Nikki's first trip to the grill {Open}

Nikki followed Mark outside and as soon as the door shut, she turned her back to it. "What did you want to talk to me about?" Mark asked. Nikki paused for a second and caught her breathe. "Mark, listen. I'm sorry for what happened earlier. It's just. . ." She Paused then continued,"I saw that girl walk into The Grill and I thought I recognized her from my home town and. . ."She looked up at him and set her head on the wall, " I'm sorry." She paused and waited for his response. The wait was killing her.

Nikki felt her heart sink as Mark's expression grew cold. His answers were distant and cold, exactly the opposite of his emotions from earlier. She thought about how she must have really hurt his feelings, just leaving the way she did. But, never the less, she never meant to hurt him. He was just like her older brother. He held back his emotions and suppressed his problems until he began to tick like a bomb. And then Boom! He let them all out. Nikki wanted desperately to rid him of his pain, to give him someone to trust in. " Mark. That cant be true. No one's a lost cause." She answered and grabbed his arm. She stared into his black eyes with enough emotion to fill to fill an entire room and she waited for a response.

Nikki's eyes began to water as he spoke, "When you live a life like mine these kind of things get to you, it's not because I'm left alone, it's that I start to feel like it needed to be like that." She couldn't help it. No matter how much of a soft spot she had for Vampires, she couldn't help but to have a soft spot for guys with issues too. She wanted to heal his hurt, to fix what had been broken by someone or something else. "Mark," she grabbed his arm with her left hand and his face with her right. Before she knew what she was doing, her eyes were on his. "You don't have to be alone. I mean you have the choice to be with someone."

"I made a choice a few years ago, most of the times I regret it." his voice was soft as he spoke. Her heart was swelling as she thought of his words. What could he have had that was valuable that he had to give up love? She removed her hand from his arm and let it fall down to her side. "Mark, You dont have to live forever with the choices that you made years ago. You can choose over. And this time you can choose right." She moved her thumb across his cheek bone and the down to his shoulder. She gave a subtle smile to him and the walked pass him, almost in slow motion, to the door.

Nikki could tell that he was trying to scare her just by the sound of his voice. She smirked lightly and then turned back around to face him. "If I could I wouldn't be here.. I wouldn't have done all of the things I did. But it wasn't my choice, it never was! The fact that I'm just a pawn that can be used and it isn't really helping me you know?" There was a pause, then he continued "Even IF I could choose to change things it doesn't change the fact that I had to kill to survive. Now guess how many people have died because of me..." Nikki reached up and grabbed his face ever so lightly. "Mark, I'm not afraid of you. I've seen way more scary things in my life. Okay? So just take the fact that I like you as me telling your dark side to bring it on. I'm good with dark and twisted. Hell I'm a little bit of both" Nikki let go of his face," Just think about it okay?" And with that she walked back into the establishment.