#amanda!

-Amanda

Hi, Amanda! 🥺👋

I actually really like that moment. 🥺 How do you know? That whole Elijah POV cut is one of my favorites on the whole finale, but that little mention in particular. 🥺 That scene was actually going to be a scene in some other part of the story, and then I was going to make it an outtake, and eventually I decided to just mention it on Elijah's POV. lol It was supposed to be a moment of epiphany for Elijah.

He still had some *ahem* inappropriate feelings *ahem* at the time, and this was meant to be the moment when he realizes at last that what he's looking at is much more than just Klaus developing a new obsession or a fleeting infatuation as he's had so many times over the years.

For me, there was something very sweet and almost pure in the way Elijah thinks he reminds him of young, mortal Klaus in that moment, before all the excessive confidence and the greed and the controlling monster who simply takes whatever he wants. He almost doesn't know how to act around Caroline in those circumstances - having her, enjoying her, making her laugh. It's not about the baby at all; the moment is 100% about the two of them. And they are just *happy*. That is what Elijah sees and it's what finally settles whatever doubts he had over Klaus' real feelings and intentions. Whatever his thoughts on fatherhood (and they were not the most positive lol), he loved Caroline.

At that point, Elijah had nearly lost all hope on Klaus. It's hard for him to even remember why he still stands by his brother when he's such a little fucker 🤣 A thousand years of that and he thinks he's there out of habit more than anything else. And then this moment happens, and it's such a little and apparently insignificant one - Klaus and Caroline dancing together, joking around - and it just rekindles Elijah's faith in his family. It reminds him why they've stuck togetehr for so long, why he stood by Klaus even at worst. He's not a lost cause, just some deranged psycho who would sacrifice his own family for power.

At the beginning of the story, he thought the baby could be the thing that would bring their family back together by resurfacing some humanity in Klaus, and then he realizes it's never been the baby at all. It's always been Caroline.