"Elijah."

"Belle."

"I've arrived just in time, haven't I?" The smiled a bit, pulling the wooden pillar from Elijah.

"Of course we both know I could have done it on my own."

"But what's the fun in that when you have me to help you, Dearest Elijah? Isn't this the reason we are such good friends?"

"Remember, Belle, you are also in my debt."

"I have never forgotten. As if I could. But you are not a bad person to serve." She smiles, brushing the blood of of Elijah's suit. "This will need to be dry cleaned. But it's been eight hundred years, Elijah. It is obvious that we have grown as people and friends."

"Yes, I do agree. I believe that even if you weren't in my debt you would still help me."

"Of course I would. Now what's next on this quest?"

"What are we doing here, Elijah? You know I love street performers but I highly doubt that this is for recreation."

"This cafe is a very popular destination in the area. The window panes allow for vampires to be in the sun, but no UV light goes through. There's my friend Slater. He's having a chat with Damon Salvatore and Rose, you remember her of course, and I highly doubt that this is just a friendly visit."

"What does Slater know?"

"Everything they need." He sighed as he pulled out a one hundred dollar bill and dropped it into the guitar case. He returned his hand full of coins.

"And what are they talking about?"

"The Petrovas."

"And what are we going to do about it?"

"We're going to say hello."

Elijah threw the coins into the window with all strength, causing them to shatter. Rose and Slater, who did not have daylight rings, began to burn. The Salvatore boy threw himself over rose and Slater ran.

Elijah and I looked at each other as he released a hollow grin.

"I can break the spell."

"You can?"

"All I need is a moonstone and a witch. I know how to break it."

"Yeah. Okay. We can do that! You can break it?"

"Yes."

And then he hung up.

"It's done. How did you compel me anyway? I'm a vampire."

"I'm. . . special." He said, looking at me. I knew what was going to happen, and I didn't approve. But my approval doesn't matter. "Now I want you to take this wooden stake and stab yourself in the heart."

And he did.

We turned around to find Jonas Martin, the witch Elijah had been working with.

"Was it really necessary to kill him?"

It wasn't any of his concern. He didn't understand. Elijah just gave him a cold look and we left the apartment.

I was lounging in Elijah's current apartment, one that he had compelled and served as a home base for whatever missions and endeavors her had planned.

"I just don't understand, Elijah. Are you trying to break the curse or not?"

"I am trying to prevent Niklaus from breaking the curse, at any cost. I love my brother, family is crucial to me, but he has become unstoppable, and with this curse things will only get worse."

"So what's your plan?"

"Elena needs to draw attention to herself, it will draw Niklaus out. Then I will kill him, and the curse will be no more."

"And what about your witches?"

"They're training the Bennet girl, of course."

"This plan makes very little sense to me, Elijah. You are making it very easy for the curse to be broken in order to draw Klaus out so that you can kill him ,but does that not make it very easy for him to break the curse if we do not succeed? You said it yourself; he is unstoppable. He is stronger than you and I and even Katerina together."

"I know you do not understand, my Belle, but you must trust me."

"I always do." She nods.

"Now, we must go to my witch's house. We must find Elena."

The master and his apprentice arrived at the witch's house. Elijah sat down with Jonas while Luca the teenage witch and I sat in the background. We seemed like equals, or equivalents. Both following the one they are loyal to with absolute admiration, yet sometimes questioning decisions. He did not tell me this himself, but I was able to infer it through his body language.

The spell was completed when Elijah's eyes shot open. "We must leave. Now." He told me. "Elena is trying to turn herself over to Klaus, thinking that it would save her. We must go."

We got into Elijah's car and he sped at about one hundred and ten miles an hour to Slater's apartment. When we reached the place, Elijah silently flashed in and killed two of the vampires before I even saw what was happening. One of them foolishly tried to catch him from behind, this I realized, and I managed to appear in front of him, reaching out my hand as he ran directly into it. I ripped his heart out, tossing it to the side. And then we disappeared.

When we arrived back at the witch's, he questioned why Elijah kept Damon alive.

"Isn't it obvious?" I replied for Elijah.

"Elena needs to stay alive." Elijah said. "Those brothers would die to keep her alive."

Meanwhile at the Salvatore Boarding House

"And who was that girl with him?"

"That's his apprentice. She's been with him longer than I remember." Rose replied.

"So are they sex buddies are what?" Damon asked sarcastically.

"Nothing like that. More like brother and sister, if anything. As much as I know she owes him her life and swore it away long ago. She's old, older than Katerina even. Turned by Elijah himself; trained by him too. If you spot Elijah, chances are she's only a few steps behind."