Bonnie and I were talking as we sat on a pile of dirt, while Damon was continuing to attack the ground inside the hole with the ax Kai had left. "Hey," Bonnie said to Damon. He stopped and looked at us. "You know there's a very probable chance you're digging your own grave, and... not bothered?" she asked him. Damon ignores her and starts attacking the ground again.
After a few more hits, an opening appeared in the ground. Damon smiled and gave us a satisfied look. Just then Kai appeared from the woods, carrying a backpack. "Looks like I got back just in time," he said. He nearly sets down his backpack when Damon vamp speeds forward and snatches the pack, he tears it open and begins looking through it.
"Zima, grunge, every Alex Rodriguez rookie card known to man, and a pager. Really?" Damon asked Kai, dropping the bag on the ground. "555-Hiya-Kai, no way I'm giving those digits up," Kai defended himself. "These are the important supplies you needed to get?" Damon asked. Kai sighed, "Look. The future sounds great, all right? I'm super excited about the Internet, but 1994 has been my home for most of my life. I'd hate to get homesick. So let's get down there-." "No." Bonnie cut him off, getting up from her place beside me and pushing past Damon, towards Kai.
I got up from my spot and stood beside Damon. "We are not going anywhere until you show me the spell," she said to Kai. "Okay," Kai said. He stood still, basically saying that we're not going. "Are we literally not going anywhere?" Damon asked.
"Fine, you don't want to show me the spell? Then you can do it yourself," Bonnie told Kai, which just caused him to smile, suspiciously at her. "You... want my magic. Take it," she said, holding her arm out. Kai looked at Damon and I, "Uh-oh, she's being brave." "I'm serious Kai! This was your big threat, wasn't it? If I don't do the spell and let us out of here, you'll just take my magic, leave me for dead, and do the spell yourself. So go ahead. Take all of it." Damon and I share a worried look before looking back to Kai and Bonnie.
"Don't mind if I do," Kai said, before putting both his hands on her shoulders. Bonnie yelps in pain, looking as though she's about to pass out. "Bonnie?" I asked, worriedly. "It's okay, he won't kill me," she tried to reassure me. "Doesn't look like that from here," Damon said.
Bonnie grunts in pain again, "Ow." Her face contorts in pain. "Hey! Bonnie," I hear Damon say. I'm only focused on Bonnie and how she's in pain right now. "Whoa, hey, guys. Stop!" I yell.
Kai releases Bonnie and she regains her composure. "He doesn't know the spell. Which means, we don't need him." She raises her hand, "Motus." The ax that Damon had been using soared through the air before burying itself into Kai's chest, whose eyes widen as he falls on his back. "Bonnie!" I yelled the same time Damon did. "No! No! Bonnie!" Damon yells.
A sharp pain shoots though my head before slightly diminishing. After a while Damon taps Bonnie's bare shoulder. "Great work, Bonnie," he says, sarcastically. That was the last thing I heard before my vision blurred and I was consumed by darkness.
I could hear voices, but I couldn't quite make them out. Slowly, they started to come into focus. "Faye," one voice said. "What's happening to her?" another voice asked. "I don't know," the first voice said.
I felt a slight shake on my shoulders, but it didn't last very long. "Damn it, Freya, wake up!" the first voice yelled. I tried to open my eyes, but they wouldn't open. It's like my eyelids were weighed down by something. I felt my body shift slightly, as though someone was carrying me.
"It's coming," a voice whispered, but it wasn't like the other two. It sounded like the new voice was inside my head. I tried to speak. To ask what was coming, but I couldn't open my mouth. "It's coming," the voice repeated, but this time it sounded far away.
I felt my body being laid down. "She's been out for a while," one of the voices from earlier said. I realized it was a female's voice. "I know, Bonnie," another voice said. Bonnie. Damon. "It's coming," the strange voice said one last time.
I sat up gasping for air. "Hey," I heard someone say as they rubbed my back in a soothing way. I looked over my shoulder and saw it was Damon. He gave me a relieved smile and engulfed me in a big hug. "What happened?" I asked after our hug was over.
"Well, Bonnie killed Kai and then you suddenly passed out," he explained. "How'd that happen?" I asked, feeling slightly fearful. "It's a problem for another time," Damon said as he helped me to my feet. "It's time, you guys," Bonnie said. Hearing those words made the fear in me disappear.
A smile made it's way onto my face, "We're going home?" "Yes, Faye. We are going home," Bonnie said, smiling back at me. Damon and I walked over and stood with Bonnie, underneath the blue eclipse light. Bonnie uses the Ascendant to cut her hand, then chants the spell and the Ascendant clicks and opens. "Alright. Let's get awkward," Damon said.
Damon places his hand under Bonnie's and I place my over hers. "Like this?" I ask her. "Yep." We all share a look. One of joy and understanding.
Damon looks at Bonnie, "I'm sure there are a about a billion people you'd rather be here with..." Bonnie smiles, "Not exactly." "Let's go-," I started, but was cut off by Bonnie's scream. An arrow came out of nowhere and stabs implants itself into her stomach, knocking her down in the process. I see the Ascendant fall to the ground before I turn around to see an alive Kai, holding a crossbow. "Forgetting someone?" he asked.
I ignore him and rush to Bonnie's side. "Did you really think I hadn't tried to kill myself before? Because I had, lots of times, lots of ways," Kai said as he reloaded the crossbow. He aims it at Bonnie and I move infront of her for protection. I notice Damon's gaze goes to the Ascendant. Kai must have noticed too, "Grab that, and the next arrow goes in her heart, even if I have to go through Freya to do it. Your choice."
Bonnie grunts in pain and Damon vampire speeds over to us. "I got ya," Damon says, pulling Bonnie into his arms. I turn to Bonnie and take the arrow out of her, causing her to gasp in pain. Damon bites his wrist, about to heal her when Kai rushes forward to grab the Ascendant. "Damon, no!" Bonnie yells.
Damon uses his vampire speed and strength to pin Kai against the wall. They struggle with each other and Kai drops the Ascendant. I stand and slowly try to make my way to it without being noticed.
I stop in my tracks when Kai stabs Damon with an arrow. "Damon!" I know the arrow won't kill him, but that doesn't keep me from worrying about him. Kai flips Damon over and tries to push the arrow in deeper. I run to Damon and try to help, but a hard slap to my face that causes me to fall to the ground puts an end to that attempt.
"Bonnie... get... out of here," Damon struggles to get out. My vision is slightly blurred, but I can see Bonnie on the ground with the Ascendant right beside her. "I'm not going to make it," she says, but then breaks into a smile. "But you two are." She holds her hand out, "Motus."
I look towards Damon to see Kai being thrown off of him by an invisible force. "Bonnie-" I start, but am cut off when my body is levitated into the circle of light, the same thing happening to Damon a second later. Bonnie tosses the Ascendant to us, Damon and I catching it in our hands together. "Don't!" I hear Kai yell. The Ascendant untwists and clicks in our hands.
"No!" the word slips from my mouth. The Ascendant twist and clicks once more. "No!" Damon yells from beside me. "Bonnie!" was the last word I got out before the eclipse light brightened and engulfed us.
The next thing I know, we're in the Salvatore crypt. Damon's hand shoots out and catches a bottle of bourbon right before it hits me in the face. "So what? Gone a couple months, you think it's okay to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon?" Damon asks Stefan, who had thrown the bottle. "And hit me in the face with it?" I add. Damon takes a swig of the drink, "Ahh."
"Damon? Faye?" Stefan asks as if he's not sure we're really here. "Yep. In the flesh," Damon answers with a smile. "How am I seeing you two right now?" Stefan asks. "Because we're not dead, Stefan," I say. Damon points at the bottle of bourbon, "This stuff's good, but it's not 'I see dead people' good."
I slowly walk towards Stefan. His eyes are wide and red, rimmed with tears. "It's a hell of a long story, Stefan, but... we're back," I say. "We're back," Damon agrees stepping beside me. Stefan reaches his hands out and touches Damon and I's shoulders.
"Yeah," Damon says. Stefan's face scrunches up as if he's about to cry. He pulls us both into a tight hug. I hug him back, so glad that I get to see him after all this time. "We're back, Stefan," I whisper into his ear.
