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Henrik Mikaelson (diedtooyoung) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2014-07-24 13:46:00

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henrik mikaelson, rebekah salvatore

Who: Henrik and Rebekah
What: sibling bonding time
When: Friday
Where: Rebekah’s place

Once Henrik had finally been allowed to leave the house, to no longer have to stay inside and be forced to do nothing but watch television, read or sleep, he’d pretty much decided that he never wanted to stay inside ever again. Except he had found that being allowed out of the house didn’t exactly equal full recovery and he was still a bit slow, a bit easy to tire out and realized that he’d need to take it easy.

So instead of running out to play at the park or get ice cream as had been the plan, Henrik had decided to simply go over to Rebekah’s house to hang out. He’d been before once or twice, but back then he had kind of resented the place, thinking Stefan was taking her away from them and he wouldn’t see her any longer, that she’d love him less. It had taken some time but he realized that wasn’t the case and really, he was worried about his sister. He knew she was going through some very difficult issues that he didn’t completely understand but Henrik hoped his being there might help out some.

He’d gotten dropped off and knocked on the door. He knew he’d hurt his other siblings when he’d left with Caroline, but he’d been so frustrated with Elijah and Kol that he hadn’t known what else to do. They kept leaving him so it had made sense in his head to leave as well.

But Rebekah hadn’t been one to leave him and he knew that deep down. “I am supposed to tell you that I’m supposed to still take it easy,” he started as soon as the door open. “And if I get short of breath that I need to rest for half an hour before doing anything again.”

And then he moved in to hug his sister because even though it might have been normal for this time for families not to live together, he did miss having her right there all the time.

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hasherwhims
2014-07-24 09:48 pm UTC (link)

It was ridiculous, but Rebekah was actually nervous at the idea of her little brother coming over to visit. It had hurt, so much, when he had left them. As much as she was no longer living in the same house, the house she had chosen for herself and Stefan was mere minutes away, just the other side of the fields where the horses grazed. Now, she supposed, it was Elijah's house. With Katherine. Ew.

But, Henrik was coming over and that meant she was not going to screw this up. The house was tidied, any hint of laziness gone. While she had spent much of the past few days at Crowley's, with Kol, she had come home a few times while Stefan had been away, and the tale-tale signs were dotted around, at least until she had thoroughly cleaned up.

And then there was cleaning herself up. Fresh clothes and meticulously applied make-up, carefully covering the paleness of her skin, the dark shadows under her eyes. Until finally she looked at herself in the mirror and saw a Rebekah who looked somewhat normal, even bordering on healthy. Because the last thing she wanted was for Henrik to worry. He was supposed to have the chance to have fun.

"I guess that means rock climbing is out," she quipped with a smirk as she opened the door to him. Really, she had been planning on keeping a very close eye on him, on if he was tired, or pushing himself too hard, even if he did the typical boy thing of pretending everything was fine.

When he hugged her, she hugged him back tightly, careful not to hurt him with her vampire strength, but still clinging onto him. Because she had missed him too, so much. And when she did finally let go, she still kept one arm around his shoulders as she reached for the keyring ready by the table. "And this is for you." She held it out to him, the keyring engraved with his name. "Front door, back door." She gestured to the appropriate keys as she spoke. "And you can pick your room whenever you like."

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diedtooyoung
2014-07-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)

Henrik took the keyring, looking the keys over before grinning brightly at her. It was nice to have a set of keys to her house and he really liked the idea of having a room there as well. He loved Nik and Caroline but he wanted to be able to see the others as well too like he had used to, even if he did realize that nothing would ever be as it once was. Too much had happened and too much was still happening. He didn’t know all of the details but he could see all of the hurt in each of his siblings. He didn’t like it, but he was only ten and he knew he couldn’t fix it.

It wasn’t his job to fix it.

“Will I get to decorate the room?” Because that could be fun. He thought he’d like to decorate one himself, to pick out all of the items that would go inside of it. He’d never done that before. “I think I would want one that is near but not too close to yours with Stefan.”

Then if he needed them he could find them easily but otherwise he would be able to give them some space. Henrik pocketed the keyring and looked around, not really sure what to say. He didn’t want to ask how she was feeling, afraid that might show his worry. He wanted them to have a good time together.

“Do you have anything to eat?”