After the fallout of Kai's betrayal, Bonnie goes to Damon to vent and warn him that Kai might have gone back to the dark side. However, Damon finds himself in the middle of Kai and Bonnie's angry love fess, having to choose a side between them. Meanwhile, when Kai's actions inadvertently put everyone he loves in Rayna Cruz's path, he is forced to make things right before it's too late.
Rayna Cruz was still locked up in the containtion room down in Mystic Falls Hospital's basement by Kai. Now she was at least fully dressed, Kai left her some clothes in the room before she revived herself back. He watched as the huntress kept pushing her hands against the glass wall and then punched it.
She pursed her lips disapprovingly. "Strong, what kind of glass is this." Rayna asked Kai curiously.
He dragged his attention back to where it should be. "Laminated glass, the most you'll get is a crack in it." Kai said without preamble.
Rayna snorted. Her eyes were on Kai as she continued to punch the glass until she had bloody knuckles.
The Heretic crossed his arms and said, "Right, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Malachai Parker, leader of the Gemini Coven." Kai grinned to himself seeing an angry look flash in her eyes.
Rayna stiffened, and cast him an obscured glare from underneath her eyelashes. "You're a witch."
"That I am." Kai said, needled by her tone. "The reason you're here is because The Armory is after you." He quickly elaborated.
Her face was set in defiant lines,"The hell is an armory?"
"An organization that specializes in the supernatural, they want to lock you away." He said casually.
The silence was so complete that Kai thought he could hear the monument of the hospital settling into the earth.
"Why do you care?" Rayna backed up a few steps, wrapping her arms around herself with a sigh.
A question Kai had anticipated. "They're also after someone else I know, a witch."
Rayna smiled widely. "Girlfriend." She whispered.
He laughed at that, a harsh, despairing sound. "God no, she's hardly a friend," he said flippantly, "Look, I want to offer my serves to you. We can work together."
"I work alone." Rayna's voice was muffled, caught and lowered by the glass.
Kai rolled his eyes and turned away from her, "And look where that got you."
Rayna didn't seem offended. Or perhaps she was and he couldn't tell. Her lips pulled back and Kai didn't know if she was fighting a grin or a frown.
"You got me there," she told him and Kai blanched. "So how do you plan on helping me, Mr. Parker?"
Kai didn't believe for a second it would be this easy to convince her to join forces with him. He stared up at her face, trying to find some sort of emotion to cling to. There was nothing. Kai had no idea what she was thinking or feeling. He didn't trust that, he wondered if he was making the right decision.
The following afternoon, Bonnie stormed the Lockwood Mansion. Her trip with Mary Louise and Nora was dull the entire ride back. Bonnie bottled up her feelings until she returned to her dorm room back at Whitmore for a quick shower, once she was dressed, the witch headed over to Mystic Falls searching for Damon.
"I need a drink and a buddy." She bellowed into the house. "Damon, are you here?"
Bonnie made it to the formal study area, to see Damon waving at her. He was shirtless in boxer shorts and his face was flushed.
Bonnie turned to look at him full on, her eyes drifting dangerously to his lower region. "I'm willing to overlook the fact that you tried to kill me last time we were together."
Damon's eyes caught her staring, she blushed and blinked a few times at him. Quickly looking away, she spotted his empty bottle of bourbon and frowned.
"Have you been celebrating Julian's demise without me?" she asked in disbelief.
Damon cocked his brow at her.
Bonnie looked up at Damon, genuinely surprised. "Stefan didn't inform you that he killed Julian."
Damon kept quiet putting on his shirt, Bonnie was now getting alarmed at how silent her friend was being.
"Did he manage to at least kill Julian's henchmen?" Damon replied, folding his arms.
"Don't think so, but they were way too debauched to notice Julian is long gone." Bonnie spun around noticing a full bottle of vodka and poured herself a glass. "Anyways, have you spoken with Kai? I know he keeps in contact with Valerie, but since I don't have her number…"
"Um.." Damon rubbed his eyes with his free hand.
Bonnie made an impatient noise. "Because yesterday I went looking for Rayna Cruz, the Huntress who trapped Julian in the Phoenix Stone. Joined by Nora and Mary Louise, who spend the entire day hate flirting with each other. The three of us went to Ohio to find Rayna locked up in a psych ward and dying of old age." She moved over to the armchair. "Then Kai shows up, kills her and steals her corpse."
Damon paused while he processed Bonnie's words.
The witch's green eyes narrowed. "I think Kai's back to his old tricks, which means we can't trust him."
Bonnie sat down and noticed she was sitting on something. She pulled a jean skirt from underneath her, she held it up to her face then glanced at Damon.
"Let me guess, it's Carol Lockwood's mini skirt." She sighed in disgust.
"Umm…"
The vampire's tight expression was all the answer Bonnie needed. She laughed incredulously as she threw the skirt directly in Damon's face.
Damon took a deep breath before speaking. "I met Krystal last night."
Bonnie looked at Damon as if he was stupid. "Crystal?"
"With a K," he answered dryly, trying not to look at her and instead stared at the floor.
"Wow, okay tell me more about Klassy Krystal with a K," mocked Bonnie clapping her hands together.
He took another deep breath. "Okay Bonnie, I don't need this from you. I know I'm a vile cheater. I can't even tell you about all the women I hooked up with when I was waiting around for Katherine." Damon mumbled, avoiding Bonnie's eyes.
Bonnie froze, her hand tightening on the glas she held.
"How did you know Elena was the one, over Katherine?" her voice was deceptively soft.
Damon gaped at her, confused by the sudden switch of conversation. "Huh, what?"
"You loved Katherine for over hundred years, how could you just fall out of love with her for someone you barely knew?" Bonnie repeated as politely as she could.
Damon was eyeing her with great curiosity, as if he knew exactly what she had been thinking. "I mean the fact that Katherine never loved me made it easier to move on from her. Plus she's a lying bitch that played me and my brother against each other."
"No different than what Elena did."
He pressed his lips together but shook his head, "Very different, Elena didn't want to hurt either of us. I know I put her in some tough situations, we both did." Damon said instantly. "It doesn't matter now, Stefan found Caroline his real epic love. And I got the girl in the end. Everyone's happy."
Except her, she never got an epic love. In fact she was Jeremy's third choice, after Vicki Donovan and Anna Zhu. Bonnie frowned but ignored the lost sensation that washed over her.
Kai watched Rayna sitting on the floor, her elbows propped on her knees as she sighed, shaking her head. There was an awkward silence between them for a few minutes – or, at least to Kai, it was awkward.
"Here's the thing Malachai, I only care about getting the vampires." She replied hollowly.
"I can help you," he said, putting on his usual smirk.
"I plan on going after the Heretics, every single one of them." Kai kept his cool, he had no intentions of letting her hurt Valerie. "But first I need my weapon, if you can bring me my tools and I'll work with you." Rayna leered, leaning back and tossing her hair out of her eyes.
Kai sighed gravely before shaking his head clear. He had to make a decision. And he knew now what it would be.
"Okay, I know someone who has the sword, let me go make a phone call really quick."
Kai walked out of the basement room and went up stairs for phone reception. He quickly found an old number in his phone and pressed the call button.
"So I heard you got a thing for grannies."
Kai groaned and thumped his head against the wall at his back. "Spoke to Bonnie, huh."
Damon laughed—he actually laughed at Kai. "She is beyond pissed. What happened man, I thought you two were getting along."
He winced on the inside, "We are, and we aren't. It's complicated."
"Do you know how hard it was to get on Bonnie's good side. It took me years." Damon shot back. "She forgave you in less than a year for abusing her."
"You're the reason her grandmother's dead and you turned her mother into a vampire, not to mention your brother's doppelganger killed her father," Kai said, and his voice was brittle with fury. "Stabbing her and putting Elena in a sleeping coma isn't even half as damaging as what she'd already been through."
Damon sighed inwardly. "Let's not do this, why are you calling me?" he asked, his voice acquiring an edge.
Kai swallowed hard. "I need Rayna's sword."
"Why?"
"It's urgent, Damon." Kai snapped arrogantly, his blue eyes flaring angrily.
"Right now you're acting like a shady person, so I need some answers." Damon said absently.
Kai struggled not to betray any nervousness. "Damon, I don't have time for this."
"Make time Kai, because according to Bonnie, we shouldn't trust you." Damon said, snapping out his words.
Kai could feel his face flushing—even that much felt like treachery.
"I'm on your side." He stated. "I'm trying to protect Bonnie from the Huntress. What would you do in my situation if Elena got caught in the crossfire of one of your fuck ups." Kai knew he was playing on Damon's weakness, but he had no choice.
"Fine, I'll help." Damon hissed venomously.
"Get the sword and meet me at Whitmore, I'll be in Ric's classroom waiting for you." Kai whispered, almost inaudible.
Damon hung up the phone. And Kai hoped the vampire wouldn't show up with one of his idiot plans that would only get everyone both couldn't afford to get on Rayna Cruz's bad side.
Bonnie doesn't know why she was surprised anymore. Damon hasn't changed much even after their time in the prison world. Because here he was asking for a huge favor from her once again. This time going against Bonnie in her fight with Kai.
"What I don't understand is why after I told you Kai couldn't be trusted. You decide to trust him and bring him the Huntress's weapon." Bonnie spat, before fixing Damon with a penetrating stare. "I mean you're disregarding my concerns for Kai again."
"This is different Bonnie." Damon said, taking a deep breath.
The witch raised her eyebrows, looking into her best friend's eyes seriously. "How?" She asked, not sounding convinced.
"Because this time he's actually trying to change and you're not giving him much credit." Damon told her, sullenly.
Bonnie breathed in the bitter air as the reality of the situation set in.
"How can you be so sure?"
Damon had gazed sympathetically at her. "I understand Kai more than anyone else. I've been where he is. But he doesn't have a Stefan or Elena to save him, he doesn't have family or friends."
"Who's fault is that." She said with a hint of exasperation.
Damon gaped at Bonnie in shock. "Don't be like this, Bon."
"How can I not be Damon," she asked, crossing her arms. "After everything he's done to me. After everything I've been through, I'm afraid."
"I get it." Damon replied. He shifted his feet, clearing his throat. "You're always the one that gets hurt. But Kai is trying to keep you out of it. Doesn't that count for something."
Bonnie looked surprised at Damon going so hard in defending Kai. Shock went through her.
They approach Alaric's classroom and Damon opens the door and enters, followed by Bonnie. The classroom was empty except for someone sitting in the back, with their feet up against the backrest of the chair in front.
She spots Kai sitting in the darkness. "Well this isn't creepy at all."
A sinking feeling, as if this wasn't right.
"Got the sword man, mind telling us what the hell is going on?" Damon demanded, refusing to be derailed.
The Heretic frowned darkly at him. "Well..."
Before Kai could get his words out, the light flickered on. Bonnie whipped around to see entered the room behind them.
Long dark brown hair and dark brown eyes stared back at her.
"I know you." Bonnie shifted nervously and swallowed, trying to moisten her dry throat. "You're Rayna Cruz."
Damon was shocked by the woman's presence. The similarities between her and his girlfriend must be shocking him as well.
"Kai, I'd like to know what's going on, like how this dead corpse is alive?" Damon glanced up to meet Kai's steely blue stare.
"Rayna, this is Damon." Kai said after a moment, his voice surprisingly gentle. "You remember Bonnie, the nice girl you choked."
Kai cleared his throat and leaned back in his chair. While Bonnie fumed, all traces of sympathy and understanding fleeing her.
Rayna didn't answer the question at all. "Kai promised me my weapon, so just give me my sword."
Bonnie widened her eyes as understanding dawned. "Well, I think it's clear Damon. Kai betrayed us."
Damon made a choked noise, and Kai jerked his head up, plainly shocked.
"Actually I didn't, Rayna and I have a common enemy. Julian." Kai's lip was curled, the insolent drawl back in his voice.
Damon leaned forward, "Hate to break it to you. Julian's dead." Bonnie watched as Kai's jaw dropped. "Stefan killed him. The bastard is out of our lives."
Kai opened his mouth to protest, but Bonnie spun to face him.
"Why would a vampire Huntress wanna work with a Heretic?" she blurted out.
Rayna went rigid. "Excuse me?"
Kai pushed himself away from his chair, scrambling to his feet. "I can explain."
"You're one of them aren't you?" Rayna growled.
Just then the Huntress pulled out a crossbow, and before Bonnie could move. She was shot in the abdomen with a wooden arrow. Damon yelped out and Kai shot Rayna a glare.
"What the hell, she's human." Kai glared at the other girl, jaw clenched.
Rayna met his glare impassively. "I don't give a damn, she and the vampire are in my way. And you lied to me Malachai."
"I didn't, I'm still the Gemini leader and I'm still your ally." Kai said emphatically, trembling with rage.
"No, you were." Rayna sneered. "Now you're an enemy." The Huntress turned to Damon. "I'd like my sword and I promise to leave you all alone."
"Damon don't…" Bonnie cut in, shaking her head.
"Give me the sword or else, the next one's in her temple."
Damon looked between Rayna and Kai, then he looked down at Bonnie on the floor, bleeding out.
"Damon, just give her the damn sword." Kai roared, he scowled at the other man as defiantly as he could.
"Fine, go fetch." Damon threw the sword out the window before rushing over to Bonnie. Part of her was relieved.
Rayna gave Damon and Kai one last look, for a second Bonnie believed she'd attack them. But she decided to go fetch her sword instead.
As her eyes started to drift closed, she could hear Kai and Damon having a shouting match at each other. Bonnie was pleased that her friend was chewing the other man out. Resting her head back, her breathing began to steady.
Kai glared at the scene in front of him. Damon was feeding Bonnie his blood to heal her wounds. This was his fault and he had no rights to be jealous of Damon Salvatore, Bonnie's savior and hero. Yet that grateful and soft look on her face, the two sharing soft smiles whispering to each other.
Kai swiped angrily at his face with one hand. "We have to go after her," he interrupted.
"Do you hear someone talking?" Bonnie asked the vampire next to her. "Sounds like a low drone. Sounds like a traitor."
"Damon and I were on the same page." Kai began, looking harassed.
The older Salvatore chuckled humorlessly, a slight sneer on his face. "No we weren't, you tricked me. If I knew you had the Huntress with you, I'd never show up here with that sword and let her take it from us. Kai, what the hell were you thinking man?" Damon asked, frowning at him.
"I had a plan," the Heretic said in a hoarse voice barely above a whisper, his eyes closed.
Bonnie glared at him. "He had a plan, Damon."
Kai's lips curled into a slight sneer. "The plan was to set her on Julian, make her chase him across the border. Enough time to warn Valerie and get her out of the country."
"And what about Nora, Mary Louise, hell Beau." Bonnie said, shaking her head. "Didn't you think Rayna would go after them too?"
"I can't save everyone Bonnie." He replied, eyeing her inquisitively.
"I know you can't, I never expected you to. You were the one…"
Finally coming out of his inattentiveness, Damon spoke, "Guys, we don't have time for this. Rayna knows Julian is dead. Who do you think she'll hunt now?
Valerie was in danger, dammit this was his fault. Before he could move, his phone rang and he quickly answered it once he noticed the number.
"Val is everything…"
"You fucking bastard. You sprung Rayna on us all and gave her a weapon that she can use against us. How could you be so fucking stupid." Damon's ears perk up as his vampire hearing allowed him to eavesdrop.
"Valerie, wait..." He was caught off guard and tried to find an excuse.
"We're in the hospital with Caroline trying to help deliver the babies .."
Kai stiffened in spite of himself. "Why didn't you call me first?" he asked, a bit horrified.
"I didn't know where you were, we were in a hurry."
His expression changed, becoming more serious. "I'm back at Whitmore. Shit, I'm on my way."
"Haven't you done enough. You're the reason she's back."
Kai resisted the urge to sigh. "Val, I'm sorry. I deal with this, I'll protect you." He continued as if he hadn't heard her.
"It's not me I'm worried about, it's Beau, his scar was marked by her Sword, and it will lead Rayna Cruz straight to him. Once you've been marked, she'll chase you to the ends of the earth until your soul is back in that stone. Once she gets Beau, she'll go after any other vampire in her path, and right now this hospital's full of them. That includes Caroline, who's trying to give birth to your kindred."
He took a deep breath and nodded. There were many thoughts flying through his head, more than he was expressing.
"I'm with Damon and Bonnie. We're on the way," he replied honestly, rubbing his forehead.
"Don't do anything stupid." Kai hated the sudden insecurity Valerie caused. "Caroline and Alaric need you. I need you."
Kai ran a hand through his hair in frustration. "I'm on my way."
He didn't let Valerie say another word. Kai immdelity hung up on her. He glanced at Damon who was waiting for a response.
"Caroline's having the babies." Bonnie indicated with a wave of her phone in her hand. "Nora texted me, Rayna is on the way to the hospital to get Beau."
"Fucking christ, okay let's move." Damon wrung his hands nervously.
Kai couldn't feel himself move. What the hell did he do?
Damon was speeding as fast as he could. Bonnie was giving the Heretic a piece of her mind. Kai was in his backseat like a gargoyle.
"We trusted you. Now we're all in danger because you couldn't man up and ask for help." Bonnie snapped before she could stop herself.
Kai stiffened, and forced himself not to shrink back into his seat. "I had it under control, you're the one who told her I was a Heretic," he said coolly, reading her expression.
"How long did you plan on lying to her?" Bonnie demanded furiously.
"Long enough for her to chase Julian…"
"Who's already dead." Bonnie interrupted, eyes burning as she glared at Kai.
"What the hell is going on with you two? Yes Kai fucked up. But Bonnie, we've fucked up plenty of times and still came out on top." Damon said, impatiently, his voice catching a little. "Kai, why didn't you just tell us what was going on? We could have helped you."
Damon wasn't Kai's biggest fan, but he didn't want the Heretic going psycho on them again. Kai was actually on his best behavior these last few months. He had Alaric, Caroline and Valerie in his corner. He had Bonnie Bennett, one of the biggest hardasses in his corner. Why fuck that up.
The look of annoyance on Kai's face deepened. He glared at Damon, seemingly searching for the right words for his reply. "This is my problem to deal with. Bonnie doesn't deserve to get sucked in, I'm not you Damon, I don't need others to clean up my messes."
Damon regarded Kai carefully, his face blank of all expression. "I'm on your side," he said finally. "I don't have people cleaning up after me."
Bonnie snorted in disbelief, but Damon ignored her.
"Bullshit, Stefan is always left cleaning up after you. You sucker Bonnie into your half baked plans all the time." Kai was looking at her with mild novelty. "The worst part is that she's blindly in love with you."
Bonnie felt her rage at him abating. "KAI!"
Damon's face stiffened haughtily. "What the hell are you on about Parker?"
"I am not in love with him." Bonnie murmured, staring in horror at Kai.
Kai laughed softly. "Oh yeah I forgot you moved on to the poor man version of him. How's Enzo?"
It was Damon's turn to narrow his eyes. "Excuse me, please tell me you and Enzo aren't…"
Bonnie interrupted him, enraged. "I have seen Enzo since…"
"Let me guess, since you two hooked up." Kai said with a slight smile. "I mean you already moved on to Nora."
"The Heretic?" Damon asked with an arch look. Bonnie felt unaccountably like blushing.
"Kai, shut up!" Bonnie scolded, but Kai was laughing.
He opened his mouth, then closed it again. "What, your bestie doesn't know how you've been getting around."
"Bonnie's not like that," Damon said, without glancing behind him.
"She's far from a Virgin Mary anymore." Kai winced at his own word choice.
"Don't you dare," offended, Bonnie sniffed loudly and gritted, "Don't you dare slut shame me."
Kai examined her carefully, "I'm not." He told her apologetically. "But you could do a lot better than Enzo and Nora."
Bonnie laughed though it was short lived.
"No I can't." She growled angrily, though her words weren't as cutting as they were earlier. "You don't even know what it's been like for me. Always stuck in the shadows of Elena and Caroline. Never pretty enough, never smart enough, never measuring up to my two best friends. Having to watch from the sidelines while they were going out on dates with cute boys. Being stuck in the friendzone with every guy I meet." She took a deep, shuddering breath as she reflected. "Enzo and Nora took notice of me, they were interested in me. No strings attached, and it was nice."
Damon watched from his mirror when Kai moved closer to Bonnie's seat from the back. He lifted his right arm uncertainty, pushing a lock of hair out of her face and tucking it behind her ear. The gesture was strangely intimate, that caused her to shiver. Damon studied her reaction before speaking.
"Guys are dumb and shallow, Bon. That's why I went after Caroline, because she was just easier." He told her. "I stayed away from you because I knew Sheila would kill me." Damon continued speaking, "But Bonnie, you're smarter than Caroline, far more compassionate than Elena, and I've never met an unattractive Bennett woman. If anything, you are far too good for us."
His words sounded like a confession of sorts. This time, it was Bonnie tilting her head, staring up at him and wondering. Kai even looked in his direction, with an uneasy look.
"Can we…" she paused, unsure of what to say. "Can we just be on the same page right now?"
Damon grunted in agreement. Meanwhile Kai visibly brightened, straightening in his seat.
"So Damon, what's the plan buddy?"
Damon licked his lips and glanced out the window.
The trio arrived at Whitmore Hospital, Bonnie rushed off to help Valerie deliver the babies. While Kai and Damon walked down the hallways looking for Rayna Cruz. Kai had a bad feeling about all of this. When they showed up they were greeted by Beau's corpse out front. Rayna was on a mission to kill them all.
When they turned the next corner, both men came upon Rayna Cruz who was gleaming at them.
"Wow, she really looks like one of the doppelgangers."
Kai didn't see the resemblance. Oddly enough he thought Elena looked better.
Damon lunged towards Rayna with his vampire speed but she threw him right into the nearby powerbox. This caused the electricity to flicker.
"Rayna, you don't have to do this. Julian's dead." Kai told her, a sheepish expression on his face. "You can stop this."
The Huntress had nothing to say to him. While Damon was passed out on the ground, she lunged at Kai. He jumped to his feet and grabbed onto an oxygen tank. He used it to hit her in the head. Rayna spun backwards and landed on the floor, while the blood-stained Phoenix Sword slid down towards the other end of the hallway. Kai watched as she tried to crawl over for her weapon.
He approached her and prepared to hit her with the tank once again. However, before he could swing the tank, she kicked him in the thigh hard enough that his leg broke. He fell backwards and slid near the end of the hall.
"Damon!" The vampire was still on the floor comatose, leaving Kai completely helpless.
Rayna rises onto her feet walking over to Kai. He was laid out flat on his back, she went over to stab him with her sword. He manages to kick the blade out of her hands before kicking her in the stomach. He watches as she staggers backwards from him. This gave him a chance to stand on his feet.
"Fuck it, you want a fight, I'll give you a fight." He drawled, looking ahead.
Rayna hopped back up and moved to fist fight Kai. He tried to keep his eyes on her weapon before she noticed it. This made him lose track of what was happening in front of him, and she gained the upper hand, breaking his bones in order to incapacite him. She rushed over to grab her weapon and made her way back over to Kai, who was kneeling on the floor.
Kai was defeated.
"1994 was my own personal hell. If you think trapping me in some stone is gonna break me. Let me tell you something lady, I'll just come right back stronger than ever." Kai said, a bit intimidated by her stare.
Rayna was not deterred by his words, she rear up to stab him in his heart. Kai took one last look at comatose Damon. Knowing he was next.
However when she thrusted her arms forward, someone stood between them.
Kai's eyes landed on the person in front of him. Stefan Salvatore.
Rayna's sword landed in Stefan's shoulder. She pulled it out clean and then flipped the sword in her hand, and Stefan groaned in pain and tried to move toward her in an attempt to tackle her, but she simply grabs him in a choke-hold and throws him against the wall behind his brother.
Slowly, Damon opened one eye and then the other. "Stefan..." he started to say, but stopped as his eyes slid into focus on Rayna.
Kai begins to panic for a brief moment before using his vampire speed to rush towards her, shoving her in the chest with his hand before kicking her backward so she slides to the other end of the hall.
With a grimace of pain, Damon struggled to his feet and turned to Stefan, who was now realizing the implication of what happened.
Kai and Damon both pulled Stefan onto his feet, and Damon noticed that Kai had a bleeding cut on his neck.
"Kai, how close was she to your neck?" asked Damon, feeling the other man grow tense.
The Heretic's face maintained its skeptical expression, as moved his hand to touch his neck. He could feel the blood oozing out.
"Once a vampire has been marked, she'll keep chasing them, until the end of the earth." This was Stefan's quiet reply.
Kai's expression remained serious.
Damon gave them both a horrified look, both men had a X-shaped mark cut on their upper body, where Rayna stabbed them both. Kai didn't even feel when Rayna grazed him in their scuffle. The Heretic looked over to where he tossed Rayna to see that she vanished, not trying to take on three vampires.
"I'll see you, brother." With that Stefan sped off from them.
Damon started over at Kai, waiting for him to vanish as well.
"I need to see Bonnie before I go." Kai said softly, almost to himself.
"I will fix this. I will kill that Huntress with my bare hands if I have to. Kai, I owe you my life. I promise you this will be handled." Damon said tightly, clenching his hands into fists.
Kai nodded at once, a look of determination on his face.
Back in the operating room, Bonnie and Valerie were casting the spell while Alaric stood at Caroline's bedside and watched the heart monitor with concern.
"Venis ad vitur. Venis ad essendier. Factuo partis viventia…"
Alaric anxiously looks at the surgeon while she works, "Is everything okay?"
"Yes, almost there." The surgeon responded.
"Infantesi mortuous venis ad vitur venis ad essendier…"
"Okay, now's our chance. The first baby is ready."
The surgeon struggles for a moment before lifting out the first baby, holding it up so Alaric can see it. Alaric gasps in shock at the sight of his newborn daughter as one of the nurses takes the baby to clean and weigh her, allowing the surgeon to birth the second baby.
"And now for baby number two."
At the sound of the first baby's whimpering and crying, Bonnie cracks her eyes open and gives Alaric a hopeful expression while the surgeon pulls out the second baby and hands her to another nurse to check out. Alaric smiles the most genuine, happy smile he's had in a very long time, and Bonnie can't help but beam along with him. The surgeon brings the first baby, which has been cleaned up a bit and wrapped in a blanket, over for Alaric to hold. She seems to be sleeping and sucking on her lower lip, and Valerie and Bonnie both look amazed.
"Are they okay?" Bonnie asked brightly.
"Yeah, both are fine and healthy." Alaric said, summoning up a smile.
Caroline was left dozing off in the hospital bed. While Alaric was talking with the nurse. Bonnie and Valerie decide to give the new family some privacy and head out into the hall.
"What a blessing."
Valerie grinned, and Bonnie couldn't help but grin back, "I've never seen Ric so happy before."
Bonnie looked around noticing the darkest surrounding them. She was surprised when Kai appeared in the hallway on her left and frantically rushed over to them.
Valerie sputtered for a moment, at a loss for words. Then she found her voice, "Malachai, you're neck..." she whispered, her voice choking.
"Val, give me a moment with Bonnie." Kai said, and raised his eyebrows in surprise as Valerie went an alarming shade of green.
The other girl frowned but walked away, leaving Bonnie and Kai alone in the dark reception area.
Bonnie rounded on Kai, icy fear filling her chest.
"That mark, it's the one on the sword," she started awkwardly, "She marked you, didn't she?"
Kai glanced down at his hands, his shoulders slumping forward. "Damon got knocked out, so I had to fight her until Stefan showed up," he said, inhaling sharply. "She marked Stefan too, he's gone Bonnie."
The sickening truth dawned on Bonnie.
"So you're running away?" she demanded, her voice steel-edged.
"Once you've been marked, she'll chase you to the ends of the earth until your soul is back in that stone."
Bonnie shuddered at the thought. "Damon and I will stop her," she said, and she sounded almost angry.
Kai's expression softened. "Are the twins okay?"
"Yes, two girls, a blonde and a brunette." Bonnie muttered, not looking up at his face, not wanting to see the disdainful expression she was sure was plastered all over it.
"I should have been there." Kai breathed on an unexpected sob.
Bonnie didn't respond right away. She looked at him, her expression inscrutable, and then finally said, "You'll have all the time in the world to be with them. I promise you."
Breathlessly, grabbing her wrist, Kai leaned forward trail light kisses up the bridge of her nose and across her forehead. He tilted her head back and looked into her eyes.
"I'm gonna hold you to that," he whispered into her hair, a feathery touch from his lips against her earlobe.
Bonnie took a deep breath as Kai's words sunk in. No, there was no sign of a struggle. She watched as he stepped back from her, his expression impassive. Quietly, he turned away and disappeared into the hallway.
The air of the room itself seemed cooler now that Kai was gone, She stood motionless, leaning back into the wall where Kai had left her. She felt like they parted on better terms than before, but that didn't make it any easier to fight the tears that threatened to spill over her lashes.
AN: Next chapter our other favorite Bennett Witch returns. Bonnie and Damon go to Grove Hill to team up with an old friend. Kai and Stefan go down New Orleans, and Kai meets one of the legendary Mikaelsons.