• 1x03 friday night bites
  • kitchen scene + bedroom scene
  • "i like you, you know how to laugh"
  • temptation - moby
    • "tonight i think i'll walk alone, find my sould as i go home "
• 1x04 family ties
  • "doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman"
  • fallout - sofi blond
• 1x11 bloodlines
  • roadtrip
  • "when it's real you can't walk away"
  • cosmic love - florence + the machine
    • "i heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, so i stayed in the darkness with you"
• 1x14 fool me once
  • their first hug
  • "you and i, we have something, an understanding"
  • "i didn't compel you in atlanta because we were having fun. i wanted it to be real "
• 1x19 miss mystic falls
  • miss mystic dance
  • all i need - within temptation
    • "all my agony fades away when you hold me in your embrace"
• 1x22 founder's day
  • porch speech (originally meant for elena but doppelganger etc)
  • "somewhere along the way, you decided that i was worth saving and i wanted to thank you for that"
  • it is what it is - lifehouse
    • "i was only looking for a shortcut home "
  • bloodstream - stateless
    • "i think i might have inhaled you, i can feel you behind my eyes, you've gotten into my bloodstream, i can feel you floating in me"
• 2x01 the return
  • "no i'm not upset. upset is an emotion specific to those who care." "c'mon damon, that's a lie. you care"
  • come home - onerepublic
• 2x08 rose
  • bedroom scene
  • "what i'm about to say is probably the most selfless thing i've ever said in my life. i just have to say it once, you just need to hear it. i love you elena, and it's because i love you that i can't be selfish with you. why you can't know this? i don't deserve you, but my brother does."
• 2x18 the last dance
  • decade dance
  • "i will always choose you"
  • last kiss - pearl jam
• 2x22 as i lay dying
  • death-bed-kissing-thing
  • "i've made a lot of choices that have gotten me here. i deserve this, i deserve to die" "no, you don't" "i do, elena, and it's okay, cause if i had chosen differently, i wouldn't have met you. i'm so sorry i did so many things to hurt you" "it's okay, i forgive you" "i know you love stefan and it will always be stefan, but i love you. you should know that." "i do" "you should've met me in 1864, you would've liked me" "i like you now, just the way you are"
  • i should go - levi kreis
• 3x01 the birthday
  • necklace scene
  • make it without you - andrew belle
• 3x02 the hybrid
  • bedroom scene
  • "i didn't wanna see you get hurt, okay? i was worried about you." "thanks" "yes, i worry about you. why do you even have to hear me say it?" "because when i drag my brother from the edge and deliver him back to you, i want you to remember the things you felt while he was gone"
  • echo - jason walker
• 3x05 the reckoning
  • hospital scene
  • "where were you damon?" "i promise you, i will never leave you again"
  • torch song - shady bard
• 3x08 ordinary people
  • bedroom scene
  • "she loves blindly and recklessly, even if it consumes her"
  • we don't eat - james vincent mcmorrow
• 3x10 the new deal
  • porch kiss
  • "it means i'm an idiot, cause i thought for one second that i wouldn't have to feel guilty anymore." "wait, what are you talking about, guilty for what?" "for wanting what i want" "damon..." "no, i know. believe me, i get it. brother's girl and all. no, you know what? if i'm gonna feel guilty about something, i'm gonna feel guilty about this"
• 3x14 dangerous liasons
  • ballroom dance
  • "i'm mad at you because i love you"
  • give me love - ed sheeran
• 3x19 heart of darkness
  • their kiss
  • "why don't you let people see good in you?" "because when people see good, they expect good and i don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations"
  • never let me go - florence + the machine
• 3x22 the departed
  • first meeting
  • "when i'm with him he just consumes me"
  • "i can't think about always, all i can think about is right now "
  • "so, damon, tell me. what is it that i want?" "you want a love that consumes you. you want passion, and adventure and even a little danger"
• 4x01 growing pains
  • "i would've saved you. in a heartbeat, no question" "that's what i though. and then matt would be dead because you couldn't let go. matt would be dead!" "but you wouldn't be. and you would've gotten to grow up and have the life that you wanted, the life that you deserved and i know i didn't use to get that, but i do now and i wanted that for you, elena, and i would've gladly have given it to you and let matt die, because i am that selfish... but you knew that already. first night we met is not all you remember."
• 4x02 memorial
  • blood sharing
  • fear and loathing - marina & the diamonds
• 4x04 the five
  • blood-high dance
• 4x06 we all go a little mad sometimes
  • wickery bridge + bedroom scene
  • "you saved me"
• 4x07 my brother's keeper
  • first time
  • kiss me - ed sheeran
    • "i've been feeling everything, from hate to love, from love to lust, from lust to truth"
• 4x08 we'll alaways have bourbon street
  • morning after
  • _"you know what would make me happy? to know that this entire time that i've been completely in love with you, that what you actually felt for me was real " "it is real, i know that it is, damon"
  • speechless - morning parade
• 4x09 o come, all ye faithful
  • bedroom scene
  • "it feels real and i'm not ready to let go of that"
  • oblivion - bastille
    • "when you're in my arms but you've gone somewhere deeper"
• 4x10 after school special
  • first i love you
  • "i'm telling you it's the most real thing i've ever felt in my entire life. i love you, damon. i love you"
  • new york - snow patrol
• 4x22 graduation
  • fireplace scene
  • "i wanted to apologize" "good" "let me finish, i said i wanted to. and then i realized: i'm not sorry" "you would rather die than be human and you expect me to be okay with that?" "i didn't say you were supposed to be okay with that, i just said i'm not sorry. but you know what i really am? selfish, because i make bad choices that hurt you. yes, i'd rather die than be human, i'd rather die right now than spend a handful of years to you only to lose you when i'm too old and sick and miserable and you're still you. i'd rather die right now than spend my last final years remembering how good i had it and how happy i was because that's who i am, elena, and i'm not gonna change. and there is no apology in the world that encompasses all the reasons that i'm wrong for you." "fine, then i'm not sorry either. i'm not sorry that i met you, i'm not sorry that knowing you has made me question everything, that in death you were the one who made me feel most alive! you've been a terrible person, you made all the wrong choices and of all the choices that i've made, this will prove to be the worst one but i'm not sorry that i'm in love with you! i love you, damon. i love you."
  • belong - cary brothers
• 5x01 i know what you did last summer
  • summer recap + college goodbye
  • unbelievers - vampire weekend
• 5x02 true lies
  • campus scene
  • "i love you. we're gonna save stefan and i'm still gonna love you"
  • i don't deserve you - plumb
    • "You never give up when i'm falling apart, your arms are always open wide and you're quick to forgive when i make a mistake, you love me in the blink of an eye"
• 5x03 original sin
  • fireplace scene
  • "no one tells me how i live my life, no one tells me who i love, specially not some vindictive pre-historic witch and definitely not the universe. and i'm not gonna let someone else's idea of destiny stop me from loving you or being with you or building a future with you because you are my life"
  • satellite call - sara bareilles
• 5x10 500 years of solitude
  • seeing each other post breakup
  • "can't live without her"
• 5x16 while you were sleeping
  • post fight sex
  • "that's how much control you have over me!"
  • fire breather - laurel
• 5x17 rescue me
  • corridor scene + goodbye scene
  • "it's not just that we're bad for each other it's that when we're together, we do bad things for each other... and i can't live like that" "i'll drive you to whitmore" "if you do that then i'm gonna spend the entire car ride thinking about your hand next to mine and even though i'll try, i won't be able to stop myself from taking it, or from letting you kiss me and we're never gonna get to where we need to go. we'll just end up back here, where we started. that's why i need you to let me go."
  • far from yesterday - amy stroup
• 5x18 resident evil
  • porch scene
  • "the universe doesn't control anything. it's not real"
  • "you and i? we're messy and complicated but... we're real "
• 5x20 what lies beneath
  • outside talk + kiss
  • "but i didn't spiral, despite every nerve in my body wanting to break something or hurt someone or do all the wrong things for all the right reasons, i'm holding it together the best i can for you!"
  • "being around you drives me nuts and not being around you drives me nuts"
  • "what was that for?" "i had a really crappy day and i needed it"
  • chemical - kerli
    • "don't know where you end and i begin, i want you to know this love is more than chemical, it feels unusual and i can't get enough, we're unbreakable and will be forevermore"
• 5x21 promised land
  • reunion kiss
  • "what was that for?" "i had a really crappy day and i needed it. and i thought i was never gonna see you again and i couldn't think of a worse way to die"
• 5x22 home
  • forest scene + car scene + cript scene
  • "do you see a future with me? because that's all i see" "i've seen it since the second i laid eyes on you"
  • "i know what i signed up for damon. and i'm all in!"
  • you are by far the greatest thing that ever happened to me in my 173 years on this earth. the fact that i get to die knowing that i was loved, not by just anyone... by you, elena gilbert, is the epitome of a fulfilled life"
  • be alright - lucy rose
• 6x02 yellow ledbetter
  • the moment when she realized she loved him
  • "it was my birthday. damon and i spent the entire summer looking for stefan and i was trying to put on a good face because caroline was throwing this party for me but i was just so sad. i was two seconds from deciding that i wasn't gonna go, i wasn't gonna leave the room... until damon walked in to give me my birthday gift. it was the necklace that stefan had given me, i lost it, but damon knew what the necklace meant to me, what it meant about my feelings for stefan. even though he loved me, he gave me the one thing that represented hope for me and his brother. i knew how much it hurt him, but he did it. it was the most selfless that he's ever been. and in that moment, i loved him. i didn't want to, it terrified me but... for that moment i loved him."
  • all through the night - sleeping at last
    • "we have no past we won't reach back"
• 6x07 do you remember the first time?
  • rain kiss
  • "promise me this is forever" "i promise"
  • another love - tom odell

“damon's mouth twisted into its telltale smirk, and elena knew she was home.”