"You are now flying sky high with Captain Kai!" He said theatrically.

His voice was muffled through the headset Bonnie wore. They had been flying for quite some time now. Being in the air made her lose track of time. She was too concentrated on what he was doing with the controls. That and not dying. She had only flown a few times in her youth. But when she did, she wasn't in the cockpit piloted by a lunatic. To her disbelief, Kai actually wasn't that bad of a pilot. Why would he be? He had all the time in the world to practice and excel at it. He'd had enough time to practice anything he wanted to. Although in her mind she had adjusted to the idea of him flying, she still clutched on tightly to the handles above her. Also to her surprise, the engine wasn't as loud as she thought it'd be. Well duh, you're wearing a headset, she thought irritably to herself.

The feeling of being weightless wasn't as liberating either. Kai on the other hand appeared to be totally at ease. Bonnie glanced over at him. He was sitting upright in his seat but his shoulders were slacker than hers. She wore a calm expression on his face. He caught her staring at him. "Having fun?"

The plane jolted before she could respond. "Not, exactly." She said through clinched teeth. Kai chuckled. "How can you not be? Just look at that view."

Bonnie really wanted to have the courage to open her eyes fully instead of squinting the way she had been for the majority of the flight. She knew that the sky would be a beautiful sight to see from this vantage point. She opened her eyes slowly, gasping at the view before her. They were surrounded by sun-kissed clouds. The puffs would be in arm's reach had they rolled down the windows. A little smile crept on her face.

"I can show you something better." Kai suggested. Bonnie felt her back press firmly against the back of her seat. Kai was pulling the lever backwards, sending them upward. She was gripping the handles so hard that her knuckles were beginning to turn white. Her eyes and mouth were bolted shut.

"Ok. Now look." Kai said softly. Bonnie reopened her eyes. The view was breathtaking. They were above the clouds now. They rested below the plane in ripples that looked like waves in the ocean. The sun was setting and the sky gleamed of yellow, orange, red and purple. Her green eyes shimmered in the sunlight. He grinned at the sight of her awe-struck face. "Told you it was beautiful."

Kai piloted the plane a bit slower this time around. For just a moment, Bonnie forgot where she was, who she was with and about her fear of flying. The serene atmosphere had a calming effect on her. Her death grip on the handles even began to loosen. Leave it to Kai to cut that feeling short.

"I take it you haven't flown much." He asked after a long pause.

"Gee, how could you tell?"

"Someone's in a nasty mood. And after all the fun we've had today."

"You call taking someone against their will fun?"

"You and I have different ideas of fun."

"Clearly."

"How's this for fun?"

Before Bonnie could muster a response, she was thrown backwards from the force of the plane plunging downward. The control panel began to tremor violently.

"Kai!"

He simply laughed as the plane nosedived towards the ground. The clouds rushed by the windows, obscuring anything to be seen. The details of a small city were quickly coming into view. Bonnie screamed the entire way down.

They landed safely, albeit roughly, in the middle of a rose field that was surrounded by a forest. Bonnie's bob was disheveled and her head and jaw ached from screaming so much. Feeling relieved to have made it back to the ground in one piece, she hastily unfastened herself from the plane and slid out into the field of roses. The fragrance was a stark contrast to how she felt internally. She took a whiff and let out a satisfied sigh. It truly was a beautiful sight. There were pink, red, white and yellow roses scattered about in every direction.

She was grabbing her bag from behind her seat when she noticed that Kai had his bag over his shoulder and made his way around the plane to stand next to her. He had a pink rose in his free hand and extended it towards her with a mischievous grin stretched on his face. Bonnie eyed it but didn't take it.

"What's that for?"

"A gesture for a truce. I really didn't mean to scare you earlier." Bonnie rolled her eyes. "You could have fooled me." Besides," He continued. "We are in the City of Roses." He said gesturing to the field surrounding them. He brought the rose up to his nose, giving her his best puppy face.

"I actually prefer yellow roses." She said smugly. She slammed her door and stormed off.

It was practically nightfall when they reached their destination. They had walked for about twenty minutes before arriving at a house. It was white, with a grey roof and two brick chimneys. There were three stories, the third she assumed to be the attic. The porch extended around the front of the house, accompanied by a white fence. There were two large windows on either side of the door with green shutters. Four rocking chairs were spread evenly across the porch. Kai's childhood home.

"Ah, memories." He said sauntering past her towards the porch.

He leaped up the few steps to the porch and went inside, holding the door open for her. Bonnie stepped inside and examined the house. To her left, there was an archway that led down a hallway. Next to that was a wooden staircase with pictures hanging diagonally, ascending up the wall. There was a white door down the hall directly in her line of sight, which may have been the bathroom or a closet. To her right was the living room. The large sofa that sat with its back to the wall was blue, while the two smaller chairs on either side were brown. They were facing a wooden cabinet which held the TV, and multiple family pictures. It was all stationed on top of wooden floors.

It would have been a quaint setting, if it weren't for the dried up blood stains. Red was splattered and smeared on various surfaces in the house. Such as the side of the stairs, the floor, the dresser and on the door at the end of the hall. Bonnie felt a sinking in the pit of her stomach. Her nerves were on high alert. She wanted to ask for the bathroom but was afraid that she would run into the same sight there too.

"So where exactly is this new source of magic?" Bonnie asked after a moment.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But first, how about a little tour?"

He led them to the backdoor of the house through the kitchen and outside towards a white patio. There was a, round white table set for ten. The rest of the yard was covered in grass except for a pool embedded in cobblestone. He pointed towards it. "Now here, is where I drowned my second to youngest brother. But get this," he turned around to face her. "I saved him for last and he fought me the hardest! I tell ya, some people can be so ungrateful." He shook his head and headed back towards the house.

He stood in the hallway turning on his heel to face her. "My dad was really into hunting. And so were the twins that were aged right under my twin and myself. So I thought, what better way to teach them a lesson about irony, than to shoot them with the rifle they trained with?" He grinned at her look of terror. He sauntered up to the middle of the staircase, leaning on the railing talking down to her as she looked up at him with disgust. "This is where I hung the youngest pair of twins. I took the jump ropes out of their rooms and asked them if they wanted to play a game. Of course, being the gullible kids they were, they fell for it. I loved seeing their feet flail around as they finally caught on to what was happening. It's just something about strangulation that gets me- mmm."

He headed further upstairs and Bonnie's feet propelled her forward in a zombie-like state. They reached the top of the stairs and stood in a long hallway. There were four doors spaced evenly along the walls facing the stairwell. There was a door on both ends of the hallway. One of the doors were opened and Bonnie could see that those were the bathrooms. Facing a few feet in front of them was a shorter hallway with one door at the end. A few feet above the door was the drawstring to the door that led to the attic.

Kai entered one of the rooms to the far right. He flicked on the light switch. To Bonnie's surprise, there was no blood to be seen. Two sets of bunk beds took up the majority of the room. One railing was white with a pink comforter. While the other bed had a brown wooden railing with blue sheets. Various toys were scattered about the room. There were fingerprints and random drawings on the wall in different colors of paint.

"The younger set of twins had to share a room. The older sets got a room to themselves." Kai informed her.

"At least you had the decency not to massacre them in their bedrooms."

"They weren't in their rooms when I was looking for them."

Bonnie's stomach lurched and her heart thudded with rage. How could he be so blasé about what he did to his family?

The room next to it contained two twin sized beds that were in opposite corners of the room. There were mostly neutral colors. The bed covers were a dark green, almost black tone. The walls were dark beige and bare. A dresser stood on the far wall with a small TV on top. A grey papasan cushion chair sat at the foot of the bed on the right. A door was at the bottom of the bed on the left, which Bonnie assumed to be a closet.

"Here is where I put my dad's hunting knife in my second to youngest sister's abdomen. Not my initial plan, I wanted to stick it in her heart but when your family decides to cheat and use magic to subdue you because," he put up air quotations "'You're acting like a crazy person,' you don't really have time to accomplish your set goal. It was a rash, last minute thing. Not my best work." He turned the light off and proceeded down the shorter hallway to the room at the end.

He held the door open with one arm. "And this, is where the great leader of the Gemini Coven resided." He said with a hint of bitterness. The ceiling was white and angled upward, connecting to the triangular roof. The bed was in front of an arched window, which was facing them directly. The headboard was black and the sheets were black and white. The pillows looked full and inviting. There was a small dresser at the foot of the bed. To the right was another bathroom and the door next to that was a closet. To the left was a large wooden bookshelf. Some of the books looked like regular reading books. Others Bonnie recognized due to their rough, worn, leathery exterior: spell books. There were too many to count. Kai followed her gaze.

"Yeah, my parents were such control freaks that they even kept an eye on all the spell books in the house. We had to get permission to use them. Well, all my other siblings had to get permission. Once they found out about my deficiency, I wasn't allowed to use any of them." Bonnie looked up at him and saw that he possessed a wistful expression.

"Of course that didn't stop me from stealing them from time to time."

And just like that, the wistfulness was gone and replaced by mischief.

The next room was covered in a polka dot bed spread with heart shaped pillows. The bed was up against the wall to the left of them, protruding outward into the room. There was a vast selection of make-up on the dresser with a mirror on the far wall. Pictures of friends and family members were hung up in no particular order. There was also a half mannequin in the corner of the room with jewelry hanging from its neck. It was obviously a young woman's room.

"This was my sister Josette's room. Your typical 90s teenage girl."

Everything was fine until she spotted another dried up blood stain on the floor in front of the dresser.

"The one whose spleen you took out." Bonnie commented.

"You remembered." He said with mock sincerity. "I would've gotten the youngest pair, Luke and Olivia too. That is until my meddling twin sister intervened."

They moved on to the last room.

"And last but not least, Voila! My dwelling quarters!"

Bonnie wasn't too shocked at what she saw. The headboard of the bed was up against the wall facing across from them. The wall above his bed was covered in, none other than grunge band posters. Barely leaving any room to see that there was a white wall behind them. His sheets were grey and black with a checkerboard pattern. A closet was on the right and a window was on the left. Under the window was a desk table and chair. Next to her on her immediate right was a dresser. On the roof, in the middle of the room was a dark blue ceiling fan.

She was more surprised to find that his room was clean above all else. Spotless even. His bed was made, his sheets were folded evenly, the hardwood floor was shiny and there wasn't a speck of dirt on any surface. Her own room in the real world wasn't even that clean.

"Expecting something else?" He asked having caught her expression.

"Honestly, I didn't expect you to be so...tidy."

He leaned against the door frame. "Would you believe that i don't like to make a mess?"

She raised her eyebrow.

"I know, ironic."

He gestured for her to head back downstairs as he turned off the light and shut his door. Bonnie took note of the fact that he made sure to lock it before falling in line behind her on the steps. They hadn't explored the archway next to the stairwell. Bonnie got to the bottom of the steps and pointed to it.

"Laundry room." He stated automatically.

"But now, we," he led her by the shoulders. "Are headed towards the kitchen.

"Why?"

"I'm making dinner."

He released her shoulders and walked past the island towards the fridge, examining its contents. "Not the smorgasbord at the Salvatore mansion but it'll do for tonight." He began pulling out random items.

Although, initially Bonnie had been starving after the flight, she had lost her appetite after that little tour from hell.

"I'm actually gonna skip dinner." She placed her bag on the island and sat on one of the stools. "When are we heading out?"

"In the morning, before the eclipse." He said without looking up. He was cutting a strand of celery.

"You're joking right? We're not actually staying here tonight are we?"

"Why not? You'll get your beauty sleep and I'll have time to put the ascendant back together before morning. It's a win-win."

"And where am I supposed to sleep?"

"You could wait upstairs in my parent's room for me." He winked.

"Fat chance."

"So sleep on the couch."

"I don't want to sleep here period."

"Why not?"

"I don't know, Kai, maybe I'm not comfortable sleeping in the house where you brutally slaughtered your family!"

Kai clenched his jaw and stopped cutting. He eyed her intently. "It's just one night. Our last night here and you'll never have to see this place again." He started cutting again. "Besides, it's late, where else are we supposed to go? There aren't any other houses for miles. My parents were so paranoid someone might find out about our abilities, they wanted to make sure we were isolated. We won't have time to find somewhere else to sleep, fix the ascendant, come back here in the morning, locate the other source of magic and catch the eclipse before noon."

She hated to admit it, but he was right. She didn't feel like fighting about it. At this point she was exhausted. Bonnie sighed and grabbed her bag, slung it over her shoulder and made her way out of the kitchen. "Sleep tight!" She heard him call. She groaned in response.

She got to the center of the hallway and stood there for a moment contemplating her options. She could either keep a close eye on Kai and they both sleep in the living room. Or she could sleep safely in his parents' room, with the door locked. She was strongly leaning towards the latter. That was one of the few rooms where a murder hadn't taken place in. She trudged upstairs and kept straight down the shorter hallway.

She immediately locked the door. She then proceeded to kick off her shoes and strip down into her undergarments. She placed the bag on the foot of the bed and searched through it frantically before realizing that she hadn't packed any clothes to sleep in. And there was no way in hell she'd ask Kai for something to wear. She left Damon's over-sized shirt on as a nightgown. Boy, he'd get a kick out of this, she thought. She then plopped down on the bed, adjusting herself under the blankets. The moonlight shone through the curtains overhead. She found solace in the fact that she had leverage. Kai wouldn't be able to ditch her, even if he did claim to know of another source of magic. Whatever his secret was, he still needed a Bennett witch to perform the spell. She rolled onto her stomach, folded her arms under the soft pillow and drifted off to sleep.