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dreams: hell

now it's getting hot and clear

word count: 2188

kai parker x reader

warnings: literal hell

music: angels and men by juno reactor

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You were standing in the middle of the deserted valley, grey and yellow at the same time, burnt and humid at the same time. Ugly thin saplings were crooked in the shapes that made you understand they were literally screaming in their tree language, and you could not bear to look at them any longer. You were about to scream yourself. The air was thick, almost coarse, and with every breath, you could feel ulcers open inside of you due to the poison crawling down your throat. The sky reminded you of your lonely childhood and the pale hospital lamps, the earth was squirming below your foot, hollow, because it was empty. You felt lonely, intimately lonely and abandoned. You couldn't figure out what this place was, but you hated it. There was distant rattle rocking somewhere to the west, echoing through the plain. You didn't want to know what that was. Maybe a giant, rocky monster, stepping slowly, crashing everything his foot comes to. Maybe something worse.

You didn't know where to go; everywhere was the same, so you went ahead, knowing that your right foot will eventually bring you back where you started. The memories, the most unpleasant ones, the painful ones, were swarming just behind an almost see-through curtain, inside your brain. You remembered morose Irish tales about the lost kingdoms of faeries, where even the land is tricky, the legends soaked in melancholy for the lost relatives that suddenly disappeared behind the church. It also made you think of burning alive, because some saplings, no matter how much you tried not to look, eerily resembled churned scarecrows.

When you noticed three black shadows standing thirty steps from you, you started coughing, swallowing the poisonous air. They were immovable, like Dark Watchers, and almost as tall; on their heads, they were big hats and on their bodies, shapeless cloacks; no matter where you turned, they seemed to follow you and always face you, although you couldn't see their faces, if they had ones.

Someone startled you so badly you almost fell; the shriek from your mouth jumped into the air strem and flew away notifying everything of your presence.

It was a relatively normal looking human, in these circumstances.

He even looked comfortable? He wore normal clothes, although they looked like he went to a private school: dark trousers, dark jacket with vertical silver seams where the buttons were supposed to be. He looked a bit agitated.

"What is this place?" you yelped, afraid to touch him and wanting to do it at the same time. He stood two steps from you, and just a moment ago you thought you were completely lonely. Is it not suspicious, anyway, if here, some people just appear out of thin air?

"This is... where I live now", he shrugged, like it was all an everyday business.

"Who the hell are you?"

He looked puzzled. His hand, outstretched to touch you, froze in the air. You noticed a silver ring on his left thumb. And some scars on the back of his hand.

"What do you... oh, you don't remember me again", he rolled his eyes and sighed nosily. "Why can't I figure out this thing?" He started mumbling to himself. He cartoonishly scratched the back of his head, and then, as if remembering their existence, waved his hand towards the dark shadows. Your head snapped. They were gone.

"What were those things?"

"A lot of questions", he summarized, "you know they make me nervous. Let's go".

He grabbed your elbow. Your feet started moving since there was nothing better to do anyway. Suddenly, a tremendously loud thunder shattered the sky, and you completely lost it. Jumping up and to the side, you hid in the stranger's clutch.

"Yeah, it's about to get nasty", he nodded.

"How nasty?" you panted.

"Acid rain".

"Oh".

"Let's run".

You looked up again, and now the clouds in the greenish-yellow sky were perfect vortexex, pulsating, like insect wombs. They looked like they were about to burst, and that was probably truth.

He took your hand, and suddenly you were not in 'hell'. Just for a minute. For some time, you two were runners across the dead valley in an 80s movie. The wind whistled in your ears, together with the uneven wheezing which, you realized later, was your lungs struggling. The two runners, in the no man's land, racing the acid rain. Ahead of you, painfully far away still, stood a black mass of the woods, barely better than being vaporized alive. But he pulled you after him, and so, surprised at your jogging ability, followed. A couple more deafening thunder strikes nearly made you trip, but he caught you; he looked almost amused;

you remembered his name. As the first drops of acid started shooting, piercing the skin on your hands and face, the pain, perhaps, pushed the name into your head.

"Kai", you shrieked, trying to get as close to him as possible, like a child, "it hurts!"

His eyes were wide like tea cups.

"You remembered! Nice! My magic doesn't work here, so you'll have to run faster".

The rain was injuring him, too. One drop already fell on his temple and slid down to his cheek, leaving a wide, pink line of burnt skin. It was getting deeper as acid started to penetrate. He didn't seem to feel the pain. You ruffled your hair as much as possible, as his hand laid on your head.

Together, you made it to the forest, all the while contemplating the strange feeling of melting and burning. While you were still on foot, you didn't pay much attention to the burning, but as you finally stopped, panting, Kai comically holding on to a dead tree, you realized how much it hurts, almost everywhere. The rain burned through the hoodie and the shirt and got to your shoulders, your back. Your thighs were burning, your hands, fingers, your head. The pain was almost excrutiating, and you fell on the ground, rubbing yourself, and only worsening the sensations.

Kai squatted next to you, trying to comfort you.

"It'll stop eventually. Don't scratch yourself. Hey, are you crying? It'll go away. There's nothing here to help you. You'll have to wait".

Minutes, maybe hours, passed. Suddenly, Kai said,

"Hey, you're sleeping anyway. Turn the pain off".

"I am - what?"

You were looking at him from the ground. The face, familiar, with the name, but you still didn't know how you know him. The realization creeped: right, you're sleeping.

Suddenly, the burning stopped. You sat and tried to comb back your hair, embarrassed.

"What the fuck is this place", you groaned, forgetting you'd already asked.

Kai ignored your question.

"I now live in a cave, you know. But soon... well, I'll show you. We're very close to one of the lakes".

You didn't like the sound of that.

"Why do I keep seeing you in my dreams?" you questioned, looking him in the eye. That killer glint. The all-american face. He seemed softer now, more homely, even. Like he humbled down.

"Because I miss you".

As he leaned to you, to help you stand up, you could see a white shirt under his jacket. It was stained with blood.

"Not mine", he noted with a smile. And then he looked dangerous, like a spider bite.

He put his hands on the sides of your head.

"Whatever you hear", he whispered through his fingers, "ignore it. It's just the trees".

Then he pushed you gently with his body, and you walked deeper. Outside, the acid rain made the dry valley foam with yellow, but here, the black thickets and crows were so solid no light came through. First couple of minutes, you couldn't see anything but dark-grey shadows of things you didn't recognize. Through his hands, you heard voices but at first, you couldn't make out the words. They seemed familiar though. Kai walked right behind you, making a weird sound. This whole ten minute walk, slow as hell, strange and scary, felt like physical madness. When the first glinting patches of bright orange started dancing on the trees, the voices got louder, and so did Kai. You wanted to ask if he was okay, but then you heard your dad.

"Come to my room", he called. Your body froze, horror cementing you in place, like you were just another tree. Kai's hands squeezed your head more tightly.

There was howling.

"I said you were going there!"

You bit your lip really hard, moving your legs, putting your hands on top of Kai's. You shivered with animal horror. There was a short, sharp yell from somewhere.

"I thought of going to the bathroom", your mother said in a thin voice.

"What is it?"

The chaos of voices jumped at you like a wild dog, aiming for the throat. You realized Kai was holding you but was distant. The light was now bright enough to see where you're going, and his face, and as you turned, you realized his eyes were transfixed on something in front of him, and the sound he was making was giggle.

Somebody started screaming right into your ear, and you snapped. You ran, shaking your head, doubling the shouting. You ran, as the light of the flames got brighter and hotter. Suddenly, you found one of the lakes, and the voices stopped, but you didn't notice. Falling on the ground, you were now screaming alone. All around the lake, the devils were throwing wiggling bodies in huge sacks into the fire.

Kai ran after you and pulled you up in one motion.

"Don't let them hear you".

Everything was blurry. Your face was hot from the nearby flames, and noice in your ears made you turn on the pain again. All your body hurt, and the soul hurt, too. The faces of the devils, with seven eyes criss-crossed, and horns where humans had brows, almost drove you to awakening. You held on to Kai as he dragged you back into the thickets, but not too far away.

"Get down", he pushed you again, looking behind his back, and there was an opening in the ground.

"I don't want to go there", you moaned, panicking.

"Hey, listen", Kai took your shoulders, "I know it's scary here, but I get to spend every day in this place, and I can vouch for it, it's not as terrible once you get used to it and make connections. Come on, nothing will happen to you".

You fell through the hole in the ground, and as you were falling, you watched the layers of the soil. You could see skeletons pressed together and constituting the whole layers. Then you were in a tunnel. Then, under the ground, and then, in the forest again. Your eyes burned from the air and exhaustion. How much time has it been? Days? Months? You forgot you were yourself and thought you were in that book, about hell. And started counting circles. But here, they were not circles, but rather, floors. Finally, as Kai's hand guided you, you found yourself in a cave, or rather, a crypt. It looked strangely like ones in Mystic Falls, those hidden in the ground with gates among the dry bushes. The flames had been tamed here, and the chains and iron gates were more of a decoration.

Kai entered that place, without a chair, a table, or even a resemblance of a dwelling, like he was at home.

The crypt was full of people.

You leaned on the wall, completely drained.

"Meet my coven", Kai said, proudly. Only obscenities left your mouth. That did not kill his ceremonial excitement.

"Coven, meet the love of my life".

The coven bowed to you, as your face got into a state of distortion.

You didn't even have energy to argue or ask questions.

"I found a way to get out of here", Kai gestured around. The coven was ghostly silent. "But that's not even the best part".

He wanted you to share his gladness so bad, and yet, you were paralyzed and annoyed beyond belief. Your skin felt like it was sizzling.

"Kai..."

"It's not much worse than the prison world. In fact, it's way more fun here", he nodded, "and I also got a little upgrade. You're in danger now", Kai grinned, and there was the bite in his eye again. You held your breath. You couldn't believe this was who you were trapped with. Your brain was functioning still out of spite.

"I'm a vampire now".

Your left ankle gave in, and you collapsed in the most dishonorable way, scratching the palm on the way, as you slid down the wall.

Kai was about to say something else, but the fall continued, you fell through the floor, through the ground, and finally, you jumped up in your bed.

Your skin was burning, and there were people around you as you yelled all the curses you knew. As the nightmare slowly drained out of you, you looked out the window, one word just pulsating in your head.

Vampire. Who?

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