Julie fell asleep as soon as she sat down. Elijah hoped she would be better after she woke up, that her murderous ideas would be gone.

"We're not killing anyone," Elijah said for the hundredth time.

Katherine rolled her eyes and sighed in annoyance. "You don't have to kill anyone, but why ruin the fun for me?"

She was pacing in the small cabin, her arms crossed over her chest. She had never liked being on a boat.

"Julie needs to understand that killing isn't the solution! She needs to stay good! She can't end up like..."

"Me?" Katherine cut him off.

She arched an eyebrow and put her hand on her hip. "Or you?"

"She can't end up like us."

Katherine chuckled. "If you're planning on staying with her for the rest of forever, which I know she's planning on doing, she might need to end up like us. To live in your world, our world, is to end up like us. Ever met a good vampire, Elijah?"

He stared at his former lover in silence, her words echoing in his head. She was right, and he knew it. The only way Julie could stay safe was for her to be able to defend herself, and sometimes, that meant to kill to survive. Katherine Pierce knew that more than anyone.

"She's not ending up like us. She's good. She's..."

"Of course, she's good," Katherine cut him off again. "And she'll stay good, deep down. Just like you," Katherine said as she took a step forward. "The world isn't all black or white. She's able to do both, Elijah. She's strong, she's an elemental, she'll be fine."

"You don't know what you're talking about," Elijah mumbled. "The element of darkness is taking over her. It's taking away her humanity."

"If there's one thing I know, Elijah, is that you don't lose your humanity. You put it away in a box for a while and then you get it back. Because you can never stop feeling. I've never met anyone who completely stopped feeling."

"It's not about that," Elijah shook his head. "Everybody feels something. The problem is what you feel. She's angry, she's... she wants revenge. She wants to kill, and that's not her. That's just..."

Elijah stopped and took a deep breath. His eyes were wet. Katherine had never seen the Original like that. He was terrified.

"She'll be fine, Elijah. As long as she has you. As long as she can love you, you have nothing to worry about," Katherine said. She stopped for a moment before she sighed. "But you have to know that she's changed. Of course she's changed. She's adapting. Because she's just like me. She's a survivor."

"She's nothing like you," Elijah muttered.

Katherine looked hurt for half a second before an arrogant grin appeared on her face.

"She'll be fine," she repeated. "Killing is nothing. Killing is necessary."

"She doesn't think like that! She hates it when people get hurt. She always look for another solution, she never wanted anyone to die!"

"Like I said. She's changed."

"I don't want her to change!" he yelled.

They both stopped to look down at Julie who moved in her sleep but didn't wake up.

Katherine looked back up at Elijah after a minute.

"Do you think I want her to be like me?" she asked. "I know she's good. It's in her nature to be good, to do the right thing, to pick the better option... And I know you're afraid to lose her and, to be honest, I don't want her to change either... But... Her life has changed, and it's nobody's fault. She thought her entire life that she was human, that her mother was human, until she met you. Until she was told that vampires exist and that she's an elemental. She's one of the most powerful supernatural creatures on this Earth, and she has powers she can't control, and she doesn't understand what's happening to her, so yeah, right now, she's scared and confused and she's changed. But she's not going to stay like that. She's not done changing. And she's going to be okay. Because she has you and she has me, and we're not going to let her become like us. We won't let her."

The room was silent for minutes, the two vampires could only hear the wind and the waves and their own voices inside their head.

"She wants to kill Elena," Elijah said in a quiet voice.

"Who doesn't?" Katherine shrugged.

Elijah rolled his eyes.

"Can you blame her? Elena killed your brother."

"Jeremy Gilbert killed my brother."

"Look me in the eyes and tell me you don't want them all dead. Elena, Jeremy, Damon... All of them. Dead."

"Killing isn't the solution."

"Since when?"

"Since always! Julie just reminded me of that."

"No. That's not true. Julie reminded you that killing is bad. And she's not wrong. Killing is bad. But we are bad. We do bad things, that's what we do! And at some point you gotta be honest with yourself, Elijah! As vampires, we've all killed hundreds of people, just to get some blood. But that's not what she wants to do. Julie wants to kill Elena because she hurt you. Because she hurt someone she cared about. She's not randomly picking innocent people she doesn't know to shoot them in the head. She's not doing it for fun. She's doing it because she's hurting. And you can't be hurting if you don't have your humanity, Elijah. So stop whining. She's a big girl and she can take care of herself. Be glad that she can! She's strong, is all. She's not some pyscho who's going around, murdering innocent people for the fun of it. You have to realize that. So, yeah, sure, you have to keep an eye on her, but as far as I'm concerned, she's fine."

"You weren't there. You didn't see her lose control."

"I did see it! I was the first to see her powers in action. I know she has to learn to control them, and she will!"

"And who's going to teach her?" Elijah yelled. "Kol is dead. Elementals are extinct! I don't know what to do!"

"It's not rocket science, Elijah! You're an Original vampire, you're one of the best people to teach her about self-control!"

"It's not the same thing!"

"Since when have you become so weak?" Katherine suddenly asked.

Elijah raised his eyebrows.

"Excuse me?"

"I don't recognize you. You're better than this."

"I'm scared," he admitted. "I love her and I'm scared to lose her! You would know if you had ever loved anyone else than yourself!"

"Enough!" Katherine yelled back. "You all keep saying that I'm a selfish bitch but I wasn't always like that! I'm over 500 years old, I had my time. I loved. I loved you and for a little minute maybe I even loved Klaus. And I loved Stefan. Maybe I still do," she admitted. "I loved and loved and loved and look where it got me. Love doesn't agree with me, Elijah. I wasn't made to be loved. To be happy. I was made to be killed so that your stupid brother could break a curse. I was meant to die. But I fought back. If life was gonna be a bitch, then I'd be a bigger one. I survived. And I did what I had to do to end up where I am. And I don't regret one single dead body."

"Well I regret a lot of dead bodies," Elijah admitted. "I killed hundreds of innocent people. To party, to feed, to have fun... I'm a vampire, I need blood to survive. That's why I'm going to take that cure," he said. "And I'll live the rest of my life with her until we both die."

Katherine sighed, looked down and shook her head. "That's not going to happen, Elijah."

"And why not?"

"Because there's only one dose," she said. "And I'm going to give it to Silas."