He managed a grin at that, "Oh he'll never be me. Too prim and proper to pull it off where it counts. Don't worry about that. Besides if he tries it again I'll be ready. Might not have a dagger but Elijah won't be allowed to get out of hand. " He could have yelled at her of course for the comment about Caroline but he'd said similar to her in the past, as she pointed out. Perhaps that was part of the sibling thing, thinking no one would ever be good enough. "At the very least then I think all three of us would agree that Sage was little more than a common harlot with delusions?"
Oh how he'd hated her. But Finn hadn't been that much better Self righteous little idiot hiding behind their mothers apron strings.
As for her summation of Caroline, he wasn't entirely sure he liked it. "She stays because she cares, because she won't leave her friends to their fate. She stays because, for now at least she wouldn't be anywhere else. And I do believe she loves Tyler. I just also firmly believe there is more than one love in a lifetime. He can be her first love. I have every intention on being her last."
Least Rebekah wasn't trying to deny being a terrible person. He of course reveled in it. Always had, likely always would. He built power around himself, made himself stronger and better than anyone else. The more powerful being in their world and to get there, yeah he'd had to do some things that Caroline was so fond of throwing back in his face now. But being one of the 'good guys'? He wasn't sure he could stomach it. "I'll fight for this world purely because it now contains all of the people I actually care about. Because I don't know for sure that I could survive the end of a world. But I'll never be one of them. I'm better than them, and they'd best not forget that. Or what I'm capable of. My...mercy as it has been has weakened that opinion of me and I don't like it. I won't be seen to be weak. You know that."