"You understand you are going to feel the guilt for everything you have done once you turn it back on, correct?" I said, turning to begin to walk away.
"I don't plan to turn it back on." I chuckled at her comment and she looked confused.
"We will see about that." I said, walking away to the other room where my sister was pacing madly. I opened the door and she charged at me, only to run into the same barrier.
"Elijah! You snapped my neck then kidnapped me!" She shreiked at me.
"Ah, yes dear sister. You knew you could compel Elena to turn her humanity back on, but you didn't." I said to her as more of a question than a comment.
"No, Elijah. I seem to like this Elena better, most of the time. Her and I have actually become somewhat friends. Although I admit that I wish she had enough of a conscience to clean up the mess she makes, cleaning up after her has become somewhat of a chore. I believe you intend on making her turn it back on though, aren't you?" She asked seriously.
"Of course." I responded coldly.
"She seems to have struck the same chord in you as Tatia and Katerina. You just can't seem to stay away from the dopplegangers, can you?" I grabbed her by the throat and held her against the wall.
"It is not the same, and you know that. I will not allow myself to be betrayed again." I said, letting her go.
"Ah, but it is. You wouldn't get defensive against your own sister if it wasn't. Or perhaps she has dug a bit deeper than the two previous?" I growled at her and turned to walk away. "You can't keep me locked in here forever, you know." She yelled after me.
I walked back to the living room of the suite and decided how I was going to go about Elena and turning her emotions back on. She would surely want to kill herself for what she did to her family home and her brother's body. I devised a plan and walked back to her room.
"I see you're back, planning to torture your hostage? Make me feel so much pain physically that I will turn it back on just so that you will stop? Sorry, but that's not going to happen. I wouldn't flip the switch if you threatened to kill me. I don't WANT to feel again. It's only a weakness." I glared at her when she expressed the thought that I would actually torture or hurt her.
"No, Elena. I do not plan on torturing you." I said before I looked directly into her eyes. "You will turn your humanity back on, all of it. You will not want yourself dead, nor will you attempt or have any others make an attempt at your life. Never again will you resort to turning your emotions off, even if you are compelled or sired to do so. You will not resume your sire bond to Damon Salvatore. You will forget that you were compelled, and believe it was your own choice. Is that all understood?" I compelled, knowing it had worked from the dilation of her eyes.
"Yes." She said in monotone. It took a couple seconds before the compulsion to take effect. I knew it would not be pretty when it did, so I prepared myself. As predicted a few seconds later, she looked up at me with tears in her eyes.
"Elijah, I-I killed so many people... Jeremy, oh God, Jeremy! He's dead! I burned the house down! What have I done! Oh my God, Damon! Rebekah snapped his neck then we stole his car! I am a monster!" she started crying uncontrollably. Knowing that it was partly my fault for this, I wrapped my arms around her and let her sob into my chest.
"Elena, you are not a monster. Damon used the sire bond to turn off your emotions, if you are angry at anyone it should be him. He had no right to mess with your humanity like that." I said, telling the truth, trying to calm her down.
"My brother is dead, I have no family left! Elijah why are you helping me, I helped kill your brother? You should want me dead." She sobbed, staring up at me for an explanation.
"I couldn't want you dead, Elena. But I must ask, what was your reasoning for killing Kol?" I asked, not really wanting to know the answer.
"He tried to kill Jeremy. He compelled Damon to kill him, then he tried to cut off his arms, when we locked Damon up. It seems it was all in vain now. I wish I had just let Klaus dagger him now, maybe Jeremy would still be alive." Elena said, wiping her eyes, looking away from me.
"Everything happens for a reason, Elena. No matter how much we hate the past, we cannot take it back. You were trying to protect your family, I would have done the exact same thing." I said truthfully. I would have done the exact same thing if I were in her position.
"I suppose we are even now? You lost a brother, I lost a brother. Elijah, I killed so many people, I can't even remember how many." She said, starting to cry again.
"Elena, I have done the same in my past. You cannot change it, you can only move on and accept it, learning from your mistakes." I said as I rubbed her back as she cried into my shirt.
"I'm nothing but a ruthless murderer!" She cried. It pained me to hear her sobs, but it was part of stage two, grief. From what I gathered, she had already gone through the denial stage before her emotions were turned off.
"Is that what you think of me?" I asked honestly.
"No, but that is different." She said, as I handed her my handkercheif.
"How is it any different? I have surely killed many more people than you have ever even thought of, and you know that, yet your opininon of me is unchanging. When your emotions are off, you cannot control the morality of the situation. All you care about is feeding, no matter if it kills the person or not." I said truthfully.
"Your opinion of me has changed." I looked at her as she spoke in a small voice, turning away from me.
"No, it has not. Though I will say, I never wish to see you that way again. You were, what is the term these days...ah yes, a bitch. Which I do not remember being one of the qualities I admire about you. All of which, are only seen while your humanity is on. So let's see to it that it stays that way, shall we?" I said truthfully. She laughed a little, which is what I was hoping my comment would do, even if it was the truth.
"Sorry, its just different hearing the word 'bitch' come out of your ever elegant mouth. Elijah, Im so sorry for everything I have caused. I know I've made a mess." She said sadly. I placed my hand under her chin and lifted it up so that she was looking at me.
"It was not your fault, it was Damon's. He made you like that, you didn't choose it. Everything you did during that time is his fault. Now, do you feel any connection to him?" I asked, wondering if that part of the compulsion worked.
A/N- Is the sire bond broken? Review and find out!
