Normally Elijah might be chided over being called baby, but not tonight. Tonight he just sits there, legs pulled up, arms wrapped around him in a position he rarely ever find himself in with tears streaming down his face. He doesn't know exactly how or where to start. Instead he just reaches out and grabs hold of Kyle and wraps him in an impossibly tight embrace, forgetting for half a second that he has inhuman strength before relaxing enough so that his beloved can breathe and allowing the other hold him back.
"Hope... She couldn't help it. The truth." He paused, and bit his lip until it bled, trying to hold back the tears that choked his throat and threatened to overwhelm him, threatened to take the clear-headed, rational Elijah away.
"Dead. We're all dead. When she's from. Hayley. Klaus and I. We're all dead, and she doesn't want me to tell you, but I can't not, Kyle, how can I keep it from you, and then she said I betrayed the family before, with someone named Antoinette. I don't even know who that is, or why I would ever choose her over the family, but that must be why Hayley was so upset with me. I picked her over Hayley, and then Hayley dies, and for some reason Klaus and I kill ourselves, or each other, and are okay with leaving Hope. Just why Kyle, why would I ever do that?" The words pour out of Elijah in a massive messed up tumble, falling like the rain from his face, between sobs, and end on what sounds like a plea, because he can't believe at this stage in his life that he'd ever do anything like that, especially sitting here wrapped up like this, in the life that he's found.
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"Hope... She couldn't help it. The truth." He paused, and bit his lip until it bled, trying to hold back the tears that choked his throat and threatened to overwhelm him, threatened to take the clear-headed, rational Elijah away.
"Dead. We're all dead. When she's from. Hayley. Klaus and I. We're all dead, and she doesn't want me to tell you, but I can't not, Kyle, how can I keep it from you, and then she said I betrayed the family before, with someone named Antoinette. I don't even know who that is, or why I would ever choose her over the family, but that must be why Hayley was so upset with me. I picked her over Hayley, and then Hayley dies, and for some reason Klaus and I kill ourselves, or each other, and are okay with leaving Hope. Just why Kyle, why would I ever do that?" The words pour out of Elijah in a massive messed up tumble, falling like the rain from his face, between sobs, and end on what sounds like a plea, because he can't believe at this stage in his life that he'd ever do anything like that, especially sitting here wrapped up like this, in the life that he's found.