Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNurz2piol
*The Last Day*
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Would you dance599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurRYsrE526
If I asked you to dance?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99WxnhzLgq
Would you run and never look back?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNIWxdpDLs
Would you cry599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUapwS50Sdo
If you saw me crying?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sZeltHYxC
Would you save my soul tonight?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWLdVK5YDu
Would you tremble599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPBwlvZxMr
If I touched your lips?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYRErObq8X
Would you laugh?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhXoJaQXhi
Oh, please tell me this599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrhrFZYz7j
Now would you die599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLF7pmc3nP
For the one you love?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRrQEhey5Z
Hold me in your arms tonight599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8iZiXeUT4
I can be your hero, baby599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTEvYO9gvb
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You can take my breath away
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It was a beautiful day, as Damon knocked on Ric’s apartment door and waited for someone to open the door. Klaus was keeping her hostage, so he thought he’d come by and give her a vial of vervain to use so he couldn’t compel her. He hated Katherine, but no one deserved torture, captivity, or being ripped of their free will. If she was alive, he’d help her the best of his ability.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkmDx3QKIN
Ten minutes later, when no one opened the door, he figured he should see what was going on, so he did just that. He walked inside, closing the door behind himself. That’s when he saw her on her back on the floor, skin burning in the sun, and a bite on the left side of her neck. Because of the burning, he assumed that Klaus had taken her Daylight bracelet.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWaFknElZ1
He went over and closed the curtains to stop the burning. She was a vampire just like himself. If a vampire burned long enough, they’d die. He didn’t know how long that she’d been burning. If he hadn’t come today, she probably would’ve died before the sun went down.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWFk1PQHgh
He knelt at her side and scanned her with his eyes. He’d gotten to her just in time, since she had started showing veins from burning in the sun. The veins were starting to disappear and her skin was starting to heal, but not as quickly as vampires usually do. He knew it was from the vicious bite.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5HYEMnkF7
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZY5Vm3s1yj
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQ81CJnzGA
When she didn’t reply or move a muscle, he patted her right cheek gently, his right hand resting on her forehead to keep her head still. In this state, she was fragile. He hated to call her that, but she was burning up. That, and she looked very weak and pale, not to mention, he was having a hard time waking her up. If and when she woke up, she wouldn’t be able to go anywhere. She’d be too weak to stand, much less walk. Even if she did wake up before he left with her, he’d still have to carry her.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjzaVoQ3GB
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5Jx4jTiWw
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oK0V66GDr
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rMlfSlBzt
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWY5D3mQrPz
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrpMxB67MG
“Don’t worry. I’m not here to kill you. I’m not an hallucination either. I’m getting you out of here, but you need to tell me where he’s go the cure. Surely, he didn’t leave you to die without leaving the cure behind.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnRV0AWd2M
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmn05HP9NzY
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3s0zFSLTe
She blurrily watched him go and turned her head to the left to watch him look for the cure; Klaus’ blood. As she did, everything began to seem too far away. She was also in a lot of pain from the bite and felt tired.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQta83x4eH
Once he’d found the vial of Klaus’ blood as well as her Daylight bracelet, he put the vial inside his jacket and blurred back over to her.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8E1Bfe1Dt
Once knelt at her side, he could tell that she was about to go under again. He removed her jacket and slipped her Daylight bracelet on her wrist, before putting her arm around his shoulders and pulling her gently into his arms. Then he got to his feet and looked down at her.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4K4q8Ijm3Q
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6fKry0Uy0
He blurred towards his car outside and gently sat her in the passenger’s seat, before taking the vial out. By this time, she’d gone under.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptxOZi8A7X
He slid an arm under her head, gently positioning her head back. Then he put the vial to her lips, making the cure go down her throat. Then, after he figured she’d had enough, he layed her head on the seat again and closed the door. Then he drank the rest, having been bitten by Tyler, and got in the driver’s seat. Then he drove away, towards the boarding house.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqwpOsiXtJ
Later, she was cured and lived to see yet another day.
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*Before Sunset*
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Would you swear that you’ll always be mine?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRR5paBguww
Would you lie?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxG4eUjFyoj
Would you run and hide?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqvwjOz5aP
Am I in too deep?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbfxcZvuVa
Have I lost my mind?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALXxi9Elee
I don’t care599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVXo9T9QLO
You’re here tonight
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It was a dismal night at Mystic High, as everyone tried to kill Klaus. Katherine opened up a couple grenades saying, “Kaboom,” before throwing it at the hybrids that were coming to help Klaus. Killing Klaus didn’t happen in the end though, because Stefan stopped Damon to save him. If Klaus died, Damon would’ve been hunted down and killed by Klaus’ hybrids.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFXti2r6FQ
Later that night, when Katherine was heading down a hall towards the side exit where she’d parked her car, she was pinned against a set of lockers by Rebekah. Apparently, someone had undaggered her and she had heard about the plan to kill Klaus. She knew that that meant that she was on vengeance strike. She definitely knew that when Rebekah plunged a hand through her chest.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm6lxO1z36
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1jGcggAiB
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIG63H6aw2
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeoFdZlSRT
“I don’t doubt that you’re capable of killing all of us, but would you take away Elijah’s love? Could you live with yourself? You have too good of a heart. I don’t think you can kill me,” Katherine stated truthfully to her. She had no reason to lie. She didn’t know much about Rebekah.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNF5EYbwhiS
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiXJItkSkr
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfiln0fef9
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1LBut8rjK
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQyD0AUAQU
“Maybe I’ll take you up on your offer,” she heart the ancient vampiress say. Then she felt the thing, maybe a stick, start to pierce her heart. Then she felt her ass on the floor and even more pain. Then it was as if she couldn’t breathe and she closed her eyes.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKF79ZPhf71
Damon, seeing the scene, snapped her neck and knelt in front of Katherine, before quickly pulling out the stick and tossing it to the floor. He then bit his wrist and put it to her lips to heal her quicker, which worked.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3ClrovMqd
After she’d healed, he gently pulled her into his arms and blurred off wit her.
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*Graduation*
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I can be your hero, baby599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTumHDIonOe
I can kiss away the pain599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8plvGqUuFs
I will stand by you forever599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFXlLWBaaY
You can take my breath away599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZDUJAYmE0
Oh, I just want to hold you599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46qDjDYrZa
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtQwgBnqt0
Am I in too deep?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlJlqzLcFw
Have I lost my mind?599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNEvrf8Iy1
Well, I don’t care599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6B1lL9TFT
You’re here tonight
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It was a dismal night, as Damon searched for Katherine through each Mystic High hall, having heard from Elena that she had shoved the cure down her throat when Katherine had almost killed her. It had been a few hours ago, but he hoped she’d still be here somewhere. He knew her as well as he knew himself. As a vampire, she had everything going for her. As a human, she’d be alone and scared, not to mention hurt and maybe a little paranoid.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQlM1N81JY
When he’d found the hall they’d fought in, she was gone, so he went back to his car to try and find her elsewhere. He’d search every road of Mystic Falls if he had to. For some reason, her being human made him care about her well-being. He hadn’t cared about her since 1864.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7bDGthB8m
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Twenty minutes later, he found her limping down one of the desolate roads. Knowing her, he figured asking her to get in would prove to be unsuccessful, so he pulled over and got out.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTP3RCdPuu
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qZo0PtJST
She turned around to face him and he let go.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4leWI7KGTL
“Come to celebrate in my misery? Come to finish what Elena started? Go ahead. Put me out of my misery,” she said with anger, angry at herself that she’d been defeated by her baby vampire doppelganger, and taking it out on him.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsK7jEpj89E
“I’m not here for either reason. I’m going to help you. You need help. You’re human, injured, and not as powerful as you were. Let me help you.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrL9e1MkcsU
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoxa1cL6ey
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyHpcOH1aI
He blurred right behind her and put an arm around her. Then he knelt down with her against him. That when he saw a shard of glass in her thigh and a bigger shard of glass in her stomach.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeUu1awhrO
Once he’d gotten her in the car, he pulled both out, tossing them to the ground, and used a towel from the backseat to tie around her thigh. He used the other one for her other wound.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrAVVOO2MI
As he drove, he used his right hand to apply pressure with the towel, trying to slow the bleeding. Normal people would’ve taken her to the hospital, but there was a first-aid kit at home. He figured that he could use that to get her wounds taken care of. He figured she’d ben find after that.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcvOgpoU2t
When he’d taken care of her wounds in his room, he was right. She’d be fine.
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
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I can be you’re hero, baby599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMwcwohH7Q
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjMhzJYdc9
I will stand by you forever599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDZ6uelAdn
You can take my breath away599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vu1IDsdm6
(I can be your hero, baby)599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0PGuv3Yk2
I can be your hero599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSLyhxYeE5
I can kiss away the pain599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahyznVUPxU
And I will stand by you forever599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOo1XKg39vA
You can take my breath away599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRl1Nd5EDsI
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I can be your hero
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“Katherine!” he yelled, as he raced towards his wrecked car that she sat in. He’d broken his promise he’d made to her that he’d protect her from Silas. Now she’d somehow caused his car to be totaled. The hood and both sides were crinkled, including the trunk. Also, all of the windows were shattered and he could smell a lot of blood; her blood.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7B7ZjUkd4n
When he tried opening the door, it was jammed, so he forced it open. Then, when it opened, her left hand fell off the seat. He gently turned her head towards him and snapped her seatbelt in two. That’s when he saw that she had a dislocated shoulder and a piece of glass grazed in the right side of her neck. She had blood on either side of her head too and was bleeding from the back of her head, but he’d already seen that. He pulled the glass out and scanned the rest of her. Seeing more glass in her, he did the same he’d done with the first glass he’d seen in her. Then he used his vamp strength to move a piece of the car in the floorboard, to free her foot so he could get her to the hospital.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdE0UTgDt8C
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleYrENp3cW
“Katherine, can you hear me? Open your eyes. I’m going to get you to the hospital. I just need you to open your eyes.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhkb02Rr7F
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGQQxabI8v
“I’m so sorry, Katherine. Silas told me to hand you over in exchange of him telling me where Stefan is. I promise you, I will never do that again.”599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFIgQnV9B7
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKSUiOKayF
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Half an hour later, as she was rushed down the hall, because of her extensive injuries, her body was going into shock.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Rec2jRrnm
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Hours later, after surgery, she was settled into a recovery room and he was told he could see her. So he went to sit on her bedside and rested his hand on top of her right one. She hadn’t woken up yet, so he was just silent, happy that she was alive.599Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60HPBRDlNJ
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.
