Damon Salvatore keeps it in the family since 1864 (mystic_damon) wrote,
"Well, you can't, Elena," he said. "Silly, silly me. Thinking that you could actually feel like that about me. I'm an idiot. I thought you had kissed me on the porch, I thought that that had meant something to you. I thought that I meant something to you. More than just Stefan's brother. I thought that for once, just once, someone actually loved me, really loved me. How foolish of me. She played me, she thought if she handed you over to me that I would just accept it, knowing that you were compelled to feel that way about me. I would never want that, because I would want that to be real. And it's clear to me that that is never going to happen," he said, getting more and more upset as he spoke.