Damon should have known that somehow Stefan would be the one to hear and intervene. His little brother (even younger now given all of Damon's time spent in that other world, decades of it without Elena or his brother, the whole of that world which was the closest thing he ever had to a home destroyed and decades behind him)--
His little brother always has a habit of saving his life even when Damon isn't all that concerned with being saved.
"No, I find it highly entertaining actually, and I usually have a really good point that I'm trying to make, which I think I did," Damon says with a smirk like now, it is absolutely true that Ethan has failed to be with Elena, failed to choose her again and again. He's abandoned her at least twice for long periods of time. Ethan wasn't with her at the end of the world. Damon was. It was supposed to be him with her in a new universe and not Damon with his decades alone.
"Otherwise he wouldn't have been so angry that he felt the need to attack me."
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His little brother always has a habit of saving his life even when Damon isn't all that concerned with being saved.
"No, I find it highly entertaining actually, and I usually have a really good point that I'm trying to make, which I think I did," Damon says with a smirk like now, it is absolutely true that Ethan has failed to be with Elena, failed to choose her again and again. He's abandoned her at least twice for long periods of time. Ethan wasn't with her at the end of the world. Damon was. It was supposed to be him with her in a new universe and not Damon with his decades alone.
"Otherwise he wouldn't have been so angry that he felt the need to attack me."