The Originals · Season 1
You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength.
I kept you from becoming a beast for as long as I possibly could.
Oh, you lied to me to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life, I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated! Look at me! You rant, and you rage about the monster I've become, but you, mother, you are the author of everything I am.
I have come to heal our family, Elijah.
Well, that's a grim sentiment coming from you.
They're defiant by nature, and they've grown very strong. How do you expect to show them the error of their ways?
I will systematically destroy everything they hold dear. I've already taken the wolves from Niklaus and made them my own. It is time now to focus on the prodigal son Marcel and his small nest of vampires across the river. Now that we have cleansed the quarter of his kind, perhaps it's time to turn our attention to the outskirts of our beautiful home. We will take their pride, their joy, their love. We will lay it all to ruin, and when they are at their lowest point, in their deepest despair, they will have no choice but to beg me to release them from their pain, and because I love them, I will.
This is a city of death. Fires, floods, to say nothing of the violence we do to each other. We may laissez les bon temps rouler, but really we've turned life into one big party to distract ourselves from a single unavoidable truth: we're all going to die.
I have a rather long list of people of people I need to track down and deal with, and at the top of that list is is a certain runaway witch.
Maybe she doesn't want to be found.
And for good reason. Had I magically resurrected the insane vampire-hunting father of my sworn enemy, I'd be hiding, too.
Confrontation is inevitable, child. Your fear will prove to be our greatest disadvantage.
I'm not afraid.
Well, you should be.
I was half your age the first time my father gave me the staff. I would have torn every muscle rather than let him see me strain, and had I He would have corrected me.
No offense, but your dad sounds like a jerkwad.
Mothers love their children. Fathers make them strong.
[to Gia] As a devout feminist, I refuse to say that you hit like a girl.
[to Elijha] Fate does not dictate my heart, Elijah. I was fated to throw myself on a pyre after my husband died in battle, but I did not. I chose to live, and I chose to give my heart once more to someone strong, protective, fierce, and yet noble and gentle. I choose you, Elijah.
[to Cami] I have fought through more pain than anyone living or dead, but once I feed, I shall be restored. Not on you. You, my dear, are leverage. Once I threaten to dismember you in front of him, Klaus will hesitate, and in that moment of weakness, I shall end him.
In times of need, even the devil eats flies.
[to Elijah] I told you to clean yourself up, that if you were clean, no one would know what you are or what you'd done. And you did exactly that, and more. You created a place in your mind to put your victims. You began to believe that as long as your suit was immaculate and your hands clean, you could look in the mirror and tell yourself it's all okay. No one need know what's behind that red door. But a thousand years is a long time, Elijah. And a place meant to hold one unforgivable sin is now full to bursting with your most monstrous deeds.
You're outnumbered. Are you going to beg for your miserable life?
You think having people makes you strong? It proves how weak you are. Come find me when you don't have fools, women, and children fighting your battles.
[to Klaus] A thousand years ago in a fit of rage you grabbed your bare hands around my neck and squeezed until I died. Do you even remember why?
I know you want to help, Hayley, but you can't. My mother is wretched. She will target you in order to thwart me, and I can't very well save Elijah if I'm busy saving you, can I?
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