Elijah nodded slightly, gave him a sad half-smile, though gratitude flickered underneath it. "It's hard to get past some things that were truly...formative in your life, I suppose. And Klaus was not always like he is now--not by a long shot. I don't absolve him for responsibility for some of his choices, and he is a reasoning being, in theory, so beaten dog analogies don't fully apply, but. Yes. They have a lot of similarity in their reasons for acting out, the insecurities and neuroses that drive them. And Klaus has had a thousand years and some stints of serious mental instability that weren't his fault to feed into his."
He shrugged, gave Ric a tired smile. "I spent the entire formative years of my life knowing my job was to protect him, protect them. I failed, on so very many counts. I can't seem to forget that, when I think back to then. And what our parents did to him was...monstrous."
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Date: 2013-07-15 05:57 pm (UTC)He shrugged, gave Ric a tired smile. "I spent the entire formative years of my life knowing my job was to protect him, protect them. I failed, on so very many counts. I can't seem to forget that, when I think back to then. And what our parents did to him was...monstrous."