Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.617Please respect copyright.PENANAtiLYIeCQcE
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at617Please respect copyright.PENANAZpLgF9k22m
I’m standing out the back617Please respect copyright.PENANAgco4bZnZ0q
And I’m tired of waiting617Please respect copyright.PENANAK5BwL24ReF
Waiting here in line617Please respect copyright.PENANAKj4k7WqgpU
Hoping that I’ll fine617Please respect copyright.PENANA2z0jrKuSGk
What I’ve been chasing
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It was a nebulous night in an alley, as she stood not far from the vampiress after finding her after she’d grazed the vampire’s heart that day, thinking she was the enemy.617Please respect copyright.PENANAFMV5GTqFCN
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.617Please respect copyright.PENANAwoiPHpLqIE
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.617Please respect copyright.PENANAda6lrcyWAq
Katherine looked at her silently, shocked that somehow, fate had intervened and brought her daughter back to her.
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
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I shot for the sky617Please respect copyright.PENANAhcWKaSGVHJ
I’m suck on the ground617Please respect copyright.PENANAdVgxRrZrMy
So why do I try?617Please respect copyright.PENANAZwXhpQ5lXr
I know I’m gonna fall down617Please respect copyright.PENANA4oRE93sdKg
I thought I could fly?617Please respect copyright.PENANAimnzGMAElM
So why did I drown?
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It was a dismal night, as Katherine sat in the driver’s seat, injured after the car crashing into a street light pole. She’d been trying to get away from Mystic Falls so that Silas couldn’t get to her, but had managed to crash a car that she’d stolen from a road.617Please respect copyright.PENANAhBFreRE3yL
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Meanwhile, Elijah Mikaelson had just arrived back in town to check up on his Katerina. He’d ignored several of her calls this summer and recently, not wanting to speak to her or see her. She hadn’t left any messages, but now that she hadn’t been answering her phone when he called back, he was worried and had the feeling that something had or was about to happen. If something ever happened to her after he’d left her to fend for herself, he’d never forgive himself. She was his world and he loved her for who she was, no matter what. If she died while he was in New Orleans, he didn’t know what pieces of him would still be intact, if any would be left. It would shatter him into a million pieces if she were dead. Despite everything she’d done, he loved her. He loved both the good and bad parts of her, just as she did with him.617Please respect copyright.PENANAgSb2ptAPt3
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Half an hour later, once on a desolate street, he saw a wrecked car that had crashed into a street light pole. He saw that there was still someone inside, but not moving. Due to smelling the mixed scents of human, blood, and Katerina, he knew who it was.617Please respect copyright.PENANA0yjNbKoCP3
No, he thought to himself.617Please respect copyright.PENANAp8FGtjZC3u
He vamp-sped to the driver’s side and forced the crinkled, dented, and jammed door open. He assessed her condition with his eyes and saw that there was blood on either side of her head, some scrapes and scratches, and her lower stomach was bleeding from a shard of glass protruding from it. He pulled the shard of glass out and tossed it on the floorboard, before gently resting his hands on either side of her head.617Please respect copyright.PENANAUW0Hxnt6Dx
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.617Please respect copyright.PENANAfVl087FScd
Hearing a familiar voice through the darkness that surrounded her, she fought against the darkness and when she woke up a few minutes later, she was met with Elijah’s worried face.617Please respect copyright.PENANAvWpDv7y7R6
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.617Please respect copyright.PENANAW3xSoLZaR4
“I came back to check on you, since you weren’t answering my calls back. I’m glad I did. Can you digest vampire blood?” he replied.617Please respect copyright.PENANA3W1MgHfEzq
“I don’t know. Elena shoved the cure down my throat shortly after you left me, since I was upset and took it out on her and tried to kill her.”617Please respect copyright.PENANAmD0PP2GKqV
He wasn’t happy that she’d tried to kill Elena nor was he happy that Elena had shoved the cure down her throat, but he didn’t show it.617Please respect copyright.PENANA3a5cRnEh4T
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.617Please respect copyright.PENANA3QdDh7PNO4
“You’re going to be okay, Katerina. Just stay with me. I’ll protect you, but you have to fight for me,” was the last thing she heard, before she plummeted back into the darkness.617Please respect copyright.PENANAb0UigSl4Br
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.617Please respect copyright.PENANA91S9HN3N4l
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After pacing in the waiting room for a few hours, a doctor finally came in to tell him that the surgery went great and she was in a recovery room, but she had a concussion, so it could be a day or so before she woke up. He thanked her and went to her room to stay with her. He knew Katerina. She was a fighter. It wouldn’t take too long for her to wake up. He figured anyway. He could only hope that the odds were in their favor.617Please respect copyright.PENANAaZ5e0BcGAh
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The next afternoon, when she woke up, he gave a smile, knowing that she’d be okay. He could only hope, anyway. The cure had been shoved down her throat. Since it had never been taken before, they didn’t know if there were any side effects to it.617Please respect copyright.PENANAUwR0Gl1fB6
She smiled back.617Please respect copyright.PENANAptDbzLeC9E
“You saved my life. Thank you.”617Please respect copyright.PENANAgZKDBBjFDO
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.617Please respect copyright.PENANAFvOL9BOSMW
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why617Please respect copyright.PENANA8aikKkgj0x
It’s coming down, down, down617Please respect copyright.PENANA8zIqKAKHeq
Not ready to let go617Please respect copyright.PENANADPswsMrLle
‘Cause then I’ll never know617Please respect copyright.PENANAMS8ZRkZn5P
What I could be missing617Please respect copyright.PENANAXYNLxFhJWz
But I’m missing way too much617Please respect copyright.PENANAVqkzoHCIr4
When do I give up617Please respect copyright.PENANADxL1fEBWO6
What I’ve been wishing for?
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It was a beautiful day at the Mikaelson mansion, as she lay in bed. She’d had a heart attack last night and now she was on bed rest until the very end, Nadia at her side. Nadia wanted her to live instead of letting herself die, but she had just found her weeks ago. She didn’t want to do that to her. She didn’t want to lose her, so she was choosing death.617Please respect copyright.PENANARmJ60VlVFJ
After hours had passed, Elijah came to her bedside with a way to save her. He had a witch in New Orleans doing a spell that would reverse the dying of old age at a rapid pace side effect of the cure.617Please respect copyright.PENANATmNgqZ4sfi
So, after the spell had been finished, she was a healthy human again.
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*Fifty Shades of Grayson*
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I shot for the sky617Please respect copyright.PENANAgJoYFJX2gH
I’m stuck on the ground617Please respect copyright.PENANA4Z1FMvDCU3
So why do I try?617Please respect copyright.PENANAmcojvwwRkP
I know I’m gonna fall down617Please respect copyright.PENANAbLJHAcee6Z
I thought I could fly617Please respect copyright.PENANANBPRqcmQEx
So why did I drown?617Please respect copyright.PENANAa6b5DPMxd0
You never know why617Please respect copyright.PENANAQGpwLU3kBo
It’s coming down, down, down617Please respect copyright.PENANAXnxPpRyVHV
Oh, I’m going down, down, down
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It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as Katherine went downstairs for a drink, Nadia in the parlor.617Please respect copyright.PENANAokm8ylSn6Q
Once she’d cleared the stairs, she stopped, a hand on the left side of her chest, pain having travelled up her arm and all the way to her chest. It was like she couldn’t breathe. Then everything went black and she collapsed.617Please respect copyright.PENANAUx05qhOuN6
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.617Please respect copyright.PENANAzHGMJpniGI
When she knelt by her, she realized that she’d had a heart attack. So, after getting her to the hospital, she told Elijah on the phone, who then said he’d be there as soon as he could.
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*Dead Man On Campus*
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I can’t find another way around617Please respect copyright.PENANA4km2vr864L
And I don’t wanna hear the sound617Please respect copyright.PENANA3UNzMHAjTb
Of losing what I’ve never found617Please respect copyright.PENANAYwqAhuEfXh
I shot for the sky617Please respect copyright.PENANAH4DN6uiMll
I’m stuck on the ground617Please respect copyright.PENANAHjsFMhEbVq
So why do I try?617Please respect copyright.PENANA0GCHGCB8Zv
I know I’m gonna fall down617Please respect copyright.PENANAjARMQMCZCh
I thought I could fly617Please respect copyright.PENANADQWzD8RDmX
So why did I drown?617Please respect copyright.PENANAj6cdFwxsmE
I’ll never know why617Please respect copyright.PENANA6ELB7XGLST
It’s coming down, down, down
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It was a nebulous night, as Katherine closed her eyes, ready to end her suffering of dying of old age, not wanting to go through all of that. She’d been told by an expert on vampires that she can’t be fixed. She was aging and it couldn’t be helped. She then stepped off.617Please respect copyright.PENANAn48es052dE
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.617Please respect copyright.PENANAMoifaTJkkh
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.617Please respect copyright.PENANAjboVFGYH8X
He set her on her feet.617Please respect copyright.PENANANFw1rNHMeI
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.617Please respect copyright.PENANAOw7mwKDEIi
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.617Please respect copyright.PENANA9fFJ5mU3pk
“Because I’m dying of old age and it can’t be stopped. I went to an expert. I don’t want the pain of dying of old age,” she explained.617Please respect copyright.PENANACNczo9f9o6
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.617Please respect copyright.PENANAsxQHgdtXyD
“Then save me,” she said.617Please respect copyright.PENANASSh5zrZX11
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky617Please respect copyright.PENANAlZwI1pXkvk
I’m stuck on the ground617Please respect copyright.PENANAfXwmgC92Z9
So why do I try?617Please respect copyright.PENANAqEPKz8b8Tt
I know I’m gonna fall617Please respect copyright.PENANA33LQSXPkEr
I thought I could fly617Please respect copyright.PENANAsYSUv33vDQ
So why did I drown?617Please respect copyright.PENANAcfXgAzIUzg
Oh, it’s coming down, down, down
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After Nadia died of Tyler’s bite at the Mikaelson mansion because she didn’t want Katherine to have to sacrifice anything for Klaus to cure her, all Katherine could do now was to sit by the bed on the floor and cry. Elijah was there, but all he could do was hug her in comfort. There were no words to say.