For 98 lives, Emma tried to save Damon and by so doing save the world. But each time, she died, by arrows, swords and guns, the method of death evolving with time but each by his hands. Then she snaps, she was no longer going to spend her life and her years trying to rescue a world that didn't care about her, she was going to escape fate and live her life and the first step in that direction was rejecting the Lycan King on his Mating Day.