"I don't claim to be good. Just trying to be better than I once was." she pointed out, but semantics, she knew he wouldn't be interested in it, not really.
"I miss the strength. The power. The blood is just another survival tactic." Like so many things in her life were. "Important to you? I don't know, am I? And if he gets a crazy whim, maybe to Klaus. My blood at least. For the hybrids." She shuddered slightly at the feeling of his hand just barely grazing her cheek as he pushed her hair away. "Safer how?" She wasn't sure if that was genuine curiosity or if she was playing a part, everything was blurring together now because everything was about survival. But if she was really safer with him....
"Oh, I think you could do it for as long as you please. It just depends on what strikes you at any given time." Her jaw set, annoyed at the threat to her friend, but helpless to do much more than say, "She doesn't deserve that, you know. And what's so special about me, then?" He kept making mention of it, she wondered if there was more to it than the fact that he thought she was fun to toy with or if it even could be any more than that for him.