Vacant luxury {Kai Parker}

do you remember the first time?

KAI

Karma has only left yesterday. It's weird to be without her, again. Considering I practically proposed to her. Honestly, she is just as unpredictable as myself. How will I know what her answer is? When will I know? With her, we could conquer all and devour the world. Or at least that's how she makes me feel.

"How do you feel?" Bonnie is laying on the couch slowly moving about. She makes small noises expressing her discomfort and pain.

"Like you shot me with an arrow."

"Right.. Anyhoo, I have no idea how you managed to shatter the Ascendant into a billion pieces, but we need to put it together before the eclipse at 12:28. You want to help? I know you're a puzzle person." I suggest in a light hearted manner.

"I don't want to help. You're a psychopath. This place is your prison. I'm not letting you out.
Besides, you'll just kill me the minute we get out." She grits her teeth in pain. The anger in her words makes me wish I would've just taken her magic and left. She makes herself get up despite the discomfort. She slowly moves farther away from me.

"You've been through a trauma. Your memory's probably a little fuzzy right now," I stand up walking closing the distance between myself and Bonnie. "so you might be thinking that your magic will protect you, but all I have to do is hold your hand, and your magic suddenly becomes mine." I demonstrate this by grabbing her arm and the magic flowing out of her and into me.

"What was that? Huh?" I lean in closer to her, talking into her ear. "What? You're gonna do the spell and finally get us home?" I whisper to the wounded the girl before me. Suddenly a sharp pain cuts through my skin. I immediately place pressure to the injury Bonnie had caused into the side of my neck. The panic happens every time. The pain is always there, no matter how many times I've died in here. It doesn't get any easier to die. In this moment, I let myself go falling to the floor. Falling into a unconscious state.

***

I gasp for air. Breathing the life back into me, I sit straight up. "Son of a bitch." I hold my neck once again, this time I can feel a small cut in place of the gash that was there when she stabbed me. The stinging cramp in my neck makes me never want to die that way ever, again. Horrible way to die, do not recommend. Standing up, I find the bandages underneath the bathroom sink and place the sticky concealer to my skin.

Making my way to the hospital, my mind is set on going home. Whatever it takes. I will see Karma, soon. I have to. The last time we were this far apart for this long, God, It breaks my heart. I push Karma from my mind. I have to focus. 

"Where's the last piece? Where is it? This isn't happening." Bonnie talks to herself, sweat beading down her face from the pain and stress i'm putting her under. Completely unhealthy.

"Looking for this?" I hold up the small gear with my forefingers. "You stole the Ascendant, naughty girl. You weren't planning on using and leaving it behind, were you? You left a trail of blood in the driveway. Figured where else would you stop and play nurse?" I play the game, my favorite game. I'm only a few feet from her, closing in the space and grabbing her before the word 'vados' can escape her lips. Bringing out an old thing I used when me and Karma would play, Bonnie was out in an instant. Hurting people never gets old. Using the techniques I used on Karma does. It's incredibly unsatisfactory.

***

"I brought you a present. Ta-da! Ms. Cuddles! Thought you might want to bring her along."

"Thanks?" Her groggy voice echoes through the tunnels. From waking up on the ground to standing up, unbalanced. 

"I know you think I'm a monster. I mean, I did murder or heavily maim most of my immediate family, but after a long period of self-reflection, I've come to the conclusion that I could have handled my anger better." Empty words and empty feelings. 

"You said you wanted to get out of here, and I quote, 'to give the rest of the Gemini coven an excruciating death'" Her tone of choice doesn't help my decision of killing her or not. 

"I didn't mean it. Honestly, I would do anything to get my family back, and the thing I'm most scared of is trying to figure out how to live in the world again. Sort of hoping you've been a positive influence on me. You're a good person, Bonnie. You're brave, loyal, patient. I want to be more like you." I grab Ms. cuddles, holding the bear close to my chest. Pulling out my puppy dog eyes and my high pitched voice, "What do you say? Friends?" Making Ms. Cuddles blow a kiss towards Bonnie and seeing her disgusted looks was the goal, accomplished. 

"Let's just go home." She rolls her eyes, meeting me underneath the light that will take us home. 

"It's now or never." I grab ahold of Bonnie's arm and without a doubt, I hurt her. "Just in case you thought you'd try to go without me. So long, 1994." and with one last look around, the blinding light took over us.

KARMA

Finally, knowing my answer was a relief. The downside is, he's officially my weakness. I have to save his ass from the fire. These people want to kill him and punish him again for the crime he committed, 20 years ago. At this point why does it matter? You'd think he'd be grateful for the opportunity to be back surrounded by people once more.

They've left me at the boarding house. Basically, i'm under house arrest. I hear everything that is happening, or at least what they are willing to tell each other. Which is not the entire story, just the gist. I've been occupying myself with ideas of what their hiding. It can't be too important because they all treat one another like family.

The whole situation with Alaric erasing Elena's memories of Damon is pretty messed up. For a very nice girl like herself, I never would've thought she would have what it takes to just erase someone like that. Damon has been trying to speak to her and attempting to spark the memories. He is such a romantic. Who knew? Alaric has his own girlfriend, Jo. Kai has mentioned his sister Josette, if I can recall correctly.. Jo is Kai's sister and, Luke and Liv are the twins that got away. They're all such a beautiful family. I haven't got a chance to meet them formally... Which will most likely happen soon. It's funny how we are all magnetic. We all found each other and now heavily involved in each other's lives. If we like it or not.

I've only been here 3 days and it's starting to get boring. Being without magic has always been an emotional time for me and it's always been very boring. It's hard to find a satisfying pastime that doesn't involve hurting anyone. It doesn't help that nobody has been speaking to me either. 

"Karma?" Am I hearing voices now? 

I turn my head to see the infamous, Malachai. "Kai!" I jump up in tune with my heart and race into his arms. "Kai, h-how?" I look at him. I never felt so happy to be besides him. 

"Your... your magic? Did they take it?" My stomach drops. Of course, that's all he is concerned about. especially now. What did I expect? He didn't even notice I'm wearing the ring... How could I be so stupid?

"No, It's somewhere safe." I embrace him once again, my arms wrapped around his shoulders. It's out of your reach. Just like I will be when I get the chance. I contemplate if I should take off the ring, because now is the opportunity. Slipping from his grasp, Bonnie hums. "yes?" 

"Kai. Karma, follow me." She turns to lead us downstairs.

I stop Kai at the head of the steps, "You need to be prepared for who you're about to meet.." The furrow between his thick brows appears, "Just know that I'm here for you, always." I smile. I know I can't do anything for him other than be on his side. It could end in a bloodbath or it could end on his knees. Whatever happens, I have to be okay with. The vendetta his family has on him is greater than the love I could give him.

 I make my way down the steps with Kai slowly trailing me. I could only imagine the look on his face, but seeing the faces of his family and his new acquaintances, It doesn't look too good. My heart aches for Kai. For a sociopath this might be a new light to rekindle old flames or it could spark up old urges to kill them. The way Kai has always talked about how they treated him was always so dark. I could empathise for him, that's why we make such a good pair. We know what it means to be abandoned by family... When I look around, I see that's why we are all so magnetic. We all lost somebody.