It was a dismal night, as Damon appeared in some unfamiliar woods. He'd ended up here, instead of wherever Bonnie had ended up at. He didn't know this town, but he could smell werewolves. He decided to find out as much as he could.
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Meanwhile, a human and injured Katherine lay on her back in the woods. She'd been through hell with Kai. She'd ended up there when Stefan had killed her.
As she lay there, everything began to dim for her.
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After walking through the woods for a while, Damon saw someone a distance away, on the ground. He could smell the familiar scents. That told him two things. One, his sire was human, once again. Two, she was injured. He was surprised that she was back, but he knew he shouldn't be. She was Katherine. When you thought she was never coming back, she always did. She always managed to survive. Even death couldn't stop her, it seemed.
"Katherine?"
He blurred to where she lay, only to realize how injured she was. There was an arrow protruding close to her heart, but it hadn't touched it. There was blood on either side of her head too, and her lower stomach and opened thigh artery were bleeding. He could tell that she'd lost a lot of blood. He knew this was his and everyone else's fault. They'd killed her, which had resulted in this.
He knelt at her side and pulled the arrow out, tossing it to the ground. He then rested a hand on the side of her face.
"Stay with me, Katherine."
He gently took her jacket off and used it to tie around her thigh artery, knowing an open artery could be deadly for a human. And despite everything, he was determined not to let her die. He knew she'd bled more than a few minutes though, so she was starting to go under.
After her jacket was secured around her open artery, keeping her from bleeding out from the artery more, he gently pulled her into his arms. He then got to his feet.
As everything began to go black, she felt and heard everything. Then, as she felt him pull her into his arms, she rested her head on his shoulder. Then, as darkness came, she didn't fight it.
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Half an hour later, he briskly walked into the hospital, a pale Katherine in his arms.
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A few hours later, after surgery, he was seated on her bedside. He was happy that she was going to be okay. He cared about her, even though he wanted to keep hating and despising her. In truth, though he made it look the opposite, he never truly fell out of love with her. Maybe with everyone thinking them both to be dead, they could make a home here. He just had to avoid being bitten by werewolves.
Damon rested a hand on top of her right one, waiting for her to awaken.
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When she woke up, she saw Damon seated on her bedside, a hand on hers, as if he cared. She always knew he loved her. He just hadn't shown it. Until now.
She gave a smile, and he smiled back. She then sat up in bed.
"Thanks. You saved me."
"Well, I wasn't going to leave you like that."
"I know. I wouldn't expect anything less. I've always known you never stopped loving me. I was just waiting for you to admit it," she replied to him.
"Well, I'm admitting it now. I still love you."
He gave a smile, and she smiled back.
She saw a familiar face.
"Melissa. It's nice to see you again. I wish it would've been under much better circumstances. Am I free to go? I promise I won't do anything drastic. If I do, Damon here will stop me."
"It is nice to see you. How you're human, I'm not even going to ask. And yes. You're free to go," Melissa replied, as she stood in the door threshold.
"Great," Katherine replied. Then she watched Melissa walk off.
"You've been here before, I assume?" Damon inquired.
"Yeah. When I was a vampire. I even dated a werewolf. Peter Hale. He was a lot like Klaus when we met, but somewhere along the line, I changed him into a better person."
Damon wasn't sure what to say to that. He was silent.
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After she was released, and they found out what had all happened and didn't see anyone at the loft, she and Damon went back into the woods. She wanted to find out where everyone was.
"Let me know if you smell anything strange, or even any werewolves close by. Peter has a nephew and daughter. I wouldn't want anything to happen to them. They've become my family away from my vampire family."
When she told him that, he knew what she meant. Apart from him, Stefan, Caroline, and whoever else was in their vampire bloodline, she didn't have any family. But then she'd found close wolf friends, and they'd become her family.
"There's something burnt in that direction," Damon told her, assuming that was what she meant by something weird.
At that, she and Damon headed in the direction he'd gestured to.
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Half an hour later, they were by someone burnt. Damon didn't know who he was. No one could see much of him. However, Katherine immediately knew him.
She knelt at his side.
"It's Peter. He must've found a way to come back," she told her elder childe. "I'm not a vampire anymore or a werewolf. I can't take the pain away, but I've learned how to make my Traveler magic active. I can heal," she added. Then she hovered her hands above him, beginning to heal her former boyfriend of this century.
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After Peter was healed, he was no longer scorched or in pain, and got to his feet.
Kat helped him.
"You came back. And you've gone through quite a transformation," he greeted her.
"I am back. And with Damon. Let's go find your family. Then go home. It's been a long night for all of us."
Peter liked that idea.
"You don't have to tell me twice, sweetheart," Peter replied. Then, as if thinking of her had brought her to him, he saw her.
Kat looked at where Peter was looking, as did Damon. That's when she saw someone. She couldn't see that well in the dark, but assumed it was Malia. She was happy to see her alive. And, as they got closer, she could see that Derek too, was alive and well.
Peter met his daughter half way.
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After everyone had met up, they all went back to the loft. Then, after being filled in on everything with what the ghost riders were, she found a way to get rid of them.
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The next night, when the ghost riders appeared again, Kat made a prison world for them, and trapped them inside it. By doing so, they were able to get their loved ones back.
In the end, everyone was reunited, Damon and Kat got back together, and Damon stayed in town with her, so they got their own place. And so, their love story continued.
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