The sun is shining gloriously as Jo and Alaric proceed with their nuptials. Everyone is dressed in their finest and sunniest attire. Jo looks beautiful and already has that maternal glow, her baby bump in its absolute earliest stages. Alaric is smiling like he's the luckiest son of a bitch alive. Liv and Elena stand behind Jo in their lilac bridesmaids dresses, both beginning to shed tears as they watch the ceremony proceed. Jeremy and Damon stand behind Alaric in their grey suits and lilac ties, both proud. In fact everyone is beaming at the wedding, considering most of them never thought they'd have a chance to see anyone wed in this town that was so constantly full of dread. But today was a joyous day as it was spring, the flowers had all freshly bloomed and everyone not only felt happy but hopeful for the future. The priest proceeded to speak and said, "Speak now or forever hold your peace." Damon opened his mouth only for Elena to shoot him a glance that screamed "Don't you dare!" He smirked deviously and Bonnie laughed from the crowd as she watched the whole interaction. Bonnie looked especially beautiful today in a yellow lace maxi dress that skimmed the ground she stepped on despite her heels. Her hair curled to perfection in huge ringlets with flower petals cascaded everywhere. Damon wiggled his eyebrows at her and smirked once again. As the priest cleared his throat, an outrageous laugh echoed through the barn. All heads turned sharply to find the object of such mischievous noise and there the devil stood in a black tuxedo and skinny tie, looking sharp as ever.
"I object." Kai stated with a hunger in his voice, a hunger Damon and Bonnie knew all to well, but his eyes were barren and desolate. Damon and Bonnie's heads snapped towards each other as they simultaneously mentally muttered, "oh shit." Everyone else held their breath as most did not know who Kai or this handsome manic stranger was.
"To be honest Josette, I think you could do better than this. I mean I know he knocked you up but that doesn't mean you marry the guy. And I'm sorry, clearly I'm dressed wrong I figured that this would be a black tie event. But I wouldn't exactly know considering I never received an invitation. But I'm sure it just got lost in the mail, right Josette?"
"What do you want Kai?" Jo said her voice strained. Bonnie and Damon silently began to formulate a plan and nodded in conclusion. Bonnie whispered to the people around her telling them that on her mark to get the hell out the barn. She can sense a quick panic begin to rise but Bonnie assures them that now is not the time for panic. She turns to her best friend, Matt who is just as confused as the rest of the innocent crowd.
"Matt I need you too make sure that everyone arrives safely outside to their cars. Text Tyler and tell him to do the same for his side."
"Bon what's happening?" Bonnie offers him a small smile as she always does with Matt.
" Something is going to happen and I'm going to need you too make sure these people are safe."
"And what are you going to do?" Bonnie grabbed Matt's hand and squeezed it a little.
"I'm going to do what I should have done in the first place." Her voice full of determination and Matt nodded in comprehension. Damon sidestepped Jeremy and whispered into Ric's ear, "On my mark you and Jo make a run for it. Get to the car and don't look back."
"What?"
"Don't ask, just listen. Jeremy I want you to secure the crowd along with Tyler and Matt." Jeremy nodded and Ric realized he had no choice but to agree.
"One more thing Ric, take Elena with you." Ric nodded, Damon couldn't risk a newly human Elena to her death. He would die before he'd ever let her get turned into a vampire again.
"What are you gonna do?" Alaric asked.
"What I should have done the first time he laid his filthy hands on Bonnie." Damon stated as he relived the memory of Kai siphoning Bonnie's magic and how he had no choice but to watch as he doubled over crippled by the pain Kai inflicted on him.
Then gravely uttered to himself, "Kill him."
"What?! No you can't!" Alaric whispered frantically, quickly pulling Damon out of his death glare. "What why?!" Damon exhaled in disbelief. Kai was still leisurely walking down the aisle, his mouth slightly ajar as he eyed the crowd like prey with a stare models would pay to have.
"What do I want? Mmm let me think about that. Hold on... you invited Dad. The man who has pinned us against each other since birth. The man who'd kill all his children for the sake of a coven..But you didn't invite me." Kai could swear he'd felt something as he looked at the man who created the monster he was. He figured the feeling inside of him was just much needed rage and that he would enjoy murdering his father later. He could tell his father was uneasy but he knew that he would never back down from a fight especially not with Kai, which was exactly what Kai was counting on.
"Tisk, tisk Josette you continue to disappoint me." Kai paused halfway to the alter, he quite enjoyed being theatrical and having this much deserved attention.
"I think, we all know what I want." He said as he laughed inwardly. Everyone held their bated breath, waiting for Kai's request considering they hadn't the slightest clue.
"Clearly you bunch aren't the brightest. So I'm going to do all of you a favor and spell it out for you. I'm looking for a girl whose been extremely naughty. She's about yay tall, little shrimp of a thing she is. Her name the sweetest of treats. Come out, come out wherever you are my little... Bon Bon." Kai ended wickedly with a smile, ever since his arrival he had been searching for her. But he had yet to find her little brunette head in the sea of people in attendance. Bonnie began to walk towards him she was never one to back down from a fight either but Matt grabbed her wrist before she could move any further. Bonnie looked into his eyes and she saw the mingled emotions he felt behind those vibrant blue eyes. He chewed on his lip not knowing what to say but Bonnie knew exactly what he wanted to say. His eyes screamed, "Don't do it. Don't go. I've seen you do this way to many times."
And she answered comfortingly, "This time it's different Matt. When this is all over, we will still be standing." Matt heard the power in her words but he still remained doubtful.
"How do you know that?"
"Well Bon Bon do you plan on showing up anytime soon? Or are you playing chicken?" Kai hollered through the air, growing impatient and a bit tense in the fear that she might not be in attendance.
Bonnie gently squeezed Matt's hand "Because I know."
And then she quickly walked away as Matt watched his best friend go off to battle for the millionth time. Damon's face contorted as he saw Bonnie making her way through the aisle. Kai began to smile like a kid awaiting his birthday present as he heard the rustling in between the aisles. He was impatient, he couldn't wait to feast his eyes on her. Damon inched himself of the platform the closer Bonnie got to revealing herself. Finally after what felt like an eternity to Kai, Bonnie showed herself. Originally he had intended to pounce her the second he saw her and make her pay for what she's done. Make her pay for losing the ability to feel, make her pay for sending him back into a world of darkness. But at the sight of her, his rage disappeared and his mouth went absolutely dry. Kai already knew Bonnie was beautiful most of the time, he felt that he was the only one who knew so. An indulgent little secret he kept all to himself, the secret of her undeniable beauty. But today in this moment she was... radiant! She looked like a fucking ray of sunshine igniting something inside him. Igniting emotion in his dead hollow eyes. She had managed to dazzle him without even uttering a word. As Kai's brain tried to wrap his head around the image of beauty before him.
Bonnie had given Matt and Tyler the signal, Damon had given the signal to Ric. Quickly the crowd started running in an attempt to evacuate which made the air heavy with panic. And even though the world moved frantically around him; Kai's world stood still in fact she didn't move an inch as she glared him in the eye, and a large part of him longed for it to stay that way. Just him staring at her boundless perfection. Ric and Jo tried dragging Elena away but as easily predicted she put up a fight. She yanked Damon's hand cried for him to take her along with him.
Damon caressed her cheek and pleaded, "Go! I will find my way back to you. But I need you to be safe. So please for the love of god, listen to me for once and go!" And in a surprising twist of events Elena kissed him and obeyed. She nodded and turned toward Ric, Damon couldn't deny that he was in shock. Ric quickly whispered the reason as to why they can not kill Kai in Damon's ear which caused a deep snarl to come from somewhere inside him. Then Alaric grabbed both ladies and escaped out the back. Kai had taken achingly slow steps toward Bonnie controlled by whatever sensation controlled his body. Soon there were merely inches between them, and Kai pushed the hair out of her face as he caressed her cheek with a sweet delicacy.
"Don't you look absolutely ravishing. If I didn't know any better I'd swear it was your day." Bonnie's eyes remained cold and full of disdain while she lifted her chin as she always did when she spoke to Kai, challenging him. "What do you want Kai?" He wanted to taste her seemingly soft heart-shaped lips against his with all his might but he fought every impulsive urge to. Once again gaining control of his maniacal mask, as his eyes returned back the image of a barren wasteland.
"I want your pretty little head on a platter." He smiled as his voice grew grave and he poked her little nose. And without hesitation Damon super sped and punched him in the face, "Like I said don't ever lay a hand on her!" Damon said taking his place beside Bonnie looked at him with gratitude and Damon gave her look to see if she was okay. He knew that being Kai's presence could incite her to relive some painful memories.
Stefan, Caroline, Liv and Enzo followed suit as they stood with the stances of heroes ready for preemptive strike but came across more like an ad for Gossip Girl. Kai slowly wiped the deep burgundy blood of his lips with just a single thumb and chuckled as he turned to see the irony of the image before him.
"Wow I'm impressed Bonnie your friends actually care for your safety now. I mean they didn't give two shits when you were stuck on the other side. Wait. How long were you stuck there again? Eight months?" Bonnie swallowed as she tried not to think about the loneliness that consumed her in that eternal solitude and instantly all her friends looked guilt ridden, as they should, especially Damon. Kai laughed at how easy it was to get to them, just a few words and this band of heroes were already putty in his hands.
"Oh well, too little too late. I plan on murdering you all within the next few minutes."
"In case you haven't noticed there are 6 of us and one of you." Caroline clarified the obvious in case Kai couldn't handle simple math.
"Your point being?" Kai asked with a rise of his brow as he watched the gang intently.
"I guess what she's saying is you and what army?" Damon replied itching to punch Kai again.
"Oh. You mean this army?" Kai said with a snap of his fingers and two people appeared by his side while 3 more appeared blocking the entrance of the barn. Many of the guests had escaped but there was still a good percentage of them still inside along with Matt, Tyler, and Jeremy, now telling the crowd to fallback.
Kai focused on Bonnie as he shoved his hands into the pockets of his well tailored suit and replied "I'd like to introduce you to my friends whom I had the pleasure of getting better acquainted with. When you abandoned me in 1903, Bonnie Bennett."