AN: Okay, so apparently Nora is only 5'4...so that's fun. This is why we RESEARCH, kids! (It's me, I'm 'kids').
One month later...
"So... I've been thinking..."
In bed with Nora, Bonnie decides to give voice to everything that has been on her mind since talking to Lucy. The convo with her cousin only amplified all her warlock-related feelings for he who shall not be named.
Nora turns to lie on her side, propping up her head with her palm, her other hand traces the sheet on top of Bonnie's stomach, "Thinking about...?"
Bonnie chooses to fuss with her pajama bottoms, instead of responding to her girlfriend's questions.
"I'm afraid I've never been one for telepathy- you'll have to cue me in better than that love," she states, reaching out to run her hands down Bonnie's side, trying to soothe her girlfriend's clearly agitated nerves. When they reach for the hem of her shorts, Bonnie pushes her hands away but keeps one to hold on to.
Before she can say anything, her girlfriend is taking her free hand and using it to tickle the exposed skin of her stomach. What is it with Nora and tickling her all the time?
The light touches soon overwhelm her, who knew her stomach was this sensitive? Bonnie giggles and squirms as she bats the hands away, her movements becoming more frantic the longer her lover continues, "Stop! Stop! Please, Nora!" Her voice shakes and she thrashes on the bed until Nora is over top of her.
"Ooooh, what's wrong Bonnie? I thought you had something to say, cat got your tongue?" She drags her knuckles down her girlfriend's ribs and uses the other hand to hold her in place.
"Stop, I'm gonna pee! Nora, please!" Her feet kick out, trying to help aid in her getaway, but Nora is still bigger than her and she's got a positional advantage. The other girl is now above her, balanced on her knees, and Bonnie can't keep her hands away and get off the bed at the same time.
"Pee, you say? Kinky. I like it," she continues to tickle, only pausing when tears stream down the other girl's face, "You better talk, Bonnie, I'm not sure how much longer you'll last." She raises her hands again, ready to dive in for another attack.
"Okay! Okay, fine! Please just stop, Nor!" she begs through her uncontrollable laughter.
Nora stops tickling, but she doesn't move to get up, she stays on top looking down at her girlfriend, "So, spill it, tell me what's on your mind."
She looks at her expectantly and Bonnie turns away and shrinks into the mattress. She won't make eye contact, and really, it's not Nora's fault. She's done her best to make her girlfriend feel at ease, but Bonnie just can't shake the mortification that comes from owning up to her feelings for a man she had convinced everyone (including herself) that she hated.
Maybe if she hides underneath the pillow, she can find the courage she lacks. It's not that she's scared per se, she just never thought she'd be having this conversation. Taking down the town's weekly Big Bad was one thing, talking about feelings was another.
"Well...I was thinking..."
"Yes, I believe we covered that already," Nora points out, sitting back on Bonnie's squished legs.
"Excuse you, rude, I was still talking. Anyway, I was saying that…well, I've been thinking about what you said last month..."
Nora makes a face at her the urges her to continue-
"About, Kai..."
"And?"
Oh, please, not this shit again, hadn't she gotten enough of this already?
"And I, uh, I think maybe it could be fun."
Nora's face is beaming, her eyes are so wide they're like saucers, "Little witch, what exactly are you saying?"
"You realize that I'm only like two inches shorter than you right?"
"Bonnie!" She brings her hands back into position, threatening to tickle again.
The girl underneath shivers at the sight, "Alright, alright- I'm saying that maybe… ewer ite."
The next part is too muffled to hear, so Nora leans closer, "Excuse me? Say that again?"
"Yuweright," comes her reply, still muffled as Bonnie tries her best to talk more to the pillow than the girl above her.
"I'm afraid there seems to be a bit of a language barrier. I haven't quite caught up on my 21st-century lingo, run that by me one more time," this time Nora leans in closer so that her hair dangles in Bonnie's face and pulls the pillow away from her. She normally loves pillow talk, but not quite like this.
"You were right, okay?! You were right! Maybeeee, I do have some feelings for Kai, and maybeee I do want to try...whatever this thing is with him, alright? Are you happy now?"
Nora looks as if she is about to burst. She's dancing and scooting around, giggling, and acting like some boy crazy teenage girl. It's actually kinda cute, even if it's a little bit childish.
"Not regularly, at least not yet; I don't want to start anything major. Let's just see how it plays out."
Rather than respond the way Bonnie expects (with more squealing and teenaged style shouting) Nora stays still, with her eyes set on hers, staring ahead as if struck by some elaborate constellation. Like the stars and moon are reflected in her eyes.
The first kiss lands on her lips, it's soft, gentle, and fleeting. Too fleeting; Bonnie wants, no, she needs, more.
The second lands in the center of her throat, again it's delicate and makes her craving even stronger. Try as she might, she cannot will the other girl where she wants her. It feels good like this, but Bonnie wishes she would hurry up, it feels like her Top is taunting her.
Nora is undeterred by Bonnie's impatience and continues at her leisurely pace. As if all the impatience of the woman beneath her motivates her to her move even slower.
Next is her sternum, then lower.
Kiss..
Kiss...
Kiss..
Nora trails her kisses, moving down Bonnie's body and under the covers, dragging her pajama bottoms down along the way, "Please, allow me to say thank you."
She follows the path she just laid in the opposite direction, settling once again on Bonnie's lips. This time she lingers, slowly she works her way around Bonnie's jaw, letting her lips drag along the shell of Bonnie's ear, smiling in triumph when it earns her a shiver.
The softness of her body is overwhelming, Bonnie can't focus on anything else. She smells like heaven and feels just the same. Nora's long hair brushes her shoulders, setting fire to her already overly sensitive skin.
It's clear this is meant as a reward for earlier, not necessarily for agreeing to the threesome; Bonnie knows Nora better than that. She gets the sense it comes from her happiness at seeing her actively processing her Kai feelings. She never realized she was so emotionally backed up until they got together. It's very much like Nora to reward her with good sex for showing emotional maturity.
"I've wanted this since you left for work this morning," she moans, "last night you told me you were going to sleep-in." Bonnie pouts, sticking her lower lip out, which Nora then nibbles.
"Technically we did sleep in, emphasis on sleep. As I remember it, last night a certain witch kept me up all night practicing both protective and offensive spells, sorry if I actually needed my rest."
"Boooo, you're a vampire, you don't need sleep." She manages to shimmy out of her pants and push Nora's off too, all without getting up.
"No, I'm a heretic, big difference. All that combined witch and vampire energy pushing against each other leaves me positively exhausted," she says breathily and soft. It's clear from her voice she's trying to seduce. And it's working.
"I'll leave you positively exhausted," Bonnie quips, sitting up on her elbows while Nora's lips move back to her neck.
"Oh? Is that right?" Nora tuts as she marks the skin behind Bonnie's ear and drags the tip of her tongue to the earlobe.
Bonnie is tired of talking, "Yea," she challenges; as she says it, she threads her fingers through Nora's and pulls closer to her and towards the mattress, "that's right."
"If you say so," Nora replies, leaning over to press herself into Bonnie's soft body.
At that point, she reaches down, and her fingers waste no time as they find the seat of Bonnie's underwear. She traces her slit through the fabric lightly before pulling the material to the side.
Suddenly Bonnie can no longer speak, and moans are the only thing that leave her.
Multiple Orgasms Later...
"Sooo... why didn't you tell me that your entire coven was still alive on another plane?"
Bonnie tries to keep her voice neutral because she's honestly more curious than she is upset. She knows Nora isn't exactly on good terms with The Gemini. Her former coven had been responsible for trapping her in a prison world with the rest of the heretics so it makes sense she wouldn't be sad about their fate.
"Oh. That."
"Yea, that. Why'd you keep it from me? I had to find out from Lucy, I thought we didn't keep secrets from each other?"
Bonnie can't help but feel a little hurt. Sure, she never expected Nora to be ecstatic to talk about the people who locked her up, but to not mention it at all?
"It wasn't a secret, Bonnie; it just...isn't any of your business."
Ouch.
She knows Nora is trying to be gentle, but it still stings. She's been the witch-on-call for every fiasco, catastrophe, and bit of mayhem that's happened for as long as she can remember. Not being tagged in makes her feel a little useless.
Maybe it wasn't her business, as Nora said, but she knew Jo, she knew Alaric. The fact no one had clued her in was weird. Especially because she knew they needed the help. It wasn't her fight, but still.
Come to think of it, when was the last time she'd even seen Alaric?
"I don't mean to be rude; I just mean that I am barely part of the Gemini anymore," she shrugs, "I put them behind me when they abandoned me and imprisoned me. I don't much care what goes on with any of them."
Nora is apathetic towards a lot of things, but even if she doesn't show it, there's a part of her that wants to be connected. Bonnie thinks that's part of why she's pulling for this thing with Kai, she misses having a community. She may hate the Gemini, but since the heretics disbanded when Lily was killed, she'd been different. It was obvious she wanted to belong to something again.
"When I found out about what happened I didn't care because… I'm old. Ancient really. Even if I did care about them, I have no connection to the Gemini's current iteration. When I was a member, it was over a century ago, my love. I mean nothing to them, and they mean nothing to me."
It makes sense. Nora is one of the oldest supes she knows, it's hard to remember that her girl is pushing one-hundred and thirty when she looks twenty-four. She's had all that time to move on and forget The Gemini. And it wasn't as if she'd totally gotten over it, Bonnie knows despite all the time that's passed it's still a sore spot for Nora.
Not only was she abandoned by her peers, but even more painful, her family too. Worst of all, her mother. Nora wasn't only cast out for being a siphoner, she was a lesbian at a time when repression and bigotry were even bigger societal norms. Her mother and her had been close until she discovered the truth about Nora and shunned her.
She was shunned for every part of her identity, and despite how put-together and unaffected she always seemed, Bonnie knew there were days when it got to her. Days when her past hung over her head like a storm cloud. It's something they have in common, being abandoned by their mothers. She wasn't trying to poke at Nora's trauma, she just wanted to be in the loop.
Now she just feels bad.
"I could have helped."
Her voice sounds tiny and so mousy, and it breaks her heart.
Nora can practically feel the guilt and regret that's moving through her already and she wants to console her, "Never you mind- it doesn't matter anyway, Kai reached out to me and forbade me from telling you because he knew you would say that; it was very uncanny how he predicted it. I never told you because I thought it was rather sweet."
She coughs when Bonnie grimaces at her use of the word 'sweet.'
"To be clear, I would have tried to dissuade you from offering your services had you found out, anyway. I know you're more than capable of handling tough spells and whatnot, but you know I hate seeing you work yourself so hard and for such a wicked group of people."
She leans so that she's sitting upright, "When the Gemini turned their back on me, I did the same to them. Yes, technically Kai is my leader, but that means little to me. I didn't tell you not because he wouldn't allow it, but because… I agreed with him. He had only your best interest at heart, Bonnie. He didn't want you getting wrapped up in this mess and I can't be mad at him for that, and I won't apologize for it."
"That's okay, I don't want you to apologize."
"Really?" Nora doesn't mean to sound so incredulous, but it's not what she expected. When it comes to talking about Kai or questioning her abilities as a witch Bonnie is particularly sensitive. A conversation about both of those things should have put her even more on edge, not that she's complaining.
"Really. I think you're right. I'm just so used to thinking of Kai as an enemy, the idea he could have good motives is...something I'm still getting used to."
Hating Kai had been as natural to her as breathing since the moment she found out who he really was. In the beginning, she thought there was a possibility of them being friends, even though he tried to kill Damon, part of her was amused. But then she found out about his family and their epic game of cat and mouse began.
"I hate to admit it but...it's true, what happens with The Gemini isn't for me to clean up, I guess I can't be too mad at the two of you for keeping me out of it."
Discovering he'd told her girlfriend not to let her get involved in his latest supernatural endeavor was...interesting. All of her other friends were constantly involving her in their messes. Somehow, the one person she hated the most was the only one to go out of their way to make sure she stayed out of harm's way.
"You know, on a night, much like this, you once told me that you felt sorry for Kai." Nora is lying against Bonnie's hip, looking up at her while she alternates between kissing the skin there and tracing her fangs along it lightly.
"I said that because I did, and I still do. It must be hard having no one, even if it is his fault."
Life after lock-up had been as lonely as throughout it for Kai, so it seemed to her at least. He didn't keep any company that she knew of, and discovering he'd been leading a coven of half corpses only reaffirmed what she already suspected about the warlock- he had only himself.
She never really expected him to blend into the Mystic Falls friend group, but in the prison world he seemed so fucking talkative and extroverted it was weird to see that he was such a loner.
"I believe it was also post-coitus after I'd made a mess of you." She gives a long, savoring kiss to the hip she'd previously been laying on and moves between Bonnie's thighs again, but Bonnie shakes her head and Nora lays back down.
"You don't remember correctly, it was not post-sex, I was drunk off my ass, no way I would say that sober."
"I remember it differently," she whispers under her breath while she moves up the bed and slots herself under the sheets and behind her girlfriend.
"I think you mean incorrectly," Bonnie disagrees as she reaches over to turn out the bedside lamp.
"We can agree to disagree about the sordid details. What is it about mind-blowing sex that makes you think of Malachai, hmmm?" Nora hums and it sends a flutter through her body and a shock to her nerves.
Bonnie feels embarrassed. She just wanted to give Nora some space to talk about her coven, she hadn't even meant for the conversation to circle back to Kai. She shifts to face the girl behind her, "I was just bringing it up because we'd been talking about it, I don't want this to change anything between us. I know we've done this before, but this is different. We both have so much... history with Kai."
"I had history with Mary Louise," Nora reminds while she strokes the side of Bonnie's face adoringly.
It's true.
One of the first people they ever messed around with was Nora's ex. Though, to be honest, they were mainly fooling around then anyway; Bonnie wasn't bothered since Nora was more of a friend with benefits than a girlfriend. Having a threesome with her and Mary Louise felt less serious than this, at least it did for her. Even knowing how long May Louise and Nora had been together didn't bother her because she didn't know how things were going to turn out.
The mention of the ex does trigger a thought, however, "You're not jealous?"
So far all they've done is toss the idea around; there's still time to pump the breaks. She doesn't want Nora to be harboring any negative feelings and she hopes this isn't a bad sign. She hadn't shared it with her partner, but she already promised herself to ditch this idea if it gets to be too messy (to borrow Kai's word). She'll tell Nora it's a no-go and that'll be the end of it. She won't risk losing her current relationship in pursuit of another.
"Why would I be?" She says it as if the idea is ludicrous, "You love me, don't you?"
"Of course I do, you know I do."
"Right, I know you do. So, like I said, why would I be jealous?" As she speaks, she brings her face close to Bonnie's and stares openly at her, looking so kind and genuine, before pecking her on the side of her face and nuzzling her neck.
Bonnie's chest thrums and she wraps Nora's arms around herself. They snuggle close together; Nora is, of course, the big spoon.
AN: To be clear, this is a fic about a non-monogamous couple...er throuple.
It's not going to end with Nora and Bonnie splitting, it's a three-way endgame and this fic will be about exploring the dynamics between all three of them. That means delving into the relationship between Nora and Kai and the existing shit between Bonnie and Kai.
You're definitely still getting strong Bonkai vibes because I really am not capable of much else, but I am not going to throw Nora under the bus to do it. I love gay Bonnie and I love submissive Kai. I also love FemDomme tag-team BonNora. Sue me.