Everything was dark.

Kol was dead and everything was dark.

The sun hit the black SUV that drove down the empty road. It was hot inside the car. Hot and silent.

Elijah kept an eye on Julie as he was driving. Her cheeks stayed wet the whole time, her eyes stayed red and her mind stayed black.

Kol was dead and everything was dark.

All she could think about was that her friend, Elijah's brother, her brother, was dead and she hadn't been there for him. She hadn't been there for her family.

"I'm going to kill her," she muttered at some point.

Elijah completely forgot about the road and flicked his head towards her. She wasn't looking at him, her gaze was lost in complete emptiness. She wasn't looking at anything, she wasn't seeing anything, she could only picture Elena burning and screaming, she could only picture herself making Elena burn and scream.

She was falling and Elijah knew it and he didn't know how to catch her. He didn't know how to save her from the darkness.

"You don't mean that," Elijah said.

Elijah hoped.

"I'm going to kill them all."

Elijah would have been furious if he hadn't been so worried about Julie. He was grieving his baby brother, and he would have killed Elena and everyone she cared about for going after his family if it weren't for Julie.

He knew Kol had it coming, Rebekah had told him everything. He knew all about how Kol came after her and tried to stop them from getting to the cure, how he tried to cut Jeremy's arms off and that's the reason why he was in Elena's kitchen, kitchen where he died. He knew Klaus was stuck in Elena's living room, and he knew Rebekah had left with all of them to get the cure.

Julie couldn't understand why Rebekah hadn't killed them all already. She couldn't think straight. There was only pain and grief. And darkness.

Elijah had to take care of Julie. He had to keep her in the light, because if she killed Elena, if she killed anyone, then she would become like him, like them, she would be lost in darkness, and he couldn't lose her to darkness, he had lost so much to darkness already.

He had to make her care.

He had to make her keep her humanity.

They were almost there, they knew it as they were able to see the sea at the end of the road. Elijah stopped the car with a sigh. He looked silently at Julie for a minute before he spoke up.

"Is she here?" he asked.

"Yes. She's been waiting for half an hour," Julie replied in a voice that didn't sound like hers.

They exited the car in complete silence and made their way to where they were supposed to meet her, where she was supposed to be waiting for them with a boat.

As Julie spotted her near the only boat in the dock she felt something that resembled joy. She started to feel again, and it hurt, and she didn't like it. And as she tried her hardest not to let the tears fall from her eyes she promised to herself that they would all pay for making her feel this way, for taking Kol away from his siblings, away from her.

And she stepped further into the darkness.

"Kat'," Julie said and the vampire grinned.

"Julie, Elijah."

"Katerina. Thank you for your help," he merely said.

"Always happy to get on Klaus's good side," she told him. "Though, for once, I'm not doing it for him."