[That makes him smile a bit. "Good friends" isn't something he often has and while he's not quite there yet - he's still just really getting to know Caroline, free of his brother's manipulations and who she is now that she's a vampire, so seeing her having come this far is ... uplifting, in a way.

And here Damon said she wouldn't survive.]

I don't mind if you still tell me everything, so long as you don't mind me asking for clarification every once in a while.