A/N CAUTION CAUTION! This chapter deals with graphic forms of abuse in the physical and sexual capacity I don't intend to offend anyone. Please don't read this chapter if this is not your preference. This chapter is an MA rating.
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* Without further Ado -
HIS MUSE
When he gets Bonnie, he stays in the kitchen and begins looking for something of his. She comes back to the front room where Damon is and her mouth has food in it, but she is being as polite as she can by chewing with her mouth closed and hand covering it.
"Sorry," she says, "I was eating with Mona." She giggles.
"No worries, Bonnie. I will see you in class Wednesday. Have a good night. Oh and I will see you guys Friday night for dinner, or Saturday night?"
"I have a thing Saturday, so Friday works." Kai shouts from the kitchen as he drops some type of drugs into Bonnies drink, and she doesn't see.
Bonnie rolls her eyes at the emission of Kai having plans on Saturday, and Damon notices.
"See you Wednesday Professor Salvatore."
"Please, just Damon." He smiles at her.
When he leaves the apartment, Kai walks to the door and locks it. He turns to Bonnie slowly and she panics.
Damon gets in his car and makes a phone call.
"Hey Andie."
"Yes, what's up?"
"I need a BIG favor?"
"Anything for you friend."
"I need you to pretend to be my girlfriend."
"What?"
"Yes, I just invited this girl and her douche bag boyfriend to dinner at my house Friday. I told him I had a girlfriend."
"Why would you lie?"
"I want to get to know this girl, and I believe she is in a bad relationship. But I can't get close to her because he is a possessive asshole."
"Okay, you don't have to ask twice. Text me the info and I'll see you Friday."
"Thanks."
"Just call me Damon, Huh?" Kai says.
She walks backwards towards Mona and picks her up.
"You must think I am stupid Bonnie."
Kai grabs Mona and puts her on the couch and turns on the Incredibles.
"Kai, what the hell? He wanted to meet you about your art work. I had no intention on bringing him here. It wasn't a big deal. Don't do something stupid. Okay, our daughter is wide awake.
"Relax Bonnie, I just want to take some pictures."
"No. Please. I don't want to be the muse right now."
"But I think that your professor might like to see some of my new work at the exhibit when he comes to check out my stuff. After all I told him it was all you baby. The entire exhibit. Let's let him see what you look like when he's not around."
"Why would you invite someone to that exhibit? Why someone I know, you want to embarrass me?"
"You embarrassed by my art?"
"No that isn't what I meant Kai. You know that exhibit is hard for me to look at."
He grabs Bonnie by her hair and drags her into the bathroom "If you scream, and disturb Mona, I swear I will make this harder on you Bonnie. Don't do it. Not tonight babe. I just got an amazing vision for a piece, and I need to do this for my exhibit. Just don't fight me on it, you know it's worse when you struggle.
Mona saw her Mommy disappear and began calling for her to come back. She picked up one of her dad's cameras, so many of them were laying around. Mona began pushing buttons. The one with the red button was hit, and the red light came on. Just as that happened, Mona heard her Mommy scream. She put the camera down and walked to the bathroom where she heard Bonnie struggling. Kai was trying to tear Bonnies clothes off, and she struggling for dominance. The fight was very unmatched. Bonnie reached up and clawed at him as best as she could. Leaving him with scratch marks on his neck, throat, and part of his face. He threw her against the wall and knocked the wind out of her. He then took off his t-shirt and tied Bonnies wrists up with it above her head. She tried using her feet and mouth kicking him and biting him, anything to keep what was about to happen from happening.
"Mama."
"Bonnie STOP IT! Stop fighting me." She could hear her father yelling.
"Mama."
"NANA." Bonnie screamed to her daughter.
"Calm your fucking voice for her Bons, right now!" He threatens.
"Don't worry baby okay. I'll be right out. Watch the movie and wait for mama." Bonnie cried.
"Okay Mama." The worried little girl walks slowly back to the couch.
Bonnie struggles. "Let go of my hair." He yanked her to face him by her hair.
Kai hit Bonnie across the face so hard, her nose swells and began bleeding from the inside. He turned on both the shower water and dual sinks, so he could muffle Bonnie's cries, then he added the bathroom air conditioner fan. He turned her to look at herself in the mirror. Her nose was swollen from the inside and she was bleeding everywhere. "Do you think that ANYONE will want you, LOOK AT YOU!" She started to cry. "This is what every man see's when they see you Bons. ONLY ME! ONLY I CAN LOVE YOU! I see your real beauty baby. I don't see all of these scars, and bruises. I see your beauty. Look at my house it is filled with pictures of you. EVERYWHERE, pictures of my beautiful lady. My world."
"Kai, I can't breathe, I think you broke my nose."
"Stop being a baby Bons."
She uses her bound hands to attempt to break his hands off her face and neck. He forcefully places her hands forward on the sink faucet, then he pushes the faucet through the ties of her bound wrists, so she can't get her hands a loose. She hears him unbuckle his belt. He then puts it around her neck holding either side of it to control her, He held it loosely but threatened to tighten it if she screamed. "If you scream I will choke you." he pulls her pants down.
"No, No! Kai Please?"
Her cries meant nothing to him. Her hands couldn't grip anything to hold her balance so all of her weight was leaning on her hips, painfully.
"You belong to me Bonnie, I will ruin you for any other man. I swear to God, that as long as I am alive it'll always be me for you and you for me! FOREVER. I will never let you go.
He forcefully spread Bonnie's legs. Then penetrated her without permission. Every thrust pushed her hips into the cabinet roughly, bruising them.
She didn't fight back, because whatever he put in her drink made her start to feel dizzy.
"My house! Bonnie, my house! You bring him in my house. I am sick of you making a fool of me. " He says as he continues his brutal arrack on her while her blood spills down his hands.
An hour later Kai comes out of the bathroom with his shirt off his jeans on but unbuttoned hanging off of his waist, He is sweating and sadistically, sated. Bonnie is lying on the white floor, without her bottoms. Her shirt is ripped. He strips her of the rest of her clothes and proceeds to take pictures of her. There is blood all over the floor from her broken nose. Her hips are visibly bruised. He takes so many pictures of Bonnie, and all the while the camera Mona was playing with is still recording from the floor facing the bathroom.
Mona pics up the camera, and hides it from her daddy. She takes it and puts it in the pantry next to the snacks her mommy has put away for her at the bottom of the pantry. Yes, this almost four-year-old was smart. She had no toys, just movies, singing, and cameras all over her house. She knew how to press buttons to take pictures and record videos and even take selfies on her mama's cell phone. Kai taught her how to operate a camera in very basic ways. After all some of his art work was random pictures he would find in his camera that Mona took.
When Bonnie came to, she was dazed. It was the next morning close to noon though and she was in her bed. Covered in her white blankets and sheets. Her hair was brushed and braided and she had on a tank top and shorts which were both white and somewhat see through. She smelled like lavender bath wash and coconut shampoo. She doesn't remember taking a shower or bath, or even washing her hair. She gets out of bed and hears a bit of commotion in the living room. When she gets up she walks to the bathroom, and it is immaculately cleaned. Her nose is sore and her hips are too. She brushes her teeth and washes her face. Her nose is in extreme pain. But she doesn't scream. She just walks out to find Mona.
"Nana, where are you?" She sounds her call like she is singing.
"Mama."
She finds her daughter in the living room with Kai. They are playing with a couple of toys.
"Where did these toys come from?"
"Hello Bonnie!"
"Mr. Salvatore?"
"Yes, my girlfriend has a daughter and she doesn't use these anymore. I emailed you, asking if you wanted me to drop them by. Using your information from the syllabus, and your boyfriend replied and has been a gracious host since I got here."
Damon, wasn't a dumb man, he knew something at that house wasn't right. He knew somehow he couldn't trust leaving her alone with him. Then Mona made a mistake by answering the text he sent Bonnie last night, she added a bunch of baby gibberish and a couple selfies. The selfies were Mona crying. This let him know that somehow Bonnie couldn't get to the phone. Mona crying let him know something was wrong. He proceeded to email Bonnie about the toys as a cover, but Kai responded. So here he is.
"So here I am."
Bonnie was indisposed. Her white tank top was see through and she didn't have on a bra. Her shorts were very small, and her skin was bare everywhere. Including her hips. There were dark bruises all over her hips.
He uses sneaky eyes to glance her over from top to bottom while Kai is distracted and he sees her bruised hip and swollen nose.
"I should go change, I will be back."
When Bonnie walks away she looks uncomfortable and in pain.
"So when is your exhibit Again Mr. Parker?"
"Good thing you asked, it was supposed to be next Thursday, but the dates were mixed up. It is actually this Thursday. Here let me give you my information, so I can make sure you are there. The more supporters of Bons and I the better."
Kai gets up and goes to the bedroom to get a card.
"Bonnie, are you okay?" Kai asks his girlfriend.
"No. I am in pain and my nose hurts. What happened last night?"
"Apparently you were playing with Mona and you slipped and fell down the stairs trying to keep her from falling. I wasn't in the room with you. I ran to help as soon as I could but by the time I got to you, you were in too much pain. I gave you a couple Vicodin, no wonder you feel dazed babe."
"Damn, I may need to go to the hospital because my nose feels broken."
"Babe, I am sure it is just bruised, you will be fine."
"Okay." But she wasn't so sure. Whenever Kai lied about something he was extra nice to her.
"Hey, I was thinking of going to pick up some stuff from the warehouse for your professor. He is interested in my work and I figure I can go grab something's right now, and bring them back here."
"Okay, why not just take him with you to the warehouse?"
"Because Bons, you know I don't like taking anyone to the warehouse. Just stay here with him, I will be back in a couple of hours."
He never leaves her alone with another man. He must feel some sort of trust for the man who brought his daughter some toys, either that, or Damon is a very convincing liar.
"Please change, I don't like you having been so exposed to him." Kai leaves as Bonnie gets dressed.
Kai lets Damon know he will be back in a couple of hours, that he is welcome to stay or leave and come back.
Damon locks the door behind Kai and walks towards Mona.
"Hey Mona."
"Hello." She looks very shy and reserved. She steps back and looks back up at the television.
"Do you like these toys?"
She nods her head yes.
"Now you have some toys to play with, isn't that fun?"
She smiles and nods happily. "I have toys too.".
"Oh yeah, can you show me some of your toys?"
"Kay." She walks over to the pantry and grabs a camera. "See."
"Oh yeah, your daddy's camera. Right?"
She nods her head.
"Did you take any pictures on here?" This man was far from stupid.
She nods her head. "Mama, gotsa oweeee."
"What do you mean?"
"Mama gotsa oweee. When daddy scweams at her."
His face stiffens. Then Mona points to the red button. "This one sweetie?" He asks her.
She nods her head.
He presses it and the footage shows a bathroom door. He sees Mona cry for her mama, then the battery dies. "What no?!" He says.
"Nana! Where are you…?" She sings again coming from the back bedroom.
Damon still has the camera in his hand and fumbles trying to get the memory card out of it. The camera falls and he hears Bonnie approaching. "Damnit."
"Baby, where are you?"
Mona looks to Damon and says, "Hurry." Then she runs to her mama and distracts her. "Let's watch Buzz and Woody mama." Prompting Bonnie to put it on for her just then.
"Damn she is smart" Damon says to himself.
He finally gets the memory card out and Bonnie walks in on him in her pantry.
"Hey what's going on?"
"Mona brought me here and stranded me." He laughs. "Then this was in your pantry. I figure you want to put it up before it gets broken."
"Really? Normally she put a camera in there when she wants me to look at something on it. Hmm, I'll have to check it later."
Just then, Damon was realizing how smart Little Mona-Lisa was.
"You have one smart little girl there. I mean seriously. She is smarter than any three-year-old I have ever met. It goes to show how close you and she are."
"Yes. We are. Actually, she is my little lifesaver."
He believed her when she said that.
"So what would make her do that? Put a camera in the pantry for you?"
"Her dad never opens it. That is why her snacks are so low. If he is here with her, he will send her in here to get her own snack literally. So we put her snacks within reach. She started leaving me video messages about a year ago. Just remnants of her day if I ever leave. Which is very rare."
"Kai said she leaves him videos and pictures also. Does she leave them in the pantry also?"
"No. He has an old cellphone; he leaves around the house for her to do that. She hides that somewhere else. She is my little angel."
Damon stared at Bonnies hair which is still braided, and he notices her nose is swollen.
"What happened to your nose? If you don't mind my asking."
"I really don't know. I asked Kai the same thing, and apparently I fell down the stairs trying to keep Mona from falling. He says I bumped myself pretty good and that I was out of it, because he gave me some pain meds or something."
"Can I see your nose?"
"Sure."
"It looks and feels broken Bonnie." He says after delicately handling it.
"I have no idea what a broken nose looks and feels like. I can only tell you I can hardly breath out of it. It was in immense pain, and now it is slowly numbing. I told him I should go to the doctor, but he said it was probably nothing, but a bruise."
"Bonnie." He frowns to her. "I would hope that you know you can trust me okay. If you ever need to talk."
I know. Thank you Mr. Salvatore. I mean Damon." She smiles at him and he smiles back.
"You are stunning." He says catching her off guard.
"Mr. Salvatore-"
"Damon."
"Damon, why are you here?"
"Honestly, you."
"What?"
"I sensed something was wrong with you last night. I sent you a text, and your daughter replied to me."
"Really That is weird I don't remember getting any texts. Actually I have no idea where my phone is."
He looked at her quizzically.
"I am sorry she worried you. It was awfully nice of you to come and visit me though to check."
Damon looked at Bonnie and she was very disconcerted.
"So, you are HIS MUSE I see."
"Oh, Kai. Yea. He got me to quit modeling and basically be his full time art piece. So I model, but just for his art work."
"How do you like that?"
"At first it was flattering, I've even been featured in some European magazine. I loved it initially, then I don't know it almost felt obsessive. He uses me for everything, no matter what it is. No matter how joyful, or painful or erotic, or torturous."
Bonnie and Damon went to check on Mona. She was fast asleep. Bonnie put her inside of her toddler bed in her bedroom. She turned on the monitor and carried the second half to it around with her. She remained in conversation with Damon. He seemed very inquisitive of her life, almost proddy, but she relished the attention, because she never talked to anyone other than Mona and Kai. The attention was almost intimidating.
"How is your relationship with Kai?"
"We are not your typical couple, let's just say. What about you and your girlfriend?"
"I don't have a girlfriend."
"But I thought-"
"No! I just said that so that your boyfriend could trust me around you."
"Oh, why would you do that?"
"I have no idea, because I want to get to know you Bonnie."
"That is funny."
"Why?"
"Kai swears no one wants to get to know me. Is there some hidden agenda? You're not some art critic are you trying to get a scoop on Kai?"
"No, I am exactly who you think I am, and I am grateful I decided to do this short writing course, because it brought you to me."
Bonnie gets nervous. She starts to walk around to go through the house cleaning things.
"I think you are special Bonnie. I can't wait to read your journals. I hope you wrote in it last night."
"I am not sure it is a good idea for you to be here, while Kai is gone." She is nervous now.
"Why I am not going to hurt you."
"Trust me, I am not worried about YOU hurting me."
"Bonnie, does Kai hurt you?"
She looks at him. "Kai is Kai. He has a very artistic mind, and he finds beauty in pain. He loves the effects of pain on his intellect. He believes that is where he makes his art, through his pain."
"You didn't answer my question Bonnie."
Her eyes get very watery. His eyes zero in on her almost menacingly, but not at her, at whatever this bastard does to her. "Come here Bonnie." He holds her and she cries. She cries and doesn't stop. Her cries are guttural and agonizing. Somehow she trusts Damon, and maybe that is just how bad Kai is, that she can trust a complete stranger to be vulnerable with. He drops his hands lower on her waist to look at her face, and when his hands drop down to her hips she screeches in pain.
"Oh my gosh. I am sorry What did I do?"
"Nothing, my hips are bruised. It just hurts to put too much pressure on it."
"What. Let me see."
He lifts her dress which was a short dress. "I won't hurt you, let me see your hips."
When he pulls her dress up, her hips all around her hip bones is bruised black and purplish.
He gasped and almost winced the second he saw it. "How did this happen Bonnie?"
"I don't know. I swear. He said I fell down the stairs but, I don't remember that, and I can't imagine how it would bruise me that way. I just can't wrap my mind around it either. But please don't touch it, it hurts." Her tears fall freely for the first time in front of another person.
"I am taking you out of here, right now. Come one, you should get somethings and we can go right now. I won't let him hurt you again."
"I can't okay. If I ever leave, he will take Mona away from me and take her back to France."
"This is insane; he can't do that."
"He is psychotic, okay he will stop at nothing to keep me from leaving, Damon. He is liable to kill me before he lets me leave him."
"You don't need his permission to leave Bonnie. I swear I will take you and your daughter and I will take you away from this. I can do that. I promise you that."
"Damon, you don't want to rescue me, I am tattered goods. A lonely girl with too much baggage, no family or friends. I have a daughter with a man that would literally kill me before he let me be happy without him."
"You have no idea, what I want or what I can handle."
He stands up from kneeling to look at her bruises, straightens her dress out. He cups her face and look deep into her pained eyes, and his eyes carry just as much pain. "I am going to figure this out. But I can't leave you here with him."
"I have to stay here. At least until Friday, because the immigration rep is coming to interview us for Mona's permanent status. It's the last interview, and she should hopefully be getting her American citizenship. I gave birth on a job while I was visiting France, so she became a French citizen, but because I am American, she should have been born an American citizen. However, Because Kai held French Citizenship, they gave her French citizenship. Which means he can take her away from me at any time as long as she has that status."
"Okay, Bonnie. We are going to play it very cool. If I can't get you out of this house, I can get him out more often. I will befriend the hell out of him and get him to do a bunch of random shit with me, get him to trust me, for some reason he trusts me. Which is exactly why I came this morning. Just so I know he isn't here hurting you. You play very nice until we can get Mona squared away with immigration. Bonnie, this is important, listen to me. You and I will have to remain in touch a way that he can't interfere. It's clear he has your email, and phone passwords, what else can we do?"
She shook her head, hunching her shoulders. "He pays very close attention to me." She said, feeling defeated. "I wouldn't be surprised there isn't a camera recording me now." Damon was shocked.
"Okay, I will buy you a burner phone. I will buy you a new one every class meeting okay? So every other day. We will communicate that way."
"How can I keep it from him?"
"I don't know Bonnie. You just have to try. We have to do what we can. Okay?"
"Why are you doing this for me?"
"Because you deserve much better than this, and so does Mona." He hugs her once more, and holds her until she is calm. He looks at her one more time face to face. Cupping her cheek in his big hand, she relaxes into his touch. His soft touch. A touch she wasn't used to. He wants to take her to his home so badly right now.
"Bonnie, look at me. From this day forward, he WONT hurt you again, because if he does I swear to God, I'll KILL him. I promise you that."