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It was early morning and Bonnie was sat inside the Salvatore kitchen eating breakfast. She gazed down at her plate of pancakes, before lifting her head back up seconds later to look at the empty seat opposite her.
It had been a month since she dived into his head to look at his memories, a month since she helped turn his humanity back on, and a month since she last saw him. The last thing he said to her was that he couldn't bear to face her without feeling so many regrets and that he was sorry before taking off. Failing to even look back and tell her where he was going he ran away just like he always did throughout his 170+ years on earth and left her alone, and it truly felt like one of the longest months of her life.
She hated him more than ever for taking off and abandoning her as soon as she found out he had saved her life when she was a baby, but even through her hatred for him, she couldn't help but miss him. The one thing that kept her sanity being in a place like this was the fact that she wasn't alone and that her and Damon had each other, but not being able to see or speak to anybody for a month had left her with an unwavering loneliness that she couldn't bear to fathom. Every morning that she woke up she had never felt so alone and not having her magic on top of that also made her useless. She was great at keeping her emotions in cheek in the past, but at least then she didn't have to worry about doing it alone as she had people by her side; such as her Grams and her friends.
Seconds later, Bonnie placed her fork down on the table and took a deep sigh before turning around to look around the kitchen. It was too quiet and it felt like the silence was slowly eating her alive.
She had gotten used to waking up every morning and walking downstairs to see Damon making breakfast whilst dancing to 60's and 70's soul music blasting through the radio. She had gotten used to listening to him tell stories about some of his many adventures that took place in his long life. Even though she paid no attention to it half the time, she always listened and remembered each one. As much as she despised the sound of it before, hearing the sound of his voice each day was the only thing that kept her company. She had gotten used to so many things about him, and other than his brother, she was the person that knew him more than knew himself.
Felling frustrated and angry, Bonnie quickly shot up from her seat and threw her fork across the room. She breathed in and out and rubbed her forehead as she tried to calm herself down. She should've been the one to walk out on him after all the terrible things he's done to her and maybe she should've whilst she had the chance, but she knew that if that time ever came she wouldn't. She wasn't the type of person to leave someone behind or abandon them, but the same couldn't be said about him. The thought of him made her so angry, but she also missed him at the same time and that undying feeling had caused her utter confusion for the past month.
Wanting to get some fresh air, Bonnie rubbed her forehead before exiting out the kitchen and going to head out the mansion. As she stepped out the mansion,the warm summer breeze quickly blew past her causing her hair to scatter all over a face. As she went to brush it away, she heard footsteps coming towards her left in her direction.
"Damon?" she muttered quietly to herself. Her heart was beating, but as she cocked her head to the left, she was met with somebody completely different.
"Damon?... psst no way. I'm much more handsome than him" Bonnie's eyes widened in complete shock as he slowly approached her. He had brown hair, brown eyes and there was a lasting smug smirk on his face as he peered down at her. She looked up at him with her mouth slightly open to speechless to even speak for a second as millions of questions rapidly flew through. "I know you probably have a lot of questions right now but-
"Who are you? how the hell are you here? are there more people trapped here that I didn't know off?" Bonnie questioned, quickly cutting him off and throwing multiple questions at him. She slowly took a couple steps back not trusting him at all.
"Unfortunately its just you, Damon and I... well for now its just you and I since Damon's disappeared to God knows where. He's really a jerk isn't he? leaving you all alone, how the hell do you put up with him by the way?" Bonnie watched as he pulled out a chocolate bar from his pocket to take a bite off, before taking another step back. "Oh my name's Kai by the way, its nice to finally meet you, Bonnie" he smiled, holding out his hand for her to shake.
Bonnie gaped down at his hand before clearing her throat and speaking up. "How did you know my name? you still haven't answered my question, who are you?" she asked again, folding her arms.
Kai placed both his hand on his hips and sighed a loud sigh. He pushed his head back to gaze up at the sun before speaking up. "God I am so tired of the sun, its been eighteen years since I've seen rain" he muttered quietly, leaving Bonnie to scrunch up her face in confusion.
"What do you mean?... listen I thought that Damon and I were the only people trapped in this place, have you been in town the whole time or...?" she spoke, arching her brow at him.
Kai gazed down at her for a brief second. He turned to look around the place before speaking back up. "Eighteen years ago; the day after my 22nd birthday my dad sorta trapped me in here for all eternity or whatever" he stated, before yawning afterwards. "So I've been stuck here for a consecutive 6570 days relieving the same day over and over again. I've basically been alone, that is until you and Damon showed up, now you two are hilarious. You fight like a married couple like all the time, come to think of it, it does get pretty annoying to listen to once in a while and-
"Wait you've been watching us since we got here and decided not to say anything or even confront us?" Bonnie asked bewilderingly, cutting him off from his constant rambling.
"Oh yeah" he replied. "I'm originally from Portland, Oregon and its where I spent most of my time, but I was passing by, deciding to drive around the states for like the millionth time, but when I stopped in Mystic Falls and saw you and Damon bickering near the Grill I decided to stay a little while" he explained briefly. "Uh I was so bored until I found the two of you, and trust me there's nobody else here but the two of us. Being trapped here for eighteen years has given me a lot of free time to do things and go places I never thought I'd go".
Bonnie quickly shook her head, still a little taken back by Kai's sudden appearance. "You said that your dad trapped you in here eighteen years ago, why's that?" she asked, looking up at him.
Kai looked back down at her and paused for a brief moment before plastering his usual smug look back on his face. "I was always sorta seen as an abomination to my family so I guess my old man was too ashamed me and just cast me away... dad of the year am I right?" he chuckled, cocking his head to the side."You see you and I have a lot in common Bonnie, except you can actually do magic freely and I have to absorb it from somebody" he stated, placing his arms to the side.
"You're a witch?" Bonnie raised her brows eagerly, taking a step closer to him. "You must know a way out of here, right?".
"Well... sorta" Kai laughed awkwardly, pressing his lips together. He reached into his pocket to pull something out before taking a step closer to her so she could get a proper look. "Now I had to go all the way to Japan to get this. This is an ascendant, its a really powerful object made by a couple of Japanese witches in the 17th century and holds the magic of kinda like a teleportation device from an alternate world back to the present. I tried everything to get outta here using it but I realised it won't work without any magic. I thought I was really trapped here forever, Bonnie, but when I saw you and Damon I thought I may have a chance to finally get outta this prison after all".
Bonnie gazed down at the ascendant intriguingly. As she lifted her hand up to touch it, she noticed a glowing green light radiating from the inside, which caused her to pull back. "You need my magic for it to work, don't you?" she asked.
"Your magic, your blood and a really complicated spell that I have no clue of and trust me I've tried to find it" he explained. "Its a good thing you and Damon went back to Texas that time to get your great great Grandma's Grimoire. The answer to the spell must be in there somewhere".
"Well she spelled it shut before it died and since Mary was one of the most powerful witches to ever live, its going to take a lot of magic that I've probably never done before to open it and I'm sure you've realised by now that well... I don't have any magic right now, I lost it a while ago" she stated bluntly, sighing to herself afterwards.
"Bonnie you're a Bennett witch. Your ancestors are the most strongest witches in history. Your magic was never really lost, its just somewhere deep inside but you haven't found the strength yet to channel it" Kai uttered. He smiled down at her before going to place his hand on her shoulder. "Listen, I'll help you channel it and you and I can open Mary's Grimoire, find how to do the spell and finally get outta here. I know you wanna get back to your friends; Eleanor and Carolina".
"You mean Elena and Caroline?" Bonnie scoffed, looking up at him. "For someone who's basically been stalking me for three and a half months, you couldn't at least remember my two best friends names?" she chuckled lightly, with a smile forming on her face for what seemed to be the first time this month.
"What can I say, I'm terrible with names" Kai snickered, smiling back down at her.
The two stared at each other for a brief while, till Bonnie shifted her eyes away, sighing to herself afterwards. "Even if we do find a way to get my magic back... I can't just leave Damon behind. If I do then he'd be stuck here forever" she breathed out, crossing her arms above her chest.
"Ugh why not? Damon sucks and he's a terrible terrible person overall, even worse than me and I did some pretty questionable things before I got trapped in here. He spent your 19th birthday with you because it was what his girlfriend Elena or whatever her name is would've wanted. How badly is he obsessed with her anyway, its kind of unhealthy if you ask me".
Bonnie rolled her eyes away before speaking up. "Damon and I hated each other before we got here, but he has a brother back home who probably thinks he's dead and I can't let him think that forever. I mean just a month ago I used my Grams magic bracelet to look into his memories and go back to 1846 to see him hold his brother when he was a baby-" she paused mid sentence, remembering how she had also saw him save her from the witch who was about to sacrifice her. Everyday when she woke up it was the first thing she always thought of. She couldn't believe that he had kept something like that from her for so long and it only made her anger for him increase.
"Damon had a heart as a kid? I just assumed him to be the heartless vampire monster he is his whole life" Kai gasped, placing his hand dramatically on his chest. "When I first met him he did try to kill me several times, but I guess that's just Damon. He doesn't like you if he hasn't tried to kill you at least once".
"What are you talking about? you and Damon knew each other?" she questioned bewildering in shock of what she just heard.
"Oh yeah, we met a couple months before May 10th, 1994 actually and well... its a long story" he scratched the back of her head and laughed an awkward laugh not wanting to continue any further which only left Bonnie feeling a little suspicious.
"Well its ironic that he got trapped in the same place you've been for eighteen years..." she spoke quietly before turning around to walk back inside the house. He had expected her to ask him about what had happened with Damon and him, but instead she shrugged it off almost like she wasn't uninterested, but watching her almost everyday for the past three and a half months he had managed to pick up a few things from her and knew that she was going to find out one way or another, but he couldn't let that happen no matter what.
"Ah the infamous Salvatore mansion!" Kai spoke up, following in after her. "Why would Damon wanna leave this place and run away... so what's the deal between you two?" he asked, causing her to quickly turn around to face him. "I know he has a girlfriend or whatever, but do you have a crush on him or something?.
Bonnie stared up at him before quickly shifting her eyes away and speaking up. "I've never had a crush on Damon... even if he was the last guy on earth I still won't bring myself to see him that way" she uttered bluntly, turning back around.
"Its a good thing that I'm here, unless he technically would've been the last guy on earth" he chuckled to himself, turning to look around the living room.
Bonnie walked over to the sofa to pick up her teddy bear Ms Cuddles. She stared down at it, remembering how Damon would go to sleep with it every night and basically keep it around him all the time. She smiled at the thought before rotating her head around to face Kai once again. "Why?... you've been watching Damon and I for three and a half months and you finally decided to introduce yourself to me today? were you just waiting for me to get my magic back and suddenly got impatient or did you not wanna face Damon again now that he's disappeared?" she questioned sternly, placing her hand on her hip. Although he had explained everything to her, she still couldn't fully trust him and let her slight suspicion go.
Kai gazed at Bonnie from across the room as she gazed back at him waiting for an answer. "I know you, Bonnie... even though you don't know who I am, I've basically watched you and Damon for three and a half months, but mostly you" he stated. "I know that you're a really strong person, I know that you put others needs before your own, I know that deep down you want someone to fight for you badly just like you've fought for your friends even if its just once in your life, I know that you can't let yourself truly be happy because you're always worrying about somebody else, I know that you're the most patient and selfless person I've ever met and I know that you just couldn't stand being alone any longer... that's why I had to finally meet you today. Damon's the biggest idiot on the planet for abandoning you".
As he finished off his sentence, Bonnie stood frozen to the ground, speechless at everything that had just came out of his mouth. She didn't even know this person existed an hour ago, but here he was saying exactly what she felt on her mind. It was like he could easily see through her without trying. She watched as Kai made his way over to the shelves to pick up several candles, before making his way over to her.
"What are you doing?" she asked as he neatly placed the candles down on the floor.
"You are gonna keep trying to get your magic back and the results should be pretty successful soon with my help now" he winked down at her, before taking a seat on the floor. Bonnie smiled at him before going to do the same, and for the first time since forever she suddenly didn't feel so alone.