But you have to trust me.
I do trust you.
More than you know.
I just don't trust Jackson.
If it's your impulse to trust in the kindness of those outside the family,
all the more reason you need my protection.
You're worse than me.
Using Hayley's best intentions for your own self-serving power grab.
You're wrong!
You want her power so you can wage wars and win territories.
I've spent all day with people who claim to be fighting for our daughter.
Some I trust, some I do not,
but one thing is for sure.
That there is only one person that I trust when it comes to my child's safety
and that would be me.
Freya informs me your mate Vincent has a plan.
Just one tiny problem, I don't trust him.
I trust Damon a hell of a lot more than I trust you.
And I trust no one.
Which is why my sister is lying daggered in a box.
You compel me to forget everything as soon as I leave your presence because you're too scared to trust.
I'm scared of nothing.
All you have to do is trust me.
Well that's enough of that don't you think?
She played you both for fools!
Can you not see that?
She spins a sad yarn about a small child taken by an evil witch
and you both fall over yourselves to mend what's broken.
How can you be so certain?
Simple.
It's exactly what I'd do.
Elijah and Rebekah have cut to the quick with their vicious lies about me.
Type please!
What's the point?
You just repeat the same thing over and over again.
Rebekah's out to get you.
Elijah's out to get you.
Is there anyone who isn't plotting your downfall?
I doubt you trust your own reflection.
You know if the daggers weren't missing I would put one in each of their hearts.
So you've come to your senses.
My senses have not faltered.
They still demand that you are not to be trusted.
Under no circumstances will you divulge any family secrets,
especially none that would endanger our child.
Except it's not that simple, Klaus.
You saw what Finn did.
The outcome of your strategy is not worth the risk it imposes on our daughter.
Well it's not a risk if I trust Jackson.
Well you'll excuse me, Elijah, if I'm not inclined to trust the mysterious sister we only just met
but by all means if you wish to entertain this idiocy, have at it.
You're an illusion,
meant by my mother to sway me to accept her bargain.
You're so paranoid that you can't see that this wedding can help her.
The wolves will be on our side.
The wolves cannot be trusted!
In your paranoid mind nobody can be trusted.
Where does it end?
There is no end!
What do we do next?
We don't do anything.
You can't be trusted, little sister.
For the sake of keeping our options open,
why not write down your spells and incantations.
That way we can have them double checked by an impartial third party
say Davina, she'd love to prove me wrong.
I doubt she would understand my magic,
let alone have the power to execute it.
Oh so you're our only hope then.
Seems rather convenient, doesn't it.
I knew it would be difficult to win your trust, Niklaus.
Your reputation precedes you.
So she must have had a plan B.
No doubt...
perhaps they had assistance, tell me...
...were you a part of it?
Oh come on man!
But you're off building a weapon that can kill me!
Well I wouldn't need it if I knew you could be trusted!
It's quite convenient, isn't it.
You show up in the nick of time to help us kill the woman
with whom you spent a thousand years.
I'll retrieve the Merloch for you.
At what cost?
Search my mind.
You'll see I'm not aligned with your mother.
I have absolutely no interest
in the inner workings of your brain.
And I wanted to trust him.
But I couldn't be sure.
So I killed him.
Without hesitation... I killed him.
I will not lose Rebekah.
Oh yes, by all means let's give Dahlia's whelp
access to all the information she needs to destroy us.
From now on I am the only one you can trust.
I don't trust anyone.
You ask that I share my strategies
so you can run straight to Freya and bring her into the circle of trust,
I think not.
You cannot do this alone.
And whom should I trust to protect Hope?
Our newfound sister with duplicitous motives of her own,
Hayley, whose allegiance to her husband grows stronger by the day,
or how about Jackson, the self-declared king of the wolves?
You need only trust me.
The Elijah I know
would never have clung so desperately to the word of a duplicitous stranger
telling him what he wants to hear.
Freya is our blood, brother.
She also has every reason to want Dahlia's demise, we have no cause to distrust her.
Which is a far cry from being trustworthy.
She vanquished Finn, yes, but only after she herself resurrected him.
And though lauded for saving Rebekah from Eva Sinclair,
how do we know she didn't have a hand in waking that demon in the first place?
What is this?
It's an ancient mystical plot I'm using to destroy you.