The Return: Nightfall Chapter 37

As she fell, it either rushed through her mind.The first judgment of conviction she had seen Stefanshe had been a different person then. Ice-cold outside, manic internal or was it the other way around? Still numb from the death of her parents so long ago. Jaded by the world and by anything to do with boysA princess in an icy towerwith a lust only for conquest, for actoruntil shed seenhim .Believe. Then the world of the vampiresand Damon. And all the wicked wildness shed found inside herself, all the passion. Stefan was her lynchpin, but Damon was the fiery breath beneath her wings. However farther she went, Damon seemed to lure her on just a little farther. And she knew that one sidereal day it would be too farfor both of them. But for now, all she had to do was simple.Believe.And Meredith, and Bonnie, and Matt. She had changed relations with them, oh, most definitely. At first, not knowing what she had done to merit friends like these three, she hadnt even bothered to treat them as they deserved. Yet they had all stuck by her. And now shedid know how to appreciate them knew that if it came to that, she would die for them.Below, Bonnies eyes had followed her dive. The earshot on the widows walk looked, too, but it was Bonnies face that she stared into Bonnie startled and panic-struck and disbelieving and about to scream and realizing at the same time that no screaming would save Elena from a headlong dive to her death.Bonnie, believe in me. Ill save you.I remember how to fly.