"Why this sudden change of heart. For years you let the vampires lay down the law. And now you think of taking the town back off of them?!"- Celine asked her great-aunt.

"You wanted to do it before, but then you were not ready to lead the coven, but now you are and the opportunity had presented itself, making it another reason."

"They can't be killed you said"- Celine reminded her of the gruling fact.

"There is a witch with enough power who nearly did it twice, excluding their mother."-Josephine said.

"Yeah, the same witch who came,  saw and killed the wicked witch FOR the vampires. I don't see how she would get rid of them?!"

"Firstly, their aunt was out for her own gain. It was a personal matter. Her ties to them are through her friends. They can continue to exist but the rule of law should be in the hands of the witches.  Anyway, the child is the carrier of potent dark magic. I am against dark magic otherwise the asylum wouldn't exist."- Josephine said-" The child will be like Eve St, Claire and the rest of them. She will kill all witches and Bonnie Bennet, too. She doesn't know it yet, but soon she will. The child must be taken away. She was in one of the prison worlds. It's simple. We need her for her blood and we will send the child to the prison world. "-Josephine said.

Celine smirked at the great plan that her great-aunt had conjured up.

She left to look for Bonnie.

"I may not play the violin perfectly, but I still can do magic perfectly"- Josephine said looking at the family photographs on the chest of draws.

*****

Gia went to the bar where she found Elena talking with Bonnie. She gound it strange that she couldn't hear a word they were saying. That was unusual. The more she tried the more she had a strange headache coming on.

"Bitchy witchy magic"- Gia sifted. Then she saw Marcel come in and went straight to Elena. Something wasn't right as they both got up and went with him. Gia followed them catching up with them.

It was about Elijah. They all now stood in Klaus' house.

"This is a family matter!"- Klaus said looking at Gia and it meant leave now. Marcel knew that it wasn't a good moment to trifle with Klaus, so he ushered Gia away.

"Yeah, I am good when you need dirty work done!"- she spat.

"Control yourself, you don't want to piss him off. Klaus is not merciful."-Marcel explained.

"I thought Elijah was the one you should fear the most?!"- she said sarcastically.

"Let it go!!"- Marcel now advised her.

"Why?! Cos I am not the doppelganger and family?!"

"You got it."- Marcel said-" I know you fell hard and we've been through this. What is it that you don't get. Elijah doesn't love you!"-Marcel said.

Gia now gave into her hurt, anger and disapointment and charged at Marcel, who subdued her in a flash, holding her tightly.

"Don't make me do something I would regret."- he said calmly and when he felt that she calmed down a bit, he let go of her.

She ran away as fast as she could. He knew that this was not going to end up good. He felt sorry for her. He didn't know how to deal with it. It pained him as he still had great feelings for her.

In the meantime, Elena found out that Elijah had an episode and that he had killed a family at the cemetery.

One of Klaus' werewolf soldiers had found him sitting at a grave lost.

"Well, if you can kill my aunt, you probably can find out what magic Esther had played on him that makes him lose control."-Klaus said to Bonnie.

"Can you say please?!"- Bonnie now said looking the ominous hybrid directly in his eyes.

The silence that descended on the room was deafening. Elena didn't want to interfere between them. It was a powerplay, that was clear, all due to their complex history.

"Where is Elijah? I want to see him!"-Elena then said.

"This way."- Klaus said and now they followed him.

Klaus had him locked up in a room, having Davina spell with a boundry spell.

"Elijah..."- Elena went straight to him embracing him warmly as she saw him standing by the window.

Seeing her now felt like allevation.

"I am sorry"- he whispered.

Bonnie could see that Elijah was ragged looking, like he hadn't slept for five millennia.

"You were fine this morning."- Elena said as she looked into Elijah's eyes caressing his face. She could see how deeply he was ashamed of his action but she could also see an empty look that said that he doesn't know who she is and then he pushed her from her vamping out. In that moment Bonnie reacted moving with her hand and Elijah fell on the floor.

"Don't!" Elena shouted.

Bonnie stopped immediately and then apologized to Elena, who was kneeling beside the Original vampire. 

"This is getting worse."- Klaus said- "so, Bennett, will you do something?!"

"I need your mother's Grimoire."- Bonnie said looking at Klaus.

"Follow me. I can help you with there."

Bonnie and the rest left Elena and Elijah on their own. Bonnie strengthened the boundry spell.

"Come..."- Elena then said wanting to help him get up. He could manage it fine as the magic subsided.

"Those pills."- Elena then said- "we have to tell Bonnie."

"NO..."- Elijah said- "don't...you can't tell them!"

"Why? Maybe they are also causing something."- Elena then said.

"YOU MUSTN'T TELL THEM!"- Elijah said irritated.

"All right."- Elena said calmly. It was unusual seeing him not being able to be in control. 

He sat down on the bed. He apologized for his outburst.

Elena now sat next to him. He turned to look at her and his eyes now were mellow, but sad-

"I see killing  her all the time."  

His eyes gasped for help intrusting Elena the pain and the feeling of helplesness. She understood.

"Elijah- "- she started, but he interrupted her-

"I love you, Elena. I don't know if you can take it for real considering the state I am in. From the first moment I saw you...there was something so different about you. There was this certain honesty, earnestness about you. With you... I felt like that there is hope again." 

Elena sighed taking his hand in hers. Tears now were streaming down her eyes.

"Why does this sound like a goodbye?!"- she then said looking at him.

"Your talk about changing my fate was kind and it is so like you."- he said smiling a little.

"You are punishing yourself for killing all those people by rejecting me?!"- Elena then said.

Elijah continued-

"I would like to change my fate... you know that the vikings believed that their fate is written by the Gods. And we believed in honour. But I don't have any honour, Elena. And you know it."

"I can't believe you are saying that?! We decided to fight this?! Bonnie will find a way. She always does!"- Elena tried to persuade him that there was no need to be so disheartned. A great fear ran through her. He listened to her heart.

He now placed a kiss on her lips. He wanted to have this one last thing. One last kiss. His soul burnt and he now just wanted it to stop.

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And before Elena could understand what was going on, he took a little bottle out of his pocket and drank the poison from it. 

"NOOOO!"--Elena screamed at him. He slumped down on the bed. He soon withered as if he was daggered.

"ELIJAH?!?? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! BONNIEEE, KLAAUS..."-  Elena shouted tried to wake him. 

Klaus came running into the room having heard her shout. 

"WHAT HAPPENED?!"- looked at his brother's withered body.

Elena then told him what had happened and that he took some strange liquid. 

Klaus tried to feed him his blood, but there was no effect. He then raged and then Elena saw the hybrid cradle up his brother's body in his arms and tears ran down his eyes.

She looked stunned at his reaction. 

Soon, Bonnie was there, too. 

Elena now told them that Elijah had been taking some pills and that he didn't want anyone to know. 

"We need to find the witch who was supplying him!"- Klaus sifted laying his brother on the bed covering him up.

Bonnie took the bottle and said-

"This calls for a chemistry class. But every witch uses their own coven's secret magic when they do poison. So, there is a poison that can put an Original in eternal sleep?!"

Elena now remembered Elijah telling him that nothing can kill an Original. And yet there was something that can put them into a sleep apart from desicating them.

Klaus now left the room. Both Elena and Bonnie knew that he would now be going to check upon every witch that was left in New Orleans. 

"I have to go and stop him from hurting any of the witches. "- Bonnie said to Elena- "I will find what it is and we will get him back."

Elena noded and thanked her friend. 

Her head was spinning. She had hoped she would wake up from the nightmare and none of this would be true. She would wake up and he would be lying next to her giving her a morning smile full of love.

She now layed down next to him. 

"I love you! Always and Forever."- she whispered taking hold of his withered hand.