Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 25

She was down the hall and halfway down the stairs when she caught him out of the corner of her eye.

"Mm not so fast..."

Before she could register he was barreling down the stairs and reaching her at a rapid pace. Her feet propelled her off the steps as she hit the ground running and didn't stop until she slammed into the door. She tried to yank the heavily ancient door open and felt a sharp stinging from her left forearm.

Kai spun her around and pressed harder into her wrist, the pain going from a simmer to a scorching burn and coursing through her veins.

"You really think you can leave here without me?"

Her eyebrows drew in as his other hand closed around her forearm. She couldn't breathe through the copper taste in her mouth, an electric charge that was heavy like battery acid on her tongue; stealing her magic.

"What – are – you doing?"

Her legs started to wobble under her and slowly gave out as Kai crouched in front of her. If he wasn't wearing a sweatshirt she was positive his brand would have been red hot – all the fire in his eyes gone leaving a sinister shell left behind.

"What you were going to do to me; I'm taking your magic, and I'm leaving you all by yourself."

Bonnie felt the third wave hit her and almost passed out, a shock of adrenaline surging as 'vatos' left her lips. She shielded her face between her chest and knees as everything exploded around them. He yelled and fell backwards as the table next to the door hit him, her trying desperately to shake off her weakened state and stand before he could.

She pulled herself up from the door handle and opened it a crack before squeezing outside. She made it almost all the way to the car when she felt an invisible pull against her back like a tether to a bungee-cord. Planting her feet in the ground did nothing as she was forced backwards into the house landing hard on the carpet.

Groaning, she looked up at a sickly and distant version of someone she's become close to – the differences between the two sending a deep chill throughout her body.

"I knew you'd try to trick me, as soon as I had my guard down. It's not going to happen again!" he yelled.

He reached forward for her foot, yanking her closer to him.

"I am leaving this prison – with or without you."

She threw her other hand out towards his skull and concentrated, gasps of pain and angry sneers erupting out of Kai. She scooted backwards on her butt with her hand still towards him, him gritting his teeth and trying to inch his way towards her. She felt her eyes water as her panic blended into Kai's fears; being left alone again triggering a dark hallucination he couldn't pull himself out of.

"Kai stop, I don't want to hurt you."

He chuckled under the pain, lifting his arm and feeling her own magic reverberating off of her. She gritted her teeth, keeping her hold on him as he tried to break his way through.

He looked too weak to walk, let alone throw magic shocks at her. His eyes grew heavier the longer he held his head, his breathing quickening.

"I don't believe you!" He slammed his palm against the floorboard and everything shook, including her hold on him.

He flicked his wrist and she felt paralyzed from the neck down. His ragged breaths continued as he walked the few steps and crouched next to her.

The intense stare he gave her now was something different than the uncontrolled rage that flashed when he saw his father; although he was still bubbling with fury his face read more of shock and hurt – a mask one would hear if they had been deceived.