Harry Hook is chaotic neutral (ง'̀-'́)ง (callemfishbait) wrote in thecityof, @ 2017-11-05 16:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | bonnie bennett, harry hook |
making new alliances
Bonnie ✦ Harry bendy times lowish complete |
It was safe to say that Harry was the actually behaving for once. He only snuck out a few times, earned the wrath of his sea witch, but other than that he stuck to the apartment like he was tethered there. Kai may have said he wasn’t out to kill the vampirate anymore, but he didn’t really believe him. His once friend was a psycho. There were times Harry could still feel the power leaving him and he could hear himself screaming in defiance at the Heretic. That night played on loop through his head and he knew Uma could tell. She was always giving him slight looks, as if trying to decide if he was finally broken or not. LA had not been kind to him, but he knew he had brought a lot of this down on himself. He had managed to ally himself with the wrong group of people. The result was his death, several times. He stared out the window as he sipped warmed blood from a mug that was extremely girly. CJ thought she was so funny by replacing most of the mugs with ones he found annoying. Joke was on her, he didn’t care if he was holding a bright pink mug with sparkles on it. His normal pirate look had been toned down dramatically during his imprisonment in this apartment. Black pants rolled up to the knees and a faded t-shirt that boasted an image for the movie Peter Pan. There wasn’t a bit of eyeliner around his eyes at the moment. No, Harry almost looked like he could have been a normal teenager, save for that sparkly mug of blood in his hands. He lifted it took another sip when there was a knock at the door. His lips creased into a frown and his gaze went to the hook that was on the sofa table. After a moment the knock came again and he finally moved to open the door. He threw it open with a dramatic flair and his eyes widened to see the witch on the other side. A slow, smug grin appeared on his face as he leaned an arm against the doorframe. “To what do I owe this pleasure?” They weren’t friends. He didn’t know what they were honestly, but she had once made it clear she would take him out if he ever got in her way. That had been before he had saved the twins. Everything had changed when he saved the twins. Bonnie realized that she hadn’t really talked to Harry. Well, she had but it was never in person and that was mostly because she knew who Harry’s friends were. Bonnie wanted to hang that over his head a bit. Harry Hook wasn’t always a vampirate and that mostly had to do with his association with Kai and Kol. Bonnie wanted to tell Harry to pick better friends but that was way too late. Bonnie couldn’t really help Harry now - well, maybe. Harry had done something normal vampires didn’t usually do. He gave a shit. Bonnie had to give him some kind of gratitude even though Harry’s involvement had placed him under severe house arrest. Bonnie didn’t quite understand it but then again she guessed that if Kai wanted Harry dead he would have acted by now. Did Kai actually care about the few friends he had? Was this even a type of friendship? “I’m just here to make sure Kai didn’t kill you - yet.” Bonnie added the last word in because it was still early and who knew if Kai was somewhere plotting Harry’s demise. Bonnie wouldn’t have been that surprised if the heretic came speeding through at any given moment. “So, wipe that grin off your face because you don’t get to gloat just because you did a good thing.” Bonnie waited for Harry’s face to go stale before she made any attempts to move inside of his apartment. Bonnie knew that Harry didn’t live alone. There was this...girl. Uma. Bonnie guessed that the two had some sort of thing going on but Bonnie wasn’t too interested in that. That wasn’t why she was here and it wasn’t like she would have minded the girl’s company. “Are you okay?” Bonnie asked, deciding to open up the floor there. “Besides the whole house arrest.” He wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to Bonnie, not after all the stories Kai had told, but the girl standing in front of him was impressive. He could feel the confidence coming in waves off of her and in a way she reminded him of Uma. He rolled his eyes before dropping his smug look. The sparkling mug was brought back up to his lips as he took a sip of the blood. He stepped out of the way so she could enter the apartment. “Kai isn’t going to kill me,” he shut the door with a flick of the wrist before watching the witch. “He is over it at the moment because Kol is toying with his little Claire, but Uma isn’t letting me out quite yet.” He cocked his head to the side as he stared at Bonnie. Did she honestly care if he was okay or not? Most people in this city seemed to think he was worthless. Most attempts he made at friendship blew up in his face, but he had to admit he was kind of shit at trying to be anyone’s friend. Kai had accepted him for who he was and then broke his neck without a second thought. Their relationship had been rocks ever since that moment. “What’s it matter,” he finally asked before moving towards the couch. He flung himself onto it dramatically and wasted no time kicking his feet up on the sofa table. His clear blue gaze watched Bonnie over the edge of his mug as he finished off his meal. He licked the corner of his mouth as he rested the mug against his thigh. “Ye didn’t rat me out. Lizzie isn’t aware I am the one who told,” he couldn’t help the confused look on his face. “Why?” Lizzie Bird was a hot topic in this apartment. Uma seemed to hate the girl with a new sort of passion and Harry was stuck in a strange situation. He normally did whatever his Captain asked without question, but ever since arriving here he had started to branch out more. Lizzie was his friend, one he had almost died for, but Uma only saw the dying bit. The sea witch blamed Kai’s niece for Harry’s near death. “I didn’t rat you out because I know what you did wasn’t for yourself. You protected my best friend’s daughter and that goes a long way for me. It means there is some part of you that isn’t a heartless, cold bastard. Believe me when I say I’ve met a lot of those.” Bonnie thought she had befriended the worst one of them. Damon used to be someone she hated but now she was trying her best to get back their friendship. Bonnie didn’t have anything against Harry aside from his choice of friends. “And Kai will change his mind later. It’s only a matter of time.” Because really, what did Harry have to gain from believing that Kai wouldn’t? He was a monster and a psychopath. Everything that Bonnie hated resided in one singular entity. “I’m a little curious. Was their appetite for violence that made you want to be their friends or were you honestly just stupid at the time?” Bonnie wasn’t trying to start an argument despite the things that were coming out of her mouth. A part of her was legitimately curious as to how the three of them became the best of pals. “I mean, I’m sure living in the same apartment didn’t help matters but you don’t seem like the type that craves murder and mayhem.” Did a pirate take their pleasures in plundering treasure and sailing the seven seas? Although maybe Harry was the different kind of pirate and pillaged villages and murdered others just for fun. “What exactly do you know about Kai? Or Kol for that matter?” Bonnie was sure that Harry knew the basics. That the two of them were a bunch of crazies looking to do whatever they wanted and when they wanted to do it. “I mean, I can already see that you know they don’t care for you, or your human life.” Bonnie nodded to the cup that was against his thigh, knowing full well by the redness that it wasn’t morning coffee. His lips formed a faint line as she said it was because it meant some part of him wasn’t a cold, heartless bastard. There it was. The thing everything seemed to think about him. Harry was a passionate person, not exactly the most stable of people, and he couldn’t shake the reputation he had earned quickly in this place. Bad news. Troublemaker. Killer. He didn’t respond and only found his eyebrows rising closer to his hairline as Bonnie kept talking. “Neither,” he responded. “We didn’t start out friends. I wanted them out of my apartment, but Kol threatened to kill me then and there.” He traced a finger around the rim of his mug as he kept his gaze on Bonnie. “I laughed. Then that was it, they decided they liked me. The deathmatch…” His eyes grew stormy as he thought about what had happened that night. He had finally kissed Uma and promised to come back to her, but he had broken that promise for a few days. He had died. “Things were different after that. They saw me as breakable and the second Enzo and Veronica messed with me, that was it.” He leaned his head against the back of the couch as he frowned faintly. Harry had just wanted to live a life that wasn’t trapped on the Isle. Murder and the like were not in his wheelhouse, but this city was trying so hard to force him into that. The day he had turned still upset him and he kept that one close to his chest. “I know bits and things about them. Doesn’t matter though, does it? My name is tangled up with theirs now. Its why Katherine even offered to help me adjust when Kol and Kai threw me into the shark infested water. Did ye come just to point out how stupid of me it was to try and get powerful allies in this place? Trust me, I already know.” Harry had wanted friends and had paid a nasty price. “Ye know, I don’t exactly see other people being the most perfect of people, but they don’t get all the shite I do. Bit hypocritical if ye ask me.” Harry almost felt like he could do no right in this place. Saving Lizzie had earned him the wrath of his Captain, destroyed his alliance with Kai, and had started a sort of struggle. Kol sided with him, of course, but now even Kai’s Claire was getting dragged into things. “Besides,” he finally drawled out. “I am not exactly looking to run off and be BFFs with Kai.” “I wouldn’t be here if I thought you were going to do that.” No. Bonnie couldn’t be friends with someone who could be in the same room as the heretic. It had nothing to do with history and everything to do with the way Kai treated people. How he thought that every little bit he did counted as some sort of grand gesture. Bonnie was tired of it and she did everything in her power to stay away from him. It was easy. Bonnie wasn’t thirsty for attention the way Kai was. “And just because your name is associated with them doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. As far as I can tell you’re not like them. You might be a little bit on the delusional side but that could just be your charming personality.” Bonnie couldn’t help the touch of a smile that played on her lips, her expression changing when she realized that she was getting a little bit off topic. “Anyway, I came here not to just thank you but I also wanted to give you something.” Bonnie wasn’t going to let what happen to Harry happen again. She knew that Kai could easily kill the pirate by mere touch as vampires were infested with the magic that kept them immortal. Kai was still a siphoner and literally Harry was bait. All of them were in a way. Kai could get a pick up from any of them if he really wanted it. “You already know that Kai draws magic from himself and he can draw it from other people. It can be awfully deadly to vampires.” Bonnie approached Harry before stopping in front of him, her hand digging into her bag momentarily before producing a daylight ring - one that was in a shape of a skull although it retained the lapis lazuli gem. “Obviously you already have a daylight ring. I’m assuming Kai made it for you but this one won’t just protect you from the sun. It will counteract Kai’s siphoning ability. He’ll draw magic from it instead of you but it won’t last for long. If he drains it completely then you’ll be vulnerable but at least it will buy you some time.” Bonnie knew that one day, when Kai got a little testy he would lash out and if Harry was going to be associated with Caroline’s girls it was going to happen. Harry merely flashed her an amused smile when she question whether he was delusional or not. “I believe the common theory is that I’m off kilter, love.” He pressed a finger to his temple with a shrug. There was no hiding the fact that sometimes he wasn’t exactly all there in the head. Sometimes he got locked into memories he didn’t prefer. The whole turning into a vampire was a distraction for now, but his irrational moods couldn’t fully be blamed on the enhanced emotions. Most children from the Isle had suffered one way or another. “Oh?” He shifted on the couch so he could set the empty mug on the coffee table. “A present?” That was a real surprise for some reason and he didn’t know how he felt about the fact Bonnie had come over to thank him and give him something. Lizzie had already snapped at him a few times when he got weird about her thanking him. “Aye, I know. Hurts like a bitch to be quite honest.” The ring that was produced had him entranced for a moment. A skull. Sparkly. The current ring he wore on his finger was a crude creation that looked like he had wrestled it free from some skeleton. It had been an afterthought from Kai. The ring Bonnie was holding was different and he could only stare. “You are giving me a defense,” he finally managed to say. His voice sounded lost and confused as he tried to come to terms with the fact someone actually wanted to give him the chance to live. “I mean, thank you. I think.” He pressed his fingers to his lips before finally yanking off the ring he had accepted from Kai. He twirled the metal around in his fingers before letting it drop. It landed in the mug with a strange thunk. It sounded ominous to Harry’s ears, but it was probably just his mind playing tricks on him. Kol was going to be cross with him for rejecting something else of Kai’s. Harry was just getting sick of all the power struggles they seemed to be trapped in. He spent every night in Uma’s and it did little good. Kol went after Claire, Kai pouted, and Harry just wanted to sleep. “I put that on,” he pointed at the ring still in her hand. “And there is no going back for me. Not that it is a bad thing.” “You put this on and you have a fighting chance the next time Kai gets upset.” Which would happen again and again. There was no avoiding it and if Harry was going to associate himself with the heretic then something had to be done. Harry couldn’t be his puppet forever and Bonnie was giving him the means to fight back, to at least hold a foot stone when it came to the infamous Kai Parker who was dangerous and all evil. Bonnie had nothing to fear because she could handle her own. She would put Kai in his place forever - all she needed was a few more things. The least she could do in the meantime was cover her bases. “Unless you go flashing it in his face he won’t know about it.” Which meant Kai wouldn’t think anything of the ring. Nobody would look twice at it unless Harry decided to spill the beans about its special properties. “Which means you can’t tell anyone what it does. Not even Uma.” Which she felt was probably going to be hard for the pirate considering that it was obviously that the ‘sea witch’ was involved with the vampirate. “Or Claire, or Kol or any of the others.” Bonnie adjusted her bag to her other shoulder as she looked down at the ring, waiting for Harry to either take it or not. “As strange as this is for me to admit I don’t want you becoming another victim. I’m not saying you don’t know how to take care of yourself. I’m not saying your friends won’t be there but there is a chance that in the end it’ll just be you and you alone facing Kai’s wrath.” Bonnie knew that she was right. She had been there, she was that person sitting on the couch wondering when and how Kai would strike and if the next time would be the last. Not tell Uma? Harry couldn’t help the way his eyes widened in shock. He hated keeping secrets from his Captain. The fact he couldn’t tell Kol either had his shoulders dropping just a bit. He and Claire put up with each, but they hardly told each other secrets. Oh, he had nothing against the girl, he just knew not to push her buttons. He had heard the stories of her and her nasty little alchemy tricks. “Why, Bonnie, it almost sounds like ye care,” he teased before reaching and snagging the ring. He slid it onto his finger and held his hand up to inspect the skull. Yeah, he could see how most people would think it was just something he had taken a fancy to since it screamed pirate. The weight was reassuring on his finger and he could almost feel something ease inside of him. Aye, Bonnie had given him a bit more solid footing. Kai would come for him one day. The question was whether or not it would be to finally kill him. Their relationship had been strange and he still wasn’t sure exactly what they had been. He had felt a pain in his chest the day he had picked Lizzie Bird over Kai. The Heretic might forgive him at some point, but the betrayal had still happened. Uma would murder Harry if he even attempted to be Kai’s friend again. “I won’t tell anyone about the ring or what it does. I owe you a favor.” Harry stood up and pressed a hand to his chest. A serious look came over his face before he gave her a devilish smile. “You probably won’t need it, but you get one request from me. Pirate’s honor. Keep it for a rainy day.” Bonnie had done him a great favor and he would return it some day. His blade was hers whether she wanted it or not. |