Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 17

They made their way up to his room after dinner, neither wanting to watch TV but weren't in the mood for much of anything else either. She slipped into the room next to his first, grabbing her pen and notebook, a pair of her pajama shorts and toothbrush before heading back to his room. Bonnie walked into him the same moment Kai was lifting his shirt, his bare chest a few feet away from her and her eyes shot up to his, noticing they were blocked by the shirt and drifted down his stomach; taking in his lean but strong build and his happy trail leading down low on his waistband, his hip bones visible a good few inches above the fabric. Blinking, and then again with force realizing she had to have been staring for too long she looked quickly back up into his smiling eyes looking back at her.

"Oh no, please continue, that little bit of drool that's coming out of the side of your mouth is adorable."

"As if," she scoffed, walking around him into the bathroom.

Bonnie brushed her teeth and washed her face, spending a few extra minutes to clear her mind of very different thoughts and headed back out into his room. He was sitting up against the headboard, aimlessly flipping through her notebook.

"Um-"she said out loud, rounding the side of the bed he's sitting on to snatch it out of his hand.

"What, is that your diary?"

"No, but-"

"Do you have little Mrs. Kai Parker's with hearts on all the pages?"

Her eyebrows rose.

"Wow, you are so stuck in the 90's."

Kai laughed and grabbed her hips, pulling her over him like he did earlier but in a much more playful manner. Her head landed on the pillow with her legs draped on his over the covers. They chatted for another hour or two until Kai's voice started to get groggier, pulling her in closer to him as she heard his breathing get heavier. She turned around in his hold and stared at his features, oddly transfixed by him when he looked his most vulnerable. All the anger and flirtatious looks disappear; the knowledge of what he's done in his past weighed heavily against how innocent he can appear. Her hand trailed up and gently glided across his jaw, him hugging her tighter from the sudden movement. She smiled to herself, letting her body relax in his embrace and feeling a sense of calm and serenity pass over her skin. She touched her forehead to his and closed her eyes.

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Her body felt the jolt of panic before her mind could pick up on what was happening, still too deep into her subconscious. A chill went up her spine to the base of her neck, her hairs standing on end and her skin feeling prickly. Danger her instincts urged as she tried to pull herself out of her foggy state, struggling to open her eyes.

"No," she heard from a deep voice next to her.

Bonnie's eyes opened quickly, a sharp sense of awareness as she tried to look around the blacked out room. She could still feel her adrenaline racing, something compelling her to stay on red alert. She paused when she heard Kai's heavy breathing, a pained gruff escaping his lips. She turned towards him up on her hands and knees, trying to see him through the dark with no luck and got up off the bed to pull one of the curtains back, the moon eclipsing his silhouette.

Kai was wearing the same expression she found him in that morning; eyebrows drawn in with deep lines on his forehead, restless, and pained noises escaping his throat. He gripped the mattress and let out another sound laced with anger causing her to stop a step away from the mattress. Bonnie's thoughts raced as quickly as her adrenaline, not being able to distinct one possible plan from the next as she went through scenarios of how she could wake him and what the hell could he be dreaming about? She took a step closer and saw he was covered in a layer of sweat.