Damon and Bonnie trailed through the woods, trying to find the spot where they could escape as Jerome skipped behind them, dragging his hand over trees.
"You're in a good mood for the first time this decade. Stop that!" She hissed as Damon whistled and continued to poke her arm with a stick.
"I have a hot date with my girl tonight."
"Gag." Jerome faked coughing.
"Yeah, assuming Kais's telling the truth."
"I'm thinking dinner and a movie. You know what? Screw dinner and the movie, skip straight to the good part."
"I might shoot myself. This is torture, and not the good kind." Jerome laughed and cringed at the same time.
"Yeah, and assuming I can do the spell, which I won't know until I see it."
"What happened to hope, Bon? Remember when I was like all, boo grr, and you were all 'Hooray, hooray" We're getting out of here.'"
"That is a terrible immitation Day-Day." Jerome laughed as he continued to trail behind.
"Look, I wanna go home, more than anything but Kai's a sociopath. Who's to say he won't screw us over?"
"Me. I say. Because I will kill Kai and anyone who comes in the way of me going home." Damon finished, stabbing the air, using the stick as a makeshift sword.
"I heard my name. All good, I hope. The eclipse will happen directly overhead, in perfect allignment with the Gemini constellation. You need to dig into the tunnels below us, we'll do the spell there." Kai said pointing at Damon and throwing him a pick axe.
"Why?"
"Have you never portal-jumped through an eclipse before?" Kai asked with a faux shocked expression. Okay, look, the light of the eclipse will shine down and activate the ascendant. You spout a little witchy woo and then, poof, anyone standing in the circle of light holding the ascendant gets to go home."
"By 'witchy woo' I assume you mean the spell. Let me see it."
"When the time comes." Kai smiled innocently before beginning to walk off into the woods.
"Where are you going?" Damon questioned.
"Into town. I need to gather some important supplies. Actually, why don't you come Jerome? Being alone is boring."
Jerome started to enthusiastically walk to Kai but Damon stopped him by grabbing his shoulder.
"Nope. Jerome stays here, can't have him wandering off." He quipped casuing Jerome to growl slighlty.
"Um I'm the only one who knoews the spell and I want Jerome to come, so either let him go or we don't go anywhere." Kai stated liked Damon was stupid.
Shrugging Damons hand off him, Jerome laughed and walked off with Kai.
"See ya later, fangs."
As they walked into town Kai whistled cheerily causing Jerome to huff.
"I used to be a great whistler." He laughed gesturing to his scarred mouth in a permanant smile.
"It looks badass so it's fine." Kai responded grinning as he walked backwards to talk to Jerome.
"I know." Jerome grinned.
"You know, they are most likely gonna kill ya when we get back?"
"It won't work if they do. I'll let you in on a little secret, I can't die here. Not permanently. I always come back."
"Feel like making a deal with the devil?"
"What did you have in mind?"
"You want to turn your coven into kebabs, I want to turn my sister into a pile of ashes. We work together. I won't let them leave without you, back in the real world we help each other achieve our goals?" Jerome laughed, continuing to walk further into town.
"You got yourself a deal ginger."
"Hey! You know, there is a very probable chance you're digging your own grave and...not bothered?" Bonnie asked from her spot sitting down watching Damon dig into the earth.
"Huh." Damon muttered as he broke through to the tunnels underneath, proud of his acomplishment.
"Looks like we got back just in time." Kai spoke as he and Jerome walked up to the pair.
Speeding out of the hole and to Kai, he snatched the backpack and looked inside.
"Zima, grunge, every Alex Rodriguez rookie card known to man and a pager? Really?"
"5-5-5-Hiya Kai. No way am I giving those digits up."
"These are the important supplies you had to get?"
"Look, the future sounds great. All right? I'm super excited about the Internet Jerome was telling me about. But, 1994 has been my home for most of my life, I'd hate to get homesick. So, let's get down there-"
"No." Bonnie cut him off, standing up, "We are not going anywhere until you show me the spell."
"Okay." Kai said smiling at them, putting his hands in his pockets and waiting. Jerome just leaned against a tree, predicting that Kai did not actually know the spell.
"Are we literally not going anywhere?" Damon asked after a moment of silence.
"Fine. You don't wanna show me the spell, then you can do it yourself. You want my magic. Take it." She said sternly placing her arm out to Kai.
"Uh-oh. Bon-Bon is being brave." Jerome snickered.
"I'm serious, Kai. This was your big threat wasn't it? If I don't do the spell and let us out of here you'll just take my magic, leave me for dead and do the spell yourself. So go ahead. Take all of it." She spoke whilst narrowing her eyes at him.
"If you don't do the spell, it's not him you need to worry about." Jerome spoke grinning maliciously.
"Don't mind if I do." Kai sighed before grabbing Bonnie's shoulders and siphoning her magic. She gasped violently before stumbling into Kai's chest as he drained her.
"Bonnie." Damon muttered warningly as he looked on worried.
"It's okay. He won't kill me." She groaned.
"You so sure about that, dolllface?"
"Hey Bonnie! Woah, hey, guys, stop!" Damon shouted.
Letting go of her shoulders, Kai smirked as he felt her magic strumming through his veins.
Stumbling back, breathing hard, Bonnie stared at Kai. "He doesnt know the spell. Which means we don't need him."
"Motus." She rasied her arm, the pick axe flying into Kai's chest and he grunted then collapsed dead, for now.
"No! No! Bonnie!" Damon shouted glaring at Bonnie who looked proud.
Knowing he had to put on a show, Jerome kneeled by the body before glaring at Bonnie with a murderous look, "You killed the only fun person in here! Idiot."
"Great work, Bonnie." Damon muttered sarcastically as he patted her shoulder and turned away frustrated.
Realising that removing the pick axe from his chest would probably speed up the recovery process, Jerome yanked it out and threw it into a tree, showing his rage over Bonnie 'killing' Kai.
"Mm mm mmm" Damon moaned at the taste of Kai's Zima with fake enthusiasm as Bonnie sat going through her Grimoire trying to find the spell to get out. Kai's still dead body lay by Damon's feet and Jerome was counting the seconds till he woke up and saved him from this boringness.
"Can you stop? Let me concentrate."
"On the bright side, this stuff's not so bad. It's fruity and fizzy."
Snatching the nearly empty bottle of Damon, Jerome downed the rest of it before throwing it at a tree causing glass shards to rain down. Bonnie and Damon flinching.
"I'm bored Bonnie. Better do something before I start getting murdery."
"I'm working on something."
"On the not so bright side, is your intelligence because you took the only chance of us getting out of here, and you turned him into a giant douche kebab." He gestured to Kai's body.
"Think about it Damon, what prison gives an inmate a key?"
"Is that a trick question? Or is that stuff finally starting to kick in?" Damon tilted his head confused.
"I think the Gemini coven used a Bennett spell to create this place. What if that's why my Grams sent me here?"
"And this, is the face I make when I don't understand you." Damon announced as he crossed his eyes and pouted causing Jerome to laugh, although Damon wasn't pleased that he made Jerome laugh.
"You know, the last thing Grams said to me was to stay strong. What if that was her way of telling me I had the power to get out? I have the ascendant, a massive celestial event to draw from. Plus, a burning desire to get away from you guys."
Damon and Bonnie stared at each other, smiling, causing Jerome to gag.
"I thought you were with my sister? What's with the sickly, lovey-dopey stares?"
Bonnie blushed and looked down at the ascendant, breaking the stare, and muttering a spell as Damon glared at Jerome. The ascendant began to open up as she said the spell.
"That's why Kai wouldn't kill me. He needed a Bennett. I was his only way out of here." She smiled, backing up and moving towards the gaping hole in the ground.
"Woah. Wait, where are you going?" Damon asked spreading out his arms in question.
"Home. You coming?"
With that one word from Bonnie, 'home', Jerome glanced at Kai's body smirking before he jumped into the hole, landing on his feet. Damon picked up Bonnie and jumped in after him.
He was finally getting the hell out of there, and he couldn't wait.
