Lexi: Your brother has spent the last 20 years racked with guilt, fighting the temptation to drink human blood. He’s serving in war as penance for the pain that he’s caused. If he finds out how you kill people, he’ll want to know how it is you function without guilt for the things you do. He’ll turn to you for guidance, like he did before, and he’ll become the Ripper all over again.
Damon: I’ve pretty much been on my own since our little falling out in 1912. Did you ever think that I just need my little brother?
Lexi: And that’s why you can’t go. It might be good for you, Damon. But it will destroy Stefan. For once, you need to put someone else in front of yourself.

Every day, I will wait
‘Til you’re mine again
I will die everyday
‘Til you’re mine again
There’s no words to explain
No beginning and no end
I will dream, I will pray
You’ll be mine again
Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary | Rihanna
this song is everything
Damon, 3x02: “When I drag my brother back from the edge and deliver him back to you, I want you to remember the things you felt while he was gone.”
Elena, 4x06: “Something’s changed… between Damon and me, much more than it ever used to be. It’s like everything I felt for him before I was a vampire…”
She remembered the things she felt for Damon while Stefan was gone.