Emily Ashworth is just getting settled into college, making new friends, when all of sudden her entire life changes. Who would have thought, the town sociopath would be the one to help her through everything when she needed it most...
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Emily slowly opened her eyes, squinting as the sun light poured in through the windows. As she moved her head, she came face to face with Kai, just a few inches away from her. She jumped. "Shit! Geez Kai! Way to scare the crap out of me!" Kai laughed and bopped her nose gently. "Morning sunshine! I wondered how long it would take you to come around." He smiled, looking at her sweetly.
Emily pulled herself to sit up on the bed and looked around the room. "Where the hell am I?" she asked, confused that it wasn't her room at the Salvatore's, or the basement, or even her dorm room. "This is my place. Welcome!" "Your... what? When did you get your own apartment? I assumed you'd been staying in crappy motels or something." She rubbed her sore head and stretched. "Oh, I got this place not long after I got out of the 1994 prison world. Sorry, I thought I'd mentioned it?" "Nope..." she groaned as she moved around. "Clearly not." "Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine this morning?" Kai chuckled, still smiling at her. "Well, a lot's happened since you've been gone Kai..." "I know. I spent a day hanging around at Demons, trying to find out what was going on. So you turned your humanity off, huh?"
Emily shifted around a bit, trying to get herself more comfortable. She nodded at Kai. "Look, I'd love to catch up, but I could REALLY do with a drink..." she grumbled. She looked over at Kai who was still just in front of her. She could hear his pulse. She started to lean into him, the veins under her eyes showing, her eyes turning red. "Whoa whoa whoa!" Kai shouted, jumping back away from her. "As much as I would LOVE to have you sucking on my neck, I'm not sure that's such a good idea. Here.." He grabbed a blood bag from the backpack on the coffee table. "Drink this." Emily snatched the bag from Kai and drank it up within seconds. She was frowning at Kai, frustrated that she didn't get any fresh blood. It had been ages since she had fresh blood. Her veins appeared again and she closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down.
Once she was calm, she opened her eyes again to see Kai sat on a chair just across from her. He didn't look quite as relaxed as he had a few minutes ago. "You really turned it off..." He mumbled, twiddling his thumbs and looking at the floor. He looked upset. Maybe disappointed? Emily wondered if it was because she was different now. She wasn't the same girl he'd fallen for. She turned away from him and threw herself back onto the bed, staring at the ceiling. "Are you not going to talk to me about it at all Em?" He asked. She shook her head and continued staring at the ceiling, counting the tiny cracks in her head. "Okay..." He sighed. Emily sat up and jumped up from the bed, turning to face him again. "Look, I appreciate you trying to help me out Kai, I really do. Thank you for getting me out of that basement. But I'm not the same Emily you met a few months ago. Sorry." She walked over to grab her jacket which Kai had placed on the back of a chair for her. "So that's it? You're just giving up? I mean, from what I could gather, listening to Stefano and Damon talking, I'm the reason you turned it off, right?" He asked, standing and walking towards her. She didn't say anything. "Please talk to me Emily. I want to help you. I want to get the real you back again." "I don't want the real me back! Why can't anyone see that?! The real me was miserable. She had no real family, she was cheated on, lied to, turned into some freak of nature. I don't want her back. I'm happy with who I am right now!" Her voice was getting louder. "Emily..." he started to talk, then there was a knock on the door.
Emily vamp sped over and opened it. Stood in front of her was a young guy, probably in his late teens with two pizza boxes. "I ordered some food. Thought you might be hungry..." Kai started. "Starving." She said with a smirk on her face. She grabbed the pizza boy by the neck and pulled him into the apartment. 'Emily, don't do this!" Kai shouted, but it was too late. She already had her teeth sunk into his neck and she wasn't stopping any time soon. Kai stood there in shock, unable to do anything. When she was done, she dropped the boy to the floor. He was staring up with dead eyes, his face completely drained of any colour. "Emily. What the..." "I told you Kai! I'm not the same girl you met. You're better off just leaving me alone."
Kai walked towards Emily. Her face was covered in blood. She looked so angry and so lost. He reached his hand up and gently touched her face. Suddenly she had a flash back to when her and Kai first kissed. His soft touch on her cheek. His lips against hers. The thousand stars in his beautiful eyes. She shook herself out of the daydream and looked at Kai. "What just happened?" He asked her, his hand still on her face. "Nothing." She started to turn and walk away but he pulled her towards him so her back was against his chest. She could feel his heart beating against her body. "Kai...." He reached his arm around, wrapping it across her stomach. The other hand moved up to her neck, his fingers tickling the delicate skin. She could feel his breath hot on her neck. She closed her eyes, taking the moment in. "I need you to know how I feel Emily. Before you walk out of here and never want to see me again, I need to tell you how I feel about you." She opened her eyes but didn't say a word, she just listened.
"When I first met you, I was a different person. I was cruel, uncaring. Then I merged with Luke, and all those emotions started pushing through that I'd not felt in years. But you were the one who woke those emotions up Emily. You were the most caring, gentle person I'd ever met. I couldn't believe you were even willing to spend time with me at that point. Then we got closer, and my feelings for you just grew. I found it hard to not be around you. I had to stop myself being around you too much because I didn't think I was good enough for you. Then when I finally convinced myself to just go for it, and we kissed, it was the best feeling in the world. I had never felt like that in my entire miserable life. I was happy. Genuinely happy for once. But then when I got stuck in the 1903 prison world, I really thought I'd lost you for good until I found a note Damon had somehow managed to drop over. I finally felt like I could have something good in my life again. You... I can't promise you that I'm never going to do anything stupid again. I've had a messed up life so far and you know that. But you bring out the best in me, and I need that. I need you. I love you Emily...."
His lips were touching her ear, soft whispers falling off them. His voice sounded like heaven. She closed her eyes tightly and a tear started to fall down her cheek. All of a sudden all of her emotions and memories of what she had done over the past few weeks hit her like a tonne of bricks. Every awful thing she did, every innocent person she had ripped apart. Her legs went weak, giving way and she started to fall to the ground but Kai's arms tightened around her and stopped her. He sat down on the floor with her in his arms, sobbing, tears pouring from her eyes. He turned her head to look up at him and he could see she was back. His Emily was back. And she was so broken he could hardly bare it. He hugged her tight, stroking her hair and whispering to her that everything was going to be okay, even though he wasn't sure it would be...
