Out of Time ❧ Kai Parker ✓

Chapter Seventeen

The darkness has become my friend over the years. Always welcoming me when I was lonely or sad. Congratulating me when I accomplished something. But it was a reminder of what I could never have.

Here, in this prison world, the darkness taunts me. It promises me the release of death but never follows through. The darkness has taught me not to put my trust in people. It took years for me to warm up to Kai, even now I don't tell him everything.

I knew this time would be no different, the darkness would betray me and I would regain consciousness. I opened my eyes to see Kai staring at me. 

He held out his hand and I grab it and he pulls me up. "Thank goodness your awake. I was beginning to think you were dead. Like dead." I notice that he is holding a crossbow in his hand.

"What would you do if I didn't wake up?" I question him. I reach my hands out and take the bow from him. "Why do you have a crossbow?"

He gives me a sinister smile and turns to walk to the entrance of the cave. I follow close behind him.

As we proceed through the cave I hear Bonnie and Damon talking. I see Kai love over at me puts his finger up to his lips, telling me to be quiet.

They were starting to do the spell when I raised the crossbow. An arrow zips through the air and catches Bonnie in her stomach, she gets knocked back, Damon is taken by surprise and the Ascendant falls with Bonnie. He whirls to see Kai and me standing with a crossbow pointed directly at him.

"Forgetting someone?" Kai asks him and Damon stares incredulously. "Did you really think we hadn't tried to kill ourselves before?" Damon looks back at Bonnie, who is grunting in pain. "Because I had--" He takes the crossbow from me and reloads it "--lots of times, lots of ways."

Kai aims at Bonnie, while Damon's eyes trail to the Ascendant. "Grab that, and the next arrow goes in her heart. Your choice." I warn Damon.

Bonnie is making a noise in pain. Damon super speeds over to Bonnie, grabbing her so he can hold her in his arms. "Okay, I got ya."

Bonnie yelps as Damon rips out the arrow, he bites into his wrist, ready to heal her, when Kai rushes forward to grab the ascendant. "DAMON, NO!" Bonnie yells.

Damon super speeds to Kai and shoves him at the wall, they struggle with each other, Kai drops the ascendant. I rush over and punch Damon in the face, but he's a vampire and he threw into the wall. Kai stabs Damon with an arrow, Damon grunts in pain, he tries to take it out.

Damon and Kai are still fighting, Bonnie is bleeding out, as she crawls over to the Ascendant. The eclipse is fully overhead. Kai flips Damon over as he attempts to push the arrow in deeper. I notice what Bonnie is doing, but it's too late.

Bonnie reaches the Ascendant. Grabs it. Kai twists the arrow in Damon. "Bonnie... get...out of here."

"I'm not going to make it." And then suddenly she smiles. "But you are." Bonnie holds her hand out, "Motus." Both, Kai and I have flung away from Damon, we hit the ground along with the arrow. Bonnie levitates Damon until he is underneath the circle of light from the eclipse. When he gets there, Bonnie tosses the Ascendant to him.

"DON'T!" Kai and I both ye.

The Ascendant untwists and clicks in Damon's hand. "No!" The ascendant twists one more, a definite click. "NO!" Damon is brought up into the light, and with a flash, he is gone. The only thing left is the Ascendant, which shatters as it hits the ground. I and Kai scream furiously. And Bonnie smiles, knowing Damon made it. The tear finally falls from her eye as she crumples to the ground, letting out a grunt of pain.