So I suck. I know. Now just bear in mind that I don't really remember all of the major bad things that have happened to Bonnie in the entirety of the show (there have been so many) so if you want me to do a specific one, please please please let me know! Obviously all of the more recent one's I'm good with, but if you have a favourite please let me know! Here we go!
Kai watched as Bonnie closed her eyes and chanted under her breath, her magic swirling around them, lifting her hair as if she was caught in a gale. He had never seen someone look so… focused, determined and broken as Bonnie Bennett looked in that moment. Yes, her magic was mega-powerful, but it also brought out her most vulnerable side. The rawest part of her. It was terrible, but beautiful. Part of Kai wondered how many choices Bonnie had had to have made over the years, and how many had been life or death. In his forty or so years of being alive, he had never really made any big decisions – true, he was stuck in a 1994 prison world for eighteen of those years but Kai was almost certain that Bonnie had more life experience at twenty than he ever had, or ever would have.
Damn, there's that guilt again. Well shit.
The world around them melted away, taking the crying little girl with it, and suddenly Kai found himself in a forest he was quite familiar with. They were definitely in Mystic Falls, but boy was it hot. Uncomfortably hot, almost like he was standing next to a fire… Kai turned to Bonnie to ask her where they were, but she was staring into the distance; at a massive burning pentagram. Well that explains that, he thought.
The Bonnie he was looking at in the centre of the pentagram looked several years younger, with long curly hair, and a rounder, more innocent face - but the way that this Bonnie was speaking alerted Kai to the fact that, while Bonnie's body may have been in her late teens, the speaker of the words coming from the young witch's mouth came from someone much older. Damon and Stefan stood off to the side of the pentagram, Damon scowling – as usual – and Stefan looking worried for his friend. Something that Kai hadn't noticed before exploded into sparks above them, and his Bonnie winced.
Uh oh.
Before Kai could even contemplate that something awful was about to happen, Damon vamped through the now burnt out pentagram towards the possessed Bonnie. He shook her, shouted at her and someone called Emily. Another – dead - Bennett witch he guessed - he would bet his pager on it. Kai watched, stood a few paces behind Bonnie, who was watching the whole ordeal with that tired, broken look on her face, as Damon savagely ripped into her neck. He stepped forward, knowing in the rational part of his brain that this was a memory and there was nothing he could do, but still not willing to watch Bonnie be hurt by her supposed best friend. His Bonnie – When did she become your Bonnie? - placed her arm in front of him – warning him to stop – as Stefan (Damon was right about the hero hair) yanked his brother away from her younger counterpart.
"So, Damon and I haven't always been on the best of terms," she said from next to him, a sardonic smile on her face, "as you can probably tell, you're not the first person to take a stab at ending the Bennett line." She let out a humourless laugh and turned to him, "On with the trip down memory lane?" She spoke lightly, like they were old friends looking through photo albums.
Kai started to realise that the brokenness of Bonnie Bennett wasn't just his doing. Sure, he might have played a large and recent part, but Bonnie's life had been far from happy. From what his rather intuitive mind could deduce, the Bonnie lying on the floor, a mortal wound on her neck, couldn't have been out of her sophomore year of high school, and the Bon Bon he knew would have been in her sophomore year of college, had she not been trapped in a prison world – his prison world – for almost a year. How much had this girl gone through to get to this point?
Bonnie was chanting again, her gold magic melting away the world around them in front of his eyes.
They ended up in a small bedroom, a woman that Kai had definitely seen before lay on the bed, but a version of Bonnie was absent.
'Well I guess I'm about to find out" he thought to himself…
So again.. I suck. Sorry! Hope you all enjoyed this!
