Buffy and Elena sit against the wall as they wait for Elijah to rise, Buffy sighs in annoyance she really wasn't the most patient person in the world "Jeez, is he gonna sleep the decade away?"
Elena laughs softly, however, both girls gasp as Elijah suddenly moves, the two watch as his body moves into awkward positions, he was contorting in on himself violently.

Buffy quickly walks over and holds him down, she couldn't risk him making too much noise and stirring the brothers, plus she didn't want to risk Elena getting hurt, once hit from Elijah could kill her.

She forces Elijah to the ground before tossing Elena the dagger as she comes to crouch on the opposite side.
As Elijah eyes widen, Elena tries to calm him "Elijah." She whispers "Elijah?"
Elijah stares at her then looks over at Buffy "Katerina! Marianna!"


England, 1492

"This party is dull, even for my taste." Marianna says as she and Elijah watch the festivities.
"Don't fret Mari. Once Niklaus has decided that his ego had been filled for the night, we will all be free of this torture."

Marianna smiles before looping her arm through his, allowing him to lead her through the ballroom.

As they walk around Marianna notices someone approaching them "Trevor." She says with a smile before stepping away from Elijah and kissing Trevor on the cheek "How is Rose-Marie?"
Trevor smiles at her "She is well, although she hopes to see you again soon."
"Tell her I'll try to make an appearance before we leave England."

Trevor smiles at her before turning to Elijah "Good, afternoon Trevor." Elijah says politely "I am pleased you could join us."
"I could not miss the birthday celebration."
"No, considering the gift you claim to bear."

Marianna turns to Trevor "Is it true, did you really find her?"
Trevor smiles "Indeed."
Elijah nods "Well, then where is this mystery girl of which you speak?"

Trevor turns "Right this way." He says before leading them towards a brunette woman.
"My dear." Trevor says as he approaches, the woman turns to face Elijah and smiles "Hello."


Present Day, Mystic Falls

"Elijah!" Elena tries again "It's us, Buffy and Elena." Elijah gasps again and continues to see Katerina and Marianna.
"Shh." Elena tries.


England, 1492

"Elijah! You're staring, it's impolite." Marianna hisses as she nudges Elijah's side.
Elijah shakes himself and turns back to the woman "Forgive me. You remind me of someone."
"Katerina." Trevor says "May I introduce the Lord Elijah and the Lady Marianna."

Katerina's eyes widen and she quickly bows "Pleasure my Lord, my Lady."
Elijah simply takes her hand and kisses it "The pleasure's mine, Katerina."


Present Day, Mystic Falls

As the two girls stand over him Elijah's body suddenly curls over causing both girls to back away and stare as Elijah painfully pulls himself up "I can't—can't breathe." He pants before collapsing on the ground again crying out in agony as he does "What's happening to me?" He stammers.

Suddenly he runs for the door and smashes into the wall "I can't...I can't be in this house." He tells Buffy as she helps him, her eyes widen, this wasn't a vampire owned home anymore, she owned the house, he had never been invited inside "You haven't been in."

"You need to get me out of here." He tells her.
Buffy nods and pushes him out of the door giving him the chance to run.

Both girls run upstairs and head to the front door, where Elijah was currently crouched on the ground just outside the barrier, as they come towards them he looks up for a moment before trying to run at them however the barrier prevents him from entering the house.

As Elena gasps, Buffy moves in front of her and stands in front of the heavy breathing Elijah "What happened?" He asks her.
"Shh!" She hisses before pointing at the ceiling, Stefan and Damon were too close, they couldn't do this right now "We'll tell you. Not here."
Elena looks over Buffy's shoulder "Can we trust you?" She whispers.
"Can I trust you?" He asks back.

Buffy and Elena nod and Buffy against her better judgement clenches her jaw before showing him a sign of good faith, they need his help and he wouldn't give it if he didn't trust them. So carefully she steps outside of the barrier and holds out the dagger towards Elijah.


After sneaking out of the house to make sure Damon and Stefan wouldn't stop them, Elena, Buffy and Elijah just drove for at least over an hour till they were far enough away that the brothers wouldn't find them.

As Elijah drains the last of the blood bag Elena pulls over the car and turns to Elijah "You look better."
Elijah turns to Buffy who was currently sitting in the back seat "Where did you get the dagger?"

Buffy shakes her head "Look it's pretty clear that I'm not your biggest fan, but Elena's right that we need you. So we gotta work together, if you want to know everything then I'm gonna need your word."
"The ability to make demands is long past."
Elena cuts in "No demands. I'm—we're offering you our help. And in return, we want yours."
"Why should I even consider this?"

Buffy interjects "One simple reason, you need our help to kill Klaus. And we need you, 'cause honestly, I don't want my cousin dead and I don't want to end up as Frankenstein's bride."
Elijah watches the blonde for a second, almost examining her for signs of a lie but as her phone begins to ring she sighs quickly before answering.

"Where are you?" Stefan asks without hesitation "Are you okay?"
"Yep. Fine as a new pair of shoes."
"Where's Elijah?"
Buffy glances at Elijah "In my seat. You know I really don't think just because I'm the shortest that I should get stuck in the back seat."
"Buffy..." Stefan sighs "Where are you? I'm on my way."
"Nope." She tells him "Sorry no can do. Me and Lena need to have a little chat with the man in questions, which AKA translates to alone."
"Listen to me." Stefan begs her, she could hear his worry for her in his voice "He can't be trusted. He'll use you and Elena to get to Klaus."
Buffy pauses and looks over at Elijah "Elijah lives by some old fashioned code thing. If Elena trusts him then so do I."

Elena takes the phone off Buffy "He knows we would be incredibly stupid to betray him again. By removing the dagger, we've proven ourselves."
Elena then hands Buffy back the phone "Stefan, she's right." Buffy tells him, but Stefan continues to argue "You can't do this alone." He tells her.

Buffy sighs "I know what I'm doing, so trust me. And make sure Damon doesn't do anything stupid. Or more stupid than normal. I'll talk to you soon."
Before he can reply Buffy hangs up the phone, as she does Elijah hold out his hand towards her, Buffy hesitates for a moment before placing her phone in his hand.


"He's here." Elena tells Elijah.
The Original's eyes widen, he had not expected Klaus to make his first appearance so soon "Klaus is here?"
Buffy nods "Yep and all big with the possession-y of Alaric's body."
Elijah shakes his head "Of course he has. One of his favourite tricks."

Buffy groans, this guy was seriously getting more creepy by the day "That's some creepy trick. So any other tricks we should worry about? He can't like make dismembered body parts move right?"
Elijah chuckles slightly at the idea "No, he can't do that."
"What is he going to do next?" Elena asks him "You're the only one that knows him."
"Yes, I do."

The three of them approach the Mayor's house and ring the bell.
"Elijah!" Carol says stunned, as she opens the door before her eyes fall on the Summers girls, she quickly frowns in confusion "Elena, Buffy what are you doing here? What happened?"
Elijah smiles at her "I've had a bit of an incident, Carol." He tells her calmly before gesturing to his ripped and burnt clothing "I'm hoping you could help."
"Well, I'm on my way to a meeting, so I—"

As she speaks Elijah steps forward and looks in her eyes "I won't take but a minute of your time." He tells her compelling her.
Suddenly she smiles "Of course. Anything you need."
"Thank you." Elijah tells her before stepping inside "Well, first things first. I'm going to need a change of clothing."
"Well, we can try one of my husband's suits." Carol suggests "I haven't boxed them up yet."
"Wonderful." He says, she offers him a small smile before heading upstairs.

Once she is out of sight Elena and Buffy turn to Elijah "I'm guessing you have something to do with the fact that she can be compelled." Buffy says.
Elijah nods "I got her off vervain right before you two and your friends killed me." He pauses "Twice... If you'll excuse me, I'll be down in a moment."


"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us." Elijah asks as the three of them sit in the living room.
Elena nods sadly "No. I'm sorry."

"And Katerina?" He asks "She would have been released from my compulsion when I died."

Buffy nods, she really wasn't too pleased by the fact that Katherine was still breathing but hopefully Klaus was torturing her, that would make her like him a hell of a lot more "Klaus took her, with a little help from Mary."
"Marianna?" Elijah asks stunned, a wave of emotions quickly crosses over his expression but just as quickly as it had appeared his disappeared.
"Apparently he has something she wants."
"We think Katherine may be dead." Elena tells him.

Elijah smiles "I doubt that. Not Klaus' style. Death would be too easy for her after what she did. And when it comes to Marianna, he most probably has her exactly where he wants her."
"Here's what I'm not getting..." Buffy says drawing his attention to herself "You say that you want Klaus 6 feet under, but you still locked Katherine up for betraying him and you hate Mary's guts for what she did."

"I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay, as well as Marianna. There was a time where both myself and Marianna would have done anything for Klaus, her time of wanting to help Klaus just ended long before mine."


"Klaus is my brother." Elijah tells them.
"Mary said something, made you all sound like family." Buffy says as she observes Elijah. "Guess I'm stuck in the 'wow' stage."

Elijah nods "Yes, I'm a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you're searching for is O.M.G."
"There is a whole family of Originals?" Elena asks Elijah stunned.

Elijah nods before standing and walking over to the mirror "My father was a wealthy landowner in a village in Eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children. Marianna was, you could say adopted by our father years later."
"So you had human parents?" Buffy asks stunned.

Elijah turns to her "Our whole family was, our origin as vampires is a very long story, Buffy. Just know...we're the oldest vampires in the world, well other than a few half-breeds. We are the original family, from us all those of our kind were born."

Elena interjects "Right, but Klaus is your brother. And you want him dead?"
Elijah doesn't answer the question "I need some air. I'm still feeling a tad...dead." He says before heading towards the door "Come."


"So as you have seen, nothing can kill an Original."
Buffy rolls her eyes at Elijah's comment but continues to listen as they walk through the gardens "Not sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree, a tree my family made sure burned."

"Ahh." Buffy says as she gets the point "That's the ashy stuff, right?"
"Yes." Elijah confirms "The witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain balance. Marianna although unable to age is not truly immortal, that necklace of hers although helps her create the illusion of immortality if it were destroyed she would not be able to return to the land of the living."

Buffy thinks for a moment "Destroy the necklace and the wicked witch of the west dies. Thanks for the tip."
Elena turns to Elijah "So the sun can't kill an Original. Why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the Sun and the Moon Curse?"

"Right." Elijah says as a smiles forms on his face "The Curse of the Sun and the Moon. It's all so...biblical-sounding, don't you think?"
Buffy frowns at the expression on the vampire's face "What's with the funny face?"


England, 1492

Elijah walks over to Klaus and hands him to scroll "Look, the Roman Parchment."
"I remember etching this scroll." Klaus tells him "Well, I was quite blistered from drink." He says before laughing loudly, what people would believe was quite remarkable.
"Your finest work remains your Aztec drawings." Elijah tells him.

"I agree." Marianna says as she turns to the two brothers "So much better than those African carvings, not your finest work. But then who can resist a shaman."
"We all know you've never been able to." Klaus comments.

Marianna glares at him before tossing an apple at his head "You're a bloody arse." Marianna stands and stares at the drawing of the Fallen Slayer "Your drawings were much better." She tells him before hitting him in the back of the head with her hand.


Mystic Falls, Present Day

"I don't understand." Elena says "So Klaus drew the Aztec sketched about the curse?"
Elijah nods "Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings, and any other culture or continent we felt like planting in it."
Buffy frowns, this wasn't making sense to her yet, there had to be more to this tale "Why do I feel like there's more to this story."

Elijah smiles, the blonde was very smart no matter how much she may deny it "Because there is. With Marianna unable to use a spell to find the doppelgänger, the easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelgänger and the Fallen Slayer or to get your hands on some long, lost moonstone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout for it."

Buffy's eyes widen, it was smart that much she couldn't argue with "You tricked them. It's not Aztec at all."
Elijah nods "The Curse of the Sun and the Moon...is fake. It's not real." He says before crossing the small bridge.
Both cousins stare after him for a moment "Huh?" Buffy says before both girls follow him.


"Klaus, Marianna and I faked the Sun and Moon Curse dating back over a thousand years. However, neither I nor Klaus knew that after what happened to Marianna she was merely waiting for the perfect opportunity to take everything away from him."
Elena frowns him confusion "But if there's no curse..."
"There's a curse." Elijah assures them both "Just not that one. The real one's much worse. It's a curse placed on Klaus."
"Again I say huh?" Buffy tells him, still completely confused.

"Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years. You and Elena were his only hope." He tells the Slayer as he turns to face both women.
"Wanna explain bout this curse thing then?" Buffy asks him.

At that moment Elijah sighs "Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing." He tells Buffy "Answer it, please." He asks of her before handing her phone over.
Buffy sighs and answers "Stefan, nows—"
Buffy freezes as she listens to Stefan "No. No, no, no. I'll be there in a sec."
She quickly hangs up the phone and turns to Elijah "Klaus decided to have a crack at Jenna."

"What?!" Elena exclaims worried.
"She okay." Buffy assures her before turning to Elijah "We have to go to her."
"I'm afraid that wasn't part of today's arrangement."
"She's our family, Elijah. We have to." Buffy argues.

Elena at this point speaks up, as much as she wanted to go one of them needed to stay and Buffy had the best chance at taking on Klaus if he showed up again "Only one of us has to. Buffy can go. I'll stay, that way you know she'll come back either way."
Buffy turns to her cousin stunned, she wouldn't leave her here alone "Elena."
"Buffy." Elena says giving her a pointed look,

Buffy sighs and turns to Elijah "I'll be back. You may not believe that but know that I'll come back because of my cousin."
Elijah watches her intently for a moment before nodding "Thank you." Buffy tells him, she looks over at Elena once more who merely nods, Buffy sighs before taking off running.


"Jenna, thank God." Buffy breaths as she enters the living room at the boarding house, she tries to step towards her but Jenna backs away "No."
Buffy looks down at her sadly, she couldn't believe this was happening again, someone else she cared about had found out about the Supernatural after being threatened "I'm so sorry. I didn't want this to happen."

"When I was little my sister, used to tell me and your mom bedtime stories. Stories about vampires. I never thought what she said could be true."
"It's true." Buffy tells her before taking a seat "I wanted to tell you I did, but after the way my mom reacted when she found out, I didn't want to take that risk."
"She knew?" Jenna asks stunned.

Buffy nods "She saw me kill a vampire, it's how she found out about me, although she accused me of being insane at first."
Jenna frowns "What do you mean found out about you?"
Buffy takes a deep breath "I'm a Vampire Slayer. Look, I know this is a lot to take but I—"
"You else knows?" Jenna asks "Elena? Jeremy?" Buffy nods "John?"

Buffy nods sadly, holding back tears "We wanted to protect you."
"Protect me? No, Buffy...I am the one who's supposed to be protecting you and Elena and Jeremy."
Buffy shakes her head "There was nothing—I have been around this type of thing since I was 15 years old, it doesn't go away –"

"No, this is—" Jenna starts as she covers her face with her palms for a moment, before looking back up at Buffy "This is so—I don't know how—why didn't you tell me?"
Buffy looks down sadly "I was scared you would react the same way she did."
Jenna looks at her sadly "I'm scared."

Buffy sighs "I know." She tells her before sitting next to her and holding her tightly "Jenna, I'm so sorry."


"Is she gonna be ok?" Stefan asks Buffy as she carefully closes the door to the room where Jenna was currently sitting.
Buffy sighs, she hated this, hated that this kept happening to people she cared about "Kinda like me when I first found out. So shock is a big factor here. Let's just say we've barely made it past the icing in this complicated explain-y cake."
Stefan sighs sadly and takes her hand running his thumb over her wrist trying to sooth her "I'm so sorry, Buffy. I hate this."

Buffy nods "It's not your fault, the fault is all mine and Elena's."
Buffy takes a deep breath before slowly stepping away from "Look, I gotta get back. To Elijah, Elena still with him so..."
"You told me she was safe."
"She is." Buffy says simply "I gotta go." She starts to walk past him but he grabs a hold of her "Wait, what? No, no!" He shakes his head, he had just got her back, he couldn't lose her again.

Buffy turns to him "Stefan, Elena is still with him. And I made a deal. I can't break the deal."
Stefan looks at her worried before slowly nodding, as he does Buffy backs away "I'll be ok." She assures him before heading for the door.

As she heads for the door Damon appears "Where do you think you're going?"
"Where do you think?" She asks sarcastically "Back to the suit wearing original."

"No." Damon tells her as he suddenly appears right in front of her, "You can't stop me." She says "So get out of my way, Da—"
She tries to move past him but he grabs her arms "If you so much as try and take a step out of this house..."

"Damon, easy." Andie says as she tries to calm him.
"Stay out of this, Andie." He orders her.

"Let her go." Stefan says as he steps towards his brother
Damon stares at his brother in astonishment "Are you kidding me? We just got her back."
"Let me go before I get testy." Buffy warns him.

When Damon still doesn't budge Stefan grabs his brothers arm "You heard me and her. I said let her go."
Damon glares at his brother "That's twice today you've stood in my way. I wouldn't try a third."


Buffy enters the Mayor's house where Elena and Elijah were currently sitting in the living room.
"Welcome back." Elijah says as she approaches the two.
Buffy nods and sits next to her cousin "I want the truth. All of it. So spill. What is the curse?"

Elijah nods "My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well, that's part of the reason he was never fond of Marianna, our father adored her more than his own children. When Marianna helped us become vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline, of course when my father discovered this he hunted down and killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realising of course that he was inciting a war that rages until this day."

"A war between the species?" Elena asks.
"The vampires...and the werewolves."
Buffy stares at Elijah "So Klaus's pops was all wolfie? So what is he?"
"He's both a vampire and a werewolf."

"A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power." Elijah tells him as he paces the room "Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant."
Buffy's eyes widen "He wants to be whole again and all that jazz, that's the curse."

Elijah nods "He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race. Endangering not just vampires, but everyone."
"But you helped him." Elena says confused.
"I helped him because I loved him. That's changed now, he must die."
"We have the dagger now we can stop him." Elena tells him.

Buffy thinks for a moment "The dagger won't work will it?" She asks Elijah "Because of his werewolf side."
Elijah nods in agreement "Quite right, when a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An original can't be killed by anything but white oak ask on a silver dagger. So you see the conundrum. The dagger won't work."
"So Klaus is unkillable then?" Buffy asks.

"There's one way to kill any supernatural; species—at the hands of the servants of nature themselves."
"A witch. If they can channel that much power." Elena says in realisation, she sighs "But it would kill them."
"The curse most be broken during the full moon when Klaus is in transition. That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power...can kill Klaus."
Buffy looks up at Elijah "What if I said we had a witch that just may be able to do it."
"Then I would tell you there's one more thing that you should know."


England, 1492

"The full moon is tomorrow, Brother." Klaus says as Elijah enters the room "After all these centuries it is finally time."
"What about the Slayer? We haven't procured her yet?" Elijah asks confused.
Klaus turns to his brother "Marianna took the moonstone, assured me that she could do a spell to see the Slayer, we will have her soon."

Elijah nods and places a small box on the table "I have been to see the witches. They believe they may have found a way to spare the doppelgänger."
"What does it matter if she lives or not? She is a means to an end nothing else."
"What, she should die for your gain?"


Klaus chuckles "She is human. Her life means nothing."

"I beg you to consider this." Elijah asks of his brother as he steps towards hi.
Klaus raises an eyebrow "Are you so foolish as to care for her?"
"Of course not."
Klaus places a hand on his brother's shoulder "Love is a vampire's greatest weakness and we are not weak, Elijah. We do not feel and we do not care."
"We did once."
"Too many lifetimes ago to matter. Tell the witches not to bother. The sacrifice will happen as planned. And find Marianna, tell her to hurry along."


Mystic Falls, Present Day

Elena stares stunned "You found a way to save the life of the doppelgänger?"
"Yes, Elena. I did." Elijah tells her "But unfortunately Marianna had set her plan in motion, she gave Katerina the moonstone and told her to run. I believe you already know how that played out."
"You cared about her, didn't you?"
"It's a common mistake I'm told. It's one I won't make again."

Elijah steps towards the door but Buffy grabs his hand "What will he do to me? We know that he'll sacrifice Elena and he'll drink my blood but why?"
Elijah sighs "After he sacrifices the doppelgänger, he will drink from you and he will make you drink from him. It's for the two of you to become bound, it said in the prophecy that once it was time the bond will not only make you both stronger but it will also draw you to each other."


"Tired of your little play thing already?" Stefan asks Damon as he sees the upset Andie quickly exit Damon's room.
Damon doesn't look at him as he answers "Don't start with me, Stefan. She's just my distraction."

Stefan scoffs "She's a person. You're victimising her." Stefan says before heading for the door, however, what Damon says next makes him freeze "You should be thankful she's here. She keeps me from going for what I really want."

Stefan turns back to face Damon and glares at him "You're right. Thank you. For being in love with my girlfriend."
Damon stands from his seat and turns to his brother, they had never actually stated it out loud, but there it was "And there it is."
Stefan smirks slightly "There it is. You know, you can be in love with Buffy all you want...if it means you'll help her protect herself and her family. But I have the one thing you never will?"

Damon raises an eyebrow "Oh, yeah?" He smirks "What's that?"
"Her respect."

As soon as the words leave his mouth Damon sucker punches Stefan in the face, sending him flying across the room and crashing into the bookshelf.
Stefan stands and both brother glare at each other as they face off, after a moment Stefan runs at Damon and the two try to take the other down.

"Stop!" Buffy yells as she, Elijah and Elena enter the room, suddenly both brother separate, Buffy just stares at the two of them is disbelief and rolls her eyes "First Angel, now this." She shakes her head before turning to Elena "Jenna's down the hall."

Elena nods and quickly heads down the hall, once she is out of sight Buffy turns back to the brothers "Seriously?" She asks as she places her hands on her hips.
Neither men answer as their eyes are glued to Elijah "Now you've invited him in?" Damon asks in disbelief.
Buffy sighs "Me, Elijah and Lena had a little chat, we've come to an agreement."
"Really?" Damon scoffs.

"The two of you will come to no harm at my hands." Elijah tells them, he steps around Buffy to face the brothers "I only ask for one thing in return."
"What?"
"An apology?"
Damon stares at him in complete confusion "A what?"

Stefan is the first of the brothers to move towards the original "I'm sorry the part that I played in your death. I was protecting Buffy and Elena. I will always protect Buffy and
her family."
Elijah nods in acceptance "I understand."

The three turn to Damon who is still standing in the same spot refusing to move, Buffy speaks up "The sacrifice is gonna happen, Damon. Bonnie can do her part without dying and Elijah can save Elena's life and I can deal with getting bitten by a vamp, wouldn't be the first time. Look, said I would find another way, didn't I."
Damon turns to Elijah "Is that true?"
"It is." Elijah confirms.
"And you're trusting him?" Damon asks the blonde.
Buffy exhales "Yes."
"You can all go to hell." Damon tells them before leaving the room.
"He's angry with me right now." Stefan tells Elijah as they watch Damon leave the room "But he'll come around."
"Perhaps."


Katherine and Mary watch from the corner of the room as Greta and Klaus' other witch kneel in a circle of candles while Klaus who is still in Alaric's body stands next to the large box.
As the two witches chant, Katherine turns to Mary "What are they doing?"

Mary is about to answer but she is stopped when she hears Klaus gasp after a second Alaric looks at the two of them "Buffy? Elena?" He asks confused before collapsing to the ground.
The male witch stands and walks over to the box pulling it open, as he does out steps Klaus in his own body, he smiles "Now that's more like it."