"You have really nice palms." The words came out of Kai's mouth before he could stop them 'Damn you Luke 'he thought, this is not what he should be saying to an irate, getting-more-pissed-at-him-by-the-second Bonnie Bennett. She didn't bestow him with an answer, just a raise of those very expressive eyebrows and a scowl that she seemed to reserve especially for him. She started chanting the spell, her magic rippling and dancing around them, and Kai couldn't help himself.

"Do you know why I'm here? Because my guilt keeps me up at night."

But her eyes remained closed, she wasn't going to let him off that easy.

"I don't expect you to believe me, but I need you to give me one more chance."

No response. Inside his head, the Luke part of his brain laughed at him. That was your attempt to apologise to her? Kai Parker always won, so why couldn't he get through to one Bennett witch?

"Bonnie! Listen to me!" Grabbing her wrist, for the first time since merging with Luke, Kai saw that familiar murderous red-haze cover his vision, turning the blanket of snow on the ground the colour of blood. She gasped and reared back, as if she was expecting the pain of him sucking her magic from her against her will to radiate through her body. Kai saw pure terror flash in her eyes, before that steely resolve that he associated only with Bonnie Bennett returned to her features.

You did that to her. You broke her.

"Sorry, I – Oh my God, I didn't mean to do that…"

Fixed by her glare once again, Kai struggled to find where that loss of control had come from, his brows furrowed and he gasped for breath, but Bonnie seemed almost validated by his actions.

"But you did it anyway, because even if you are telling the truth, the old you is still inside of you – The Ascendant is this way" and she pushed past him without even so much as a glance.

Kai followed Bonnie through the snow covered forest, marvelling at the way the glistening white ground was only marred by her tiny footprints. He hadn't seen snow in around two decades, and the old sociopathic part of him hated how much the weather in this prison world affected him. He was reminded of a time when he and his siblings weren't burdened with their own magic – or lack thereof – and would play in the large yard that was a part of his family home. Sun or snow, he and Josette would always lead out the littler ones to have snowball fights or play on the tyre swing… Before his family deemed him an abomination and locked him away.

With her back to him, Kai could almost kid himself that she was there willingly. Almost. But he had to know. He wasn't sure what it was about dear old Bon Bon, but he really hadn't been able to stop thinking about her. He needed to get her to listen, to see that he really was sorry,

"Why can't you believe that I've changed Bonnie?" his voice rung out through the trees, echoing back to them, the only ears to land on his own, and the object of his guilt.

She stopped and turned to look at him, and he thought he saw tears in the young Bennett's stoic, green eyes. This both confused and concerned him, he knew Bonnie had brought through that hunting knife, likely to stab him in the back first chance she got, leave him here. Payback.

"Because people don't change, not for the better", she said, her voice steady and calm despite her watery eyes.

Kai had always seen her as the 'glass-half-full' type, so her words startled him. Tears rolled down her face now and he opened his mouth to… do something, comfort her, chasistise her, reassure her that he had in fact done exactly that, but she cut him off.

"Do you know how many people have assured me that they've changed, only for me to find them doing the exact thing they said they would never do again?! Do you know what it feels like to have the only constant thing in your life be death? "

By now hot, salty tears were falling from her face, hitting the snow and freezing. Kai was frozen too, watching this ever strong woman crumble in front of him. He wasn't sure what to say. The Luke voice in his head was quiet as well. She laughed then, an empty, mirthless sound and her eyes flashed up to meet his, something feral in them now, behind the tears,

"How about I show you that, huh? 'The Chronicles of Bonnie Bennett' a.k.a. the most depressing story in the universe." Her voice cracked and wavered, but Bonnie started chanting once again, and Kai's vision blurred,

"Bonnie, wait!" Kai wasn't sure what Bonnie was doing.. hell, he didn't think she knew what she was doing by showing him this, and he knew she would probably...definitely regret it later.

By this point, Kai could no longer see the snow, his eyes clouded by the colours and swirls of Bonnie's magic.

And then suddenly, he was outside of a small, white house, looking in from under a big oak tree, sunlight filtering onto the porch, where a little girl, maybe 6, sat looking out to the road, as if waiting for something, or someone. Next to the girl sat a familiar teddy bear – Ms. Cuddles. Now Kai started to recognise the large leaf green eyes and long dark locks of hair, this was Bonnie.

The crunch of leaves behind him caught him a little off guard, and when he turned, there she was, still in her 1903 prison world attire, the grown Bennett witch, staring sadly at the little girl sat on the porch.

"She's waiting for someone, someone that won't come back. At least not until she's 17 and cavorting with original vampires and hybrids.", Bonnie's voice was melancholy, and seeing her younger self seemed to dissipate the hate she had shown towards him, for the time being that is.

"Who?", Kai asked, his voice just above a whisper as he took in the betrayal, sadness and anger all displayed on the girls face, somehow all at the same time. She looked younger than she ever had before.

"Her mother."