In the cellar in the boarding-house…..
15 minutes after Elena had pull the dagger out of Elijah's chest and waited for him to wake up, a sharp and loud gasp pierced the silence and make Elena jump in surprise and shock as she watch Elijah lurched upright, open his eyes and frantically look around the cellar room in confusion before Elena quickly approach, kneel down near Elijah to attempt to calm him down.
"Elijah, calm down." whisper Elena in a calming tone of voice to him.
"Katerina?" gasped Elijah as he glance at Elena with a worry look on his face before a memory of the past flash through his head.
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Flashback, England, 1492…
Trevor is currently talking to a group of his friends until he noticed Elijah, politely excuses himself from them and approach Elijah.
"Ah, good evening, Trevor. I am pleased that you could join us." said Elijah after he greeted and glance at Trevor (who smiled and nodded to him).
"I could not miss the birthday celebration." said Trevor.
"No, considering the gifts you claim to bear. So where is the mystery girl of whom you speak and told me about?" asked Elijah.
"Right this way." replied Trevor as he turned and walked toward the fireplace with Elijah following behind him until they arrived and saw a long, dark brown-haired woman wearing a long sleeve green velvet dress standing near the fireplace with her back to them before Trevor raised and put his hand on her shoulder. "My dear." Trevor told the woman as he glance at Elijah.
Elijah stopped walking just as the woman turned to glance and smiled at him and he widened his eyes in surprise and shock when he saw that the woman bears a strong resemblance to Tatia, his past love.
"Hello." said the woman sweetly and politely to Elijah.
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"Elijah, Elijah. It's me, Elena, calm down." said Elena.
"Oh my god." whisper Elijah, still looking worryingly at her.
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England, 1492…
"Is there something on my face?" asked the woman as she tilted her head in confusion at the surprise and shock look on Elijah's face.
"Oh, forgive me. It's just that you remind me of someone." Replied Elijah apologetically to the woman.
"Miss Katerina. May I introduce to you the Lord Elijah." said Trevor, introducing the woman named Katerina to Elijah.
"A pleasure to meet you, my lord." said Katerina as she curtsey to him.
"Pleasure's all mine, miss Katerina." said Elijah as he smiled and nodded to her then hold out his hand to her.
"Forgive me for not recognizing you at first glance." said Katerina as she raised and placed her hand in his.
"All is forgiven." said Elijah as he lowered his head to pressed a soft kiss on her hand, which make her blush in embarrassment.
Flashback end
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After Elijah's done in remembering the past, his eyes then rolled back and closed and he fell back into unconsciousness, which make Elena started panicking and as she's thinking about what to do next, Elijah let out another loud and sharp gasp, twisted then rolled his body onto his left side and away from Elena.
"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" wheezed Elijah in pain and agony as he clutched his chest with his hands before he glared at Elena. "What did you do to me!?" snarled Elijah coldly at Elena.
"Nothing!" said Elena hastily at Elijah (who narrowed his eyes at her as he stagger to his feet).
"I c-can't be in this house." gasped Elijah.
"Oh no, you haven't been invited in." said Elena as she widened her eyes in awful realisation.
"I can't be in this house. I need to get out of here!" panted Elijah as he started to speed away only to crash into the concrete wall of the cellar before he stagger through the opened door and speed away.
Elena quickly picked up the dagger, turned and followed after Elijah out and away from the cellar, went up the stairs and down a hallway toward the front door and she stop when she saw Elijah crouching down on the floor and breathing normally before he slowly glared up at her with barely suppressed anger in his eyes then he speed toward her with the intention to attack her only to hit an invisible wall.
"What happened?" said Elijah menacingly at Elena, who quickly raised and put her finger to her lips to silently tell him to stop talking, which make him glared even more angrily at her.
"Wait! I'll tell you why so please calm down!" whisper Elena hastily and worriedly to Elijah before she silently pointed to her ear then raising her arm into the ceiling above her, silently telling him that both Stefan and Damon were sleeping upstairs and had no idea that Elena pull the dagger out to awaken Elijah, which diminish the glaring look on his face a little.
"I'll tell you everything but not here." whisper Elena before she asked him a question. "…Can I trust you?"
"Can I trust you?" sneered Elijah coldly back to Elena, who sighed as she tighten her hand on the dagger before she made up her mind, raised and hold out the dagger to Elijah, who briefly widened his eyes in surprise at her handing over the only weapon that could put him out of commission for good before he slowly take the dagger from her hand and put it safely into his ruined suit.
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Meanwhile, inside Alaric's apartment…
Asriel groaned and slowly opened his eyes only to see both Julianna and Katherine staring down at him with amused and mocking looks on their faces before the events of last night up until his resistance and kidnapping by Klaus and Julianna flashed through his mind and make him wake up completely.
"Good morning, Asriel Gilbert. Had a nice sleep?" said Julianna teasingly at Asriel, who glared in silence at her and Katherine as he sat up from the couch. "I'll take that as a no then." said Julianna as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, duh. I'd also act like that if I'm in the same position as Ashy boy, Julianna." said Katherine.
"Silence, doppelganger bitch. Nobody says you can talk." said Julianna coldly at Katherine (who fell silent in fear).
"Possessing Alaric's body, huh? That's a pretty sneaky and clever trick to fooled us all." said Asriel coldly at them. "What happened to my family and friends after you and Klaus knock me out and take me away from the dance?" demanded Asriel.
"Relax, pretty boy. Most of your family and friends at the dance last night are fine but I cannot say the same for poor Bonnie. She's dead, Klaus make sure of it." said Julianna smugly to Asriel.
"Bonnie's dead!? No, she can't be dead! You're lying!" said Asriel as he shake his head in sorrow and denial at Julianna.
"Nope, I'm not lying. Your witchy friend Bonnie is dead due to her using too much of her magic to try and fail to take down my brother. A foolish end for her and deal with it." said Julianna.
"…Damn you and Klaus. You two forced her to use her magic and let it killed her!" snarled Asriel angrily at Julianna.
"Yep, we did and so what? She should know better than to go up against people who are far stronger and older than her, even with magic." said Julianna.
"Damn you both! I'm sorry, Bonnie. That you had to die in vain because of Klaus and Julianna." thought Asriel sadly in his mind for Bonnie.
"Well, I'll be leaving now to purchase some breakfast and drinks for you, Asriel. Don't bother trying and even think about leaving this apartment because Klaus told his warlord to put up a boundary spell to prevent you from leaving, see you later." said Julianna as she patted Asriel's head (which make him slap her hand away) before she stood up and left the apartment.
"…Look, I know that it doesn't mean much to you and you don't believe me but I'm truly sorry for what happened to your friend, Bonnie, Ashy boy." said Katherine sympathetically at Asriel (who ignored her).
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After Elena hand the dagger over to Elijah, she then take some blood bags for Elijah before she left the boarding-house with him, went back to her house to take the keys for the SUV and both she and Elijah got in the car and Elena turned on the car before she drove the SUV away from her house and down the road (while Elijah opened and drank the blood bags to regained his strength).
"You look better." said Elena as she noticed Elijah slowly look better.
"Where did you get the dagger?" asked Elijah.
"From John. I will tell you everything, but I need to work together with you, Elijah. I need your word." said Elena.
"Your ability to make demands is long pass." said Elijah coldly to Elena.
"This isn't a demand, this is a request and an offer. I'm offering my help to you and in return I want yours." Elena told Elijah as she shake her head.
"And why should I even consider it?" asked Elijah as he glance in cold suspicion at Elena.
"For the same reason that you haven't kill any of us yet because you need our help to find Klaus and Julianna and kill Klaus and that's why I need you." replied Elena before she and Elijah heard her phone ringing and Elena take it out, saw that the caller ID is Stefan and she answer and tell Stefan that she's fine and with Elijah and to trust her and trust Elijah since he lives by his own code of honor before she bade farewell, ended the call and hand over her phone to Elijah.
"So what happened after you and your friends stabbed and put me out of commission with the dagger?" asked Elijah.
"Well, for starters, Klaus is here and with Julianna now." replied Elena.
"Klaus is here and is already with Julianna?" said Elijah as he glance at Elena.
"Yes. And he somehow taken over Alaric's body." said Elena.
"Of course he has, it's one of his favourite tricks." sighed Elijah as he look away with a slight exasperated look on his face.
"Well, what are his other favourite tricks and what is he and Julianna going to do next. You're the only one that knows them both." asked Elena.
"Yes, you're right. I do know Klaus and Julianna very well." replied Elijah with a nod of his head as another memory of the past flash through his mind.
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England, 1492…
"So where is the host and hostess we've heard so much about?" asked Katerina as she glance at Elijah while walking beside him past the other guests in the room.
"Fashionably late. He likes to make an entrance while the other hostess doesn't show herself much." replied Elijah and Katerina nodded before she decided to looks around at the other guests for the host just as Elijah saw the host walk into the room with the hostess walking closely beside him.
"Here they are." Elijah told Katerina and she glance and saw the other guests bowed and move out of the way for the host and hostess and soon Katerina saw that the host is a slightly tan-skinned, short dirty blonde-haired, blue-eyed handsome man wearing a traditional suit while the hostess is a fair-skinned, long dark brown-haired, blue-eyed beautiful woman wearing a short sleeve dark purple gown with white rose patterns on it and long white gloves on her arms.
"Hello there, Elijah. And who is this lovely lady with you?" asked the woman as she glance curiously at Katerina.
"Hello and this lady is Katerina. Katerina, may I introduce to you, the Lord Niklaus and the Lady Julianna." said Elijah, introducing Katerina, Klaus and Julianna to each other.
"It's nice to meet you two, Lord Niklaus and Lady Julianna." said Katerina politely as she curtsies to them both.
"It's nice to meet you too, Miss Katerina." said Julianna.
"Yeah, it truly is nice to meet you, Miss Katerina. Call me Klaus instead because Niklaus is the name that my father gave me." said Klaus as he take, raised and placed a soft kiss on the back of Katerina's left hand.
End of flashback
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Inside the Lockwood manor…
After almost an hour of Elena driving on the road with Elijah, they arrived and stopped in front of the Lockwood manor before Elena turned off and handed the key over to Elijah before they got off the car, stepped up to the front door and Elijah ring the bell and waited for Carol to answer and open the door before Elijah talk and compel her to let them in and also asking her for a change of clothes for him, which she told him to do so with one of her late husband suits upstairs and Elijah smiled and went up to change while Carol left the house for a meeting and Elena went into the living room and waited for a few minutes before Elijah came down and wearing a new suit.
"So I assume that the Martin warlords are no longer with us." said Elijah stiffly at Elena.
"No, they're not. I'm sorry." said Elena sadly to Elijah.
"And what about Katerina? Where is she now?" asked Elijah.
"We heard that she's with Klaus and Julianna and we think that she may be dead already. Also, they kidnap and take my twin brother from the dance last night." replied Elena even more sadly to Elijah.
"I doubt it, it's not their styles. Death would have been too easy for Katerina after what she did." scoffed Elijah. "And what was that? Your twin brother's being taken and is with them now?" added Elijah in a surprise tone of voice to Elena.
"Yes, he is. And also I don't understand. You told us that you want to kill Klaus, restrain and take Julianna away with you but you also want to make Katherine pay for betraying him." said Elena as she glance in confusion at Elijah.
"I've my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay. There was a time… that I would of done anything for Klaus and Julianna." said Elijah as a third memory flash through his mind.
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England, 1492…
"Where did you come from, Katerina?" asked Klaus as he and Julianna glance and walked on both sides of Katerina.
"I'm a new arrival to this town, my lord and lady." replied Katerina.
"Trevor told me that Katerina came from Bulgaria." Elijah told both Klaus and Julianna.
"Oh, she's a Bulgarian, huh?" said Julianna.
"Zdraveĭ, Katerina." Klaus greeted her in her own Bulgarian language, which make her glance at him in surprise and awed.
"Very good." said Katerina as she smiled approvingly at Klaus before she glance and smiled at Elijah too and he smiled back at her.
"Do you mind taking our sister, Julianna for a drink, brother? I would like to have a moment alone with Katerina." Klaus told Elijah.
"No, not at all. Happy birthday, brother. Shall we, Julianna?" said Elijah before he hold out his hand to Julianna, who smiled and put her hand in his before he bring her with him toward the table where the foods and drinks are.
Soon after both Elijah and Julianna walked away from both Klaus and Katerina, Klaus raised and hold out his hand to Katerina, who smiled and put her hand in his.
"If I may be so bold, I would like to get to know you a little more, Miss Katerina." Klaus told Katerina as he began to lead her out of the room.
End of flashback…
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"Wait a minute, are you saying that you, Klaus and Julianna are…" asked Elena in shock and disbelief at Elijah.
"Yes, Klaus and Julianna is my brother and sister." replied Elijah coolly to Elena.
"Yeah, I know and heard that, but I'm still progressing about it." said Elena.
"I may be a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you're searching for is, OMG." said Elijah even more coolly to Elena (who lowered and put her hands on her forehead in more shock and disbelief at what Elijah just told her).