Chapter 7: Sun and Fire
The two day suspension or more like 'Kai and Davina separation' has finally ended. Davina has spent a good amount of time with Stefan which has her confused and feeling guilty. Everyone knows her betrayal, but they aren't crucifying her for her personal decisions, Kai might…
8am Morning Prayer
Seated in the middle of Elena and Davina, Caroline jolts her head to Davina and mocks, "Oh you've done it now Miss Claire."
Davina's head is down her hands fiddling with the beads of her rosary as Caroline scans the church for Kai, she continues, "I don't see him, maybe he knows. Stefan's probably boasting about it. Why hurt Kai for a shitty person like Stefan?"
Elena breaks her prayer and adds on, "So you chose Stefan?"
Davina stops her prayer and replies back, "I don't know. I feel so ashamed, I was so caught up with Stefan I sorta forgot about Ka-."
A voice from behind them emerges and interrupts her, "You just wish the suspension lasted longer huh?"
The three girls jump and turn around to see Stefan standing next to Kai both holding a wooden rosary, the only difference; Kai is looking down. The girls didn't know if the comment came from Stefan, who was looking at Davina directly in her mortified eyes, or Kai. Stefan was trying to shove it in which only turned Davina off.
"It's okay Davina." Stefan resumes, "We all know you've chosen me". Elena and Caroline turn back towards the altar avoiding any altercations.
Davina scoffs at his comment but timidly attempts to give motion for Kai to acknowledge her.
"Can we talk?' Davina begs
Silence.
"Please, I can explain." Oh he hates me, I've ruined everything.
12pm Lunch
The girls head to the cafeteria where the guys were already waiting, seated. Stefan sat across from Kai, whose back was turned towards the girls as they entered. Stefan seemed to have left a spot for Davina. She ignores him and sits right next to Kai, "Please, give me a chance to explain!" her voice only seemed to annoy Kai. Kai gets up and walks out.
The entire day felt long for Davina, during classes all she wanted was to see Kai, be with him, talk to him. She felt she made a huge mistake. But even during dinner Kai had not looked into her miserable eyes.
7pm Campfire Songs.
The blaze from the fire warmed up the entire camp. They've all seen the light glow every single night but no one ever got bored of the 2-hour singing session.
As she walked over to find a seat, still upset about Kai's decision to ignore her, Davina felt a grab at her left side. It was Stefan. He kept quiet, calm like always, and guided her around the people until they found a log to sit on. She noticed Kai sitting across from them, his eyes entranced by the fire like the way he used to be entranced by her. The sight of him only made her miserable now.
Stefan observes Davina in disdain as she becomes clearly bothered by Kai's zero-eye contact.
"It looks like he wants to jump in it and end it all." Stefan offensively jokes.
He'll never be with me now, I shouldn't care. He won't even hear me out. I have Stefan. She lied to herself to feel better.
"You are so sexy." Stefan's compliment made Davina sink into herself. She was never called sexy, it made her uncomfortable coming from him. Uncomfortable like the log they were sitting on. She's now realizing she made a mistake entertaining Stefan Salvatore.
Davina stares blankly into Stefan's hazel eyes, "I don't think I can do this Stefan."
Stefan's face starts to turn mischievous. Davina can see his hazel eyes have lost their appeal. Reluctant to let her go so easily Stefan uses his right arm to clench onto her long brown hair and places his left hand between her thigh. Stefan pulls the frightened girl towards him. Davina is mortified by the rough yank of her body. Stefan is almost double her size, she could never break away from his hold.
Stefan's eyes start to look around, his mouth pressed to her ear as he articulates, "Listen, are we not having fun?" Stefan starts to grip Davina's thigh harder, "You should stop thinking about Kai, you've fucked up your chances with him thanks to me. By the way baby, he saw us at the lake."
He must have known Kai was there, he tricked me. He knew Kai would have seen us.
Davina starts to struggle. Her fellow campers seem to be too distracted by the songs and fire to see Stefan's sudden violence.
"Let go Stefan, you're hurting me," she pleads as the Salvatore starts to show his true nature. Stefan has full hold and grip of Davina. She wants to yell but she did this to herself, she's the only one to blame, so she decides that untwisting herself from him was better than notifying everyone else.
"Don't be so dramatic, let's go to the lake. We can lay down and talk, promise sweetheart." Stefan continues.
The two's altercation was interrupted by a voice in front of them.
"Sweetheart? Seriously, you sound like a fucking pedo Stefan. And you wanna rip off my romantic lake idea? Damn, you suck." The two look up to see a sarcastic Kai, the fire behind him symbolizing his rage. He has his eyes fixed on Davina's panicked blue ones. Finally, he uses his strength to push Stefan off her. The attention Kai had drawn shifted singing campers' attention from the fire to the love triangle. The attention started to worry Stefan, his reputation was no longer preceding him now.
He lets Davina loose from his clutch and scoffs at Kai, "Have her, she's boring me now."
The two see Stefan walk towards the cabin.
"Bedtime already?" Kai mocks as Stefan ignores him, fading into the dark. Kai stays hovered over Davina. Davina is both grateful and disorganized.
With tears starting to reveal themselves, Davina murmurs to Kai, "I thought you hated me."
"I could never hate you." Kai assured. He sits down, keeping distance.
"Can you forgive me?" Davina's head starts to drift down.
"I could never hate you." Kai repeated, "…but I can't trust you." He turns his back, Davina feels the end coming.
With a smile assembling itself on Kai's face he pulls her chin up. His dazzling gray eyes once again admiring her big blue ones.
"Doesn't mean we can't earn it back…" he reassures Davina, who had seemingly lost faith. His smile gives her hope.
Kai continues, "You can't trust everyone Davina Claire. You still need to learn that a beautiful girl like you can be exposed to the worst people."
Davina is mesmerized by his sanction. Stefan never once called her beautiful, only Kai had the purest intentions this whole time. Her failure to see it disconcerts her.
"You're right." Davina timidly says.
Kai's comforting eyes beg her to feel safe in his arms again and she could sense that. She leans over and kisses him. Kai can't pretend to be upset any longer, he's impressed she was able to sense him wanting her. He holds back at first, but she only kisses him harder. Her willingness catches him off guard and next thing he knows his hands are reaching for her waist, pulling her in tighter. They kiss each other passionately, seeming to become one, never wanting to break hold.
The voices of Damon, Elena, Caroline, and Matt emerges, slightly ruining their moment, "Get a room lovebirds!"
Kai finally comes up from their kiss for air, pointing the finger at their friends. The fire dancing on Davina's stunning face reminds him off when he first got a clear look of it when she was in the pond. He had never seen anyone so beautiful, he could never let her go.
"Meet me at the lake after bedtime?" Kai asks.
"Yes." the blue-eyed, note-taking girl says.
From the writer:
Thank you so much for reading guys. This is my first fanfiction so don't be too tough on me in the comments. Also please discuss any connections you noticed throughout the chapters, I attempted to give readers many 'AHA's throughout the story. I won't be doing a continuation of Kai and Davina in church camp but I really enjoy writing about them so I'll probably work on a few more Kaivina fanfiction. I hope to focus a little more on character development on my next stories, stay tuned.