After the latest episode I was really annoyed with how Alexis was acting. While trying to understand it, this came to me. Hope you guys like it.
Acceptance. The concept itself was easy enough to understand. But to actually put it into practice? Well that was another thing entirely. Alexis knew this, mainly because it was something she'd struggled with over the last few years. But if she could do it for him, surely he could for her, right? If she was being completely honest though, Alexis wasn't sure he could. But he loved her, of this she was sure and if anything, that meant he'd try. Trying was better than nothing.
Sure Pi wasn't like any of the other guys she'd dated. They'd all been career focused academics who knew where they wanted to get and would do anything to get there. But Pi, well Pi was carefree, open to whatever was thrown his way by the universe. He was stress free and that was exactly what Alexis needed. Of this she was sure, even if others weren't so sure. Especially her father.
Of course he was entitled to his opinions, but did that give him a right to voice them? Not when Alexis hadn't ever done so with his relationship.
Alexis had stood by and watched her dad pine for someone who crushed him time and time again. Someone who pulled him in, opened up to him a little more than the time before and then pulled away so hard that not only her dad, but everyone around them got whiplash. The one who used and abused his feelings towards her, toying with him like her personal Barbie doll. Did Alexis ever tell him he was making a mistake? Did she ever say he'd come to regret it? No. Not once. Not at all. Sure she'd thought it. But he was her father and all she wanted was to see him happy and that's what Beckett made him. Well for the most part.
When Beckett was open and willing he was so happy. So elated. So content with life and everything it threw at him and there was Alexis, beside him, cheering for him and the person that made him feel this way. But she was also there beside him when Beckett pulled away. When she shut him out. When with one word, one look, one moment his world would once again go spiraling out of control. When he struggled to keep it together Alexis was there making sure he pulled through, that he pushed onto another day. Every time there was another guy, every time he was ready to walk away Alexis was there supporting him. Supporting his decision.
Not once had she said she thought it wouldn't last. Not once had she told him the engagement was a bad idea, that she didn't think Beckett was the one for him. No. Instead she'd congratulated them, ignored how hurt she was that he himself hadn't told her about the engagement, that she was gutted that she'd had to hear it from her grandmother.
Not once in the past two years had Alexis voiced her opinion on her father's relationship. Despite the amount of times she could have. Despite how many times she wanted to. Instead she'd stood by him, encouraging him, supporting him, supporting his decisions, letting it be known that she was there for him no matter what the outcome. Why? Because she loved him, he was her father, he deserved to be happy and if Beckett made him happy then who was she to stand in his way? That is acceptance. All she asked for in return? That he do the same for her. It wasn't too much to ask.