[ This feels so much harder than it had the first time. How many more times will she have to explain this to a Damon who doesn't remember the night that changed her entire life? Will the next one even know her at all? The thought sends a spike of fear through her and it's so hard to pull back from him even further. She has to though, to remind herself that he isn't hers. ]

You weren't there. It's... complicated. I had you blood in me because I'd been hurt and a doctor used it to heal me. But then you... You weren't there when we went off the bridge, and I couldn't let anyone else I care about die in that river.

[ There's so much he doesn't know, it's overwhelming. Klaus, Rebekah, Katherine. He has no idea about any of it. The hybrids, her blood being the key to it all, Mikael. She can't even fathom where to begin. ]