Elijah was lying on his bed but he wasn't sleeping. He had been dead for days, he had slept enough. He couldn't take his eyes off of Julie who was sleeping in his arms. He focused on her breathing and on her steady heartbeat. She looked so peaceful in her sleep. Every time he would move she would snuggle up to him a bit more. Sunrise was lighting the room and he watched her wake up slowly. He felt her hand move on his chest and he placed his hand over it and intertwined his fingers with hers. She sighed, barely awake and burying her head against his chest a little more.

"Good morning," he said and she finally opened her eyes. She was confused for a split second but then she remembered where she was and who she was with. She looked up and instantly blushed. She was embarrassed, wondering about what her hair looked like.

"Hi," she said, shyly.

"How did you sleep?"

"Great," she answered in a whisper. He smiled and leaned to kiss her. She kissed him back and then she rested her head back on his chest. He kissed the top of her head and moved his free hand on her waist. "Maybe I should call Elena..."

"She's alive," he said.

"I know...He needs her but...what about the others?"

He sighed and sat up. She propped herself on her elbow and she watched him take her phone from the night table. "It keeps buzzing," he said, handing her the phone.

"What?" she said, taking the phone and sitting up. He brought her to his chest and rested his chin on the top of her hair.

"Somebody's been trying to call you," he said.

"It's Elena," she breathed out. "Everybody's fine," she sighed, relieved. "And, you're gone. They're asking me if I saw you."

"What are you going to tell them?"

She didn't answer right away. She put the phone down on the night table and rested her head against his chest. He lied back down on the bed, placing his arms around her.

"It's so early," she said.

"We can't stay in bed all day," he chuckled. "I'm going to have to take care of Klaus."

She frowned and looked up. "You still want to kill your brother?" He sighed.

"You don't want me to?"

"Well...He's your brother...Whatever he did...Maybe, he's sorry?"

"Klaus is never sorry. He never learns from the mistakes he makes," he told her. "What if he wasn't my brother? Would you still have a problem with it?"

"With killing?" she asked and he nodded. "Yes."

He brushed his knuckles on her cheekbone. "It's black", he changed the subject.

She looked down and took his hand in hers. "I know."

"Does it hurt?" he asked.

"It's fine," she lied and shrugged. She laid her head back on his chest and intertwined her fingers with his again. "What are you gonna do?"

"About what?"

"About Klaus."

He sighed. "Do you know if they have any plans to defeat him?"

"No. I told you. They're not my friends."

"Then, first, I'm going to find out what they're planning to do."

That worried her. Last time he went to talk to them, he got killed. "There is nothing that can kill you, is there? Nothing at all?"

"No. Nothing at all." Julie sighed, half relieved. "Don't worry," he told her.

"What about Elena?" she asked. "You said there might be a way for her to survive the sacrifice."

"Yes, there is one way." She looked up at him. "Do you want me to help her?"

Julie sighed. "What I want if for no one to die."

"Klaus needs to die. He's dangerous."

"That's what they kept telling me about you," Julie told him. "He's your brother. There must be a part of you that doesn't want him dead."

Elijah looked in Julie's eyes and got lost in them, wondering how it was possible for Julie to be so innocent.

"Klaus isn't my only siblings," he told her. "I had a sister, Rebekah. And two other brothers, Finn and Kol. Klaus killed them."

"Wait...There is a whole family of Originals?"

"There was," he sighed.

"How did you become a vampire?" she asked him the question for the second time. The first time, Bonnie had interrupted them.

"It's a long story," he said.

"But you used to be human?"

"Yes. My siblings and I, we were humans, we are the oldest vampires in the world."

Julie had a sad look on her face. "But...If they were like you...They can't be killed."

"He daggered them. They're gone."

"I don't believe that," she said, sitting up. "Nobody can kill their siblings."

Elijah sighed and sat up. "Klaus is a monster," he told her. "My siblings are gone."

Julie looked down, sad and unconvinced.

"How can you help Elena?" she asked with a low voice.

"500 hundred years ago, when Klaus wanted to use Katherine, I tried to find a way to save her. I asked witches for help."

Julie frowned and looked up at him. "You tried to save Katherine? Why?"

Elijah sighed. "Katherine and I..."

"I actually don't wanna know," she stopped him and got up. "I need to go home."

"You're leaving?"

"Yes," she sighed. She put her shoes on and looked around to see if she was forgetting anything. "I have stuffs to do." She needed to see what damage Robert had done to the house drunk. She had to clean it up before he came back home tonight.

"Very well," he said, getting up. "Please, be careful," he told her, placing his hands around her waist. She looked up and smiled. She placed her hands on the back of his neck.

"I'm just gonna be at home," she told him.

"Your home where any vampire can come in," he reminded her. "You should think about getting an alive owner to your house."

"I'll be out of this house once I'm out of high school."

"Until then, Klaus is in town," he said. She looked down and he could hear her heartbeat getting faster. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." She gave him a small smile and kissed his cheek.

"I'll be fine."

He grinned and leaned to kiss her. She slipped her fingers in his hair and deepened the kiss. She didn't want to leave. She was afraid he would get killed again. Of course, she knew he was powerful and he was perfectly capable of defending himself but she was scared of losing him again.

"What are you gonna do?" she asked.

Elijah needed blood, that's what he was going to do. "I'll be here," he said.

"Okay," she kissed his cheek again before she took her phone from the nightstand. "See you later then."

Julie drove home and she was relieved to see her stepfather's car wasn't in the driveway. When she entered the house, she sighed and rolled her eyes, seeing the mess in the kitchen and in the living room. She cleaned it all and about an hour later she stepped out of the shower and got dressed and applied make up on her black eye. It was like it never happened. She checked her phone and saw more texts from Elena, asking her if she had anything to do with Elijah's disappearance and to warn her not to trust Alaric as Klaus had taken over his body.

"What?" she breathed out when she learnt that her history teacher was possessed with her boyfriend's brother. Boyfriend.

She walked down the stairs and she called Elijah to let him know about Alaric. But as soon as he picked up, her front door flew open and someone pushed her against the wall. He only had time to say her name before the phone fell on the floor. Damon had his left hand on her neck and he didn't look happy.

"What did you do?" he growled. She looked at him with big eyes, scratching his hand with her nails, to make him let go of her. He was strangling her so hard, not only she couldn't breathe but a piercing sound was rezoning in her ears.

"Damon let her go!" she heard Stefan order his brother but she couldn't see anything.

"She took the dagger out, she's dead," he told his brother.

"You don't know if she did and nobody's dying here, Damon," his brother said. ""Let her go, now!"

"No," he growled.

But suddenly, the pressure disappeared. She fell as soon as Damon let go of her. She gasped and tears started to fell down her cheeks. She started sobbing and tried to catch her breath. She brought her hands to her soaring throat and looked up to see Elijah holding Damon by the throat.

"Oh my God, Julie," Elena breathed out when she saw her on the floor after she rushed inside the house. "Damon!"

"Let him go, Elijah!" Stefan ordered.

"Why would I do that?" the Original vampire said with a furious tone.

"Elijah," Julie managed to say despite her hurt throat, with a trembling voice.

The vampire turned his head to see Julie crying against the wall. He sighed and threw Damon across the room. He knew Julie didn't like it when people died and he didn't want to kill someone in front of her.

"Leave," he ordered Damon. He helped Julie up and she buried his head against his chest. She had been right to be afraid of Damon. Stefan helped his brother up and asked him to get out the house but he refused. Julie wanted to ask all of them to leave but she couldn't speak.

"Julie, I'm so sorry," Elena apologized. Julie gave her a disappointed look which told the doppelganger that her apology wasn't accepted. The Gilbert girl looked up at Elijah, a little scared.

"I want to make a deal," she said. Julie was stunned. Did she really think Elijah was stupid enough to trust her again? "Damon wasn't supposed to follow me," she said, looking back at Julie. "I'll tell you anything you want but you have to give me your word," she told Elijah, looking up at him.

"Your ability to make demands has long passed," he answered.

"No demands," Elena said. "I'm offering you my help. And in return, I want yours."

Julie stepped back, leaving Elijah's arms, which surprised him. She gave an angry look to Elena before she looked down and wiped the tears off her cheek. She let out a cry when she hurt herself, forgetting she had a black eye.

"Get out of my house," she said with a broken voice.

"We want the same thing. Klaus dead," she said. "We're gonna need each other's help."

"And why should I even consider this?" Elijah asked.

"Because you need my help to kill Klaus. And I need you."

"This is a terrible idea," Damon said, appearing behind Elena with his brother. When Julie saw him, she got closer to Elijah who placed his right arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. Elena had a weird look on her face whereas Damon looked disgusted and Stefan surprised.

"Damon," Elena sighed. "Leave."

"No way," Damon said, loud.

"You can't trust him, Elena. He'll use you to get to Klaus," Stefan said.

"We can trust him," she answered. "He's a noble man, he lives by a code of honor. He knows that I'd be incredibly stupid to betray him again."

"Or incredibly stupid to trust him again," Damon said.

Julie looked up and whispered, because she couldn't talk any louder, "Get them out of my house," she told him and he nodded.

"Miss Gilbert and I need to talk. And I believe the owner of this house wants you out."

"I'm not leaving Elena with you," Damon said.

"That's not for you to decide," Elena told him. "Leave. You've done enough," she said, angry. Damon didn't want to leave and Stefan was hesitant. "It's okay," she told her boyfriend. "I won't get hurt, he needs me," she repeated.

Stefan sighed and nodded.

"What? No!" Damon strongly disagreed.

"Damon," Stefan sighed, annoyed. "We're leaving."

Once the two brothers were gone Elijah and Elena stared at each other in silence for a while. He remembered that Julie wanted to help Elena and that's what he was going to do. It's not like he couldn't anyway. And Elena was right, he needed her as much as she needed him.

"Fine. Let's talk."

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