Chapter Eleven

The night flew by. Elena and Kai had tried cooking dinner together and this time Kai actually let her help him. It was filled with laughs and mistakes and awkwardly bumping into each other as they moved around the small kitchen.

They hadn't had sex. It had just been a silent agreement between the two of them when their heated makeout session finally came to a close hours later. This wasn't the time and here wasn't the place.

Elena had no clue what the future held but she had promised herself that she would no longer feel guilty and she planned on keeping that promise.

What exactly was she to Kai? She didn't know.

"So basically I just channel the rock well holding your hands and we'll both be zapped back home?" Kai asked.

"You're supposed to be the witch Kai, not me." Elena laughed as she playfully scolded him.

"Siphoner." He corrected with a fake warning glance.

"Siphoner." Elena mocked back with a smile.

Silence.

"So what's going to happen once we get back?" Elena hesitated before asking.

Kai raised an eyebrow, stopping what he was looking towards her. "What do you want to happen when we get back?"

It was a simple question but it was a question that Elena couldn't answer.

"I don't know." She admitted with a sigh. "What do you want to happen when we get back?"

Kai seemed to hesitate much like she did and Elena realized that this was the first time since the first few days that she got her that they were talking about what Kai had told her. His plan to kill the Gemini Coven and merge to become their leader. Did he still want to do that? Would he stop if Elena asked him to?

"I'm going to do what I planned on doing when I got out of here." He told her honestly. "I'm going to kill the people who locked me up in here, get my revenge and become the leader of my Coven-"

"By killing your sister." Elena muttered under her breath with a sigh.

He nodded. "They deserve it Elena. I know you don't understand that and that's fine but they DO deserve it."

Elena didn't say anything.

She didn't think of Kai as a monster but was it selfish for her to actually want him out of this hell world too? Was it wrong of her to release this kind of darkness into the world once again?

Kai let out an inaudible sigh when he saw Elena deep in thought with a frown. He couldn't help but feel a small twinge of guilt. He wasn't lying when he said that he 'liked' Elena but he wasn't going to just forgive his family for locking him up in here, for betraying HIM. He couldn't and he wouldn't, not even for Elena.

He walked closer to her and smiled. "How about we stop talking about this for now."

Elena smiled and nodded, wrapping her arms around his neck and bringing him into a kiss.

Her mind was made up. It was selfish and it was wrong but she didn't care. She wanted to go home and she wanted Kai to go with her.

"Ready to go home?" Kai asked with a smirk once they parted.

Elena smiled instantly and nodded. "More than you could ever believe."

Kai and Elena were both in a circle that was full of candles. Silas' tombstone was in between them.

"You ready?"

Elena nodded but then abruptly stopped. "You're sure that you can do this right? It won't.. it almost killed you last time."

"Elena, are you worried about me?" Kai smirked teasingly.

Elena remained silent so Kai let out a sigh, squeezing her hands tightly. "I'll be fine."

"Promise?" She asked with a twitch of a smile.

"Promise."

"Will we be here when we come back? In this house?"

Kai nodded slowly. "Yeah I think so. It would make sense.. let's hope nobody is home."

Elena smiled and nodded.

"Ready?" Kai asked.

Did he even have to ask?

He started chanting something that Elena couldn't really understand as she let her eyes fall shut.

She was actually going back to home. They were going back home. She would be back with her friends, family and Damon. She didn't know what she was going to tell him. Hey Damon, I'm alive but I've started some weird, messed up relationship with a Siphoner who may or may not be a psychopath.

She expected Damon to react poorly and try to kill Kai but she had a feeling Kai would be able to take care of himself.

Meanwhile, Kai had seriously underestimated how much this spell would take out of him. If he thought that the spell to get Silas' Tombstone had completely drained him he was wrong. As his chants grew louder the pain in his stomach and head increased.

There was no way in hell he was stopping. They were leaving this personal hell of his, one way or another.

Kai didn't stop chanting until he felt his entire body and mind shut down and his lifeless body fell to the floor. He thought he heard Elena scream his name but he couldn't be sure.

When Elena opened her eyes they were in an empty field. The spell didn't work?

A few seconds later she heard the familiar sound of a car engine and turned to see a busy street in the far distance.

They were home.

"Kai-"

Elena cut herself short when she spun around and was met with nothing.

"Kai!" Elena screamed frantically. She turned back around and her eyes were met with the site of Kai lying unconscious. He had blood coming out from his eyes and ears and his face was two shades too light.

She flashed towards him at vampire speed and started scanning his lifeless body for injury. She listened for a heartbeat but didn't barley heard one.

That seemed to shock the young Vampire back to reality. She quickly bit into her bare wrist and held it to his lips.

"Come on Kai. Please wake up." Elena begged softly.

"Please don't die. You can't die. I can't be alone." Elena cried despite the fact that she knew for a fact they weren't in the prison world anymore.

"Wake up." Elena whispered brokenly, tears pricking at her eyes as she held her wrist close to his mouth.

She stopped feeding him her blood and closed her eyes tightly.

Kai Parker was dead.. he was dead. Kai was.. breathing?

"I knew you were worried about me." Kai muttered, tired. He opened his eyes slowly and flinched as pain shot through his entire body.

Elena's eyes snapped open as she saw Kai smirking at her. She let out a teary laugh and pulled the Siphoner in for a tight hug at Vampire speed.

Kai flinched at the rough contact but didn't complain or tell her to stop.

"I thought I told you to never do that again!" She mumbled furiously, clinging to him tightly.

"You're squishing me." Kai laughed and Elena immediately pulled back with a frown.

"Sorry, Vampire strength." She muttered.

"I didn't say I didn't like it." He winked.

Elena smiled and rolled her eyes. She stood up and helped Kai to his feet. The color had began returning to his cheeks.

"Are you okay?" She asked him with a frown, her eyes scanning over his body as he stumbled.

He instantly nodded. "Yeah, it takes more than that to kill me."

She glared at him. "You would have been dead if I wouldn't have healed you. Try not to die sometime soon or you'll wake up with a suspicious burning in your throat."

Kai rolled his eyes and nodded before looking around. He grew confused much like Elena had at first. Where were they?

"We're back." Elena smiled.

"We're back." Kai confirmed with a smile just as big.

Kai and Elena were about an hour or so away from Mystic Falls. Neither of them knew why the spell hadn't dropped them in Kai's house but neither of them questioned it. Elena had compelled the both of them a car.

"So what's the plan?" Kai asked her curiously, leaning back in the passenger seat.

"Plan?" Elena repeated, her eyes moved away from the road to look at Kai.

"Yeah, you know, the thing that we're going to do once we arrive wherever the hell we are going." He smirked at her, rolling his eyes.

Elena shifted in her seat and kept silent for a moment before admitting. "I don't really have a plan."

Kai raised an eyebrow and glanced at her skeptically causing Elena to glare at him.

"Stop looking at me like there. What's your plan huh?"

Elena instantly regretted asking because somehow they always ended up here with Kai telling her that he was going to go kill his siblings, merge with his twin sister and become the leader of his family's Coven.

She wanted to be mad at this constant answer but she found herself slowly becoming numb to it. It's not like Kai had lied or manipulated her. He didn't hide the truth from her to protect her like Damon or Stefan would of done.

He had never pretended to be something that he wasn't or treated her like a porcelain doll.

"I dont know."

She didn't respond.

"We seriously have to stay here? Why not just keep driving?" Elena said in disgust as she stared at the rundown small motel they had come across ten minutes ago.

"Because not all of us are Vampire's Elena." Kai said. "Some of us have to sleep and I can't sleep with you blasting Tessa Swift or whatever."

"Taylor Swift." Elena rolled her eyes before smirking. "Call it revenge."

Elena and Kai walked into the motel check in area and were both warmly greeted by an elderly Latino women.

"What can I get for you dear?"

Elena instantly smiled warmly in response. She missed people. Normal people.

"Just two rooms for the night please."

The women was quiet for a moment, looking down at the clipboard in front of her.

"Looks like we only have one available with one queen sized bed. Will That be okay lovely?"

Elena hesitated, side eyeing Kai who was wandering around and looking at the photos on the wall.

"Yeah that's fine." She smiled. It really wasn't but she wasn't about to compel this poor women to kick somebody out of their room this late at night.

The women smiled back at her. "That will be $68.98 for the night. I'll need an ID and a credit or debit card."

Elena's eyes widened as she realized that she had absolutely no money and even if she did she sure as hell didn't have her ID. She was about to stutter out an excuse when she felt a warm arm come around her waist.

"Is there a problem honey?" Kai said in an overly sweet voice that didn't suit him in the slightest.

"Not at all." She said through clenched teeth, a fake smile appeared on her lips as she forced out the next word. "Baby."

The women smiled brightly at them and cooed. "Oh don't you to make an adorable couple!"

Elena resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

Kai pulled her closer to him and kissed her on the head before leaning down and whispering. "Compel her."

Elena clenched her jaw but her eyes stared straight ahead. "I don't like compelling innocent people Kai." She muttered.

"Too bad Elena. Either compel her or I will come up with a more creative method to get rid of her."

Fear shot through Elena as she pushed Kai's arm off of her and leaned towards the women. "We already paid for the room and gave you an ID. Give us the key."

There room wasn't half bad and Elena wanted to express this to Kai but she found herself ignoring him.

"You called me baby." Kai said happily. "I like it, baby."

Elena didn't respond.

"You're not really mad that I told you to compel her are you?" Kai snorted.

Elena just glared at him, walking over to the tiny bathroom. "One, you didn't ask, you threatened and demanded and two, I'm taking a nice long shower."

Kai just rolled his eyes before shouting after her through the closed door. "You're a Vampire Elena! Use it to your advantage!"

Elena forced the thoughts of Kai out of her mind as her mind drifted to her friends.

Alaric would be an enhanced vampire, right? She knew that he had passed through the barrier and came back to life and she couldn't be more happy for him. Damon and him were always close.

Caroline. Did she go back to school yet? Was she happy? Did Stefan and her finally stop skidding over the obvious chemistry between them?

Was Bonnie happy? She honestly hoped so. Bonnie deserves happiness after everything she had been through.

Was Jeremy okay without her? Was he still in Mystic Falls? Was Matt with him?

Tomorrow she would be back in Mystic Falls.

Back home.

Kai was humming quietly and flipping through the channels as Elena came out of the bathroom about a half hour later. Her hair was slightly damp and she still seemed to pretty upset with him considering she was glaring at him out of the corner of her eyes as she stuffed her old clothes into her bag.

"We're going to Mystic Falls." Elena told him, crossing her arms in front of the bed that Kai was lying on. She left no room for discussion.

Kai raised an eyebrow but looked unmoved at this. He had already guessed that the brunette Vampire would want to go there so it didn't surprise him. "Why is that?"

Elena sighed, narrowing her eyes and trying her best to stay calm. "Because I need to let them know I'm alive Kai." I need to let Damon know I'm alive.

Kai went rather silent for a moment. "Nah. Let's not do that. We can have so much more fun far away from your boring friends."

Elena shrugged, pursing her lips together. "Too bad Kai. That's where I'm going. If you don't want to come with that's fine."

Kai rolled his eyes and got off the bed, walking closer to Elena who subconsciously took a step back. "I honestly thought we were past the hostility my little Vampire."

Elena sighed faintly and looked up to meet Kai's eyes. "Well, you're making it very difficult not to be hostile with you Kai."

Kai smiled and let out a small laugh. He thought for a minute before nodding. "Yeah, that's probably true." He admitted.

There was a small silence before Elena hesitantly asked how he was doing.

Kai looked mildly surprised as he shrugged and responded in a confused voice. "I'm fine. How are you?"

Elena let out a laugh, uncrossing her arms. All the anger she had felt for him seconds before drained. "That's not what I mean Kai. You almost died. You weren't breathing, your heart stopped."

Kai shrugged and waved it off. "And yet I'm still here."

"Because I saved your life again." Elena snapped.

Kai nodded, admitting this. "Yeah, you did. Thanks for that by the way."

"So you're sure that you're okay?" Elena repeated. She was worried and it was obvious to the both of them.

Kai nodded, smiling. "Yes Elena, I'm fine. I'm a bit hungry but I think it can wait until morning. We're both exhausted."

Yes, she was tired.

"Did you notice that it was morning when you did the spell that brought us back here? Now it's like 1AM-"

Kai nodded, cutting her off. "Well I mean we did cross into another universe. I'd be shocked if the date was the same too."

Kai spoke to her as if she was a child and she would of been pissed if it wasn't for the teasing glint in his eyes.

"So?" Kai snapped after a couple seconds. "Mystic Falls?"

"Home." Elena corrected with a smile.