Elijah watched at the women at the front of this whole scheme began to bleed from every orifice, a tug of a smile appeared on his lips. But now they knew that their mother Esther was working from beyond the grave to murder an innocent child, family. He could not help but feel an anger rising in him, if they had not buried their mother and consecrated her bones in New Orleans soil, then none of this would be happening. 

It had been partly his fault because he had pushed for this too happen. Quickly he was assaulted with the smell of blood as he watched Genevieve bleed with the blade embedded in her chest. Watching Hayley storm past him, he hesitated for a moment to make sure that she was dead.

Once he was satisfied that she was dead, he turned on his heels to follow her out "Hayley!" he called to her as she tried to leave the Lafayette cemetery.  

Elijah knew that Hayley was hurting and he wished that he could say or do something that would take away her pain. But he couldn't, there wasn't. All he could do was be there for her when she needed him the most. He couldn't have cared less about Genevieve and her death, in his eyes she deserved it for what she had done.

"Hayley" he held out his hand in an almost defensive mode.

When she approached him, anger flurrying in her eyes he placed his hands on her shoulders "I promise you that we shall end this. End this war" he promised her.

Elijah listened to what Hayley had to say about what she had just done to Genevieve and he did not blame her at all. If Hayley had not done it he would have considered doing something himself, but he knew that it had to be Hayley. Genevieve had been the leader in this whilst his mother orchestrated from the other side.

"Hayley" he tried to speak again, cut off by her explanation "I completely understand you need to act against the witches" he paused "We must think about this rationally, Genevieve was just an instrument of my mother. She did what she did out of fear" he explained.

He wasn't trying to defend her or trying to get Hayley to see sense of even forgive her. But she did not know what his mother was like or what she could do.

Elijah waited until she had finished speaking before letting out a sigh before turning to face Hayley "My mother has spent over a thousand years observing from the other side planning her children's demise. Her sole purpose has been to murder the people she claims to love" he pinched his fingers together "My mother is thee original witch, her sole reason for her existence is to cause her children pain and despair" he added.

Taking a single step towards her "If my mother is behind this, she will pay for her treachery that I can assure you Hayley. But for now, Hope is gone and everyone in the French Quarter must believe that" he spoke again.