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[The Adventures of] Huckleberry Finn (shotforplot) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2013-06-24 21:46:00

WHO: Huck & Lexi
WHAT: Lexi dreams
WHEN: Late Sunday night/Early Monday morning
WHERE: Their home
WARNINGS: talk of vampires, some snuggling, nothing graphic



The year was 1681 and Alexia’s parents had just died of a disease that had gone through the village. How her and her younger brother had been spared, she didn’t know, but now she was alone with her brother and it was up to her to take care of him and keep him safe. It wouldn’t be easy, but she had no other choice. It was a weeks after their death when a man, who had been in their village for a few months, approached her and told her there was a way that she would be able to take care of her brother and guarantee that she would always be there for him. Wanting nothing more than to make sure that she wouldn’t get sick like their parents and leave him alone, she took his offer without really thinking about it first. He had offered to make her immortal and then when he was old enough, she could do the same to her brother and she’d never lose him. The only problem was that eventually the man left, after teaching her what she needed to know and after a few years the villagers started to notice that, while her brother aged, Alexia stayed the same.

Back in 2013, in her bed, next to Huck, Lexi’s eyes snapped open, the only light peeking in around the edges of the shades came from a streetlight across the street and it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust to the dark. The dream was still fresh in her mind. The man’s face was still fresh in her mind. Elijah Mikaelson.

Elijah Mikaelson had turned her into a vampire.

Huck was in that place between sleep and waking when he felt Lexi stir, rolling over to wrap his arm around her in half-consciousness. His own parents hadn’t been particularly affectionate, so he craved that sort of comfort--though it had taken him a while to get used to having it so freely offered. Now, he was quite the snuggler.

Feeling Huck's arm wrap around her, Lexi sighed, her pulse slowing back down to normal. The realization that it had been Elijah in her dream had caused her pulse to rise slightly. She brought one arm up, stroking her fingers along Huck's forearm and turned her head to look back at him, figuring that he was still asleep. However, now that she was awake, she didn't see herself getting back to sleep and she really wanted to talk about her dream. She had no idea if it was a regular dream or one of those ones that Rebekah and Kol had recently, but she knew that she wanted to talk about it and they'd agreed a long time ago that if they ever woke up with something troubling them, they'd wake the other up.

Still looking over her shoulder at her boyfriend, she shook his arm, lightly, "Huck."

“Hmm?” Huck murmured, before he was quite awake. It took a moment, but he opened his eyes, blinking at her as ‘sleepy’ turned into ‘concerned.’ “Is something wrong?”

Once he was awake, Lexi turned so that she was now facing him and brought a hand up, running her fingertips along his temple and jaw, “I don’t know. I just...I think I might have had one of those dreams that everyone on Valarnet talks about.” It was either that or she shouldn’t have had that leftover chinese food for dinner.

“You want to talk about it?” He knew the answer would be yes, since she’d shaken him awake, but it was a way of opening up the dialog. He didn’t really know what else to ask about, yet, since neither of them had dreamed.

She nodded in response to his question and instead of moving to turn on the lamp, so simply snuggled closer to him. They didn’t need the light to talk; after all, they’d been together long enough that they didn’t need to see each other to know how the other was feeling or to know what they needed. “It was...I think it was the sixteen hundreds. I don’t know how I know that, but I just knew. It was me and my brother. Our parents had just died.” Huck had met Lexi’s younger brother and her parents on quite a few occasions and of course everyone got along splendidly. “I was left to take care of him and there was a man who had been in our village for a few months and one night he approached me and offered me a way to take care of him without having to worry about anything.” She frowned slightly as she recalled the conversation with dream!Elijah.

He hugged her, stroking her hair as she related the events of the dream; frowning at the mention of the man with the too-good-to-be-true sales pitch. “Let me guess. He was a con-man? What happened?”

“You could say that.” Lexi closed her eyes and inhaled Huck’s scent before continuing, “He turned me into a vampire.” She knew how it sounded, but Rebekah and Kol had both been talking about dreams where they were vampires, so if Huck had seen them then it might not sound quite so crazy.

Huck sighed. Vampirism seemed to be a theme, for Lexi’s friends, and he didn’t think it would help any of their dispositions. The Mikaelson brothers were kind of a bunch of jerks. Or maybe they were just teenagers, and Huck was an old fart hanging with a crowd a half a generation too young for him.

“Are you okay, though? You don’t feel any physical changes, do you?” He knew strange things seemed to follow people home from their dreams.

Lexi shook her head then pulled back just enough to look down at Huck, in the dim light from the streetlight, “Don’t think so.” She bared her teeth at him then ran her tongue along the edges of her top teeth, “They feel normal to me.” She laid back down and picked up his hand, placing it on her chest, over her heart, which still beat just as it always had, “Still beating?” She asked it more to reassure Huck that she was still alive and well and not a vampire.

“Yeah.” He nestled closer to her, trying to offer her comfort, somehow. “Still warm. And you know I love you, no matter what happens. I just might want to punch some vampire’s teeth in.”

She smiled as Huck nestled closer to her, more grateful than ever that he was always there for her; well except when he was away, but even then he was only a phone call or skype chat away. “You might want to be careful with that.” She bit her bottom lip as she contemplated telling Huck exactly who had turned her and in the end, since they didn’t keep anything from one another, she decided that it was better if he knew now instead of finding out later, “It was Elijah, by the way. He was the guy.”

Huck sighed. It would be someone they knew, wouldn’t it? Someone whose teeth he could actually knock in. Unless Elijah turned out to be a vampire, but even so, Huck was quite sure that where there was a will, there was a way. “I should have named myself Van Helsing. Huck didn’t even make it into The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”

Lexi couldn’t help but laugh softly and pressed a kiss to whatever part of him she could locate as they were nestled together, “Well, I happen to think you’re one extraordinary gentleman,” She didn’t know exactly what it meant that it was Elijah who had turned her in the dream as far as real life went, because last time she’d checked, Rebekah’s older brother had been very much alive. “Besides, I like Huck better than Van. It suits you better.”

“Well, thank you,” he said, raising her hand to his lips and pressing a kiss to her knuckles. “I try my best for you, milady.” He smiled. “Whatever else comes from these dreams, we’ll deal with it, together.”

There were still days when Lexi wondered how she’d gotten so lucky with Huck. There had been dozens of fans there that day they’d met and for whatever reason he’d noticed her. “Have I told you recently how amazing you are? Because it’s true.” Other guys would get weirded out by their girlfriends having dreams about being turned into a vampire by a friend’s brother, especially if there was a chance that they weren’t just dreams.

“I don’t think there’s an upper limit to that,” he said, nuzzling her neck. “And you know what? I feel the same way about you.”