Lexi's fingers relaxed, releasing the strangle-hold he had on the bedlinnen and offering Marco the biggest grin he could manage. He'd been on the edge of tears for the second time this evening. Marco thought emotion was weak- Lexi knew that- so he must have seemed like a complete an utter baby. But he was happy, really happy- as if the news was the best he'd ever heard. It might well have been.
There was no way that Marco's teeth were accidentally going to rip a foot-long gash in his leg so he forced himself down to Marco as quickly as he could, ignoring the pain in his leg, wrapping his arms around Marco and hugging him.
Okay, so Marco had technically died, yes, but he wasn't gone forever and you could only die once, really. "Then you can't ever die again!" Lexi said, hugging Marco as tight as he could. He'd always have Marco. Even if he could only have him in the middle of the night. But that was better than one day never ever having him at all.