Philophobia: Mikaelson's Mate

I Hate My Job

Lexi Pov

When I showed up to my shift at the grill, Mandy, the girl who had the shift before me, warned me that there were two guys who were drinking through almost all of our alcohol. I told her that I would handle it. I didn't plan on those men being an original vampire and the original hybrid.

"Damn it" I muttered under my breath when I saw Kol and Klaus sitting at the bar.

"Ah" Kol said, "I always remember a pretty face like yours. How was your night, Lexi?"

I swear I heard Klaus growl at Kol's words. I internally scoffed at Kol's antics, anything for the tips though. I put on a fake smile before meeting his eyes. "It was nice. Thank you for asking."

Before I could return the question, Klaus asked through gritted teeth, "You're Lexi?" When I met his eyes they were dark with anger and another emotion I couldn't read. I simply pointed to my name tag in response. My name tag read 'Hi I'm Lexi'. Kol could apparently read the other emotion in Niklaus' eyes as he started hysterically laughing at Klaus' reaction.

I rolled my eyes at the brothers and moved on the serve other customers. When I ended up behind the bar again, I watched Caroline enter. She was dressed to impressed and looked beautiful. When we made eye contact I mouthed 'you look hot'. She smiled at my words. She then came up to the bar where I gave her a drink.

I very quickly picked up on her trying to play hard-to-get with Klaus. I also noticed Klaus showing no interest in Caroline and even looked like he was trying to ignore her. When Caroline went up to Klaus he instantly shut her down.

After being rejected Caroline quickly exited the grill. I rolled my eyes and concluded that it was some weird Scooby gang business that I didn't want to be involved in.

When Klaus ordered another bottle I handed it to them along with two clean glasses and said, "And by the way, you can't compel me so you will actually need to pay for all this."

Klaus smiled at my words before saying, "No worries, Love. I have every intent of staying here as long as you are."

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A few hours into my shift and Klaus and Kol are still here. There is also another man who has come in and is getting drunk. He's a regular so this isn't exactly a rare occurrence.

When I hand him his final drink before I cut him off, he grabs my wrist and pulls me towards him strongly. As a teenage girl who works in serving customers I wish I could say this was a rare occurrence. Before I can do anything Klaus and Kol are on either side of the man, Kol squeezing the man's wrist with his hand.

"Now that's no way to treat a lady." Klaus said before looking the man straight in the eyes and saying, "Let go of her arm and apologise."

The man let go of my arm and said: "I'm sorry."

"Good" Klaus said calmly, "Now leave, don't come back to this place and do not bother her again". Kol then made eye contact with Klaus. "And one last thing, I'd recommend going to the hospital for your arm."

I then wince at the sickening crunch the man's arm made under Kol's hand. The man then got up and left. The people at surrounding tables then began to whisper to each other and shot me concerned looks. I scoff and walk back to the bar. When Klaus and Kol sit back down I said, "Thanks for that but I can handle myself."

"Because that's what handling yourself looks like" Kol retorts.

"I have much better ways which happen to not involve me losing regular customers" I say without revealing my magic. When I reach for another glass to clean I then notice the bruise which is forming on my wrist. "Damn it" I whisper under my breath.

I then move into the kitchen where I quickly whisper a chant which heals the bruise instantly. When I return into the main room Kol asked, "What happened?"

I furrowed my brows slightly, confused as to what he was referring to. "What are you talking about?"

"Your bruise" Klaus finished gesturing to my now healed wrist.

"There never was a bruise" I lied showing my now clear wrist, "Like I said, it was fine."

After that incident I decided to leave my shift early and head home. When I got outside I heard someone behind me shouting, "Lexi, wait." I turned around to see Klaus chasing after me. I then waited impatiently  for him to reach me.

"Yes, Klaus" I sais coldly.

"Don't be like that, Love."

"You know what? You and your best friend murdering habits can leave me alone."

"Well Elena is hardly dead-"

"Jenna, if you even remember her."

"Look, I'm sorry about that but talk to me. Come on take a chance, get to know me."

"Fine, whatever. What do you want to talk about?"

"I want to talk about you."

I let out a breathy laugh and roll my eyes at his antics.

"Your hopes, your dreams, everything you want in life." he continued.

"And just to be clear" I said, "I am way too smart to be seduced by you."

"I know" he said smirking at me, "That's one of the many things I like about you."

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3rd person pov

Whilst Lexi and Klaus were talking outside, Alaric and Meredith were trying to act out their plan to dagger Kol. Key word 'trying' as Kol was showing no interest in Meredith. As Alaric realised this, he asked Damon what Kol might be more interested in.

"Try your niece" Damon said over the phone after having seen how Kol acted around Lexi the night before.

"Haha" Alaric said sarcastically.

"Seriously" Damon said, "He was all over her last night."

"And just then before she finished her shift." Meredith said as she was standing next to Ric.

"Bingo" Damon said.

"Oh you've gotta be kiddin-" Alaric started.

"Bye now" Damon said.