As Elena sat waiting for Elijah to wake up after undaggering him, she was thinking about what was going to happen now. She had just started to hum quietly to herself when Elijah suddenly woke up.

"Elijah." Elena rushed over to him.

"Elena!" Elijah grabbed her face and looked at her in worry.

"Yeah, it's me." Elena placed her hands over his.

"Are you alright?!" Elijah looked down at her midsection where the arrow had hit her.

"I'm okay." Elena reassured him softly.

"I can't – I can't breathe!" Elijah's body spasmed. "What's happening to me?"

Elijah rushed over to the door but slammed into the doorway and as Elena ran over to him to hold him up, he muttered, "I can't... I can't be in this house."

Before Elena could invite him in, he slammed into another wall and disappeared. Elena rushed after him and went to the front door to see Elijah crouched outside. She quickly ran out to him to help him to his feet.

"What happened?" Elijah asked as he leaned against her a little.

"Shh," Elena hushed and gestured that Damon and Stefan could hear. "I'll tell you, but not here."

"Then let's go." Elijah walked towards her car.

"Elijah," Elena walked up to him and handed him the dagger. "I believe that belongs to you, sort of."

Elena got into the car and started it and Elijah joined her swiftly, "Thank you."

"Don't mention it." Elena murmured as she drove away. "There should be some blood bags in the glove compartment."

A few minutes later Elena parked her car at the side of the road, "You look better."

"I'm feeling better." Elijah smiled at her, then he frowned. "Where did the Salvatore's and the hunter get the dagger?"

"I'll tell you everything." Elena promised. "But we have to work together, please."

"I don't think the Salvatore brothers seems inclined to do that." Elijah sipped from the blood bag.

"They don't get to decide anymore." Elena declared.

Before Elijah could say anything to that Elena's phone started to buzz. "Speak quickly."

"Where are you?" Stefan asked and Elena knew that Elijah could hear both sides of the conversation. "Are you okay?"

"I'm absolutely fine, why wouldn't I be?" Elena asked.

"Where's Elijah?" Stefan wondered.

"Why do you think I would know?" Elena hummed as she drummed her fingers against the wheel.

"Ever since we daggered him you have been trying to sneak down and undagger him." Stefan groaned in annoyance. "And now he's gone and so are you. Of course, I think you have something to do with it."

"He never deserved to be daggered in the first place, Stefan." Elena growled. "And let me remind you that between you and Elijah you are the one who had me shot with a crossbow."

"Elena, please..." As Elena listen to Stefan, she didn't see the appreciative look that Elijah was sending her.

"Enough, Stefan." Elena interrupted. "This is my decision, please respect it, and make sure that Damon doesn't do anything stupid. I'll be in touch."

Elena handed the phone to Elijah as a sign of trust after she had hung up and started to drive again.

"He's here." Elena informed Elijah after a few minutes.

"Klaus is here?" Elijah asked to confirm.

"Yeah." Elena started to chuckle and at Elijah's look she explained the whole her thinking Santa was real when Rose told them about Klaus being real.

Elijah burst out laughing when Elena was done explaining. "I'm never getting that picture out of my head."

"I can't really say anything about that." Elena shrugged with a chuckle. "When I met him, he was in Alaric's body."

"Of course, he was." Elijah put his head back with a sigh. "It's one of his favorite tricks."

"So, I assume by that he is not a one trick pony?" Elena groaned.

"Sadly, you assume correctly." Elijah smiled at her.

"What is he going to do next?" Elena asked softly.

"Drive to the Lockwood mansion." Elijah directed without telling her anything.

As she drove Elena told Elijah about where the Salvatore brothers had gotten the dagger and what had been going on since he had been daggered.

When they arrived a while later, Elijah knocked on the door to the Lockwood mansion and smiled charmingly at Carol when she opened the door.

"Elijah, Elena!" Carol said surprised and Elijah's rough appearance. "What are you doing here? What happened?"

"I've had a bit of an incident, Carol." Elijah answered vaguely. "I'm hoping you could help."

"Well, I'm on my way to a meeting, so I..." Carol started to say before Elijah interrupted.

Elijah looked her in the eyes as he compelled her, "It won't take but a minute of your time."

"Of course." Carol smiled at them. "Anything you need."

"Well, first thing first." Elijah said as they entered the home. "I'm going to need a change of clothes."

"You could try one of my husband's suits." Carol offered. "I haven't boxed them up yet."

"Wonderful." Elijah smiled and watched as she walked upstairs.

"How did you know she's not on vervain?" Elena asked with her head tilted to the side.

"Because I'm the one who got her off it." Elijah admitted with a smirk. "Right before your friends killed me. Twice."

"I can never apologize enough for that." Elena murmured sadly.

"I do not blame you, Elena." Elijah placed a gentle hand on her cheek. "If you'll excuse me, I'll be down in a moment."

Elena tried to control the butterflies in her stomach and the need to smile brightly as she watched him walk up the stairs. She couldn't explain the warmth in her chest or the tingle in her body when she was close to Elijah, was it a good feeling or a bad feeling?

Elena shook her head and walked into the living room while she waited for Elijah to come back down.

"Elena?" Elena heard Elijah call her name.

"In here." Elena said and then she groaned as she saw Elijah walk in in one of Mayor Lockwoods old suits. "Now I feel really underdressed."

"You look fine." Elijah smiled at her, then the smile dropped. "So, I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us."

"No, I'm sorry." Elena looked down. "Luka died when a spell him and his father did, backfired and Jonas was killed by Stefan when he tried to come after me."

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

"Klaus took her." Elena informed him. "She might be dead."

"I doubt that. Not Klaus' style." Elijah gave a weird smile. "Death would be too easy for her after what she did."

"I don't understand." Elena looked confused. "You say you want Klaus dead, but you still made Kathrine pay for betraying him."

"I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay. There was a time... I'd have done anything for Klaus." Elijah stared out the window with a faraway look as he explained some of his history with Klaus and Kathrine.

"Klaus is your brother..." Elena muttered softly.

"Yes, he is. I may be a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you're searching for is 'O.M.G.'" Elijah sipped some tea which Carol had brought him before she left.

Elena giggled, then it turned into a full-blown laugh, "You get a gold star for that deliverance."

Elijah smiled at her from behind his teacup as she started to calm down.

"So, you and your brother are the Originals then?" Elena asked even if she knew the answer.

"My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in Eastern Europe." Elijah explained patiently. "Our mother bore seven children."

"You have six siblings?" Elena asked shocked. "I don't know if I should be jealous of you or pity you."

"Our whole family was human in the beginning. Our origin as vampires is a very long story, Elena." Elijah told her even as he smiled softly at her. "Just know... We're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the Original family and from us all vampires were created."

"But Klaus is you brother, how can you want him dead?" Elena asked slowly, not being able to even imagen wanting Jeremy dead.

"I need some air." Elijah stood up and offered Elena his arm. "I'm still feeling a tad... dead."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to ask uncomfortable questions." Elena took the offered arm.

"As you've seen, nothing can kill an Original. Not sun, nor fire, not even a werewolf bite." Elijah told her as they walked around the Lockwood property. "Only the wood from one special tree. A tree my family made sure to burn."

"That's where the white ash for the dagger comes from." Elena nodded in understanding.

"Yes. The witches won't allow anything truly immortal walk the earth." Elijah explained. "Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain balance."

"Who are they to decide what counts as balance and not." Elena muttered annoyed. "Why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the so called 'sun and moon curse'?"

"Why do you say it like that?" Elijah looked intrigued, then he continued. "The curse of the sun and the moon, it's all so... biblical-sounding, don't you think?"

Elena tightened her arm around Elijah's as he continued to tell her about the past.

"So, I was right." Elena hummed with a smile. "There is a curse tied to the moonstone but it has nothing to do with the sun and the moon."

"You're right." Elijah looked pleasantly surprised. "How did you figure it out?"

"I figured it out when I thought about the daylight jewelry some vampires have." Elena told him softly. "If there was a sun and moon curse the daylight jewelry wouldn't work because a witch can't negate another witches' curse by charming something else."

"You are a delight." Elijah smiled at her proudly.

"Thank you." Elena mumbled with a blush.

"Klaus and I faked the sun and moon curse dating back over a thousand years." Elijah told her.

"So what is the real curse?" Elena wondered.

"The real one's is much worse." Elijah sighed sadly. "It's a curse place on Klaus."

"What?" Elena muttered.

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

"Me and Obi-Wan Kenobi." Elena giggled. "What is this curse?"

"Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing." Elijah pulled the phone from his pocket and gave it to her. "Answer it, please."

Elena quickly spoke with Stefan and hung up, turning to Elijah. "Klaus went after Jenna, I have to go to her."

"Hurry back, we have more to talk about." Elijah kissed the back off her hand.

"Thank you." Elena called over her shoulder as she ran to her car.

When she arrived at the boarding house, she pulled Jenna into a hug with a sigh of relief. "I'm so glad that you are alright."

"I'm fine, just a little shook up." Jenna assured her. "I've missed a lot, haven't I?"

"Yeah, you could say that." Elena chuckled.

"Is Ric gonna be okay?" Jenna asked softly.

"We don't know." Elena answered honestly. "But I have a feeling that he'll be okay."

"Ric...eh...Klaus muttered something that I don't think I was supposed to hear but it stuck with me, though." Jenna muttered.

"What did he say?" Elena looked at Jenna kindly.

"I wish she didn't have to die." Jenna quoted quietly.

"Weird." Elena murmured. "I'll have to go back and talk to Elijah."

"Of course." Jenna smirked.

"What?" Elena asked confused.

"Nothing." Jenna chuckled, still smirking. "Say hello to Elijah from me."

"No, seriously, Jenna." Elena asked as Jenna walked away. "What are you smirking about?"

"Have fun and I'll see you later." Jenna called out in a sing song tone.

Half an hour later, Elena walked back into the Lockwood mansion. She smiled at Elijah who was standing by the lit fireplace.

"Welcome back." Elijah nodded at her with a smile.

"Thank you." Elena giggled and seriously what was with her and giggling around Elijah? "Jenna says hello."

"Is she alright?" Elijah asked as he watched her take of her jacket.

"Yeah, just a little freaked out that Alaric wasn't actually Alaric." Elena laughed slightly.

"That must have come as a shock." Elijah chuckled.

"Now that I know she's okay, could you please tell me about Klaus curse?" Elena inquired gently.

"It's a bit of a long story so bear with me, but I'll try and give you the cliff-notes version." Elijah smiled and gestured for her to sit and when she does, he sat down next to her making her stomach tingle again.

"My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on to well. When we become vampires, we discovered the truth; Klaus was not my father's son." Elijah started his story. "My mother had been unfaithful many years before and this was her darkest secret, Klaus is from a different bloodline." Elijah paused to sigh sadly. "Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."

"Oh my God." Elena gasped. "Klaus is part werewolf, isn't he?"

"You are a very bright young woman." Elijah smiled pleasantly surprised at her figuring it out. "Klaus is both vampire and werewolf. A hybrid that is deadlier than any werewolf or vampire and Nature would not stand for such imbalance of power. Therefore, the witches, the servants of Nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would be dormant."

"Oh, that poor, poor man." Elena had tears in her eyes. "How is he not either completely insane or brain dead?"

"What are you talking about?" Elijah asked slowly.

"The fucking judgmental witches locked part of Klaus away." Elena let the tears fall down her face. "He has gone around for several hundred years missing part of himself which must be slowly but surely driving him insane."

"I...I... I have never thought about it like that." Elijah murmured with pain in his eyes. "No wonder he just became more and more desperate as the years passed."

"So, we help him, right?" Elena looked at Elijah.

"If we help Klaus trigger the part of him that is a werewolf, he would sire his own bloodline." Elijah told her. "He'd build his own race. Endangering not just vampires but everyone."

"Elijah, he's your brother." Elena placed a hand on Elijah's cheek. "I think as long as you are by his side and trust him to do the right thing, everything will be fine."

"I can't." Elijah sighed sadly. "He did something truly unforgivable and for that he must die."

"So, we use the dagger." Elena pleaded with him. "I don't want you to have to live with the knowledge that you killed your own brother."

"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals." Elijah looked at her. "An Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger."

"The dagger doesn't work." Elena murmured. "So, what you're saying is that Klaus can't be killed?"

"There's one way to kill any supernatural species... at the hands of the servants of nature themselves." Elijah informed her.

"A witch. If they could channel that much power." Elena huffed. "But it would kill them."

"The curse must be broken during the full moon when Klaus is in transition." Elijah explained. "That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable and a witch with enough power... can kill Klaus."

"What if I told you that I knew a witch that could channel all that power?" Elena asked slowly, not really wanting to kill Klaus but having no clue what to do instead.

"Then I would tell you there's one more thing that you should know." Elijah then proceeded to tell her about how he had a plan to save Katerina in the 1400s.

"You found a way to save the life of the doppelgänger?" Elena asked with a sliver off hope in her eyes.

"Yes, Elena, I did." Elijah smiled kindly at her. "But unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her own hands first. I believe you already know how that played out."

"You cared for her." Elena murmured softly.

"It's a common mistake, I'm told." Elijah handed her, her jacket and started to leave. "And it's one I won't make again."

Did that mean he hated doppelgängers? Elena felt like a hand was squeezing her heart as he said that and left but she couldn't figure out why. She slowly followed Elijah out towards the car but as she closed the door behind her and walked down the porch stairs a dizzy spell hit her and she heard Death's voice in her head.

"You need to make sure that you drink the potion that Elijah will give you to survive." Death's voice was a quiet whisper and a thundering boom all at the same time. "And you cannot have any vampire blood in you for that potion to work."

"Elena!" Elijah called her name as she refocused on the world around her.

She was held in Elijah's arms at the bottom of the stair, "What happened?"

"You fell down the stairs but I managed to catch you." Elijah gently but her on her feet again only for her legs to give out.

"Sorry, I'm just a little dizzy." Elena mumbled, her head felt very odd, but now she understood why Death tried to avoid talking to her like this, at least the meditating helped a little.

"Have you eaten anything today? Or had anything to drink?" Elijah asked softly as he carried her to the car and placed her in the passenger seat.

"I had an apple this morning and then some bourbon at the boarding house." Elena murmured embarrassed.

"That is not really a good breakfast, is it?" Elijah chuckled slightly.

"Probably not." Elena giggled.

"Elijah..." Elena spoke up after a while.

"Elena..." Elijah answered in the same tone.

"Damon and Stefan won't be happy about me agreeing to be in this ritual." Elena haltingly explained. "And knowing Damon, he will probably try and force his blood down my throat so he will be sure I'll survive...sort of."

"If he does that my way won't work." Elijah told her as he turned the car onto the road to the boarding house.

"Can you compel Damon and Stefan not to give me their blood under any circumstance until after the ritual?" Elena turned to him.

"I can, but if I remember correctly, they are both on vervain." Elijah remarked.

"They haven't been since they daggered you." Elena explained. "And I think they have been too busy today to take some."

Elijah parked the car in front of the boarding house and vamp-sped over to open Elena's door, "Shall we?"

"We shall." Elena smirked and took the offered arm. "Elijah, would you like to come in?"

Elijah smiled as they walked into the boarding house, towards where all the sound was coming from. As they entered the parlor, they saw Damon and Stefan fighting and Elena sighed.

"Enough!" Elena did her best Loki expression, not that anyone else would know but, whatever.

"Now you've invited him in?" Damon asked in disbelief.

"Yes, I have." Elena hummed. "He has agreed to renew our deal and he has agreed to help us."

"Really?" Stefan looked like he didn't believe it.

"The two of you will not come to any harm at my hands." Elijah nodded. "I only ask for one thing in return."

"What?" Damon glared at where Elijah had Elena's hand in the crook of his elbow.

"An apology." Elijah said as he looked at Damon and Stefan.

"A what?" Damon scoffed.