So, long-time no update… Sorry y'all.
This one's got a lot of dialogue and is a bit longer that the previous chapters, I'm not entirely happy with it and might come back to it soon but we'll see!
Enjoy!
Kai turned to find the Bonnie from his time standing, no, cowering in the corner of the dim room, and immediately tensed. Clearly something traumatic was about to take place in this room, and judging from the previous, very violent memory of Bonnie's he had just witnessed her watch, with only the smallest of reactions, he would guess that this time wasn't going to be any more cheerful. Kai being Kai expected an attack, or another Bennett possession to really blow the roof off of this tiny house. But he was again distracted by the incredibly still, mind-bogglingly familiar woman laid on the bed in front of him.
"How do I know her?", he wondered out loud – mostly to himself, but Bonnie seemed more than willing to answer him.
"That's my Grams, Sheila Bennett. I assume she was the one who created your prison world, since our blood bound it."
Kai suddenly recalled meeting the older witch when he was younger, recalled her looking at him with pity… and him instantly hating her for it. The part of him that was Luke remembered magic lessons with a 'real Bennett witch', in which him and Liv were told that their strongest asset in life was their bond with each other.
Well that was a kick in the teeth. Guilt crept in, Liv's anguished face flashing up in his mind as she tried to kill him on Bonnie's birthday. Shit, this trip was really giving his ego a beating.
Kai was broken from his thoughts by the younger version of Bonnie entering the room, a hot cup of tea in her hands.
"Time to wake up Grams.", she whispered to the still motionless Sheila Bennett.
Oh fuck.
The entirely too still witch did not respond to Bonnie, even as she disturbed the blankets around her.
"They've just opened the Mystic Falls tomb. Where a bunch of deadly vampires were magically locked up centuries ago. Where Katherine, the love of Damon and Stefan's human lives was also supposedly locked up," his Bonnie explained, tears building in her eyes, "It was my first big spell, and Grams coached me through it, but eventually she had to take the weight of it. Damon was still obsessed with Katherine and, let's just say he was not subtle about how much he wanted us to get her out of the tomb." She smirked and Kai watched as her tears started to fall, and he could hear the younger version of her start to scream as she realised what had happened. "Katherine wasn't even there, never was."
He swung back around to face the hysterical witch just as Elena entered the room and prised the grimoire from Bonnie's hands, holding her tightly as she sobbed.
Bonnie's golden magic was barely a shimmer around her now, and she was no longer trying to hold back her emotion at reliving this moment.
"She was the one who told me I was a witch. I called her drunk. And then she died because I wasn't strong enough to lift a stupid spell for the Salvatore's."
Her arms wrapped around herself as the scene faded, and suddenly Kai was watching a procession of people dressed in black – 'funeralgoers', Luke provided – walking away from a dry-eyed, stony-faced Bonnie Bennett.
"Okay Bonnie, I get it, but you don't have to show me all of this. Surely, I'm the last person you want to know all of your deepest darkest secrets, right?" he tried, tried to convince her to take them back to 1903, get the trip over with and part ways, mainly because watching her cry was making him feel… something… and he didn't like it. It made him want to punch Damon in the face (more than usual) because of course Damon was involved in yet another traumatic memory of the Bennett witch.
Unfortunately, Bonnie either didn't hear him, or was choosing to ignore him completely.
"This was one of the worst moments of my life, because, ultimately, I could have stopped it." Bonnie mumbled, and Kai wasn't sure she was even talking to him anymore.
"There's no way this was your fault Bonnie." He tried his best to sound sincere, but wasn't sure if the steely glare she threw at him meant that she bought it, or not.
Her green eyes flashed and she shook herself, wiped the tears from her cheeks and settled back into the disciplinarian Bonnie he had come to know,
"We're not giving up now, we're just getting to the juicy part," she droned, raising those damn expressive eyebrows at him again, "wouldn't want you to miss out on the high school years, best years of your life you know?"
"Bonnie…" Kai managed to mutter out before her magic shrouded him again and his voice was lost to the swirling vortex around him.
A quick flash of Damon writhing on the ground, flames creeping towards him and Bonnie standing over the scene caught Kai's eye in the swirl of gold. It was gone as quick as it had come but the words, "I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt" flew through his ears, and instantly reminded him of the Bonnie he first met in 1994, there was the sass and fire he knew. A smile worked its way onto his face at the younger witch getting back at Damon, but he didn't have long to contemplate that before another image of Bonnie's blonde friend, Caroline – thank you Luke – cowering from the sun as Bonnie performed a spell on a ring, flashed past his head.
Huh.
Kai had always assumed that Bonnie had fallen into a whole group of vampires, but maybe this meant that her world had been invaded gradually, taking each of her friends…
Kai felt that feeling again in the centre of his chest, a pushing, aching that was unfamiliar to him. For some reason, the Luke in him laughed.
This time, his feet actually touched the floor as he landed in an old... basement? It mas musty, but his magic instantly picked up on the power in the room he stood in. Again, a younger Bonnie Bennett stood in front of him, screaming, screaming as if she were dying, channelling someone or something, that was obviously hurting her. The younger Gilbert, whatever his name was, tried to stop the witch but was thrown away by the pure power in the room. Kai started to panic, and pure instinct drove him forward, to stop the screaming coming from the young girls mouth. Before he could reach her though, the gold of Bonnie's magic swirled up around him again, trapping him as he tried to fight it, his blue and silver streaks trying to resist the tornado of gold. He ultimately failed and was swept away from the basement, landing in a place familiar to him, Mystic Falls High School cafeteria.
His Bonnie stood next to him, at a safe distance, but not opposing him or hiding behind him as she had before, and Kai took this as a good sign.
"Oh, finally decided to show up for this one have we?" He goaded, turning to her to watch her reaction.
"This one's important." She replied simply. "But you needed to see me channelling 100 witches at a time to truly understand what's about to happen."
100 witches at a time? What exactly was Bonnie facing that needed the power of 100 witches? Maybe he had underestimated this girl, and just maybe she was as strong as he thought she was broken.
Again, he caught her flinch out of the corner of his eye, as a man in a black coat… his sisters sappy husband Rick?... entered the cafeteria. He sat down and started playing with a knife that looked very similar to Bonnie's Crocodile Dundee accessory that still sat strapped to her belt. The way Bonnie was looking at this man, Kai was fairly sure this was not the real Rick. And he was also fairly sure that this memory was going to hurt…
I hope you enjoyed, I'm so sorry for the seriously sporadic updates, I'll try to be better!
Please let me know what events you'd like to see Kai react to, there are so many to narrow down!
