Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2WLlENefe
*The Last Day*
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If I asked you to dance?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9MvKhlZp6
Would you run and never look back?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgah7jOJK6
Would you cry609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyk1tAb2vzb
If you saw me crying?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiTYaeV0tz
Would you save my soul tonight?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jc9GI3VSM
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If I touched your lips?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHULNBYong9
Would you laugh?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRj37MQ6OAB
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Now would you die609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHF8GOQwl6
For the one you love?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByBPmKgJb5
Hold me in your arms tonight609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyzorDeRLK
I can be your hero, baby609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoHuRcc9vQ
I can kiss away the pain609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwq2PWNN7YL
I will stand by you forever609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5gkuapO35
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRMA9eMcsy
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mG4c9YPo4
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR44uX1QAgE
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyISqkxo5O
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPegkF4aMZ
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9g9cQ31jn
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBQC4NHFU0
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nqtiHXYdl
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCugZ47gf6b
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZIrapOimN
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0chbLD8Czh
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRGRi0eGp7
“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.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGX3PLZSpD9
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkwCTWPejb
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLv2qUQ21uE
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kxHK5xHmw
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaevQBRvEdP
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk6CeQNbJ5
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEz6Xja5IOf
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN47xeJjEc8
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlFUbVESLg
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?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiMXaZqiqY
Would you lie?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyzQHMg7zz
Would you run and hide?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfUR0JDDrP
Am I in too deep?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasnBIB5PJg
Have I lost my mind?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5l9QZH1ceH
I don’t care609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5P7PtHUtr
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvjK2ybjg2
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlih54gv8B
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSxX5HRHZM
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmT2iSK8Lt
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1nOIHIP5m
“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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fP9ZMc2OV
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpxUzAb1It
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqer6n4Zpm
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPORRJqkN3E
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tVjlOIeOv
“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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIrNLLfo0k
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBqJhBVcnz
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, baby609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABJ20kYiWm
I can kiss away the pain609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQebDyAg63y
I will stand by you forever609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOwzbbFC5M
You can take my breath away609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1LXec1dRM
Oh, I just want to hold you609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UxDRoJkpF
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVNQE0khL7
Am I in too deep?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbAWJLvqd8
Have I lost my mind?609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ir9STks0U
Well, I don’t care609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjjWOGmmsF
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLwiPqCJLf
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 1864.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vs09LZI0G
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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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1S0dkuXxo5
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRK6Hquq4O
She turned around to face him and he let go.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfZOBuNSSu
“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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGxaMp7bic
“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.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUhnPCFVVN
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmyX2wpSwE
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1Jq4WhjlD
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl72JzeB7tR
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWoxYo0NNz
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDV0P9YpxN
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, baby609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOGF0K3ZJe
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiNnberRKf
I will stand by you forever609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxas7TeN4M
You can take my breath away609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmWsT26ov6
(I can be your hero, baby)609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0ttteB4vC
I can be your hero609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3D0v7oyjl
I can kiss away the pain609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRn0uTujiTu
And I will stand by you forever609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uHTWaLOuW
You can take my breath away609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhaSDuZT4N
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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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJakgTCWmK
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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0LVVBVPkv
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGk7r5nnPx
“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.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQAiDXGSUa
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmnmMhp0k2
“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.”609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4q429tvUH
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGO1ihHPH2Y
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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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrFOx6GCTd
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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.609Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4IZcXtKdR
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.
