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Kol Mikaelson kills for sport. (itchtokill) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2013-10-08 11:31:00

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kol mikaelson, lexi branson

Kol & Lexi
Getting the feels back, dammit! She's stubborn & determined!
Slightly forward-dated Wednesday, October 9, 2013; Whatever room in the Original's house that they've kept Kol locked up in
High (language definitely, who knows what else)/In Progress

"So, what do you think you're going to do now? Think you're going to tip the scales some more, Branson?"

Kol had been through some crazy things in his life, but little else compared to the last two weeks. Between being possessed and having his emotions turned off for him, he'd really caused the people of Lawrence some hell. Not that he cared. He couldn't at this point, but oh, Lexi was working on it. And she was doing it well. She had even pegged which one to start with. Hate. Anger. They were strong emotions and she had managed to elicit the latter rather easily. Of course, who wouldn't feel a little pissed off after watching nearly a full twenty-four hours of some stupid song about unicorns?

Now, though, she had to push it just that much more. Get him to go all the way. But Kol was stubborn and much as he was feeling annoyance, he wasn't all that interested in feeling anything else just yet. There was some part of him, buried beneath the blank nonchalance, that maybe was avoiding what was going to come with it, still clinging to ignoring everything that had happened. But it was untouchable, that feeling, and Lexi actually thought she would be the one to bring it about.

"So, what do you think you're going to do now?" He asked suddenly into the silence that had fallen between them some time ago. He was stubborn, so he'd decided he'd wait her out, but Kol was a talker and of course he broke before she did. "Think you're going to tip the scales some more, Branson?"

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feelingepic
2013-10-09 07:35 am UTC (link)

Kol was stubborn. Fine. Lexi was worse, and this was not the first time she'd played this game. That of course had been her best friend in the world and she'd had to detox him as well thanks to this guy's brother, and apparently it had happened again after her death.

Kol wasn't a ripper. Which actually in many ways disurbed her more than if he had been. It was very possible he was just for real crazy. Or it was the undefinable Mikaelson charm. Might love you, might hate you, either way they're dangerous. And Kol...yeah. It had been a long week and the younger vampire was exhausted much as she wasn't going to let the Original see that. He'd use it, as a belief that she'd eventually give up. Not that he cared if she did or didn't. Not really. Not yet. She'd talked to him, she'd talked about Crowley, she'd talked about his family, all of them, she'd mentioned the daggers, she'd mentioned everything she knew that might get an emotion out of him and then...well then she'd gone for the easiest emotion.

She was making him hate her.

She'd starved him of blood, she'd been cruel. Crueller than she liked being. It wasn't her. But in this instance it had to be. And then of course there had been the never ending loop of pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows. Nearly a full day she'd lasted before she decided he'd had enough.

And now, now it was back to the talking. She leaned against the near wall of the room, back and one foot balancing her there.

"I know I'm gonna tip the scales. What happened to you was awful, but what it was, what it actually was, it was a loss of control. And sometimes I think its not just Klaus that needs that so desperately. I think maybe its all of you. I think its important to you all, independance, freedom. That demon took it away didn't it. And then it took the last thing that makes you you. Come on, its not you, not really. We are our emotions Kol, even you. The good, the bad, the entirely messy ugly ones we don't want. Without them we're shells. Without them, we're nothing."

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itchtokill
2013-10-09 03:38 pm UTC (link)

Kol knew she had done this before and that, really, she was good at what she did. But he had no faith in her breaking him. Why would he? He was no Stefan Salvatore. He had no emotional connection to her for her to play on. Sure, she had all the hot-button topics, but did it matter anymore? No, of course it didn't. Nothing did. And he was okay with that.

He pushed the toe of his shoe against the floor, tipping the chair he was sitting in back on two legs, balancing there as he listened to her drone on. "We are all a bunch of control freaks, the whole lot of us," he admitted with a shrug, "but so what? It's gone. Doesn't matter. I'm in control now."

Kol rolled his eyes, "Spare me the speech about how good emotions are. You're annoying the shit out of me right now, innit that enough?"

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feelingepic
2013-10-15 11:44 am UTC (link)

Lexi shrugged. Control. Of course he was. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." she told him, affecting an honestly, terrible, spanish accent and rolling her eyes. Kol Mikaelson was going to be hard to break, she knew that. But she also knew that she was good at what she did and she wanted to see that he was safe.

"Annoyed's close. Its good, its something but lets push it to hate will we? Because you know how this ends and you know you don't get out of here as you are now. You can rant, threaten me, and Elijah and Rebekah can slap you the hell down again cause sure, you got strength on me, age on me, but you don't have a single solitary bit of drive left. Its kind of sad actually. You used to be better than that. You used to be almost as much of a legend as the crazy brother. He was dangerous cause of what he was, you were dangerous cause of what you'd do, or wouldn't do, or might do, no one ever knew for sure. Because hey, feelings, emotions. Thats what does it Kol, without it, you have no creativity, no drive. Not a damn thing worth living for."

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itchtokill
2013-10-15 01:08 pm UTC (link)

"That was probably the worst accent ever," he said, arching an eyebrow at her. "Is there a reference I'm missing? Spent a hundred years in a box, still catching up you know."

"Why on earth would you want to do that?" His eyebrows shot up as she went on her little spiel. It was almost cute, really, that she thought she could get to him like this. But there was no harm in letting her try, was there? Passed the time, didn't it? "Almost? I like to think I'm a legend in my own right, thanks."

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feelingepic
2013-10-16 06:39 am UTC (link)

Klaus had deprived him of so much in the past century with those daggars. The Princess Bride though. "Okay, once you're a real boy again we're gonna do movie night. There might even be less unicorns this time." she told him, still a little too proud of her pink fluffy unicorns plan. She was convinced it had worked. Or started to.

"Why would I want to what? Get you all good and angry. Cause if you snap, then you're snapping at something. You're feeling something. You're being you. And you need to remember that cause right now you just kind of make me sad for you."

Lexi leaned in and shook her head "Legend huh, yeah maybe once upon a long time ago but you're not in this world. You're the brother. Hiding in the shadow of Klaus same as ever, right? I mean I get it, Elijah's the approachable one, Bekah's the only girl, Klaus is the dangerous one, what exactly do you have that's different legend? Cause right now, I'm not seeing it?"

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itchtokill
2013-10-16 02:09 pm UTC (link)

"No more fucking unicorns," he groaned. That had truly been cruel. All those hours of that on loop? He couldn't promise he wouldn't actually rip her apart if she started that again.

"But anger directed at you. Might not end so well," he pointed out, still far too nonchalant to actually be considering her well-being at all. And normally he might have. Kol actually liked Lexi when he was capable of liking things. He had seen before why his brother had taken such a liking to her, really. "Sad for me?" he laughed. "Have you ever done it, Lexi? Have you turned it off before?"

And for all of his talk, there it was. The one thing that he wasn't even sure how she knew would hit the way it did. The reaction was virtually non-existant and the only reason she would've seen it is because she was looking for it. A tiny crease in his forehead at the mention of being in Nik's shadow. It had been a point of contention for him for a long time, actually. Something he'd hated, truly hated for a long time now. "It's not true." he practically growled, eyes dark and narrowed at her. "Maybe here, because Nik's been flashing his special brand of psychotic around for everyone to see, but it's not."

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feelingepic
2013-10-17 08:13 am UTC (link)

On some level, deep deep level she felt bad about the unicorns. But also it was hillarious.

Asking if she'd ever turned off her emotions though Lexi shook her head. "Nope, not ever. Not even at the worst of times, and there were worst of times. I don't need to. Yeah you feel the bad parts worse, but there would be no way I'd give up the good. The love, the trust, the happiness. Call me a sap if you want but I'd never willingly do that. Suppose that's the harsh thing though, neither did you."

She knew the Klaus angle was working. And god she felt awful for it but there it was, had to be done.

"I'm no Original Kol but I'm not new either. It's fairly true. He's always been the feared one. I'm not even sure, did anyone know you as anything other than the other brother? I mean I get it, you're dealing with the ultimate in vamperic diva right there, but you factor in that he's actually unstoppable unlike the rest of you, not even those daggers he's so fond of will keep him down. Keep you down though, and it has on many occasions, right? So I suppose it makes sense that you're in his shadow when you never really got out of it from day one."

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itchtokill
2013-10-17 12:51 pm UTC (link)

"I didn't either, except once, in the beginning," he admitted. Not that it was important, but there it was. And he decidedly left out the part that he'd actually hated it and swore to never do it again. She didn't need to know that. No giving her more ammo for her goal, here.

Those words, though. All the baiting, and God he knew that's all it was but he couldn't help but fall for it, could he? "Shut up," it was a low growl, a warning of sorts. "I'm not in his fucking shadow." His eyes were narrowed in her direction as she just kept on. Oh, the daggers, of course the daggers. The chair he was sitting in was tipped over and he had her pinned to the nearest wall in an instant, "You just need to shut your mouth right now before I really make you regret it."

But then something clicked. That. The rage. It was legitimate anger and he actually felt it. There was a sort of disorientation for a fraction of a second before he dropped his hand away from her.

"You..." he took a half-step back, staring at her. "You're an idiot." An idiot that had managed to get what she wanted, but an idiot. "I could've killed you, you know." The fact that she'd managed to hit on something in just that right way, it was a little unsettling, but he supposed he should've been grateful because without her, where would he be now? Stuck in this room forever? That would have just been terribly boring, wouldn't it?

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feelingepic
2013-10-17 07:47 pm UTC (link)

Lexi had never needed to cut away that part of herself, and of that she would always be grateful. It was a horrible thing to have to do, she'd seen it on Stefan too may times for her liking, that change, that coldness. And on him, on her best friend it was so much more deadly. Though when Kol finally snapped and grabbed her by the throat she wondered if maybe she'd bitten off more than she could chew, pardon the pun. He snapped, angry, ranting, telling her to shut up, and then he realised. Lexi watched him for a moment before he let go, stepped back and...okay called her an idiot which was in some ways probably legit.

"I kind of am yeah, but welcome back to the land of feels. You probably could have killed me but I was banking on the anger, on making you lash out and hey, you got there. Now don't let them go again, not now you know the alternative with all the years experience behind you. Life without emotions is no life and you're better than that."

Lexi sighed, job done, before stumbling slightly back against a pillar almost having relaxed too quickly. She could have died, more to the point, she'd known it. But Kol had needed her help and help she was always willing to give.

"I know I touched some nerves but I think you understand why?"

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itchtokill
2013-10-18 12:29 pm UTC (link)

Aside from the anger that he'd realized, there had been something else that clicked in that moment. The fear, that look they all got when they realized maybe they'd gone too far. If he were honest, it was normally a look he tended to get a lot of kicks from, but it had hit him just right at the time and that was why he'd backed off the way he had.

"Yeah, thanks." was all he really knew to say in that moment. How did you properly thank someone from a potental lifetime of, well, nothingness? Kol had no idea, so that mumbled little appreciation was all she was probably going to get. "I won't. I don't... I fucking hate it, Lexi. I swore I'd never do that again after that one time." Now that he wasn't so against her getting one over on him, he could admit that with no problem.

He watched her as she leaned back against the pillar and nodded, "Yeah, I know." Feelings back on or not, it wasn't something he wanted to talk about. She was right. So fucking right. He was always in Nik's shadow.

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