She shouldn’t be encouraging the fingertips on her waist, the pull of one body to another but Lexi just felt something off about her. She knew who Klaus was, the big bad, the original alpha male but she looked so broken, so lost and it made Lexi want to reach out, want to check, to make sure that she was alright.
She has seen this type of behavior, the need for comfort when all else fails hell she’s seen it from her own s e l f but she felt it, some part of her who wanted to deny this. Deny the comfort, deny that she didn’t deserve it, that this was the person who destroyed Lexi’s progress, who dismantled Stefan piece by horrifying piece and left him on his own, left her best friend to fend for himself in a world that was too harsh and too cruel and she had almost made him ready. He had to learn to take care of himself, to continue his never ending game of cat and mouse with only Lexi to put him back together but all she had had left where leftover bandages and whatever kindness she could use to help him.
How do you help someone who shouldn’t deserve it? How do you ignore the pull of one heart to another, the feeling of just being connected for a moment, if only something miniscule. She wasn’t in the mood to take advantage, no, that would never be Lexi. She was too nice of a girl, as the villagers once told her [before they burned her home and killed the remaining connection of her life] and Lexi was going to do what she does best, be nice, be kind, fake it, if it keeps her alive and if she’s able to help someone. If she was going to be the protector of the damned and the hopeless, she might as well protect them all. “If you’re not drunk, I’m not a vampire.”
Her eyes fell closed for the briefest of moments, a soft sigh falling from her lips as Alexia allowed the hybrid to pull her closer, to feel the warmth and softness of another body pressed, feather light, against her own. To feel that she wasn't alone, if only in the physical sense. She couldn't help but wonder why. Regardless of the body she now wore, she still carried the burden of the same sins, the hatred of so many -- some, well deserved, others without reason -- and yet, she allowed the gentle touch, didn't pull away or stiffen beneath it. Didn't admonish her, or insist she leave.
What possible reason could she have to make such concessions? Fear, perhaps...or worse yet, pity. The hybrid had no need for either, had no desire to entertain the notions, despite her lingering doubts, and endeavored to simply accept it. After all, was this not what she had been seeking? Or perhaps she had come here expecting something different all together. Violence, rage, hatred, all the things the world at large would insist she deserved. And perhaps they were right. Perhaps she had been seeking such things without even realising it. A penance, of sorts, for being unable to protect those who mattered most.
Perhaps it was simply self preservation that allowed the other woman to lay beside the hybrid, the desire not to end up on the wrong end of her toxic fangs, the instinctual need not to anger the most powerful member of their species, someone who could end her life in the blink of an eye, and not lose a single moment's rest over it. Regardless of the reasons, Nik was silently grateful, moving closer still, and burying her face in the crook of the vampire's neck. Inhaling slowly, a faint, humorless smile played at her lips as they just barely brushed against soft skin. "Strange..." she murmured, allowing her eyes to close once more. "You certainly smell like a vampire..."