<P> Damon has decided to leave town, but through the early episodes of Season 4 seems to be looking for reasons to stay . Meredith Fell seems to be one who convinces him in' The Rager' to stay to help Elena with her transition to Vampire . Indeed, a renewed conflict over ideology and what sort of Vampire Elena will become drives Damon and Stefan apart . </P> <P> The Five, shows Damon tasking Stefan with learning more about the Vampire Hunter, Connor while Damon decides to accompany both Bonnie and Elena to College . This trip is ostensibly about teaching Elena the' hunt': how to catch, feed and erase . After some initial problems, Elena has a Frat Party gets success and seems to enjoy herself causing friction with Bonnie . She leaves the party and later states that she doesn't want to be like Damon . In the next episode, she begins to believe that Stefan is lying to her and takes things into her own hands to kill the vampire hunter who is holding her brother, Matt, and April captive . She does, and begins to suffer from hallucinations at the end of the episode . After asking Stefan why he wants to cure Elena, Damon tells him that he loves Elena as a vampire or human . </P> <P> In the episode' We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes', Damon helps Elena in dealing with her hallucinations and saves her from committing suicide . He also helps uncover the mystery about the hunter's curse with the help of Bonnie and Professor Shane . At the end of the episode, he reveals the truth about the cure to Elena and explains how Stefan has been lying to her only to find this possible cure for vampirism . However, Elena breaks up with Stefan at the end of the episode after confessing her gradually growing feelings for Damon . </P> <P> In the following episode "My Brother's Keeper", Elena tells Damon he is the reason she and Stefan broke up and at the end of the episode Damon and Elena finally have sex . After that it turns out Elena is sired with Damon, first they think it is the reason why Elena loves Damon, but in episode "We'll Always Have Bourbon Street" they found out that it only affects how you act, not how you feel . The sire - bond can only be broken when Damon leaves Elena and tells her to stop caring about him according to a witch in New Orleans named Nandi . In the following episode Damon goes with Elena to her family's lake house to help with Jeremy's Hunter instincts . In the episode Elena tries to act like a couple with Damon, but he refuses to even kiss her out of his guilt about the sire bond and worry that he's taking advantage of her . In the end of the episode Damon invokes the sire bond telling Elena to return to Mystic Falls while he trains Jeremy "O Come, All Ye Faithful". Elena kisses him goodbye . </P>

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