»Bonnie! «

She felt how two people sank to the ground next to her. The one laid carefully her head into his lap while the other pulled slowly something out of her back. The blood was running down her back and she screamed out.

»I'm sorry«, someone whispered from nowhere, as something was pressed against her lips and she began to swallow reflexively.

Someone pushed his arms under her body and lifted her up.

»What are you doing? «

»Lay her on the couch. «

»You moron will let her fall. «

»Got it. « Her head was gently placed on a pillow, when the hands on her arms suddenly disappeared. She heard a loud crash and the noise, as if someone sharped breathe. Her eyelids trembled as she tried to open them.

»What did you do? «, someone growled from the other side of the room.

»Ric, that wasn't Kai«, another voice next to her gave back. Bonnie managed to open her eyes a bit and saw that it was Damon. »Well, exceptionally not. «

Alaric was standing on the other side of the room, pressing his elbow against his future brother-in-laws throat. He relaxed after Damon's words, but didn't release his grip.

»What happened, then? «, he gave back coolly and didn't turn his eyes from Kai who groaned silently as the extant wound on his back was pressed against the rough wall. He held his gaze though.

»One of those vampires who are still trapped there appeared suddenly as we were about to leave. No idea whether they thought Bonnie was a vampire, but I guess he tried to impale her. «, Damon gave back remorseful. Apparently he dealt with the fact that he didn't see that coming.

Bonnie coughed and Kai pulled Alaric from himself with only one move to go back to the couch. Damon held him from sitting next to her.

»Guess it would be better if you leave now«, he said coldly and crossed his arms over his chest. Kai looked at Bonnie and nodded, before he left the house through the front door.

While Alaric put away the shards of the broken vase he destroyed as he attacked Kai, Damon put a blanket over Bonnie.

He mumbled something that sounded like »Sleep well, Bon Bon«, but she didn't hear it any more as she already closed her eyes.


It had been two days since their little jaunt to 1903, and Bonnie already felt like she did before. Well, almost. Although Damon gave her his blood to cure the wound on her back there was also still the fact that there was a psychopath running around in Mystic Falls which hurt her much more. At least she promised herself to banish him out of her life, and even that failed.

Damon and Elena kind of imprisoned her the first day because they didn't want her to walk around with Damon's blood in her body. But when her best friend suggested keeping her away from everything until she was completely healed again, Bonnie had escaped.

Now she was already hiding from her friends for hours. She didn't really have a place to go to where they wouldn't expect her to be, so she went to the cemetery of Mystic Falls.

Bonnie blinked while she looked at her Gram's grave stone. It was still unreal to her that she really was dead since she saw her a few times since then. She felt the sadness each time again though, and it brought tears to her eyes.

There was still this picture of her grams in her head, that moment when she didn't sense something bad. And then, the next moment, when she realized that she wasn't breathing anymore.

Bonnie didn't know how long she stayed there. But her skin was cold in spite of the good weather and her hands were shaking as she heard the quiet ringing of her phone and pulled it out of her pocket.

She suspected Damon or Elena to call her, but there was a unknown number on her display. She answered the call.

»Hello? «

»Bonnie? « Bonnie frowned as she heard the voice on the other side of the line. Where the hell got Kai her number from?

»No, wait! Don't hang up - «

Bonnie pressed her finger on her smartphone to cancel the call. Only a few seconds later, she got a message.

Please, Bonnie. I just want to talk to you!

She stared at the words and wanted to ignore the message, but she kind of forced herself to answer anyway.

How do you get my number?

It didn't last a minute until she got the answer.

Damon gave it to me.

Bonnie cursed Damon and swore herself to make him pay for that.

Why?

She waited for an answer, and when she finally thought he might have given up, her phone started to make that quiet, whistling tone again.

Too much to write it in a message. Can I talk to you? Please.

Another message arrived since she didn't answer.

Where are you?

That doesn't concern you.

He didn't texted back after that and Bonnie closed her eyes satisfied. She didn't believe he gave up, but maybe she would have some peaceful time until he starts another plan. She leaned her head against the tree and turned off her phone. She could have stayed there for hours if there hadn't been this voice which pulled her out of her thoughts.

»The cemetery? Really? «

Bonnie ripped her eyes open and gave Kai a bad glance who leaned against a grave stone a few meters from her.

»What are you doing her? « The question came out of her mouth before she could stop herself. She didn't want to talk to him, actually – she wanted him to leave -, and no she admitted it anyway.

»Told you I want to talk to you«, he gave back and shrugged. He looked better than the last time she saw him. His skin got color again and there was this typical, sarcastic grin on his face. God, she hated that grin.

»And I told you I'm not interested in a conversation with you« She grabbed her phone and got to her feet, only to disappear into the opposite direction of him.

»Where are you going? «, Kai asked irritated.

»Away from you«, she gave back and just ran through the grave stones without any target when she was pulled back on her hand the next moment. She expected pain she had felt often enough when Kai absorbed her magic, but it didn't come. She looked at her hand which was still in his. She shook him off determined and wanted to turn around, when her gaze landed on something behind him and she frowned.

»Bonnie? « Kai followed her eyes and watched the grave stone in front of them. Rudy Hopkins.

He didn't know that man, but how should he? This man lived in Mystic falls and died only one year ago.

But she still looked straight to the name on that stone and Kai saw who tears welled up in her eyes. He was worried that she would start to cry, so he touched carefully her arm, but she shook him off immediately.

»Leave me alone«, she snapped. »Why don't you understand that I don't want to talk to you? I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to have to see you, I don't even want to have to think about you! «

Kai took a step back as she threw him the rough words right in the face and watched her standing in front of the grave stone. He saw how her shoulders shake and followed her despite her words.

»Who was he? « He knew she didn't want to talk about at, probably less to him than to everyone else. That's why he was surprised when he heard her quiet voice. »My father. «

Bonnie was still staring at the grave stone as in trance when Kai suddenly stand next to her and held a bouquet of wildflowers in his hands. She looked at him questioningly, but he just shrugged his shoulders without saying something. So she took the flowers from him and laid them on the ground in front of the dark grave stone.