8

"Get this over with," Peter growled.

"You know, I can kill you for hurting my sister but because I'm turning over a new leaf...this is going to hurt you more than me." Cracking his knuckles, Klaus began bruising up the chained man before pouring vervain on his hands.

Peter cried out with the burning sensation. The punches he could take but the vervain...

"Now tell me who your boss is and where he is."

"I don't know who the bloody prick is," Peter growled.

"Then tell me what your name really is."

"Stefan. My name is Stefan Salvatore."

Klaus raised an eyebrow before smirking.

"Interesting. Tell me, how do you really feel about your job and my sister?"

"It doesn't matter. She shouldn't be with a man whose done what I've done," Stefan said bitterly.

"Oh it matters boy."

"I love her," Stefan admitted.

"Don't hurt her again. Make it up to her."

"There's no forgiving the murder of innocents," Stefan looked away angrily.

Klaus raised an eyebrow.

"What does that mean?" He asked and he held the bottle of vervain over Stefan's hands again.

Stefan growled as the vervain scorched his skin again. Still he would not answer. He would not admit his shame.

"The only way for this pain to end is for you to answer me." He told him.

"I murdered four people, in cold blood and I hardly remember it," Stefan scoffed. "I'm a monster."

"Mate...no one is perfect but as long as you love my sister, she won't care what you did in the past."

"I care."

"Who else knows about what you did?"

"The man who owns me - just him."

"Yet you have no idea who it is?" Now Klaus was filled to the brim with curiosity.

"Anytime I try to remember his face is lost to me. I can hear his words but when I look at him it's all blurred. The whole memory is blurry in fact," Stefan confessed.

"What else does he know of you?"

"He seems to know everything about me," Stefan sighed.

"Do you know who else could know some of these things?"

"No," Stefan sighed.

"You don't think a family member could know any of this?"

"My brother but I haven't seen him in a very long time. I don't even know where he is."

"Do you know what his number is?"

"Not a clue," Stefan replied honestly. "His idea of a vampire lifestyle differed greatly from my ideals."

"How different is it now?" Klaus was determined to get to the bottom of this whole 'imposters' group thing-they already have Bonnie and Elena on board with tearing down the group.

"Well I've done unforgivable things when I intended never to kill," Stefan looked defeated. "Once you unleash that monster it never goes back."

"Well there's a chance that it could come back."

"It never goes away. He said once you've killed you'll do it again and again. He said I'm a monster - unfit for true happiness."

"Do you believe that? I don't believe that." Klaus told him with a nod.

"How can you not?"

"I've done worse than you." Klaus admitted.

"Do you feel you have any humanity left?" Stefan asked grasping for hope.

"I do have my humanity left."

"Could you help me?"

"If you want."