Killing someone. Meaning to kill someone. Luring. Pulling together a nest, going after a town. You want to take responsibility, then what he does, it's on you. Or, her, or your school. But, if he goes into the world and blood gets the better of him, and he's dangerous. Not accidental-dangerous. Not defensively dangerous. Meaning to rip someone's throat out. Dangerous.

( Don't talk to him about murder, about killing. He's a killer. He's killed more than you have, Lydia. He assumes. And more than Caroline twenty-years Forbes. Try thirty-five. He doesn't apologize for how honest he needs to be. This is how he was raised. Werewolves, he knows, they can be something. Vampires... he's always had the problem with.

Elena's hurt. Maybe that's influencing him, too, Elena being in the supernatural web. )