This would have been up hours ago, but the second I had posted it to tumblr, I had to go the emergency room with a relative. That's why I've just been answering on tumblr etc while we waited. Now I'm just updating quickly before bed.
Request from laptiteantillaise: AU where Kai & the rest of the Parker clan attends Mystic fall High along with the Scoobi-doo gang (lol). Basically everyone treats Bonnie like sh*t and Kai (who is like the loner/hot dweeb) alwayswitnesses those moment conforts her. They somehow always get paired up which leads to Bonnie's friends warning her from hanging out with him.
Bonnie was halfway through dozing off in history class. She could barely keep her eyes open. She had spent most of the night on the phone with Elena, who was complaining about Damon and Stefan. She had recently broken up with Stefan for his brother Damon, and now she was having second thoughts because Damon wasn't as sweet or caring as Stefan.
Elena, who was sitting in the seat in front of her looked perfectly rested for someone, who had spent most of the night crying her eyes out.
Their teacher Alaric was droning on about some project. Finally, the tail end of what he was saying penetrated her sleep-deprived brain. "You're going to work on this project in pairs –" several hands shot into the air immediately and Alaric shook his head. "No, you are not going to choose your own partners."
The class groaned. Bonnie put her arms on her head. She assumed her partner would find her after class. She must have dozed off because when she woke, Elena was shaking her.
"Yeah?" Bonnie said. "Are we partnered up?"
Elena grimaced. She lowered her voice and looked nervously toward the back of the classroom. "You got Kai. Again."
"Oh, that's okay."
It wasn't a surprise. They got paired together a lot and they worked well enough together.
"I don't know. He's not exactly interested in school and you know, history isn't your best subject," Elena made an apologetic face. "I mean you almost flunked last semester."
Bonnie stared at her.
"Anyway, I have to go. Good luck," Elena called over her shoulder.
"It's fine," Caroline said coming up behind her. "You'll do better this semester. I mean it can hardly get worse than a D, right?"
"Right," Bonnie mumbled.
"Look," Caroline lowered her voice to a whisper. "You should stay away from Kai. He's not quite right in the head, you know?"
"I don't know, he's nice."
"No, he's not. I mean why does he do that grunge rock look? No one in their right mind dresses like that."
"Well I think he's nice," Bonnie said avoiding Caroline's eyes.
"Just try to steer clear of him."
Before Bonnie could respond, Caroline had disappeared.
Thrown and not knowing what to do, Bonnie started robotically packing her things. Two shadows loomed over her desk.
All she could think was, what now?
She looked up and saw it was Kai and his twin sister, Jo. They were both tall and striking with their blue eyes. It was such a contrast with their black hair, it was hard not to notice them.
"Hey," she said lamely.
"Want a ride home?" Jo asked. "I'm working with Damon so I'm going with him, but Kai can take you."
"Yeah, I'll take you home, Bonnie. We can work at the Mystic Grill, if you want first?"
"Sure that sounds fine."
Jo ran ahead. Kai was still hovering when she picked up her backpack.
Suddenly, he said; "They're wrong, you know."
"Who's wrong?"
"You're friends. You're not stupid. You weren't even at school most of last semester, my guess is something else was going on."
"I don't want to talk about it," Bonnie said wrapping her arms around herself.
"Don't let them get to you," Kai told her with a confident smile. "I know you're smart."
"Thanks," she mumbled.
She also wondered if Kai had heard from the back of the classroom, who else had heard?
Seeing the look on her face, Kai quickly changed the subject.
"So what do you think about the project? Because I'm thinking if we have to write about the 1692 Salem Witch hunts, it would be interesting to go at it from a different perspective. Like Occultism mebbeh," he suggested with a sideways look at her as they walked through the school hallways.
"Kai, witches aren't real and I don't think Puritanical society was exactly a hot bed for Pagan religions."
"Wow," he grinned. "Come on Bonster, think about it, Tutiba taught them magic. Why though? And to what end?"
"The girls were probably bored, I'm more interested in the gender gap. Far more women than men were hung," she said thoughtfully. "At least I think so."
"Too right you are," Kai said. "How about this? Whichever subject we can find more research on is the angle we pick, sound good?"
"Sure," she smiled.
Kai's car came into view. It was a beat up old black Camaro that looked like it should have been scrapped, but Kai was always fiddling with the engine and fixing it up himself. So much so that each time Bonnie saw it, it looked better.
Bonnie got in the passenger side. Kai loped around and sat down in the driver's seat. Almost as soon as he was in, he turned on the stereo and played whatever rock band, he was obsessed with this week. As usual, she didn't recognize the band, but she was starting to worry his taste in music was rubbing off on her because two days ago, she had caught herself singing the lyrics to Metallica's Enter Sandman.
Kai parked as far from the Mystic Grill's entrance as he could get. Bonnie wanted to ask him why because there were a lot of empty parking spots toward the front. At the last minute, she closed her mouth. Her eyes had landed on Damon Salvatore's red Ferrari. Most likely, Kai didn't want another confrontation with him. She wasn't sure why he always tried to stay on the outskirts of Damon's attention because the last time there had been a fight, Kai had won. But then again, maybe Kai didn't like to fight. Matt hated it and always tried to avoid it as much as possible.
The Mystic Grill was still fairly empty and they found a table at the back. It was a fairly shielded booth and Kai tipped the menu up to stay out of sight. Bonnie studied him curiously and followed his gaze.
Damon was at the front where the pool table was. His younger brother Stefan was there along with most of the football team. She saw Matt and Tyler, she waved, but they just gave half-hearted smiles back.
Bonnie was technically a part of the popular crowd, but she was a little on the outside. She was just in with them because of Elena and Caroline.
They placed their orders with Vicky, Matt's younger sister and got out their textbooks. Bonnie dug out her laptop. She passed it to Kai, who started a Google search for the Salem witches.
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Kai watched as Bonnie went to the bathroom. He was sure once the Salvatores spotted him with their precious Bonnie, he would be in big trouble. Sure enough, Bonnie passed them on her way. She lingered long enough to say hi.
Most of the football players ignored her. Damon on the other hand had some sort of creepy fixation with Bonnie. Kai noticed because he had a crush on her himself. But unlike Damon, he wasn't dating one of her bitchy best friends. He wasn't dating anyone.
Damon made a crazy face. "Hey, Bon-Bon, what are you doing with that psycho loser?"
Kai was sure Damon was purposely talking loud enough to hear them.
"Who? Do you mean Kai? Because he's actually really nice -"
"Oh, he's really nice is he?" Stefan said joining the conversation. "Come on, Bonnie. Don't let him fool you."
Kai grit his teeth and focused his energy on ignoring them, but they were loud enough in the quiet bar, he couldn't help overhearing.
"Fool me?"
Bonnie sounded confused and by now, Kai could guess what expression she was wearing. It was the same look she always wore when she talked to her supposed friends. She was trying to work out why they were saying cruel things or if she was too sensitive. That look never did her any favors with that crowd, it made her look like she didn't know what was going on, which had only made them drive harder on the Bonnie is dumb spiel. Kai hated it and it made him sick to his stomach the way they treated Bonnie.
Didn't any of them see how kind and smart and funny she was? How special and beautiful? Damon did, but it was like her goodness made him want to destroy her. Kai knew Damon's crush wasn't normal or healthy.
"Yes, fool you," Damon said with an eye roll. He looked at the other guys like 'can you believe her? Such an airhead'. "Don't you get it? He's just using you."
"Using me?"
"Yeah, because that way he can do whatever he wants on projects, duh," Damon said nudging his brother, who sniggered.
"I mean, Bon if he wanted someone good at history or school in general, he would ask to be paired with someone else," Tyler shot in. "He's just an ass. Don't let him walk all over you."
"Kai – doesn't he –" Bonnie sputtered.
"Seriously, Bon-Bon. I don't like how he looks at you."
Of course you don't, because you like her too, Kai thought.
"Looks at me?"
"You know, I hear him and his twin are a little too close."
Bonnie slunk away.
Kai wanted to intervene, but he knew if he stuck up for her, they would just treat her worse. It had happened in the past.
The football guys made their way over to him now. Great, just what he needed.
"What do you dunderheads want? Come to crack your knuckles, which is let's face it, pretty much all knuckledraggers like you are good for, am I right?" Kai chortled.
"Very funny," Tyler said.
"Oh, really witty. Lie awake thinking of comebacks, don't you?"
"When we get you alone, we're going to rearrange that smug face of yours," Damon leaned in to whisper.
"Yeah, sure. But I can't help noticing you need a whole whack of cronies to do that. What's a matter, Damon? Scared to take me on alone?"
"You wish," Damon sneered. "How about you leave Bonnie alone, freak?"
"Or what you'll jump me with ten of your closest friends, again?"
"What?" Bonnie exclaimed. "You guys did what to Kai?"
Damon and the rest of the football idiots turned around to stare at her in guilty surprise.
"Nothing, Bon-Bon. want a ride home?"
"No, I have a project to finish."
"Why bother? It's not like you're going to pass. So we might as well hang," Damon said.
Kai was clutching his knuckles so tight they were turning white. But if he moved as much as an inch now, he would end up punching Damon. And he was not going to start a fight in the middle of the Mystic Grill.
"I have a project," Bonnie repeated stubbornly.
They shuffled off, muttering among themselves and shooting threatening looks at him. But after last time, they weren't going to do much more than glower and crack their knuckles, they had almost been arrested.
"Don't let them get to you, Bon," he said cheerily when she sat back down. "And I'm not Jamie Lannister."
She didn't answer, but she did crack an amused smile and found a passage in the text book they could use.
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Bonnie was in the hallway with Kai, discussing their science project. They had been paired again in first period. Science was Kai's best subject and Bonnie wasn't far behind, they were always competing for the best grade in biology. Of course, last semester his twin, Jo had swept the floor with both of them.
"I don't know, Bon. If we want an A, I think we're going to have to add a practical portion. Not just theoretical."
"You're probably right, but I'm not sure what kind of practical project we could do in a week. I mean, I suppose we could calculate a rough estimate of the bird population in a specific area of the forest," she said slowly.
"Yeah," Kai nodded. "That could be cool."
He got a book out of his locker, with his head ducked into it, he was hidden from view. Which Bonnie knew might cause trouble when Elena and Caroline joined them.
"Bonnie, why did Damon tell me you were on a date with Kai?" Caroline demanded in a huff and crossed her arms.
"On a date with Kai? We were working on our project."
"You need to stay away from him, Bonnie," Elena said.
"Why?"
"Because he is bad news," Caroline exclaimed and rolled her eyes as if it was obvious.
Bonnie felt tense, she was all too aware that Kai was standing right behind her.
Elena shook her head. "You're too trusting for your own good. We're your friends and we are just trying to protect you."
"Listen to her," Caroline said. "You really should stay away from Kai. He isn't a good influence. Look what happened to your grades last semester."
"You know that had nothing to do with Kai."
"Oh my God," Elena gasped. "Damon was right."
"Damon was right?" Bonnie said. There was a small part of her, one that she would never admit to her friends, but that part of her knew Damon was never right.
"You two are dating!" Caroline exclaimed. "I can't believe it, Damon was right."
"You need to break up with him. He's a bad influence," Elena told her.
"I'm not dating Kai," Bonnie said turning a furious shade of scarlet.
She knew Kai would hear this. She didn't want him to think she had some kind of crush on him. Kai might not be popular, he might be one of the most unpopular guys in the school actually, he had a reputation for being a bad boy. But in spite of that or maybe because of that, he never lacked for attention. There were plenty of girls that dated him secretly, maybe out of curiosity or for one reason or another, but they did.
"You aren't?" Caroline's eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"I'm not."
"But you like him," Elena said. "Why else would you study with him all of the time?"
"Because every teacher in this school keeps pairing us," Bonnie told her exasperated. "It's not like we hang out otherwise."
"You went to the Mystic Grill with him."
"To work on a project."
"Uh-huh, just stay away from him, Bon. Ooh, we have to meet Damon and Stefan," Caroline said.
They waved and wandered away. She watched them go feeling both attacked and lonely. They hadn't even bothered to invite her. Kai closed the locker and leaned back against it. She could feel his eyes on her and she steadfastly ignored him.
"Hey, Bon tell me if I'm overstepping, but your friends are kind of dicks."
She snorted a laugh, but didn't say anything else.
"I'm serious," he persisted. "They should be nicer to you."
"Why?"
"Because you're awesome."
"Oh," she blushed. "I'm sorry about them. They're wrong about you. They just don't know you."
"Nah, they're just dicks."
Bonnie laughed for real this time. She thought about how they hadn't even thought to ask her to come with them. How the two of them were always running off without her and she was starting to think, he might have a point.
"I'm still sorry."
"Don't be sorry," he told her with a wink. "So are you ever going to tell me where you were last year?"
"My Grams was in the hospital," she looked away.
There were only a handful of people she had told. And two of them kept using that information to talk about her grades. Still, she didn't think Kai was like that at least she hoped he wasn't.
"Shit, Bonster. I'm sorry."
"It's okay, she's doing a lot better now."
"Good," he nodded and flashed a dazzling smile. "So since all your friends think we are dating anyway, want to go out with me on Friday?"
"What?"
"To the movies, there's this new slasher – The Haunting, it looks awesome and it's about witches so wanna go?"
Bonnie thought about it and answered before she could talk herself out of it. "I'd love to go."
"Awesome. C'mon, we're gonna be late for history."
Bonnie grinned and started walking. It was nice to think there was one person in this whole school that didn't leave her behind.
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