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She opens her eyes in a car. She moves forward, she can feel a seatbelt. She's not tied. She tries to think for a moment before the fear crashes into her like a wave and she looks to her left. Elijah. He has her phone on the console. She deleted all of her messages to Katherine before she got kidnapped, there's nothing on there that would ruin this.
"Is Trevor dead?" She barely recognizes her own voice, she's tense with fear.
"Yes." He answers simply. His eyes flicker to her from the road.
He doesn't mention that he caught her before she fell, or that Rose was gone by the time he put her in the passenger seat. It's irrelevant.
"So you're going to break the Sun and Moon Curse?" She asks. He nods.
"The moonstone is in Mystic Falls." She tells him, hoping it's still true. Katherine had convinced Tyler's uncle to hide it somewhere.
His head moves slightly.
"And I thought I was going to have to explain this to you." He's amused, she realizes. The sound puts her on edge.
"I can tell you everything I know, I just-" Her voice breaks.
"I just want my family and friends to be safe. I don't want to be Rose." She continues, a few tears escaping. Unplanned but genuine. Her mental Katherine approves.
"Tell me what you know." It's a demand, but his voice is pleasant. So she does. Most of it. She tells him that she knows that the Sun and the Moon Curse is real, there has to be a vampire, a werewolf, a doppelganger and the moonstone. She has to die, along with the werewolf and vampire, by Klaus under a full moon. She tells him she doesn't mind dying if the people she loves are safe after she's gone. He looks thoughtful and doesn't give her a reason not to continue talking, so she does. She tells him that she has a little brother who she'd die to protect, and an aunt who tries but isn't perfect, her friends are human and young. Except Bonnie, but she downplays Bonnie's powers. She mentions that there are two brothers in the town who are vampires. She calls them idiots because they are, but tells him that they would die for each other as well. She's shaking slightly, and neither she or her mental Katherine can tell if it's the air conditioner in his car or her fear of him.
"Then I can offer you a deal." He decides. He doesn't wait for her to say anything before he continues.
"I will do all I can, within reason, to keep your loved ones safe. In exchange, you will cooperate with me. My goal is not to break the curse and I have a way for you to survive dying by Klaus's hand. I will return with you to Mystic Falls. We will work to kill Klaus together. If any of your loved ones try to kill me or break our deal, our deal is off. What do you think?" He asks. She takes a deep breath.
"I agree to your terms."
