- Damon Salvatore: You spent the last century and a half being the poster child for Prozac. Now you want me to believe this new you has nothing to do with human blood?
- Damon Salvatore: Are you running for Miss Mystic Falls?
- Anna Zhu: Sometimes you have to wear uncomfortable heels to blend in.
- Damon Salvatore: Mm.
- Anna Zhu: I remember this event from 1864. I was... supposed to enter... before everything happened.
- Damon Salvatore: Ah. Nostalgia's a bitch.
- Anna Zhu: You were basically using me to turn you into a vampire so you could be with someone else.
- Jeremy Gilbert: No, I wasn't using you.
- Anna Zhu: Really? Then, how would you like to define it?
- Jeremy Gilbert: [scoffs] I don't think it's any worse than becoming friends with me so we could give your mother my blood.
- Anna Zhu: How do you know that?
- Jeremy Gilbert: It's not important.
- Anna Zhu: Seriously, Jeremy. What do you know?
- Jeremy Gilbert: Everything. I know everything.
- Elena Gilbert: [catching up] Bonnie!
- Bonnie Bennett: Hey!
- Elena Gilbert: Hey. I... I tried to grab you after class, but you had already taken off. How are you? How's your family?
- Bonnie Bennett: We're dealing. It's been hard.
- Elena Gilbert: Everyone here really missed you.
- Bonnie Bennett: Yeah, I had so much to deal with after Gram's funeral, and, honestly, after you told me the tomb spell failed, I just didn't really wanna come back.
- Elena Gilbert: I hope you understand why I... called. I wanted you to know before you came home.
- Bonnie Bennett: I understand why. I just shouldn't... know.
- Elena Gilbert: [conversation falters] I understand it's been really hard.
- Caroline Forbes: Bonnie!
- [comes rushing up]
- Caroline Forbes: Bonnie! Thank God you're home. I know we talked every day, but I missed you! How are you doing?
- Bonnie Bennett: Better. It's better, you know? I'm glad to be back. And I'm... trying to keep myself... busy.
- Caroline Forbes: Well, I can help with that. Major wardrobe confab needed, ASAP. You need to help me pick out the perfect dress for the Founder's Court.
- Elena Gilbert: The Founder's Court. Did I miss something?
- Caroline Forbes: The Founder's Court. You know, Miss Mystic Falls. They, uh, announced it today. And you and I are both on it.
- Elena Gilbert: Oh, my God. We signed up for that so long ago, I completely forgot.
- Caroline Forbes: [snickers] So are you dropping out, then?
- Elena Gilbert: I can't.
- Caroline Forbes: [disappointed] No?
- Bonnie Bennett: Her Mom is the one who wanted her to enter.
- [Elena nods]
- [first lines]
- Elena Gilbert: Nice car.
- Stefan Salvatore: It was a waste leaving it standing in the garage.
- [they kiss]
- Elena Gilbert: I didn't know you were coming back today.
- Stefan Salvatore: You know, I woke up this morning, and I was feeling great, and I figured it was time for me to... get back into things.
- Elena Gilbert: Does that mean you're okay now? With all the cravings?
- Stefan Salvatore: Yeah, I mean, the worst part is... is over. All I wanna do is just... spend as much time with you as possible.
- Elena Gilbert: [happy smile] I'm okay with that.
- [kisses him]
- Stefan Salvatore: I thank you... for... helping me get through the... rough patch.
- Elena Gilbert: [waltzing] This is ridiculous.
- Carol Lockwood: [instructing] Both hands!
- Stefan Salvatore: You're only saying that because you don't know how to do it.
- Elena Gilbert: Sorry only one of us was around when the dance was invented.
- Stefan Salvatore: Ouch!
- [dips her, much merriment ensues]
- Carol Lockwood: There's no touching during this part. It's about the close intimacy of the near touch. Very nice, Amber!
- Amber Bradley: Thank you, Mrs. Lockwood!
- Stefan Salvatore: [to Elena] If you ask me, the near touch is... overrated.
- Elena Gilbert: [smiles] You seem to be in a good mood.
- Stefan Salvatore: Is that a bad thing? Would you prefer me to be brooding and tortured?
- Caroline Forbes: The Fell cousins don't have a shot. And Amber Bradley is only on the court so the pageant doesn't look like it's founding families only, which of course it is. So that leaves Elena. And she totally has the sympathy vote since her parents died.
- [sighs]
- Caroline Forbes: How can I compete with that?
- Bonnie Bennett: Very nice. Very sensitive.
- Caroline Forbes: Oh, I'm sorry. This must sound really unimportant in light of everything.
- Bonnie Bennett: It's okay. I get it. You wanna win.
- Caroline Forbes: My grandmother was Miss Mystic... And both of my aunts. My mom is the only one who didn't get the gene, and... I want this.
- [emphatically:]
- Caroline Forbes: And I actually deserve this!
- [causing Bonnie to smile]
- Amber Bradley: [led down row of parked cars] Where are we going?
- Stefan Salvatore: I don't know.
- Amber Bradley: I'm in the ceremony.
- Stefan Salvatore: [pushes her against car] Not now you're not.
- [hypnotic persuasion:]
- Stefan Salvatore: You're standing in the parking lot with me.
- Amber Bradley: [swayed] I'm in the parking lot with you.
- Stefan Salvatore: [tries to avoid doing this] I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not very good to be around right now. I'm a little bit on edge. I've... I've been drinking the human stuff and it's really screwing with my head.
- [sputtering, then mumbles to himself re Elena:]
- Stefan Salvatore: She knows now. She wasn't supposed to find out. I didn't want her to find out. Now everything's ruined.
- [sputtering again]
- Amber Bradley: You seem sad.
- Stefan Salvatore: I'm not sad! I'm freaking hungry!
- Stefan Salvatore: [hunched over car, mumbling to himself] I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother.
- Amber Bradley: [behind him] Do you wanna hurt me?
- Stefan Salvatore: [turns around to look at her] I want to kill you.
- [she frowns, looks down]
- Stefan Salvatore: I wanna rip into your skin. And I wanna feed on your blood. Under your skin.
- [the hypnotized girl is wide-eyed]
- Stefan Salvatore: Pulsating, flowing.
- [brushes her hair away from her neck,.exposing her throat]
- Stefan Salvatore: Your carotid artery right there. If you puncture this just right, you can control the blood flow. It takes practice, but... it doesn't have to make a mess... You do not have to waste any.
- Amber Bradley: What's stopping you?
- Stefan Salvatore: [scoffs] If I do this... if I give in, there's no going back.
- Amber Bradley: [nods] Then don't.
- Stefan Salvatore: I just want one taste. That''s all I need. I just want one taste.
- Amber Bradley: One taste.
- [and then his bared fangs bite into her neck]
- Stefan Salvatore: I can't do this.
- [grunts]
- Amber Bradley: [intended victim] What's the matter?
- Stefan Salvatore: [clutches head, walks away] I can't do this.
- Amber Bradley: It's okay. It doesn't hurt that much.
- [dried blood on her hand and neck]
- Amber Bradley: Just... not so hard next time.
- Stefan Salvatore: Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. I can't stop. I can't stop.
- [she smiles at him as he is about to bite into her neck again]
- Stefan Salvatore: Why aren't you afraid of me, huh?
- Amber Bradley: You told me not to be.
- Stefan Salvatore: [panting, under his breath] What? What's your name?
- Amber Bradley: Amber.
- Stefan Salvatore: Listen to me, Amber. I need you to be afraid of me. I need you to run like hell. Do you understand me?
- [the girl is scared now, wide-eyed with fear, nods]
- Stefan Salvatore: Run! Run! Now!
- Stefan Salvatore: Now you know.
- Elena Gilbert: That wasn't you.
- Stefan Salvatore: Oh, it was absolutely me. A monster, a predator. It's who I am, Elena!
- Elena Gilbert: That's what the blood makes you!
- Stefan Salvatore: The blood brings out what's inside of me. And if you think any differently, then you're an idiot.
- Elena Gilbert: I know this isn't you, Stefan.
- Stefan Salvatore: I wanted to drain every ounce of blood from that girl's body.
- Elena Gilbert: No.
- Stefan Salvatore: It's who I am, Elena.
- Elena Gilbert: [shakes her head] No, you can't scare me off.
- Stefan Salvatore: Why would you risk it? Why did you come here?
- Elena Gilbert: Because I did this. This is my fault. I'm the one who made you drink the blood.
- Stefan Salvatore: All you did was expose me to who I really am.
- Elena Gilbert: This isn't you.
- Stefan Salvatore: [violently:] Stop saying that!
- [softly:]
- Stefan Salvatore: Don't get any closer to me.
- Elena Gilbert: I'm not gonna let this happen to you.
- Stefan Salvatore: Stop!
- Elena Gilbert: Stefan, I'm not gonna give up on you. I believe in you.
- Stefan Salvatore: [slams her against the wall] Stop! Stop!
- [takes control of himself]
- Stefan Salvatore: I'm so sorry.
- Elena Gilbert: It's okay.
- Stefan Salvatore: I don't know what's happening to me.
- [slumps forward into her arms]
- Elena Gilbert: It's okay, Stefan. Shh. It's okay. It's okay.
- [had a hidden syringe]
- Elena Gilbert: You're gonna be okay.
- [injects him, and he collapses]
- Anna Zhu: You're missing Elena's introduction.
- Jeremy Gilbert: I don't care.
- Anna Zhu: So she has no idea you read her journal?
- Jeremy Gilbert: Well, she keeps things from me, I'm gonna keep things from her.
- Anna Zhu: What are you gonna do now? Now that you know everything she's been hiding from you?
- Jeremy Gilbert: I don't know. There's a part of me that's so angry. How she covered up what happened to Vicki, and... and erased my memory, but there's also this other part that's glad. I... I don't wanna remember Vicki like that.
- Anna Zhu: As a monster?
- Jeremy Gilbert: No. As someone who wanted to hurt me.
- Anna Zhu: When I met you, you were just a part of my plan to get my mother back. But then things changed. All the time we spent together, I would never do anything to hurt you. Not now. You know that, right?
- Jeremy Gilbert: Yeah, I know that.