[ he reads the passage before him from a different perspective and context than she. her last memory of him is his refusal to take a leap of faith with her, something she had made herself all too vulnerable to pursue. the matter, for her, sounds final — if she doesn't follow through with his request (an odd one, she thinks, as it had been him to leave her after the life that they had begun to build together, even if it had been made of brick formed from falsities and half-hidden lies), then he'll leave it be, unlike his half-brother he is so disgustingly devoted to. he will chase her as many times as it takes around the globe until he finally ensnares her within one of his traps. ]
I can't. [ it's not what she means to say. she had meant to promise, with her fingers crossed and held behind her back, that she would return to the city owned by a man who wants her skinned alive and bled to death. but the sarcasm and the biting tone — and the words — are, instead, switched with a tone that almost sounds painful. she cannot leave nadia after her daughter has spent the last five centuries of her life looking for a mother who is merely a shadow of the woman she longs for. katherine pierce is a disappointment, one that elijah and nadia cling to with an image of a girl who is very much dead. ]
[ but she takes the vial, as katherine has always been well-equipped with stealing from others and giving very little in return. but she has always given a little too much to elijah. ] When she's cured, I'm off the grid. I'm starting a new life, Elijah. [ without you. ] And it's not going to be under the thumb of Klaus. [ she has only ever been this vulnerable in his presence twice within the last year — in pennsylvania, when she had placed the cure and her freedom within his disappointing palm, and when she had pleaded for him to stay with her. she loathes him for pulling it out of her, even though, the great reader of all the players on the chessboard, finds it too difficult to discern elijah's true motivation. he is a man of honour and a man of his word, but he is also a man who possesses a candle for holding her to a grudge she will never find it within herself to truly repent for. ]
i definitely agree, perhaps we should hold auditions for tomorrow?
I can't. [ it's not what she means to say. she had meant to promise, with her fingers crossed and held behind her back, that she would return to the city owned by a man who wants her skinned alive and bled to death. but the sarcasm and the biting tone — and the words — are, instead, switched with a tone that almost sounds painful. she cannot leave nadia after her daughter has spent the last five centuries of her life looking for a mother who is merely a shadow of the woman she longs for. katherine pierce is a disappointment, one that elijah and nadia cling to with an image of a girl who is very much dead. ]
[ but she takes the vial, as katherine has always been well-equipped with stealing from others and giving very little in return. but she has always given a little too much to elijah. ] When she's cured, I'm off the grid. I'm starting a new life, Elijah. [ without you. ] And it's not going to be under the thumb of Klaus. [ she has only ever been this vulnerable in his presence twice within the last year — in pennsylvania, when she had placed the cure and her freedom within his disappointing palm, and when she had pleaded for him to stay with her. she loathes him for pulling it out of her, even though, the great reader of all the players on the chessboard, finds it too difficult to discern elijah's true motivation. he is a man of honour and a man of his word, but he is also a man who possesses a candle for holding her to a grudge she will never find it within herself to truly repent for. ]