Elijah listened to her words and hesitated before giving an answer and looked at her for a while "Do you think it would have been better for you to die Katerina? I don't think so"
"You trapped me. You took me Klaus. You watched him torturing me. Now you don't even give me the possibility to die. You call yourself a man of honor? You're wrong …you're so wrong… you..." she stopped. Katherine remembered that she was talking to the eldest vampire alive. Someone, who was strong enough to kill her before she could even try to escape.
"I mean no harm to you Katerina", he told her.
"Didn't you say the same just before you told Klaus where I was? ",she sighed and looked away.
"I didn't wanted that to happen to you Katerina. I want to be honest. When I left Mystic Falls a while ago, I went to find you for Klaus. But when I saw you this morning sleeping in this park…I just forgot about it. I didn't even knew that my brother followed me." He explained. He told her the truth and he regretted what he did, but that was something he couldn't change anymore.
The way he looked at her made Katherine know that he was telling the truth, "And now, after watching him torture me, you decided that you should help me ?" she asked
"Katerina, I had to make a decision. I don't want to keep on being the loyal help for my brother, to make sure that he won't make me spend another century in a coffin."
"You know that you risk your life, don't you?"
"You're right, I risk my life. But if it's necessary I am able to fight my brother, and I do not watch him hurting innocent people anymore. I can hardly call you innocent, but at least I knew that you was once and I don't want you to be afraid of me"
"How to trust you Elijah?"
"You don't have to trust me. Just let me help you. Since you have to cure it would be a possibility for getting back your freedom. Without help, Klaus won't make a deal anyway. Of course sometimes he breaks his deal, but I promise to protect you"
Katherine hesitated again and sat up slowly "You want to protect me ?"
Elijah nodded slightly and looked into the eyes of the woman right in front of him for a moment "Since I've seen you for the first time you meant a lot to me. I know that there is more inside you than you pretend to be. Mostly, if I look at the way you behave and things you did…I should have another opinion. I should think that you're just a coldblooded person , who cares about nothing but yourself, but I know that this is not true. I would believe you, pretending to be that person…but your fear of dying and the pain you suffer when someone talks about your dead family are revealing the truth. Somewhere inside you is still humanity and the person you have been once. Everything you have to do is trying to find that person. You have to move on Katerina." he said.
At first Katherine didn't knew what to say. His words shocked her and she couldn't believe that he knew her that well. He seemed to understand her and everything he said was the truth. She did not want to admit anything of it, but deep inside she couldn't keep on denying the truth. As he mentioned her family, she remembered when she found them dead which reminded her of the nightmares she always had about them. "How to move on, if everything you can think of is the past which hurt you more than anything else? I don't want others to like me, being hated is easier. You have no responsibility if you're alone. And I'm used to loneliness. I've been alone for the last 5 centuries and I can go on like this for another one. "
"You don't move on because you're afraid of it. That's all" he replied
"I'm afraid of having feelings. I have never…felt true emotions. I don't know what it means to have real friends , to feel true love. I know what it means to be afraid and to be hurt – but don't have the strength to feel that again. If I would turn on my feelings – all of them – I would start to care. But not just about other people, I would also start to care about the things others say about me. It never really mattered to me, if they call me a selfish bitch…but maybe it does when I feel. And I'm sure that would hurt" she said and looked at him, even though she was shocked about her own honesty.
"You don't have to be afraid Katerina. I will be there and help you to get through all of this. I sounds more difficult than it is." He said and offered her his hand, to show her that he meant what he said.
Katherine hesitated and looked at his hand, but then she took it and looked up at him again. She felt a little unsure about if she made the right choice, but it was the best for now .