"Mikael pulled Rebekkah off her before she could kill her," Klaus goes on, instead of answering her own story, how it's one tick in Damon's favour, and one tick against Tyler. Because he's doing more than just telling her a story. He's telling her what happened to him. He's telling her the way he used to be. Someone more like her, morally. It's about what she's living now.

"Then he made me drink. That's when the werewolf curse kicked in."

He pauses, watching her from behind, wishing her to find a way to get past this, over this. She wanted it, and he doesn't regret helping her. She wanted it.

But what if he ends up losing her.

"We didn't expect it. The hunger for blood. Mikael and Esther thought that the blood-drinking would remain confined to the ritual."