"So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us?" Elijah asked Elena after they all settled in Julie's living room. Elena sat on the armchair at the right of the couch where Julie and Elijah were sitting.

"No," Elena said. "I'm sorry."

"And Katerina? She would have been released from my compulsion when I died."

"Klaus took her," Elena told him. "We think that she may be dead."

"I doubt that. Not Klaus' style," he said. "Death would be too easy for her after what she did."

Julie brought her knees to her chest and sighed. They all had tried to make her understand that Klaus was a dangerous monster and that killing him was the best thing to do, but she couldn't stop thinking that there must be another way to fix the situation.

"I don't understand. You say that you want Klaus dead but you still made Katherine payed for betraying him," Elena said.

"I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay," he told the Gilbert girl and Julie looked up at him, curious. "There was a time I would've done anything for my brother."

"What?" Elena was confused.

"Klaus is my brother," he repeated.

"I heard that. I'm still processing," she shook her head.

"Yes. I'm a little behind on the times but I believe the term you're searching for is "OMG"," he said which made Julie laugh. Elena was still trying to understand the situation. "So, as you've seen, nothing can kill an Original. Not sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree. A tree my family made sure burned."

"That's where the white ash for the daggers comes from," Elena said.

"Yes," Elijah nodded, leaning back in the couch. "The witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the Earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain balance."

Julie was listening carefully to what the vampire was saying. She realized she knew so little about the supernatural world and she was dating a vampire. She had to agree with Bonnie on this one, she would be safer if she knew more.

"So, if the sun can't kill an Original why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the Sun and the Moon curse?" Elena asked.

"Right," Elijah smiled. He seemed amused. "The Curse of the Sun and the Moon...It's all so biblical sounding, don't you think?"

"What's so funny?" Elena asked.

"The Curse of the Sun and the Moon is fake. It doesn't exist," he said.

"What?" Elena was now more confused than ever.

"Klaus and I faked the Sun and the Moon Curse dating back over a thousand years."

"But...if there is no curse..."

"There is a curse," he cut her off. "Just not that one. The real one is much worse. It's a curse placed on Klaus."

"What are you talking about?" Elena sighed.

"Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years and you are his only hope."

Elena's phone started buzzing and she sighed when she took it and saw it was Stefan calling her.

"Stefan," she sighed. But then, she frowned and had a worried look on her face. "What's wrong?" Julie put her feet back on the floor and waited to know if everything was alright. "I'll be right there," she said. "Klaus went after Jenna, I have to go. I'll be back," she told Elijah and Julie, getting up and rushing out of the house.

"I hope she's okay," Julie whispered, worried. She couldn't talk louder as her throat still ached.

"Klaus will make sure Elena won't try anything to escape the sacrifice," he sighed, looking down at her. "Are you okay?"

Julie brought her hands to her neck and looked down. "No," she answered with a trembling voice. She could still feel Damon's hands on her throat and his threat echoed in her head. Elijah placed his arm around her shoulders and brought her closer to him. She buried her head against his chest and took a deep breath, trying to keep the tears that were filling her eyes from falling.

"I'm sorry I was too late," he said before he kissed the top of her head.

"You weren't," she said. "Or I'd be dead." Elijah sighed, still angry at Damon.

"I should've killed him."

"No," Julie looked up at him. "No killing." Elijah sighed again.

"You won't survive in this world if you can't recognize monsters," he said.

"Damon can't be all bad," she said. "Just like your brother."

"Klaus is worse than Damon. There's no one more dangerous than my brother on Earth."

"Dangerous doesn't mean he's a monster" she told him. "You're dangerous. Stefan is dangerous. You're not monsters." Elijah closed his eyes and sighed again. Whatever he said, she wouldn't understand. He kissed her forehead and brought her back to his chest.

"You need to be more careful," he told her. He didn't want to scare her but she needed to know how dangerous his brother was.

They stayed silent for a while, enjoying being in each other's arms until Julie's curiosity broke the silence.

"Does it hurt?" she asked. "Being daggered, I mean," she said.

"Yes," he merely answered.

"And you're really...dead?"

"I am," he told her.

"Can Klaus be daggered?"

"No."

"But...if he's like you...than...why not?"

"This is the next part of the story," he told her. "Let's wait for Miss Gilbert to come back."

Julie took Elijah's hand in hers and sighed. "Okay," she sighed. Her throat still hurt and she tried to distract herself from the pain but the only thing else on her mind was Klaus and the sacrifice and that didn't calm her down.

"People are gonna die, aren't they?" she asked next.

"Probably."

"And Elena?"

"I don't know," he said.

Julie got up, suddenly. "So...Klaus is just gonna kill Elena to break this curse and...he doesn't care if she dies?!"

"Klaus doesn't care about anything but himself," Elijah told her before he got up and placed his hands on her arms. "The world is more complicated and dark than you think," he said. "If you're not more careful, you'll get hurt."

Julie was looking at him with big eyes. He stroke her cheek with his knuckles and looked at her with sad eyes. He didn't know why he was attracted to her. Sure, she was beautiful and all perfect but she was a 17 years old human who didn't know the first thing about the world she lived in. And he wondered why she wasn't running away from him screaming.

But they were interrupted by Elena who slammed the front door and entered the living room like she owned the place. Julie frowned and she would have told her "Don't you knock?" if only she could have talked. Elijah let go of Julie's arms and turned to face the doppelganger.

"Tell me," she said, looking right at him. "What is Klaus' curse?" she asked, removing her jacket and throwing it on the coffee table.

Elijah didn't answer right away. "Please," he raised his hand toward the armchair were she was sitting earlier. "You know, my family was quite close," he said. "But Klaus and my father did not get on too well," he took Julie's hand and sat with her on the couch. "When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before, this was her darkest secret. Klaus was from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother's lover and his entire family." Julie was feeling sorry for Klaus. She knew nobody could be a monster or act like one without a "good" reason. "Not realizing, of course that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."

Both Julie and Elena were confused. "A war between the species?" Elena asked.

"The vampires," Elijah started to say.

"And the werewolves," Julie breathed out. It all made sense now. Klaus was half werewolf and half vampire, that's why he couldn't be daggered.

"Exactly," Elijah nodded.

"So, Klaus' real father was from a werewolf bloodline?" Elena asked. "What does that make Klaus? A werewolf? Or a vampire?"

"He's both," Elijah said. "A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant."

"That's the curse Klaus wants to break?" Elena asked.

"He wants to trigger that part of him that's werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race endangering not just vampires, but everyone."

"But you helped him," Elena said.

"I helped him because I loved him," he said and Julie looked up at him. "That's changed now. He must die." Julie still didn't understand how he could say that about his own brother. What did Klaus do to turn his brother against him? What had changed?

"We have the dagger. We can stop him," Elena said.

"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals," Elijah told her. "An Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on silver dagger. See the conundrum? The dagger does not work."

"What are you saying? Klaus can't be killed?" Elena asked.

"There's one way to kill any supernatural species. At the hands of the servants of nature themselves," he said.

"A witch. If they can channel that much power," Elena sighed. "But it would kill them."

"The curse must be broken during the full moon, when Klaus is in transition. That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power can kill Klaus, he told her.

"What if I told you that I knew a witch that could channel that much power?" she asked and Julie frowned. She immediately thought about Bonnie. Elena had just said she couldn't survive it, so why would she tell him that?

"Then I would tell you there's one more thing that you should know," he said. "500 years ago I asked the witches if there was a way to spare the doppelganger."

"You found a way to save the life of the doppelganger?" she asked, hopeful.

"Yes, Elena. I did. Unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her own hands first," he said. "I believe you already know how that played out," he said.

"I don't," Julie shrugged and Elijah chuckled.

"That's a story for another time," he said, squeezing her hand. He took Elena's jacket from the coffee table and handed it to her. "Let's go."

"Where?" Julie frowned.

"We're making a deal," Elena said. "Now, we have to tell Stefan...and Damon." Julie shivered at the name of the vampire. She didn't want to go to his house. In fact, she never wanted to see him again.

"Come. I will not let anything happen to you," Elijah told her and she gave him a small smile before he kissed her forehead.

They drove to the Salvatores' house and Julie really didn't want to go inside. She took a deep breath before she got out of the car. Elijah was already at her sides and she took his hand and stayed close to him.

"Calm down," he told her, looking down at her. He brushed his knuckles on her bruised neck before he put his lips on hers. She kissed him back and slowly relaxed. Elena wasn't far from their car and she cleared her throat to remind them they weren't alone. "You're gonna be okay," he told Julie.

"I think I'd rather stay in the car," she told him. Elijah sighed, but nodded.

"I understand," he said and kissed her temple before he walked in the house with Elena.

Julie sighed and opened the car door but before she could get in, a terrible headache made her cry out and pass out on the ground.