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Previously: "I think I know what I want to do today." "And what is that?"

Elena was getting frustrated. Elijah still wasn't telling her where he was taking her. He had dragged her out of the hotel room outside.

They were walking on the sidewalk. To others, they must've looked like a loving couple.

Elena tried to ask again. "What are we doing?"

Elijah led her up to an ice cream truck. "Would you like some?" he offered, completely dodging her question.

She nodded like a child. Elijah bought her an ice cream and walked on. Elena followed. She was muttering to herself, getting impatient.

"Elijah."

He smiled, liking the sound of his name on her lips. "Yes?" Elijah partly teased.

"Seriously, what are we doing here?"

"Don't you want to know more about me?"

Elena raised her eyebrow, confused. When had she said anything about that?

He tried to resolve her confusion. Elijah gestured to her to sit down on a nearby bench. Elena complied, and he sat next to her. "I thought you would like you hear about my past—well, my human past, anyway. About how my parents died."

She looked curious.

"It was the 1370's. I was around the age of thirty. My father was Francesco Petrarch. He was also known as 'Father of the Renaissance.' You'd have known about him. He's famous, you know," Elijah boasted, slightly bragging about his father's well known life.

Elena just listened, giving her ice cream cone a lick once in a while.

He continued. "I was a forbidden child. You see, my father wasn't allowed to marry, so he kept his lover and his children a secret. I'm pretty sure he had other lovers though," Elijah explained, rolling his eyes, "I'm certain that he slept around."

She was silent, waiting for him to go on.

"I couldn't go out of my house, knowing if I was discovered, my father would be locked up and persecuted on the spot. So, I stayed in the house and worked with my mother. My mother

was pretty much a housekeeper, and my father hobbied in poetry. That's what got him famous."

"One day, a man came in to check out some of my father's poetry. Like usual, I was shoved into my room and locked up so no one would find me. Minutes later, I heard my mother screaming."

Elena started to nibble on her cone.

"I was curious and went to see who it was. I walked in to find my father dead and my mother dying. The man had her in his arms and was drinking from her. He had heard me and the next thing I knew, he was coming at me."

"And that's how I died."

She looked at Elijah with a pitiful expression on her face.

"I woke up to find that I was extremely hungry. The man I later found out was called Klaus trained me to control my hunger and my issues. I learned to get rid of my humanity. I learned to see Klaus as the father that I never had."

"He never did actually tell me why he had turned me. I learned to be thankful for it, though."

Elena nodded in understanding.

"After hundreds of years, I realized that Klaus was attempting to create a vampire army. Of course, every vampire under him obeyed, but he wanted a strong army, one that was focused and centralized. He wanted me to lead that army."

"I was a little wary, but ended up agreeing. But by then I had seen crazed look in Klaus's eyes. His obsession was to break the curse. He spent night and day searching for a way to break the curse without using the doppelganger—you. His army tried to help by kidnapping young witches or searching for women and girls that resembled Katerina and you."

There was a sad look in Elijah's eyes now. "And many had to pay the price for it."

By the end of Elijah's story, Elena no longer had an appetite for her ice cream and ended up tossing it in the trash.

"I'm sorry," she put her hand on his shoulder reassuringly.

Elijah sighed. "So am I."

And they sat like that. Content in each other's company.

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