Monsters

Summary: "We're like monsters, but I don't mind, it was stemmed from something beautiful and there isn't a single soul I would accept this for, except you, Kai." Every sociopath has a story of how they became the way they are and for Kai, his story started with a girl and ended with heartbreak. But now, he can get Rosanna back and she may just hold the key to bringing Elena and Jo back.

Chapter Nineteen

"We're staying here? With the Salvatores?" Toni raised a brow at Kai as they strolled up to the front door.

"It's the safest place for you to be. I'm going to keep you cloaked so that Oran can't track your magic." Kai spun on his heel and raised his brows at Toni and Matt. "I don't think your boyfriend here will be able to protect you from an all-powerful witch. I mean all he'd have to do is look at Matt and he's breakfast."

"Well I've lasted long enough around plenty of things." Matt remarked under his breath, no one ever gave him credit for what he had to survive.

"I'm sure you have Matt, we're not here to have a 'world's best survivor contest', we're here to keep Toni alive." He glared at Matt for one second more before turning to Toni. "You're on a coven timeout, I don't want you leaving this house unless Rosanna or I call. We'll be checking in on you every day, so Damon and Bonnie aren't going to be the only two people you see."

"I don't like this, I'm supposed to just sit back and let you all plan without me?"

"That's exactly what you're going to do," Kai put his arm around Toni's shoulders and glanced at Matt, "do you mind letting Damon know that the two of you are here while I have a word with Toni?"

Matt looked at Toni, waiting for her nod to go in.

When Matt disappeared into the house, Kai let Toni out of his grasp and closed his eyes for a fleeting moment. "Rosanna would be heartbroken if anything happened to you. To be honest, I'm quite indifferent; don't get me wrong I'd be bummed out if you died because you're funny but you're more useful to me as a psychic. Whereas, you're Rosanna's protégée and she's gotten attached to you. I'm only going to say this once more and I want you to really listen to me… Please don't leave this house, don't give Oran the one power that will sink us."

Toni sighed and shifted her weight. She hated missing out on the action; she wanted to be there to help, not to wait around like a sitting duck. "Fine, for Rosanna I will stay here and be babysat."

He held his hand out for a high-five, but when Toni walked around him and through the front door, he balled it into a fist and smiled to himself. "Awesome."

Their list was long, but it wasn't long enough. It would have to do, they were working against the clock. Rosanna was stressing out over every finite detail; if they were going to defeat Oran, they would need more bodies in the coven before the power merge. She through her little notebook onto her desk and threw her head into her hands. Now that she was back at the farmhouse, all the worry that came along with the pressure rushed back to her. It felt like she was drowning in her uncertainty.

"How are we looking?" Lydia called from the doorway. When Rosanna jolted up, she held her hands up defensively. "Didn't mean to scare you."

"Sorry, I'm just on a very sharp edge." She got out of her chair and fastened her hair back into a messy ponytail. "I don't think we have enough people."

"It's not about the amount of people that you have, it's about how powerful they are." Lydia picked up the notebook. "Do you mind if I have a look?"

Rosanna shook her head. "Be my guest, you know these people better than I do. Tell me what we're dealing with."

Lydia flicked through the pages, making noises as she read through the names. "You've got a lot of powerful witches written down here. If you can get Bonnie Bennett to agree to joining this coven, then you and Kai are going to have a real power surge."

Rosanna took the notebook off Lydia and closed it over. "I'll speak to Kai about it, see what he makes of this."

"Who's the one that's actually going to be ending Oran, you or Kai? I'm not meaning to sound rude or anything, but if I was the one that was tasked with this burden then I'd be taking all the power for myself."

She screwed up her face and stared at the woman that was almost a total stranger to her like she was a crazy woman. "Let me get one thing straight with you, Kai is going to be helping me with this, we're both going to be leaders of this coven and we're both going to get a boost in our magic."

"I'm just telling you what I would do if I was in your shoes. I mean do you know what goes into leading a coven because from what I know, you were in a prison world for pretty much all of your reign as a coven leader and Kai is a leader of one."

Rosanna walked towards the door, holding it open for Lydia. She plastered a smile onto her face as she thought of the many ways she'd love to get rid of her. "Thank you for your concern, Lydia but from what I know about you, you were only appointed your leadership role after Arthur died a few weeks ago."

Lydia ducked her head and turned towards Rosanna. "I really didn't mean to come across as bitchy or anything."

"Don't worry, you didn't." Rosanna nodded towards the door. "If you don't mind, I have a couple of things to review."

Lydia took in a deep breath and stepped into the hallway. "If you need anything, I'll be down the hall."

"Thank you." She closed the door and leaned against it. "Keep calm," she said to herself, "don't kill her, just relax."

The farmhouse was bustling with young and old witches honing their craft in preparation for something big. Kai was confused when he came home and ran straight up the stairs to Rosanna who was standing on the landing, re reading her notes.

"What's going on here?"

She looked at him with a sour look on her face. It gave Kai a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. "I don't think Lydia deserves to be the leader of the Alliance so we're going to see how she handles going up against the strongest person in her coven."

He leaned against the bannister and kept his head low. "Rosanna, we don't have the time for this."

"But we have time for her coming into our office and questioning our plan? Do you want to know what she said to me, Kai?"

"Not right now. What I want is for our witches to grow in power, not to pick each other apart. Do you know that this will put ideas into everybody's heads? Any doubts that were in covens before they came here will rise and before we know it we'll be down to five or six good witches instead of twelve good witches."

She snapped her body round to face him and bit so hard on her tongue that she thought she was going to bite it off. "Lydia doesn't think you should be a leader, she thinks I should have all the power."

"Then take the power if you want it, Rose." He stared straight at her as she got into his face. He didn't want to fight with her, he knew that the pressure and her hormones were getting the better of her. "It doesn't matter how much power you have, you need to be able to get people to follow you and if you pit people against each other then no one will want to follow you."

"You are such an asshole when you want to be." She snarled as she pushed past him.

He grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her back towards him. "Stop, Rosanna. You need to take a minute to chill out." He dragged her into their room and closed the door. "Tell me what Lydia said that got you so riled up."

"She's trying to tell me what to do, she doesn't think that the two of us should do this together and she thinks that neither of us have the capability to lead us to victory."

He placed his hands on his hips and shook his head. "Then I'll have a word with her, but see what's going on downstairs, that needs to stop. We're not going to be able to do the merge if we don't feel like a coven."

Rosanna crouched down at gripped onto the roots of her hair. "I'm messing everything up, aren't I?"

Kai sat on the edge of the bed, watching her as she got herself worked up. "Get off the floor and come over here." When she sat beside him, he took her hand and gave it a firm squeeze. "Go down their and tell them to stop whatever it is that they're doing. Get them to work together instead. I'll speak with Lydia."

"What are you going to say to her?"

"Don't you worry about what I'm going to say to her, just you worry about the state of this coven." He kissed the side of her head and got onto his feet. "You've got this, just believe in yourself."

Lydia was sitting at the back of the farmhouse, legs spread over a bench and a magazine in her hand. When Kai came through the back door, she didn't even flinch. She rolled her eyes towards his face and raised her brows. "Sounds like when you and Rosanna really go at each other, the two of you go in."

"Why do you feel like you have to comment on everything?" he folded his arms across his chest and scowled down at her, his right eye twitching with annoyance.

"That's just the way I am. If I see that something's wrong, I'll correct it. Nip it in the bud before it gets cancerous."

"I don't appreciate what you said to Rosanna, what business is it of yours how we decide to do things. Us sharing responsibility and power has been in the pipeline from the very beginning. We know what we're doing, and we trust each other."

"I just think it's stupid. What happens if you get killed when we face Oran and Rosanna only has half the power she needs?"

Kai shook his head and started to pace around the decking. "Have you ever saw the two of us combine our magic?"

"No, but,"

"No but you just assume things and pass your opinions over because you think we need to hear them. Listen here sunshine, we don't need your two cents. I know that you're not a descendant, but right now I'd happily hand you over to Oran and let him dispose of you."

Lydia put her feet on the floor and gawked at Kai's stern face. "I'll keep my thoughts to myself from now on."

He took a step forward and gripped her by the arm, siphoning the magic out of her. "Go apologise to my wife or I'll make you prove your leadership when you've no magic."

She ripped her arm out of his grip and stood up as straight as she could. "As I leader, I know that this is nothing personal, it's just a dominance play."

"Why are you still talking, Lydia?" he nodded towards the back door and watched her slink back into the house with her tail between her legs. No one told Kai that leadership was going to test his patience.

The atmosphere felt so tense and awkward in the Salvatore house. Sitting across from Toni was Elena and Bonnie who were being filled in about what was going on by Matt. Damon sat at the head of the table, glancing at Toni every so often as she picked through her dinner. He got that things weren't ideal for her, but would she rather be dead again?

"So, Toni… How are things at the farmhouse?" Damon asked curiously.

"I couldn't tell you, I'm stuck here on a timeout." She said bitterly.

"Well obviously, what I meant by that was, are the power couple of the witchy world ready to do their coven merge?"

Toni shrugged her shoulders and finally started to eat her food instead of playing with it.

Matt looked at her before taking a quick glimpse at everyone sitting at the table. "What's up with you?" he said quietly as he leaned towards her.

She sighed and dropped her fork onto her plate. "I know I'm in danger and all but what use am I hidden away here?"

"They've put you here because they can't risk you getting hurt." Bonnie smiled at her slightly and scratched the top of her head. "It's not a bad thing, it means that you're too important for them to lose."

"And Rosanna cares about you." Elena added.

"I mean can't you see what would happen if you were out in the open?" Damon had no idea how her magic worked but he had a good guess at it.

"I tend not to look for my death. I thought I saw it once and it scared me so much that my hair eventually turned white."

"That explains that dye job of yours." Damon remarked as he pressed his glass of bourbon to his lips.

"Damon." Matt's tone was a warning to him.

"It's fine, he's right. It's so much easier to keep the red when you've a light base." She replied, flicking her hair over her shoulder. "Long story short, I'm not looking for my death again. If I know how I'm going to die, I'm going to give up."

"Or you'll know how it goes down and you'll know how to stop it."

Toni rested her head on her hand and got closer to Damon. "Would you like me to tell you how you die?" she held out her other hand and raised her brows.

Damon chewed on the inside of his cheek, glancing at Elena. "I'm good, thanks for the offer."

She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms. "Case closed then."

A:N Hope you enjoyed this chapter, let me know what you think!