A few hours and 3 corn dogs with a bowl of mac and cheese later, Bonnie was so full she could hardly keep her eyes open. She felt like an oompa loompa trudging her feet down the hallway to her bedroom and hoped it was only a few more steps away. She felt like Kai was around her the entire day – which seeing how she technically never got any sleep and he was making her sandwiches at 4 in the morning he was with her for most of the day. They ate dinner together and talked about mindless chatter, in reality both of their thoughts were on the conversation they had earlier, and he slipped away to take a shower and never came back down. She knew it couldn't have been that late, must be before midnight, but there was nothing stopping her from collapsing on that bed. She turned the corner and stopped mid-step, realizing her mistake for the second time.

"Seriously?" she mumbled to herself, once again in the same hall that Damon's room is located in.

Bonnie glanced at his door then the one to the right of it, where she's been sleeping the past couple nights and headed in that general direction. She stopped in between both doors, glancing from left to right. If she chose what was being door number 1 she was certain she'd get a restful sleep with no nightmares, but the repercussions involve sharing a bed, snuggling, and possibly getting sleep siphoned. If she chose door number 2 she would most certainly have none of those repercussions but the chance of a nightmare jumps to about 85%. Bonnie sighed and rested her head against the door, hand on the knob for a solid minute before opening it. When she lifted her head to glance inside she saw no one and smiled to herself, heading straight for the bed. She jumped the last four feet and landed head first in the pillows, her body relaxing the moment it smelled the fresh sheets.

"Well isn't this a nice surprise," she heard from behind her and lifted her head to see Kai walking out of the bathroom in only a towel, dropping her head back down.

"Better than the surprise I just walked into," Bonnie mumbled with half her face pressed into the pillow. She heard him chuckle as he made his way over to the dresser, throwing the towel on her head before opening the drawer. "That's not – I don't," she reached over her head trying to yank the towel off her, very ungraceful in her tired state of mind.

"What was that?"

"I don't want that," she finished and heard the smack against the floor.

"Do you want this?" His voice was right next to the bed.

"Kai!" she turned her head towards him and saw he was holding an extra T-shirt, "Oh, no thanks."

"I do believe you are blushing," Kai mused rounding the bed to his side and pulling back the covers. "Get up for a sec."

Kai tugged the sheets attempting to pull them out from under her but neither would budge. He walked back around to her side and lifted her up and over his shoulder.

"What –"he held onto her with one hand and pulled back the sheet with the other, gently placing her back down.

"Now was that so hard?"

Bonnie couldn't even hear what he was saying when the sheets felt this soft, cuddling up closer to the pillows towards the middle of the bed and blindly reached for the covers at her feet. The bed sank underneath her then the covers were up near her shoulders and body heat was radiating in front of her, opening her eyes and glanced up finding him staring back down at her. She raised her eyebrows in surprise and he smiled, settling in even closer.

"Were you sleeping?"

"No?" she answered confused. "When would I have gotten the chance?"

"I don't know, that's why I was curious." Kai locked one of his legs between hers. "This is the first time you've come in here without having a nightmare first."

She kept her eyes closed but she could feel the close proximity his face was to hers, the light tone he used as he subtly got closer.

"Your feet are freezing," she remarked not too sure how to respond to something he wasn't entirely incorrect over.

"Warm them up," he suggested, slowly moving his feet over hers.

"Too cold," Bonnie shivered, the chill going straight up her spine. With his arms also under the blankets he reached over her waist and rested his hand against her back, pulling her closer.

"Better?" he asked a breath away from her face.

"Hell no," she retorted, knowing there was no way out of this position.

She heard a quick laugh through his smirk then took a deep breath and started to relax into the mattress. She laid there for a few minutes, both of them drifting off to sleep before she spoke.

"Kai?"

"Hm?"

"I'm still afraid of you."

Hugging her closer and resting his cheek on hers, he breathed out, "Don't be."

-x—x—x—x—x—x-

Bonnie hated to admit it but sleeping in the same bed as Kai was better than she ever could have anticipated. She felt more rested and relaxed each morning and was starting to feel somewhat at ease when she crawled into it the night before. Not to mention the best part of all; having the knowledge and comfort of someone near her drove the dreams away deep into her subconscious where they couldn't reach her. This was going on her third night in a row getting settled in his bed and Kai was not letting her forget it.

"You know what they say after three dates, Bon," he winked, barely containing his glee at seeing her squirm under his scrutiny.

"Dates? More like, I don't want to dream about getting sucked into the darkness and deal with one of your many moods so I'm sleeping here."

"Details," he remarked with a wave of his hand. "And the last I heard it sounded like you were starting to have good dreams, excellent dreams if what my mind conjured up is anything close to your fantasy."

"So not a fantasy of mine, Kai."

"No? What would you call it? Your mind is playing out scenarios that have not happened that you want to happen and your dreams are making them come true. But you know," he settled in next to her and rolled to his side, leaning in close to her whispering, "All you have to do is ask."

"I wish I could be anywhere else right now," Bonnie sighed, rolling around to face the other direction. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her against his chest.

"But you chose to be here. Is this where the sex scene played out?"

"There was no sex! No way in Hell."

"Good thing we're only in a prison world, we'll have to save the good stuff for when you're awake."

"You are relentless,"

"Absolutely," she heard through his smile as he nuzzled into her hair. She could feel his breath against her neck causing goosebumps to break out all over her body. The more time she spent in Kai's bed the more attuned she became to the little things he did; like the way he mindlessly rubs her arm before passing out, that he holds her tighter when his body relaxes, and the way he'll press his forehead, nose, and cheek to her skin but not his lips. What's that about?

"I think I'm going to sleep in my room tomorrow. I haven't had any nightmares in a few days and they were starting to subside before anyway so I think I'm in the clear."

"That is because I am excellent at keeping the big bad's away, but with recurring dreams you never know. It could come back stronger, or a different version or a different dream altogether."

She thought about that for a moment, staring at the leather chair in front of her before answering.

"Did your dream ever change?" Kai's arm tensed around her and his chest felt like one big muscle. She took a deep breath and let it out, waiting for him to answer, and noticed she didn't feel the rise and fall of his chest. Bonnie turned back to face him and his carefree smile was dimmed by a darker memory floating around his eyes. She could see him working to stay in a light mood – it didn't seem to be working. "What else did you dream about?"

"It was a long time ago."

"I know you remember."

"They were just bad dreams. I made it out of them."

"How?"

"He smiled softly out of the side of his mouth. "I'm a survivor."

For whatever reason, she could have sworn she felt a pang in her chest. Is that sympathy, for Kai, and his past? A part of her wanted to throw up, while the other kept pushing for answers.

"Tell me."

Kai glanced down at her, their faces in a very close proximity and smiled. "This whole spilling your guts thing and letting someone into your mind is a really weird and uncomfortable situation I've never come across in my life. I don't understand how this keeps happening. What are you doing?"

Bonnie shrugged, not having a clue what she was doing or why she kept wanting to hear more, to know him better, to see the side of him he's showed her almost every day since Damon left.

"I'm interested. Don't ask me why because I have absolutely no idea but for whatever reason, I want to know more."

"Likewise," he smiled. "If I tell you my dreams will you tell me yours?"

Her heart raced at the thought of physically getting out the words and staring into her eyes as she did it. No part of her wanted to tell him what's been escalating in her mind but the curiosity of the person she used to consider a monster having nightmares of demons of his own was too delicious to pass out.

"Fine," she spit out grudgingly. "You first."

Kai's face broke into a smile from ear to ear before putting back on his impassive mask he got when he thought about his childhood and coven and blew out a breath.

"A year," he said with a tone of finality and she waited a couple beats before speaking.

"What was a year?"

"The nightmares, I had them from my 13th to 14th birthday."

"I thought you said you had the dreams about Jo and the merge for a few months?"

"I did, until I figured out how to beat it. Then they stopped, and the next one started up."

"How many did you have?"

"Enough," he closed his eyes, the deep worry line in between his eyebrows visible.

"What were they about?"

Kai opened his eyes and looked into hers, his blue eyes blazing under his intense stare.

"Me dying, for the most part. Always, really - just different ways and different people doing the job." He gritted his teeth. "My father was my last one and let me tell you that was a difficult man to shake. I think I spent almost five months in that dream, it's a miracle to everyone in the coven I didn't kill him just to stop the dreams. I couldn't prove it, obviously, but I still think he was the reason behind the nightmares. I was the only one that ever got them and they were a year to the day, seems pretty magical to me. Plus, the few times I brought them up to him he'd cast me down and say it didn't matter, there were more important things to worry about." He laughed seeming to recall a memory. "I guess he was right about that."

Nightmares… for a year? Bonnie has been having them on and off for two weeks and she was ready to throw in the towel after the first few days. Being trapped in a nightmare feels like you never actually get any sleep and you're on red alert coated in anxiety the entire time. She tried to put herself in his shoes to see how it would be to live in the Gemini coven, with that lifestyle, while having mind-crushing nightmares about being killed for months on end and wondered how she would have turned out. She shivered at the thought and he pulled her closer.

"I-"Bonnie hesitated, "t-thank you, for telling me this stuff. I mean you're still a sociopath who needs to be kept at arm's length but all this makes you seem, I don't know, more human."

"Oh I'm all human, baby," he snickered and she could feel the vibrations in her chest, "and technically I wouldn't call this arm's length," he demonstrated by pulling her flush against his body. "But you're welcome."

"O-kay," she pressed her palms in between them against his ribs and tried to push herself backwards. "Too close."

"No such thing!" Kai replied with a cocky smile. "Anyway, you were just about to tell me about your dreams."

Bonnie stopped pushing, momentarily seized by the realization she'll have to tell him the same thing that her mind is trying to tell her, and she didn't want to deal with either. "You know, it's late, we really should get some sleep."

"Oh come on, Bon! I'm dying over here. I won't even say anything after we can go right to sleep."

A skeptical look splashed across her features but his eyes stayed on hers. She knew he was lying, he would tease and torment her over this for days or months to come but for a reason she couldn't put her finger on, a part of her wanted to tell him.

"Okay, before you go having any wet dreams of all the sex you think we were having, you can shut that down right away. There's no way I would sleep with you Kai, even in my dreams, but… we kissed," she rolled her eyes and tried to avoid his. "One kiss, as we were getting shipped off to Mystic Falls and an overwhelming sense of joy was in the air. It was like pheromones, completely helpless to it. And it was quick and then it was over. You were alright."

It's a shock his smile fit on his face. "We kissed, not I kissed you? Oh that's very interesting to hear, that means you were into it too. How did it end, did it escalate and you're leaving out all the juicy details?"

"No, we got what we went there for and got teleported out of there."

"Ah, so it didn't have the chance to escalate, I see," he said with a nod, his shit-eating grin still in her face.

"It wouldn't have Kai, trust me. I was trying to push you away the whole time."

"Mm, as I'm sure it would really go, but if you gave me another minute I think I could've changed your mind, seen the better side of things."

"You are incessant," she responded with a scoff. "Trust me, that's as far as you'll be going in any dream or prison world I find myself in.

"Agree to disagree," Kai shrugged, his eyes gleaming with this new information that seemed to wipe out the anger she saw minutes before. He fell onto his back and pulled her over until she was leaning against the side of his chest, her hand not knowing where to go and not wanting to rest on his stomach. He threw his other arm over his eyes.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to sleep, like I told you I would." He gave her a small squeeze. "Goodnight."

Bonnie kept her head and hand off of him, frozen in an uncomfortable position trying to come up with a plan B for the sleeping arrangement. After a full minute in that spot with a kink starting to form in her neck, she slowly put her head down against his chest and heard the heavy beating of his heart.

"Hm, human after all I guess."

Kai's laugh was genuine and it made the tension slip from her shoulders, her arm lying on top of his stomach. She was asleep before her next breath.