Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”421Please respect copyright.PENANAwLYwqfS4en
*The Last Day*
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Would you dance421Please respect copyright.PENANAggJxBNquGN
If I asked you to dance?421Please respect copyright.PENANA7CX9zFybO7
Would you run and never look back?421Please respect copyright.PENANA3jOBwYDXa3
Would you cry421Please respect copyright.PENANAG8WreF3jYo
If you saw me crying?421Please respect copyright.PENANAXbnZJY8tzd
Would you save my soul tonight?421Please respect copyright.PENANAww90QTvKuf
Would you tremble421Please respect copyright.PENANASsGHZ9t6Mh
If I touched your lips?421Please respect copyright.PENANASFCCahzvIp
Would you laugh?421Please respect copyright.PENANA2NNWduJx49
Oh, please tell me this421Please respect copyright.PENANAgrU3ApI3qx
Now would you die421Please respect copyright.PENANAjPNtHDHOTg
For the one you love?421Please respect copyright.PENANAEJtdltWtas
Hold me in your arms tonight421Please respect copyright.PENANARqCsukvsxm
I can be your hero, baby421Please respect copyright.PENANABUzZrsi0Ap
I can kiss away the pain421Please respect copyright.PENANAzEVtcKUlhr
I will stand by you forever421Please respect copyright.PENANAxeIcdYkPrN
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAJThyDDIBnG
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAgMHu03a5j3
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANABa0teXkfQf
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAfBQezQytz5
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.421Please respect copyright.PENANAj7Wp1ye3vc
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”421Please respect copyright.PENANASP1qVvi7xz
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANALioqxFjo1H
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.421Please respect copyright.PENANAuiablM3GTr
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.421Please respect copyright.PENANAILwQm8VDbR
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.421Please respect copyright.PENANAtmQT7BWxEa
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”421Please respect copyright.PENANAVAF9SCp1U1
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.421Please respect copyright.PENANAKvzlpH3OFj
“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.”421Please respect copyright.PENANAGfPRHxAwdR
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.421Please respect copyright.PENANAYEibbrC44U
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.421Please respect copyright.PENANAT4Rli3M5Rb
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAXKrRF7OitG
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANA9yWpeITuTx
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAlmdeB8S7mI
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”421Please respect copyright.PENANAwq0LW5aIoN
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAvP7hFiX46t
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANA3Xw9K1BlY8
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?421Please respect copyright.PENANA49TS2xIUna
Would you lie?421Please respect copyright.PENANA7tkbehdFHX
Would you run and hide?421Please respect copyright.PENANADiqIeBZ3bT
Am I in too deep?421Please respect copyright.PENANAuVyd4Rrs99
Have I lost my mind?421Please respect copyright.PENANAVk7CdRaBGh
I don’t care421Please respect copyright.PENANAGIYW0vFE17
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAxjl1SOwXr9
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAQaIHnm7TRu
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.421Please respect copyright.PENANAYltMiTPz9O
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.421Please respect copyright.PENANA6EPY1692rH
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.421Please respect copyright.PENANAxvk0DKTUNK
“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.421Please respect copyright.PENANApJoqwZpWd1
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.421Please respect copyright.PENANAWJEl8nEfF5
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.421Please respect copyright.PENANAA9SzVBAS8V
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.421Please respect copyright.PENANAGhJvdRWb3T
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.421Please respect copyright.PENANAYBiAnr9pSk
“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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAgnGUygGW64
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAzkaJuRxxxT
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, baby421Please respect copyright.PENANAmJCvHfh87H
I can kiss away the pain421Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ay4wBoHCX
I will stand by you forever421Please respect copyright.PENANAvj2jULJ46m
You can take my breath away421Please respect copyright.PENANAtlA6Skr14l
Oh, I just want to hold you421Please respect copyright.PENANAagoh2NEhlQ
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah421Please respect copyright.PENANAVoSGRsluQP
Am I in too deep?421Please respect copyright.PENANAujzHcEXZYo
Have I lost my mind?421Please respect copyright.PENANATPC21CANS2
Well, I don’t care421Please respect copyright.PENANAD1xtmHpiMy
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANA8svpXZwS9u
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 1864.421Please respect copyright.PENANAkUE9uwN12E
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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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAPOPYiHcLId
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.421Please respect copyright.PENANAKBjANWLmKI
She turned around to face him and he let go.421Please respect copyright.PENANAo7aZbUTMdZ
“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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAaR9ikR9EK3
“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.”421Please respect copyright.PENANA0M2PtukXPS
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.421Please respect copyright.PENANAIBVd0IRCx0
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.421Please respect copyright.PENANAXTfkkMnUMW
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAu6r058VEED
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAPKsx8JrBzf
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANApVt9fMCrB9
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, baby421Please respect copyright.PENANAzOUVgfBSig
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah421Please respect copyright.PENANAEf98cka8F3
I will stand by you forever421Please respect copyright.PENANAbXdV4YUvGs
You can take my breath away421Please respect copyright.PENANAD4PIBTkYnc
(I can be your hero, baby)421Please respect copyright.PENANAWRtBWgLVST
I can be your hero421Please respect copyright.PENANAxvUpHk0tMv
I can kiss away the pain421Please respect copyright.PENANAk6t8qIfWXM
And I will stand by you forever421Please respect copyright.PENANAfSOWFMCu2S
You can take my breath away421Please respect copyright.PENANArbhzbkMXxA
You can take my breath away421Please respect copyright.PENANAcqL9NKSoGs
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAxL2NDxuSAj
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.421Please respect copyright.PENANA3DLiZccPcY
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.421Please respect copyright.PENANAFNg3nhSo1j
“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.”421Please respect copyright.PENANASNDvlErhZ0
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.421Please respect copyright.PENANAO56LJ5bejQ
“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.”421Please respect copyright.PENANAahc4ehsa33
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.421Please respect copyright.PENANAvss5WrZq0n
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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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAC73q5OYMmu
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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.421Please respect copyright.PENANAUxYI30tS6t
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.