Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XDrMdctRj
*Monster’s Ball*
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And I’m tired of waiting576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16UZn1kckR
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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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxdQFIYHE0
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtwadvC6i3
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVmnuyd2PL
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’m suck on the ground576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDpnbxLOg6
So why do I try?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOug6tVMDZG
I know I’m gonna fall down576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXYlr66YKY
I thought I could fly?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDWom33tKM
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnEIVyq2kw
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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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsL1XY1ZyI4
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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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8ab1vz9QE
No, he thought to himself.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXjXKPAd8F
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLd0LLGqZgU
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbCw8aiNey
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaUqbEh8Po
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uOU5zD7BN
“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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluaWy6nNxj
“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.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMavFFPFU41
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehrtqeGLiW
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCy4SMJNYp
“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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NjjrCIRJD
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKAUXdZcwP
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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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ns0uOkCOu
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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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAckUmIzGL
She smiled back.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTchaxlInH
“You saved my life. Thank you.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBr2qNthHx
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmq3Zo0wa4j
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKSwFog42y
It’s coming down, down, down576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6DJdN4H3g
Not ready to let go576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ984FhH5rFb
‘Cause then I’ll never know576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zTXgAfGcI
What I could be missing576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9mCHHJ1rQ
But I’m missing way too much576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeMl17heL1
When do I give up576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF324rOxlL2
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8Rp3YRes2
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCXcKXwr0A
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 sky576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlacj3boO8o
I’m stuck on the ground576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ClMDfZGJP
So why do I try?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrDI9RcA9W
I know I’m gonna fall down576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdz0MlBhmop
I thought I could fly576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVldJihJJ2
So why did I drown?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqa4wPO9wp
You never know why576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDTVPgpM5H
It’s coming down, down, down576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRPCYuSys6
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm757LgqSjb
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJd0hTICml
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnRQUD6hQw
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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And I don’t wanna hear the sound576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLVwEzgSRK
Of losing what I’ve never found576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhi1fEAwSYf
I shot for the sky576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4JfCWLnMp
I’m stuck on the ground576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtVLVYKEFL
So why do I try?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSapPEzodrO
I know I’m gonna fall down576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOsQUPxTWB
I thought I could fly576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3rYNx3Hzs
So why did I drown?576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnG26dD5Et
I’ll never know why576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSGwKOP5mn
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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lzCVXsxiz
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV0LloKbm5
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnwmyZYF9o
He set her on her feet.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgW91TfMZTL
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbbHlOhT70
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7R5OvdQQCN
“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.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeNpbR6kpu
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtc3MKZaBt
“Then save me,” she said.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVuqkaDzld
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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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.
