A/N: How has it been like a month since I updated this? Feels like a week ago to me. Oops, sorry about that.

I was lurking around on Twitter the other day and Bonkai is becoming more popular. My babies. *Squishes them.*

Ahem. Anyway.

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. It's a bitch.


Damon cornered Liv the next day, Tyler still glued to her side like the loyal little dog that he was. The older Salvatore had no idea what the ex-hybrid saw in the witch, except that she looked a lot like Caroline, being blonde and stubborn and all, but his presence annoyed the vampire, who wanted a little one on one conversation with Blondie with no interruptions or distractions.

'Shoo Mutt.' He said, waving both hands at Tyler in a shooing gesture. 'It's not you I want to see today. Or any other day, for that matter.'

The teenager scowled at the word 'Mutt' before shaking his head. 'I don't trust you alone with her, Damon.'

With a snort, Damon rolled his eyes. 'She has magic and can look after herself. You on the other hand, are useless without your hybrid capabilities. Shoo.'

Tyler's scowl turned icy cold before he stalked off without another word.

'Do you have to piss him off?' Liv asked, her arms folded across her chest.

'Do you have to piss me off? I know you lied about your dad's location. We went there and the-'

'I didn't lie about anything.' Liv quickly cut in. 'The location I gave you was the correct one.'

'There was no house there, Blondie. Or is it invisible now?' Damon said.

'Actually it is. To non magical people, anyway. A bit like Hogwarts.'

'Hog-What?' The vampire shook his head with a frustrated sigh, someone was going to die soon, and he had dibs on it being the blonde nuisance stood in front of him. 'Whatever. So you're saying the house is invisible unless someone has magic? Then why didn't you tell me that before?'

Liv shrugged. 'You didn't ask.'

'Find anything?'

Stefan's timing was perfect, as always, as Damon was just about to snap the little witch's neck. He turned towards his brother with a low growl, completely ignoring Liv now. 'We need magic to see the house.'

'Then we'll bring a witch with us.' Stefan's gaze turned towards Liv, who was slowly trying to creep away from them both. She froze on the spot and shook her head. 'Hell no, I don't want to go back.'

'You won't have a choice, Blondie.' Damon snarled, stepping towards her again. 'Bonnie's my friend and I'm not leaving her there because you're going to be a stubborn bitc-'

'Damon!'

Stefan pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. 'Look, this isn't going to solve anything.' He caught and held the witch's eye contact before continuing. 'Though if you won't help, we'll use your brother instead.'

'You don't know where he is.' Liv said slowly, cursing herself when she realized she had no idea where Luke was either, something she didn't want to tell the vampires stood in front of her. 'And he wouldn't help you anyway.'

'He's with Enzo.' Damon replied simply. 'And he will help. Unless he wants to die again, for good this time.'

Liv opened her mouth to protest before swiftly deciding against it, a look of defeat crossing her features. 'Fine. But I'm only taking him.' She pointed at Stefan. 'Because I sure as Hell don't trust being alone with you.'

She hurried towards the exit, pausing with one hand on the doorknob. 'We leave tomorrow morning.'


Bonnie stared up at the eclipse, her eyes squinting against the sun as it peeked around the shadows and filled up the sky again, thick rays of light covering Mystic Falls in a blanket of warmth. The day slowly returned to normal, seeming just like any other spring afternoon in the small Virginia town.

Except it wasn't.

Bonnie had lost count of how many eclipses passed by, desperately trying to block out their presence with a 'If I can't see you, you can't see me' attitude, usually withdrawing into her room with the curtains pulled until they were over. Today, however, she watched it, watched as the day reset itself. She turned her attention to the front door, where a brand new newspaper appeared on the mat. Kai told her only things that were used by either him or her replaced themselves on a daily basis.

'It makes sense, really.' He had said when she asked him how the magic worked. 'Otherwise I would be drowning in bags of pork rinds by now, not that I'm complaining.'

Bonnie sighed, slowly ambling back towards the house. It had been days since she used dark magic, and yet Kai still wasn't back to his old self. The cockiness inside him had faded away completely, leaving behind someone she didn't even recognize. Pushing open the front door, she padded over to where he sat slumped in an arm chair with a semi vacant expression on his face. He needed a doctor, she could see that, but she didn't have one. She also didn't want to mess around with medicines herself, too scared that she'd screw him up even more.

Perching herself on the arm of his chair, she extended one hand towards Kai's head, carefully stroking his hair. He twitched at her touch, pale eyes lifting to meet her gaze.

'What?'

'I was just thinking,' She said, slowly pulling her hand away again. 'What if there's another ascendant?'

Kai blinked, sitting up straighter in his chair. 'What do you mean?'

Bonnie faltered, her throat suddenly dry. Watching the newspaper respawn itself made her think, could the ascendant do the same? After all, Kai did move the original. What if there was another in it's place? 'You disturbed the ascendant by picking it up and bringing it to Virginia, right? Would another one reset in it's place?'

'I... Don't know.' He chewed on his lower lip. 'Maybe.'

'Don't you want to find out? I mean, what do we have to lose?'

With a shrug, Kai slumped back against the chair, his entire body lightly trembling. 'Why? You're meant to be making me feel remorse, remember? Isn't that what your precious Gram's wanted?'

'I don't want to die, Kai, I want to go home. Like Damon did.'

'And then what? We go our separate ways? Pretend all of this never happened?' He grabbed a cushion and hid his face behind it, voice muffled against the dusty fabric. 'Is that what you want?' He didn't need to see her to know the answer. He knew that she missed her friends more than anything, he could see it in her eyes every time he mentioned them. She didn't want to be with him any longer, she wanted to be surrounded with people she actually liked. And he wasn't one of them.

'I just want to go home, Kai.'

Removing the cushion with a forced smile, he stood up and headed for the stairs. 'Then pack your bags, Bon-Bon, we have a long trip ahead of us.'


'Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?' Damon asked, watching as Stefan threw a small suitcase into the back of Liv's truck. 'Blondie isn't really a match for me...' He moved towards the trunk, subtly eyeing the limited space inside. 'Or I could just smuggle myself in.'

Laughing quietly, Stefan shook his head. 'We'll be fine. Just keep looking for other answers, okay? In case this one falls through.' He clapped the other vampire on the shoulder. 'We'll get her back, one way or another. I promise.' He climbed into the car and shut the door, muttering something to Liv that Damon couldn't make out.

Damon sighed and stepped back, eyeing the truck silently as it drove away.

'I don't like this.' Tyler said, his eyes also fixed on the retreating car, though for different reasons.

'Blondie's replaceable.' The older Salvatore shrugged. 'Bonnie and Stefan aren't.'

'How can you say that?' The teenager growled, rounding on Damon with narrowed eyes. 'You know I care about her.'

'I do, but you should also care about Bonnie. After all, she did help you to come back.' The frustration at having no answer or no way to bring the little witch back was eating at him and he finally snapped, his eyes flaring. 'Yet you're too busy running after someone who's a lot like Caroline just because you fucked up with the real Caroline! It's pathetic.'

'She slept with Klaus, remember? How did I fuck up?'

Damon turned away and wandered off without uttering another word, urgently needing to calm down before he did something he would later regret.


'I don't like this.'

Bonnie blinked at the small aircraft sitting innocently on the tarmac in front of her before turning to Kai, her fight or flight reflex telling her to run like a bat out of Hell. 'Did I mention that I don't like this?'

'It'll be fine. This isn't the first time I've flown a plane, you know. How did you think I got here?'

'Car?'

Kai shook his head with a small smile. 'Too slow, Bon-Bon.' He pulled open a door and climbed in behind the controls, checking over everything quickly. Bonnie moved towards him, leaning her body against the plane's metal frame.

'Are you sure you're up to doing this? I don't know how to fly a plane if you pass out on me.'

'I crashed the first time I flew.' Kai muttered, fishing out a handbook from one of the compartments. 'I don't particularly want to experience that again, don't worry.' He looked up and shot her an easy smile.

'It'll be fine. Hop in.'