action.
[ elena is totally pretending not to notice anything and being super chill. her hidden talent: steadfast and near pathological denial. selective, but re-occurring. she's all ready to glare at him for daring (!!) to mock her non-existing cooking skills when he has to go and be damon. he makes her feel, but not before making her want to strangle him first.
and of course, damon has no way of knowing how she lost her vervain necklace. stefan was off being a ripper, unspeakably and brutally cruel to her in the process. then he left so he could control his bloodlust, as far away from her as possible. he found refuge in rebekah, and if that wasn't enough of a blow, he confessed that the necklace she'd worn religiously was never hers to begin with - it had always belonged to the original instead. elena gave it to stefan so he'd return it to its rightful owner. she never told rebekah that stefan gave her the option to keep it. she never told rebekah that stefan kept a lot of things from her in an attempt to protect elena, even after they'd broken up. but this isn't about stefan, and for once, she doesn't want it to be.
her neck has always felt kind of bare since. ] Thank you. [ the words are simple and heartfelt.
the chain of the necklace dangles from her fingertip. ] Where did you get it? [ it's hard to know what she means: the necklace or the vervain. ]