Lexx was exhausted beyond belief; she had been working on controlling her powers for five hours straight. She knew had to get them under control now before she did something she would regret. Lexx dragged her tired body up the stairs to Remi's room. By the time she got there she could hardly move anymore, by the time she made it to the bed she passed out.
About three hours later a commotion in the hallway woke her up. She crawled off the bed and walked out into the hallway, she was still rather groggy. She found Remi with Kyle pressed up against the wall with his hands around the boy's neck. Kyle was turning blue and was struggling to get out of his older brother's deadly grip. Lexx came completely back to her senses immediately and began running down the hallway towards them.
"Remi! Stop! Let him go!" When Lexx reached Remi's side she grabbed a hold of his hands and tried to pry them off of Kyle's neck. "Remi please let him go."
"Stay out of it Lexx." Remi growled letting go of Kyle with one hand and shoving her away. Lexx hit the other wall with a small thud, bumping her head.
"Remi…let…him…go!" Lexx said slow and evenly right before she tackled him in the side. She didn't knock him down but she got him to let go of Kyle. "Go Kyle, get out of here."
Kyle took a minute to catch his breath and then took off running down the hall. Remi just stood there breathing heavily, trying to get his anger under control.
"What did he do Remi? Huh? Why did you try to choke the life out of your own brother?" Lexx asked, just trying to make sense of the whole situation.
"I came up to see how you were doing and I found him sitting on the bed next to you while you were sleeping. Something in me just snapped, I didn't care that he was my brother. He was another male near my mate when she was defenseless." Remi said trying to explain himself, he just hoped she didn't hate him for this.
"But you didn't have to hurt him Remi! Damnit I hate when you get like that." Lexx could feel her energy beginning to deplete again, she hadn't gotten enough sleep to deal with this.
"He could have hurt you! I will not have another male near you when you're sleeping!" Remi began to get angry again.
"Why couldn't you have just told him to leave?" Lexx walked up to him and shoved him against the wall. "How would like it if someone pushed you around and beat you up? Huh?"
Remi growled and shoved Lexx away from him, before he knew what he was doing he had his arm raised ready to slap her back to her senses.
As soon as Remi lifted his arm to hit her, a vision of Lexx's father flashed through her mind. Fear swept through her body and paralyzed her, she couldn't move from where was up against the opposite wall.
The fear in Lexx's eyes brought Remi back to his senses and immediately squelched his anger. He was horrified by the thought of what he had almost done. "Oh god baby I'm so sorry." He stepped forward to take her into his arms but she backed away from him.
"Stay away from me." Lexx felt tears streaming down her face. "I hate you." She whispered. "I hate you!" Lexx screamed right before she turned and ran down the hall to the stairs. She bounded down the steps and through the bar; she was out the front door in a matter of seconds. She knew where she was gonna go. She still had the keys to her grandmother's estate in her pocket from when the lawyer had dropped them off earlier that day. She didn't stop running until she made it to the gate. She looked up the long drive way at her grandmother's mansion. Reaching over she pressed the button to reach the security office.
A voice came over the speaker. "Hello Miss Surion it good to see you, I'll unlock the gate right away." After that was said the gate clicked and swung open, Lexx walked inside and listened at it shut behind her. She slowly made her way up the drive way to the front door, it opened to reveal her grandmother's butler who stayed after her grandmother's death to keep the mansion in order.
"Ah Lexx it is so good to see you again. I have missed your smiling face." He gave her a warm hug and then held her at arms distance. "Why are you crying my dear? It pains me to see you so sad."
"Something happened that upset me, Gordon. But I don't want to talk about it. Is everything still in my rooms?" Lexx said, sniffling.
"Yes my dear. I kept your rooms just the way you left them. I even had one of the maids go out and buy you some new clothes as your grandmother had requested before she died. She wanted you to be comfortable and want for nothing."
"Thank you Gordon, you're the best." Lexx said as she headed up the large staircase to her rooms. She had a bedroom, bathroom, and sitting room all to herself. She even had a rather large walk in closet, she used to hide in there as a child when her father came to take her back home.
Lexx walked through her sitting room and into her bedroom. She stripped off her jeans and then climbed onto the bed, then slipped under the covers. She sunk into the softness of the mattress and cried herself to sleep.