Hey guys! We're finally to the last chapter of Fade! It's a bit longer than the other, hope you like it!

Corrected by Leia, my love.

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6

Kai stood in the last row of seats in the barn his sister had chose as location for her wedding, cloaked by a spell.

A barn? Seriously, Sissi?

Kai didn't know why he was surprised. He should have expected something like that, since she was marring a rough peasant whose only friends were a bunch of forever-teenager-vampires.

He recognised most of the members of his coven, despite the fact that he hadn't seen them for almost two decades. Some of the ones that helped Joshua Parker to lock his son up in the prison world were really old, all the others that weren't there were probably dead. What a pity, he thought. A mass murder was just what that wedding needed.

Kai murmured a long, intricate incantation, closing his eyes and focusing on the auras of every member of the Gemini coven. As the leader, he could perceive each one of them, every pulsing soul around him like if they were little pieces of himself. The power that he felt having their lives literally in his hands was incredible.

The vicar was talking about some boring shit regarding being honest with each other. While people all around him started to cry listening to Jo and Alaric's promises, he kept his eyes closed, feeling his coven slowly slip away from him.

He waited until his happy sister and her brand new hubby walked back down the aisle. When Jo lay eyes on him, her face changed completely from joy to terror. She grabbed Alaric's arm forcefully, drawing them to a stop.

All the guests looked at them questioningly, until Rick stepped in front his wife to protect her from her psycho twin.

"Congratulations!" sing-songed Kai.

All heads turned in his direction, some curious, other shocked. He looked all of them in the eyes; smiling, he stepped out of his seat and approached his sister. Her husband's vampire friends joined them at the entrance, showing him their vampire faces, trying to frighten him.

"You invited these freaks but not your twin brother to your wedding? Not cool, Josette."

Jo put her hands on her belly, as if trying to protect her children from his words, too.

"What are you doing here, Malachai?"

And there he was, his not-so-beloved father. Kai had wondered when he would show up pretending he was still the leader of the Geminis.

"Here at the wedding or here in this world?" he asked sardonically.

"How did you get out of 1903?" asked Damon, always trying to be the center of the attention.

"No thanks to you, that's for sure," he answered, eying him.

"Bonnie," Elena whispered. "Where is she?"

Her tone was imperious, even thought she was human and he could've killed her with the wave of his pinkie.

Caroline walked back towards Matt, ordering him to find their friend.

"She's fine," Kai assured them, but the blond didn't take his word for it.

Kai walked past them all, heading to the altar. None of them tried to stop him, he noticed.

He stopped on the first step of the altar, throwing his arms open. "What?" he asked with a smile. "Now you're afraid to kill me so everyone in this room won't die? You didn't bother too much about them when you left my ass in that hell."

Damon growled and ordered Elena to leave the building and get back to Mystic Falls, but she stayed behind him.

How romantic and stupid, Kai thought.

"So, who should I kill first? My coven or my new friends?"

Stefan tried to rush at him with his vamp-speed, but Kai waved his hand and the vampire flew across the room.

The guests started to panic and they were trying to leave. People were murmuring about Joshua Parker's psycho son.

Liv stood in front of him, Tyler at her side, and looked at him with a glare he was sure was for Luke, not for him.

"I know that you don't care about us, Kai," she said, her voice firm. "But Luke does, and if my best friend is somewhere inside you I'm sure he won't let you kill his nephews."

Kai smiled. "The Luke inside of me is very proud of your speech, but the rest of me is a little bit worried that those little twins may claim my role, one day."

"I married a foreigner," Jo said. "I'm not a part of the coven anymore."

Kai looked at her thoughtful. "Yeah, but your babies are."

"They won't merge, Kai. I won't let them."

She was serious, he could tell that by the way she looked at him, like the first time their father had explained to them that they were going to kill or die in a stupid ceremony.

"They will never know about the coven," Alaric added.

Kai considered that possibility, but decided to not take that risk.

"Sorry," he said with a fake sad face. "I need to be sure."

All the glass around them exploded and everyone ducked to avoid the shatters.

"How can he be out?"

Matt's voice was calm, but Bonnie felt his question like an accusation. She didn't answer, she wasn't in the mood to explain why or when or how her brain had told her to do something so stupid.

"Pump that gas, Matt."

Her friend gave her a questioningly look, but did as she said.

She wanted to bury herself, to let the earth bury her for her stupidity and her naivety. She couldn't believe he had betrayed her again, but most of all, she couldn't believe she had actually trusted him again. If anyone died that day, it was on her; it was all her fault.

She tried to contain her tears, to look determined, but the thought of Jo or Liv or any innocent in the Gemini coven dying because of her made her want to puke.

When they finally got to the barn, everything seemed normal, the lights shone in the garden, illuminating all the decorations and flowers around them.

From the inside they could hear people talking loudly, looking for their friends and families.

Bonnie took a deep breath and stepped in, avoiding the debris of chairs, vases and lights all scattered on the ground.

She saw her friends checking on each other. She was going towards them to see if they needed help, but he caught her eyes.

On the altar, Kai was trying to get up on his feet, but whatever he had done had visibly affected him too. He stayed on his knees and when he looked up and his eyes met hers, he smiled, trying to get her sympathy.

Bonnie walked towards him, feeling the glass cracking under her shoes.

"Bonnie!" Damon called her.

She eyed him from her shoulder and smiled. "I got this."

Kai had sat down on the first step if the altar, his elbows on his knees and that stupid grin on his face.

"You shouldn't be here," he said, coughing some blood.

"This is your great plan?" she asked, ignoring his sentence. "Killing everyone, yourself included?"

"Go home, Bonnie. I'll be there soon."

She laughed. A hysterical laugh that made her feel crazy. "You're not my fucking husband, Kai." She was serious now, looking down at him in disgust.

"I could be," he offered.

"Not in this millennium," she replied.

She bent down on her toes, facing him, anger flowing in her veins.

"What are you trying to do?" she asked, slowly.

"Trying to get my revenge," he answered in a rough whisper.

She looked very sad, she was actually trying to understand him, he noticed.

"On people that weren't even there? On your sisters that suffered as much as you? On my friends that have nothing to do with this? On me?"

That last question made him widen his eyes, looking again like a lost puppy only asking for attentions.

"Not on you," he answered, trying to take her hand. Bonnie avoided it and rose on her feet.

"Stop it, Kai. If you meant everything you told me in 1994, everything you told me in my dreams, then stop this."

He stared at her, then let his gaze run around the barn, checking on his victims.

Bonnie looked at him and almost surrendered to the urge to take his hands in hers.

"Where's the guy that almost died for me just a few hours ago? The guy that helped me save the day? Who are you really, Kai? The monster or the clumsy 90's boy?"

He stared at her again, his thick eyebrows furrowed in thought.

Bonnie could see it in his eyes, the struggle to show her his true self. Maybe he was neither of the two. Maybe he was something in between. But she was sure he wanted to figure out how to be that person.

And she would make him believe he was worth saving.

Until she found a way to unlink his family from him and then kill him.

She wouldn't carry the burden of innocent lives on her shoulders. She had enough of that crap.

"I should have just killed you twenty years ago."

Both Bonnie and Kai turned to the man approaching them. His suit was shredded and his face was covered in blood.

Kai stood on his feet, towering the old man. His psychopathic grin was back on his face.

Bonnie hated that man.

"Or I should have killed you the moment I saw that you were a freak of nature, torturing your siblings with your gift." He said that last word with spite, almost spitting it.

Kai clenched his fists.

"You should have."

The coldness in his voice made Bonnie shiver. He had never sound so distant, not even in those times he tried to kill her. Not even when she thought he was at his worst.

She was tempted to shout to Joshua Parker that maybe someone should have killed him. Him and all his stupid coven rules.

"You know what?" Kai bent down and took a splinter of glass from the ground, running his fingers along its sharp edges. "Maybe I should spare you the effort." He pointed the splinter to his neck, pushing on the skin.

"Kai, don't," Bonnie murmured.

He turned to look at her and blinked, smiling that stupid, shy smile that made her fall for his farce.

His father looked terrified now. "Think about your sisters!"

"I did," he said, as cold as ice.

"Kai, don't," Bonnie repeated, but he didn't answer.

He was falling, the glass deep in his neck.

She looked at his lifeless body as the blood spilled from his carotid and formed a puddle on the white carpet.

He was dead.

That thought hurt more than she was willing to admit. He had killed himself to make a point, to get his revenge. It probably didn't even matter to him, because he had killed himself countless times in his prison world, so why the hell did it matter to her? Why was it so difficult to look away from his handsome face?

Joshua Parker was coughing in front of her and she finally looked up at him, feeling a bit too satisfied to see him dying.

She looked around, expecting to see the rest of the coven fall on their knees in atrocious pain, but everyone seemed to be fine.

Jo and Liv stood close, nodding every time one of their friends asked if they were alright. They all stood and watched until Joshua Parker was dead and gone in front of her.

"Damon!" she screamed, bending down to her knees, placing her hands on Kai's torn neck. She extracted the glass and tried to stop the bleeding.

Damon was at her side, he placed his hands on her shoulders, trying to get her up.

"Give him your blood," she asked, resisting his attempt to make her move.

"What?" he asked in confusion.

"Give him your blood, Damon!"

The vampire looked at her with fear and she wondered why, but then she realized it: he wasn't afraid of her, but for her, because she had started to cry. Warm tears were tracing salty paths on her cheeks, down her chin.

"Bonnie, we have to go," he said, wiping a tear with his hand.

"I told you to give him your blood, Damon. If you don't want to do it, I'll ask Caroline."

Damon bit his lip, then his wrist, placing it on Kai's white lips.

Nothing happened, but Bonnie kept waiting, one hand on his neck and the other in his hair, making it sticky.

"Bonnie," Damon called her with the gentlest voice she had ever heard him use. "He's dead, Bon."

"He isn't," she denied. "His coven is still alive. He will wake up in a moment, just wait."

"Bon," Damon tried again, but she had started crying harder.

She cradled Kai's head in her lap.

"He must have unlinked everyone except his father, before..." Damon hesitated, "… before doing it."

Bonnie nodded. She guessed it. She just couldn't accept it.

"He saved me, in 1903," she said crying. "So I brought him back with me."

Damon placed his hands on hers, trying to loosen her grip on Kai's corpse.

"What were you doing in 1903?" he asked.

"I was there with your mother. I left her there, Damon, I'm sorry."

All her friends were listening, Elena was crying.

"Shh," Damon told Bonnie. "It's okay, Bon. Some people simply can't be good parents. It's okay, I promise."

She nodded, but didn't stop crying, neither could she leave Kai.

"Let him go, Bonnie."

Damon tried to remove her fingers from his hair, but she just clung on him tighter. He stood on his feet and grabbed her from behind, forcing her to let him go.

"No, please," she cried. "Please, Damon."

Damon swallowed the knot in his throat, embracing her, but she slipped through his arms and knelt back at Kai's side.

This time, she held nothing back. She hit him, pounding his chest with fury and shaking him, like she would have done if he was still alive and had done something stupid.

Damon let her do it. Nobody dared to get close and he let her vent her rage.

"You. Stupid. Fucker." Every word was a punch on his chest.

When she finally stopped, she just stood there, staring at his body while the blood dried on the ground.

She had stopped crying and the silence in the barn felt almost unnatural. The only people left were the Mystic Falls gang, all grouped a few meters away from the altar.

"I don't get it," Jo said softly, afraid to disturb Bonnie's grief. "Everything he said about my children..."

"He wanted you to fear him," Bonnie interrupted her. "He thought you couldn't love him, so he wanted you to fear him."

Jo sighed. "Seems like you knew him better than anyone," she said with her sweet voice. "I'm sorry, Bonnie."

"Why?" she asked. "We weren't friends."

Everyone looked at her.

"I thought-" started to say Jo, but Bonnie interrupted her.

"You thought wrong. I hate him."

No one dared to contradict her.

Liv stepped forward, looking at her father's dead body on the ground. Tyler took her hand in his and whispered a 'sorry'.

"He deserved it," she said, shrugging.

They were all fine. A little dead inside, maybe, but everyone was fine, Bonnie realized. It was a victory, after all.

She was ready to go home.

Someone coughed softly and they looked at each other. When the cough repeated but nobody moved, they looked at Kai, fear on each face.

Bonnie bent over him, trying to listen at his breath.

"You have a really nice neck", said a voice in her ear.

Bonnie jerked back, a hand on her racing heart.

Kai's eyes were open and he was looking at her.

"What the-" started Damon, but Bonnie was on Kai already. She was punching him again.

"Why. The hell. Are you. Still alive?" she screamed between a punch and another.

"I'm thirsty," he said, roughly.

"Go fuck yourself," she answered.

He lifted himself up, under the gazes of the others. "I die for five minutes and you become so rude."

"How the hell are you still alive?" asked Jo, taking a step towards him. Alaric pulled her back to his side.

Kai looked at his father on the ground, then at his sister. "I think I might be a vampire, now."

"You think?" Bonnie asked. She couldn't believe she had cried for him.

"Yeah, it's probably because of the blood that heretic woman gave me while I was waiting for you in 1903."

They were all too shocked to say something.

"Now, someone wants to offer their neck?" he asked smiling.

All the humans took a step back.

"I'll take that as a no."

"He can't turn," Stefan said. "If he's a vampire, he can switch off his emotions. And he's not good at emotions."

Everybody agreed, but Bonnie was already picking up a glass to cut her wrist.

"Bonnie, no," Damon said, trying to stop her.

She avoided him and cut the thin skin, placing her hand on Kai's lips. He licked off the blood, looking her in her eyes. She bit her lip when his teeth brushed her skin, staring at the veins around his eyes.

He let go of her a few seconds later, kissing her wrist gently. "Thank you" he said, smiling softly.

"He's not staying a vampire," she said.

"No?" Kai asked.

"No. You're going to take the cure."

Everybody looked at her like she had lost her mind – and maybe she had, but she didn't care.

"He won't touch Elena," Damon disagreed. "You can't do this to me, Bon."

"I'm not doing anything to you, Damon. You can wait a month or two and take the cure from 1903. Everybody wins, as you would say."

The vampire looked around to get support, but no one gave him any.

"I can wait," said Elena, shrugging softly.

Damon sighed.

A month later.

Bonnie lay on her back on the floor in her Gram's living room. In her living room. This was her home.

She stretched her arms on the wooden floor, closed her eyes and let the memories of the last month pass in front of her.

She had spent a lot of time teaching Kai to recognize his emotions, to control them. He succeeded most of the times. He had some difficulty controlling his lust, but she was pretty sure that was her fault too. She was worse than him at self-control when they were together.

She had spent a lot of time with Jo and Liv, too. Jo wanted all the girls with her every time she had a pregnancy scan. Also, seeing two human beings grow inside her week by week was such a miracle that none of them wanted to miss out.

Damon was more annoying than usual about the cure left in the 1903 prison world. Bonnie wasn't sure she was ready to go back there.

She shook her head, trying to clear her mind.

When a hand slipped under her shirt she froze, recognizing the cold metal of the rings brushing against her skin.

She sighed softly, waiting for the familiar pleasure of his touch.

"You seemed a little pensive," Kai whispered on her neck. "So I thought I could help you relax a bit."

"You thought right."

It was so strange being touched by Kai, but she couldn't deny it felt damn good.

He lay down on her, kissing the tip of her nose. "What were you thinking?" he asked.

It was a thing he did, apparently. He always wanted to know what she was thinking.

"Always the same things," she answered, opening her eyes to look in his.

"Damon is still pressing for the cure?"

She nodded, caressing his hair. He tilted his head towards her hand, like a dog needing to be stroked.

"Are you planning to go?" he asked, his voice shaky.

"Maybe," she sighed.

Kai kissed her on her cheek, trying to change the subject to something he would surely enjoy more.

"Would you come?" Bonnie asked in a whisper.

She didn't want to ask him to go back there, but she didn't think she could go without him.

He looked at her intensely.

"Are you planning on leaving me there again?" he asked, half smiling.

Bonnie didn't smile back, she raised herself on her elbows and stared at him seriously. "No."

He felt a total moron, but he trusted her; just like she trusted him. He kissed her on her lips, a thing he didn't do often.

She kissed him back, then placed her forehead against his. "I'll go if you go."

Her whisper was so soft he almost missed it. Kai smiled and kissed her again. Wherever she went, he would follow.

AN: I have to admit it, I almost left him dead, but I knew that you would have killed me and I just wanted him to have a happy ending.

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