Elijah was shocked to find himself in Ric's arms, more shocked by the affectionate kiss, but after a moment's stiffness, he relaxed into it. Turned his face into Ric's shirt, and made himself breathe.
As the initial shock cleared, his brain did what it always had done except for these brief few decades--looked for a way to understand Klaus. Why he'd lied. In the end, it wasn't so hard to understand.
He must have been so scared. His parents had just turned on him, cursed him, cast him out, for things that were not his fault, things that, honestly, were theirs. No matter what Elijah and Rebekah had vowed, how could he beleve them, especially knowing how close they both were to their mother? When Mikael came after them, how could he confess? He had to have been terrified they would blame him, leave him, turn him out. The longer he went without telling, the more difficult it would have become. Maybe, in the fac of Mikael's hatred, he even came to believe the lie. A man who could kill his own children could surely kill the wife who had betrayed him.
None of that was anything Elijah could say, but it helped him reassert some control, to right some of the pieces of his world. The trembling eased a bit and he lifted his head, brushing a soft kiss over the corner of Ric's mouth, butterfly light.
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:14 pm (UTC)As the initial shock cleared, his brain did what it always had done except for these brief few decades--looked for a way to understand Klaus. Why he'd lied. In the end, it wasn't so hard to understand.
He must have been so scared. His parents had just turned on him, cursed him, cast him out, for things that were not his fault, things that, honestly, were theirs. No matter what Elijah and Rebekah had vowed, how could he beleve them, especially knowing how close they both were to their mother? When Mikael came after them, how could he confess? He had to have been terrified they would blame him, leave him, turn him out. The longer he went without telling, the more difficult it would have become. Maybe, in the fac of Mikael's hatred, he even came to believe the lie. A man who could kill his own children could surely kill the wife who had betrayed him.
None of that was anything Elijah could say, but it helped him reassert some control, to right some of the pieces of his world. The trembling eased a bit and he lifted his head, brushing a soft kiss over the corner of Ric's mouth, butterfly light.
"Thank you...."