Dark in his imagination
Summary: AU/AH. Bonnie's Bennet's 12 unsettling meetings with the mysterious Kai Parker and his darkness which only inspires fear in her.
Disclaimer: None of the TVD characters are mine.
1.
The Christmas Party
Her instinct, when he first introduced himself to Bonnie at the Christmas party, hosted by her friends Elena and Damon, was to tell both of them... don't go into business with him!
There was the smile that didn't quite reach his eyes and the chill from his eyes unsettled her from the very first time he set the eerie, watchful pair on Bonnie, at the time her face managed to remain blank and mute with some form of unknown fear. Elena and Damon seemed completely oblivious to her silent resistance when she hardly returned the lanky strangers greeting. His tall gait may have been intimidating, but the towering height didn't worry Bonnie as much as the piercing gaze and his strong hands.
'I don't want him to touch me', She'd thought immediately, but her movements had been sluggish enough not to avoid a handshake and her hand just slipped into his with more eagerness than she'd planned; maybe it was the compulsion of his oppressive presence. His large hands manage to swallow her slender one whole. Bonnie hadn't met this stranger before, but he was familiar to her in an almost frighteningly intimate way. So, she'd clumsily tugged her hand out of his slightly unyielding grip, while he held on for few more seconds than was necessary...or appropriate. The spark of friction from their inadvertent hand wrestling prompted her to look at him again. He'd looked into Bonnie's eyes almost knowingly, like he could sense her raw, unwarranted fear. Then he'd smiled when they separated from their awkwardly stilted handshake, a languid smile which seemed almost privy to what she was thinking.
And she did not like it. Not one bit.
Bonnie remembered pulling Damon and Elena into their newly decorated kitchen, the fairy lights casting a gentle glow on them, while snowflakes layered the garden with the season's first snow, 'Just promise me you'll look into his background first, there's something off about him Damon...'
Damon only gave her his best, 'you're completely crazy' smile, while Elena poured more Champaign into tall fluted glasses. Bonnie would have argued at their general level of disbelief, but then saw Kai from the kitchen window, watching her quietly, and completely unapologetic, his face blurred behind all those glasses, green eyes burning with desire that oddly enough didn't warm her.
She'd decided she wanted to leave the party then.
After Elena and Damon gave into their intense attraction to each other since their teens and got married, they'd starting viewing Bonnie as more of a free spirit, roaming the world, unattached and perfectly serene about it, unlike them. They were more cemented in a lifestyle of luxury and wealth and Elena was always a 'keeping up appearances' kind of woman, Bonnie never truly cared to understand, nor appreciated as much.
Maybe the fact that her friends seemed... well, completely charmed by Kai's improbable wealth and shark like smile, made her feel almost left out and worried about some calamity that hadn't even occurred yet. They've always been a dysfunctional family of friends, who grew up together, growing apart and close at hints of changes in their lives. They were close now- she hoped Kai wasn't the change that was going to drive them all apart.
But still, they were her friends and their risky attraction to a business deal with someone they hardly knew, continued to give her the creeps. There was just something wrong with Kai Parker.
While her gram's had been alive, she always maintained that Bonnie was the perceptive kind; she meant it in a really freaky kind of supernatural way that Bonnie herself always shrugged off kindly.
And now, when she was close to screaming in terror and cowering from the truth, it still took her breath away by surprise, at how she had that inkling of pure fear in his presence; that clear inkling of paranoia that Kai was a very dangerous man.