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Hi! Your Bonkai Secret Santa gifter again. Thank you so much for answering my questions! Just a few more things: any preferences between all human/canon au/other mythical/supernatural (werewolf au, mermaid au, etc)/fusion (specifically HP AU)? Any favorite side pairings? Tropes (soulmates, fake dating, Only One Bed™️, etc)? I don’t write bonkai all that often, so I want to make sure that I get at least a base for what you like to work off of. After that I’ll surprise you ;) Thanks so much!! <3
1) I have no particular preference but between those I guess canon AU where they meet earlier and under different circumstances.
2) I have absolutely no preference as far as tropes go.
3) As for side pairings, I’m not all that crazy for any ships that don’t involve Bonnie so not really any favs. However I have these lists if that’ll help you.
My Top 10 Non-Canon Ships of TVD
So that’s essentially a list of what I like and what I don’t like as far as ships that aren’t Bonkai.
Hi! I’m your bonkai secret santa gifter and I’m excited to create something for you!! I want to make sure you like your gift, so I have a few questions first… Do you have a preference between fic and edit? If fic, do you have any pet peeves (e.g. certain traits that you feel are ooc, certain words, etc)? Any smut preferences or squicks? I’m okay writing almost anything, so sky’s the limit :) I have a few ideas, so let me know if you prefer I pitch and you pick or if you want a total surprise!
Hi, sorry I’m getting to this so late, but I was so tired yesterday and I wanted to make sure to answer this at a time you’d see it even though I don’t know what time zone you’re in.
1) I have no preference between fic or edit
2) I don’t know if I’d call it a pet peeve but I’m not big on fluff mostly because it does feel OOC a lot of the time and usually lacks stakes for me to care about, but also because the side I like explored most with Bonkai is the darker aspects of the ship.
3) I have no squicks when it comes to smut besides rape and incest. I can dubious consent but if it feels completely like rape I get uncomfortable.
4) Honestly whatever makes you feel more comfortable is fine with me. I’m not the type of person to care about surprises or spoilers so if it would make it easier for you to chose one then pitch me what ideas you have, but if you want to surprise me, surprise me.
so re: bonnie stabbing and leaving kai behind in the 1903 pw…
it can be deduced that damon and bonnie conspired to betray kai (i think there’s a deleted scene where bonnie tells elena as much right before they portal jump back to the real world). we, the viewers, also see a very different kai bc we saw the effects of the merge on him. bonnie did not. she saw his half assed apology and his flirting at the dinner about the 1903 ascendant… she didn’t really spend enough time with post-merge kai to see there’s a new him, not really.
my question is…had kai not made that comment about gutting her all over again, (which was enough provocation given he played nice on thxgiving and then stabbed and abandoned her), do we think bonnie would’ve followed through on stabbing and leaving kai? like, had he been nice and mildly annoying the entire afternoon and made no off the wall comments about the potential of him hurting her again would she feel justified in stabbing him in the back (literally and metaphorically)? would she have attacked him? or just tried to stun him and then leave him? would he have had a chance to explain himself (or her to find out she couldn’t kill him)?
thoughts?
I’m going to preface this by saying I was completely on board with Bonnie leaving Kai and for me this was never some big injustice to the characters. While I agree that more consequences should have been doled out towards Damon for me that doesn’t equate every evil character gets the same treatment as Damon i.e slap on the wrist. It just means Damon needed consequences.
With that out of the way I don’t think it would have changed much. I remember the episode when Kai tries to apologize and she has it out with Damon. She has a phone call right after to Jeremy where she essentially breaks up with him and tells him she’s different now via voicemail. She was out for blood to begin with and I always felt crediting Damon with the idea was an injustice to Bonnie because I felt like that was something she would have done on her own regardless. The only reason the idea is credited to Damon is because the writers needed a way for him to get back into Bonnie’s good graces.
But back to the question at hand, had she seen his change more would she have reconsidered? No, her speech after her grabs her and shouts “listen to me” explains why because even with Luke’s empathy the old Kai is still in there and seeing the change wouldn’t make her think otherwise because for her that’s not a real change.
Which brings me to the issue I have with most redemption arcs on TVD, the change is always due to someone else, it’s never a conscious decision on their part. With the exception of Tyler–because you can trace back to the first episode of season 2 when Tyler decides to be better for himself because he doesn’t like himself in his current form, and you can trace several actions where he works at this that aren’t related to other people–every character who goes through “a change for the good” it’s all due to someone else, usually romance. Kai is an exception since it’s not due to trying to get the girl, but it still a change he wouldn’t have otherwise done himself and when that’s the case the change is otherwise fleeting for as long as those circumstances are in place.
And feel like Bonnie knows that. She didn’t trust him when he started “changing” for Elena especially since he threatened her life often after. She never trusted Klaus when he “changed” (which is weird to say since he has a redemption arc but stays absolutely the same, it’s almost as confusing as Damon’s), and she definitely never trusted Katherine like every smart person. So seeing him changed really doesn’t seem like the factor that would change her mind about him.
In fact, based on what makes her feelings change for a person, “being good” does not seem to be a factor at all, time is. Spending 4 months alone with Damon is what makes him a friend to her. Spending 3 years in forced confinement with Enzo is what changes her opinion on him. Hell, even Nora, spending more time with her, getting to know her is what sparked that friendship (and the route I feel they should have went romance wise in S7 instead of B*nzo). So the only thing I think would have stopped her from stabbing and leaving Kai was the one thing he did not have, time.
And that’s what I mourn most with this ship, they never had enough time. They’re only alone in the prison world for 2 episodes before he gets sent back and she’s left there. And they’re only together back in the real world for about 2 episodes before she leaves him in 1903. They needed time that was never granted.
TL;DR: No, I don’t think that would have changed things.
Aight y’all, imma get a beer and continue my rewatch of TVD. Wish me luck, I’m still stuck on season 2 😭😭😭
alaric gating damon and stefan out of trying to rescue bonnie because he’s worried about what will happen to jo pisses me off. like… bonnie has risked her neck for all of yall repeatedly?? get tf out of here. jo is a grown ass woman. this is her brother and her coven, and they all got bonnie wrapped up in this when she was just a bystander
Seriously, talk about some magic white pussy, both Tyler and Alaric stopped Damon from saving Bonnie all over these two Parker women they just met, and Bonnie they’ve know either their whole life or years and are the only reason that they’re even alive right now.
Although I would like to note Damon could have saved her before Tyler brought them back by doing one of two things. First meeting her halfway, second bringing the bear. If they didn’t make it in time at least the bear would have been there to get her magic back. And damn can you think of how bad ass her return would have been.
Damon there with Elena sulking. Kai there with his rose talking shit about Bonnie and then she appears suddenly and throws him across the field. Everyone’s elated and instead of the lame fight between Damon Elena and Kai, it’s just Bonnie and Kai hashing it out until they’re across the no magic border and then things just get physical from there and no one can stop them. Woshfully I’d put a sex scene there but logically Kai would just flirt and Bonnie would hit him some more turning him on even more. If they were going to bring Kai out of the PW so early Bonnie needed to come with him soon after because I found his interactions with the MFG to be quite lackluster and had me counting the days until Bonnie would be back and the real fun could start.
Persephone!Bonnie knowing her ~friends~ will want to resurrect her so she can return to her role as town witch as Mystic Falls is crumbling around them in her absence. So she eats the pomegranate seeds from the sacred orchard with Kai watching. They both know what this means. Her return shall be inevitable, to her king and the kingdom he offered her.
So I was going to answer this with a drabble but it kind of turned into a oneshot. It’s an S4 series finale AU. Note, this has not been edited.
“I can bring Jeremy
back, I can keep him here.”
“No, you can’t!”
“Elena needs him. This
was always the plan. Jeremy wasn’t supposed to die.”
“It was the will of
Nature. There’s no magic in this world that is strong enough to challenge it”
“I have every magic! I
have the spirits!” She started the spell. “Phasmatos revenios un Animum.”
“Stop it!”
“I have expression!”
“Stop it, Bonnie!”
“I have the darkness.”
“Bonnie, don’t.”
“Phasmatos revenios un
Animun. Phasmatos revenios un Animum. Phasmatos revenios un Animum. Phasmatos
revenios un Animum. Phasmatos revenios un Animum…”
Bonnie continued to chant with flames roaring all around
her. So focused she didn’t notice the ground beneath her opening. Before either
he or Grams could do anything about it she fell into a pit of darkness.
The flames disappeared and the only thing left in Bonnie’s
place was the dirty ground.
“Bonnie? Baby?” She’d been tortured in the spirit realm but
none of it compared to what she was feeling right now. Her granddaughter had
disappeared without a trace and she had no idea how to find her.
The fall was shorter than expected—granted she didn’t expect
much. She couldn’t help but compare herself to Alice in Wonderland when she
fell down the rabbit hole, but Alice was met with much more pleasant beings.
His name was Kai and she’d fallen into his realm. She’d
heard the stories as a kid, how he had committed the ultimate act of sin and
murdered his siblings. That the act was so atrocious that nature had created a
realm all for him, the only other beings to come through were the dead who
crossed over. Why she was there was a mystery until he admitted to taking her.
The first emotion she felt was fear. If he was the man she
had heard of she knew she didn’t stand a chance. The next emotion she felt was
anger. With all the magic she had in her veins she killed him. First by
impalement, then with fire and then variants of the two until she realized she
was wasting her time, he could never truly be killed, not here at least.
Soon anger turned into curiosity.
“Why did you take me?”
“Loneliness.”
“But why me? If you were lonely you could have taken
anyone.”
“Because I wanted you.”
“What makes me so special?”
“Maybe the question you should ask is what doesn’t? You,
Bonnie Bennett, are the most special
woman I’ve ever observed, I wasn’t letting that go to waste.”
Three Months Later
Mystic Falls was in complete chaos, Bonnie never closed the
veil. Every day was like living in A
Christmas Carol except the ghosts were a lot more pissed off and had a lot
of axes to grind. Seeing their dead loved ones weren’t
worth the carnage it had caused in its wake—they were there to collect and boy
was there a lot to collect. They needed Bonnie and they needed her ASAP.
They learned from Sheila that she had disappeared, may have
even been dead, but a hot tip from the Gemini coven had told them that she was
in their approximation of hell. The weakened veil had allowed Malachai to walk
on earth once more and he had coveted the last Bennett witch. They had no idea
what he wanted with her—there was no way for him to leave, nature had spoken—but they knew it wasn’t good. No one
from the living was supposed to be down there.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of my
best friend being stuck with some psychopathic killer. God, knows what he’s
doing to her down there,” Caroline chimed in. They had weekly meetings—outside
of Mystic Falls—about what to do about the veil.
“I don’t like it either care, but we have bigger things to
deal with right now,” Elena said.
“Which we need Bonnie
for.”
“Who we have no way getting to. We need a witch, plain and
simple.”
“Wow, why didn’t I think of that? It’s not like every witch we’ve come across wasn’t powerful enough
to do the spell.”
“Well, there has to be
one! Bonnie was an untrained witch there has to be at least one witch out there
who can do the spell.”
“And is willing to help us? Witches don’t like vampires,
Elena.”
“Well, Bonnie helped us.”
“Because she was our friend.”
“Alright, we’re getting nowhere arguing,” Stefan cut in.
“I’m all ears, Stefan.
What do you suggest we do?”
“Caroline’s right, we need Bonnie, but there might be a way
to get to her. If there’s a way to the Otherside there has to be a way to Hell.”
“I might know someone,” Damon said. He was unusually quiet lately
mostly because this veil problem affected him the most. It put him in a
permanent contemplative mood.
“Who?”
“Don’t worry about it.” He got up and left the room leaving
five very confused people behind.
“Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, stubborn, stubborn Bonnie. Once
again I’ve prepared the perfect meal, and once again you refuse to eat. Do you
know how excited I was to finally cook for someone else? Just one bite—it’ll be
the most delicious thing you put in your mouth.”
“I’m sure it’s very
delicious, but I’ve heard the story. You and I both know what’ll happen if I
eat that. I want to go home, Kai.”
He groaned. “What’s with you and home—it’s not like there’s anything there for you.”
“My friends are there.”
“Are they? I’m sure they’re doing just fine without you.”
“And what would give you that impression?”
“Nothing really, they’re probably dead by now, but if the
only thing standing between them and death is you they were probably meant to
die.”
“How can you say that like it’s
not a big deal? Have you never cared for someone?”
“I care about you.”
“If you cared about me you’d let me leave.”
“But if you leave you’ll die.”
“Says who? Who says I’m going to die.”
“You’ve already died, and if I hadn’t grabbed you, you would
have died again. So, you see I can’t let you leave—you can’t defy Nature and
it’s coming for you.”
She got up from her seat at the immaculately decorated
table—he always tried to impress her—and walked over to his seat at the head of
the table. She took his face in her hands and smiled gently at him. He couldn’t
help but feel comforted by her—he was finally getting through to her. “You are
so, so sweet, but-” She paused. “Don’t tell me what to do.” Her tone was
anything but sweet.
“Ugh, when are you going to learn the difference between
someone helping you and someone trying you control you? Because I gotta tell
you, you’re shitty at it.”
“Excuse me. You don’t know anything about me.”
“Except I know everything about you. I’ve been watching you
for a very long time.”
“That’s not creepy at all.”
“If I could have I would have talked to you.”
“And I would have avoided you every time.”
“And I would have been proud of you for it.”
“You make no sense sometimes.”
“I like you. You’re fierce. Take no nonsense from anyone,
and you’re more powerful than you’ll ever know. I’ll admit, you don’t belong
her—you’re here because I’m a selfish bastard—but you also don’t belong there.
Damon knew exactly where to find her. She hadn’t left since
Bonnie’s disappearance. At first, she
just kept waiting for her to come back, but now—knowing where she actually
is—she still can’t leave. It’s the last place she saw her granddaughter.
“After being dead for a year this is how you’re spending
your time among the living.”
She sighed exhaustedly. “There’s only one person I want to
spend my time with—nothing else matters.”
“What do you say we get her back?”
“I say, what’s your angle? You and I both know you don’t
give a damn about my granddaughter.”
“I’ll admit, my feelings for Bonnie aren’t pleasant, but she doesn’t deserve t be
in hell.”
“And?”
“We need her.”
“I’m not helping you kill my baby.”
“Who said anything about killing her? I need her alive,”
“Do you know what she was doing the night she disappeared?”
“No.”
“She was trying to bring Jeremy back, for Elena. As mad as I am about her being I the underworld I’m glad
he took her because if he hadn’t she would be joining me on the Otherside well
before her time. I want to get Bonnie back but I want her to live a long happy
life and she can’t do that with Elena around—she sacrifices too much.”
“I get what you’re saying but you and I both know this veil
needs to come up and not just to save my ass. You’ve sad it yourself—nature
always finds a balance and it’s been absolute chaos for months. This isn’t
going to end well for anyone.”
A long silence sat between them before Sheila spoke again.
“Lucy, my sister’s daughter, she should be able to help you. Although I can’t
guarantee she will.”
It had been four months. Four months since she’d seen her Grams, four months since she’d seen her
friends, four months since she’d seen her dad and though she missed them—it got
easier and easier to be apart from them. The more her affection grew for Kai,
this place, even his dog, the more tempted she was to give in, but she held
strong.
They’re in the middle of a game of Monopoly when a new soul
entered. She was winning much to Kai’s annoyance—he’d had years of experience
and never once had he lost this game—she must have been cheating.
“Aren’t you going to get that?”
“No, I’m busy.”
“Someone needs to tell them what’s going on. They must be so
confused.”
“So, they all are, doesn’t mean I have time for them.”
“If you’re not going to greet them then I will.” She got up
in a huff leaving Kai alone with the Monopoly board.
She met them at the river—it was a male. She expected a
completely a terrified soul but found them to be pretty calm. When she was closer to him she realized she
knew him and her stomach dropped.
“Matt?” she said teary-eyed.
“Bonnie!” he shouted excited.
“I found you.”
“What are you doing here? The only people who come down here
are-” she couldn’t finish her sentence thinking about his fate.
“I know and I’m technically dead, but your cousin Lucy is
going to bring me back.”
“What?”
“I came to get you.”
“But how?”
“Just take my hand.”
“Take his hand, Bonnie.”
Kai’s voice startled her out of her reverie. She turned to look at him. “It’s
what you’ve been asking for, for months. Take it.” He sounded eerily calm to
her.
“But you don’t want that.” She ran over to him to gauge his facial expression more.
“It’s what you want.” His expression never changed—it was
completely neutral. She could leave—the decision was all hers.
“Bonnie, we have to go soon—I don’t have much time before
she brings me back.”
She’s still staring at Kai. “You heard the man.”
“Will I ever see you
again?”
“You know I can’t leave, but here-” He grabbed her hand and
put something in it. “Something to
remember me by.”
She looked at her hand and found six pomegranate seeds. He
was truly giving her a choice.”
“Bonnie!” Matt shouted from the other end. “We have to go.”
Without even thinking about it she downed the seeds and ran
over to Matt’s side. Before she grabbed his hand they gave each other knowing
smiles. He couldn’t leave, but she could come back. With a small wave, she took Matt’s hand. Everything went
bright and then she was in her living room surrounded by her friends and
family.
“Bonnie!” Caroline was the first to run over and hug her.
Bonnie was too overwhelmed with everything to acknowledge anything. The entire
gang was there: Stefan, Elena, Damon, Tyler, Matt, and Jeremy. Her dad was even
there, but that didn’t matter because she found the one person she’d missed
most.
“Grams!” She wiggled her way out of Caroline’s arms and ran
to her grandmother. “You’re still here.”
Grams gave her a knowing look. “You never put the veil up like I told you.” Bonnie’s eyes went wide at
this. “Don’t worry baby, Lucy’s got it covered. Just worry about yourself for
now.”
“But-”
“No buts, you’ve been in the underworld for four months, you
need rest and probably some food, you didn’t eat while you were there, did you?”
She had a mischievous smile when she replied, “Of course
not.”

Boo-Kai | Day 4: Pop Culture
Fight Club
He doesn’t know when it started but he knew it had to do with Bonnie Bennett. She saw right through him at the support group meetings, but then again, it takes one to know one–he just wished she didn’t disrupt his sleep–he has terrible insomnia.
That’s when he met Malachai Parker.
He looked how he wanted to look. He fucked like he wanted to fuck. He was smart, capable, and most importantly, he was free in all the ways that he wasn’t. It wasn’t long before he realized who Malachai truly was.

Boo-Kai 2k18 | Day 4: Pop Culture
Se7en
“ I wished I could have lived like you did.”
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
“You hear me detective? I’m trying to tell you how much I admire you. And your dear loving husband.”
“What?”
“Enzo.”
“What’d you fucking say?”
“It’s disturbing how easily a member of the press can purchase information from the men in your precinct.
” I came to your home this morning, after you left. Tried to play husband. Tried to taste the life of what it would be like to be with Bonnie Bennett. It didn’t work out, so I took a souvenir. His pretty head.“
"John, what’s in the box?”
“Because I lust after you. It seems as though lust is my sin.”
Bonnie is a detective who just got her first big case, a serial killer with an affinity for the seven deadly sins. Her partner is a seasoned detective, John Gilbert, who’s on the verge of retirement but has one case left in him. The closer they get to finding him the more they realize he’s closer than they think. Will they find this killer? And when they do what will they find?
I wish witches had familiars, Bonnie would have a cat or a bird. Kai would have a dog or wolf
It definitely would have given her more connection to being a witch, as opposed to the way the show has it which was she was only a witch when her friends needed her while at the same time making it seem like she had no life outside of magic.
I imagine Kai’s familiar to be a black dog and it’s the first thing he gets when he’s released from the prison world and serves as an omen to Liv and Jo when he goes to get them.