"I won't," Stefan says, his voice is strained as he presses on the wound on his stomach. "I've survived decades without human blood, I won't start now."

Stefan has always held out on urges to drink human blood, and the times he didn't make it harder to stop again. But now he's dying in the woods because of a vervain-laced bullet.

Yet with all the strength he puts into resisting the urge to bite into your wrist, he still feels tempted to do it.