He asks her to focus on the sleeping human, he had offered the man money to spend a few minutes with him and the blonde vampire he was with. The man had agreed, and Elijah had compelled him to sleep for a few moments. Caroline is a fast study, he learns. In a few days, he's sure she could enter a vampire's mind. He compels the man to wake up and forget, he supplies a false memory and hands the man money. Caroline thinks that, at least the human got compensated. She yawns, and almost falls by misjudging where a wall is. She notices how tired Elijah is too.
"This mental stuff is exhausting." She complains as he drives back.
"That does not get much better with age." He admits. She groans, and when it's apparent that he's not doing well with his exhaustion either, she commands that he go to bed. He has to tell Elena, has to. He yawns.
He barely makes it into her mind, she has to help him walk into her mind palace. She is much stronger here, in her mind. She sets him on her bed and tells him whatever news he has can wait. If he's in her mind, they're going to sleep because she's exhausted too. If he wants to do something stupid and stay awake, she tells him, he can do it outside of her mind.
He agrees, and he barely gets his shoes and jacket off when she's pulling back the covers. She loosens his tie as his back hits the mattress. She knows he's a vampire, but she's always worried that he can't breathe when he sleeps with a tie on. After threatening to cut one off him, he had carefully moved her hands with his and shown her how to loosen it. His eyes are closed before hers. She almost doesn't pull up the comforter as hers do too.