action;
[ she sees caroline's anger fading and takes a few steps forward. ] I don't want him to be nice; I just want him to want something. [ she knows he does, but caroline was right when she confronted him: he's scared. he doesn't believe he deserves it.
elena doesn't want or need him to change. but if something does, she wants it to happen because he wants it to, for himself. not for her.
it's not the only way it'll mean anything to her, but if he wants it, it'll mean something good in a way it hasn't before. ]
What matters to me is you, and Bonnie. Stefan. [ above everything.
she admits this next, knowing it can't be what caroline wants to hear, but it's true. ] And Damon. But if that doesn't matter to him... That's what I told him. What he needed to know, what I needed to say.