Siphons (Kai Parker)

I was between Bonnie and Damon holding their hands as the light hits us. "Huh" Damon says looking around as I do the same confused to as why we are still in Mystic Falls. "That got awkward fast." I say letting go of their hands and wiping my hands on my jeans. "Ahem." Damon cleared his throat trying to clear the awkward tension. "What happened? Where is everybody?" Bonnie asks and walks off. "Where you going?" I ask her and follow her with Damon. "Well, I feel a fang, so I'm still a vampire. Either I'm a dead vampire, or Mystic Falls is no longer magic-free." Damon says. "Look." Bonnie says and points to the Grill. "I definitely blew that up about an hour ago." Damon says. "Why don't we see any people? If we're still on the other side, we should at least be able to see the living." I tell them. "Where the hell are we? And I don't mean geographically." Damon asks. "I have no idea." Bonnie says. * * * * * * * * "Ugh. How many more streets are we gonna wander?" Damon asks Bonnie as we keep walking around trying to figure out where we are. "How many times are you gonna ask me questions I don't have the answers to? Hmm?" Bonnie tells him back.  "There's something weird about these cars." Bonnie says. "Yeah, they're almost all 20 years old or more, and yet they look brand-new." I tell her " And that is Elena's not-so-burnt-to-a-crisp house." Damon says picking up the newspaper off of the floor. I look away from the house. The last time I was there Elena helped Geremy kill my brother. "Look." He tells us. "Rare solar eclipse expected to be seen across 12 states." Bonnie reads out loud making me roll my eyes. " No stupid he means the date. May 10, 1994." I tell her. "Is that-. Are we-. That's impossible." Bonnie stutters out. "I don't think we should be asking where we are. I think we should be asking when we are." Damon says. "Wonder if there's any booze in this empty retroville." Damon says as we swing on the porch swing on Elena's house. "Feels so weird to be back here. Practically grew up on this porch." Bonnie says sitting on the chair. "All right. Talk me through it." I tell Bonnie. "Before the other side collapsed, my grams said that she made a sacrifice so I could find peace." She tells me and I nod seeing where she was getting at. "The part where you actually have a theory." Damon buts in making me roll my eyes. "Well, this clearly isn't peace. Otherwise, she wouldn't be stuck here with you." I tell him. "Rude." he says bumping his shoulder into mine. "She must have I don't know Sent me somewhere, and when I held your hand, took you with me." She tells us. "Well, did she happen to whisper a safe word in her last breaths, a clue maybe, witchy path out of here?" I ask. "No, but if we got here by magic, magic should be able to get us out." Bonnie says. "And that frown that's not upside down is telling me what?" Damon asks. "Phesmatos, Incendia." Bonnie says trying out a fire spell. "Still can't do magic. Perfect." Damon says sighing. We all made our way to the boarding house and went to sleep. In the morning I sat in the kitchen while Damon danced around making pancakes. Bonnie cleared her throat coming in making Damon stop dancing. "I didn't know you cooked." Bonnie told him. "I don't." He told her. "How'd you sleep? Me not good. My 1994 mattress was very lumpy." Damon tells her. "What you got there?" I ask her. "Oh. Miss Cuddles. I lost her when I was 9, but I went into my house last night, and there she was. I also found this at my grams' house, her old grimoire." Bonnie tells us. "Yeah? Well, I found this. Drank it last year when Ric died." Damon says. "So we're in this snapshot of another time or something. Everything that existed in 1994 still exists." I tell them. "For better or for worse." Damon says kissing the CD he picked. "Listen. There was a time when I couldn't practice magic. This grimoire taught me a lot. Maybe I can reteach myself. And if not El can do the spell. We just got to find the right spell." Bonnie says. "If you're still a witch, which with our luck and your skill probably ain't the case." Damon says. "Would a little support kill you?"Bonnie asks him. "I am acutely aware that we are in some otherworldly time dimension. However, did you ever think for one second that maybe it's you being negative reacting to my natural self negatively, hmm?" Damon tells her. "You're ridiculous." Bonnie tells him as I just watch the two of them.  "Nope. I'm consistent. Eat your pancakes. Oh, and  you can do a crossword puzzle." Damon tells her. "Oh, gee, thanks. Breakfast with my least favorite person and a crossword puzzle from 1994. All right. What's a 7-letter word for." Bonnie says. "You've got to be kidding me. Bonnie, look at the date on that paper." Damon says. "It says may 10, 1994. It's the same day as yesterday. We're living the same day all over again." Bonnie tells us. "Well, that proves it. We're in hell, my own personal, custom-built hell, and you're in it with me. Bottoms up." Damon tells us being dramatic. * * * * * * * * * "What's a 7-letter word for 'kill me now'?" Bonnie say. "That joke got old 6 weeks ago." I tell her sitting next to her. "So did this crossword puzzle. Every day for two months, I've done this stupid thing, and I still can't figure out 27 across." She tells me. "An old tongue twister Eddie turned top 40?" I look at her and shrug. "And I hate pancakes!" She yells stabbing the pancakes Damon makes her. "Whoa. Don't take it out on the pancakes. Those pancakes, like myself, are waiting for you to find a spell so El can get us the hell out of here." Damon says. "You know I've been trying." She yells at him. "And failing. Further evidence we're in hell. Not only am I stuck with you, I'm stuck with the useless version of you." Damon tells Bonnie. "Did you hear that?" Bonnie asks. "What would I have heard, Bonnie? We're the only three people here. We were the only three people here two months ago, and we're the only three people here now!" Damon yells and I get up and go outside. Bonnie made dinner but I just went to bed.