Broken - Kai Parker - The Vampire Diaries

Chapter Five - A What Now?

"So, basically, what this means is you're something called a Heretic"

Everyone was sitting down now intently listening to what Kai had to say. Emily was keeping her distance after the hand shaking incident. No one had really explained the whole siphoning thing to her yet but she knew she didn't want him to do that to her.

"A what now?" Emily's eyes widened. A mixture of shock and confusion in her voice.

"A Heretic. Does no one in this group listen properly?"

"I heard what you said, but I have no idea what one of those is Kai"

He lets out a big sigh and pinches the bridge of his nose. These people really don't have a clue about anything.

"A Heretic is a vampire who is also a witch. A vampire can't retain their powers if they were a witch originally. The only way you can retain your witch powers is if you're a siphoner..."

"And a siphoner is what exactly"

"Oh for goodness sake. Right. A siphoner is a kind of witch who's unable to create their own magic. They have to take magic from other witches or magical beings to create magic. Being a vampire, which is a magical being, means you're able to siphon your own vampire magic from yourself! It's pretty awesome really. Maybe a little freaky, but still"

"So you're siphoner too?"

"Yup!" He said, popping the P And throwing his hands in the air. "Except unfortunately I'm not a vampire so I have to steal magic"

"Like you just tried to from me?"

"Yeeeees..." he smirks at Emily. Absolutely no remorse for what he had tried to do minutes earlier.

"Okay. This is all really enlightening and everything, but we still don't know what happened this morning with the fire?" Damon interjected.

"No...." Kai leans forward on the coffee table, chin on one hand, staring at Emily with curiosity. "That's something we need to figure out."

"And what exactly do you get from this, man child?" Damon was clearly starting to lose his patience. Kai obviously had a plan but he was tip toeing around it currently.

"I'm not entirely sure yet... but I'm sure something will come up" he shoots you a massive grin and stands up. "I'll be off then!"

"Wait, what?!" Emily jumped from her seat walking towards him. "You can't... I mean... you're the only person who knows anything about all this. I... I don't want to hurt anyone." She reached to touch Kai's arm then pulled away quickly before making contact.

"Now, I know I'm just so much fun to be around, but I've got stuff I have to do. Namely finding my sis and trying to get her to do this damn merge with me. But if you really want to spend some time with me, you're welcome to tag along?" He smiled sweetly but she could see a glint in his eye that proved he was up to no good. "Oh and for the record, I can't siphon you if you touch me. It's the other way round. And I have to want to siphon you. So the whole touching thing? Bit of a non issue." He winks and starts to head for the door.

"Wait. I. Can you come back later and give me some pointers? Even just some help with this, magic stuff. I have no idea what I'm doing with it!"

He stood still for a few seconds with his back to her, thinking over what she had just said to him. "Sure. Whatever. Seeya." And with that he was gone.

"Emily? What are you thinking? We only called him here because he knows about this stuff. You can't spend time with that jerk. He's dangerous. He's done awful things and he WILL turn on you the second he thinks he can get something out of it." Damon huffed as he grab a bottle of bourbon and filled his glass.

"I can handle it Damon. I'm a vampire and a witch. What is he that's so dangerous for me now?"

"He's a goddam sociopath Emily" Damon throws the amber liquid to the back of his throat and places the glass down hard on the drinks trolley, then he's gone in a whoosh.

"Okay..." she mumbled to herself as she slumped down onto the sofa. She glanced at her friends all still standing there looking more worried than ever.

"Damon's right you know. Kais dangerous. Damon and I were stuck in a prison world with him and the second he wanted something his way he turned on us. He almost killed me numerous times." Bonnie said. Her eyes were filling with tears and her jaw clenching. She clearly found it difficult to be around or speak about him.

"A prison what?" Was all Emily could say.

"A Prison Emily." Stefan took over with the conversation to give Bonnie a break "Kai was put there in a 1994"

"1994?? He looks about our age though?"

"He's 22. Perpetually 22, when he was stuck in prison world for 18 years."

"18 years... all alone?" She felt sad for Kai. 18 years on your own is such a long time. She could barely cope with a few days without human contact. What must 18 years have been like?

"He killed most of his own family Emily. That's why he was sent there" Emily gasped, her hand jumping up to her mouth. "He was supposed to do something called The Merge with his twin sister Jo. But because of his siphoning, his dad didn't want him to become the coven leader, so they had another set of twins to complete the merge instead. Kai found out about this and went completely nuts. He murdered all of his other siblings except Jo, who he stabbed with a hunting knife, and the twins, Luke and Liv, who managed to hide somewhere and not be found. Coincidentally, Liv and Luke now live in Mystic Falls and Jo lives in Whitmore!"

Emily sat there in complete shock for what felt like forever. The man she had just sat and had a relatively civil conversation with, was a murderer. A cold blooded murderer. And not only that, he had murdered his little brothers and sisters. How could anyone live with themselves after doing something like that?

"Now can you understand why Damon isn't keen for you to be hanging around Kai? Don't get me wrong, he knows his stuff. And no doubt he'd be able to help you a LOT, but he always wants something in return. Just bare that in mind. And you may be a big scary Heretic, but he's also got nothing to lose. And that makes him even scarier."

Later that day she sat in her room, stewing over what Stefan had said to her. He was right. Kai was one of the most dangerous kinds of people. He had nothing left to lose anymore, so why would he care about anything? But he was the only one who knew all this stuff about Heretics and she desperately needed to know what she was now, and what she was capable of.