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xxxv. Guilt Is For Insecure People

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
GUILT IS FOR INSECURE PEOPLE



"ELIJAH, BEING A human means a fresh start. I can grow old and have a family and fill my days with meaning, knowing that each one matters." Rebekah told her older brother as Raven followed the conversation in silence. Truthfully, without her emotions she did not particularly care what happened to the cure. She just had nowhere better to be and it was getting boring slowly. So, she had popped her legs of the table and leaned back, almost curious to see if Rebekah would be able to get that idiotic dream of hers fulfilled. Maybe, if she still had her humanity, she would have fought her for it. Now it was just entertainment.

Next to her, Klaus let out a laugh at the words. The hybrid was not eager to see those dreams fulfulled either after Silas paid him a visit. Raven had to admit, she would have loved to see it ― mighty Klaus Mikaelson being at the ends of his wits because Silas had made him hallucinate that he was dying. She doubted, unfortunately, it was a sight that would return anytime soon.

"Well, that was poetic." Klaus remarked and Elijah narrowed his eyes slightly. "If you can provide us with a more compelling reason for wanting the cure, Klaus, please." The older brother replied, and Klaus leaned forward. "Silas can appear as anyone. He got inside my thoughts, convinced me I was dying. He will torment me until I give him the cure." The hybrid reminded them and Rebekah frowned. "And in doing so he will break down the wall to the Other Side."

"So it doesn't trap him there when he dies. He wants to reunite with his lost soulmate." Klaus shot back and turned to Elijah. "You of all lovesick fools should applaud his devotion."

"He will open the floodgates for every supernatural being that has ever died." Rebekah argued and, with a sigh, Raven had to agree with the blonde Original. She wasn't too eager either for the veil to drop ― there were plenty of creatures itching to settle a score with the Salvatore hunters. "Including our dear brothers, Kol and Finn. We'll have our family back." Klaus added and Rebekah scoffed. "Please, you hated Kol and you kept Finn in a box for most of his life."

With a frown, Klaus turned back to hiselder brother. "Elijah, please." He adds, asthough appealing to the voice of reason. Raven snorted in amusement - this famil was more entertaining than any soap opera, which was also the only reason she bothered with the Mikaelsons and their bickering. Klaus shot her a deathly glaresaying, what are you even doing here? Asthough he'd forgotten that it was him to keep her around in the first plae. Probably because he needed someone to back his corner because all of his siblings hated him. In hindsight, maybe Raven hadn't been the best person for that reason, she cared more about that pesky fly on the window than the conversation ahead of her.

"Your personal discomfort might not be sufficient reason for putting the entire world in jeopardy, Klaus. I think our sister deserves a shot at happiness." Elijah pointed out, and the forwn deepened into an angry scowl on the hybrid's face. Rebekah on the other hand looked annoyingly gleeful. "Tell me you're joking." Klaus spits, leaning forward. "Tell me you're not fating me to an eternity of torture."

"I made my decision." Elijah's face was unmoving as he spoke.

Raven could see the anger boiling beneath Klaus' skin, demanding to slash out an draw blood until his hands were red. Swiftly, he shot up from his chair and behind Rebekah. "When you're sick and dying, and you beg for my blood, I will laugh in your face and compel you to forget me." He announced, voice holding all the control on his temper he can muster before he left, door slamming shut loudly behind him.

The newly turned Salvatore vampire let out a sigh, lifting her feet off the table in a smooth motion. "Well, it's been fun," she told Elijah and Rebekah as she stood from her chair. "But I ned to get going. Prom and all that, you know. We wouldn't want to miss out on that, would we?"