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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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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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