Her eyes burst open as she gasped for air, surprised to learn that she didn't need any.

"Bonnie." Her head snapped to the sound to find that Damon was by her side.

"Damon." Bonnie tried standing up, but Damon eased her back down onto the bed.

"Bon take it easy." Damon said wiping the hair out of her face. That's when Bonnie realized she was lying on Damon's bed and not in the barn.

"Wait, what happened? Where are the heretics? Is everyone ok?" Bonnie had gotten up, and Damon knew he wasn't gonna be able to get her to lay down again.

"Yeah, well the slaughter was kept to a minimum. But the rest of the gang is fine." Damon said with a bout of sadness in his eyes.

"The rest? Damon what's wrong?" Bonnie said touching his shoulder.

Damon fought to put a smile on his face now as he grabbed Bonnie's hand, and intertwined his fingers with hers.

"Bon, what you did today was amazing. I never seen anything like it."

"What did I do?" Bonnie said with caution, Damon had yet to answer her question.

"You don't remember?"

"No everything just kinda blurred together. And do you have some water I'm like really thirsty."

"Bonnie you flew into the air and did some awesome witchy voodoo and you literally turned all the heretics to dust."

"What I flew? That's impossible I can't fly." Bonnie asked in disbelief she was sure Damon was bullshitting her.

"Well today you could."

"Your telling me I could fly like Superman!"

"More like float, you know kinda like Storm does whenever she's you know, storming."

"Well that verifies it I'm a badass. Now what happened next?"

"Badass Bonnie Bennett I'll never doubt you again." Damon said looking away trying to avoid the real question.

"Damon, what happened next?" Bonnie said zeroing in on him and she realized his eyes were glistening.

"You...died."

"What?!" Bonnie backed away instantaneously as Damon fought to keep himself together.

"My moth- Lily drove a stake through your heart, once you killed her "family"." Damon couldn't bring himself to call her his mother, Bonnie had let go of his hand as a tear began to fall down her face.

"Are you telling me I'm a vampire?" Bonnie said trying to regain her composure but failing as she realized she had become the very thing she despised.

"No you're in transition."

"How? Why?" Bonnie began to cry hysterically she would never be a witch again.

"Stefan had just fed you his blood and mine was still in your system when Lily killed you. Bonnie I am so sorry, so is Stefan. I know you never wanted this life. Which is why your gonna take the cure." Damon finalized as he brought himself to smile again.

"Damon no, your gonna take it so that you can go be with Elena."

"Yeah but somehow I figure this is more important." Bonnie looked at him in awe.

"How is this more important, than spending the rest of a human life with Elena, the love of your life." Bonnie asked not understanding at all.

"Well I want my best friend to be able to live out the rest of her life without hating herself everyday. And this would have never happened if I didn't have unresolved Mommy issues." Damon attempted to joke.

"Damon I can't take this from you." Bonnie said her good nature taking control of her yet again.

"Bon you have sacrificed everything, for once let someone sacrifice something for you." Bonnie was stunned speechless because in that moment she had never felt more loved, overrun with emotion she hugged him.

"So is that a yes?" Damon said hugging her back.

"Are you sure?" Bonnie whispered into his ear, ashamed for having to ask.

"Yes! I want you to take it. Plus me as a human was never gonna work out." He said as he softly kissed her on the forehead and Bonnie smiled through her tears.

"Now drink up." Damon said giving her a glass of blood, Bonnie's nose scrunched up immediately.

"Trust me, one sip and you'll never want anything else again."

"That's what I'm afraid of." Bonnie said but she couldn't deny that the smell was intoxicating; she could feel veins come out from underneath her eyes. She took a sip and Damon was right, nothing had ever tasted so good she ravaged down the rest of the glass, her fangs snapping out. Damon laughed at the adorable site before him.

"What are you laughing at?"

"You look adorable, like a little Kitty cat." Bonnie hissed at him but Damon just chuckled.

"Oh shutup." Bonnie said as she got use to her vampire-heightened senses. She could see every thread in Damon's comforter, smell his cologne stored in his bathroom, and hear a heartbeat in the next room and a couple downstairs. She could hear the labored breathing coming from down the hallway, more importantly she could taste the blood in the air.

"Damon who's in the next room?" Bonnie asked with genuine curiosity because whoever it was, was not in good shape.

"Kai."

"Kai, but he sounds like he's dying?" Then the memories flooded back into Bonnie's mind and she remembered everything up until she saw the havoc caused by the heretics. She remembered him killing his father.

"Because he is."

"What? Why? And what happened to he can't die." Bonnie asked concerned for Jo's life.

"After you died, he killed Lily. So Enzo practically drained him until Caroline stopped him. He refused to take her blood and gave Liv his magic instead, making her the Gemini Coven Leader. The only thing he asked for was to die in peace, so I did him a solid and brought him here." Bonnie's forehead creased in confusion as she heard what Damon told her.

"But why would he do that, all he's ever wanted was to be the Gemini Coven leader."

"Can you believe he had a change of heart?" Damon offered still not understanding himself. Bonnie got out of Damon's bed and headed for the door. Until Damon zoomed past her and slammed the door shut.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"To see Kai."

"Are you forgetting that you're a bloodsucker now?" Damon asked and honestly Bonnie had forgotten.

"I'll be extra careful plus he's already dying."

"As much as I'm sure, Kai would love to have you bite him, I don't think it's a good idea."

"Look he's dying, it's now or never. So I'm going to talk to him whether you like it or not." Bonnie pulled the door open, flinging Damon off the door with ease.

"Fine but if you kill him that's your problem!" Damon yanked his hair muttering about how hard headed and stubborn Bonnie is, and Bonnie just snickered as she made her way down the hallway following the beat of Kai's heart. She found that he was in her room, well the room she had slept in 1994. He was lying on the bed and to any ordinary eye he would have appeared to be dead. But with her newly heightened senses Bonnie could hear his heart fighting to continue and his short and raspy breath, and she could smell his sickeningly mouthwatering blood pumping through his veins. She swallowed hard she had known resistance her whole life and she figured she could fight the alluring temptation of the throbbing vein in his neck for the next five minutes. She hovered near his bed not sure how to initiate the conversation.

"You know what's funny I'm going to die exactly how I lived my life, alone. I highly doubt that's funny but then again I never did know the difference between funny and sad." Kai said to no one particularly considering his eyes were still closed and Bonnie couldn't help but pity him just a little. He spent 18 years of his life alone and now he was on his deathbed.

"I'm here." Bonnie stated.

"Bonnie!" Kai's eyes burst open he could recognize the sound of her voice anywhere. Bonnie smiled awkwardly as she didn't have much of a reply.

"Am I dreaming?" Kai asked with a playfulness in his voice as he focused on Bonnie and thought she had never been this realistic in his dreams before.

"No."

"But you died. I saw you floating up there like... like an angel on fire." He said still mesmerized by the image of her. "But then you were impaled and I watched you fall." Kai finished with a grave tone, bringing a surprised expression to come across Bonnie's face she wondered why he cared.

"Well I'm now a vampire."

"How come no one told me?" Kai asked perplexed, he was beyond devastated when he saw his angel lose her wings.

"Oh I don't know, I guess they figured it was none of your business."

"Considering we we're dueling to the death earlier I think it would have been common courtesy that they tell me. But I should have figured that you would survive, your plucky." Kai blabbed on trying to hide the fact that he was ecstatic to see her alive. Bonnie just rolled her eyes and cut him off before he could continue, she knew that his time was ticking.

"Why'd you do it Kai?"

"Do what?"

"Give up being the Gemini leader?"

"Can you believe I just had a change of heart?" Kai chuckled even at the end Bonnie was still trying to figure him out, his motive.

"So hypothetically, all of sudden you have a change of heart, still why not take the vampire blood? Why not save yourself?" Kai sighed in return.

"For 18 years I was trapped in my own personal prison and everyday I wished for one thing. I wished for escape but not the one that you think. I wished for death. Day after day I'd invent new ways to kill myself only to come back 5 minutes later. I'm not an idiot all my life no one has ever wanted me alive and no one wants me alive now. So I figure might as well be granted the one thing I have begged for, for almost two decades. At least I get to die on my own terms." His playful manner diminished and Bonnie could finally see Kai for what he really is and that was broken. Life had beat him to a pulp and he was done fighting back.

"But if that's the only thing you've wanted, why not give up from the second you got here?"

"Well let's not get ahead of ourselves I still wanted to murder some people and cause some havoc. But then I remembered a beautiful girl who constantly preached about redemption and hope." Kai said gazing at Bonnie.

"Are you talking about Elena?" Bonnie asked confused.

"God no! I'm talking about you." Kai coughed as he rolled his eyes.

"What?"

"Oh don't act like you don't know." Kai continued to cough his state getting worst.

"Know what?" Bonnie asked still not fully understanding what was happening.

"That I have feelings for you or what I think are feelings cause I don't entirely know what those are yet." Kai said still trying to place exactly what it was that he felt. Bonnie eyes just widened.

"Oh my god you really didn't know. Well at least I got everything out in the open before I croaked." Kai said trying to shake his head but decided against it since it caused him to much pain and he was already covered in a layer of sweat.

"Why me?" Bonnie asked still not understanding why he would like her.

"Why you? Oh I don't know you were the first beautiful thing that I saw. Not only are you beautiful but you're good and as I said before your smart, loyal, brave, and patient. So my question to you is why anyone else, but you?" Bonnie was shocked both by his words and the sincerity in which he said them. He wasn't trying to flirt, he was just stating what he knew to be the facts.

"Kai-"

"Don't worry I never actually thought I had a chance. I know you hate me but that was half the fun." Kai joked. Bonnie couldn't help but be flattered, as she sat next to him and Kai watched her in awe as he lied sullenly on the bed.

"Maybe if you weren't a psychopath." Bonnie smirked at her demon with angel like qualities; she could not deny that despite their conflicts she was attracted to him.

"Maybe if you were." Kai replied with the coyest grin, because Bonnie Bennett had flirted with him. Bonnie could hear his heart starting to weaken and gently wrapped her hand around his. She had decided she wasn't going to let him die alone. Sure he was wicked and sadistic in all definitions of the word, he was a monster. But here's the thing, he was her monster. A wave of emotion overcame Kai as he realized what she was doing, that she was going to be there until the very end. That he wouldn't leave this world utterly alone, and in that moment Kai knew exactly what he felt. He felt love.

"In another life we would have been perfect." Kai said to his angel with a pension for demonic activities, while squeezing her hand.

"In another life?" Bonnie's mind started churning as she remembered that as a vampire she could wander into people's minds.

"Kai hold still I have an idea." Bonnie began to concentrate as she placed two fingers on his temple. At first nothing happened then everything happened at once she saw years and years of suppressed memories and she couldn't help the tears that she shed. Finally she found it Kai's deepest desire and she planted herself there. Next thing Kai knew he was shifting awake in his bed. He yawned as he awoke and looked to the side of him knowing very well that no one would be there but everyday he checked anyways. And as usual no one was there to his dismay he sighed wondering why he always tortured himself with the illusion that one day someone would pop out of somewhere. He rubbed his face in distress and stopped when he abruptly heard a noise, quickly grabbing his attention. He peeked through his fingers to see if he had finally gone crazy but to his astonishment someone was there. Bonnie stood before him in one of his various Pink Floyd shirts and she was pouting. She jumped onto his bed and rested on his lap and Kai knew he had to have lost his damn mind.

"I'm hungry." She whined with big eyes. Kai looked at her dumbfounded until he realized she expected an answer.

"I guess I could make you something." Kai blurted out still not grasping the situation.

"Thank you." Bonnie said as she kissed him on the cheek and ran out the door. Kai touched the spot where Bonnie had kissed him in awe and confusion he had never been kissed on the cheek before, he decided he liked it. Bonnie's head popped through the door again, "Well are you coming or what?" Kai jumped out of the bed, "Yeah!" For once in his life Kai hadn't had the slightest clue as to what was going on but he decided to go with it, especially if it included more cheek kisses from Bonnie. Bonnie smacked him in the butt, "Now that's the spirit! Race you downstairs!" Bonnie zoomed her way downstairs and Kai followed quickly after but when he entered the kitchen, she wasn't there.

"Bon?" Kai said looking for her.

"Boo!" Bonnie screamed as she popped out from behind the island and Kai bursted out laughing at the site of Bonnie trying to be scary because it was adorable, she grimaced in return.

"You don't think I'm scary?"

"No, I think you're adorable." Kai said grabbing Bonnie's face until he realized what he was doing and quickly dropped his hands.

"Umm what do you want to eat?" Kai asked trying to avoid whatever happened even though Bonnie hadn't seem to mind that he placed his hands on her.

"Surprise me!" Bonnie rejoiced. Kai swallowed he was a little nervous he had never cooked for anyone else, because there was never anyone else to cook for. But he was also excited for someone to taste one of his creations. Kai began to pull out his ingredients and get into his zone while Bonnie sat on top of the counter and watched him, passing him something whenever he needed it. At one point Kai got distracted by her as she just sat idly by smiling and the curiosity killed him.

"What are you so happy about?" Kai asked as he put a pan in the oven and stepped closer to her.

"Am I not allowed to be happy?" Bonnie asked with a grin.

"No, no. Of course you're allowed to be happy. You deserve all the happiness in the world." Kai got flustered Bonnie did deserve everything. Bonnie giggled showing off her gorgeous smile.

"You're such a dork. I'm happy because I love watching my man cook." She stated simply as she grabbed him by the hand.

"Your man?" Kai choked out before his mouth could go dry.

"Yes you're mine and I'm yours." Bonnie said wrapping her legs around him and Kai's insides light on fire. Bonnie was hitting on him and she was sexy as hell. It was now that Kai realized he had no shirt on as Bonnie began to walk her fingers across his chest and that animal part of him that part that had that intense hunger took over him. He fought himself for control as he got closer to her and Bonnie finally got tired of his tantalizingly slow pace. She grabbed him by the neck and brought her lips to his and Kai lost it. At first it was slow as they took the time to savor each part, Kai grabbed her face as he kissed her deeper. Then he got a bit more aggressive as he grabbed her by the waist, his tongue begged for entrance. Soon they were in sync and Bonnie ran her fingers through his hair and Kai held her closer because she would never be close enough. They were both thirsty for each other but there was something more besides finding something to quench the thirst with. When they finally came up for air, they rested on each other's forehead. They stared each other in the eyes as they both breathed heavily until the timer went off and Bonnie started laughing. Kai broke out laughing as well because Bonnie would never know how long he's wanted to do that for.

"I think the food's ready." Bonnie managed to say between laughing.

"Is it? I vote we ignore it." Kai laughed wholeheartedly in this exact moment Kai knew joy for the first time.

"I vote we don't because I'm starving."

"The lady asks and she shall receive." Kai said as he left to pull out the pan from the oven as Bonnie began to pull out the plates and in a minute breakfast was served.

"So what will we be eating today?" Bonnie asked as she took a seat.

"Ahh that's a great question Madame, today we will be having the strawberry stuffed french toast." Kai explained in a phony french accent and realized what an idiot he was being but didn't care, he was high on life.

"That's sounds magnifique!" Bonnie responded in her own french accent and Kai adored the fact that Bonnie had joined him in his weirdness. The rest of the breakfast continued just like that, just two dorks eating breakfast with some cheesy accents. Kai had never watched someone eat with so much passion and Bonnie complimented his meal every two seconds he had never felt more appreciated but in reality he was just glad he had someone to share a meal with. As Bonnie finished her meal Kai watched her with a smile on his face, that is until Bonnie abruptly jumped up from her seat and started running around.

"OMG it's almost time!" Bonnie said as she grabbed blankets from the closet.

"Time for what?" Kai asked Bonnie was always four steps ahead of him. Then Bonnie just looked at him in the most peculiar way as if he of all people should know what was happening. She realized he wasn't getting on board anytime soon as she grabbed his hand and yanked him from his chair. He gladly followed her but that's because he would follow her anywhere. As they marched up the stairs Bonnie through a shirt at him as she grabbed a pair of pants, Kai still had no idea what was going on but he followed orders. Then she pulled down a set of stairs from the ceiling and disappeared into the attic, Kai once again followed her. Bonnie had popped open a window and escaped and Kai had no choice but to go after her. He found her on the roof setting up the blankets so that they could both sit and cover themselves. Bonnie patted the seat next to him as she sat eagerly awaiting whatever was coming.

"We made it just in time." Bonnie said with clear enthusiasm and it was amusing to watch because she looked like a kid on Christmas.

"Can you tell me what this is all about?" Kai asked as he sat next to her, there was a breeze going and it was wiping through Bonnie's hair. The sky had already begun to lighten from night to day, and Kai realized that the sun was about to rise.

"Well I know you love watching the sunrise everyday and you're way to nice to wake me up to go watch with you. So today I decided to take things into my own hands and see what all the hype's about." Bonnie smiled at him she was clearly very proud that she woke up so early and that she was clever enough to fool him.

"How did you know I like watching the sunrise?" Kai asked because it was true, Kai absolutely loved watching the sunrise he hadn't missed one in the last 18 years but how did Bonnie know?

"You think you can keep secrets from me? I know everything about you." Bonnie explained as she cuddled into him and Kai wrapped his arm around her as they covered themselves with more blankets.

"So you decided that you would trick me into making you breakfast and then lure me to the roof, so that you could watch the sun rise with me?" Kai asked in disbelief because Bonnie had done all of this just for the sole purpose to make him happy.

"Yup" she answered nonchalantly as she looked up at him with her emerald eyes, as she laid her head on his chest.

"I love the sound of your heart beating." Bonnie said as if it were nothing at all as if she hadn't admitted she loved something about him.

"I love you." Kai didn't know where it came from or that the word love was in his vocabulary. But he felt that the way he felt could only be described as love.

"I love you too." Bonnie smiled as she kissed him again, the sun beginning to rise. Kai learned that he enjoyed knowing what being loved felt like and that he wouldn't trade it for anything.

"It's starting!" Bonnie's head spun towards the horizon and stared in awe as colors began to paint the sky. Not one day in the last 18 years had Kai missed watching a sunrise but today he decided he had something better to watch.

"I wouldn't trade this view for anything in the world." Bonnie said.

"Neither would I." Kai whispered with a smile, she was the first beautiful thing he had ever seen and he was honored that she would also be the last. Bonnie regained consciousness as she was back in the room watching Kai die. He had only a handful of heartbeats left. She kissed his forehead as his eyes closed and whispered, "Maybe I was wrong about you." And with those words she heard his heart give its final thud, she pulled away to see that he had died with a smile on his face. She had failed to notice that with all her emotions she had accidentally light a candle. She chuckled through her tears she was heartbroken to learn that Kai's deepest desire wasn't something extravagant or ludicrous but something simple. His deepest darkest desire was to love and be loved.