Damon: "What eye-thing?" He, of course, then over-does the eye thing. Elena tilts her head all the one you're doing right now. Damon chuckles and eye-things some more. She pokes him in the chest. "Don't make me regret being your friend." He immediately drops the flirting and the playful eye-thing, but he's still Damon, so he's still got those eyes and the thing they're doing now, although not intentional, is even more effective. Lawdy! Bring me my smelling salts, Aunt Pittypat. Once Elena knows he reads her loud and clear, she moves on to...

The Germ. He's sitting alone when his sister approaches. Damon of course turns on his vamponic hearing, so he doesn't miss a thing. Elena doesn't believe the siblings can't repair their relationship. She lied and she was wrong, but they have to fix things. "Just tell me what it is I have to do." Germ: "You can go to Hell, Elena." He leaves the Grill in a stupendous snit. Damon waits a moment and follows him...

Outside. Damon (mockingly): "I have so many emotions, but I don't have any way to express them. Being a teenager's sooo hard." Love him. I wonder if I can hire him to mock my kids. Germ: "Dick." Damon: "You do not talk to me like that. I am not your sister." Then he grabs Germ's arm. "And from now on? Don't talk to your sister that way, either." Germ: "So what -- you gonna kill me just 'cause I hurt Elena's feelings?" Damon: "Cut her some slack." Germ: "She erased my memories." Damon: "No, I did. She was protecting you." Germ says it wasn't Elena's call to make, and starts off, but Damon grabs his arm and forces him back. Germ: "Let go of me before I cause a scene." That's the best you can do, Germ? Damon agrees with me. "You'd be unconscious before you even got a word out."

Stefan shows up and comes between his lover's brother and his own. "What my brother is trying to say is: don't blame Elena for this. Damon turned Vicki. I killed her. She was a threat to you and your sister. I'm sorry that it happened. I wish that it hadn't." Damon is visibly moved by their discussion. Germ: "You shouldn't have made me forget." He swoops off. Damon isn't the type to stay in any moment that touches him, so he quips: "Good cop, bad cop. I like it." Stefan asks him what he's doing. Damon: "He was being a punk." Stefan says Germ and Elena's relationship is none of Damon's business. Damon: "Oh there's only one do-gooder/hero role available." He laughs. "My bad. I'm sorry." Stefan: "Get over yourself. We both know that you're not doing this for the right reasons." Damon taunts him for his jealousy then asks what the right reasons are. Stefan: "See Damon, it's only real when it comes from your desire to do the right thing -- for nothing in return." Damon folds his arms across his chest. "Right." Stefan continues: "I know that that is an entirely foreign concept to you. I completely understand that. You wouldn't get it." He smirks as he leaves Damon to stew in his own juice. The thing is, Stefan, I think Damon is starting to get it. You wouldn't know that. You didn't see him with Bonnie, but I think he is. And if he wasn't, you've just given him crib notes, and heaven knows the boy is a quick study.