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Chapter 14: The Prisoner
A prison inside of a prison. And I was a prisoner of that prison. What an amazingly screwed up situation I was in. The vampire diaries world was already kind of a prison for me and now I am stuck in the other worldly dimension of that world along with Damon and Bonnie. Speaking of them, they were very confused about my sudden appearance here. And I was very confused about what should I do now. What should I tell them? I can't spout out the truth. It didn't do me any good last time.
"Okay, you got a name miss suddenly appeared out of nowhere?" asked Damon in his unique manner.
"Lolita." I whispered out my name but it was still audible. Damon raised an eye brow at me but thankfully didn't say anything. I was still feeling a little dizzy so I closed my eyes for a moment. Damon and Bonnie looked at each other. Then Bonnie came closer to me and sat right next to me. She knew that I was a bit shaken at the moment and wanted to comfort me.
"Lolita, how did you get here?" Bonnie asked with soft tone of voice. After thinking about it for a moment I replied-
"My friend sent me here, accidentally." I quickly added that. I knew it was a risky lie because after knowing that they are gonna ask me more questions and I would've to answer them but at that moment I couldn't come up with anything else. And the fact that I had to say Jay is my friend and she did it to me accidentally irked me to no limit but there was nothing I could do about it. Damon and Bonnie exchanged glances once again.
"Is – is your friend a witch?" asked Bonnie hesitantly. Hesitantly I nodded my head to that. Yes, I'm not really sure what Jay is but she definitely has magical powers.
"So you know about witches and vampires and other supernatural beings?" Bonnie asked with interest and I nodded my head again.
"Well good for you, welcome to paradise" said Damon sarcastically while rolling his eyes at me. He probably thought I was a way for him to get the hell out of this prison world. But after my explanation he was severely disappointed.
"What is this place?" I asked obviously acting to be oblivion.
"It's a bit complicated." Bonnie then explained everything to me about this other worldly dimension. Well as shortly as possible.
"So, it's just you two?" I asked and both Bonnie and Damon nodded their heads. It meant they haven't met Kai yet. Lucky them.
"Well now since you're here, it's gonna be the three of us, forever" said Damon over enthusiastically.
"Forever?" I asked raising my eye brows at him.
"Yes, forever because we're never getting out of here" said Damon with surety. I looked at Bonnie acting to be scared and worried. She gave me an assured look before looking back at Damon.
"Don't you ever get tired of being a pessimist?" asked Bonnie sighing out with annoyance while rolling her eyes at Damon. Bonnie looked at me again. "We won't be stuck here forever. We'll find a way out of here." Bonnie was saying that to me but it seemed as though she was saying that to herself as well.
"Which we didn't find in past four months, just wanted you to know that" said Damon hopelessly yet with smugness in his voice.
"Damon." Bonnie snapped at him, getting irritated at his childishness and also hopelessness. I had to force back a chuckle. I should look extremely worried and not enjoy their bickering. Damon ignored Bonnie and looked at me.
"So this witchy friend of yours, how did she manage to accidentally send you here?" inquired Damon. I had a feeling that he was being suspicious of me.
"I don't know what happened. She did a spell or something and the next thing I knew is I'm here."
"Just like that?" Damon asked.
"Just like that."
"Do you think, she's going to try and rescue you?" Bonnie suddenly looked a bit hopeful about it. "Damon this could be our way out. Another witch from real world could pull us out of here." Bonnie looked at me with expected eyes.
"Yeah I suppose she'll look for me."
"Well I'm not going to count on that" said Damon straight away. He walked away from there and towards the kitchen to cook something.
"Is he always like this or today's a special day?" I asked Bonnie. She laughed at that and Damon narrowed his eyes at me from behind the stoves.
"It'll take time but you'll get used to of it" said Bonnie with assured tone of voice. "And when he really gets on my nerve I completely ignore him. That's really helpful."
"Thanks, I'll keep them in mind."
"I'm standing right here ladies" said Damon sounding pissed off a little bit.
"So, Lolita, tell me something about yourself. Since we're going to be stuck here for a while-"
"Or forever" said Damon interrupting Bonnie. However Bonnie continued talking to me, ignoring Damon's comment completely as if he never said anything.
"We should know about each other." Bonnie said happily. It seemed the Bennett witch was very happy to have someone else to talk to other than Damon. I told Bonnie about myself. Some truth, most made up stories. Bonnie also told me about herself and Damon. She spoke about her friends as well. However she avoided talking about Jeremy. I guess that was a sore subject for her. I had to look interested in the conversation even though I knew about everything from before and more. While Bonnie and I talked, Damon made pancakes. He actually enjoyed that activity.
"Would you like some pancakes Miss. Lo-li-ta?" Damon dragged out my name on purpose. I glared at him.
"Don't say my name like that." Damon only smirked at that, telling me he was gonna keep doing that again and again. Bonnie and I sat beside each other at the table, across from Damon. He served us pancakes. I tried the pancake. It wasn't awful. Okay it was quite tasty. I opened my mouth to compliment Damon's cooking skills but Damon cut me off before I could say anything.
"I know I know, these pancakes are delicious in an extraordinary way. You're welcome." Bonnie and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. Damon grabbed the newspaper on the table and stared at it.
"Look who got 27 across" said Damon sounding impressed. Oh o I know this scene. Wait wasn't Bonnie supposed to cook right now and tell Damon that she misses everyone too. I guess my presence changed that a bit. Well it was not a big deal.
"I wish, 27 across is a rock I am pushing up an endless mountain" said Bonnie. It was confirmed then. I was in the second episode of the season six of TVD. I remembered it vividly. It felt so weird to be here. I mean I've watched it all happen before on screen and now I'm watching it for real with me present in the scene. It indeed gave me some strange feelings.
"It's an old tongue twister Eddie turned top 40, Eddie Vedder, pearl jam. Yellow Ledbetter." Damon put the newspaper down. Bonnie looked confused at first. Then she grabbed the newspaper and looked at the puzzle 27 across was filled in. I glanced at it too. Bonnie looked at me then.
"You didn't do it, did you?" I shook my head in reply.
"I just got here. You would've seen me doing it." Believing me Bonnie looked at Damon.
"Are you messing with me?" Damon took it as a joke and asked instead-
"No, you messing with me?"
"I didn't finish this" said Bonnie with strong tone of voice.
"Well, neither did I" said Damon.
"There's someone else here" Bonnie and I said together. We started to look around suspiciously. Well Bonnie and Damon looked around seriously and I was only acting of searching someone. They had no idea who was here with them. I on the other hand knew that it was time for Kai to show up. And I couldn't decide whether I should be happy about it or not because Kai is a sociopath after all. No matter what I cannot trust him. Not to mention relying on him for help, was like banging your head against a wall repeatedly. But thanks to Jay, he's the only one who could help me get the hell out of this TVD universe.
Damon, Bonnie and I talked about this mysteriously solved puzzle the rest of the evening. Bonnie was being very hopeful however Damon kept denying that there was someone else in this other world except for us. I stayed on Bonnie's side knowing for sure that there was indeed someone here.
"You know what, keep on hoping and getting disappointed. I'm gonna go to bed now" said Damon and he walked away from there. Bonnie sighed out heavily.
"Don't loose hope Lolita. Hope is the only thing that's gonna keep you going here." I nodded my head to that.
"I think I'm gonna go to bed too. I'm feeling a bit tired." I said to Bonnie who nodded her head in reply.
"Pick whichever room you like." I nodded my head with a smile.
Bonnie left for her room and I started to walk around, looking for a suitable room. While walking down a corridor, I felt as if someone was watching me. My heartbeat immediately increased. Could this be Kai being a creeping Tom? It was not entirely impossible. He must be here. I mean he solved the puzzle in the newspaper which was inside the boarding house. Therefore he has to be inside the house too. How come Damon didn't hear him with his super vampire hearing. Or does Kai have no heartbeat? Or perhaps Damon was too busy whining to notice that. I needed to find out about it. So, I entered a bedroom, making sure there was a window inside so that I could get out of the room using that. I walked inside the bedroom and closed the doors and locked it properly. Then sneaked out through the window and jogged around the house to the main door again. The front door was unlocked, as usual. I entered the boarding house again and walked towards the bedroom I just entered. As expected I found the one and only Kai lurking outside the bedroom door. He was trying to hear me inside the room.
Shaking my head to myself, I crossed my arms over my chest and leaned against a wall. Just for an impact on Kai. I then cleared my throat loud enough to gain Kai's attention. Startled, Kai turned around to look at me.
"Caught you." I said with a smirk. Kai really looked shocked. Clearly he didn't think he would get caught like this. I saw him gulping down.
"You know when I found that Damon and Bonnie have no idea about you being here, I thought you must be very good at hiding but now I guess they are just bad at finding someone." After a brief pause I started talking again.
"Anyway, I know you're not very good at face to face conversation but we need to talk. Care to come outside please" saying that I walked away and got outside of the house. Kai obviously followed me out. By then he overcame his shocked state and so his chatty self came out.
"Damon and Bonnie aren't bad, actually I'm very good at hiding. Something tells me you already knew I was here that's why you could find me. How did you know about me? And is your name really Lolita? Cause that's a little-" I cut off Kai before he could say more.
"Yes my name is Lolita. And your name is Malachai Parker. And we both hate our own names which is probably the only thing common between us."
"I call myself Kai. You should call yourself…. Mmm….. Lily? That's a good name. Or Lora, or Leah. Or you could-"
"Thank you very much for your concern Kai but I don't need you to rename me." I said cutting off Kai. "There are more important things to talk about. Let's take a walk, shall we?" I motioned for Kai to walk with me.
"It's almost midnight" said Kai showing resistance.
"So?" I asked raising my eye brows at him. "Is anyone out there to suddenly attack us? Or are you afraid of the dark?"
"I'm not afraid of anything" said Kai proudly as he started to walk with me. "So what else do you know about me apart from my name?" Kai asked with serious curiosity.
"Mmm let me think, well I know this is your prison and not Damon's personal hell as he likes to think. I know that you've been here for eighteen years. I know you're the abomination of the Gemini coven because apparently you don't have any magical powers of your own. But you can suck out magic from other witches or magical objects. A certified sociopath. Murderer of the Parker family siblings. Oh and you're very irremediable. Did I miss anything?"
"You forgot to mention how charming and good looking I am" replied Kai with serious tone of voice. As if offended I didn't mention them.
"Oh, apologies, I was just trying to avoid lies in our first conversation." Kai gave me a look for that.
"Rude." He said dramatically. "So you obviously know a lot about me, the question is why didn't you tell Damon or Bonnie anything about me?"
"Because I'm in love with you and I didn't want you to get in trouble." I said with flat tone of voice. Kai rolled his eyes at me. "What? You don't believe me?" I asked now smirking a little.
"Okay fine, I want to stay on their good side and I won't be on their good side if they find out that I'm being friendly with a psychopath, specially Bonnie." I explained it as simply as possible.
"Speaking of me being a psychopath, considering you know about it, aren't you afraid of me? I mean I could kill you anytime." If I hadn't met Kol before I would be a little disturbed at how casually Kai is speaking about killing someone.
"Well what can I say, I'm an expert when it comes to dealing with psychopaths."
"Good to know" said Kai smirking.
"Anyway, I'm here for a reason." I said which made Kai immediately interested.
"Which is?"
"I'm here to get you out of this prison world." I said with serious tone of voice. Kai smiled at me.
"Okay great. Let me grab some important stuffs first" saying that Kai tried to leave but I stopped him.
"It's not so easy. We need Bonnie to get out of here. You already know that."
"Then what's your purpose here?" asked Kai as if suddenly I'm someone useless.
"You really think Bonnie would let you out of here after knowing what you did and what you'd do after getting out of here. You don't know her like I do. She'd rather stay here forever than let you out. That's where I come in. I'll keep your dark secret a secret, at least until we all get out of here."
"Okay I'm grateful now. But why do you want to get me out of here? What's in it for you?" asked Kai curiously.
"I need you to do something for me." I replied being honest about it.
"Of course" said Kai sarcastically.
"Hey there's no such thing as free lunch." I said offended at Kai's sarcasm.
"I know. So what is it that you need me for?" Kai asked paying undivided attention to me.
"It's a bit complicated." I said.
"Then un-complicate it" said Kai easily. I sighed out heavily.
"Okay, well this world, this universe is your prison right." Kai nodded his head. "Like that your world, the world you were born in is my prison."
"What do you mean?" asked Kai looking a bit confused. Still looking chilled out though.
"I'm actually from a world where there's no witch or vampire or werewolf. No supernatural being at all-"
"Sounds boring" commented Kai.
"Yeah well but that's my home and I want to go back home. But I can't be free from here unless I do something. A task actually." I explained.
"Let me guess, you need my help in order to complete that task."
"That's right" I admitted.
"What is it? What do you have to do?" asked Kai still being curious about it. I didn't think Kai would be so interested about it since he doesn't care about anything else but getting out of this prison and take his revenge on his remaining family.
"There's an original vampire named Kol Mikaelson. His body is completely destroyed and right now he's possessing someone else. A not so powerful witch named Kaleb. In order for me to go back home, I have to recreate his body and put his soul back in his own body. And that can't happen without magic, so"
"That's a very tough work to do. Only a very powerful witch can do something like that" said Kai thoughtfully. Thank god he didn't say it was impossible.
"Well that's why I'm here." I said as if that was the most obvious thing. Kai laughed out loud.
"You think I'm powerful. Well I'm flattered but you already know I don't have my own magic which means I need to suck magic out of a very powerful witch at first."
"Don't worry about the source of the magic. I've everything planned out. Just need to get out of here first." I said to Kai confidently.
"So, you're in?" I asked hopefully. Kai thought about it for a moment then nodded his head.
"Alright, I'll help you as soon as we get the hell out of here. And for that we need Bonnie's magic back which is nowhere to be found yet" said Kai with patient tone of voice.
"I'm sure you've already figured something out for that." I said knowing Kai is planning on attacking Damon in order to motivate Bonnie. It should happen very soon. I turned around and started walking away but Kai stopped me.
"I can't help but ask. Despite knowing so many things about me, how could you trust me so easily? Aren't you worried that I might screw you up, not that I'm going to, I'm just wondering how come you're so confident about taking help from me?"
I couldn't help but smile to myself at that. Kai looked so curious. He looked kind of cute actually. "Well Mr. Parker I wasn't just going to take a favor from you. I'm more than willing to make a deal with the devil. You help me with my task and in return I'll help you with becoming Gemini coven leader."
"I need to merge with my twin sister Jo in order to become a coven leader" said Kai sounding very interested in the offer.
"I know. But you don't know how hard it would be for you to get Jo to merge with you. Not to mention the number of people who are going to try and stop you. Maybe even kill you. Your daddy dearest, the entire Gemini coven, Jo herself, and her boyfriend, the friends of her said boyfriend, I mean way too many people will be in your way and trust me you won't be able to kill everyone. I can help you with avoiding all that drama."
"How?" Kai asked immediately.
"Patience Kai, first thing first. We need to get Bonnie's magic back." I said smirking a little. Lets keep Kai wondering about it. I needed to keep him interested in the offer.
"Consider it done" said Kai proudly. "And just for the record, whatever you just said better be true because if you're fibbing and thinking about cheating me in the end, I will kill you Lolita. And I'm pretty sure you would be an easy kill."
I rolled my eyes at that "You don't have to worry about me because a) I'm not a sociopath unlike you and b) I don't give a damn about the people living in this world. I wouldn't care if you kill them all. I only care about going back home. That's why betraying you isn't an option for me." I wasn't being literal here at all. Of course it would matter to me if an innocent gets killed right in front of me or someone I care about in this world. But I really needed Kai to help me. And he needed to believe that I'm careless, ignorant and selfish. Blame it on the desperation that I have of going back home again.
"Oookay" said Kai comically. "It's a deal then." Kai put his hand in front of me with a nice smile on his lips. I put my hand in his and shook it strongly.
"It's a deal."