elena chose damon in season 4 at after school special.
elena chose damon in season 4 at after school special.
when does elena choose damon in season 4?
after school special
in 'after school special', damon is at the lake house training jeremy, along with matt donovan. klaus shows up and threatens damon, wanting him to get jeremy's mark completed earlier rather than later. damon is shown to be reluctant, not wanting to hurt innocents for elena's sake, but klaus follows through with his plans regardless. later in the episode elena calls damon and confesses she's in love with him and it's the 'most real thing she's ever felt in her entire life', in a moment of weakness damon tells her to come see him. afterward damon is confronted with a bar of newly turned vampires for jeremy to kill concedes that it's the quickest way, however balks when klaus takes control and compels the newly turned vamps to kill matt donovan. in catch me if you can damon tells the boys to run since jeremy isn't ready to take on all these vampires. later when elena arrives her and damon argue over the killing of innocents and tells her to take matt home while he and jeremy take care of klaus's newly turned vampires. however kol shows up and has killed all the vampires, determined to stop them from finding the cure & waking silas, and threatens jeremy's life. kol compels damon to stake himself and later to kill jeremy and to forget what kol compelled him to do. upon arriving back in mystic falls damon begins to seek out jeremy due to the compulsion, however when he sees him in the grill he realizes what kol compelled him to do and tells jeremy to run. damon chases jeremy throughout mystic falls and advises jeremy that he is compelled and he needs to kill him. jeremy shoots damon in the head and when damon awakens later starts cursing the youngest gilbert, calling him stupid for not killing him. at the end of the episode damon catches up with jeremy elena follows and urges damon to fight it because "you love me and i love you", but he tells her that he can't, falls to his knees and urges jeremy to kill him. stefan shows up just in time to break damon's neck and lock him up until they can take care of kol. damon spends the next episode locked up and bled dry by a jealous and snarky stefan and engages in a conversation with klaus about caroline, rebekah and elena.
damon salvatore
in season 6, elena is unable to move on from damon's death months later. she pretends to be happy, but she is secretly taking witch herbs to hallucinate damon. when the herbs make her dangerous to humans, elena decides to have alaric compel away her memories of damon, because she will never be able to move on otherwise. when damon returns, he attempts to help her remember their love story, but the compulsion will not break. not remembering any of the good things about damon, elena still decides to give him another chance. she slowly falls in love with him again, ultimately declaring that no matter whether she has memories of him or not, she always finds her way back to him. when bonnie returns from the prison world, she gifts damon with the cure for vampirism, knowing that he wanted to give it to elena. however, damon is afraid that this will mean losing elena. they discuss what a human life together would be like. elena initially rejects the cure, but damon decides to take it with her so that they can have a human life together, including children. damon always wanted elena to have the human life she always dreamed of. elena takes the cure, which breaks the compulsion, and her memories of damon return to her. she recalls a memory from season 4, where damon declares that there would be nothing more miserable than becoming human again. elena is afraid that damon would regret taking the cure, so she challenges him to think it through carefully. stefan attempts to convince damon that becoming human would be a bad decision, but damon ultimately realizes that one lifetime with elena is infinitely better than an immortal one without her, and confidently believes her to be his soulmate. damon and elena excitedly anticipate the beginning of their human future together, until kai puts elena under a sleeping spell, tied to bonnie's life.
damon salvatore