Jeremy flinched at the harsh sound of Bonnie's palm hard against Kai's cheek and couldn't help the resentment that flooded him, the resentment that he'd never inspired in Bonnie the urge to react so violently, so passionately toward him.

"You destroy everything that is good in my life!" Bonnie yelled.

Kai glared at her. "He isn't your life anymore or have you forgotten? You chose this. You chose us."

"I didn't choose any of this!"

"No," said Kai. "No you can't help it, can you? I'm a part of you."

"Don't you dare," said Bonnie. She pointed at Jeremy who was starting to stand up. "Jeremy is a part of me. Jeremy will always be a part of me. You -" her face twisted into an ugly expression. "You are a virus, Kai, eating away at me until there's nothing left but hate and shame and -"

"And what? What?" Kai yelled so loudly that his voice reverberated throughout the room, causing the floorboards to shake, making Jeremy look around frantically for any sign of the living room breaking apart. "And disgust and grief?"

"YES. ALL OF IT."

"Hate, shame, disgust, grief, you know why you feel that, right? Because nothing feels as good as me inside you, nothing feels as good when you're riding me, when you're mastering me, when I'm bending you to my will."

Bonnie opened her mouth but didn't speak; there was nothing to say. What Kai brought out in her, the lust, the carnality, it was beyond powerful, it was overpowering. Her desire for him, her desire to hurt him, her desire to own him, consumed her with such painful intensity that it eclipsed all else, it blinded her to everything and anything but the riotous ache only he spawned in her. The instant Kai had appeared in the living room, he was all she could see; she had quite literally forgotten that Jeremy was there with them, she had quite literally forgotten where she was, why she was there - his presence snuffed everything out but her murderous want of him, her erotic hatred toward him. Even now, she had to remind herself constantly that Jeremy was there, each mention of his name jolted her with surprise at his existence in the room, looking in on the destructive dysfunction that had become her life.

"We've been through this a thousand times and we'll go through it a thousand times more but I don't care, I live for it. I live for how much you hate me, how you try to fuck me into insignificance."

Bonnie could feel Jeremy's heartache shiver through her and his anguish splintered her chest with guilt, with gut-wrenching empathy. She threw the knife at Kai for a second time."Shut up!"

"No," said Kai harshly. "He has to hear this."

"Why? I thought you weren't threatened by him! I thought he was just a stupid boy to you, what is the point of you doing this? Why are you here?"

"Because you need to accept his place, you need to accept how much he doesn't matter anymore. You did it with Elena, now it's his turn."

"It's not enough that you have stalked me, stabbed me, and abandoned me, it's not enough that you have cursed me with this, with this - ugh!" Bonnie screamed and clenched her hair with her hands. "You have to go around burning every bridge to my old life?" She stormed up to Kai, jutting her head forward, shouting in his face. "You're fucking despicable!"

He took an abrupt step forward so that Bonnie had to take half a step back so they wouldn't collide into each other. "And you revel in it!"

Bonnie felt it. She hated herself, hated her body for betraying her conscience, but she felt it - the throbbing between her thighs, the heat that flushed her skin; her fingers tingled, her lips swelled, her heart thudded so frantically that she was breathless with anticipation, with arousal. Kai's proximity to her was dizzying, her need to shut him up, make him hers, own him, own the situation - it was intoxicating. Horrible and exhilarating.

Kai shifted forward and she knew he was going to seize her, smash into her, slam her against a wall, but then a yell snapped them out of their hedonistic reverie.

"Do not touch her!"

Both of them turned towards Jeremy who was holding the bloodied makeshift stake he'd stabbed Kai with only moments before, his face contorted with grievous rage.

"I swear I will kill you if you touch her in front of me again."

Bonnie heard Kai chuckle and his arrogance angered her, his intent to humiliate Jeremy, and the knowledge that he could do so without putting much effort shaded her already multifaceted hatred for him.

"Do your best, Little Gilbert," said Kai. "But I bet I can liquefy your lungs before you even take one step toward me."

"Don't," Bonnie snapped. She walked up to Jeremy, determination in her stride. "Jer?"

He didn't look at her but kept his gaze on Kai, eyes steely, jaw clenched; he gripped the stake tightly.

"Jeremy, look at me."

"Think about what you want to do because if I kill you, you're dead. Not like Gilbert Ring dead or Other Side dead but dead dead."

"Jeremy, listen." Bonnie put her hands on either side of his face and brought his gaze down to her. "He won't kill you, I swear I will die before I let him hurt you. I mean it."

Jeremy stared at Bonnie, his steely eyes turning teary. "I know you would," he said, his voice thick. "But that isn't the point is it?"

"What do -?"

"It's not that you're willing to die for me, it's that you're willing to hurt him. The lengths you're willing to go to make sure he suffers, you know what you dead would do to him because he loves you."

"Don't say that," said Bonnie.

"He does. He loves you and it ruins everything." Jeremy flicked his eyes up toward Kai. "You ruined her."

"Jeremy -"

"She isn't ruined you just don't know her anymore," said Kai. "You've never seen her like this, you never knew that someone could push her limits like this and you can't stomach it."

Jeremy removed Bonnie's hands from his face and took a step forward, raising his stake slightly.

"JEREMY."

He turned sharply to Bonnie. She shook her head. Jeremy hesitated for a moment and then threw the stake down on the floor, turning around to head to the foyer.

Bonnie screamed. "I don't -" Jeremy paused. "I don't love him. I don't. But you." She bit her lip. "You I will always love. You are …" She sighed. "You are pure and decent and good and -"

"Something for you to protect," said Jeremy. "It's what you do, Bonnie, you protect me. You sacrifice for me. You die for me. But with him…" Bonnie swallowed at the vitriol in Jeremy's voice, at the way he twisted the word 'him' into such a repulsive sound. "You're tied to him," he said. "In a way you were never tied to me. And you hate him in a way you never hated Damon. And I can't be here anymore, I can't stand around and watch you two act out this, this thing that you have, that you can't get enough of. He's right, I can't stomach it."

Bonnie called his name as he continued walking to the foyer. He didn't respond or slow down but wrenched open the front door, allowing the furious lashing of what sounded like a thunderstorm to echo throughout the house. Bonnie felt a mixture of relief and guilt and anger when the door slammed behind Jeremy, grateful that he hadn't turned around and waited for her to say something that would make sense of what was happening, of what she'd become. She didn't have those words.

The instant the door clanged shut she rounded on Kai. "Everything good in my life," she repeated quietly. When he didn't respond, Bonnie started shouting, it was uncontrollable and wild, the rage he inspired in her was as riotous as the lust. "You destroy everything good in my life until there's nothing left but you!"

"Good is boring," said Kai finally. "Good is mediocre. Good is beneath you."

"I miss boring."

"You'd miss this more."

"I'd freaking rejoice if I were free of you, Kai!'

He roared. "THEN GO."

Bonnie paused for a beat, narrowing her eyes and then she spoke, her voice a hiss between clenched teeth. "Gladly." She turned on her heel and headed out the same way as Jeremy.

Kai watched as Bonnie stormed toward the foyer and was overcome with frustration and excitement. It thrilled him, the way she always tried to walk away from him, from them, from this, because then he could make her stay, make her surrender to him with a kiss, with a stroke, with a thrust; he could prove to her that his prowess was something she secretly lived for, silently begged for. Hearing her cry out his name, resentful and earnest, aroused and disgusted, it was enough to undo him and sometimes it took all he had to keep going and not erupt at the husky caress of her voice. But it killed him too. The way she always tried to walk away from him. Suffocated him with a vehemence that compelled him to burn and keep burning, to scorch everything around him until everything he could see was on fire; her absence shifted something in his mind, unhinged him, tortured him with a thirst for her presence, her body, and all he could do to take his mind off of her for only but a moment was kill and feed and rip into throats until he regurgitated all of the blood he consumed and black out from over-indulgence.

That wouldn't be his fate. Not tonight.

Kai heard the click of the front door opening and he sped to the foyer, colliding into Bonnie so that his front smashed against her back. The door was open a crack and he pushed it shut; he used one hand to keep it closed and the other to move Bonnie's hair from her neck so he could kiss her. He heard Bonnie sigh, deep and wet, and then heard her throaty exclaim of frustration, "Ugh! No!" She dug her shoulder painfully into his chest, pushing him away from her but Kai took her by the arms and slammed them on the door, laying her hands flat against the wood, pinning her wrists. He nuzzled the side of her neck, grazing his lips along her skin so that goosebumps erupted and she gasped; he used his body to press her against the door and grinned as her back arched so that she pushed back against him, making his breath hitch in his throat.

"Stop it," she panted.

"Why?"

"I'm leaving."

Kai widened his legs and pushed into her again, eliciting a stifled moan from Bonnie's lips. He closed his eyes, savouring the sound, relishing and resenting the desire that roiled beneath his skin. "No you're not."

"I'm going after Jeremy."

Kai released her wrists and put his hands firmly on her hips, pushing her into him. Bonnie reached behind her, her hand on the back of Kai's neck as she started circling her hips, rubbing her behind against his pelvis so that he grasped her even tighter and instinctively started to mirror her movements, his hardness pulsating with such intense readiness he was lightheaded. He slipped his hand into her skirt, beneath the waistband of her underwear and slid into her, his fingers making the same circular motions as their hips. Bonnie swore, loud and unguarded, and Kai moved his finger faster, his breath harsh and ragged against her ear, his gums aching with the need for his fangs to descend, the magic in his veins unbridled so that his entire body hardened and hummed with the all-consuming, nearly painful need to bury himself in her. Bonnie started banging on the door.

"I'm going after Jeremy," she repeated, her voice shaky.

"No you're not," said Kai.

Abruptly, Bonnie turned around and pushed Kai away from her, her chest heaving up and down. "Yes I am."

She wrenched the door open and hurried outside. A beast arose in Kai. NO. His entire body seemed to scream the word. Everything was hazy. It wasn't that she was determined to find Jeremy, it was that she was determined to deny him her, determined to leave him with a yearning that devastated him, that made it impossible to think or see or even breathe. He needed this. He wouldn't be able to function without eliciting her pleasure. Echoes of her screaming his name rang throughout Kai's head and he tore after her.

Bonnie was running down the driveway, her sandals splashing in the small puddles that dappled the gravel until she reached her car. Clumsily, she reached into her pocket and took out the keys, fumbling around with with them, trying to find the right one through the dark and the rain. Kai grabbed them from her and threw them to the side, turning her around, slamming her against the car door, thrusting his lips onto hers and suddenly, frighteningly, thunder cracked loud and ominous, lightning brightened the sky in flashes of eerie white. Bonnie grasped the back of Kai's head as his mouth opened hers with a furious desire to devour her, to claim her; he wouldn't give her room to think, air to breathe, everything she had would be his. He sucked on her lower lip, running his tongue along the curve of her rain-lashed neck, her skin warm and moist, her scent frenzying his blood. Kai felt Bonnie's hands clutch him, pull him closer, her breathing was ragged and uneven, moans pushed at the back of her throat and each mewl only intensified the swelling in his jeans, burning him with a maddening arousal. He hooked his fingers into her skirt and Bonnie pushed him away for a second time.

She muttered something quickly and suddenly her keys were in her hand. She turned swiftly around to unlock the car and she slipped into the driver's seat, hastily shutting the door. Kai shook his head and sped to the passenger's side. The moment his hand was on the handle, the locks went down.

"Don't," said Bonnie, staring at him.

"I will wrench this door off its hinges," said Kai.

Bonnie gritted her teeth in irritation and Kai watched as she rested her head against the headrest, closed her eyes and screamed, the storm drowning out the noise. Finally, she unlocked the door and glared at him as he got into the passenger seat, his clothes and hair dripping, the air in the car ripe with rain and anger and hankering. They started yelling at the same time, their furious words jumbling into each other, their raised voices increasing the rainfall, sharpening the vividness of the lightning; magic swirled around them, heightening already tumultuous emotions until finally Kai's voice overpowered everything. "I KNOW YOU WANT THIS, STOP ACTING LIKE YOU DON'T."

Bonnie paused for a beat and Kai studied her expression, her narrowed eyes, her clenched jaw, and then suddenly she launched herself at him, kissing him hard on the mouth. Kai responded immediately, leaning into the kiss as he pulled Bonnie over to him, her foot kicking against the gearshift, and placed her on his lap so she sat astride him. He fisted through her hair, carelessly ruffling the strands, as she gripped either side of his face, holding him still while she sucked his tongue and tugged on his lower lip with her teeth, causing him to squeeze his eyes shut and groan. Kai wrenched away from Bonnie and hastily ripped open the front of her shirt, freeing her breasts; he immediately enclosed a nipple in his mouth and sucked with amorous sincerity when a mewl escaped Bonnie's lips. He squeezed Bonnie's waist, massaging the dips of her curves, stroking her stomach with his thumbs and he kissed her chest and collarbone, skating the tip of his tongue down her throat, compelling her to throw her head back and reach her hand up to the ceiling. He wanted to make her enjoy herself, make her lose herself to passion, to him, make her forget about Jeremy and Damon, make her forget about the world, make her crave his touch the way he hungered for hers; she tried to fuck him into insignificance, yes, but he wanted to fuck her into being a believer.

Kai slipped his hands beneath her skirt, tugging away the lacey material of her underwear but then Bonnie took him by the wrist and put his hand on the gearshift, keeping it there with her own. She bent down and skated her lips along his jawline, nipping at his earlobe; she shifted her weight so that Kai could feel her crevice against his bulge and his intake of breath was so sharp the rain started falling like bullets, they pummelled the car in rapid succession. Bonnie started toying with his ear, twirling her tongue around, as she reached below her and started unbuckling Kai's belt. There was a blurry panic at the back of his mind that if her hand so much as grasped him, he would come forcefully and prematurely. But he'd control it. His want for her. He needed to so she could feel the devastation of that want; so he could kill Bonnie in the only way he could.

Bonnie held Kai, naked and exposed, guided him to her but she hadn't removed her flimsy barrier. He rubbed up against her underwear as she rocked above him, she pulled down the ceiling handle and gripped it as Kai bent forward and started kissing her bare shoulder, making her sway with more conviction.

"Bonnie," said Kai, his voice clipped.

She held Kai's chin, pressing his head against the headrest, her eyes piercing into his, as she clenched around him.

"Bonnie, you're fucking killing me," said Kai, his voice choked and cracked. He held onto her hips, squeezing her, urging her to stop and continue and stop and … She clenched again and that beast in Kai clawed at his gut, making him resent Bonnie with such ferocity, resent her for causing a hardness so intense he thought he would combust with want for her, resent her for not taking pity on him and surrendering herself so she could feel the effects of that hardness, of that want. She squirmed.

"Bonnie, I'm going to black out," he panted desperately.

She pressed her lips against his ear. "Isn't this what you want?"

Bonnie shifted again so that his tip burrowed into the centre of her underwear so that Kai threw his head back. "You know," he said frantically, madly. "You know what I want."

"Tell me," said Bonnie, her voice breathy. "Tell me, Kai."

His name on her tongue, it excited him like nothing else and he felt himself coming undone; his face was veined now, his eyes scarlet, his mouth furled - the beast had taken over, he'd crossed over into pure viscera, instinct, and Kai could see the hint of malicious triumph in Bonnie's gaze. Her victory angered and aroused him and he couldn't take it anymore.

"Get up."

Bonnie looked at him. "What are you-?"

"Now! Get up now. Now," he said dangerously.. "Fuck. Now!"

Bonnie raised herself off of Kai and moved to open the door but Kai swiftly grabbed her wrist. "I didn't say to leave."

She glared at him, her head stooped so that she wouldn't knock against ceiling. Quickly, Kai started taking off his belt, raising himself off of the seat so he could fully un-loop it. He brought Bonnie's hands behind her, knitting her wrists on top of each other, binding them with his belt. He kissed her then, roughly, their teeth clashed for a brief moment, and he slid his hands up her legs, fondling her between her thighs, stroking her up and down and back again so that she moaned into his mouth. Finally, he could feel the material of her underwear against his palms and he brushed his finger along the bottom, making Bonnie squeal and bite down on his lip, which made Kai groan. He pulled away from her, yanked her underwear down and then abruptly gripped Bonnie by the hips and brought her back to his lap so that he entered her..

Kai's eyes glinted at seeing the way Bonnie's forehead crinkled, the way her mouth hung open at the feel of him within her. She started grinding down on him and his groans were instant and loud; he tilted himself upward, filling her, reaching up and palming her breasts so that she moaned. He would turn those moans into screams. He had to. He wouldn't be able to do anything until she gave herself over, until the passion he inspired in her obliterated all else from her mind. He had to do it quickly too. Each sway of her hips accelerated his heart rate, increased the building in his groin, brought him closer to the edge and he couldn't enjoy the intense relief of climax until he made Bonnie a believer, no matter how momentary, no matter how resentful.

Kai gripped her hips, intensifying the pace, urging her on, pushing into her faster and further so that she mewled. The feral quality to her whimper incensed Kai's blood and he increased the already punishing rhythm, flexing deeply into her as she bounced down so that the car started to rock with their movements, the rain pummelling against the roof and windows of the car. Kai threw his head back, his eyes raw and scarlet and cloudy; he peered up at Bonnie and saw the restraint in her pleasure-taut face. He leaned forward and started kissing her chest, her breasts, sucking her nipple, smoothing his palms along her behind, gripping her, bouncing her; he could hear her pull against the restraints, her moans husky and loud - but not what he craved. He slipped a finger into her, stroking her, massaging her as he thrust into her, his lips on her cleavage. Bonnie's movements became more erratic and uncontrolled, faster and urgent and then she was screaming.

"Shit. Kai."

He looked up at her, vindictive pleasure, carnal triumph in his eyes. He felt her tremble around him and when she climaxed, she called out again.

"Fuck."

Her cries were resonant, powerful, there was magic in them like how his guttural roars brought out his magic back at her house. Forked lightning cut across the sky, searing a tree in half, the crown smashing onto the hood of the car. Kai didn't stop moving. Bonnie didn't tell him to. Her wrists were free from her restraints now, she'd pulled at them as she came, the force of her magic breaking her literal bonds, and she gripped the headrest as she bobbed. Kai watched her face contort and her expressions of pleasure did nothing to satiate his need for her screams, for her desire, for her. He wanted more. He always wanted more. There was never enough of her. It never stopped.

His fangs descended and Kai reared his head to sink into her but Bonnie grabbed him beneath his chin, and pierced her eyes into him as she gyrated, as she moaned. No. No. She couldn't do this, she couldn't deny him this. He had to taste her, drink from her, indulge in her. His blood scorched his body, burned his skin with need of hers.

Kai begged her with each pelvic thrust, bucking into her so that her eyes rolled, so that she squealed. He begged her with his eyes, with the grip of his hand on her waist, with the tremor of his lips. Didn't she know she killed him little by little with each passing moment she denied him her blood?

"Bonnie…"

Her smile was brief but what he needed and Kai sunk into her.

The instant Kai's fangs punctured Bonnie's neck, she slammed her hand against the windshield, cracking the glass. Lightning struck again and four or five trees were the casualties. The pleasure was always new in its intensity, in the hellish euphoria it descended her to. The low, guttural moans that escaped Kai's lips as he gorged on her blood inflamed Bonnie's skin and he was thrusting into her with such need, with such urgency that she was overstimulated with sensation; her vision was marred by black spots, she couldn't see straight, she couldn't see anything and she hit her second climax. Then her third. Her fourth.

He had to stop, she couldn't take anymore.

"Kai."

He withdrew from her neck and came loudly, pushing himself deep into her, his cry was strangled and earsplitting, carried out by the thunder instead of snuffed by it; car alarms blocks away started ringing, the only sound that matched it was Bonnie's scream as she came for the fifth last time, her high-pitched mewl shattering the windows in the car, the rain splashing in and soaking their already moist bodies.

Kai kissed her neck lazily as Bonnie willed her heart rate to slow down. She couldn't get off of him, she couldn't move, she couldn't do anything but try to breathe again. Her exhaustion was profound and only punctured by the rumblings of a renewed hunger for this experience, for this exhaustion, for Kai. Bonnie felt weakly resentful of how her body never seemed to stop craving him but she was too tired and too satisfied and too satiated to resent herself and Kai with much earnest.

"You'd trade this for mediocrity?" said Kai.

"I'd trade my soul to be rid of you if you hadn't already taken it."

Kai held her by the chin and looked at her, his expression smug yet inquiring. "Would you really?"

Bonnie sighed and finally dislodged herself, crumpling back into the driver's seat. "Get out. Once I get the feeling back in my legs, I'm driving home and you can't be there. I can't repeat this. I can't repeat the couch. Not tonight. I'll die or … I need to sleep."

Kai started doing up his fly. "One day," he said. "You're going to answer my question."

"I expect I'll be truly lost when that day comes."

Kai raised his eyebrows. "I hope so." And he got out of the car.