Flash forward
Rebekah stepped out of the shadows and looked at Elena. "You can come out now. It seems your boys took care of the problem." She looked at Rebekah. "How did they do that?" The blonde vampire smirked. "Damon turned your witch friend's mother into a vampire." She gasped, but right now she wanted to get out of here.
Elena stopped by Rebekah and sighed. "I really am sorry I staked you in the back. I know we weren't friends and never will be. But you gave me some trust, when you told me about your mother and Klaus and then I did what I did. I'm not asking for forgiveness, but when you come after me again, just know I'll try to kick your ass." Rebekah smiled and looked at Elena. "I'm looking forward to it. With that, Elena walked out of the cave.
She opened the door to her home and smiled. She felt safe and protected. Elena saw the stairs and whimpered. She tiredly walked up the stairs.
Once at the top, she noticed a letter on her bed. She grabbed it and sat down on the window seat.
Elena today I did things I'm not proud of, to protect the one thing I value most, my family. If anyone can understand that, it's you. Your compassion is a gift Elena carry, it with you, as I will carry my regret always and forever.
Elijah
She held the letter to her heart and cried. It felt like a brick landed on her heart and crushed it. Getting up, she opened her journal and wrote what happened. She taped Elijah's letter on the other side and caressed it again.
Within a few minutes, she was fast asleep.
Elijah stood looked out the window. He heard Rebekah come into the room. "Where the bloody hell is everyone?" She looked at her brother and noticed he didn't look like himself. "It's over Rebekah." She didn't understand. "Where's mother?" He looked at her and growled.
"We have no mother, only Esther. And Esther is right." He felt apart of him was lost. "What do you mean?" Her brother was talking in riddles. "All my talk of virtue, when it suits my needs, I kill, mane and torment. You know today, I terrorized an innocent. I used your hatred for her against you to get what I wanted, I willed you like I would a sword, my sister." He looked at her with regret. Her heart was breaking.
"You did it to protect us Elijah and rightly so we deserve to live, we are better than they are." She didn't want to see him like this. "Are we?" She had tears in her eyes. "Mother made us vampires. She didn't make us monsters, we did that to ourselves. "With that he left, not once looking back.