare for what I'm about to say. Bonnie had to die. Klaus using Alaric's body was a total surprise. She wasn't prepared for that. And he wasn't going to stop, and we weren't going to be able to stop him until he knew she was dead. He had to believe it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*How do I know when you're going to go blabbing things to your girlfriend?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*See, that's why I didn't tell you. 'Cause you would have never been able to do it. Don't get me wrong, Stefan. I don't mind being the bad guy. I'll make all the life and death decisions while you're busy worrying about collateral damage. I'll even let her(Elena) hate me for it. But at the end of the day, I'll be the one to keep her alive."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Let me be clear about something. If it comes down to you and the witch again, I will gladly let Bonnie die. I will always choose you."*
- *The Last Dance*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*That might be your plan. Mine's better.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Wow, I'd love to lend you a hand, but you wouldn't want me doing anything stupid."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You and your girlfriend are calling the shots. I'm just backing off, Stefan.*"
Damon (to Andie) : "*Splitting from the team. Going rogue. Come on.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*You owe me. And I will collect.*"
Damon (to Stefan): "*That's twice today you've stood in my way. I wouldn't try a third.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Don't start with me, Stefan. She's(Andie's) just my distraction."*
Damon (to Stefan,Elijah & Elena) : "*You can all go to hell."*
Damon (to Andie) : "*I'm upset. And you know what happens when I'm upset. You have to leave."*
- *Klaus*

(To **Elena**) : *"I'll write her a great eulogy.*"
Damon (to Elijah) : "*That's your plan? A magical witch potion with no expiration date?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I'm surrounded by idiots. I need all the help I can get.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Well, then, that makes you the biggest idiot of them all.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I can't lose you.*"
Damon (to Stefan): "*Go ahead; wish me an eternity of misery. Believe me, you'll get over it.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Admit it. You just wish you had the balls to do it yourself."*
Damon (to Klaus) : "*Thanks for the advice. I don't suppose I could talk you into a postponement, by any chance, huh?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*You think if I took his werewolf out of the equation, she(Elena) might... Get over the fact that I tried to turn her into a vampire?"*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*You should like this. It's going to buy another month of your pathetic life."*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Imagine how much fun that will be competing with Elena for Stefan's love for, I don't know, forever."*
Damon (to Matt) : "*Listen, man. Not a good time to play the hero."*
Damon (to Matt) : "*You're lucky I already screwed up once today or you'd be dead."*
Damon (to Caroline) : "*Your boyfriend's outside with a rifle loaded with wooden bullets. You have some explaining to do."*
Damon (to Matt) : "*He better not wolf out on us."*
- *The Last Day*

Damon (to Katherine) : "*You don't get a good-bye.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Us ending up on good terms isn't exactly on my bucket list, Katherine."*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I helped you. You owed me. Now when Klaus dies, you're going to walk out of here without a scratch and Elena's aunt dies. Somehow you're the only one that wins. How'd that happen?*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Enjoy an eternity alone, Katherine.*"
Damon (to John): "*When Klaus kills Elena in the sacrifice, she will come back to life. Granted, as the thing you hate most in the world, but no one really cares what you think.*"
Damon (to John) : "*You do not want to mess with me right now."*
Damon (to John) : "*I know, John. I took her choice, destroyed her future. Trust me, I get it. It actually gets worse."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*We have a witch. She kills Klaus. No one has to die!"*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*I'm fine. Well, that's my brother for you. Always cleaning up my messes."*
Damon (to John) : "*Her soul, really? You're going to put your faith in some act of god mumbo jumbo?"*
(To **Elena**) : *"If you come back as a vampire, I'll stake you myself. So don't. Because I can't stand the idea of you hating me forever."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*And then what's the plan, Stefan? The curse is broken. How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf vamp and his two-faced older brother?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*You want to do something for me? Keep this from Elena. Last thing she needs is another grave to mourn."*
- *The Sun Also Rises*

(To **Elena**) : *"Please. Elena, feeding you my blood, I was wrong. And I know I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I need it.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Sure. Of course, take all the time you need."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*What's the plan, Superman?*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Always the hero, Stefan. Just tell me good-bye, get it over with.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*It feels worse. My subconscious is haunting me, Rick. Please tell me you have something for that.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*He's(Stefan's) doing what he always does, trying to right the wrongs of the past.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*You should want me dead. I'm the reason Jenna got killed.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Oh, sure you do. Let's not forget I turned your wife into a vampire. You must really hate me for that one.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Kill me. Please.*"
Damon (to Katherine) (Flashback) : "*Wait for me. I want to come with you.*"
Damon (to Katherine) (Flashback) : "*Then let me chase you forever. Feed me your blood.*"
Damon (to Katherine) (Flashback) : "*I choose you, Katherine.*"
Damon (to Elena/Katherine) : "*I have to... If we are to be together forever.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"It's not okay. It's not okay. All those years, I've blamed Stefan. No one forced me to love her(Katherine). It was my own choice.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I made the wrong choice. You tell Stefan I'm sorry. Okay?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"This is even more pitiful than I thought.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I've made a lot of choices that have gotten me here. I deserve this. I deserve to die.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I do, Elena. It's okay. 'Cause if I'd have chosen differently, I wouldn't have met you. I'm so sorry. Done so many things to hurt you.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I know you love Stefan. And it will always be Stefan. But I love you. You should know that.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You should have met me in 1864. You would have liked me.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*You got free. And you still came here?*"
- *As I Lay Dying*

(To **Elena**) : *"Yeah, you should learn to knock. What if I was...indecent?*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*It's his signature; there's a reason they call him the ripper. Feeds so hard he blacks out and rips them apart, but then when he's done, he feels remorse. It's the damnedest thing, he put the bodies back together."*
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Covering their tracks. Clearly they have no interest staying in the dark, but I do.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*I love high school parties.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Saw your latest artwork in Tennessee. Walking a fine line there my friend. Keep that up and there will be no saving you.'"*
(To **Elena**) : *"No, you stop, Elena! Stop looking for him. Stop waiting for him to come home. Just stop! Stefan is gone and he's not coming back. Not in your lifetime.*"
- *The Birthday*

(To **Elena**) : *"Yeah, well, busy dating a dead fake girlfriend and all."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Happy Birthday, Elena. Stefan killed Andie. Cake?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Where he's binge drinking on the country folk. We went through this, Elena. Stefan's gone. I don't mean geographically.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Get out of the water, Elena.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I didn't give up on him, Elena. I faced reality. Now get out of the water.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"What's your big plan, Elena? Huh? You gonna walk through a campsite full of werewolves, roast a marshmallow, and wait for Stefan to stop by?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Unless you wanna relive that whole deathbed kissy thing.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Fancy meeting you here.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Might want to take it up with your girlfriend. You don't want her chasing you, I'd stop with the late-night phone calls.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I thought Stefan was gone, but I was wrong.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"No, he's not okay, Elena. He's an insufferable martyr that needs his ass kicked... But he can be saved.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I changed my mind because even in his darkest place, my brother still can't let me die. So I figure I owe him the same in return. I'll help you bring him back.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Because when I drag my brother from the edge and deliver him back to you, I want you to remember the things you felt while he was gone. Good night, Elena.*"
- *The Hybrid*

Damon (to Katherine) : "*Well, Stefan's still Klaus' little prisoner and Elena still thinks she can save him and no one's thought about you since you left.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I didn't give up on him. I just don't know where he is."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Rise and shine, sleepy head.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You know you were dreaming about me. Explains the drool.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"It came to me in a dream. I was naked. You would have loved it. Start packing.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I sure hope we find him, 'cause it would suck if the last memento of Stefan was that crappy old necklace.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I've blacked out days. I wake up in strangers' blood, in places I don't recognize with women I don't remember."Ahh! I'm shocked! Stefan's not a virgin?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I was around. Chicago's a big city. Stefan was a cocky ripper douche. But I could avoid him and still indulge in a few Daisy Buchanans of my own.*"
Damon (to Gloria) : "*Gloria. Damn! If I knew you were going to age like this, I would have stuck around.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I had an hour to realize what a bad idea it was to leave you here alone, process it, and move on. Are you okay?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"But you're going to have about five minutes tops before that hybrid freak rips my heart out. So please, tell me you can do this.'"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*"What is wrong with you? You kill Andie one day, you save my life the next. What are you good, bad? Pick one!*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*She's not going anywhere until she's got you checked into vampire rehab and on the mend. Trust me. I've tried.*"
Damon (to Klaus) : "*Oh, honey, I've been called worse.*"
Damon (to Klaus) : "*You want a partner in crime? Forget Stefan. I'm so much more fun.*"
- *The End of the Affair*

(To **Elena**) : *"You're still wearing this necklace. Isn't this the reminder of your unbreakable bond with Stefan?*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*I'm going to let you in on a little secret... Founders parties are just an excuse for the council to gather in back rooms and plot against vampires."*
(To **Elena**) : *"Yeah, and when I kill him(Caroline's Dad), she'll have one more parent than we do.*"
Damon (to Bill) : "*Makes you the third person to underestimate me today. Whoo. You know, with all this behavioral modification going on around here, I almost forgot how good blood tastes when it's...Fresh.*"
Damon (to Bill) : "*No, I'm not going to kill you, Bill. I'm just going to find pleasure in perfect little moments like this.*"
Damon (to Caroline) : "*Let me teach this ass-wheel a life lesson.*"
Damon (to Caroline) : "*I'm stronger than you, little girl.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Why not? It's nothing I haven't done before. Why is it suddenly so important for everyone to keep me in check?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"What? A monster? Sorry to disappoint you, Elena, but last time I checked, I was still a vampire!*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I am not Stefan. How about you stop trying to turn me into him?*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Ric, no hard feelings, all right? I was on a bit of a tear. Everyone was trying to tell me how to behave.*"
- *Disturbing Behavior*

Damon (to Katherine) : "*Not to worry. Mystic Falls and I are on a bit of a break.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Let's just say Elena and I are having a bit of difference of opinion on how I should behave."*
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I thought I'd give it a shot. Truth is, you just don't do it for me anymore.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I thought we might want to stretch our legs. Take a break from the sexual tension. I'm tired of driving. It's your turn.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*I'd say you were desperate and lying. Or drunk. Or desperate, lying and drunk.*"
- *The Reckoning*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Hey, the two brunettes on the staircase owe me a Persian rug.*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*We need him to kill Klaus so I can de-rippefy Stefan before he destroys my house."*
(To **Elena**) : *"You called. I'm here. What's your plan, oh warrior princess?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I'll do whatever it is you need me to do, Elena. No one going to hurt you. Especially not my brother.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"We're forgetting a key player here. Rebekah? Wherever Stefan goes, the blond ponytail tends to follow.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*Are you ever not going to be mad at me for a day?*"
(To **Elena**) : *"Elena, you almost got barbecued. The least I can do is apply first aid.*"
- *Smells Like Teen Spirit*

Damon (to Caroline & Bonnie) : "*Greetings, blondie. Witchy. I think you got your voodoo wires all crossed when you got rid of Vicki Donovan.*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Because I'm pretty sure I just got spit-roasted by Mason Lockwood's ghost."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Maybe because he chained me to a chair and shoved a hot poker in my chest. Let's just say I'm having déjà vu.*"
Damon (to Bonnie) : "*Yeah, well, I don't have time for a vengeful Lockwood. When I kill someone, they're supposed to stay dead. Whatever you screwed up, fix it.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*But remember back when you liked me and we conspired to kill Uncle werewolf Mason Lockwood? I think he's still a little pissed.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*Let's get to it. I killed you. You want revenge. Get in line.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*You're right. I didn't have to kill you. I do a lot of things I don't have to do.*"
Damon (to Mason) : "*What's your game, man? I killed you. I jammed my fist into your chest. I ripped your heart out. There's no way this whole buddy-trust act is real.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*No, actually, I don't. 'Cause I need a non-vampire to get in the cave, and other than Elena, you're pretty much the only one I trust.*"
Damon (to Alaric) : "*"Look, if Mason Lockwood can get over the fact that I killed him, can't you cut me a little slack, Ric?*"
- *Ghost World*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*Liar, Liar pants on fire, brother. Klaus compelled you to protect Elena, and if you thought for even a second that she was in danger, you'd be working a lot harder.*"
Damon (to Callie) : "*Hello Callie. I would love a shot of your best whiskey, and my brother here would love a shot of you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Because I have to, Stefan! Because you are in this mess with Klaus, because you saved my life. Because I owe you. And I can't just leave you in a cell to rot.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"I went behind you back. Freed Stefan. And you know what: it backfired. He's an even bigger dick than ever... just now, he's a dick that's on our side.*"
- *Ordinary People*

(To **Elena**) : *"Elena! If this thing (grenade) blows up in our face- just remember: only one of us heals quickly.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"We thought of everything, Elena! Klaus having hybrids. Mikael turning on us. We brought in Katherine so you weren't in danger. Anything that could have gone wrong we were prepared!"*
(To **Elena**) : *"She (Katherine) ran for the hills like usual, the minute things got bad! And who blames her?! Klaus would've crushed her. I had him, Elena. I had Klaus! This could have all been over!!!*"
Damon (to Katherine) : "*Not interested in the play by play of our failure right now, Katherine.*"
- *Homecoming*

Damon (to Alaric) : "*Oh, I give you a choice. Bloody Mary or Screw Driver. Brunch in a bottle. Come on Ric, I can´t drink all this by myself. I mean I can but then somebody's getting naked. Oh man I can't believe you're making me drink alone.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"You are feisty when you are mad."*
Damon (to Klaus) : "*You know me. Never miss a chance to plan an epic failure.*"
Damon (to Klaus) : "*Such a buzz kill, my baby bro. Well, I´d love to find him. Just the trouble is, I sure as hell don't work for you.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*I want you to get it through your head. Stop saving me!!*"
Damon (to Jeremy) : "*Here's the thing, Jer. You're gonna go out of town for a while- a long while. You're gonna stay with some nice family friends in Denver, you're gonna be at a new school, you'll meet new girls, living girls. You're going to drink a few beers, take an art class. You do whatever you want. You're gonna leave Mystic Falls behind and never think twice about it. You're gonna have a better life, Jeremy.* "
(To **Elena**) : *"You just saved his (Jeremy) life, Elena. Take it from me, strange is bad, dead is worse.*"
(To **Elena**) : *"If I'm gonna feel guilty about something, I'm gonna feel guilty about this. (He kisses her)*"
- *The New Deal*

Damon (to Stefan) : "*The only way to call someones bluff, Stefan, is to be willing to lose everything if you're wrong."*
Damon (to Carol) : "*Carol, don't take this the wrong way, but do you realize that you've been kissing the ass of an immortal hybrid who ruined your son's life?*"
Damon (to Stefan) : "*Don't give me that no-humanity crap, you can't just flip your switch! Your switch is fried, Stefan, just like your brain! You want to take Klaus? You want to beat the villain? You've got to be smarter.*"
Damon (to Klaus) : "*Maybe he is, maybe he isn't but if you don't want to believe him, believe me. I know my brother better than anyone, and right now, I don't have a clue how far he is willing to take this. So if he says blink, I suggest you blink.!*"
Damon (to Elena) : "*It's right. Just not right now.*"
- *Our Town*

Damon (to Bonnie and Elena) : *" A little compulsion helps sped up the research process."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"We kissed. Now it's weird. Have a great trip."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Come on, Ric, a fact of life. A girl that hot, that smart... damage."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Yeah, but it comes from her ex, doesn't count."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *"Strolling the halls. You know, I like to wave to newborns through the window."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *"I think psychopaths are incredible high-maintenance."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *" Ah ah ah, do ten more of those. You're gonna wanna buff up, if you start dating this one. Self-defense and all."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Your doctor vervained me and then she bloodjacked me."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Insulting a bunch of dead witches... not smart. I made the exact same mistake first time I came in here."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I take it, you two had a heart to heart. And I take it, you don't wanna talk about it. Noted. So why don't we talk about this?"*
- *The Ties That Bind*

Damon (to Elena) : *" Well why don`t you just ask Ric if his dirty little doctor had access to the weapons."*
Damon (to Elijah) : *" Elijah. My favorite original, back from the dead. Clean up nice."*
Damon (to Elijah) : *"Oh, yeah. "Dear Elijah, let's get together, plot the destruction of your brother, XOXO"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah, the way you've been acting, I trust him about as much as I trust you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh, yes... this is about me kissing Elena. Just remember, if it wasn't for Klaus, you would have never become such a dick and that kiss would never have happened. So get ready and get happy. We're going to negotiate a fake truce and I don't want your attitude screwing it up."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Thank you, love."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Eat. I thought we agreed that we would leave the grumpy Stefan at home."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Hey, Stef, remember when you killed dad? Might want to dial down the judgment until dessert."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Wow, actual acknowledgement of a job well done. You're going soft, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Shut up, you don't get to thank me until I pay you back for all those times you've saved me."*
- *Bringing Out The Dead*

Damon (to Stefan and Elena) : *"Anyone else feeling a little used right now?"*
Damon (to Carol) : *"Hmm, Well at least you know who you're borrowing that cup of sugar from."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Surprise, surprise. Nice tux. You're not supposed to be here."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" It would be rude not to dance, you know."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" You look stunning, if it isn't obvious."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *" Stop staring. It's creepy."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Well, you're no dog yourself."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, I'm mad at you because I love you!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, I got it, Elena. I care too much, I'm a liability. How ironic is that?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Sorry for trying to keep you alive. Clearly Stefan doesn't give a crap anymore."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Burn. Rejected by the captain of the football team. Welcome to adolescence."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"No. I'm just saying that you should find someone a little more durable. That's all."*
- *Dangerous Liaisons*

Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Let's not hold our breath."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You think Rebekah had to compel me?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, maybe, for once, something I did had nothing to do with you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, that's great! Klaus will finally be dead. We win. Why do you look like someone just shot a panda bear?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Two seconds ago, you were pissed that she attacked you. It's a win-win."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"See? It's democracy in action."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"It's not my fault she decided to get jealous."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Why are you so extra broody? Did you see the way we stood up to Elena? I like you on my team. Must have driven her nuts."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *" Well, you don't have to judge her. Just tie her up, lock her in her room, till this is over."*
Damon (to Elijah) : *" I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but when it comes to killing thousand year old resurrected witches, I'm a little rusty."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Clock's ticking. You gonna help me brainstorm a plan or are you too busy fixing yourself a snack?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" A. What if she's with Esther? B. What if she can't cut her off? C. I don't know how any of this stuff works and D. neither do you!"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Worst case scenario, simple mechanics. Can't draw power from a dead battery"*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Divide and conquer. First, we'll need a little blond distraction."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *" You didn't know I was friends with your mummy? Yeah, we have a lot in common. She hates you as much as I do."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Good. All's right in the world again."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Cause I'm not blind. I see what's been going on around here. You're hanging by a thread, Stefan. Barely over your last ripper binge and all you want is to be the old Stefan again."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I do. And I thought I could win her from you fair and square. She didn't want me. It's for the best. I'm better at being the bad guy anyway."*
- *All My Children*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I guess I could rip out Dr. False Accusation's throat. Maybe her tongue. You know, I could chew it up into little tiny pieces and feed it to the squirrels."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm mean, you hate me, the Earth is back on its axis."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Dear diary, a chipmunk asked me my name today. I told him it was Joe. That lie will haunt me forever."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I was hoping we could hang. You know a little brother bonding. I know we don't actually "hang out". We team up, we join forces, we activate our Wonder twin powers."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Why would I be mad at you, Stefan? You made me become a vampire and now I walk the world alone, drinking other peoples' blood."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well congratulations, Stefan. But if you'll excuse me, I'd like to live out my eternal existence as far away from you as possible."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *" You know you don't have to disguise your true motives with ….., if you want more sex, just ask for it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Ohh, right, Sage. Speaking of great sex."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"I wasn't. The woman I was in love with was stuck in a tomb and she wasn't getting out for a hundred years. I wasn't having any fun at all."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Scram. No one likes a lurker."*
- *1912*

Damon (to Alaric) : *"You ready to ditch this House of Horrors? Ohf, you look terrible."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because we're vampires, Elena. We need human blood to survive. We're predators, not puppies."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Ah, yes, back when you two were in love and it was all rainbows and unicorns."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Ric, the world can't stop just because you're an accidental psycho killer."*
Damon (to Sage) : *"Oh, come on, nobody just passes through Mystic Falls."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Well, you know what they say, two's company, three's a party."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Woah. Control, remember? Doesn't matter whether it's blondes or blood bags, same principles apply."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Gladly. Now, unless you're interested in a Sage-Rebekah sex sandwich, I suggest you make yourself scarce."*
Damon (to Sage) : *"Yes, he was. Hope's a bitch, Sage. Get out while you can."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" You know, Stefan, I'm a philanthropist, I make the world a better place."*
- *Break On Through*

Damon (to Elena) : *" Ooh, chocolate muffins. You know what they say; a way to a psycho killer's heart is through his stomach."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"His morals get very questionable when he has revenge on the brain."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"You've got to admit, even for me, it's a little kinky."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Uh, you bitch."*
Damon : *"This was much different in my head."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"No. Are you telling me that your vampire hating alter ego has a stake that can kill an entire line of vampires, possibly mine??"*
- *The Murder of One*

Damon (to Stefan) : *" I like that confidence, Stefan. I don't share it, but I like it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Next time we compel him, remind me to make him better at baseball."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"What good is you dying and coming back to life if you can't talk to a ghost when I need you to?"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Well, didn't you find it weird that you made a friend so fast? Have you met you?"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Alright, Whoopi, what do you need? Candles? Incense? Pottery wheel?"*
Damon : "*Picture? What, a trip to Disneyland? Come on Rose, you're not gonna actually make us wait, are you? I know you're obsessed with me."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"She spent her last day in paradise. Soaking in the sun and reminiscing about what it means to be human. And when death came, she didn't fear it."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"There you are. Any sign of Evil-laric?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because when people see good, they expect good. And I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *" Don't be a dick. Listen to your sister."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Or maybe you were hoping I'd screw it up, so I could just make the decision for you, am I wrong?"*
- *Heart of Darkness*

Damon (to Stefan) : *" I'm thinking gardenia corsage. Wrist obviously, you don't want to accidentally stab her in the chest with the pin now that could get messy."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *"I need medical advice. For a friend. Alaric, you remember him, right? About 6'2", tried to hack you into pieces."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"I'm suggesting that we put him out of his misery."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Oh come on, It's what he would want. It's a mercy killing."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"Sorry to spoil your seven minutes in heaven. We have a problem."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"You're still mad at me for what happened to Abby. Let me apologize; I'm sorry Elijah forced us to turn your mother into a vampire to save Elena's life. Didn't exactly have a choice."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *"Well… I offered to snap his neck, put him out of his misery but…he didn't take me up on it."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Damn you. Sorry I killed you. Twice."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Ha, yeah! This stuff will kill ya."*
- *Do Not Go Gentle*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh, you mean the white oak one? The one that can kill an Original and wipe out an entire line of vampires? We don't know."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *" Because I do stupid things, Bonnie. I do things, like let my friend die with dignity when I should have just killed him."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *" Don't get your hopes up! Might be a Girl Scout."*
Damon (to Abby) : *"What? What does that mean? Bonnie, I don't speak witch."*
Damon : *" Why am I still alive?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Yeah I'm in a good mood. Klaus is dead, my brother's half way sane, again. Give or take an immortal hunter who wants to kill us, we won, Stefan. Come on say it. Say it."*
- *Before Sunset*

Damon (to Jeremy) : *" Not when you have a parade of vampires at your disposal!"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss."*
Damon (to Elijah) : *" Not! Hello, did that concussion give you brain damage?! His lunatic siblings will kill you the first chance they get!"*
Damon (to Elijah) : *"No! No, no, no, no. Did I mention NO?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Grabbed her, gagged her, throw her in a well, I don't know, anything other than let her trust Elijah."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah, but she'd be alive and she'd hate me. Thus, the eternal difference between you and me, brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" For us to have our epic goodbye, Stefan?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *" If it was just down to him and me and you had to make a choice who got the goodbye, who would it be?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, I get it. Stefan, it's always gonna be Stefan."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Well, our friendship was part of the problem. It's what kept me weak. It's also why it took so long for the real me to break through and now I'm gonna break you."*
Damon (to Elena) *(flashback)* : *"You want a love that consumes you. You want passion, an adventure, and even a little danger."*
Damon (to Elena)*flashback* : *"I want you to get everything that you're looking for, but right now I want you to forget that this happened. Can't have people knowing that I'm in town yet. Goodnight, Elena."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"No. No, no, no, no. Ric, Ric! You are not dead. You are not dead."*
- *The Departed*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Alive? Ask Stefan. The hero."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"There is no way out of it. We all know the drill. You feed or you die. There is no door number three."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Your choice, Elena. As always."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Way to get her hopes up for something that's never happened in the history of vampirism."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" And now the world has one more quarterback. Bravo, brother."*
Damon (to Matt) : *" In what world are you the one that gets to live?!"*
Damon : *"Yoo-hoo! Anybody home? Big, bad vampire out here."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" It's a little hard to keep track of all your choices lately, Elena."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" I would have saved you! In a heartbeat, no question."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"But you wouldn't be! And you would have gotten to grow up and had the life that you wanted; the life that you deserved. And I know that I didn't use to get that but I do now and I wanted that for you, Elena, and I would have gladly have given it to you and let Matt die; because I am that selfish. But you knew that already. The first night we met is not all that you remember."*
- *Growing Pains*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Then you better hope she's not a fan of Bambi."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You name me one who went on a bunny diet and didn't kill dozens."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"It's a cheat. It's like giving a kid a calculator before they know math."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Nope. I say rip off the proverbial band-aid and let it bleed. You're a vampire, Elena, be a vampire."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Vampires eat people! It's part of the natural food pyramid. Trust me, you're going to be miserable."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"That seat's taken."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I'm just going to pretend like there's someone there, because the alternative is just too damn depressing."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Am I wearing my "I Blew Up The Council" t-shirt, why does everybody keep asking me that?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Of course you do. Pick your meal. You've got Asian fusion. Mexican. What about some good old American comfort food?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Because blood sharing is kind of personal."*
Damon (to Connor) : *" You again. Stalking small town funerals?"*
Damon (to Connor) : *"Damon. Germaphobe."*
Damon (to Connor) : *"So, what brings you to Mystic Falls? Bible salesman?"*
Damon (to Connor) : *"Well, enjoy your stay. We love visitors and the scenery is to die for. Funeral pun. Too soon. Sorry."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" I don't know, maybe it's your doppelgänger blood, you're rejecting the transition."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Mid-service snack. Church always gets me hungry. The whole blood Christ thing, you know."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, then she lied. Your four legged protein shake was a bust. The juice box is a no go. She can't even keep my blood down."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You have ten seconds before I go old fashioned on the new guy."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"They're floating lanterns in the sky, can you believe that? A Japanese lantern is the symbol of letting go of the past. Well, here's a news flash, we're not Japanese! Do you know what they are? Children. Like lighting a candle is going to make everything okay or even saying a prayer or pretending Elena is not going to end up just like the rest of us murderous vampires. Stupid, delusional, exasperating, little children. I know what you're going to say; "It makes them feel better, Damon." So what? For how long? A minute, a day? What differences does it make? Because in the end, when you lose somebody; every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing that you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be. And a rock with a birthday carved into it that I'm pretty sure is wrong. So, thanks, friend. Thanks for leaving me here to babysit, because I should have been long gone by now. I didn't get the girl, remember? I'm just stuck here fighting with my brother and taking care of the kids. You owe me big."*
- *Memorial*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Good day for a midlife crisis. 164 years, I'd say you're due."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"That hunter jacked Tyler Lockwood of his werewolf venom last night, so basically, he's got vampire poison in a bottle. And I'm gonna find him, and I'm gonna eat him."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I don't want your help. I just want to kill this guy and get the hell out of town. Wasn't that the deal? Whoever Elena doesn't choose leaves."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"No, brother, dramatic would be leaving before I kill this hunter."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *" Okay. It's a kitten. It's an adorable, exploding kitten."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *"Because I'm proud and stubborn and… oh, look! You're already here."*
Damon (to Meredith) : *" I'm the bad brother."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"But you weren't looking for alcohol, were you? Do you think I'd actually leave the last remaining white oak stake where any vampire could just walk in and take it?"*
Damon (to Connor) : *"Did I say that I was a germaphobe? Pft, sorry, I meant vampire."*
Damon (to Connor) : *" Let's start with the basics. Where are you from, what do you know, maybe you can cue me in on this ‘greater evil', because I've fought this guy (Klaus) and there's nothing more evil than that."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because you're a vampire now. And part of you knows you're a lot more like me than you are like him."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Shhh, bad-asses don't say that. Doc!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Nothing you should be ashamed of. You are a vampire now. You just have to learn the right way to be one. And I'm gonna teach you."*
- *The Rager*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Some personal items that I snaked from the vampire hunter's RV. May he rest in peace. I'm searching for a supernatural handbook."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, stop with the pity party. If I can go to college, you can go to college."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"Sure, plenty of times. I always had a thing for sorority girls."*
Damon (to Elena and Bonnie) : *"What is this guy, Witch-ipedia?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Stoner guys are no good to grab. They're too paranoid and you don't want the extra buzz."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"I was just saying how much I love witches."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Everybody is someone's uncle or father or camp counselor or bible study teacher. Elena, you don't know these people, why do you care?"*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"Elena is educating me on the importance of feelings."*
Damon (to Frankie) : *"I'm Jack.c And these are the two lovely ladies I just... Rippered."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Inebriated sleezeballs all covered in blood..Come on. Pick one."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"She is a different person. She's a vampire. We're a predatory species. We enjoy the hunt, the feed, and the kill. When the guilt gets too bad we switch off our humanity and we revel in it."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"She already is like me. And you know what makes me able to drink my fill and leave someone breathing and not rip their head off like my brother? It's that I can revel in it. I can make it fun."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You don't want to be like me."*
- *The Five*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, I don't know, maybe the hot, sweaty dance party business. (Elena looks up.) I figured you spilled your guilty, little guts the minute I left last night."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, you so are. Newbie vampire remorse? Oof, it's worse than a hangover."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Until you figure it out? Is that where you've been all morning? Out buying bossy pants."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Those two idiots, they're like danger magnets."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"For someone who doesn't want to be like me, you sure are good at it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, we'll get him out of this and we'll compel him down to the Bahamas. Maybe he'll find an island girl."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Since when did we team up with Klaus and the Lollipop Guild?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because he's playing us. All this stalling, getting hybrids, taking my ring, add it up."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" About what? About the cure we don't have, can't find, and probably doesn't exist? You're welcome."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, if I'm gonna ride this fairy tale to its conclusion, I want to be clear about one thing. I'm fine with her either way, brother. So, if I do this, I'm doing it for you."*
- *The Killer*

Damon (to Elena) : *" PS, I called Stefan."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Long story, buy the e-book."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Ooh, time to face the music. Pay the piper, dance with the devil."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Quit avoiding him, that means shady. Shady people get outed."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"Well, lost is a very strong word, we just technically don't know where she is."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"But nothing, wave your magic wand, hocus pocus, begone hunter ghostus, whatever."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Came to me in a dream. Do you know anything about the hunter's curse?"*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"The witch who loses her powers gets left out of the important conversations."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Easy, Van Helsing. We'll get you one. Don't worry."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Didn't take a genius to figure it out. Third time's the charm."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Little tip, vampires hate to swim. How are you feeling?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, you know what they say about teenage suicide. Don't do it."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"I'd say I'm in the market for a new drinking buddy. You're not qualified."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"You're on the verge of impressing me. Drive it home."*
- *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Okay, I see shady Stefan is back."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Or we could just blow it off and go get drunk. Brother bond over some Tri Delts. If you, you know, want some quality time."*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"She got my vote."*
Damon (to Caroline) : *" It's a pageant. That's the whole point."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, you know Stefan, he kind of just went on and on about it and wouldn't shut up."*
Damon (to Elena) : "*Nope. But I'm sure it has something to do with you acting weird, so why don't you tell me?"*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Same reason anyone needs a Hunter. Loneliness, drinking buddy, or for golf."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"I did, but he ended up being a potential problem."*
Damon (to Shane) : *" Hey, no pity votes for April Young, okay? I mean, just because her dad blew up a house with a dozen people in it doesn't mean she should get a tiara. But you knew him, didn't you? Because I hear you two racked up a pretty impressive phone bill."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Do the math. Emo teen, open bar, it's fine."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Please don't tell me that you've roped Jeremy into a world of crazy."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh right, so you can turn her back into the girl that is still in love with you."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"You have five seconds to give me another name or you die."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"I love pressure points. What kind of witch?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I was being polite. I thought you hated whiskey."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" I don't think I've ever seen you more alive."*
- *My Brother's Keeper*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I'm assuming it starts with, "What are we?" And then ends with, "Going to tell Stefan?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I know he should know. I just don't know when he should know it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, but can't we just let ourselves enjoy one secret, selfish day before we destroy his?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, Elena. This is our time. It's never been right before but it is right now. Just one day? One day?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Sired? Really Stefan? That is the most pathetic nonsense I've ever heard come out of your mouth, and you've said some crap in your day."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Sure I can. I finally got Elena to a good place about being a vampire. You two idiots can't stand that she's happy because of me."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"When her body rejects this blood, which it will, your apology better be epic."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Other than bourbon and beads...Us, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Pack your bags, baby bro. We're going back to Bourbon Street."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You know what I haven't gotten? Blame, guilt. I get it Stefan. I get that your pissed that Elena dumped you because she has feelings for me. Bet you blame the sire bond for that, too."*
Damon (1942) : *"Egypt, ha! Finally gonna get to see the pyramids."*
Damon (To Stefan, 1942) : *"Think they have room for another driver? I could handle some war ,if it meant spending quality time with my little brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well ,don't get all warm and fuzzy on me yet."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Corner of Bourbon and Dumaine. Kind of told her to count every brick in every building in New Orleans, and I'd meet her at the corner."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh, what about you, O selfless one? Are you doing what's best for Elena or what's best for you? Because it looks to me like the only reason you want to break Elena's sire bond is to restore her original factory 'Team Stefan' settings."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I'm gonna go get a drink. Hunt me down when you stop being a dick."*
Damon (to Nandi) : *" Hi. We're looking for a witch. Sorry, no time for pleasantries."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Witch is lying. Doesn't practice magic, my ass."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You know what would make me happy? To know that this entire time that I've been completely in love with you; that what you actually felt for me; was real."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I don't want to do this, Elena. I'm not the good guy, remember? I'm the selfish one. I take what I want. I do what I want. I lie to my brother, I fall in love with his girl, I don't do the right thing. But I have to do the right thing by you."*
- *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*

Damon (to Elena) : *" This would be so much more fun if we were naked."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I told him I would set you free. Right after I didn't tell him that we slept together."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I wanna throw you back in my bed and never let you leave."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"What the hell is Professor Shadypants doing here?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're not allowed to feel this sorry for yourself unless you're sitting on a bar stool."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Fortunately, I travel with the bar."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"Survey says: Bzzt. Professor Shane has been dipping into the magical herbs a little too much; if he thinks using a vampire to suppress the need to kill another one is gonna work on a Hunter. It's like dangling a cheeseburger in front of someone on a master cleanse. Just find someone else to attach your warm and fuzzy detour feelings to. Gee, I wonder who that could be."*
Damon (to Shane) : *" If your hypno herbs work, we should be singing "Kumbaya" around the fire by dinner."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"So now, tell me why I'm not killing you?"*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Hm, so is this that silly little wives tale that you told at the occult exhibit?"*
Damon (to Shane) : *"And where'd you say he was buried? Oh, I forgot, you didn't."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Little tip, Professor, I heard you before you even took your first step."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Christmas was always mine and Stefan's favorite holiday when we were kids. Not that I've celebrated it since. I kind of miss that."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"The point is not what I was doing. The point is that I'm here with you. I was supposed to invoke the sire bond, Elena, send you away. I was supposed to do the right thing by you and the right thing by my brother. Which is what I'm gonna do right now."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm setting you free, Elena. This is what I want. This is what will make me happy."*
- *O Come, All Ye Faithful*

Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You couldn't miss it. It was in slow motion."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"Take a seat at the bench, quarterback. Kid wants a shot at the title."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Now, all I have to do is apply a little pressure on your jaw."*
Damon (to Pizza Girl) : *"Why? Are you offering?"*
Damon (to Pizza Girl) : *"That's something extra to cut off the pizza pipeline for a couple a days. No matter how much they beg, don't come back."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"If that's what it takes to make you into a hunter. Now, run around the lake... twice."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Good. Now, do it like your life depends on it, 'cause it does."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Both require you to be alive. Which is why I updated our relationship status to 'it's complicated.' Have you talked to her at all? Elena?"*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Zero."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You know, now that you mention it... Jeremy, watch and learn."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"That's for Carol Lockwood."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"If you're here for payback, go for it, 'cause you'll be stuck baby-sitting the little hunter that could."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"I know how to whittle, thanks. Now I know why those hybrids hated you. You are annoying."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Darwinism, Klaus. He needs to be able to protect himself before we hunt down his first vampire nest."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Hope your day's going better than mine. Gotta say, I'm liking the odds."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I'm thinking, for the first time all week, I'm happy to be at camp nowhere."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"That depends on how much you trust me."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Then I think he's going to get through this just fine."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, well, I told them, if they were good, I'd buy them both ice cream, so... Look, I gotta go."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm going to get this cure for you... and I'm going to have to do things you're not gonna like."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Listen carefully. Get in your car, right now. Come to me."*
- *After School Special*

Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You have to kill vampires to complete the hunter's mark. Mark equals cure. You're in a bar full of almost vampires, so get your hunt on."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"No, no. You turn them, he kills them. That was the deal, Klaus."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Ah...Jeremy, go get the weapons out of the car. I'll be right behind you."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Don't hesitate! You're lucky it was me. Otherwise you two'd be dead."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"They're newbies. They're still trying to figure out how to track, which means you have two seconds to get ready to fight."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"He's not the best student in the world."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Stop talking. Look, I know you're angry, but my way was the easiest, fastest, and safest way to complete his mark to get you the cure."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yes, I know.But there will be no problem when big Jer and I here go on a hunting expedition.Elena, I know, it's tragic. I get it. But we also agree that he had to kill them. Now, we have added incentive. So you take the least most valuable player home; Jeremy and I will finish this."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Trust me. I will keep him safe. Okay?"*
Damon (to Kol) : *"He's underage, and I don't like you, so let's just cut to it."*
Damon (to Kol) : *"We're not going to back off the cure 'cause you were told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiot."*
Damon (to Kol) : *"If you're gonna kill me, do it like a man."*
Damon (to Kol) : *"I'm gonna rip out your spleen."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Kol happened."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Is he here? 'Cause I just want to talk to him really fast."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I should go apologize to him. I was -- I was pretty tough on him today."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"It was Kol. He must have compelled me. If I find Jeremy... I'm gonna kill him."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Jeremy! Get out of here! Do you hear me? Don't stop. Kol compelled me. There's nothing I can do!"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You can't hide in here, Jer. If I find you, you're dead."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Jeremy, are you listening to me? You better run! I am coming to kill you. You need to go now!"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Did you miss the part where I said I'm compelled? Don't stop!"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Seriously? You're being hunted by a vampire, and now you're bleeding?"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Dumb move, Jer. You can't fight me in closed quarters."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You're gonna have to shoot me, Jeremy, in the heart. I'm not gonna be able to stop myself. Jeremy, you are a hunter. You know you want to. Do it...... Do it."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Ow. Ugh....He shot me in the head.Stupid, idiot, borderline brain-dead moron!...That was dumb, Jeremy. You should've killed me when you had the chance."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Why, because Stefan did?"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Jeremy....Shoot now."*
- *Catch Me If You Can*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"You coming to snap my neck again? Because I woke up feeling completely un-murderous, and I'm pretty sure that it's safe to set me free."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"What the hell are you doing here?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Silent treatment, huh? Is that your best shot?"*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"He's still pissed at me for sleeping with Elena."*
Damon (to Klaus) :Well, well. Looks like my brother ripped out a page of my revenge-sex handbook."
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Well, we couldn't have him trying to stake Elena in her sleep, now, could we?"*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Some people are just more capable of forgiveness than others. Bet you score about a negative 500 in that realm.""*
Damon (to Klaus) : *" I think this has something to do with a certain blonde vampire. I think you murdered Carol Lockwood, and I think you're worried that Caroline's never going to forgive you."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Debatable. See, I don't mind being the bad guy, because somebody has to fill that role and get things done. You do bad things for no reason. You do them to be a dick."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"If you're gonna be bad, be bad with a purpose. Otherwise, you're just not worth forgiving."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"From a vampire who's been stabbed as many times as your sister, I'd say difficult."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"Well, I am compelled to kill Jeremy, so I figured it's probably smarter to sit here and chit-chat with you than bust out of here like the Hulk."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"She's met me. She knows impulse control's not my strong suit."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"I don't know. I've been stuck in the penalty box with you since yesterday. Stefan won't talk to me, and Elena won't come to see me, so maybe you're right. Maybe she's written me off."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"I don't know anything about a plan."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *" I will stay here until you return... or not."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Where's that Gilbert optimism?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Sorry I missed all the excitement."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Let me guess, she pledged her allegiance to you while you were naked in the sack?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh, was that supposed to be a secret? Maybe you should have made that a little clear while you were bleeding me dry in our cellar."*
Damon (to all) : *"Here we go."*
- *A View to a Kill*

Damon (to Shane) : "*Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world.*"
Damon (to Shane) : *"Is that a joke?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Human Rebekah... I can't imagine her without fangs."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I don't like to speculate."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Well, that's a good sign."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Well, that's lovely. There's a mystery man with a hatchet lurking in the woods and we're just gonna camp?"*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Stupid enough to raise an immortal witch, so I'd say... incredibly."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, I get it. Everything changes tomorrow. It'll be all unicorns and rainbows."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"You didn't answer the trust part."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Downside is, you turned her into a bomb that only you can dismantle."*
Damon (to Shane) : *"Bonnie Bennett's related to this crazy-ass witch?"*
Damon (to Shane) : *" Which is how you manipulated the pastor to blow up a farmhouse full of people."*
Damon (to Shane) : *" I could kill you. Then no one would find it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I don't wonder, Elena, because I don't care. I don't care about her. I don't care about some lame-ass cure for vampires, either."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because I don't want you to be cured."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Fine. Say they're real. Say you've become human and you still love me. Then what? You grow old. You die. I stay a vampire. Face reality, Elena. We don't work."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"That's not me, Elena. That's Stefan. You know, I used to miss being human. Now I can't think of anything more miserable on Earth."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"You gotta be kidding me. You're one of the Five."*
- *Into the Wild*

Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Would you believe me if I said mosquitoes?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *" You obviously know who I am and where I'm from. Have you been spying on me?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Come on, man. Do I look like I know anything about tattoos? Look at my skin. It's flawless."*
Damom (to Vaughn) : *"Mind telling me where we're going?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"What a minute, you're using me to get to Bonnie Bennett? Whoa, brother, ha! You picked the wrong vampire."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Here's the deal, Shrek. My witch friend will open the passage for you. No leverage necessary. We don't care about Silas. All we want is the cure, so you cut us in on your share, and we'll get out of your hair."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"You don't want to share it with us?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"You touch me again--"*
Damon (To Vaughn) : *"I don't care about the cure. In fact, I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to be a vampire. You know what? If I wasn't a vampire, then I wouldn't be able to do 9 of the things I'm gonna do to you when I'm free. Make that 10."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"All right, I admit, okay? My friends want the cure, and I want them to have it, and I get very upset when I can't provide for my loved ones."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Well, here we are. Looks like someone beat us to the punch."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"I'm gonna kill you. And then I'm gonna get to that damn cure, and I'm gonna give it to the girl that I love."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Are we gonna dance or are we gonna play?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : "*There's only one dose of the cure, Stefan. She wants to take it, you want her to. I don't. Just do what makes her happy, Stefan.*"
Damon (to Stefan) : *"It is right now. Get your ass down the well. Help Elena get the damn thing. Come on."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Needed a siesta."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *" didn't give up. I just realized... you can't control everything... no matter how hard you try. Let's just say I made peace with that fact."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Life sucks. Get a helmet."*
- *Down the Rabbit Hole*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"He's supernatural. The ring won't work anymore. She won't survive this. I'll find Bonnie. You get Elena off this island."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Unless you're a blonde, a Bennett witch, or a doppelgänger, I suggest you steer clear."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Yeah. Sneaky little bitch must've been spying on us for weeks. She killed Jeremy... or somebody did. He killed your brother. Let's not with the fake sad face."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Good. Well, you can send flowers after you help me find Bonnie."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"f there's one thing that's a guarantee in this miserable little world, it's that Katherine Pierce is gone. We need to find Bonnie. Oh, and beware of the immortal Silas. If he was asleep in that cave, he's awake now."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Scaredy cat."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Mm, just the guy I wanted to see. Not really."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"You are creepy."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Hayley, Tyler Lockwood's old friend. Ah, I knew she was shady. Where'd Katherine find her?"*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"I wanted that cure for her because it's what she wanted. You might think I'm afraid to go back, but I'm not because I know what she needs. She needs me to bring her best friend home."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Damn it. I can't-- I can't just leave her behind. I can't-- I can't show up without Bonnie."*
Damon (to Bonnie) : *"I could actually hug you right now. Where have you been? How'd you find me?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *" I can help you. I want you to let me help you. I can help you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Just turn it off, and everything will go away. That's what you have to do. It's what I want you to do. Just turn it off."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Humanity means nothing when you don't have anyone to care about, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"She lost her brother. I'm not enough, not this time."*
- *Stand By Me*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"She's a vampire. Off switch is one of the biggest perks. If being undead gets you down. Voila, vampire Prozac."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Saves us the trouble of having to do it ourselves. I call that a win."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Worst case scenario: I'll invoke the sire bond and tell her to turn it back on."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I know it's controversial, Stefan, but people actually like to have fun."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" I can't believe you're making me say this. Hey, show a little restraint."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I don't know. Got a free meal out of it."*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"Oh, yeah. The mayor put vervain in the water supply. (clicks his tongue) So many people to kill."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, yeah. The mayor put vervain in the water supply. (clicks his tongue) So many people to kill."*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"So I just came up with a list. It's called "Things You Suck At." Number one: Finding Katherine. Ever. Number two: covering up your secret phone conversations with that little backstabber Hayley. Yeah, so, where is she? What does she know about Katherine?"*
Damon (to Klaus) : *"You might want to prioritize, Klaus. You have much bigger problems."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"What do you mean, she fed? I specifically told her, No Feeding. The sire bond should make her listen."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"All I wanted was to break that damn bond. You're telling me now this whole time all she had to do was turn it off? What happens if she turns it back on?"*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"You. I thought you were still vacationing on Numbskull Island."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Guess you won't turn into a real girl after all."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"See that little bright thing in the sky? It's called the sun. He needs to avoid that. Plus, the hospital's open 24/7. Not to mention he's hungry and delusional."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *" Do you really want the cure? I mean really? Look. Let me give you a little bit of advice. See these girls? They look happy, now. In five years, they're gonna settle for a mediocre starter-husband and a mind-numbing career, and about that time, they're gonna realize something you're never gonna have to learn."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Life sucks when you're ordinary. And what makes you exactly not like them? You're a vampire. You take that cure, become human, well, you're no one, nothing. Trust me. Losing this cure is the best damn thing that ever happened to you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Well, I'm not big on goal-setting, but let's just imagine a time when you don't wanna kill your best friend."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Out for a drive. I needed some space. It's not me, it's you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You know, I'm really not in the mood to scooby-doo our way through the case of the stolen blood supply, so why don't you hold the fort down until I get back, and I'll be in touch, brother."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, well, emotions are overrated."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"A place every newbie vampire should go at least once in their life-- New York. The city that never sleeps."*
- *Bring It On*

Damon (1977) : *"Son of Giuseppe, but close enough."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, I dragged you to New York because in a matter of three days, you managed to piss off everyone in Mystic Falls. A little more difficult to do in a city of millions."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Look, all that matters is that when I lived here, I fed like crazy and had a blast and went undetected for years."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"There's no catch. Look, you wanted out, I got you out. You wanted to feed, I brought you to a city-sized, all-you-can-eat buffet. That's the beauty of New York-- there's so much life that a little death goes unnoticed. Come on, let's go get some lunch."*
Damon (to Stefan)  : *" And that tone is the reason I didn't pick up the phone the first twenty times you called."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Out exploring. Maybe she's eating a hot dog... vendor."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Just be a good brother and keep Mystic Falls afloat for me and let me do my thing."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" Well, it's early. Hedonism isn't a big fan of the sunlight."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Easy, judgy. Not everybody got a hot new haircut today. Give it a couple of hours. This place will be crawling with more punked-out nihilists than you can eat in a decade, trust me."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because I spent most of the seventies here. The Factory was too clean, CBGB's was too high-profile, but Billy's-- Billy's was the underground of the underground."*
Damon (to Will, 1977) : *"I kill people and give you their IDs, you let me feed in your club. Discretion was never part of the deal."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"How does it feel to be wrong all the time? I brought Elena here to feed. I mean, Mystic Falls isn't exactly Vamp Xanadu right now."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : "*Yes, and as I was explaining to Elena, before we were so rudely interrupted, that my history in this city has a particular resonance to her current situation. [looking back at Elena] When I had my humanity off."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Ugh. Would you mind? I can't even hear my prey over your constant babbling."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"So Stefan sent you? Hmm. I thought we were on the 'off' part of our endless on-again, off-again, eternity-of-misery cycle."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Look. You and Stefan have a thing. I get it. He falls off the wagon, you pick him up. He gets redeemed, you get your Florence Nightingale jollies. Well, I'm not him, and I don't want or need you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You read the last page of the book first, too? I'm gonna go get a drink. Many drinks."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Lexi thought the only way I would turn my emotions back on was if I started enjoying my life again."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No. Wrong decade. Lexi was not allowed to feed with Stefan. But I didn't have that problem, and neither do you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"So Silas is appearing as Professor Shane. Wouldn't be my first choice."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Turns out I was helping her run from me. Ironic. Problem is I'm pretty sure that this filing system goes by birthdate, but I can't for the life of me remember Katherine's."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"And that, brother, is why you are the better boyfriend."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Every night. Every night, we get wasted, and the second I bottom out, you have to bring up Katherine."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *" Because I barely felt it at first, but every night, it's gotten stronger. It worked. You worked."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Good luck. Spent all night reinforcing it. It was tough. Had to be really quiet not to wake you up."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Oh, for the last six months of my life, for the nagging, for the self-righteous platitudes. I'm paying you back for six months of you."*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *" A joke! A big fat lie. Best part of it is, you believed it. You thought I was like Stefan, a wounded little bird that you could nurse back to health, but he's a victim. I choose to be this way.*
Damon (to Lexi, 1977) : *"Enjoy the day. I hear it's gonna be a scorcher."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Not my feelings. I'm looking out for you because one day, you will flip that switch back on, and all the bad stuff that you did is gonna come rushing back, and it is going to suck."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"She became a walking, talking reminder of all the awful things I'd done. And I managed to avoid her for decades, and then she just shows up in Mystic Falls to wish my baby bro a happy birthday, and boom-- rush of memories, rush of guilt."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Out of sight, out of mind. Every day that you're like this is the day that you might do the one thing that you can't take back."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're in my car?!"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Let's just say it involves a 5' 7" brunette and her blonde accomplice."*
Damon (to Stefan)  : *" Wrong fantasy, brother. Unless you're into betrayal and snapped necks. The lead I had on Katherine, Elena stole. If you're searching for the words to tell me how badly I screwed up, save your breath."*
- *Because the Night*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car…"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Remind me to send her some mini-muffins. Do we really need 10 gallons of gas, or are you making me just lug this around as punishment?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne—if Elena is wherever it may be."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Ooh, silver lining: if Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Believe me, I learned my lesson. Elena without humanity is a stone-cold bitch, and I won't trust her until we get the old Elena back."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"We do whatever we have to do. I don't care if we have to throw Rebekah under a school bus and wrap Elena up in a burlap sack. We do whatever we have to do."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"You're losing your touch, evil one."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"No sudden moves. No tricks either. No Katherine-ing."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Wow. A quilt and a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?"*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"*
Damon : *"So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?"*
Damon : *"Because I'd want it to be close, but not on me. Accessible but not obvious. I'd want to keep it safe, but not so safe that it'd be too difficult to grab and run. Well, that is a fancy little treasure chest—in a tank with no fish. [Katherine says nothing] I think I'm gonna have to check that out."*
Damon : *"Aah! Gah! Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in vervain water."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"All right, you're right. I let Rebekah take the cure. [He stops and turns to face Stefan.] I thought for a second—I mean, literally just a second—If Rebekah takes this, then all my problems go away. And I couldn't think of one good reason to give it to Elena. And then Rebekah took it. And I realized how badly I screwed up."*
Damon (to Stefan): *"My point is, I'm sorry, okay? I had a moment of weakness, Stefan. It's my thing. It's like you and I falling for the same girl. It's our thing."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Okay. Okay, let's just get the cure, and then we'll talk about you riding off into the sunset all by your lonesome."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Still ready to ride off into the sunset?"*
- *American Gothic*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"So how long's it been? Eight, nine days?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"If we lost count of the consecutive days in which Elena Gilbert has not killed anyone, I'd say that's progress, brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"She doesn't want the cure. She's gonna start killing people if she knows we're still trying to get it for her."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah, how're you gonna make an emotionless vampire want anything?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"So what are we gonna do? Pull a Lexi and bombard her with emotions till one of them sticks?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"And what happens when she gets slammed with every emotion she's repressed since Jeremy died?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yep. We're just here to make sure you hold up your end of the deal. Don't eat the prom queen."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Wow, would you look at that. Aw. Beautiful dress."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You are underage."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, come on. What badass senior's complete without a prom date that's slightly too old for high school?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, I'm sorry. Your... boyfriend.....Something I said?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're not gonna deny that I'm your boyfriend, now, are you?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, we"*ll, hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you."
Damon (to Elena) : *"Really? Then why tell me you're in love with me? Why tell me it's the most real thing you've ever felt in your life?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"What happened to you being over it?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, I mean, for a guy who's ready to move on, you seemed pretty convincing as a boyfriend out on the dance floor."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Like her feelings for you?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Ugh! Silas. Where's my brother, you psychic freak?*
Damon (to Stefan) : *" Stefan?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Let me guess: an extremely handsome man came up to you claiming to be me."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"She might not feel much, but she's gonna feel that in the morning."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"When Bonnie was whaling on her tonight, I could see it in her eyes. Elena thought she was gonna die. She was scared."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Last time I checked, one of those pesky human emotions."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You care to talk about our other problem? You know, the one that can be anyone, anywhere, anytime."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I wouldn't underestimate his talents. He fooled the hell out of both of us."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"What did he say to you anyway?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Talked about his hair. Figured it had to be you."*
- *Pictures Of You*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"She's the calmest desiccating vampire I've ever seen. I remember when you starved me down there for three days, I would've wept at your feet for an orange peel."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Wow, look who went and got bold. Last time I checked, Klaus was plotting your eternal demise."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You look terrible."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"But I do. That's the whole point. I do care, you don't care. It's about time for that to change."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"How does that make you feel? Hurt because I'd betray you? Angry because I'd cause you pain? Or scared, because you know it's gonna get a lot worse?"*
- *The Originals*

Damon (to Elena) : *"What is wrong with you? Don't you wanna be with your friends? Graduation parties, caps, gowns, you know the drill."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Let me guess: prom? Beautiful dress, gorgeous hair, you trying to murder Bonnie? It's a good thing I was there to take care of you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, there are other ways to provoke an emotional response."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"We can do this the nice way, or we can do it the other way. But either way, we're not stopping until you turn your humanity switch back on. So I'm gonna let you think about that, and I'm gonna come back for you in a couple hours - or a couple years - because all we have is time."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Good, you're awake. Thought you could use a little sunshine."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh, you know the rules-- bad girls don't get nice jewelry."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Bingo. See? There's a little rage. I should've figured that'd be the first emotion that came out of you. I tend to pull that out of people."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're gonna thank me for this. After you turn it back on, you'll realize life with no emotions blew."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Every other vampire turns it on, no problem. You kill, you feed, you do all the awful things that a vampire does, and then when you're done you turn it back on. Why is she being so stubborn?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"So we call her and then what, beg her to help us out of the kindness of her own heart? Are you kidding me?"*
Damon (to Katherine) : *" It didn't have anything to do with the fact that Elena called you out on your recent boy trouble, could it? Sorry, I couldn't help but overhear."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Are you trying to get a rise out of me? 'Cause my emotions are fine. I love Elena. I despise you."*
Damon (to Rebekah) : *"Because Elena's hungry and missing. For once, his life might actually have purpose."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Enough! You are acting like a little spoiled brat, you know that? You think that we can't punish you. Maybe not. But I can sure punish him."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Shut up! I'm done playing nice. Turn your emotions back on right now, Elena, or so help me god, I will give you something to be sad about. I will kill him right here in front of you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Don't "Damon" me. She doesn't love anyone? Fine. Prove it. And if I'm wrong, what difference does it make? One less busboy."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You feel that weight lifting off your chest? That's joy, because your friend isn't dead. That's emotion, Elena. That's humanity."*
- *She's Come Undone*

Damon (to Lexi) : *"Lexi, back from the dead. Goody."*
Damon (to Lexi & Stefan) : *"So if you and Ric and little Gilbert are all flesh-like and real-seeming, that means something went horribly wrong when Bonnie tried to put that veil up. And here you two are, having dance party USA."*
Damon (to Lexi & Stefan) : *"Well, I guess that's one way to celebrate our supernatural apocalypse...Now, care to hazard any guesses on what the hell went wrong?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Come on, man. I didn't kill you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yes, we do. But first... Consider it a graduation present."'*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Sure you can. Looks like it might be cherry-flavored."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Elena - take the damn thing. I want you to take it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I guess that answers the sire bond question."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"You gonna help a brother out, or are you just gonna lurk?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Come on, we don't need the cure for Silas – he's a calcified statue."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Elena, there are children present."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because the bullet was laced with werewolf venom, okay? The hunters are dicks."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Klaus would rather see me die. Plus, Klaus is a thousand miles away sipping Hurricanes on Bourbon Street."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"And here I was, so moved by your speech to save mankind....Sounds like Vaughn's awake."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Digging up Silas. [He turns and walks to the front door.] You coming, Vaughn, or not?"*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Here we are."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"It's where I dumped Silas. Closed off to hikers, no food for animals, endlessly deep water."*
Damon (to Vaughn) : *"Well, um... well, let me see. So I dragged his stone ass through here, I flung him in that general direction, then he tumbled down into those weeds... I kind of lost him in the rocks. The thing about physics... wait, what is it? It's, ah, distance equals velocity times time? Guess I should have told you to bring some scuba gear, huh?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Fresh as a daisy."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I wanted to apologize..."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Let me finish. I said I wanted to. And then I realized, I'm not sorry."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"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."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"What?"*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"I got the girl."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Well, with you looking over my shoulder, how can I?"*
- *Graduation*

Damon (to Silas): "*God, you're slow. Guess vamp-speed came with the upgrade*".
Damon (to Silas): "*If I have to hear the word 'doppelgänger' one more time, I think I'm gonna actually have to learn how to spell it*".
Damon (to Silas): "*A), Get out of my head; B), I think I'd know if my little brother had an evil twin*".
Damon (to Elena): "*Yeah, it's probably for the best. It'll give me more bonding time with your brother.*"
Elena (to Damon) :"*I love you, Damon.*"
- *I Know What You Did Last Summer*

Damon (to Liz): *"But it's a place to start. And if Stefan's down there, that means he's been drowning over and over again all summer, while I've been happily playing house with Elena. Do I need to further elaborate the source of my urgency?"*
Damon (to Jeremy): *"How exactly did the Gilbert-Donovan brain trust put all that together? Never mind, it doesn't matter. Just hide her. If Silas wants her bad enough to sic the whole town on her, that means we want her more. Stay out of sight—you were the last person who Silas saw her with."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You want me to beat him up?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Did you compel him?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"How about violence? Did you threaten him?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Would you at least tell me you used torture?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You do realize that you are dating a reformed serial killer, right?"*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"Caroline. No one cares, no. Hey, where's Elena?*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"Silas is here. He's with Elena, pretending to be Stefan. Get dressed."*
Damon (to Silas) : *"Where the hell's Elena?"*
Damon (to Silas) : *"That's 'cause you haven't had sex with me."*
Damon (to Silas) : *"You expect me to believe you came all this way just to talk to her?"*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"He turned the entire town square into a hunting party for Katherine. How am I supposed to calm down when every single person here could be working for Silas?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"All right, before you get mad—"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Mm. Wait. Wait."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"As much as I'd like to do this right now....."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Silas got into your head, didn't he? What did 'Stefan' tell you to do?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're in some sort of Silas-trance, but I think you snapped out of it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Before you ask, no, he's not in the quarry. It's a common misconception. You talked to him today."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Can we talk about this when you don't have that murder-y look in your eyes?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"It must be Silas' mind-control. He's using your anger at me, like a trigger. You have to resist it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, well so is protecting your brother, finding mine, and figuring out what the hell Silas wants with Katherine."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're getting angry at me again, Elena. Remember—trigger."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Elena, that is the gas. Stop. You don't really wanna kill me, Elena. You have to realize this before you're gonna break Silas' compulsion."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I guess that's how a hero would do it. Honesty — who'd've thunk it? Aren't you the least bit curious about the whole Nancy Drew and the creepster-professor thing?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Snagged it from Silas yesterday. And, for the record, I am secure enough in our relationship that you having psychic dreams about your ex-boyfriend does not bother me... but it still sucks."*
Damon (to Liz) : *"Well, you were right. He was hungry. I bet he still is."*
- *True Lies*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Uhnn... You must have restless sleep syndrome or something. It's like sleeping with a tornado."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Hey. We were up all night. You're exhausted. Come back to sleep."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I know I said it didn't bother me that you have some psychic connection to your ex-boyfriend, but I don't need a play-by-play, Elena."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Fine. Tell me. I'm sure whatever's in my imagination is 10 times worse than what's going on in your subconscious."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, should I go check in the attic, see if there's a crystal ball? Maybe you can conjure up an address."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"It doesn't sound crazy—it is crazy. But I'm open-minded."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"All right, play nice, or I'm gonna revisit the deep dark well idea."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Okay, train's leaving the station. Choo-choo!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Ignore her. As soon as the vervain's out of her system, we'll compel her and we'll put her on mute."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"The only time she shuts up is when she's sleeping, and I didn't want to disturb our peace and quiet."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Wonderful. Now we've got a vampire bounty hunter to deal with. Let me guess: Euro-bitch was not part of the dream?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Wait. No. Stop. Just wait. Any sign of trouble, you let her go, do you understand me? I don't care how bad Silas wants Katherine. She's not worth the hair on your head. You got me? Okay? Kiss me. Go."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Stefan. You couldn't call a brother?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Qetsi-whatever?"*
Damon (to Qetsiyah) : *"Well, I guess the rumors are true. You are a ray of sunshine. Question—why is my brother wearing your compost pile?"*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *"Well, that's a great idea, force the cure down his throat. The cure is gone, done, it's ingested."*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *" Stefan. Stefan! Stef. Damn it. Whatever you did to him, undo it."*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *"Look here, Miss Crazy, why don't we just dial down the destiny talk a notch, okay?"*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *"If you're trying to downplay your reputation as being a psychopath, you might not want to say you're spokesperson for the universe."*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *"So, what are you suggesting, I leave him here with you while I run off and live happily ever after with Elena?"*
Damon (to Qestiyah) : *"You have a bad track record with men."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, he's got his daylight ring back. We're all set for a picnic."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, she told me a very interesting little story about the history of doppelgängers, how they're fated to fall in love with each other. 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. I'm paraphrasing."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"What, 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."*
- *Original Sin*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, yes, and no. Technically, yeah, because you're a vampire."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Realistically no, because you're, you know, you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You're a vampire, not a cave man."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You're a man of principle, Stefan, who had his memories erased by a 2,000-year-old witch."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"That, my brother, was you jonesing for something a little stronger than a blood bag."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, unfortunately, Stefan, there are two types of vampires in the world, okay? There are those that can handle moderation, and then there's you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm on top of it sister. I've called her about 10 times. She hasn't called me back....Look. I say until she does, let's just let Stefan be Stefan, fun, carefree, drunk Stefan without a 100 years of vampire guilt on his shoulders."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You take one philosophy class, now you're the queen of nature versus nurture?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You don't see that cute, little waitress anywhere, do you?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Today, I'm the safe brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Shh. You're kind of the one that killed her."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Hindsight being 20/20, way too much temptation at the bar, so if this Ripper gene is biological, then we need to minimize human contact until we get your brain all witchy-wooed back to normal, so here it is."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well, we've covered our father, who art in hell...Uncle Zach, my bad....On the bright side, our mother died of consumption."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Jeremy Gilbert picks up. Wow. It's a Remembrance Day miracle. Now tell me you found Bonnie because I have a hungry vampire who forgot that he's the hero of the story."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*And I need you to be less vague and less weird."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*I don't speak "crazy-person," Jer. You're gonna have to translate that for me."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Yes, exactly. The beauty of Bonnie magic, which is what we need right now."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Don't say it, Jeremy. Don't you dare."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*You say it, and everything in Elena's life goes to crap, do you understand me? Everything changes."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Damn it, Jeremy! You realize what you just did?! Why would you say that?!"*
Damon (to Elena): "*I'm at home. Look. I really need to talk to you about something."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I think we just got dumped."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Elena, Bonnie can't help us."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Bonnie's dead, Elena."*
Damon (to Elena): "*She's dead. I'm sorry."*
- *For Whom the Bell Tolls*

Damon (to Elena): "*Hey, Miss Avoiding-Me-For-3-Days."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Texting. One time. "Want to be my plus one at a costume ball?" Winky face."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*So, as we know, in a psychotic lapse of judgment, Bonnie brought you back to life and died in the process. May she rest in peace."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*The whole point is, I just happen to know a supernatural being who just happens to want to die, and in the spirit of nature needing balance and life for a life and all that stuff, I just think it would be a huge waste of a perfectly good death."*
Damon (to Silas): "*Same reason you answered. You need help, and I'm gonna help you."*
Damon (to Silas): "*Well, for starters, you're still here, as in, why do you suck so badly at killing yourself?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Lady Anne Boleyn. Now, who in their right mind would cut off a head so gorgeous?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well, maybe I can dance my way out of this doghouse."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Ah, guilt. Don't know it, but I've heard it can be a real bitch."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Elena, you are allowed to be happy once in a blue moon. Besides, Jeremy was lying to us all summer."*
Damon (to Stefan): "*Oh, the new you sucks."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Takes a licking, keeps on ticking."*
- *Monster's Ball*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"One who hovers and sticks his nose in other people's business. Oh! Sorry.. I defining 'annoying.'"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Katherine's rotting corpse was stinking up the house. I got rid of it."*
Damon (to Nadia) : *"The nicest thing that Katherine Pierce will ever do is feeding the maggots that feast on her flesh. Give it up. You're not giving her back."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Come on. Katherine is exactly where she always belonged. I'm not giving the body back. Quit giving me that damn pouty face."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah. I'm completely miserable."*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"You? You hate me! You once told me that calling me Satan was an insult to Satan."*
Damon (to Caroline & Stefan) : *"What's going on here? Are you guys babysitting me?"*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"Really bad timing, Blondie. I'm dealing with a blast from the past."*
Damon (to Aaron) : *"I can't kill you. Long story."*
Damon (to Aaron) : *"Go back to college, pack up your entire life. There's one road that heads out of town. Take it north until you hit ice. Don't ever come back."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"What's wrong? Say something... please."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah. I want to talk too. The message thingies on your phone... that was all me, in case you deleted them and didn't listen to them."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"So you know how bad I screwed up? I wussed out, Elena. I bailed because I was convinced I'd ruin you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I know. Just hear me out... just hear me out. You are literally the best person I've ever known and for me to think I could change you gives me way too much credit; and you... not nearly enough. You are the best influence on me. I need you. You are the good.. And I need a little good in my life. Because without it, there's an awful lot of darkness."*
Damon (to Aaron) : *"She's the reason that I'm here! No, scratch that, I'm the reason I'm here."*
Damon (to Aaron) : *"I use to think that. Yeah. I had to be better to deserve her love, or she had to be worse to accept mine... I'd lay in the middle of the road, looking up at the stars and having conversations with people like you, trying to convince myself that killing them was a bad instinct and that sparing their lives was the right thing to do."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"It doesn't matter. The point is, I was conflicted. Right now, in this very, very moment, I am crystal clear. You see, Elena thinks I'm a monster. You know what? She's right."*
- *The Devil Inside*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"She is brilliant."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I'm trying figure out why you decided to tell a starving, bloodthirsty, vampire-feeding-Ripper that his nemesis is still walking around, alive and well, while I'm stuck in this cell and can't do anything about it."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Oh you know, strung up, hungry, same old same old."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Okay. Sure. Why don't you just come to the house and we'll just talk about it here?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *" Or, you can give me a couple of sips of your hybrid juice, I can be on my way, and take my Ripper situation to Wes!"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"Can I ask you a question? Without you getting all wolf-man on me?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"Oh no, here-here. In-Mystic-Falls-here. Your family is all dead, and I don't see you getting a job at the Grill. And, I don't see you in a Whitmore hoodie, either. Something tells me that there is a little masochistic voice in your head that's trying to convince you that you and Caroline still have a fighting chance in hell."*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"There's just one small difference between you and me. You wanna hear it?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"You see, even after all the terrible things that I do, Elena still chose me, because she's fighting for me. Caroline, on the other hand, chose the nuclear option. You know, that big red button that nukes your relationship once and for all. Well, sleeping with the guy that killed your mom was kind of her way of slamming her hand down."*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"I plan on it. How's New Orleans this time of year?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"Says the guy pinning for the girl that slept with Klaus."*
Damon (to Tyler) : *" I know how to get you in this cell."*
Damon (to Wes) : *"What's up, doc?"*
Damon (to Wes) : *" I called my friend Enzo and asked him about the little adventure he had with you. Gotta say, long way off the tenure track, huh? I take it the Augustine Society hit a bit of a rough streak?"*
Damon (to Wes) : *"Well then, I guess you're my guy! Because, you see, I have this long road ahead of me to win my ex-girlfriend back. But, I don't have a chance in hell if I'm lusting over her blood, you follow?"*
Damon (to Wes) : *"Look at me! You did this to me."*
Damon (to Wes) : *"It's my turn to play doctor."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"Hello, Katherine. You didn't think I'd miss this, did you?"*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"We've already done that, Kitty Kat. I've said all I needed to say."*
Damon (to Katherine) : *"I'll see you in hell, Katherine."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I don't wanna be another Katherine Pierce. Katherine spent her whole life running from her problems only to die here. All alone."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Are you...you?"*
- *Gone Girl*

Damon (to Jeremy): "*Hilarious. Give me the damn cup"*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Wipe that smile off your face."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Quit crying! You're still around."*
Damon (to Jeremy & Matt): "*No, she doesn't because I'm going to be the one to tell her. If either of one of you clowns beat me to it, I'll rip your tongue out."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Don't you even think about it!"*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*I killed you once before, Gilbert. I'll kill you again."*
Damon (to Elena): "*So... eaten anyone yet?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Ahhh. Yeah. It sucks. You're going to be craving carbs constantly, but hey, you know what? There's a plus side. You get to keep your girl's figure."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well, how retro of you! Does that mean you memorized my phone number?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Ahhhhh! That would explain all those crazy instagram pics you've been uploading lately."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I know. I'm sorry. Well, what'd you want to know? I'll tell you."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Oh... that. I don't know. It's not like it has been playing on a loop in my head over-and-over again.. So, I don't really remember."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Elena. The second we are cured of this and don't want to rip each other's heads off, I am going to hunt you down and give you the most mind-blowing night of your life."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Can we talk about the irony of Katherine Pierce sitting through a college lecture."*
Damon (to Elena): "*No way! If anything, there's some sucker probably compelled to spend his entire spring break doing your homework."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Stefan, Stefan, Stefan.. "I have grease on my shirt. I need to wash up?" Come on, man! That's the oldest trick in the book."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I wasn't the one making out with her!"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Oh yeah? Well.. never mind. That would be awful."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's see.. Umm.. It's been unseasonably cold; Jeremy bought a bunch of new x-box games that are ridiculously loud and obnoxious; Tyler had a party.. It was lame.. OH! OH! OH! Have you heard the gossip?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Caroline and an original hybrid.. sitting in a tree."*
Damon (to Matt): "*Donovan! Get your ass in here."*
Damon (to Matt): "*My phone's dead. Charge it for me."*
Damon (to Matt): "*How about you never say that again?"*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"I need to see your sister. Undo my chains, or I'll kill him."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"She's going to hurt herself, Jeremy. She's totally unraveling."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Stop being an idiot, Jeremy. Trust me. She needs me. I would never hurt her, Jeremy."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Elena.. Hey, it's Damon. You're hallucinating."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Look at me. You did not kill Aaron Whitmore. I did."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" It was before I was infected. Listen, if you want the specifics, it was the night that I thought you broke up with me, Elena. I killed him to convince myself that you were right. That I was the type of person that can kill in cold blood and I was never going to change. That's why."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I need you to say something. Please?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"She speaks. Care to share anything else churning around in that beautiful head of yours?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Katherine didn't do this. I did! I thought you broke my heart, so I ripped open Aaron's neck: THAT is how much control you have over me."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Listen to us! This is toxic! We are in a toxic relationship, Elena! I just killed your friend and you find someone else to blame!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Then stop loving me!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, that's the problem! We don't work!*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Then we agree? This has to end."*
- *While You Were Sleeping*

Damon (to Elena) : *"Good morning, sunshine! "*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No, I've been up for three hours."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Maybe we should keep making mistakes? Big ones.."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Your loss. I make one hell of a naked breakfast."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"You know, that is so incredibly insightful, Donovan. You're really street smart, for someone working behind that bar, for what is it, 3 years now?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"Tyler Lockwood's now a life coach, despite running his own life into the ground. Perfect."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"Because it's difficult to explain to your brother that you just broke up with the former love of his life, and then broke the bed."*
Damon (to Tyler) : *"Anyway, Stefan's not an option. He's off doing some research project with Caroline. Don't worry wolf boy, I'm sure they're just friends."*
Damon (to Matt & Tyler) : *"Well boys, I hate to cut the session short, but unlike you, I have other places to be today, but don't worry, I'll be back. I've got deep, dark, childhood trauma that I'm just itchin' to talk about."*
Damon (to Mrs. Douglas) : *"Damon Salvatore. Present."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"The clock's busted. What am I paying my PTA dues for? I am gonna file a complaint."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You left me in charge of Jeremy when you went off to Whitmore. I've had this on my calendar for months."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Why? Is there something else you want to talk about? Oh, come on. Don't pretend like you're not still tingling from this morning."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Right, well, speaking of hypotheticals, if Jeremy was running around with another girl, would you wanna know about it?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Bonnie's little witch trainee, Liv. I saw her and Jeremy sharing a top shelf bottle of inhibition killer at the grill this morning."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Again, need I remind you that he once had an affair with a ghost. The only thing missing was a sappy love song and a pottery wheel."*
Damon (to Mrs. Douglas) : *"Cheating? That is so not like him. Go on, please."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Ex-boyfriend – ex, right?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Someone's in desperate need of a less judgy counselor."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're making excuses for someone you love. That's what you do. The worse the behavior, the more you try to defend it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah, because you keep trying to make it about anything else!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Here's the thing, Elena, I don't know what to say, or do. or think. All I know is that right now......I want to rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall, and throw you into one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people that drive minivans listen, wishing they were us. That's probably a bad idea, right?"*
Damon (to Liv) : *"Little tip, if you're going to stop to kill someone, don't waste time feeling bad about it."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Hardly. She was two seconds away from killing you and I wanna know why."*
Damon (to Liv) : *"So, I'm going to rip this nasty rag out of your mouth and if I hear so much as one syllable of hocus pocus, one of us is going to break your neck. Spoiler alert: It's gonna be me."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Jeremy's whole life is bad for Jeremy. You wanna fix Jeremy? Put him on a plane and get him out of town. We did what he wanted, remember? Against my better judgement, I might add."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Something tells me you're not packing for our honeymoon."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You realize that you leaving doesn't solve anything, right? I mean, especially now that Jeremy's free and clear of our horrible influence."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Shh.....Travel safe."*
- *Rescue Me*

Damon (to Enzo) : *"Does your mysteriously missing girlfriend know how insufferable you are? Maybe that's why you haven't found her. She doesn't want to be found."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"You know, bringing up her name defeats the purpose of me trying to forget about her."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Damon one, temptation zero."*
Damon (to Caroline) : *"Find a witch, get her over here. Let's figure out what the hell's going on."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yeah. I figured pool was a good outlet to put this pent-up energy that I seem to now have."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"We're not doing anything. I think that's part of the problem. We're just standing clothed, just standing, doing nothing."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"So having sex dreams about my brother."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I just thought I'd skip the uncomfortable parts."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm gonna regret this, but... By any chance are fantasy Elena and fantasy Stefan really, really, really happy?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Right. Well, as your friend, let me state the obvious that the prophecy says that you two are fated to be together. You're supposed to be together."*
Damon (to Luke) : *"We're all good on bibles, thanks."*
Damon (to Luke) : *"Liv has a twin? Is it possible for there just to be one of someone around here?"*
Damon (to Luke) : *"From where? Chant camp?"*
Damon (to Luke) : *"Well, this just keeps getting better and better."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Aw, you know, looking at the stars, listening to the universe laugh at me.""'*
Damon (to Elena) : *"We were doomed from the beginning, Elena. We were always gonna end up here."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"And then what? We're friends? Can't wait."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"I'm gonna staple your tongue to your chin."*
Damon (to Markos): "*Markos I take it. Well, I'm not Stefan, and this is not Elena."*
Damon (to Markos): "*I was about to ask you the same question. Plus, what do you want, and why are the doppelgängers having visions of each other?"*
Damon (to Markos): "*Oh, yeah. Picket fences, block parties, uncannily high death rate."*
Damon (to Markos): "*I'm sorry. Are we walking so I don't fall asleep?"*
Damon (to Markos): "*And thus began the war between the Travelers and the witches, and it's still rages on and on. Sorry. I just nodded off."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I think we need some rules here because if I'm not allowed to drive you home, then I definitely don't think you're allowed to ambush me in my bedroom."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Oh. Well, I'm sorry to tear you away from paradise."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I told you I don't want to know."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, we can always ask Markos to put it back."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"And really bad for each other. Did you forget that part?*
Damon (to Elena) : *"As friends, right? Right. No, Elena. I can't be your friend. It's too damn hard."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"No. I'm serious, Elena. I can't see you anymore. I don't want to hear your voice, I don't want to talk to you, I don't even want to look at you, and I sure as hell don't want to be your friend."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"That's what I want."*
- *Resident Evil*

Damon (to Matt) : *"Dingdong! Invite me in."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"Oh, I'm so sorry I interrupted whatever weird ritual you two were doing, but I just want to de-passenger the great citizens of Mystic Falls using your magical Traveler knife, so hand it over."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"Five words that make want to vamp-toss my keys into your chest cavity. Little Gilbert, help me in the fight against my dark side and elaborate, please."*
Damon (to Jeremy) : *"As in you lost it?"*
Damon (to Matt & Jeremy) : *"You're right. Don't invite me in because I will kill both of you."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"You don't happen to know where I can find a Traveler, do you?"*
Damon (to Enzo) : *" I've got two brain-dead teenagers who didn't realize two plus two equals one hijacked hybrid."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Enzo. You have your murder voice on. I need you to speak very slowly and calmly and tell me what the hell the problem is."*
Damon (to Liz) : *"You know when your brother kills your only friend's girl and you're stuck in the middle?"*
Damon (to Liz) : *"Ooh. Stefan was right. He didn't kill Enzo's girl."*
Damon (to Liz) : *"Because I did."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *" Well, this is depressing. Stadium seating really necessary? These people are starting to creep me out."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Oh, I'm sorry. Was that veiled? Release the damn hostages."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Enzo, I get it. The prospect of seeing Maggie again was your safety line to the outside world, the one thing that kept you from shutting it off. There's probably a chapter in Elena's psych book about it. What, are you two study buddies now?"*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"The thing is I didn't know she was your Maggie."*
Damon (to Maggie) : *"Whitmore. I spent a lot of time there."*
Damon (to Maggie) : *"Vividly. It was incredibly hot, very loud, lots of screaming. So I heard."*
Damon (to Maggie) : *"Oh. An Augustine. How refreshing of you to find me. I usually have to hunt you people down."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Maggie was the hope Enzo clung to. You were mine, and when you didn't notice that I was missing for five years, let's just say I held a grudge."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"I didn't even bat an eye. My switch was off, Enzo. But I didn't do it to make your life miserable from every angle. I did it because I didn't care. Just do whatever it is you got to do. You want to kill me, you want to hate me, do it. This is between us."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Don't you dare! Hey, Enzo!"*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Yep. Emotion-free. Bye-bye humanity."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"What do you say we get out of here? Where was it that you wanted to go-- cape town?"*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Enzo, I need you to come find me, ok, and I will give you a first-class ticket to Cape wherever it is. Hell, I'll even come with you. I mean, let's face it. No one's gonna miss me here, but don't hurt Elena, ok? You leave her alone, I swear I'll never ask you for anything again."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Elena! Elena. Agh!"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You're okay."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I know. I know what you're thinking. I screwed up. I'm the reason Enzo's in our lives, I'm the reason he wants us dead. It's all my fault, and I'll fix it, ok? He was there for me when I was at my worst. I'll find a way to be there for him. I'll get him back. I'll fix it. Did I leave anything out?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah, I know. I found her on campus. She was unconscious, I took her home, tucked her in."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I think I'm past trying to earn points for good behavior, Stefan."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Enzo reminded me that at least I got to grow up with a family, at least I had family still out there, which was more than he could say for himself. Said he envied me for having a brother."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Even a crappy one like you. He defended you, Stefan, even though he didn't know you. Said it was good that we had people on the outside, people just living their lives free and clear of our Augustine hell, people worth holding on to our humanity for because we loved them. And all that time as a prisoner, every time I wanted to give up on you, Enzo stopped me from hating you. That's why I have to help him. And I owe him for that. And so do you."*
- *Man on Fire*

Damon (to Luke) : *"Well, you've been failing now for an hour, wonder twin, so at this point, I can't imagine it's hurting."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I don't think this guy's the best anything if his locator spell skills are any indication."*
Damon (to Luke) : *"Yo! Where's your sister?"*
Damon (to Luke) : *"He flipped his humanity switch. There should have been a body count all the way to the airport."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Gee. I don't know, Stefan. Vampire with no humanity who wants me dead for killing his girl. Hmm."*
Damon (to Stefan & Tyler) : *"Well, good news. Our friend Luke here is an alleged genius at locator spells."*
Damon (to Luke) : *"Well, what about one of those locator spell blocker deals? Is that simple enough for you?"*
Damon (to Tyler) : *" You avoid the entire Czech language, figure out how to find Markos."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Meanwhile, you and I and our ex-girlfriend are gonna go on a little secret trip."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Cozy."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Well, I hope that dickwad's spirit isn't floating around anywhere."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I respect that he's dead. How about that?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm supposed to be avoiding you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Yes... No... I don't know."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"You kicking me out?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm really sorry Enzo came after you. That was my fault. He was hurt."*
Damon (to Elena) : *" It is a big deal. He almost killed you, Elena, so I'm gonna hunt his ass down, I'm gonna whip some sense to him, and I'm gonna make him apologize in person, ok? What?"*
Damon (to Caroline): *"Hey, munchie. Those are not for you."*
Damon (to Caroline): *"Well, Meryl Streep, I'd love to know how we're gonna act out Watergate."*
Damon (to Caroline): *""A," you just implied that I was on your team. Two, you just gave me that judgy little hinty voice. So what am I missing?"*
Damon (to Caroline): *"No. Clearly I don't."*
Damon (to Caroline): *"You know, now that you mention it, Elena got all cagey when I brought up Enzo."*
Damon (to Caroline): *"How much have you had to drink?"*
Damon (to Caroline): *"Let the games begin."*
Damon (to Caroline, Stefan & Elena): *"Okay. Let's play a game called "never have I ever", hmm?"*
Damon (to Caroline, Stefan & Elena): *"Come on. It'll be fun."*
Damon (to Stefan & Elena): *"Never have I ever lied about where Enzo is."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I mean, clearly you know the rules of the game, right, brother? If you lied, you drink."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"OK. I'd blame it on the spirit of Bill Forbes, but I don't think you're his type. Besides, why would a ghost be targeting you? Hey. Elena?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Enter the complication. Enzo's dead. You killed him. Elena told me."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"By all means, brother. At your convenience."*
Damon (to Caroline & Stefan): *"Drowning Elena was just a distraction. He figured out a way to kill us all in one fell swoop."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Let's just cut to the chase, Stefan, because I'm not in a hash-out-our-differences kind of mood. Yes, I'm pissed that you killed Enzo. I'm even more pissed that you two lied to me about it. You know what, Stefan? If it was me and I was in your shoes, I would have done it, too, except I would have done it months ago. The fact that you took this long--"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yes, Stefan, he was my friend, which is why I, above anyone else, should have known that he was dead. Let's just find the stupid witch."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Is that a yes or a no? Because I can bring you back. Bonnie came back, Markos came back. I'll find a way, but this has to stop. How do you think you're able to do all this stuff, huh? The other side's falling apart, Enzo, so you can either help me, or you can blink out of existence. It's your choice."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Hey. We're leaving. Pack your stuff."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I'm in a hurry. You should be, too. The Travelers can find us."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"What's there to talk about?"*
Damon (to Elena) : *"I don't care that you lied really."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because you were right, Elena. You wanted to protect me so I wouldn't spiral because if I spiraled then it would prove that we shouldn't be together, but--but I didn't spiral. Despite every nerve in my body wanting to break something or hurt someone or do all the wrong things for all the right reasons, I'm holding it together the best I can, for you."*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Of course I'm still mad at you because being around you drives me nuts, and not being around you drives me nuts.*
Damon (to Elena) : *"Because I've had a really crappy day, and I needed it."*
- *What Lies Beneath*

Damon (to a traveler): "*Wakey wakey. Mr... Sikes. Head of corporate accounts."*
Damon (to the traveler): "*Oops. Sorry about that! Yeah. Can't have you mumbling any of those annoying traveler ditties. It's a sure migraine. So, here's the deal. My brother and my girl have both been kidnapped by travelers and I can't seem to find them anywhere. I mean, like, POOF, gone. Right. So besides a completely clueless hybrid in my basement and a cave full of sleeping travelers, I've got nothing to go on except you. So I'm going to need you to tell me where I can find your leader, Markos."*
Damon (to Caroline): "*What's up, Blondie?"*
Damon (to Caroline): "*Well, unfortunately, Mr. Sikes here is occupied by some low-life traveler. I saw him and his buddies chanting in the town's square last week. I also know that Markos and your traveler comrades are planning some big, flashy spell to undo some super-boring, ancient, witch curse. And where that sucks for us; it just happens to undo all witch magic, i.e. kill, me and my sexy blonde frenemy here."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Seriously? Collect calls are still a thing?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Four days."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Woah! Woah! Woah! I've been searching 24/7, okay? Maybe if you would've been a little more perceptive, you wouldn't have gotten yourselves doppelnapped."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"You have Elena participating in squirrel slaughter?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Don't psychoanalyze me, Stefan. Where are you? I'll come get you."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yeah. I know.. Find Markos; kill Markos; save Mystic Falls from becoming traveler home. It's going to be a busy day for me, Stefan. Time to strap on the hero hair. "*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Get both yourselves home safely, brother. I'd hate to have to kick her ass for losing you."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"Hey! I'm sorry. I've got two missing doppelgängers; I've got a traveler that wants to rid our town of magic; and I've got the friendly banker, Mr Sikes, in the coat closet. So your escape from the netherworld is going to have to wait till tomorrow."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"You hear me, Enzo? Just hitch a ride with her. Okay. See? There. Delegating. I feel better."*
Damon (to Enzo) : *"You.. I need you and your x-box buddy to run an errand for me. Come on, let's go."*
Damon (to Matt) : *"Ahh! Great. I'm going to add carrying to the list of things you can't do well, but that's okay. You can repay me with your salary from the grill... if you want to work a couple thousand years."*
Damon (to Caroline): "*It's the only idea! Unless your body snatched ex-boyfriend in the basement can help us."*
Damon (to Caroline): "*There's no shame in giving up. I mean, aren't we all a little sick of Tyler?"*
Damon (to Caroline): "*Spare me the unsolicited relationship advice."*
Damon (to Markos): "*Salvatore Boring House"*
Damon (to Markos): "*Hey! You found my note! Now listen, don't be offended, but I can't just give them to anyone. So, what do they look like?"*
Damon (to Markos): "*You just described homeless people, Asians and Matt Donovan."*
Damon (to Markos): "*I know the concept of a home is new to you, but it is polite to knock."*
Damon (to Markos): "*Oh! If you're wondering about the smell, I have your salvation army doused in gasoline and I'm just itching to light a match.*
Damon (to Markos): "*You want a promised land? I get it. Okay, but look: off the record, I mean, Mystic Falls is kind of a dump... bad schools, terrible traffic.. and forget about ever getting a decent cup of coffee."*
Damon (to Markos): "*Very poetic! No idea what it means."*
Damon (to Markos): "*I'd invite you to stay for dinner, but I'm not very familiar with traveler cuisine. Although I'm sure it involves a lot of trail mix and gruel."*
Damon (to Markos): "*Well, all I can ask is that you leave me with a couple good bottles of wine. You know, I spent half my life shop-lifting stuff. I assume you want to see the wine cellar?"*
Damon : "*Woah... We have a problem."*
Damon (to Elena): "*What was that for?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well I guess today is your lucky day."*
- *Promised Land*

Damon (to Bonnie): "*My brother is over there.*"
Damon (to Elena) : "*Listen... I wanted to spare you the gory details, and then I figured, well, I'll be lying, and then the whole point of the universe would be moot because you'd be pissed. So here it is; project kaboom needs someone to trigger the explosion, so-to-speak..*"
Damon (to Elena): "*Even if I wanted to apologize, you couldn't hear me. So I won't.*"
Damon (to Elena): "*I don't have a choice, baby. You are by far the greatest thing that has ever happened to me in my 173 years on this Earth. The fact that I get to die knowing that I was loved not just by anyone but by you, Elena Gilbert, is the epitome of a fulfilled life. It's never gonna get any better than this...I peaked. I love you, Elena. Bye.*"
- *Home*

Damon (to Elena): "*Can we go back to the part where Rick came back to live to be a college professor?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Can I ask why there is not a Bennett witch in the back? I mean, can't Luke whip up a batch of herbs in Bonnie flavor?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*About what? The fact that I'm dead? Because I am."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Good point. Now I'm just gone."*
Damon (to Elena): "*And this conversation is pretty much the smart, level-headed you talking to the irrational possible drug addict you. Which is clear evidence of your insanity."*
Damon (to Elena): "*You're gonna kill her, just like you nearly killed the last one and the one before that and the one before that."*
Damon (to Elena): "*One call from my brother and you're gonna throw all this away?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*One call from my brother and you're gonna throw all this away?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*I don't blame you. You know what's waiting for you. How long before you go running back to Luke?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*An eternity of torment, agony, and grief. And you feel it all."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*And every day I do it anyway. Bon appetite."*
- *I'll Remember*

Damon (to Bonnie): "*Well, I feel a fang. I'm still a vampire. Either I'm a dead vampire or Mystic Falls is no longer magic free."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Where the hell are we? And I don't mean geographically."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Yeah, they're all 20 years old or more and yet they look brand new."*
Damon (to Bonnie): " *And that is Elena's not-so-burnt-to-a-crisp house."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I don't think we should be asking where we are, I think we should be asking when we are."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Well, did she happen to whisper a safe word in her last breaths. A clue, maybe? Witchy path out of here?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I don't. How'd you sleep? Me... not good. My 1994 mattress was very lumpy. Whatcha got there?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*You know, I am acutely aware that we are in some otherworldly time dimension. However, do you ever think for one second that maybe it's you being negative reacting to my natural self negative-ly?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Well that proves it, we're in hell. Our own personal, custom-built hell. And you're in it with me. Bottoms up."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Whoa, don't take it out on the pancakes. Those pancakes, like myself, are waiting for you to be witchy to get us the hell out of here."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*And failing. Further evidence, we're in hell. Not only am I stuck with you, I'm stuck with the useless version of you."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*It's an old tongue twister Eddie turned top 40, Eddie Vedder, pearl jam. Yellow Ledbetter."*
- *Yellow Ledbetter*

Damon (to Bonnie): "*First of all. Don't nickname, that's my thing....And this proof....This mysteriously filled in crossword, could very easily have been you."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*No. You don't know you filled it in. You also don't know that you talk in your sleep. Eggs."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Sorry i killed Bonnie. But she was the most annoying person in the world. She wouldn't shut up. She just kept talking.I mean, it's a wonder I made it as long as I did, but here's the thing, I think it's better this way because she didn't have magic, and she was pretty much useless."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*That's my car. That's my car."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Vrrrmm, vrrrmm!"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Shh, shh, shh, shh. This sound is the opposite sound of your voice, and I so enjoy it."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I'm gonna tell Elena how much I love her. And then I'm gonna apologize for killing you."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I did that time. Let's go meet our little friend."*
Damon (to Kai): "*This has been a monumentally bad day in a sea of bad days, so I'm gonna need to know who you are, what you're doing here, and how it relates to me, or I'm gonna rip your throat out."*
Damon (to Kai): "*You think my temper's bad with her? I like her. You not so much."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Sorry I called you the most annoying person in the world. I hadn't met him yet."*
Damon (to Kai): "*You're awake. Good. Now for the Q&A portion of the evening."*
Damon (to Kai): "*What? No, no, no. These are for me. You just get the poker."*
- *Welcome to Paradise*

Damon (to Kai): "*Oh my god, just answer the damn question. How are we going to get out of this Twilight Zone? "*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Maybe because I don't want to talk about the worst thing I ever did, Bonnie."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*Why are you always expecting the worst out of me, Stefan?"*
Damon (to Kai and Kai): "*On May 9th, 1994, I was living here. I'd come home to walk the straight and narrow."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*Can I have a sip of that? I'm starving."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*You know, maybe I should run the Salvatore boarding house. Take over for Zach, get in good with Gail..."*
Damon (to Kai): "*The only reason that you're alive right now is because I thought you could get us out of here and you could help us. But you don't HAVE any answers! You're just a man-child....with jam on your fingers!*
Damon (to Kai): "*Think you can find our ticket out of here, Bon-Bon?"*
Damon (to Kai): "*Easy there, big brother! She doesn't know you. At least buy her a drink."*
Damon (to Liz): "*Your daughter is so adorable"*
Damon (to Liz): "*You put it in between you and the thing that is too hot to look at....Ah, it works."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*Yeah, in her coffee. I swapped it out last week. Same for Zach."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*And they'll trust us both! Look, no feeding inside the house, right? Snatch, eat, erase. It's all completely functional, Stefan. I told you, it's a new start!"*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*Because I missed my brother. I want to have a connection to my humanity, Stefan. I wanted to feel something again. And when I decided to come back home, it all came rushing back, just like I hoped it would."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*Come on, man. Let's just hit the road, you and me, huh? I'll let you drive my car, I'll get you off this vegan diet, teach you how to feed again. It'll be great, Stef. Huh? What do you say? Come on! Trust me."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*You're just not used to guys hitting on you."*
Damon (to Kai): "*Hey, what's up with the nature walk?"*
Damon (to Kai): "*You're making us jump through hoops, and you're a witch?"*
Damon (to Stefan and Zach in Flashback): "*This eclipse party blows. I didn't see the sun at all when I crossed the yard! I forgot how much stronger we are when we drink human blood."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*No, you're not. 'Cause in 1912, I showed you who you were, Stefan. In 1942, I gave you your freedom, and in 1977 I almost killed your best friend because it should have been you there to help me, Stefan. You owe me, and it'll take you an eternity to pay me back."*
Damon (to Stefan in Flashback): "*An eternity of misery, brother. Just like I promised."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Look, Bonnie, I know this guy's not a model citizen, okay, but I gotta get back. Not just for Elena, but for my brother."*
Damon (to Kai): "*We may be having a bit of an disagreement, but don't ever lay a hand on her."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Look, we can still get outta here, Bonnie. We can steal that "Descendant" contraption, find out what Kai knows and we'll ditch him, because he doesn't have any powers anyway."*
Damon (to Kai): "*You gotta stop doing that. It's creepy."'*
- *Black Hole Sun*

Damon (to Bonnie): "*Because I have a hot date with my girl tonight."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I'm thinking dinner and a movie, you know what? Screw the dinner and a movie. Skip straight to the good part."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Whatever happened to hope, Bon? 'Member when I was all like boo, grr.. And you were like "hooray, hooray. We're getting out of here!"?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Me, I say, because I will kill Kai and anyone who comes in the way of me going home."*
Damon (to Kai): "*Are we literally not going anywhere?"*

Damon (to Bonnie): "*On the bright side, this stuff's not so bad. It's fruity, and fizzy."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*On the not-so-bright side, is your intelligence, because you took the only chance of us getting out of here and turned him into a giant... douche-kebab."*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*Alright. Let's get awkward....Like this?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*I'm sure there are about a billion people you'd rather be here with..."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"So what? Gone a couple of months, you think it's okay to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Yep. In the flesh."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Because I'm not dead, Stefan. I mean, this stuff's good, but it's not "I see dead people" good. Heh....Heh. It's a hell of a long story, brother, but... I'm back. I'm back....Yeah....I'm back, Stefan..."*
- *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*

Damon (to Stefan) : *"Well you didn't think I was gone-gone. I promised you an eternity of misery."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I know. A bunch of witches were going to get together and create some space time purgatory you'd think they'd pick a better year than the one Kurt Cobain killed himself in. The whole thing was just very depressing."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Long story, big flash of light. Two decades worth of jet lag. I will explain all of my adventures in that flannel hellscape, but first, there's someone I got to go see."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"I just need to see her Stefan. Our eyes will meet, fireworks will go off, and the balance of nature will be restored. She loves me!"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Look. I know why you did what you did. It's not real. You know what's real? The way you felt for me. You once told me it was the most real thing you ever felt in your life."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Oh, come on, Elena. You've compelled enough people to know it's just a way of covering the truth and no matter how badly you want it done, it doesnt make it any less of a lie, you know. Oh, I hear you breathing. You have no idea how long I've wanted to hear you breathe. Just open the door, Elena. Everything can go back to the way it was. Just...just open the door, Elena, please...or, at the very least, step aside because I'm gonna kick this door in.*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Professor Saltzman. What, you coudn't compel yourself a PH.D?"*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Well let's see Ric...I clawed my way out of some retro pocket universe only to find that I needed to compel myself a new change of clothes because this antimagic hamster ball is keeping me from going home, and then I find out that my best friend rather than doing anything about it decided that it was the best use of his time to compel my beautiful and lovely girlfriend to forget that she ever loved me...Heh...I'm great...Ric...Thanks for asking."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*It's kind of creepy, you just standing there all hulky and brooding."*
Damon (to Jeremy): "*Bonnie wasn't there with me Jeremy because she found peace. She's in a a better place."*
Damon (to Bonnie): " *That's it? That's your outgoing message. Really? I mean, the onetime I'm actively seeking the sound of your voice, that's all I get. Perfect. Hmm...Anyway, I'm in your room, which is a lot less weird than it sounds but I just wanted to say that because of what you did for me today is the day I get to see Elena. So thank you, and I'm sorry. Other than that, I don't know what to say or what I'm supposed to say except that, defying all possible global scenarios, I might miss you a little bit....Ooh, hey, I got to go.*
Damon (to Elena): "*So you didn't forget my number. That's a good start."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Oh I got it, everybody's sorry. You're sorry you gave up on me, sorry you turned Enzo into that hunter guy. Ric's sorry for the compulsion. I'm sure if Elena could remember anything she'd be sorry too."*
- *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*

Damon (to Elena): "*Okay, I'll start. I know Alaric eternal sunshined our relationship out of your brain but please, please tell me it's coming back. Or at least part of it, because...imagining this exact moment is what got me through the last few months."*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Keep going. We are on a roll. All the terrible things I did to people that Elena cared about. Let's see. I turned Caroline into my own personal blood juice box, I turned Matt's sister into a vampire and threatened to kill Bon-Bon a couple times."*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Subjective. Sometimes, I was being funny."*
Damon (to Alaric): "*I know. And listen. Despite the fact that my long list of dastardly deeds involves killing you, I'm glad you're alive."*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Although had you actually died a vampire instead of becoming human again, your compulsion would have gone away, and Elena would be mine again."*
Damon (to Jo): "*Just a heads-up, doc. You're gonna be in real high demand with a bunch of vampires who want to be human again if you could repeat that little healing trick that you did at the border with Ric last night."*
Damon (to Alaric and Jo): "*Or she has a witchy advantage. What, supposed to be a secret that she's a witch?"*
Damon (to Alaric): "*Oh, don't be cynical. I'm here to spend some quality time with my once dead, now human best bud."*
Damon (to Liam): "*It's a figure of speech. It's more kind of an emotional death. You know, it was a very messy breakup, but we're past that now, right? We're... we're in the friend stage."*
Damon (to Liam): "*So the ex meets the new guy. Heh. How freaked out are you right now?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Confident. Pfft. Sexy."*
Damon (to Liam): "*Focus. Go the bar, get her a Chardonnay."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I'll explain on the dance floor. May I?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Why? Well, because I'm an incredible dancer, and it would be a shame not to share my talent with the world. Oh. Don't worry. I didn't see you smile."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Miss Mystic Falls. First time we ever danced. Stefan stood you up... Bloodlust issues, surprise, surprise... So I stepped in."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I stepped in, sexy as hell, and saved you from complete and utter humiliation. Of course, you were just worried about Stefan, but there was this moment, this one moment, where everyone else fell away, and it was just the two of us."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I do, and no matter how much I missed you or how much pain I was in, I never would have erased everything we ever had. Even if I was drowning in grief, I'd rather hang on to every moment that I ever held you or every laugh that I ever heard, every shred of happiness that we ever had. I would rather spend every moment in agony than erase the memory of you."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well, you're a day late and a dollar short, honey?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*There's just one little part of that story that you're missing. You got in the car with me."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I was all ready to go, and the door opens, and you jump in the car and say, "we're in this together," and you weren't taking no for an answer. That was the moment I realized you were the perfect girl for me because you were just as crazy as I was."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Ok. Happy. Well, there is a motel ice machine in Denver that's got some stories."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well, can't forget the night of your graduation."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Shame. Probably one of your best speeches. You in your very passionate and adorable way told me you were in love with me, and hell if you were gonna apologize for it. My favorite memory of us, oh, one that I've relived a million times over the last 4 months is this summer night that we had before you went off to college. You wanted to show me this meteor shower, so we drove out in the middle of nowhere, and the moment those shooting stars started to fall, rain, lots of rain. You were so sure it would clear, and it was just easier to believe you, and I took your hand..."*
Damon (to Elena): "*No, no, no, no. Hey. Listen. I would give anything for you to remember, but I'm not gonna risk your life. It's the last thing I would ever do... Even if you don't remember that. Let's get you home."*
Damon (to Elena): "*When you became a vampire, part of me was thrilled because suddenly there was this possibility I could have you in my life forever, but then the other part of me was devastated because I realized you'd lost the life that you wanted to have."*
Damon (to Elena): "*And since I've been gone, you've gotten part of that life back. You're thriving, you're happy. Yeah, sure. Maybe you'd be happy if we gave it another chance, but the truth is is... You're better off without me."*
Damon (to Elena): "*I died. You started over. I need you to live your life. Be happy. I love you, Elena. Enough to let you go."*
Damon (to Elena in Flashback): "*Come on. It's time to abandon ship."*
Damon (to Elena in Flashback): "*I promise."*
- *Do You Remember the First Time?*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Ooh, boy. You messed with the wrong girl's feelings. Heh heh."*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Why don't you just date her, put us all out of our misery?"*
Damon (to Stefan) : *"Who would make a great girlfriend. Look. One, she's hot – objectively."*
Damon (to Stefan in Ms. Cuddles voice) : *"Oh, no. Is Stefan feeling sensitive about ruining his friendship with Caroline? She really liked him, and he broke her heart."*
Damon (to Stefan in Ms. Cuddles voice) : *"I saw that from a mile away, and my brain's made of cotton."*
Damon (to Stefan and Alaric) : *"Ms. Cuddles, one – invisible creepy mansion, zero."*
Damon (to Alaric) : *"Hold, please. Rewind. That's Kai from planet 1994."*
Damon (to Joshua) : *"Met him? Watched him die, watched him come back to life. Why? You know him?"*
Damon (to Joshua) : *"Look. I'll tell you everything you want to know, but first, I need something from you. It's round, about yea big, a bunch of little gears and wheels and things. It's a lot harder to describe than I thought."*
Damon (to Joshua) : *"Because I'll say please?"*
Damon (to Stefan and Alaric) : *"All right. So let's just get this straight. We went to the airport, we took off all our clothes for security just so I can come out here, have my brain scrambled by papa Kai, who by the way can disappear into thin air... Poof... only to find Jo's rusty knife full of magic."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Bicker, mostly. Cooked, ate. We went through a Tetris phase, but I beat it, and she got mad. We talked. A lot. Apparently there are a lot of words in the English language, and Bonnie knows just about all of them."*
Damon (to Elena): "*She sacrificed herself so I could come back. Hmm. Wow. Because when she wasn't talking, she was listening. She listened for hours and hours and hours, so when the opportunity presented itself for me to come back, she made sure I took it."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Dr. Future-Humanitarian-Award wasn't good enough? What went wrong?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*Well, Robert Frost, what's it gonna be?*
- *Fade Into You*

Damon (to Elena): "*Isn't a bridesmaid's dress supposed to make you look like a freak of nature?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*I'm taking it. I've been a vampire for a long time, Elena. It's been a blast. I would give it up in a second to be your husband. Your partner, the father of your kids...*
Damon (to Elena): "*That's what you and Stefan keep saying, but you're wrong. I can. I can take it for us. Okay? Because even if it doesn't work, even if it all goes to hell, even if I'm miserable and alone, the smallest chance of a perfect life with you is infinitely better than an immortal one without you. And I know this, Elena. I love you... and I will love you until I take my last breath on this earth."*
--*I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*

Damon (to Elena): "*I believe you owe me a dance, Miss Gilbert."*
Damon (to Kai): "*Oh, you didn't happen to pet a fuzzy, four-legged vampire-killing machine, did you?*
Damon (to Kai): " *Easy, there's a cure in New Orleans. I'll get it for you. Just tell me what you did to Elena."*
Damon (to Kai): "*One thing you're not gonna do? You're not gonna mess with me. I am in a very volatile place right now, and I will start beheading people that I don't like, starting with you, if she doesn't wake up So, what did you do to my damn girlfriend?"*
Damon (to Kai): "*Heads it is!"*
Damon (to Bonnie): "*You think I was gonna leave you all alone, huh? No way. I'm not out of nicknames for you yet."*
Damon (to Elena): "*You knew that the evil, selfish Damon Salvatore would give up the love of his life to save her best friend?"*
Damon (to Elena): "*I was thinking of doing the starvation diet, because desiccation makes the time go faster..."*
Damon (to Elena): "*Ready to spend the next sixty years of my life without you in it? Who's ever gonna be ready for that?"*
--*I'm Thinking Of You All The While*

Damon (to Bonnie): *"Unless you tragically choke to death on those cocktail peanuts. Then I can tell her myself."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Hey! Ride in the tram tracks, don't look both ways..."*
Damon (to Alaric): *"This isn't about what you need, Ric. It's about what I need. Just keeping you from jumping off a cliff keeps my mind off of the fact that my girlfriend's magical coma is linked to a Bennett witch that has a knack for avoiding permanent death."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Have you been to Mystic Falls? There is a Heretic clipping his gnarly toenails in my master bath right now. I have nowhere else to go."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"The first second, I thought of how amazing it would feel to have Elena in my arms again. By second number two, I was kissing her...And by the third, I remember you're my best friend, and that if anything ever happened to you, I would lose my mind. So, yes, Bonnie, I do know how long three seconds are."*
--*Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*

Damon (to Stefan): *"Just so we're clear, I'm taking the master bedroom. Carol Lockwood and I had a little thing. I think she'd want me to have it. Let's open some windows, too. It reeks of dog in here. Which is impressive, considering Tyler's been with Jeremy for months."*
Damon (to Stefan): *"Tyler? No. Jeremy? Once. But are we really bringing that up right now?"*
Damon (to Lily): *"Couple things-- A) Who the hell is that?"*
Damon (to Lily): *"I think there's been a bit of a mix-up. See, last night, I was in the town square, minding my own business, when I tripped and accidentally ripped Malcolm's heart out."*
Damon (to Lily): *"Okay, wait-- I admit it. I killed him. I killed him in cold blood, just like that. Stef and Caroline had nothing to do with it, so if you'll just kindly let her go..."*
Damon (to Lily): *"Well, I'm pretty awesome... In fact, so awesome that I'm such a better hostage than Blondie, so if you'll just swap us out..."*
Damon (to Stefan): *"Have no fear! I have a call in with the registrar's office, and I will find out who, exactly does own the house in a matter of minutes, at which point we kill said person, storm the castle, and save your damsel."*
Damon (to Stefan): *"Having an enemy, a nemesis, a maniacal villain with maniacal villain motives? You kidding me? That's not the worst distraction in the world."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Oh, Bonnie Bennett, Destroyer of Dreams. So, I take it things didn't go well with Ric?"*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Listen to me-- killing Malcolm is classic-Damon and has nothing to do with you. Everybody knows that."*
Damon (to Stefan): *"So, are you and Carebear, like, a thing now? Hmmm?"*
Damon (to Stefan): *"I'm just saying, when a guy's willing to let another guy die so his girl can live, there's usually something----cooking in the kitchen. You know what I mean?"*
Damon : *"Hello? Anybody burying somebody nobody cared about?"*
Damon (to Lily): *"You want to punish me for what I did? Fine. Punish me. Torture me. Kill me, for all I care, but leave Elena out of it!"*
Damon (to Lily): *"She's not a toy soldier!"*
Damon (to Stefan): *"There were four Heretics at the funeral. Dead Malcolm makes five. But, in 1903, there were six, which means there's one more. And I'm gonna find him, and I'm gonna negotiate a trade. We're gonna get them both back."*
--*Never Let Me Go*

Damon : *"Dear Elena... Yes, you heard that correctly-- Hell has frozen over. I'm writing it all down. Granted, I'm a half-bottle in, thanks to my 1950 Chateau Cheval Blanc, a bottle I waited 65 years to open. I used to spend nights sitting in my wine cellar, convincing myself I could actually hear it age-- tannins growing, fermenting. But, appreciating its beauty didn't make the time go by any faster. The bottle just laid there on its shelf, torturing me while I waited for Katherine and time stood still. Eventually, I convinced myself that no sip of that wine could ever taste as good as I dreamt it would, so I hid the bottle and walked away. And that is the story of why I drink bourbon. I don't know who I am without you. But I do know that as long as I'm without you, time will stand still. So, who is Damon Salvatore without Elena Gilbert? A selfish friend? A jealous brother? A horrible son? Or maybe, with a little luck, I'll do right by you. Because you may be one thousand miles away, or one hundred years away, but you're still with me, and my heart is right there in that coffin with you... ...Until you come back to me."*
--*I Carry Your Heart With Me*

Damon (to Bonnie): *"Hey! I do not go behind people's back and torture them! I like my enemies to look me in the eye and see the depth of my rage."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Burning that bastard's body would've been too good for Lily. I want to give her that man she's cherished and loved and missed for a hundred years. I want her to run into Julian's arms, and I want her to remember what it feels like to have him returned. I want her to taste true happiness... And then, I want to rip his head off right in front of her. I want to break her heart. I want to break her spirit. I want to destroy her."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Tell me I'm being stupid and reckless and cruel. Tell me I'm not doing right by Elena."*
Damon (to Bonnie): *"Well, glad to see you boarding this train to Crazytown, Bonnie Bennett! I was getting lonely all by myself."*
--*Live Through This*

Damon: *"Huh. Looks like mom raised her man crush from the dead."*
--*Best Served Cold*

--*Mommie Dearest*

--*Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*

--*Cold as Ice*

## References

1. ↑ *Nostalgia's a Bitch*
2. ↑ *Stefan's Diaries: Origins*
3. ↑ He accepted Cade's deal in *[[Template:R]]*
4. ↑ Damon meaning at Wikipedia.
5. ↑ https://www.babynames.com/name/Salvatore
6. ↑ http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-vampire-diaries-series-finale-ending-julie-plec-interview-1202006674/

## See also

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