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"You called." Claire said to Damon when she entered the Salvatore boarding house.
"Your sister undaggered Elijah and they are nowhere to be found."
Claire's heart doubled in speed making Stefan look at her before deciding to speak.
"Damon, we need to give her space to speak with him. She needs to know if there is a way to save Bonnie's life and besides, when we talked to her she indicated that she was making progress."
Claire exhaled in small comfort. "I'm guessing Elena handed him the dagger to gain his trust."
"Probably." Stefan said.
"Can you perform a location spell to…" Damon paused when she shook her head.
"Lets just give her a chance to interrogate him…"
"She won't have a chance when he kills her and us for reve.." Damon started to say whilst her glared angrily at her only for her to raise her palm silencing him."
"I doubt he would kill her or us for that matter, he wants Klaus dead too remember? By now he must realise that the Martins who had been helping him are dead so his only chance to kill Klaus is by working with us."
Stefan nodded slowly in agreement after processing what she had said. "She's right Damon, if Elijah does kill us do you really think Bonnie would help him?"
Damon just glared at him but Claire could see that he agreed a little with what was said.
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"Are you saying that Klaus can't be killed?" Elena asked Elijah worriedly. For the whole day he explained to her some of the history of their creation. She had learned that the curse of the sun and the moon was fake and that the actual curse which was termed the hybrid curse was placed on Klaus who was his brother born out of a werewolf bloodline. The old witches placed a curse on him to suppress his werewolf side and Klaus wanted to break it to become a hybrid which was deadlier to vampires and he wanted to sire his own hybrid army.
"There is one way to kill any supernatural species… at the hands of the servants of nature themselves." Elijah replied.
"A witch." Elena said understanding what Elijah was saying. It all came back to Bonnie no matter how much she tried to protect her. "If they can channel that much power."
"The curse must be broken during the full moon, when Klaus is in transition that's when he would be at his most vulnerable." Elijah said. "A witch with enough power can Kill Klaus."
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Claire who had left the lounge room to the huge library just to browse some of the books returned about thirty minutes later only to pause at the entrance when she saw the brothers having a glaring match
"You can be in love with Elena all you want if it means you will protect her." Stefan said as he moved closer to him only to stop in his private space. "But i have the one thing that you never will." he continued.
"Oh yeah….and what's that?" Damon asked.
"Her respect."
Damon threw a solid punch which sent him flying and impacted the wall with his back. Claire only gasped in shock at this. It seemed that Elena had a stronger effect on the brothers.
Stefan quickly got up and blurred towards damon and they both ended up with their arms holding each others shoulders trying to push each other gnashing their teeth.
"Ok that's enough!" She shouted shocked by this display.
They dropped their arms and turned to look at her breathing heavily.
"Grown men fighting over a teenage girl who hasn't even reached her majority…. Are you serious?" She asked as she stepped inside shaking her head appalled.
Stefan had the decency to look ashamed only to turn and stare behind her. Seeing this, Claire followed his gaze only to see Elena standing besides Elijah.
"You've invited him in?" Damon asked Elena looking distrustfully at Elijah.
Claire just shook her head at her sister's stupidity before turning to look at the brothers. "Like i said, a teenage girl." this of course earned her a glare.
"Elijah and i have renewed the terms of our agreement."
"The three of you will come to no harm at my hands." Elijah declared stepping inside. "I only ask for one thing in return."
"What?" Damon asked.
"An apology."
Damon looked at him as though he was insane something which Claire actually agreed.
Elena gave Stefan an expectant look and as the love sick fool he was immediately stepped forward bowing to her demand.
"I'm sorry for the part i played in your death…. I was protecting Elena...i will always protect Elena."
"I understand."
The three of them turned to look at Claire who had adopted a blank look.
"You want an apology, but before i give it… let's go way back." Claire said ignoring the dark look that Elijah adopted.
"The moment you stepped into this town you tried to kidnap us." she said and quickly raised her palm to silence Elena who was about to intervene.
"You then tricked our aunt Jenna to invite you into our house…. You stabbed Damon in the neck with a pencil for wanting to know what your plan was to protect Elena. You've threatened and muscle your way through everyone, your witch friends and you almost killed us."
Damon was nodding in the background with a cocky grin at what the girl was saying.
"And you expect an apology for being put to a temporary sleep. Need i remind you that none of this would have been necessary if only you had chosen to play well with others. I see you for what you are Elijah, you are the kind of person who loves to set rules for others and yet you don't follow them. If you can't do that, how do you expect us to?"
She then took a step forward giving a hard glare of her own. "I will not apologize for defending myself and the people i have come to care about and if a situation like that ever come up again, expect a repeat of the same treatment."
"Shut up Elena." She spat when she saw her open her mouth again before turning around to leave.
"Well, you gotta love her, the girl has spunk." Damon said.
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That night at the Gilbert house, Elena told Claire about the hybrid curse.
"So Elijah wants to be Cain and kill his own brother, and here i thought that Stefan and Damon fighting for your affections was stupid enough. This goes on to prove that being a thousand year old person doesn't make one wise."
Elena's eyes widened at that.
"He will not kill his own brother Elena…"
"He gave me his word."
Claire just raised her eyebrow. "Do you always keep your word Elena?"
She got no response for that question.
"Why does he want to kill his brother? Did he even say why?"
"His word was enough his motives don't matter."
Claire sighed deeply. "Are the people of this town this naive or is it just you? Elena, motives matter, you need to be aware of why he is doing this"
"You could have stayed and asked him yourself." Elena snapped getting angry of being treated like she was stupid.
"I will not spend my precious time in the presence of self righteous people. I admit that i was originally intrigued about what i could learn from someone who had lived for quite that long but the only thing i learned is what a self righteous prick that he actually is."
Elena spluttered whilst Claire just typed her book ignoring the sound.
"You should have at least show him some courtesy if we are to be working with him" She said after recovering.
"Did he show the same courtesy to you, me and Damon. What about Rose? Did he even apologize to her for killing her only friend for falling in love?"
Elena just shook her head and left Claire's bedroom.