Summary: Set in S5. What if Damon and Katherine were together since the beginning of the show and still very much in love? What if Katherine turned it off, due to losing Nadia? What will happen?661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVU8mSG6cd
A/N: When Nadia died, she was in her own vampiress body; not human and not in Elena’s body.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYes9rqxMhF
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It was a dark night at the Salvatore boarding house, as Katherine wiped her tears after losing her daughter, Nadia Petrova, and stood up. She had just watched her daughter die, which was the most painful thing a mother could ever watch her child do. She had lost everyone, apart from Damon of course, so, against her saying she liked to say, “I don’t turn it off. I deal with it,” she closed her eyes, going to turn it off. Damon obviously tried to get her not to do it, but she did anyway.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOnzt5uu6L
After she turned it off, she left, which Damon knew meant that she had bad intentions. He had turned it off once in his life time during a time when he thought that she had died with her friends in the fiery Saint Fell’s church. He knew that look that he saw on her. He once had that look too. That look he had seen that the others had apparently missed was vengeance. He went to go after her, but by the time he had, she was out of sight. Considering she had just watched her daughter die, he knew who she was going to look for. The one and only person responsible for the death of her daughter; Tyler Lockwood. Sure, Damon didn’t much like Tyler, but that didn’t mean he was going to let her kill him. Tyler still had people who cared about what happened to him.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22DEJoGkUC
As he looked all over town for his sire and girlfriend, he called the only hybrid in town.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFJCGk1WQ9
“Why are you calling me?” Tyler questioned, since Damon never ever called him.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutf8VRrgiP
“You need to get as far away from Mystic Falls as possible. At least until I can get to Katherine. Katherine just turned it off and considering you’re the one who bit Nadia, she’s after you with a very dark vengeance and very bad intentions. I say get out while you can.”661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWP8BSuoja
“Thanks for the warning,” he replied, before they hung up and Damon continued searching for Katherine, while Tyler headed for the borderline of Mystic Falls as fast as he could. He couldn’t believe that it had come to this, but it was one thing to fight against an Original and fail, but another thing to fight a 500 year old vampire who had no emotions on right now and probably was only feeling vengeance.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSMTahPfcp
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When Damon had finally found her, she was in the woods and Tyler was miles out of town by now. She didn’t know that though, so she was still searching for Tyler. She figured being a hybrid, he’d be in the woods, but she was having a hard time finding him.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9U8l6GXM6D
She turned around to face Damon.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZndSh6fAkI
“I found you,” he stated. “You know, you’re very hard to find when you have no string attached sort of speak.”661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCl1lg34baN
“I didn’t leave for you to play cat and mouse with me,” she replied without emotion.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQO2BzgNJ70
He went to stand in front of her in a blur.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4y0N77CiH
“I know you just lost your daughter and I’m sorry you had to watch her die, but turning it off isn’t the answer. You can’t just live forever like this. It’ll eat you up inside if you stay like this for too long. I know you don’t feel it right now, but you will feel something when you finally decide to turn it back on, or when it resurfaces without you being prepared for it,” he answered her.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6y3C7E6YWx
“You saying you’re sorry for her death doesn’t fix or help anything,” she growled at him.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNhFygCIIl
Despite her sudden hostility at his attempt to sympathize with her and try and bring her back from her darkest place, he rested a gentle hand on the side of her face.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1biumwRZa1
“I really am sorry,” he replied.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡne2oK8slQ4
Before she knew it, everything went black for her from Damon using a syringe to vervain her so he could put her in the basement where she couldn’t hurt anyone.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRoMCwevBE
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When she woke up, she was groggy from the vervain and Damon was standing outside the locked door of the holding cell in the basement.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiu0EP0KMPv
“I’m sorry, but I can’t let you hurt anyone and you will while you have it turned off. I’ve been where you are before. I turned it off after I thought you were dead. Not even Lexi could turn my humanity back on. Hell, I almost killed her while I had no humanity to guide me. For you, I know this is the first time you’ve ever turned it off, but whether you want to or not, if you’re not locked up, you will end up hurting someone that you’re going to regret hurting,” he told her.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxi7S4GUA3
She gave a growl.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eQABcX2UN
“Don’t try to compare your miserable time with mine. You have no clue what it feels like to lose a child.”661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM43smyrQGl
“True, but I do know what it’s like to grieve. I’ve lost almost everyone who was ever close to me in my life. I can somewhat relate,” he replied.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppfjeFEqZ0
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For days and weeks he did his best in trying to bring her humanity back on without her getting the hint that he was trying to do that. He knew her so well, even with her humanity off, that he knew how to keep her from finding out his true intentions until it was too late for her to stop it.661Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqoxuNaaFo
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After about a month, he finally got her humanity back on, so he let her out and after she had had enough to eat, they kissed passionately.
