Kai Parker

“Speaking from experience?” She smiled before shrugging, taking a quick look back at the door she came from. “One can only hope, she seemed pretty deserving of it, being yelled at by tipsy dickheads. Maybe being intoxicated will make them loosen their wallets, maybe it’ll make them unconscious before they get the chance? Who knows.”  The way he said it, combined with the weirdly strong aura she got from him (well… as far as she could tell, it was weird), made her wonder exactly what she had gotten herself into by agreeing - surely he couldn’t be that bad? She had to admit she was surprised by the offer of his hand, he didn’t seem like an affectionate person but maybe she was wrong? “Screw it,” Nicola chewed her lip as she glanced at his outstretched hand, hesitating only for a second before taking it, deciding to throw caution to the wind. “Bad influences are more fun anyway.” Ouch, another reminder that she really should be staying sober. “You don’t seem very dumb to me, Kai, though I totally see the overconfident part.” Kai seemed nice enough, at least to her, and if she was being naïve then so be it - she’d deal with the consequences, whatever they may be. “Hey, I’m putting my dignity in your hands here. If I wake up tomorrow on the bathroom floor with my drunken antics splashed over social media, I’m totally blaming you. I’ve been there way too many times in the past, someone else can take the hit for once.” She used her shoulder to nudge his arm, the closest thing she could reach after realising she couldn’t use her hand since he was kind of holding it. 

Kai shakes his head slightly, “Nah, not really just assuming from what I’ve seen in movies about crowded bars.” It wasn’t as if he had a lot of experience being in jammed packed places but he does like to think people went more unnoticed with the large groups of people or maybe it was the fact that no one could point fingers when it was so crowded. With his hand stretched out he wondered if she would take it, in a way it was his own private test. If she took it, it spoke volumes and it also granted him the ability to feel with his own hand the magic she held. There was something about her, some dark aura that drew him in and had him hold that attention on her. With the soft small hand landing his, he closed his hand around hers, gentle like, only enough to usher her with him. The spark he felt under her skin, wasn’t enough to tell him witch but there was enough there that had he needed to channel magic it was there. She was something. He offers a brighter smile, “There’s always something a little alluring about being bad.” He agrees with her, though he sensed his level of bad was far out weighing compared to hers. He laughs, “I love social media as much as the next but I don’t post pictures of people who don’t want them out, I’m a lot of things but not that bad.” It was one thing taking a life here and there but posting pictures that aren’t preapproved, that was another level. “Besides one on one kind of things should be in the moment.” He had assume people hated when a phone was in another’s face while they were trying to spend time together, he gathered that much from Luke’s traits. “Though, in return I have to ask you don’t shame me for my place. I got some...classics around and its well its a guys place so...”

ellie takes a seat beside next to kai without asking, a mixture of a huff and sigh from fall her lips. “ you have no idea, i seem to have a target on my back. and for ? reasons i’m unaware of, but i thought this might interest you.”

Kai looks to the girl with mild interest it wasn’t everyday people usually sat next to him like that, in most of his life people stayed away six feet at the very least. “It that a fact?” He says with a raise of his brow. “Well as much as I love our chats, what makes you think this topic in particular would interest me? Not to say random attacks aren’t interesting when you don’t seem like the conflicting type.”

Sitting down at the park on a bench he pulls out a random book filled with his father’s writings. He was sure reading it would only inspire rage so he slammed the cover closed and tossed it into the box at his feet. Looking up when he saw the figure walking his way. “You look like you’ve had better days.”

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Kai laughs. “What kind of doctor? Cause I can say some of these things will just heal up in a second, other things well don’t work like that.”

“You can’t help! You’re just trying to trick me like the rest of them! Aren’t you? Aren’t you?!”

💪  - do you think you’re the strongest you can be?

“Of course not, the more coven the more power, there’s always more power to gain, more magic.”

🌳  - what’s something around town that makes you feel calm?

The antique game store, all the old games and things from my childhood in the eighties. I mean the things of today are just...well maybe it takes the slow transition of it.

“Getting in would be difficult, I had to shove to get out. I think I might have hit someone but I’m not sure.” Nicola joked, slowly slipping out of her previous low mood and into her usual personality. “Oh so you’re a regular flirt then? That your reason for the bar visit?” She teased, wandering closer absentmindedly so she wouldn’t have to talk so loud and could hear him better over the noise drifting outside through the windows and vents. “It really isn’t worth it, grabbing the barmaids attention once was hard enough. Poor woman is rushed off her feet in there. I hope she gets tipped well, it’s chaos.” She tensed and bit her lip in thought. Kai was offering alcohol during her attempt to stay sober, not that he’d know that. But she had been doing pretty well, surely one night wouldn’t matter? The urge to say no itched the back of her mind but it was far outweighed by the temptation of hell yes. At least she couldn’t make an idiot of herself in front of a room full of people… it would only be him. “You are the worst influence, you know that?” She rolled her eyes but there was a bright smile on her face. “Okay, just don’t let me do anything stupid. I get dumb and overconfident when I drink.” 

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Kai laughs, “Sounds like they wouldn’t have even noticed anyway. I think they’ll live. He grins looking back at the entrance she came out of, “I wouldn’t say that, I’m just a...people person.” He admits with a hand on his chest, which maybe he didn’t understand people that well without Luke’s traits but he did like to talk, so that was never a lie. “Ah yeah and no one wants to stand around without a drink in their hand looking like a creep.” He nods along, besides what was the fun if there wasn’t alcohol involved? He loved his mixed drinks after all. “People get drunk enough I’m sure they’ll start tipping nicely, that’s how it works right?” That or the calling them Sweetheart, Kai tipped when waitresses called him that. He chuckles and smiles wider, “You have no idea.” He says with a nudge of his head telling her to follow. “Hmm sounds like me sober.” He muses jokingly as he offers a hand out, “I’ll ply with water too if you want. I just got a wicked blender I’ve been dying to try out.” Figured making his own drinks at home was always a good idea when he wanted to bring victims home rather than eat on the go or inviting would be coven members over. “You’ll be fine, Sunshine.”

“Maybe for you. You made my life a living hell and I can’t say I’m over it quite yet.” Liv considered what he said, realizing that teaming up with him probably insured her safety. Her choices were either team up with the person who’d tormented her most of her life or refusing and knowing he was out there somewhere, potentially plotting her death. Wasn’t it better to keep it in her line of sight? “Wonder how long that’ll last. How can you lead a coven when you nothing of loyalty?” She didn’t know Jo’s girls, but she still felt an odd sense of protectiveness over them. Maybe for her sister or maybe because she couldn’t stand to watch anyone else go through what she and Luke went through. “Fine, I’ll do it. But, once we’re done, you’re leaving me and those girls alone. When we’re done, I never want to see your stupid face again.”

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“Oh please, I was locked away most of your life and practically erased from the family history. You’ll get over it, maybe see a therapist, might help who knows. No one ever thought about getting me one.” Maybe if they had he wouldn’t have snapped the way he did but no, coven always came before family and they wouldn’t risk their secrets not even to find a witch in the field. “Nothing of loyalty? No, you’re confused, I can be loyal I just never had anyone show me loyalty. The sneaky way mom and dad had more kids to replace the merging twins, Jo lying to me about merging so the coven can lock me up. No one was loyal to me so why would I be loyal to them?” He asks trying to find the logic in that, he wasn’t going to have a coven like his father did, no this was going to be different. “Hell when we’re done I won’t need you or them.” He wipes his hands together as if wiping them away. “Though with no one being able to leave town that might be difficult. Cross that bridge when we get here huh?”

“Ah yes, the shortcut to the door nearest the bar. Easy access.” Nicola returned his expression with a timid smile of her own, still a little startled, and pushed herself off the wall to face him properly. “How often is a lot? You sneak up on pretty girls down dark alleys all the time like a hobby or is it a once a week thing?” Once her erratic heartbeat had slowed to just slightly quicker than average, she managed a real smile and relaxed. “I’m avoiding the weird clammy atmosphere inside. It’s busier than I thought it would be and honestly? I don’t know anyone in there. I’m lonely, I guess.” She shrugged, stuffing her hands in her pockets with ease. “Better to be sober and alone out here than in a room full of strangers.” Did her logic make sense? No, but then again most of her life didn’t either.

He points at her with a grin, “You got me, why have to push your way through that mess right?” He didn’t mind it though, the crowds that is, bumping into people gave him a sense of who was what and where the most power laid. “I mean more times than I can count on one hand?” He offers thinking about it, honestly trying to count the times would be a headache he didn’t need and a worry she couldn’t handle. “Though its not usually in alleys and I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a hobby.” A dinner ritual maybe but honestly he wasn’t picky about them only having being female, blood was blood. He nods understanding, it a strange sensation really, being able to understand what people meant on an emotional level. He hung out in crowded places but that didn’t always hit as deeply as he thought it would, not like when he hung out with Erika who he hadn’t seen in some time. “Sounds like its not worth going in.” he comments sticking his hands in his pockets before looking her over and tilting his head, “How about getting buzzed with someone you know?” He asks with a smirk on his face. “I don’t have a full bar but I do have a bitching mini bar.”

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The Full Moon Tavern and Grill was too loud and stuffy for such a warm night. Nicola thought most people would’ve opted to sit outside or better yet, stay at home and drink in their own backyards. Apparently she was wrong, because not long after arriving, she’d stumbled out into the alley down the side of the building for a breather. Leaning against the wall and closing her eyes, she allowed the cool surface to press against her skin and calm her down.

It had been no more than a minute, maybe two, when shuffling footsteps caught her attention at the entrance to the alley and for a second she panicked, until she realised who it was. “Jesus Kai, what are you doing? You scared the crap out of me. 

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Kai liked nothing more than these busy out on the town, so many people out at once made it so some just fell through the cracks and weren’t noticed when they suddenly disappeared. Not to mention it have him plenty of people to chat with, spending as long as he had cut off from all people he was starved for it, the attention, the connections. 

Leaving one club across town he made his way to another, moving to the alley to take a back door in so he could get a look of the crowd before anyone else saw him. But he stopped suddenly as he caught the attention of a familiar blonde. “I get that a lot actually.” He says with a soft smile, “Just taking a short cut, what are you doing in a dark dank alleyway alone, Sunshine?”

“Oh man, I should tell you about the time I siphoned the magic that surrounded a whole town.”

“Will it matter? They won’t be alive when we’re done here. Dang it, did I get blood on my shoe, again.”

“Me? You want to lean on me?” Kai asks with a tilt of his head trying to figure out her angle. “What like some kind of cozy couch scene?”

3 - hoodies or denim jackets? Hoodies, far more cozy

4 - city or countryside? City, have you lived in the country before, snooze fest

Caroline regained her composure, though every single muscle in her body was tensed, ready to pounce if she needed to. She settled on giving Kai the worst glare she could muster up. “We don’t need your help to try and save the girls.” It was a lie. Kai was the only person who knew what to do when it came to the merge, and Caroline didn’t exactly have many options while being trapped in the town. She scoffed, “They’re not isolated from their family. They’re being kept away from you.”

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When she pulled back and seemed to calm down Kai felt a bit of disappointment but it was also better in the long run for his plans, fighting her would put a wrench in things. Ignoring her glare was easy enough, just as easy as ignoring the other hateful looks and remarks he got in Mystic Falls. “Hmm sure about that? A vampire and an aging human with a couple of ill trained siphoner witches, doesn’t sound like a recipe for success.” Alaric was trying to handle things he didn’t understand and it seemed Caroline was following along. “Their only living family member...on their mom’s side at least. Does Ricky have family? I didn’t notice at the wedding...” He muses though his attention was on his own family that night. “Listen, I’ll level with you. I’m more interested in breaking the curse than breaking the twins necks, onto bigger and better things. I get more out of breaking it than I do killing them at this point, so don’t trust my good intentions that’s fair but you should trust my own personal interest. Making deals with the devil, that’s your little groups go to isn’t it?”