Sorry I've taken forever my heads been clouded and I am sad about Kai being left in 1903. But hope you enjoy and this chapter is only Bonkai didn't have the inspiration to write the rest.
The sense of urgency erupted inside of a beleaguered Bonnie as she realized she was literally racing against time. She stood up with the obvious intent of jumping into the quarry and swimming to safety but she was quickly reminded that she was entwined with rope and strapped to a weight. Her eyes raced to the timer once again 1:29. She had approximately one minute to propel herself into the water. With immense speed she bent her knees and latched her hands on to the rope that strapped her to the weight, and yanked for her dear life. Her teeth grinded against each other as she yanked with all the muscle she could muster. But the weight didn't budge, in fact it seemed pretty content and comfortable in where it was positioned. But she continued to yank until her hands blistered into a scarlet red from rope burn. A yelp escaped from her lips as she paused to examine her fragile, smooth hands that were now oozing of a burgundy red liquid. She stared at her stubborn obstacle once again but the thing had refused to move, it had taken to calling the corner of the canoe home.
0:41.
"Oh my god I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die." She cried as her eyes met the stars that mockingly twinkled above. A tear made a trail down her face. Her hand met the skin on her face and wiped away whatever had been shed as she cleared her sinuses. She inhaled in resolution; she did not have the luxury to have a mental breakdown right now. She crouched down on her knees and placed both hands on the side, on what now dictated her fate. Her memory flashed towards Matt when he had taught her how to lift any object. She gritted her teeth once again and lifted. To her surprising delight she had lift it about an inch off the canoe when she learned that this weight might actually weigh a ton.
0:23.
At the sight of the mere seconds she had left, adrenaline surged through her body.
"Lift with your knees not your back." She repeated to herself like Matt had taught her various times before and each time she would start with lifting with her back. But this time she knew better, she straightened her back as her spine came into alignment. Every vein and muscle was utilized as she clenched her teeth and lifted. Beads of perspiration cascaded down her face, as the engine that was her body forced itself to lift. A smile of disbelief spread across her face as she registered that somehow she had managed to pick up the impossible weight. In fact in her sudden joy it had become almost weightless as she hoisted it into the water. She exhaled not noticing that she had been holding her breath.
0:06
With a fascinating agility of an Olympic diver she took a deep breath and dived head first into the water right after the object that nearly caused her, her own demise. As she plummeted down into the depths of the quarry her ears popped and she turned to face the eruption of the canoe. She was in awe it was like watching the Fourth of July from the inside of an aquarium, some part of her didn't want to believe that Kai would trigger a real bomb but she knew him. She knew he was capable of it and yet there was still a miniscule part of her that wanted to vouch for his humanity. The part of her that was built into every strand of her DNA. The part of her that believed in the good of the world despite all the evil it had shown her. She was so lost in thoughts and the dimming lights of the explosion she didn't realize that she was slowly sinking to the bottom of what happened to be an abysmal quarry. It was when she was left in utter darkness that she began to comprehend that her eyes were indeed not closed. But that she floated into the void, a lost soul in a sea of oppression and misery. Finally it hit her that she was still entangled in heavy-duty rope and strapped to what was now an anchor. Floating in the abyss with only a deafening silence to accompany her she decided she knew two things. One that there was absolutely no possibility of her lifting the insufferable weight and two; that she could hold her breath for exactly fifty eight seconds, with the probability that she had used up half her air time already. She started to wrestle the rope hoping that it would give way, and weaken with the help of the water. But Kai must have been a boy scout before his psychopathic adventures because he had tied some expert knots. Leaving Bonnie in quite a knot of a situation. Bonnie didn't want to die here; she didn't want to awake only to drown continuously for an eternity. She didn't want to experience the same fate as Stefan. Bonnie had seen him twice on the Other Side and both times were brief and he was always distant and lost. Both times she had asked him how he had ended up there but he never replied to her, or even bothered to look at her. He just mumbled and it wasn't long before he would start choking up water. That's why Bonnie just thought she had imagined him being there; courtesy of all the stress she had from maintaining the image that she was still alive. So she never bothered to tell Jeremy, considering she didn't need him thinking that she was crazy on top of being dead. Until she had learned that Stefan wasn't alive and well he had suffered worse than her, a summer filled of countless deaths. That she could have prevented had she trusted herself. This was a guilt she had taken to secrecy that ate her up inside but she promised herself she would never speak of. That is until she broke down one day as Damon was force-feeding her pancakes yet again, and she confessed everything and to all the guilt that had eaten her up all these years. She was sure he would be mad at her for keeping all these secrets, especially the one about his brother. But that day Damon did a very uncharacteristic thing of him and hugged her. He hugged her to the point where she couldn't breath. After her initial shock she cried into his shoulders for what she was sure was hours. She cried about everything and anything until there was nothing left to cry about. And when she finally finished they just sat there in silence. It wasn't the deafening silence of solitude that they had been plagued with here, it was the silence that came with comfort and love. Damon didn't say anything because there was nothing to be said they understood each other, because they had the ability to communicate without the presence of words. Bonnie ended up falling asleep in his arms that day and Damon didn't mind as he brought her to her bed that night and kissed her goodnight. With that thought in mind she decided that she will not die here. She refused to be sentenced to an eternity of drowning. That she would once again feel Damon's embrace. She began to rack her brain in search of anything she's ever learned to find a way out of this as her lungs caught whiff of a fire burning inside. As an obvious thought entered her mind, she swore that if her hand were free she would have smacked herself on the head as she thought "Duh I'm a witch." She closed her eyes and an eerie calm fell over her entire body and to the untamed eye she would have appeared dead but she was concentrating on a spell her Grams had taught her two years ago. Her Grams was always her savior, her guardian angel. As she imagined the incantation inside the dark void of the quarry the heavy-duty rope began to glow as it transformed form yellow into green kelp. She opened her eyes in triumph and ripped apart the kelp that withheld her. She began to pedal through the water as her lungs began to burn. Her arms parted through the water as quickly as possible. She was sure that the surface was only inches away but it wasn't. Her arms and legs could not carry her fast enough as she felt her lungs were about to burst through her chest and it seemed she would never approach the surface. She swung her arms faster as the raging fire danced within her lungs each stroke causing her more pain. She began to worry that in the darkness it was possible that she wasn't even swimming straight up. With one last stroke she broke through the surface and was met with the cold crisp air of the night sky. She gasped for air hard as if she needed it to reach her toes. And silently swore she would never take air for granted again or the beauty of the stars above. After a several more whole-hearted breaths she began to paddle to the shore with great hurry. Her muscles had begun to ache from the exertion she had put on her body. So as the seconds passed her body turned into Jell-O. But with great physical endurance she made it to the shore. After all she was a lifeguard, she decided that signing up to be a lifeguard with Matt was the best decision she ever made. Because if she never had she was sure both he and her would have met their maker in the depths of the water. When her toes squished into the mushy ground below her she began to crawl she didn't make it very far as she collapsed onto the sand. She rubbed her face against it and ran it her fingers through the mush of sand as if she were bathing in money. Land oh sweet land, land is a beautiful thing to those who have been deprived of it. A smile appeared on her face in celebration that she was still alive. Her muscles completely numb, but her happiness overshadowed how much she had worn out her body. Right now sand, air, and land were all glorious to her. It wasn't until she felt the air in her lungs turn to ice that she was freezing. Her time for relaxation was not here yet she had duties to attend too; the first being to find Kai. She fought her body as it refused to stand, but after some persistence, she found herself standing upright. Her bathrobe weighed about 10 tons at the moment considering it was soaking wet. She swung it off her body and onto the sand below. A small smile appeared on her face from the relief she felt as she saw she had clothes underneath. Then it quickly disappeared when she realized that Kai must have dressed her, especially since she was wearing long white tube socks and an oversized Kurt Cobain t-shirt that clung to her body with some pinstriped boxers. "How thoughtful and polite of him" she thought sarcastically as she noticed that he didn't put any underwear on her. With the state of her wardrobe only igniting her more she began to march into the woods searching for a certain psychopath.
"K-Kai!" Her voice quaked from the cold; in fact her whole body was trembling as she continued. She mumbled a spell under her breath to light a fire in her hand; it kept her warm and helped her guide through a plethora of trees.
"K-Kai, I'm serious where are you? I-I passed you're test right so lets go h-home." She finished while stepping into a clearing.
"Bon Bon wants to go h-home." Kai mimicked her while stepping out from the shadows behind her. She shrieked a little her scream putting out her fire, the crazy bastard was always right there watching her, lurking. Kai watched her meticulously almost as if he was measuring her in increments and suddenly Bonnie felt very naked despite Kurt Cobain contradicting that argument. But it was weird she didn't only feel naked on the outside but on the inside too almost as if he was looking inside of her. She swallowed hard to find her strength.
"Bring me home."
"Well don't you want to know how you did with your first test? I mean considering you almost died a couple of times during the completion. I would think you would care at least a little bit." He said using his two fingers to indicate how little.
"I already know everything I need to know. You're a lunatic who tried to kill me and you're chalking it up to some test. But I'm sure you only wanted to see me suffer, because for some reason you're fucked up brain enjoys that." Bonnie spat at him she was sick of his sadistic crap.
"You think I wanted to see you suffer babe? No, no that's where you're wrong. Yes, I do enjoy watching you in general." He paused as he swallowed that hunger that threatened to take over. She inhaled because he was doing it again making her feel naked but she lifted her chin to challenge him to finish.
"But that's because you're a site to see, Babe." He said moving the hair that had begun to frost onto her face, away. And although it sent a rush through Bonnie's body she didn't break eye contact with him as she stood her ground.
"But sadly that little stint over there wasn't for me, it was for you." He finished with a poke on her nose, which only set her off.
"For me! How the hell was drowning for me!" She said shoving him, which only satisfied him even more. He smiled maliciously.
"Tell me Bonnie what did we agree on before?" Bonnie bit her lip in frustration as she racked her brain.
"You said you'd teach me how to survive not that you would try to kill me." Bonnie uttered as he got closer she was ready to hit him again.
"I am teaching you how to survive. Tell me Bon, when you we're floating down there, what did you see?" Kai said his eyes watching every increment of her body as it froze reliving the moment of utter darkness in the depths of the quarry.
"Nothing." She finally replied as she gathered herself together the memory was already inflicting her with pain.
"Not one shred of light or hope? Kai asked as he noted that her breathing had become labored as if she was running out of air.
"Nothing but… darkness." A bead of sweat trickled down her forehead and her lip trembled just the slightest and he knew she was there, that she know floated in the darkness again with nothing in the distance.
"And what did you do?" She didn't like his badgering but Kai wasn't about to stop anytime soon because this was part of the lesson too.
"I... don't know." She was nervous know as if she had given the wrong answer to Kai's inquiries. Kai was mere inches away now and he was deep inside her emerald eyes latching himself onto the vast fear that spiked her soul.
"I'll tell you what did, Bonnie Bennett. You fought." There was a growl in his voice that exuded pride and recollection.
"I fought?" The word sounded strange on her tongue as if the concept was something she never heard before. Her eyes widened and for a split second Kai lost himself, in the glimmers and the flecks that shone bright within those emerald eyes. But with one blink he was back to business, despite his love for mixing pleasure and business.
"For the first time ever, you fought for your life. You fought to survive."
"I did." Bonnie's smile over took her face as she came to the realization that what Kai had said was true. She didn't give up. She fought for herself. Not for someone else to live and prosper but for herself and nothing brought her more joy. This time Kai allowed himself more than a split second, her teeth dazzle in the night making her smile all the more breathtaking. And the jewels she called eyes were hypnotizing. In fact her smile was so infectious he found himself smiling too and he didn't understand why. The smile felt weird on his face it wasn't his usual mischievous smile; this smile was backed by something else than being up to no good. He could feel his insides swell and he had no idea what it meant the only thing he knew was that he liked it. But he bit down on his lip and contained himself from further "weird" smiling and brought it back to his regular sadistic smile.
"You're welcome." He winked at her, as he was the one who brought her to have this epiphany. Bonnie found herself rolling her eyes but had yet to let her smile fade.
"Now what was the first rule of survival?" He asked testing her to make sure she had indeed been paying attention.
"Expect the unexpected." Bonnie answered with some pride, she figured if she can learn and survive all of Kai's rules that she can survive anything. I mean Kai had survived 18 years in solitude with his rules alone. If she could master them she could do anything because the biggest challenge in the world is being alone.
"Good girl, because even when things seem safe their not and you have got to be prepared." Kai added as he reached for Bonnie's hand. He reflexes we're sharp though and with a shake of her wrist she sent him flying into a nearby tree. Kai crouched over from the blow in what Bonnie thought was pain but she learned rapidly that he was laughing. He was laughing wholeheartedly and a part of her couldn't help but think that his laugh was almost musical.
"That was good, really good. But I was just going to show you where we'll be staying for the rest of the week." He said dusting himself off still chuckling to himself.
"Wait we're not going home?" Bonnie thought of the boardinghouse and how it lacked Damon's presence and found that she was okay with not going back.
"Nope. Every hero or villain needs a place of serenity to train themselves." Kai wished he could live to see the day where Bonnie was the villain.
"Oh like Batman." Bonnie explained thinking of Batman Begins. She was Bruce Wayne suffering much of the same fate as he did, watching her father die in the middle of the town square. But now was her training period where she finds out if she has what it takes to be the Batman and that meant Kai was Ras Al Ghul.
"Sure like Batman." Kai said not getting the reference he would much rather see her be the Harley Quinn to his Joker. He stepped onto a log and turned towards Bonnie with his hand extended towards her.
"Well are you coming or what?" Bonnie looked at him skeptically she didn't want to hold his hand but figured he did know the way.
"Where is it?" She asked wondering how long exactly she would have to hold his hand.
"Close, don't worry." He said with what he thought was a convincing smile.
"I don't know."
"What's the worst thing that could possibly happen if you just take my hand?" Bonnie was about to begin listing until Kai gave her the stank eye. She sighed and finally wrapped her hand around his, surprised to find that it was warm. She figured it would have been cold like his heart. Then she felt a surge run through her body and with one blink she was no longer in a large clearing she was standing in front of what looked like a staircase with a sign that said the road to serenity. Bonnie smiled inwardly as she realized Kai was serious about the serenity and she was still on a whirlwind high from whatever they just did to get here.
"Awesome, right?" Kai asked without having let go of her small hand.
"What did you do?" Bonnie asked in shock because it was awesome.
"You mean what did we do babe. We teleported and don't worry I just used a smidge of your magic." Bonnie dropped her hand quickly as she had known better then to have trusted him.
"Don't act like it wasn't worth it." She crossed her arms at him and met him with a grimace. She would never admit it but it was worth it because the whole thing had left her exhilarated.
"Is this where we're staying?" She asked to change the subject.
"Yup." Kai replied with a puff of his chest as he made way for Bonnie to ascend the staircase that wrapped itself around the trunk of a tree and Kai followed shortly after. When they reached the top there was a small bridge light up by glowing light bulbs entwined with leaves along the rail that lead you to a tree house nestled between two tall trees. The tree house had huge rustic glass windows and a metal tin roof.
"Isn't it nice? Built it myself." Kai said with a smile remembering all the labor it had taken to build the secluded tree house.
"It's alright." Bonnie said with distaste but she knew it was beautiful in fact she absolutely loved it but she wouldn't let Kai know that. But Kai could see right through her façade he could tell Bonnie was the type who loved things with lots of charm and seemed forged by mother nature. And this tree house had both those things. So Kai grinned because he figured she must love it if she was lying and that gave him all the more satisfaction as they walked across the bridge and entered through the small door. It seemed impossible but the inside was even more beautiful then the outside. Through the windows you could see everything and it was all fresh evergreen against a night sky. All the furniture inside was made of wood much like the house itself and it had a white refrigerator. In the corner there was an opening in the wall that led to a porch that allowed you to overlook everything. There in that corner, right before the opening was where the bed was well it wasn't much of a bed it was more like a huge mattress with sundry pillows and it just squealed comfort. Then Kai flicked the lights on and rows of glittering little lights intertwined with the leaves lined the walls. The whole place was magical and Bonnie stood in awe.
"You built all of this?" Bonnie questioned him with all the skepticism in the world.
"Yes I built all of this. You could say I had a lot of time on my hands." Kai figured she was wondering how long it could possibly take to build with just one man.
"It's not that." But then he got it, he got why she didn't believe that this was his creation. That he Kai Parker couldn't have possibly forged this beauty with his bare hands.
"Oh, you're wondering how a monster like me could possibly build something so… beautiful." Kai raised his eyebrows as Bonnie bit her tongue because he had hit it right on the nose.
"Well yeah." Bonnie nodded, Kai was all sorts of twisted so why would he build something like this.
"Sometimes I like to think I'm not all monster. Kidding! Babe, don't you know the best artists are madmen." Kai chuckled as he plopped himself on the wicker chair, that sat in front of the fireplace. Bonnie slowly smirked as well but she couldn't help but feel as if there was a tone of sincerity in his first sentence. That maybe somewhere inside that tangled mess of wretched evil could possibly be a regular person. But Bonnie quickly shook it off blaming her complex to find the good in evil.
"Well I'm going to change." Bonnie said pointing to the door she assumed was the bathroom.
"What for? I think Kurt suits you just fine." Kai smiled deviously as he pulled the bottom of Bonnie's very damp top.
"Shutup. I'm already repulsed by the fact that you dressed me." Bonnie scoffed as she slapped his hand away. She was especially mad since his outfit choice was absolutely horrible.
"I swear I didn't see anything." Kai answered all to quickly as if he were a schoolboy who was about to get their face smashed in if they had seen something they shouldn't have. Bonnie couldn't help but believe him and Kai regained his masculinity as he quickly dropped his puppy dog eyes.
"You did bring me clothes though, right?" Bonnie asked trying to jump on to the next matter of business to stray away from the awkwardness they both had to endure.
"Yeah, there's a whole drawer in the bathroom full of all the girly stuff you need." Kai said sending her away before he did or said something else weird. Bonnie decided not to dwell on his behavior since she longed for a hot shower. Approximately half an hour later she came out dry and clean besides the mop she called her hair. Her bones ached for rest but she had yet to do the very thing that had forced her to get off the sand. She still had her last duty to attend too.
"Thank god you started the fire." Bonnie said as she put her hands near the fire hoping to syphon the warmth into her bones. Kai remained silent as he glared into the fire deep in thought.
"Obviously you didn't think this through there is only one bed here Kai." Bonnie said with a roll of her eyes as she spun to around to meet his. When he finally looked away from the fire only to be biting his lip as he laughed inwardly to himself.
"Oh no I thought this through. You sleep on the floor and I get the bed unless… you want to join me." He responded coyly as stopped to tease her and then made his way to the bed that overlooked the night sky.
"I have a better idea you disappear and I keep the bed to myself." Bonnie grinned and batted her lashes at him.
"Oh, you don't mean that. You're just still bitter about the whole explosion thing." Kai said patting the soft cushion of the mattress next to him. And Bonnie couldn't help it, the bed looked so inviting and soft and plush. So she found herself accepting his offer and with one plop she was in love, it was the softest bed she had ever laid in.
"Of course I'm still bitter, I almost died." She retaliated her guard was still up but her head felt like it was up in the clouds. Kai enjoyed the sight of her cuddling up to the pillow. He laid his head gently on his pillow as he eyed her; Bonnie was about 3 seconds away from eternal slumber.
"But you didn't and doesn't that count for something?" And with that her eyes burst open to find Kai's cobalt staring at her with a smile. The words he said bringing her back to another time with another man.
"You tried to kill me."
"But I didn't…does that not count for anything?"
Suddenly she felt a pang inside of her; she couldn't believe it she actually missed a person she once recognized only as a monster. And now if she were to see him she would recognize him as her best friend. She was lost in her thoughts until Kai interrupted them when he grabbed her hand and placed it on his chest, easily surpassing his boundaries.
"Does this sound like the heart of a person who would let you die brutally, babe?" Kai smiled as he enjoyed the feeling of her hand on his chest.
"No it sounds like the heart of a dead man."
"Wha-" Then a shriek escaped from Kai's lungs as his veins started to turn black and the song of his heart became much slower. Bonnie continued to suck the life out of him, literally and she moaned from the adrenaline. Now she knew how Kai felt when he siphoned magic from her, it was a powerful feeling to be in control of someone else. To look down and know that in this moment there yours and you own them. Bonnie crouched over him and leaned into his ear.
"Like I said don't call me, babe." Kai couldn't help but chuckle as the song of his heart ended. Bonnie smiled as she mentally patted herself on the back and gave Kai's face a little smack but his smile remained. With that deed done she could finally rest in peace and quickly found sleep amongst the clouds.
Sorry this chapter was wack and not long but I've been fighting to finish it and I just couldn't so I figured I'd give you what I wrote already. Unless you guys prefer waiting longer for huge chapters or do you prefer frequent shorter chapters? Also this chapter sets up the basis of Bonnie and Kai's metamorphosis.
