- Caroline Forbes: Please don't ask my mother for her opinions.
- Stefan Salvatore: You heard that?
- Caroline Forbes: Yeah. I've got superhearing. I hear everything.
- Stefan Salvatore: Only when you listen.
- [pause]
- Stefan Salvatore: Why?
- Caroline Forbes: Why was I listening?
- Stefan Salvatore: Why do you have a thing for me?
- Caroline Forbes: I don't.
- Stefan Salvatore: Ok. Um... Why did you have a thing for me?
- Caroline Forbes: We said that we would never talk about this again, so just...
- Stefan Salvatore: Look, Caroline, please just talk to me. Tell me how, tell me why. Please just make me understand how it is that I missed it.
- Caroline Forbes: What kind of a stupid question is that? Why did I have a thing for you? I don't know, Stefan. Maybe it's because I thought you worth having a thing for, because when I woke up as a vampire you told me that I would get through it and I did, because when I watched Elena move on with your brother I couldn't imagine why she would let anyone like you go, because you were practically my best friend, because I trusted you.
- Stefan Salvatore: I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not seeing it, I'm sorry for not...
- Caroline Forbes: Feeling it back?
- Stefan Salvatore: No. I didn't say that. I... I... Look. I don't know what I felt. You know, my head was all over the place, but I am incredibly sorry for the way that I treated you.
- Caroline Forbes: Yeah. Well I know what you felt, Stefan, because even if just a little tiny piece of you felt for me what I was starting to feel for you you wouldn't have walked away, and I don't hate you for that. I don't hate you for mourning your brother, I don't hate you for being the biggest jerk on the planet while doing so, and I accept your apology.
- Stefan Salvatore: But you do still hate me.
- Caroline Forbes: Yes. Yeah, I hate you because if I don't hate you for ruining our friendship, then I have to hate myself for ruining it, and I think that I deserve better than that.
- Caroline Forbes: That's weird.
- Stefan Salvatore: What's weird?
- Caroline Forbes: None of your business. We're not friends anymore, which means you can't just show up unannounced at my door. Goodbye.
- Stefan Salvatore: Hey, Caroline. Look, you're not safe. Tripp's men still have your name.
- Caroline Forbes: So what? You're here to protect me? News flash, I don't need your protection. And more importantly, I don't want it.
- [her cell phone rings]
- Caroline Forbes: Hey, Mom, can I call you back?
- [with contempt:]
- Caroline Forbes: I'm trying to get a piece of gum off of my shoe.
- Caroline Forbes: [Tripp is chained to chair] What did you do to him?
- Lorenzo 'Enzo' St. John: Oh, he's fine. Just a little blood loss. I think he may have an iron deficiency problem.
- [slaps Tripp through the face]
- Stefan Salvatore: Knock it off. Her mother's life is on the line.
- Lorenzo 'Enzo' St. John: Just so we're clear. All Caroline had to do to get you to treat her with... a modicum of respect, is to stop paying attention to you. Is that how this works?
- Caroline Forbes: Shut up, Enzo! And did he really need three chains? I mean, who is this guy, the Hulk?
- Stefan Salvatore: Well, I didn't restrain him.
- Caroline Forbes: No, but you let your sidekick Enzo do it. 'Cause what could go wrong if you team up with your sworn enemy?
- Elena Gilbert: [at the town border, they stand looking up at the stars, and she shakes her head] I don't remember being here with you that night.
- Damon Salvatore: Okay. What do you remember? How were you... rewired?
- Elena Gilbert: I remember that we had to stop the Travelers.
- Damon Salvatore: Yeah.
- Elena Gilbert: You had a plan, but you didn"t tell anyone what you were doing, and the next thing I know, you're dead. I heard that you drove your car into the Grill and then... blew yourself up so you could trigger some explosion.
- Damon Salvatore: There's just one little part of that story that you're missing. You got in the car with me.
- Elena Gilbert: [incredulously] What?
- Damon Salvatore: 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.
- Elena Gilbert: Okay, uh, tell me more. Uh, something happy.
- Damon Salvatore: Okay. Happy. Well, there is a motel ice machine in Denver that's got some stories to tell.
- Elena Gilbert: [not exactly thrilled by that] What else?
- Damon Salvatore: Well, can't forget the night of your graduation.
- Elena Gilbert: Well, I did... so...
- Damon Salvatore: 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. But my favorite memory of us, ah... One that I've relived a million times over the last four months... It was this summer night that we had before you went off to college. You wanted to show me this meteor shower... so we drove out into the middle of nowhere... and the moment those shooting stars started to fall... Rain. Lots of rain. You were so sure it would clear, it was just easier to believe you. I took your hand.
- [and he does so again]
- Elena Gilbert: [but...] This isn't working. I'm sorry.
- Damon Salvatore: Hey, maybe you just need to try a little harder.
- Elena Gilbert: I am trying! I get that we had an amazing life together. And I know that... I loved the fact that you were reckless. And it probably made me feel very free. But now, when I look into your eyes, I just...
- Damon Salvatore: What? What do you feel like?
- [expectantly encouraging:]
- Damon Salvatore: Yeah?
- Elena Gilbert: I feel like... like I'm looking at a stranger. Because I'm never gonna be able to give you what you want.
- [very upset:]
- Elena Gilbert: Because I just can't remember.
- Damon Salvatore: Hey... There are things that you can't erase, and you know that.
- [cups her face]
- Damon Salvatore: Hey.
- Damon Salvatore: [in doorway, uneasy silence] 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.
- Elena Gilbert: [hesitates long time] I'm not sure what to say.
- Damon Salvatore: Easy. So easy. Just say... that you missed me as much as I missed you.
- Elena Gilbert: [hesitates] I remember
- [shakes her head]
- Elena Gilbert: pain. I remember all the terrible things that you did to the people I care about.
- Damon Salvatore: Ugh.
- Elena Gilbert: I honestly don't remember anything good between us. I thought... if I saw you in person, it might change everything, but...
- [shakes her head]
- Damon Salvatore: Maybe you just need a little more time.
- Elena Gilbert: Damon, I know that I love you.
- Damon Salvatore: Yeah...!
- Elena Gilbert: And I know that apparently I forgave you for all the awful things that you did.
- Damon Salvatore: [downcast] Yeah.
- Elena Gilbert: But I just don't remember it.
- [shakes her head]
- Elena Gilbert: I'm sorry, I... I just don't...
- [shakes her head]
- Elena Gilbert: feel it anymore. I'm sorry.
- Damon Salvatore: [very much down] Yeah. Um... ahem. Yeah.
- Elena Gilbert: Damon, I'm... I really am sorry.
- [closes the door]
- Caroline Forbes: You didn't feel anything?
- Elena Gilbert: I felt... scared... and guilty. And his eyes were really, really blue and pretty, but...
- [Caroline snickers]
- Elena Gilbert: no. I don"t remember loving him.
- Caroline Forbes: So you don't remember. So be it.
- Elena Gilbert: That's your advice?
- Caroline Forbes: Well, Elena, look at your life right now. You're doing well in school. You're following your dreams. You met Liam, who also has very pretty eyes. Not to mention he's never killed your brother.
- Elena Gilbert: True.
- Caroline Forbes: And I just gave Stefan the friend boot. Maybe... a little break from the Salvatore brothers is on the cards for the both of us. Look...
- [Liam's approaching]
- Caroline Forbes: McDreamy's coming.
- Liv Parker: [Tyler's helping out] Seriously? You don't know how to fill a champagne glass?
- Tyler Lockwood: I never said I was a professional.
- Liv Parker: [shows him how] First and most obvious rule... they all have to be even... and no slopping over the sides.
- Tyler Lockwood: Thank you.
- Liv Parker: For what? Not firing you? I'm not even paying you.
- Tyler Lockwood: For letting me try to repay you.
- Liv Parker: I killed someone... so that you wouldn't trigger your werewolf curse, and you think that being my bar-back for the night is enough to repay me?
- Tyler Lockwood: Honestly, I'd rather chain myself up in a cellar and turn every month than have to wear this lame-assed tie.
- Liv Parker: Which isn't straight.
- [fixes it deftly]
- Liv Parker: You should take some pride in your appearance.
- Caroline Forbes: [Enzo told Stefan that Caroline has 'a thing for him'] Whatever he just said, it will never be discussed again, okay?