MOONS.
010. | ❛ i'm not so sure anymore. ❜

Klaus and Aurora are still making out in the shop. Luna has closed her eyes in the event of this not wanting to hurt her heart even more. The effects of the poison are starting to affecting her as she tries to push through the pain. However, when they pull away, Klaus looks angry and frustrated as he vamp-speeds them over to the nearby doorway and slams Aurora face-first into it.

"We could've been the greatest love story ever told! Perhaps you've forgotten why we're not. I'm happy with my love right now. And every word you continue to speak is another minute she is suffering. "

"Oh, I remember quite well. The night you left without me, you didn't even bother to look back."

FLASHBACK

Klaus has come to Aurora's bedroom to tell her what is happening

"Run away with you? Leave my brother, this house?"

"The world is bigger than this house! Let me show you."

"How? As we hide, fleeing your brute of a father? Always on the run, living like dogs? I think not."

Klaus, stunned and hurt by this reaction, guesses what has changed her mind.

"Your brother has turned you from me."

"No. I turned from you, because I do not love you! I... I thought I did, but it's as if I see you clearly for the first time, and I find you a cruel, wretched thing. Pathetic, really, and unworthy of anyone's love, let alone mine."

Every word Aurora speaks just hurts Klaus more, until he's gaping at her in shock as tears fill his eyes.

"You don't mean that."

"After all, your own mother turned against you. If she who gave you life could come to loathe you and then be snuffed out by your own hand, what hope is there for you?"

"You are breaking my heart... And you swore you would never speak of this."

"I owe you nothing. We are not alike, and I could never love you."
Klaus stands heartbroken and stares at Aurora in shock.

END FLASHBACK

At the reminder of this devastating event, Klaus scowls at Aurora.

"You know, you should count yourself lucky. In a thousand years, no one has talked to me that way and lived."

"Yes, I was rather cruel, wasn't I? Some might say uncharacteristically so."

"What are you getting at?"

"I was not the architect of our heartbreak. In the moments before you asked me to flee with you, I saw your brother..."

FLASHBACK

Aurora sees Elijah frantically preparing to leave and approaches him.

"Where are you going?"

"Father is coming. We have to flee."

"Well, then I will come with you!"

"No. No, his curse is ours and ours alone to bear."

"But I am like you now."

"You are not our blood."

"What difference does blood make? All this talk of your sacred family bond, when I know things about him that you never will, even that which weighs heaviest on his heart."

"I told him I wouldn't betray you, and that true love transcends blood, but he wouldn't listen. He just had one question."

FLASHBACK

Elijah walks over to Aurora until they are face-to-face, looking angrily at her.

"What could you possibly know about my brother that I do not? What, precisely, did my brother say to you?" When a clearly anxious Aurora remains silent, Elijah lunges forward and stares her in the eyes, unknowingly compelling her in the process.

"SPEAK!"

END FLASHBACK

In the present, Aurora and Klaus continue their conversation. Aurora is so upset by this confession that she starts to cry, and turns her back to Klaus.

"And so you told him."

"I couldn't stop the words flying out of my mouth-- words I swore I would never tell to another living soul, about how you killed your mother and blamed your father, and you had to lie to them so that they would flee with you."

FLASHBACK

After Aurora tells Klaus' secret, Elijah looks appalled and devastated by what he has just learned.

"He... He killed our... mother? Niklaus?" Aurora, realizing what she's just done, begins to cry.

"Why did I tell you? I swore I would keep his secret." Elijah is so distracted by processing this new information that he isn't paying attention to Aurora.

"So, he... he lied to me. He's lied to us all."

"And yet, I love him in spite of it."
Elijah, now furious, once again lunges toward Aurora.

"He does not deserve your love!"
He stares her in the eyes, this time compelling her on a more conscious level, while Aurora is powerless to stop it.

"You listen to me. You must only see him as the wretched, deceitful monster that he truly is." Aurora, dazed, repeats his statement in a confused voice.

"I see him as the monster that he is."

END FLASHBACK

"When you came to see me not minutes later, begging me to go with you, I could not say yes. I had been compelled otherwise. I believe it was the first time he experienced the ability to compel, and when he understood what he did, he did not come and undo it."

"So, that's it...? Elijah's secret?"

"Yes. You made him suffer the loss of a mother, and this was his revenge. "

Aurora and Klaus, both in tears, stare at each other for a long moment. Klaus looks at Aurora angrily as they continue their discussion.

"You've had a thousand years to tell me of Elijah's betrayal. Why now?"

"Well, there's never been a prophecy witch spelling all our doom until now."

"What do you know of her?"

"I know I killed her." Aurora walks past him as she continues and makes her way to Luna

"My brother told me of her prophecy, but I needed to see her for myself. And what did she show me? The clan Mikaelson destroyed, including my sire. And I believed her. But, a dangerous toy in dangerous hands must be removed, so I poisoned her much like I did to your precious Wolf. And now, I'm going to change the future she saw."

"By murdering her and turning me against the only brother I have left."

"The prophecy said that you would fall by friend, by foe, and by family. Have you thought of who that family might be? 'Cause it might just be the one closest to you." Klaus glares at her angrily.

"I've given you much to think about." Aurora walks toward Klaus and tugs on the lapels of his jacket.

"I'll leave you to work through--"
Klaus angrily vamp-speeds toward Aurora and shoves her against the shelf behind her, pinning her there by the arms. However, Aurora remains calm.

"Go to Elijah. Ask him yourself. I suspect you know what you will find..." Aurora runs her hands over Klaus' chest and under his coat. Klaus' eyes widen, and he gulps nervously as he backs away from her touch.

"And, when you do, come find me. See who's really on your side. "
Aurora vamp-speeds away before Klaus can respond, leaving him stunned and confused. He reaches into his coat where Aurora has left the antidote, he rushes to Luna's side and puts it to her mouth. After a few seconds, the pigment of her skin turns to the olive skin that he adores. He rips the ropes off of her wrists and helps her get up.

Luna affected by the whole conversation pushes Klaus aside, which hurts his feelings.

"My love, this has meant nothing. My only desire is you." He places his hands over her checks, but Luna coldly pushes them off.

"Niklaus, I don't know anymore. After what happened today, I have to reevaluate this- us." He notices the tears in her eyes as she starts making her way towards the door but Klaus stands in her way.

"Please, don't go. I want you. Only you. " He looks into her blue puffy eyes.

"I do too but I'm not so sure anymore. " She vamps speeds out leaving Klaus all alone to a very broken heart.