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Coldplay – Violet Hill
Bonnie gargled with mouthwash twice.
It wasn't that Kai's skin had tasted bad. In fact, she wanted to punch herself for thinking that he didn't taste bad at all. She just needed to wash away the salty taste of his skin, the lingering flavor of his cologne. She didn't need another physical reminder that she had actually sucked on Kai's neck.
Willingly.
But the biggest reminder of what she'd done to distract him wasn't even on herself. It was going to be on him.
It had been ten minutes since she'd knocked him out, so there was already a dark purple mark below his jaw. Bonnie had given him a hickey. Kai would never let her hear the end of that one.
She put away the mouthwash and rinsed with some water, paranoid that she could somehow still taste his skin. It must've been in her head, but it didn't make it any less annoying.
Letting out a heavy breath, Bonnie rubbed her forehead and then left the bathroom. Kai would be waking up any second now and she wanted to see his reaction.
She walked down the hallway towards a room near the end, remembering what she'd done ten minutes ago…
As soon as she'd knocked him out, she'd searched for his room. It hadn't been that difficult to figure out which one was his. If the dozens of movie posters and food wrappers lying around hadn't been enough confirmation, his distinct scent that filled the room would've been a dead giveaway.
Then, after much effort on Bonnie's part of dragging Kai up the stairs and into his bedroom, she'd gone to the garage and grabbed four short rolls of climbing rope. She took the rope to his room and dropped it onto the floor, then proceeded with the difficult task of laying him in his bed.
After a minute of practically hugging Kai in order to lift his weight – and praying that he wouldn't wake up while her arms were wrapped around him and she was this close to him – she'd managed to get him on top of the covers. Propping his head up with a few pillows behind his neck, Bonnie moved his arms and legs into a spread-eagle position. She tied his left wrist to the left bedpost, and then copied the action with his right wrist and the other bedpost. She had finished tying his left and right ankles to the bottom bedposts, checked to make sure the intricate knots would hold, and then had went into the bathroom in search of some mouthwash.
Now, as Bonnie reentered Kai's bedroom, she glanced around for any weapons he could use against her. The only thing within ten feet of his bed was a nightstand, which she quickly scooted to the other side of the room. The bed wasn't close to any windows or other furniture, and the knots were done so well that he couldn't possibly escape.
As Bonnie stood there, glancing around the room, Kai's fingers began to twitch. The movement caught Bonnie's attention.
She moved to stand at the foot of the bed and crossed her arms over her chest, waiting silently as he began to wake up. He let out a loud groan of pain and winced, undoubtedly feeling the headache Bonnie had predicted he'd have.
After about ten seconds, Kai slowly began to open his hooded eyes. He groaned and cringed at the sunlight that shone through the windows, shutting his eyes again. After a few moments, he reopened them and squinted.
"Bonnie?" he muttered, eyebrows pulled together in confusion.
"You don't remember what happened, do you?" she asked, then laughed once. "Of course you don't remember, otherwise you'd be yelling at me."
The lines on Kai's forehead became deeper as he seemed to be concentrating on thinking. Barely three seconds had passed before realization dawned on him.
"What did you do?" he breathed, eyes boring into hers.
Bonnie smirked in response.
"Hey, you can't complain too much," she said. "I'm being much nicer to you than you were gonna be to me."
"What are you – "
As Kai tried to sit up, it pulled on his restraints. A blank expression appeared on his face as he slowly turned to stare at his wrists. His eyes widened as he looked around him, realizing with horror that he was trapped without any escape.
"Bonnie," he panted, sounding like he was about to either scream or hyperventilate, or maybe both at the same time. "What did you do?"
Bonnie raised her eyebrows at him.
"I did nothing you wouldn't have done," she said matter-of-factly. "I mean, you're in your bed, which is the exact place you said I'd wake up if I passed out. Still think it's the most comfortable bed in the house?"
Florence + The Machine – Heavy in Your Arms
Kai's breathing became heavier as he pulled at his restraints, grunting at the effort. He tugged one last time before letting out a moan of pain.
"What the – " Kai turned to glare at Bonnie. "Why did you – "
"Why did I what?" Bonnie mocked. "Distract you? Hit you over the head with a cast iron skillet? Tie you up? I think you know exactly why."
Kai let out a humorless laugh.
"I honestly have no clue, actually. Ugh, my brain hurts."
"Oh, does it?" Bonnie asked, her eyebrows pulling together as she feigned sincerity. "That's a terrible shame. And on your favorite holiday, too."
"Why did you do all that?" he asked breathlessly, wincing at the light.
"I saw your pager," she replied, uncrossing her arms to pull the device from her pocket. She turned it upside-down and showed it to him. "I lied. That's an interesting message to type out, don't you think?"
Kai laughed, his chest shaking as he did, causing him to wince again.
"Is that what this is all about?" he asked, a grin on his face. "You attacked me with your lips, which are really soft by the way," Bonnie rolled her eyes but Kai ignored her, "then you hit me over the head and tied me up, all because of a stupid message on my pager?"
"Was it just a stupid message, Kai?" Bonnie challenged, crossing her arms over her chest. "Look me in the eye and say with a straight face that you didn't have some big scheme to get out of here and leave me behind."
Kai's smile vanished. He pressed his lips together after a moment and sighed, lowering his gaze to stare at the wall behind Bonnie.
"Yeah," she scoffed. "That's exactly what I thought."
"Even if I did have a plan, what's yours, Bon?" he retorted. "So you restrained me. Good for you. Now what?"
"Easy," Bonnie said with a grin, letting her arm rest at her side. "I'm gonna make you tell me what your plan was this whole time."
Kai's face was blank for a moment before he snorted.
"Really?" he taunted, raising his eyebrows and smiling. "That's it?"
"Yep."
Kai narrowed his eyes at her.
"You do realize that's never gonna happen, right? Remember last time when Damon tried to force me to do something? I thought we went over this already. If you hurt me, I'll just get angry and I won't tell you anything."
Bonnie clenched her jaw. He had a point. But Bonnie was too irritated to care.
"I don't care if I make you angry," Bonnie growled, "because eventually, you'll tell me exactly what you were planning to do. It could take a week, a month, maybe even a year. But I don't care. Because I'd rather wait another twelve months to get back home then to let you escape and leave me stuck here for the rest of my life, alone."
"Yeah," Kai grinned, "good luck getting it out of me."
Bonnie uncrossed her arms and turned to the side, pulling back her arm and throwing Kai's pager at the opposite wall so hard that it shattered on impact.
Kai groaned. Bonnie smirked.
"Like I said: I don't care if I make you angry," she said.
"Agh," Kai hissed, wincing and shutting his eyes for a moment. "Could you not make such loud noises, please? Kinda have a headache, here."
"Yeah, I bet you do," Bonnie replied. "I hit you pretty hard. Your head must be throbbing."
Kai let out a breathless laugh. "Wouldn't be the first time I was throbbing around you."
Bonnie rolled her eyes so hard that she worried they'd fall out of her skull.
"Come on, that was funny," Kai smiled. "Ya know, especially considering the fact that you tied me down to my own bed. Pretty kinky, Bon. Think I might love you for it."
"Shut up."
"Fine, I'm proud of you," he corrected. "This took guts. But tell me, was I not the only one getting really hot-and-bothered earlier in the kitchen?" Bonnie made a disgusted noise. "I won't judge if you say you were, too, Bon. I'd actually be flattered. But not surprised, because come on, we've had an insane amount of chemistry since we first met."
"You mean before I knew you were a sociopathic murderer?" Bonnie countered, shooting him a mock smile.
"So you admit it then?" he grinned.
"Admit what?"
"That you were attracted to me before you knew who I was."
Bonnie let out a laugh.
"How about no," she shot back.
"Aw, don't be shy, Bon," Kai grinned. "I'm not afraid to admit it, so why should you be?"
"Shut up, Kai."
"Oh, I get it," he said. "You're afraid to admit it because you secretly still have some sort of physical attraction to me. I mean, why else would I have been able to feel your heart pounding in your chest when you squished yourself against me in the kitchen?"
"Maybe because I was scared you'd figure out what I was doing and shoot me with another arrow," Bonnie retorted sarcastically.
Kai bobbed his head, giving as close to a shrug as he could in his current position, and said, "Yeah, I guess that part could be true. But that still doesn't explain why you were practically grinding against me."
"Had to make it convincing," Bonnie answered.
He sighed dramatically.
"I know it'll take a while for you to admit it to yourself, but I don't mind waiting," Kai smiled innocently. "Apparently I've got nothing better to do. You mind getting me some Tylenol or something? S' starting to get hard to form a sentence cause my brain feels like it's gonna ooze out my ears."
With a huff, Bonnie gladly left the room. She hopped down the stairs and made her way towards the kitchen.
Noisettes – Sister Rosetta
She opened a few cabinets before finally finding a shelf with bottles of medicines. She picked up a few, examining the label before setting them on the counter.
A box of Dramamine.
A bottle of Advil and another of liquid Benadryl. A prescription bottle for Vicoden with only one pill left. Vitamin C tablets. Ambien.
Ambien.
Bonnie grinned wickedly.
Ambien was a sedative, which was exactly what she needed.
Quickly searching through the cabinet for the bottle of Tylenol, she emptied the pills into a plastic bag and dumped the Ambien pills into the Tylenol bottle.
Bonnie filled a foam cup with water from the sink – because having glass around Kai was a terrible idea – and then made her way back upstairs. Kai was tugging at his restraints as Bonnie reentered the room.
"You're not getting out of it," she told him.
"That's nice to know," he sighed, staring at the bottle of Tylenol.
Bonnie set the cup on the floor and opened the bottle, dropping one pill into her hand.
"That's it?" Kai asked in disbelief. "I might have a concussion because of you and you're only gonna give me one Tylenol?"
Bonnie pressed her lips together to keep from smiling and said, "Ok, I'll give you two."
"Make it three."
The corner of Bonnie's mouth twitched as she fought off the grin that threatened to take over.
"Fine," she said, getting two more pills out and then picking up the foam cup. "Here."
It took effort, but Kai managed to sit up high enough that his head was level with Bonnie's flattened hand. He tilted his head and opened his mouth, closing it over the pills, letting his lips drag across Bonnie's palm. Bonnie's breath hitched. In the last second that Kai's mouth was still on her hand, his tongue slid across her palm, scooping up the three pills. Just as Bonnie was about to yank her hand away, Kai let his lips trail over her palm one last time.
Bonnie pressed the foam cup to Kai's mouth and tilted it so that he could take a large sip. He watched her during the four seconds it took to drink the water, but it felt like four minutes to Bonnie. She pulled the cup from his lips and moved back, not realizing how far forward she'd been leaning, how close she'd been to being pressed against his side. She stood up and set the cup on a dresser across the room.
"What's the matter, Bon?" Kai teased. "Don't want a hickey from yours truly?"
"Yeah," she snorted. "Like that's gonna happen."
Kai did his best to shrug again. "Ya' never know. I've heard that when a women sees the man of her dreams in distress – "
"The man of her desires?"
" – she tends to feel guilty – "
"I feel the exact opposite of guilty, actually."
" – then one thing leads to another and the girl gives in to her deepest, darkest desires."
"You've gotta be kidding me right now," Bonnie deadpanned. "You're tied down to your own bed and yet you're still trying to hit on me. Do you actually think you have a chance with me?"
Kai licked his lips and forced a smile as he said, "I might be a sociopath but I'm not blind."
Bonnie stared at him in disbelief for a few more seconds before letting out a laugh.
"Wow!" she exclaimed sarcastically. "Not only do you lack human emotions, but you're also as nutty as a fruit cake."
"Ha," he chuckled. "I got that. That was a good one. Always did love watching cartoons and eating cereal."
"What are you talking about?"
He stared at Bonnie like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Nutty as a fruitcake," he repeated. "Come on, Bon, that's Foghorn Leghorn's catch phrase! It's like his thing! Don't tell me you've never seen Foghorn Leghorn."
Bonnie laughed humorlessly.
"Wow," she said with a nod. "Just wow."
As she stood up and made her way towards the door, Kai made sure to voice his complaints.
"Where ya' goin', Bon? Sexual tension too strong for ya'?" Kai asked with a quirk of his eyebrow.
Bonnie grasped the door frame and leaned back, cocking her head to the side as she gave Kai a mocking smile.
"I'd be more worried about something else being too strong for you," she said matter-of-factly.
Kai's blank stare caused the corner of Bonnie's lips to screw up into a smirk.
"I'm sure I can handle whatever you throw at me, Bon," Kai said with a grin.
Bonnie smiled brightly in return.
"I don't believe it," she mused, Kai's eyebrows lifting as he waited for her to explain herself. "I actually pulled it off without you even realizing."
Kai blinked, his expression neutral. "Come again?"
Bonnie shook her head in amusement. "Maybe if you weren't so oblivious to everything because of your raging teenage-but-not-actually-teenage hormones, you would've realized you're starting to feel a little, hmm, drowsy, right? Maybe like you're floating on a cloud?"
Kai stared at her, unblinking, for exactly five seconds before he finally blurted out, "You've gotta be kidding me."
Bonnie smiled sweetly at him and hummed her approval of his revelation. "Have fun sleeping for the next five hours."
"Bonnie," he growled, tugging weakly, pathetically, at the restraints around his wrists. It was no use, to Bonnie's great delight.
After another minute of Kai tugging at the ropes and stuttering out promises of revenge, the drugs seemed to take their full affect. Bonnie shot him one last grin, watching him fail miserably at keeping his eyes open. With a final twitch of his index finger, Kai's eyelids slipped shut and his shoulders gradually relaxed into the bed.
"Damn," Bonnie muttered to herself as she glanced over his limp form, "if I'd known Ambien would've shut you up that fast, I would've used it hours ago."
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