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The noise of the party in Mystic Falls faded into a thick, charged silence. Elena stood at the center of the hall, her green eyes—now cold and ancient—scanning the crowd. She was no longer that naive schoolgirl who had lost her parents. Now she was a vampire, a bearer of the Petrova power, whose humanity had been shut off and then switched back on, forever altered. Leaning against a wall in the corner with his signature smirk, Damon Salvatore watched her. His dark hair and piercing gaze betrayed the predator beneath the mask of indifference. The air between them crackled, heavy with years of unrequited love, pain, and betrayal. Stefan stood in the shadows, his blonde hair and green eyes full of melancholy, observing his brother and Elena—now his former love—exchange glances that s…