She was used to that too, he hated her right now, he wanted her to die, he wanted her to leave him alone because he was happy with how he was. He was happy killing. Only he wasn't, not really. Not where it counted because this thing in front of her, this barely functioning thing. It wasn't Stefan Salvatore. And Lexi planned to make it a whole lot worse before it got better, Stefan knew what was coming, for the most part at least. Lexi had prepared for this day hoping to whatever deity was bored that day that she'd never have to use it. But she needed to get to work here. Needed to make him think that he'd been longer without the blood than he had, manifest it physically. Lexi couldn't compel Stefan. But she could get in his head all the same.
"I am your best friend, and maybe someday you'll remember that. But right now, you go ahead and hate me sweetness, all its gonna do is make the time pass slower". Lexi hunkered down at eye level with the bound Stefan and gazed into his eyes, trying to work out how best to go about this, she needed to get in there, needed to get in his head and tear the bloodlust away, and she couldn't make him forget, couldn't make him flip the switch to humane again. So this was the best she had.
He'd been without blood over a week already, now it was a month. ..Two months, six, nine, a year. Lexi stood up and began to pace around him as she wove the hallucination into his psyche, she could feel how much he hated her, it was radiating off him like a beacon, and once he'd suffered a bit, once she thought he was ready, she'd bring down Elena. Because Elena meant hope. But not yet.
She walked to the door rifling through the bag she'd come in with, among other things it contained a stake. Nothing special, and she'd sworn to Elena he'd live through this. But she'd also told the girl that Stefan would have to hurt. Hurt meant pain and pain meant feeling something, and to quell the Ripper, Stefan needed to feel again.
"You do care. But right now all those years without the blood, its killing you right? You need it, you need it because its the only thing that gives you a kick anymore, blood and death. Well kiss it goodbye baby cause you know I'm not letting you out of here any time soon."