The Murder
It could be dangerous, Bonnie knows that better than anyone, but she still gives Kai the knife even though her mind screams no. The cold handle of her favorite knife leaves her hand and changes owner from the beautiful witch to the devious man sitting beside her. Kai takes a break from his singing of "This is Halloween" and takes the knife with a firm grip.
She feels no fear, not really, however she can't shake the feeling of Kai being able to ruin everything. He could make a big mess and in a way she would like to do so too. A beautiful mess. Ruin the sofa with stains she would never be able to wash away, stab the cushions with the knife Kai and she just used to commit horrific actions and let the feathers be her bed.
She looks at Kai in the corner of her eye, glances down at his lips; a twisted smile on his concentrated face, and without thinking licks her own lips.
He twists his head to stare at her. "Do you enjoy what you're seeing, baby?" The smile grows bigger.
"Don't call me baby." Bonnie furrows her brows and clenches her fists, now regretting her decision to give him the knife.
He only shakes his head slightly and then meets her eyes again. "After what we just did... why shouldn't I call you baby? We're like a couple, and besides we have two more to go."
"'Two more to go'?! You almost killed the other ones!" She yells at him with clenched jaws.
"That's why I let you do it, you make them oh so pretty." He chuckles and lifts up the knife high in the air before letting it, with a terrifying sound, sink into his next victim.
"If you do it like that it's torture, you can't cut like you're Dexter on crack."
Kai crosses his arm with a pout, the knife dangling loosely in his hand. "I thought you hadn't done this before."
"I live in Mystic Falls, Kai. Pretty much all of us have done it at some point." Bonnie massages her temples. "Just cut out the damn face."
He whistles low. "That sounds really bizarre, Bonnie."
She sighs. Her legs are stiff from sitting in the same position for too long but she still manages to stand up and stand behind Kai. Her hands find his broad shoulders and she uses him to slip down behind him.
He is facing forward, paralyzed by the skin to skin contact with the witch. He takes a quick glance over the shoulder and swallows loudly.
She giggles in his ear. "Are you nervous?" She teasingly lets her lips briefly touch his neck on the way. "You were the one asking me to do this with you."
He shakes his head, but his body is his own enemy; he swallows once again, his spine straightens and he licks his gorgeous lips.
"You're nervous around me, but not when you almost killed something that innocent?"
She moves in closer to his back, pressing her breasts against him. The clothes she's wearing today isn't nearly covering her enough and it's hugging her figure; the day of tricks has it's Queen of Sin.
The sharp sound of the knife dropping to the floor stops her actions. "What are you doing, Bonnie?"
"I'm helping you succeed with at least one of them", she says with a grin on her plump lips.
The knife is waiting for her and she wastes no time picking it up from the floor – the floor covered with the guts from their first guinea-pigs before they had the sense to have a bag to throw away the insides.
She takes the knife and puts it back into his hand, covering it with her own, and ignores his snow white knuckles.
"Follow this line...", she whispers and lets the knife follow her imagination of the victim's new mouth. "And then the eyes..."
It takes them eight minutes to complete.
The pits and pieces they cut are thrown into the black bag, soon to be buried in the yard or the forest, and she cleans the knife from any evidence of their doings.
She clears her throat. "You won't tell anyone about this... right?" Her head drops to his shoulder. "Why did I do this, why did I say yes?" she asks herself, too quiet for him to hear her questions.
"Tell anyone what? That we spent time together?" Kai shakes his head. "If you are ashamed of it then-"
"Ashamed? Look at them, Kai! We're horrible, I won't be able to face my friends if they knew I – you and I – did that!" As her words leave her lips she closes her eyes.
"I've done worse, Bonnie."
"I know you have", she sighs.
"It's fine, I will take the blame", he says and pats her head, but quickly removes it.
Her heart picks up its pace when she realizes how close they are; the need to tease him has left her system and something else replaces it. Hesitantly she puts her arms around him and moves her head to the crook of his neck.
"Thank you", she says against his neck and then releases him. Her black high heels produce a loud noise against the wooden floor when she walks away from him with one hand over her beating heart.
The man sitting on the floor is frozen in his place – mouth gaping and eyebrows raised. "You're leaving?"
She nods her head and looks down and away from him. Another pair of footsteps join hers. "We have to set them on fire first, we're not done."
The window outside shows her the black night, the leaves have fallen from the trees and a grand moon is decorating the sky. They would burn so beautifully in the garden. She shakes her head, she should go, but she can't. Just like she couldn't find the will to say no when he asked her to help him, she can't walk out that door. The reason is not unknown to her, but she doesn't want to say it aloud. If she did, that would mean it's real and there would be no going back.
She doesn't answer him; she just picks up a lighter from a small table in the corner of the room.
A long finger points at their horrific creations. "The porch should be fine, I take two and you take the other ones."
Kai nods and without saying anything to each other they put them on the porch. Sweat is forming on her forehead since it was a lot heavier than she'd thought, however Kai doesn't seem to mind the weight. The weight of the lighter in her hand's comforting, but she gives it to a shocked Kai.
"You should do it."
He hesitates but still accepts it; he gives her a last glance as if to look if she regrets it, however there is no regret and he quickly ignites them one by one.
"They are beautiful", she says quietly.
Kai huffs. "Of course they are, we made them."
Bonnie can't help herself from giving him a big smile, making him take a small step back with a hand over his heart.
"Damn, Bonnie, I seem to have broken my leg when I fell for you."
Her laughter pierces the spooky night. "And if you continue with the pick-up lines I will probably fall for you too."
"Is that so?" He inches closer to the now silent and still woman beside him. It's Bonnie's turn to swallow when she realizes what she said. "I know a lot of pick-up lines, Bonnie."
Her gaze finds the glow on the porch; her lips form a grin by the sight. "Game on." She meets his gaze once again. "I bet you can't make me fall for you by the time those-" Bonnie points in the direction of the porch. "-have rotten away."
"And if I can?"
"Then I will..." She pauses. "Dress up as anything you want next Halloween."
A lopsided grin matches hers. "Game on, baby."
Bonnie roles her eyes and faces their creations once again. Almost all of them look horrible, almost disgustingly ugly, however some of them are okay enough not to embarrass her.
"You know, Kai, for this being, like, your first attempt it's quite good."
"Thank you, ma'am", he replies and bows dramatically.
When the witch leaves the devious man, she leaves with a smile. She leaves him standing in the middle of the night with only pumpkins as company. He smiles and gazes at the last pumpkin on the porch, the last creation they made. "You are my favorite one, please rot only when she has fallen for me." He sighs. "I guess I will have to google some pick-up lines."
A/N: Hi, I hope you enjoyed that Halloween inspired oneshot (I'm sorry about the pick-up lines, but unfortunately there will be more of those in future oneshots).
So did you understand it was pumpkins all along? I really tried to be sneaky with it... I at least tried :) I would love to get feedback on that aspect of the story, if you got "fooled", since this was my first time trying it.
May we meet again in the next oneshot
And happy Halloween!
