A flicker of remorse slipped across Elijah's face for a moment. Finn had deserved so much more than any of them had given him. They could have defied Klaus at some point, released him...and then they would have been on the run from two sides.

Besides...nobody liked Finn enough to consider it for long. Self-righteousness didn't sit well with any of them, even Elijah.

"I can do it," he said. "I hate to, when we've taken so much of his life already, but...I can." He gave him a wry smile. "The proscription on vampires using the daggers doesn't apply to us." Like so many other things. "I shouldn't ask anyone else to do something I'm not willing to do myself."