Resurrection: Part Three
By V. C. Turner
Bonnie awoke feeling refreshed for the first time in months. The sun cascaded in her room, bathing it in light. A gentle breeze caressed the curtains flying in and out of her windows. For a moment, she felt happy.
Then the reality paid her a frightening visit. She turned over in the bed to notice Kai had gone.
She'd resurrected the monster, slept with him, and then allowed him to leave her home unsupervised. The havoc he could wreak upon the town – she didn't want to think about it.
She launched her naked body out of bed, throwing on short robe she'd grabbed her from her dresser and then ran downstairs.
Panic set in quickly. Since she never disclosed her original plan for Kai, so no one would be prepared if he showed up seeking revenge.
She hit the bottom of the stairs with a loud thud only to see him standing in the kitchen casually unpacking bags of groceries and clothes.
Dressed in a light blue t-shirt and black jeans, the gorgeous killer looked quite comfortable in her house.
Relieved, she took in a deep breath and calmly walked toward him.
"Where did you get all this?" she asked.
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"It depends: Did anybody die during your little shopping spree?"
Kai paused for a moment, as if he were considering her question.
"You have to think about it!" she said.
Kai laughed in response as he continued to stock her shelves and the fridge.
"You know, the first thing we need to do is get you a sense of humor. You are way too tense for someone who got lucky last night … and this morning," he smirked.
Bonnie shook her head, and then pulled out a kitchen chair to sit down.
"Kai, listen –"
"Stop! Don't you dare feel guilty about it."
"I don't!"
"Yes you do," he retorted, "You've got that 'I had sex with a bad guy so that makes me bad too' look on your face. Stop it!"
She started to speak, then considered his words. He wasn't being mean. He was simply being honest.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize either," he added, "You don't have a anything to be sorry about. In fact, you have a few things to be proud of – I mean, who would have thought between the two of us, you'd be the biter?"
Bonnie blushed as she headed to the fridge to grab a bottle of water. In an instant, she felt Kai standing behind her. The heat returned, just as intense as it had been the night before. Her heart raced. Her breath quickened. She had no control over what he was doing to her, nor did she truly want control.
Every nerve on her skin came alive as he placed his hands on her hips. She felt his warmth through the thin fabric of her robe. Her rational mind should have taken hold, but she'd packed it away more than 12 hours ago when she first felt his mouth on hers.
Bonnie wondered how could she feel this way about someone who had been so horrible to her? He'd shot her with a crossbow. He chased her. He choked her. He'd stabbed her. He abandoned her in the prison world that drove her to the point of attempting suicide.
He was evil. There was no question about that.
She had no reason to trust him, yet she allowed him to touch her in the most intimate ways.
She asked herself if Kai had placed a spell on her. There had to be some mystical force behind her attraction to him because her brain hated exactly what her body needed.
As far as her heart … to hell with her heart. It wasn't important and having one had never served her in the past. She had sacrificed and died for those she loved and called friend, and still she remained alone. She had no family. She had nothing other than the cold reality of finally being given the gift of life - only to have few reasons to live.
She played the role of reliable Bonnie for far too long without doing anything for herself. She'd lost so much – too much. She deserved something for herself; even if that something was with Kai.
"Hungry," he said as he slipped his hands beneath her robe, touching her bare skin.
"Not – not really," she whimpered, leaning back into him.
If this is wrong, fuck wrong, Bonnie thought. She deserved wrong! Being good all her life gotten her nowhere.
She turned around and looked for something in his eyes. She didn't have to seek out his desire: it was there, yet something else dwelled behind that she could not recognize. It was warmer and gentler than desire, but she pushed those thoughts away. She wasn't ready for him to mean anything more than being her own sexual carnival ride.
"Are you going to stare at me, or are you gonna kiss me?" she asked him, in a sultry tone.
His eyebrows lifted in surprised at her boldness. He then untied her robe, opening it up and drinking in her naked flesh. A satisfied smile broke across his face before he spoke.
"Well, I do like staring at you," Kai told her, scanning her curves with fond appreciation.
He then leaned in and kissed her softly as he took the pads of his thumbs and rubbed them gently against her exposed nipples.
Bonnie moaned into Kai's mouth as she pulled his shirt out of his jeans and yanked him closer.
"This isn't fair," she told him, tugging at his shirt.
Kai smiled, then yanked it over his head before kissing her again. His hands caressed her breasts, her back, her stomach. He appeared to be aching for her as much as she had been for him.
She unbuttoned his pants and they fell to the kitchen floor, where he kicked them off along with his boxer briefs.
Desperate moans escaped Bonnie's mouth and echoed against the kitchen walls as Kai kissed her neck and dug his fingers into her hips so he could lift her onto the counter. She needed him right then and there. Her heart thudded in her ears so loudly that she couldn't hear how much noise she made, yet she didn't care at that point if the neighbors were getting an earful.
A sudden knock on the front door interrupted them. Kai swore, but didn't move. Bonnie hoped the intruder would go away when she didn't answer, but she wasn't that lucky.
"Bonnie?!" Caroline called in her usual sweet, sing-song voice, "Are you in there?"
"I really, truly, hate her," Kai said, panting into Bonnie's ear.
"Right now, so do I," she told him.
Caroline knocked again as Bonnie retied her robe and headed to the door.
She ripped it open and glared at her childhood friend.
"What!" Bonnie said through gritted teeth.
"I was - worried," Caroline stated as she looked Bonnie up and down.
"Well, I'm fine and I'm – busy," Bonnie added, looking behind her as Kai made his way to the living room sofa without Caroline's detection.
"Busy with what?" asked Caroline.
Bonnie's rage was palpable. How dare Caroline assume that she had nothing to do on a Saturday?
"Busy with a whole lot of 'none of your damn business'," Bonnie retorted.
"Bonnie, what's gotten into you?" Caroline asked.
"Unfortunately nothing because you're still standing on my porch," Bonnie snapped back, "I have company."
"Oh. Ok, relax. Sorry!" Caroline stated, trying to peer behind Bonnie's shoulder.
"Stop looking!" Bonnie demanded.
"Tell me who he is," Caroline pleaded.
"No!"
"Oh, come on Bonnie, please," she said.
"HE is none of your business," Bonnie said as she shoved her friend off the porch.
"Ok, fine – go have fun with 'Random mystery guy'," she huffed, then turned around and headed for her car.
Bonnie slammed the door and growled as she turned around to see Kai watching her.
"She's still out there you know," he told her.
"What?"
"Yep. I can hear her on the phone in her car," he added, "She's talking to Damon about you suddenly becoming selfish."
"Me, selfish?"
Kai nodded.
"You know I could just –" Kai snapped his fingers.
"You're not snapping her neck Kai!" she begged him, even though she briefly considered letting him.
"You sure?" he smirked back at her.
"I'm – kind of sure," she told him.
Caroline's interruption did give Bonnie the realization that she was ignoring her hunger for actual food. She took advantage of her momentary lapse into sanity to fill her stomach.
She later headed to the shower, allowing the day to fully sink in. She still had no plans on how to move forward with her life knowing that Kai was destined to be a part of it.
Bonnie didn't intend to develop feelings for him. She wanted his body and possibly his protection. That was all.
She readied herself for bed as she usually did: brushing her hair and applying lotion. The knock on her bedroom door startled her. She didn't if she'd ever get used to someone being in the house with her.
Bonnie opened the door to find Kai standing there fully dressed with his jacket on.
"Come on," he grabbed her hand, "I want to show you something."
She barely had time to put on a pair of yoga pants before he was leading her outside into the cover of night.
As they walked down the street, a car passed by. Kai placed his arm around Bonnie's shoulder and turned away from the headlights in an attempt to keep his face hidden. For a brief moment, the sensation of walking down the street being held by someone thrilled her.
Then she remembered who it was, and her heart soon sank into her canvas shoes.
After a few minutes, they came upon a large tree sitting cattycorner to one of her neighbor's houses.
"What if someone sees you…sees us?" she asked.
He pushed her against the tree pressing his forehead against hers.
"We're just two lovers out for a midnight stroll,' he whispered, kissing the tip of her nose. She grabbed his open jacket and held it for a moment.
Bonnie parted her lips slightly and sighed.
Kai chose that moment to kiss her; holding her waist firmly as if he feared she'd run away. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back. It wasn't about sex, just longing. She needed to feel like someone on earth loved her: even if it was a lie.
He reluctantly pulled back.
"It's kind of a shame: in another life, this moment would have been romantic," she told him.
His wounded expression was obvious, but he shifted gears quickly.
"Listen," he whispered in her ear.
"To what?"
"Everything," he added, "The night. What do you hear?"
"I don't have vamp hearing, Kai. I can't hear what you can," she told him.
"Listen anyway, go on," he urged.
Bonnie closed her eyes and listened to her neighborhood noises. She heard the buzzing of insects, the sounds of a few cars passing on the street, and a few television sets.
"What am I listening for," she asked.
"Snoring," he answered.
She opened her eyes.
"We're dream jumping?" she asked.
Kai nodded.
"Lesson one: listen – not to the outside world," he said, turning her around to face darkened house and touching her chest lightly, "Hear the rhythm of your heartbeat – feel it. Get used to it. Memorize it."
Bonnie did as instructed. She focused on her heart. It was beating faster than normal due to his closeness, but she finally steadied it to a nice, comfortable pace.
"Now, I want you to focus on that house over here – who is it?" he asked her.
Kai pointed to a white A-frame home that sat across the street.
"Mr. and Mrs. Danbury."
"Do you know them well?"
"I guess," she answered, "They used to babysit me when I was little."
"Good, so listen," he directed.
"I can't do that," she insisted.
"Yes you can," he told her, lifting her shirt and touching her waist with his bare hands.
Bonnie channeled Kai's magic, feeling it flow through her with intense heat. She listened. In a few seconds, she had it. She actually heard her neighbors from across the street. They were sleeping. She listened to Mrs. Danbury's breathing.
She nodded.
"Match your heartbeat to hers. Match your breathing to hers," he continued, "You have to be in sync to do it."
Bonnie tried. She soon found the woman's rhythm and matched hers to it.
"Now, listen go inside her mind. See it. Picture it. What is she dreaming about?"
Bonnie saw her middle-aged neighbor asleep in her bed. Mrs. Danbury wore a set of foam curlers in her hair and was wrapped in a light blue quilt. She focused her mind – seeing past the woman's curlers, past the hair, past the skin. She opened up her mind and the vision of a young child running at her appeared.
Shocked at her success, Bonnie quickly pulled herself out of Mrs. Danbury's mind.
She shook her head.
"That was –" she started
"Freaky? Yeah. It usually is the first time you do it," he said, "Come on. That was good for your first try. Now let's head back to the house."
Bonnie walked closely next to Kai, his warmth gave her a strange comfort. His presence in her life brought a sense of peace that was ironic since he had brought her so much destruction in his previous existence.
She allowed him to get a few paces in front of her before he turned around.