[He recognizes that expression. With the way things are, how could he not? It's the way he came back after they'd found Stefan in Tennessee, when they'd barely escaped from werewolves. When they figured he was gone for good. When Klaus had sapped Stefan's emotions from him with a compulsion of his switch.

When it's about him? It makes him feel colder.]

She told me... something about the ring. An alter ego? [He doesn't know what that's supposed to mean. When he thinks alter ego, he thinks Batman. Spider-Man. Not... kill everyone who likes vampires. What? He looks up at Damon, voice going quiet.] She said I was killing people. [And then his head drops and it hits him. Both hands cover his face.] Christ, Damon. She said I killed her dad.