Wont You Please Come Around (cause I Want To Spend Forever With You)

won’t you please come around (cause I want to spend forever with you)

Happy holidays @bonkaiqueen​ from @fuckitimfangirling​!

I’ve wanted to do a second soulmate AU for a while and I was really excited to receive my prompt - especially bc it gave me some wiggle room to go pretty dark and reinvent the universe a bit. So thank you for providing this delicious prompt and feeding my muse. I’ll post parts 2 and 3 before Christmas and I’ll be sure to tag you first!

Warnings: Dark. Deals with sleep disorders, and has some creepy sexual vibes bc it relies heavily on parasomnias and nightmare mythology. Mild medical horror. Slight underage, as Bonnie experiences vivid hallucinatory nocturnal emissions as a teen. Canon-typical violence, emotional manipulation and abuse, cat and mouse games. Part 1 is anachronistic and sequential sections without a year change are the same year as the previously noted year. You’ll see. Some plot points and characteristics are pulled from the books, others are just an overhaul of some of the show’s mythos.

1987

Kai grunts in aggravation when his bed dips down in the middle of the night, waking him from a deep, dreamless sleep. He recognizes the smell of Josette’s cleanser and briefly considers kicking his sister out of his bed - literally - when her hand slips into his and her cracked voice calls his name.

She sounds like she’s been crying and Kai can’t decide if he wants to deal with her whining now or in the morning. They haven’t slept in the same room, let alone the same bed, in years, too old to seek comfort in body heat and nearness. It doesn’t help that Kai once sleep-siphoned her to near death in the throes of a nightmare once when they were five and has been ordained no contact ever since.

So this? This is strange and Kai figures he’d rather deal with an weepy Jo now than a weepy and angry Jo during breakfast.

Squeezing her hand back, he sighs and pulls her into a hug. It’s too hot to be comfortable, but his sister likes this kind of affectionate shit and she’ll probably quit bitching faster if he’s nice.

“S'wrong?” he slurs. Jo is quiet for a beat. Irritated, Kai pinches her side to prompt her. Shoving his hand away, Jo sighs.

“I dreamt with my soulmate tonight,” she finally replies, her voice breaking on the word soulmate.

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Trigger Point

Happy holidays @fuckitimfangirling​ from @goldscribbles​! This is an unconventional take on the soulmate trope. I’ve never thought about this idea before, so I found myself with a lot of questions and tried to work through them in this piece. I’m not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I did my best and hopefully you like it!

Kai steps out of the dim room into the hallway squinting at the light, his body loose and pleasantly aching from the massage.

“How are you feeling?” a soft voice asks.

He looks at his massage therapist, a short young woman with dark hair, who is holding a glass of water in her hand. Something is off with his vision. He rubs his eyes, but the slight blurriness still lingers.

The woman smiles, extending the glass to him. “Take your time. It can be hard adjusting to the light.”

“Thanks.” He takes the offered water from her, their fingers barely grazing, and color explodes across his retinas.

“Mr. Parker? Mr. Parker!”

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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

Anything

Happy holidays @kingcobrakai1972​ from @leianaberrie​! Set in an alternate season 7. Season 6 until the finale. The heretics escape and under Lily’s orders, put Elena in a sleeping spell as punishment to Damon before leaving Mystic Falls. Bonnie meets Kai to ask him to help break the spell. She’s willing to do anything he asks.

“Anything?”

Bonnie slants a glance at the man sitting across the table. In the shadows, she can’t read the expression on his face, but his eyes are glinting.

Her fists spams under the table, and she swallows. Hard. “Yes.”

There is a beat. Then another.

“Let’s go.”

She barely has time to snatch up her purse, before Kai’s hand is firm on her elbow, leading her out of the restaurant. She wonders with vague hysteria if the waiter won’t chase them down for not paying the bill, then laughs to herself as she remembered that the owned he restaurant, the entire block, this damn town.

He glances down at her at the laugh, just briefly, and she catches a glimpse of a tight jaw and glinting, glinting eyes, then he’s striding across the parking lot, with her in tow.

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Mike Delfino is how you write a damaged guy right. They never excused his shitty actions and he was always forced to pay the consequences.  He was a better husband and man to Susan, a devoted dad to MJ. He had a hero complex, but it was endearing.

Can more characters be written like him? Please?