It had been a long night, to say the least, and the sun was only just coming out. After some deep thinking Bonnie came to the conclusion that she would avoid sleep and her sex ridden thoughts for as long as possible by pushing it to a place it can't reach her. She used to be a pro at staying up all night when she was younger; sleepovers with Elena and Caroline where they talk all night and keep each other on a hyper kick, no one wanting to be the first to fall asleep. A lot of things are easier to do when you have someone by your side doing it too, which just so happened to be why she was so comfortable in Kai's bed now.

Thanks to her series of unfortunate events, she can't sleep in Kai's bed without her dreams playing out in flashes and she can't sleep without him because who knows what she'll find herself in, and what "dream her" will make her question and realize about herself. Bonnie was really not in the mood to delve into this new side of her but it was like a force from within her trying to break free and making her question - is it really that new? Bonnie thinks back to the first day she met him; an overwhelming sense of confusion, satisfaction, and curiosity coursing through her veins as she replays him surrendering to her in a blaze of fire. She smiles to herself and hops off the bed, changing into comfortable clothes to wear for a walk in the woods replaying tying him up to a chair and how her and Damon thought he would be so intimidated by them – yeah, not so much.

Bonnie put on her shoes still lost in thought, having flashes of Kai leaning in close and staring into her eyes saying something about his siblings that she couldn't focus on, followed by her hand on his chest and his breath catching as the candles burned bright. Before learning that he was a sociopath who was imprisoned here for killing his own siblings, Bonnie could admit to herself that she felt some type of... spark, between them. An instant connection that she knows he felt just as strongly, but one he doesn't think she feels anymore which – given all the information, she really shouldn't.

"What are we doing today?"

Spinning around to finding Kai leaning against the door, she looked over his appearance of his usual dark cargo shorts, t-shirt and zip up hoodie. His outward appearance gives off one of boyish charm; one she knows more than well is very deceiving.

"We are not going anywhere, I'm going for a walk," she pressed her body to the other side of the door frame and squeezed through the small space, attempting to avoid his touch.

"Ooh, an adventure?" he asked keeping in step with her as she turned down the stairs. "Sounds fun, let's go!" His cheerful attitude did not put her mind at ease.

"Kai, I-"can't be around you right now, can't look at you, want you... "NO" she blurted, shaking her head. "I uh, just want to be alone... clear my head," she shrugged, opening the door and heading onto the porch.

"But I happen to know of a pretty nice spot that will let you do just that, and its close! Come on, I'll take you."

Bonnie leaned against one of the pews and looked over at him for the first time since he was in her doorway, noting his eager look as he bounced back and forth on the balls of his feet, his hands in his sweatshirt and squinted her eyes at his joyful look.

"And what are you so happy about on this lovely May 10th?"

"Oh I'm always happy Bon, it's you who could use a pick me up. But if you must know, I have a feeling you're going to tell me about your dream today."

"Yeah right," she scoffed under her breath, "since there was no dream, just like there was no dream last night. I'm cured. You actually managed to help me through a problem instead of being the cause of it."

Kai continued to stare at her, eyes sparking from the bright sun overhead as he took a step closer and she took one back feeling the bricks already against her back causing her to stand flat against it. There was still a foot of space in between them, leaning down to be eye level with her.

"I would be a little offended if I wasn't still a problem of yours."

Bonnie let out an involuntary laugh as memories flashed of their time here so far; his outbursts, siphoning her magic, hurting her, helping her, being a small form of comfort to her – and now thanks to her dream is turning into a temptation to her.

"Oh, you have no idea." She looked out at the woods then back at Kai, wanting to tell him to go back inside but ever the curious a witch shall be. "What's this amazing secret spot? If it sounds good enough maybe you can come with me."

"Now where's the fun in that?" he smiled, leaning back and walking down the porch towards the side of the house.

"Where – are you going?" With no answer he turned the corner, causing her to physically groan in aggravation and trudge her feet in his direction. "If I've been here before, or if there is no place, this will be the last conversation we have today."

Kai looked back at her and smiled before venturing off farther away from the side of the house. After a minute or two he nodded in front of him. "Check it out."

Bonnie looked straight ahead at a cobblestone path leading towards an enormous stoned archway, vines and flowers cascading all around it and down the sides. Surrounded it was different types of flowers with colors everywhere and she ran her fingers through the archway seeing it led into an even bigger cobblestone-esque escape, the archway continuing down a long path with grass up to your knees with flowers and vines dangling through all of the open spaces. She couldn't believe this little piece of Heaven existed in a Hell such as this.

"You come here?"

"No," he laughed. "I walk through here, to get to the real mystical spot. But I figured 'hey, maybe you'd like this too.'

"Mm yeah," she mumbled, "that would be an understatement. This isn't the peaceful place you were thinking? Because I think you lucked out, I'm totally content right now."

Leaning against the archway with her head back Bonnie closing her eyes. andcould hear the birds chirping, the smell of the flowers soothing her excessive thoughts and the feel of the grass around her legs giving her that surge of energy; nature at its finest. She opened her eyes, noticing how much more difficult it was and saw Kai standing close to her side.

"My place is paradise compared to this, and it's not that far of a walk. Are you up for it?"

Taking deep breath she contemplated falling asleep right here and now but the thought of another paradise right around the corner was too much to pass up and leaned off the archway with a huff  starting down the path. They walked in silence for the five minutes it took to get there, Bonnie secretly grateful that she had these moments to shut out his presence completely. She could feel her eyes getting heavier and her movements getting more difficult to make the longer she went with nothing to distract her, her body becoming more aware of its tired state.

"It's just right over this rock," Kai gestured in front of them and hopped over it with ease, looking over at the five foot drop and knew she could easily jump and make it but her tired mind was a moment before her actions and that made things a little trickier. She sat on her butt and scooted off, landing with an awkward thud as his hands grabbed her waist for support; her senses heightened on instinct.

"Thanks," Bonnie said awkwardly moving out of his grasp.

Bonnie turned to his side to step away and almost walked straight into a river of water, her eyes trailing up farther until it was met with a waterfall directly overhead. A smile broke out across her face as she stepped closer looking at the beautiful scene in front of her. There was a small path on the left side that led to a wall of rocks that led all the way to the top. It wasn't a massive height, maybe 30-40 feet high with a deep natural looking pool.

"Wow," she breathed, taking a step too close and almost tripping over one of the small rocks into the water.

"Easy there," Kai pulled her back by the waist. "We aren't going in just yet. We have to get to our destination first."

Bonnie followed his finger to the top of the waterfall and shifted over to the rock wall leading from the top all the way down. "You're serious?"

"Yeah! Come on!" with a grand gesture of his hand he hopped on the heels of his feet and headed towards the rocks. When they reached them she had to put her hand over her eyes to shield them from the sun and looked up – up –

"I don't know," she breathed, suddenly feeling a little lightheaded. "It looks like a lot of work from this angle."

"It's a three minute climb, maybe. And then the real fun begins. Do you want me to go first so you can see where I'm stepping or listen to me from underneath you?"

The way he worded it had her mind blindside her with a flash of him grinding underneath her, causing Bonnie to let out a loud laugh and shaking her head.

"Under me - I mean underneath!" she said quickly, his smile quickly outgrowing its space left on his face.

"I'll get too dizzy if I'm looking up to see where you're stepping."

She blew past him and pressed her hands to the rocks, trying to get a feel of how she's going to make it all the way to the top and felt him come up behind her caging his arms around hers.

"Okay, it looks a little wild but it's not. You'll start to feel small indents for stepping stones all the way up and there are a lot of different angles to grab them from."

Bonnie listened to his voice as she made her way up, her adrenaline boosting up her heightened senses and pushing past the oncoming wave of exhaustion. Kai climbed up the rock right behind her, his hand usually landing on her calf to keep her grounded to the rock – and probably so she didn't fall on his head. Making it almost at the top the place she wanted to grab was just out of reach so she gave herself a slight push to propel forward but couldn't reach it then lost her footing on the way back. She let out a shriek as she hugged the rock and started sliding down to her death until she landed in a vise grip against Kai's chest. He managed to keep himself level on the rocks landing while pressing his body against hers to keep her from slipping.

"Anyone ever tell 'ya you have you butterfingers?" he asked against her ear, laughing out threw a wobbly breath, her hands slightly shaking against the rock. "You're alright, you're almost there," he cooed between her ear and temple. "I got you."

That seems to be the problem of the day, she thought to herself as she gained back her strength and pushed herself up the last eight feet. Kai followed up swiftly after then tilted back like he was going to fall.

"Kai!" she reached forward and pulled him into her, hearing his laughter through his chest a second later.

"Awh, Bonster you do care about me!" he laughed as she was trapped in his embrace and breathed him in, feeling her body relax before instinct had her arms locking in front of her to push him away.

"I don't need you falling to your death when I'm trapped up on a waterfall in the middle of the woods."

"Mhm, what an inconvenience that would be," he mused. He walked around her and covered her eyes with his hand, body pressed against her back.

"Kai-"she felt a flare of panic rise in her throat.

"You'll like this, just – step forward. I know, there's a waterfall in front of you so watch out for that. But just... one step."

Hesitatingly taking a step forward and tipping on positive that Kai was about to have her walk straight off the waterfall, she felt his arm snake around her stomach holding her in place. Moving his hand away she opened her eyes to an overwhelming sight; her eye level almost even with the tops of most of the smaller trees and could see the sun shining straight through towards her. Bonnie felt the rushing of water at her feet, the sound drowning out all of her surroundings and the absence of anything in front of her made her feel weightless; like she was flying. Breathing a surprised laugh as her hands drifted above her head lazily, she looked back out over the horizon and sighed a smile, forgetting this town could be so beautiful.

"Now for the fun part," Kai said against her ear before pulling her back a step and dropping his arm, pulling off his shirt and pants in one swift motion leaving him in just his black boxer briefs.

"See this is why we're really here, not for the beautiful scenery or pleasant feelings, but jumping off the waterfall; it's a rush."

Looking at him then back over the waterfall, it didn't seem to be too bad of a drop and if he comes here all the time, it must not be as terrifying as she's currently feeling. Taking a sharp exhale to get rid of the shakes, she took off her shirt and threw it at him.

"Hmm" he hummed in appreciation, grabbing her shirt along with his clothes and dropping them off the side where the rock is, landed with a small thud. Kai walked into the center and she followed staring back and forth between him, down there, and the open space in front of her.

"Ready?" he asked, holding out his hand and she stared at it, eyebrow cocked and he laughed dropping it back at his side. "Just thought you might have needed that extra push. Okay on three; one – two –"

Bonnie didn't wait for three, her adrenaline propelling her legs off the waterfall at full force and slowly drifting back down to Earth until she connected with the water. She stayed underwater, taking in its depth and how visible she can see before popping her head up and looked in front of her for Kai, then on either side of her spinning around in a circle quick, letting out a frustrated noise.

"I know you're screwing with me!" Bonnie felt his hands on her back and then was thrown across the air, landing closer to the waterfall, breaking the surface of the water feeling slightly shocked but couldn't help but smile. Scanning the water she caught sight of Kai as he swam slowly over to her, only his eyes and nose visible like an alligator as her heartbeat momentarily spiked, her thoughts starting to drift and dunked herself back under the water to shake them free. When she popped back up he was right next to her. "OH – my God Kai, you keep scaring the crap out of me."

"That's because you've been on edge," Kai said, lifting his mouth out of the water. "Come here, I want to show you something."

"Yeah that sounds... dangerous in a pool full of water."

Swimming over to one side of the waterfall he put his hand out in front of him and walked straight through it. Blinking a few times, she slowly swam over to where she saw him last, trying to look through the water and sighed, putting one hand against the wall on the side, held her breath and pushed herself forward until she was on the other side of the waterfall in a little cave.

"Cool, right?" Kai swam over to where she was and put his hand out to let the water hit it. "I love this spot."

Bonnie looked behind him at the quaint but decent sized cave, an open circle with the water cascading on one side and an icy wall on the other. She swam to the wall and noticed the water got shallower as she got closer until she could stand and the water stayed down near her stomach. Leaning back against the indent on the wall, her head fell back and closed her eyes. Hearing a light splashing Bonnie had a sense he was getting closer but before she could check his hands were resting on the wall near her stomach and his swaying legs kept brushing up against hers.

"So what is this dream that's been keeping you up?"

Groaning she refused to look at him and kept her head back. "Not this again. I haven't had any more of my recurring nightmare since the last one I told you about."

"Then why aren't you sleeping?" Kai questioned and she could hear the skepticism in his voice; it really irked her that he thought he knew her so well.

"I have been, I'm just trying to get back on a sleeping schedule. The last couple nights with you has thrown me off."

"Am I throwing you off right now?" Bonnie felt his lower half press into hers and felt a charge shoot up her chest to her throat. Her eyes shot open as she stared down into Kai's gaze staring back up at her – a dark look in his eyes.

"What are you doing?" Bonnie had to take a moment to consider the fact she could have fallen asleep and the dream picked up where she left off.

"I'm trying to get into your head, Bon, see what makes you tick," Kai pulled her leg slightly so she lost her balance in her seating, dropping her back down to eye level with the water up to her chest. "I want to know what you're keeping from me."

"You're – delusional –"she breathed, suddenly feeling so lightheaded she could hyperventilate surrounded by water. Bonnie scooted her butt so she wasn't at an angle and pushed herself to the side, hugging the wall. He followed her steps.

The intense look he is giving her as he stalks closer was the exact one he wore in her dream before he tackled her in his embrace, hearing his moans echoing through her skull and felt him holding her so tight she almost couldn't breathe; a sensation she was feeling now too strongly.

"Don't –"Bonnie panicked, trying to stay close to the wall to be near the shallow water but getting closer to the waterfall. She looked to the right at the water cascading down and was getting her nerve to jump through when he pulled her back by the forearm and pressed her into the wall.

"I know something is different," Kai breathed, his body pressed flush to hers. "You're different; a week ago you would have never let me get this close."

Bonnie's cheeks flushed red at his remark, gritting her teeth at how pathetically true it is. This is the same Kai Parker that she stabbed in the neck with a pen to escape from, and yet she can feel her skin sizzling at the close proximity to him. Her breathing quickening and heat flashes are rolling over her, both causing her to reach and grab his shoulder to steady herself from the dizziness. Kai let out a deep breath and tightened his grip, slowly rocking up into her once. The light tingling she felt from the lack of gravity in the water had her swallowing a moan that was begging to come out.

"Don't even think about it," she demanded, hands against his shoulders trying to push him back. "There is no way that this is happening."

"At least not while you're awake," Kai chuckled as she shot him a look filled with daggers.

"I think my brain is just fried from doing the same things, with the same person, every day, that's it's making up crazy never going to happen scenarios to keep me on edge."

Kai pulled her back into his embrace as she tried to swim away. "Maybe it's playing out What If's that could happen depending what choices we made."

"Well then I'm doomed no matter what I decide to do."

Pulling her by the arm her body followed suite in the water until he had the side of her face cupped in his hand. "In that case, you should make it worth it."

With that one look of hunger in his eyes she could anticipate exactly what was going to happen and felt her own hunger bubbling inside. Acting on instinct she dove under the water, swimming straight out of the cave and didn't stop until she was out of breath. Breaking through the surface with a gasp, she looked around in the water before getting out and heading towards their clothes putting on her shirt and turned around to a soaking wet, almost naked man standing behind her, staring her down. His gaze trailed dpwn her body before coming back to rest on her eyes.

"Like I said, today's the day. The day is young, Bonnie Bennett."