Your oldest scotch for my two friends here, love.
The hundred dollar guy!
The brave bartender.
Camille.
Every artist has a story, you know.
And what do you suppose his story is?
He's... angry.
Dark.
Doesn't feel safe and doesn't know what to do about it.
He wishes he could control his demons instead of having his demons control him.
Excuse me, love
What's that you're studying?
Abnormal psychology.
No offence, but I'm not sure I follow why you've invited me here.
Because I like you.
Because I enjoy your company-
I like the way your mind works.
- and I sense you have the capacity for understanding someone of my... complexity.
Someone should know my story.
I used to think if you just give someone a little booze they'll tell you anything.
Then I realized it wasn't the alcohol.
People just want someone to listen.
I know why I'm here.
You compel me to come here, because you have no one else to talk to.
To give you the one thing you've never had.
You want to be understood.
Someone to hear your side.
Then you compel me to forget everything as soon as I leave your presence because you're
too scared to trust.
What some would call evil, I believe to be an appropriate response to
a harsh and unfair world.
Look at you...
Repeating the same destructive cycles over and over again!
This may come as a surprise to you, Camille...
The world is a rather awful place.
... but I'm not a terribly good person.
Best to meet it on its own terms.
People are not awful.
I don't believe in evil as a diagnosis.
They want to be good.
I think you could benefit from talking to someone. Professionally.
I think I prefer to talk to you.
You have kept me here for weeks just so someone, anyone, would see who you really are and now
that I have?
It scares the hell out of you, doesn't it.
If you knew even a fraction of who I am it would break you in two.
Then show me.
Manipulative mother, abusive father...
No one should have to experience things like that
...and under all of that anger, mistrust and cruelty
there was goodness in him.
You will dream of a world far better than this one.
A world where there is no evil.
And all people desire...
No matter how much I tried I couldn't pretend it wasn't there.
... only to be good.
Why do you even care about Cami?
I do care about him.
Your dad's never trusted anyone in his life.
I trust her.
I see that he wants to be more
than what he is.
You see the good in Nik.
There are good things, Klaus.
And you need to see that too.
Against every ounce of my better judgment, my sanity, and my common sense,
turns out I have...
...complicated feelings for a monster.
And does this monster have complicated feelings for you?
I think it's entirely possible that he does.
He just got under my skin, I guess.
You wanted to save him.
Klaus!
You need me to tell you that this-
- is not you.
If I tell you who I am, and you refuse to believe me then I can hardly be blamed for
your disappointment.
I weighed-
- the good I see in you,
versus the horrible things I know you've done.
I need them to fear me!
Am I supposed to fear you too?
It would be better for you if you did.
You had me pegged from the start-
- a man damaged by his demons and those demons are not dormant
they are hell-bent on killing me.
And everything I find beautiful.
And you...
... you are beautiful.
Please just go.
Klaus...
Go.
What happened?
Some people don't want to be saved.
It's Cami, leave a message.
I need to know you're safe.
Now it's come to my attention that you are...
... quite precious to him.
You can't believe she means anything to me.
But I do believe it, Nik, I see it!
The fear in your eyes.
You're gonna pay for hurting her.
I will gladly end you for what you did to Camille!
Do you actually love her?
Well, he hurt you.
For that alone I would kill him.
Don't kill anyone for me please.
Whatever you want.
Will you stay?
Just a little longer?
For tonight I'd like you to stay here-
Of course.
- where I can protect you.
I've lost count of the amount of times you've been there for me.
But today you saved someone who doesn't mean a thing to you.
You do matter.
Why?
Because you wished it.
Because what's important to you is important to me.
What makes you happy, makes me want to keep you so.
What scares you, I want to tear apart.
What Rebekah said...
You keep her behind glass like some breakable object.
Is she right?
Do you see me as this fragile thing that needs to be kept behind glass?
I do not wish to watch you from behind glass, Camille.
What do you wish?
Even though we're so different...
I feel like I've always known you.
Or maybe that's just how you know you love someone.
The moment you know he is in love with you,
you will drink this blood of mine,
and then you will slit your own throat, and bleed out silently.
NO!
I died...
You're transitioning.
You need to feed on blood, soon.
You just assume I'm gonna do it?
I can choose not to feed.
Are you so eager to die?
I'm already dead.
Camille I'm begging you.
Don't leave me.
I need you.
You will let her choose.
If I was a vampire, I would have the strength to make a difference.
How do you feel?
My emotions are all over the place.
Let me help you.
Listen to the heartbeat.
It will tell you when to stop.
Camille.
You would have torn him apart.
You're not yourself.
I am myself, and I'm not finished.
I'm a vampire now, Klaus, isn't that what we do?
This...
it's not you, Camille.
I've changed.
Give them back, or I will take them back.
A rather effective tactic.
One I usually reserve for enemies, and here I thought we were intimates...
We are.
But relationships are built on trust and equality and we don't have either if you're confiscating
my stuff.
If I give your trinkets back, you will grow arrogant under the false belief you have power,
and ultimately you will end up dead.
Klaus, you're afraid something will happen to me?
Guess what, something already did.
You could have trusted me.
Klaus...
I only came to see that you were safe.
Klaus...
I believe Camille prefers I leave her alone.
Oh please, Klaus, did you see what she went through to save your ass?
Cami may tell you that staying away is best and maybe it is.
But it doesn't stop how she feels.
Klaus!
What is it?
I love you.
Camille-
I just needed you to know.
I can tell you I love you tomorrow.
You're not dying today.
The painter, the music, the crowd...
This is the night we met.
You remember every detail.
I must have made an impression.
You know very well you did.
When I first got into town you handed me one of those.
I'd taken a shift from another girl.
If not for that, it would have been someone else standing here right now instead of me.
You know I prefer to see it the other way.
If it wasn't that night, this bar, that hundred dollar bill,
it would have been...
Jackson Square, staring at a painting.
Or...
Frenchman Street, listening to jazz.
I would have found you.
I do love you, you know.
You are loved.
Why are you telling me this?
I thought you were gonna tell me that tomorrow.
I really don't have another tomorrow, do I?
It's gonna be okay.
I just wish I had done more than serve a few drinks and fail completely as your therapist.
Don't you think for a moment that you failed me.
You stayed my hand.
Quelled my rage.
Love will make you strong.
You inspired goodness in me.
It will make you the man that I know you want to be.
And you're going to have to remember that.
And unlike all of the souls I've encountered and forgotten in the long march of time...
... because I won't be here to remind you.
... I will carry you with me.
Camille! I'm here.
I miss you, Camille.
I guess that makes me immortal.
I was never naive enough to think that I was your light.
Us dark things often find we need that light the most.
But there is light in you.
Here you are, finally living up to the potential that Cami saw in you.
She would have been proud.
I know your heart, Klaus.
The cycle of abuse that Mikael began, you can end it.
You're so much better than this.
So you can be the light for your little girl.
For Hope.
Do not be afraid.
You go now where many have gone before you
and where even I will go in time.
There will be no more pain.
No more heartbreak.
You will find peace.