Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 22

"Don't we need to get the ascendant first?" Kai asked as he trailed behind her in the woods.

"Got it," Bonnie nodded, the first sentence she's said since she decided she was really going to go back to Mystic Falls with him.

After the end of their discussion they both went their separate ways to pack a bag and grabbed the few things she'd kept close while being here; her notebook, teddy bear, and a couple of 90's outfits that she will definitely be bringing back in style. Shoving them all in a backpack she met Kai at the door, trying his best to act excited as he bounced from one foot to the other but the sweaty forehead and zipped up sweatshirt was an easy giveaway to his true form, his cough driving her point home.

"You're not contagious right?"

Kai looked at her through a dark stare and she smiled, walking to the door and heading out. Now Bonnie found herself on her perpetual day of May 10th; but this one felt 20 degrees warmer as her blood pressure was tipping towards scorching and head so full she thought she could fall over from being top-heavy. The snap of a branch behind her pulled her out of her daze, turning to Kai with his back against a tree leaning forward with his hands on his knees.

"Need a minute?" she asked walking back to where he was standing.

"No just need a drink." Reached down for his bag and slowly pulling unzipping it to grab a water bottle.

Looking overhead at the sky where the sun was settled, Bonnie's going-on-obsessive studying and detailing of the day let her know they had less than an hour until the eclipse, and still a half hour walk.

"Let's go," he chirped pushing off the treeand swinging his backpack over his shoulder.

The next twenty minutes seemed like two hours as Kai's slow pace and disoriented state was leaving him stumbling and stopping frequently.

"You're killing me Parker! Do you want to just sit down right here, watch the eclipse as it passes us by another day?"

"Funny," he huffed, his own aggravation at himself much worse than what she was feeling.

Within five minutes they were at the opening of the cave, still a few minutes left to spare before she had to begin the spell. They both headed inside and he went straight for a rock, sitting down and dropping his bag. Bonnie eyed each of the rocks before heading over to one and crouching behind it.

"What'cha doing?" he asked, leaning over to see for himself as she leaned down farther and reached under a pile of leaves, pulling the ascendant out and blowing off the dirt and stared at him dumbfounded. "You're kidding me. It was here the whole time?"

"Yep," she laughed. "I figured you knew all the good hiding places in the house by now, and assumed I wouldn't be dumb enough to leave it in the one spot where it's the most powerful."

Kai blinked at her then back down at the ascendant before dissolving into laughter. "Bon, you really impress me sometimes."

"That means so much," she answered sarcastically, walking to the small circle of light and looking to the sky.

Bonnie could see him in her peripheral as he walked up and stood in front of her. "Think it'll end like your dream?"

"Which one?" She questioned without conscious thought, looking back down to his hooded gaze and shrugged, admitting to herself that it could have escalated if he wasn't looking so ill.

"Maybe if you think about it enough it'll come true," she teased.

"I think it would have happened by now then," he smirked.