Elijah | Marcel
I had hoped to avoid this conversation. For you to go on despising me, but I felt it time to come clean on a secret that I have been harboring these many, many years.
Before you came into our lives, it had been a long time, a very long time since I had seen my brother openly care about anyone or anything.
Marcellus, do you remember what it was like when Niklaus first brought you home with us? You were a simple slave child, you couldn't read, write, but you wanted to learn. You had the desire and the drive to learn, and I was more than willing to educate an apt pupil such as yourself.
Bt as your lust for knowledge grew, slowly, little by little, you stopped spending as much time with Niklaus. Wanting to devote times to your studies. I think this hurt him, it certainly made my brother jealous. So, he did something I never thought he'd do. He woke up Kol.
Look at what happened when Kol was awakened. He almost turned you at your young age. And together, we daggered Kol to protect and keep you safe.
Marcellus, I had to push you away, to make you hate me so all your time would go back to my brother. He loved you and needed you. I wanted nothing more than to be a father figure to you too, to teach you, guide you, educate you. But he needed you far more than I did. And as always, I put my families wants above my own.