Out of Time ❧ Kai Parker ✓

Chapter Twenty Eight

The wedding ceremony has descended into chaos, and people are screaming across the room. Some of the attendees of the party are already dead, and many more are injured or dying. 

Joshua struggles to stand to his feet by bracing himself on a chair. He is furious as he looks around the room, "Kai!" He shouts.

I look up at him, "Now's your time to shine." I tell him and give him a kiss on the cheek.

Suddenly, Stefan and Caroline's necks are instantly snapped in mid-air. When they fall to the floor, Kai is standing behind them, having used magic to break their necks. "Nothing personal, but this is a family matter now."

"What about me then?" I ask and Kai looks at me.

"You are my family." Kai turns and sees Alaric, still sobbing desperately as he clings to Jo's lifeless body, his hands becoming more and more blood-soaked from her fatal wounds. "Tsk. Oh."

Joshua finally comes back, holding an Ascendant in his hand and shouts an incantation to a spell, "Sanguinem filio. Sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum." He chants loudly and I stand closer to Kai.

Kai lets out a sigh, "Let me guess, Prison World?"

The other Gemini Coven members who are still alive stand to their feet and begin to chant as well, "Sanguinem filio. Sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum."

Unimpressed, Kai says, "I mean, you can't kill me. Or else you all die too, right."

"Ohh, Ohh." Alaric sobs.

I let out an annoyed sigh, "Oh my god, shut up already." I say to him.

Kai turns to Alaric with fake sympathy, "Hey, I'm sorry about your twinsies. I just don't feel like competing for leadership with future Gemini twins." He kneels down next to him. "See... when your family decides that your nothing but an irredeemable piece of trash, well... I guess the best thing to do is prove them right, right?"

The witches are still chanting and Kai stands up with a broken shard of glass in his hand and turns around to his father. "This ought to do it." He stabs himself in his neck and falls down on the floor, gagging intensely as he bleeds to death.

We didn't have time to call Freya and have her come down here to do the spell so we had to take matters into our own hands. Lilly, Damon and Stefan's mother who was in the 1903 prison world, gave Kai some of her blood since she is a vampire. I couldn't take any of it since I am a werewolf I would need my brother's blood or his daughter's. I and Kai both agreed that I would turn as soon as this was over.

"No!" Joshua yells out horrified.

The members of the Gemini Coven are in various stages of dying as a result of Kai, as the leader of the coven, killing himself. Joshua manages to stumble onto his feet and desperately looks around the room as he calls out for his family. "Where's my daughter. Liv! Liv!"

I stand there staring as they all die. Good, I thought, they deserve it for what they did to Kai.

After a few minutes or so Kai wakes up in transition and sits up before pulling the shard of glass out of his neck. He smirks in satisfaction and holds out his hand toward his dad, who is desperately trying to crawl away. "Vodux." The spell Kai cast telekinetically pulls his father toward him. "Here's to being different, Dad," Kai smirks and runs a finger through the blood pouring from a wound on Joshua's head and licks it off of his finger, thereby completing his transition.

Kai turns to me and he smiles. We hold hands as we exit the building. In the field outside of the barn, Alaric walks toward his car with Jo in his arms and gently lays her in the trunk of his SUV before laying a blanket over her body. He then gets in his car and numbly sits in the passenger seat for a moment as he processes the night's events. After a short pause, he reaches into his glove box and pulls out a loaded pistol. When he looks up, he sees us walking toward him through the windshield and gets out of the car to confront the two of us. Both of us takes note of his devastated appearance.