Lilith Huron/Relationships

Vern Harrison
It started as a way to get information. He was someone who knew her before she was ocean dumped — he made that obvious. But then it became more. It was nice that he didn't ask of her to get things for him, didn't use her like her other friends did. No meds, no special treatment, or anything like that which made him so much more attractive to her. She was fine with him flirting, knew it was in his nature and it did him good sometimes for information. His charm hit her in a way she didn't expect and soon she found him as a part of her life. One night the relationship turned sexual and she invited him into her apartment and has been sleeping with him since.
It quickly devolved from a "one night stand" to something much, much more. She began to do irrational things for him and even feel worried when he appeared in the ER. She never worried about her patients this much. When Vern was shot in the neck by OMC, it hit her — this was so much more than "worry" or a simple relationship where they just slept with one another. She became constantly more anxious as Vern's recklessness grew, worrying always for the worst. When OMC picked her up and kidnapped her, they asked her if she loved him and when they did ― it hit. She did. She loved him. As an overall detached person the realization hit hard and made her think of how dear she holds him to her. She loves him and the protection and care he has given her that no one else in her life has ever gave, even if he doesn't understand that yet. At the end of the day she loves him for being him, for being Vern despite his unwillingness to accept this she knows its true herself. She puts his comfort first, and refuses to label their relationship until he is comfortable with doing so himself.