"I don't know anyone else I'd be this kind of intimate with. Right now, there's no one else I want to be intimate with at all, really." Elijah thought about it. Hayley was off with Jackson and everyone else in his life had been such a disappointment-- everyone had been about using him, or using his family for one thing or another. People wanted power and prestige and Elijah was certainly a means of garnering that. Women also liked to play games, perhaps Cain would be less so inclined, at least Elijah hoped. He knew that his brother would play them if he found out, but that bridge would be crossed when it happened.

"I doubt Klaus will come looking for me in my private quarters when he returns, and there are other servants to meet his needs. He doesn't always have to use you. Stay. Don't go to him now. I won't allow him to hurt you for this." Elijah meant it too. There was no way that he'd allow Klaus to punish Cain for simply being intimate with Elijah. He would say that he forced the servant and not that they chose to be together.

It would be that simple. It was already made up in the Original's mind. He reached out and did his best to pull Cain toward him, wanting to hold him in his arms, to feel their bodies together-- needing to kiss the one who'd made him feel something he'd never found with another person before. He wanted to spend time tracing over this new body, and looking over the features of this man whose wisdom outnumbered that of anyone else on the planet.