DAY 6770

(Tuesday, May 10th 1994 / Wednesday, November 21st 2012)

12:51 P.M – THE WOODS

No magic.

For years Kai had resented his family and their natural ability to channel magic whenever they wanted, while his own freaky power only allowed him to siphon it from others temporarily. With the privilege of magic he would have been able to break out of his prison cell many, many years ago. Hell, with magic his father might have treated him with respect and allowed him to merge with his sister at the right time like he was supposed to. He could've been out there, in the real world, living his life as the new coven leader. The anticipation of merging with his twin sister and possibly gain her abilities had been the one thing keeping him semi-sane during his childhood.

I've lost my magic.

Angry Kai pounded his fist into the nearest tree, his eyes growing dark at the memory of Bonnie's wrists, cold and empty, with no swirling magic to answer his touch. It had stumped him, the realization that she'd acted in the exact same way as his sister did all those years ago, desperate to keep the magic away from him. But unlike his sister, Bonnie had given him a clue.

I wonder if I accidentally put it somewhere.

Oh, they were clever. What better way to render him helpless than to transfer their magic to something else; something out of his imminent reach. He was familiar with the notion of transferring magic from one person to another through his own siphoning, but it had never occurred to him before that it could be done from something living to something inanimate, storing it for later use.

I put it someplace safe.

Bonnie had hidden her magic in Ms. Cuddles. But not just that, she'd sent it away; so far it was even out of her own reach. Bonnie couldn't help him now, just as little as she could help herself. But if she could do it, it meant his sister could do the same thing. And if his suspicions were right, he knew exactly where her magic could be found. All that remained was how to get them there.

A trip to the Pacific Northwest was easy enough to arrange. It was a fair long distance across the country, but Kai had made the trip a thousand times before using different types of transportation. The fastest one would be to fly.

By the end of his first year in the prison world Kai had mastered the art of flying, but not without a few crashes along the way. Most of them unintentional, but others were more premeditated on his darker days. Since then he had managed to charter and log the air and weather thorough enough to plan a trip almost anywhere in the world without hitting turbulence; or lots of it if he wanted a challenge.

The hard part would be convincing Bonnie to come with him, because he needed her. If all went well he would have his sister's magic by tomorrow. The ascendant was already in his possession. The only thing missing to perform the spell would be Bonnie and a drop of her potent Bennett blood. But she would never agree to it. Not the way things stood between them right now.

I guess we're stuck here…forever.

Kai had spent the last 18 years fighting that thought, and he was not about to give in to it now. Taking in a deep breath in order to calm himself, he shifted his direction and headed straight for the Salvatore boarding house. He had work to do.