Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3tN7Yp8tG
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*Monster’s Ball*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡySlWvkFpZM
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifjCu7NT09
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb98KY5pfy8
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmO9YGNcLu8
Katherine looked at her silently, shocked that somehow, fate had intervened and brought her daughter back to her.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡSihTRn8gNU
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlNkhiFXHE
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjTqQbzOUG
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RfUi66SU0
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp1Wjk2pcW
No, he thought to himself.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKxGILEZi4
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6ANPGgwrF
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG84H4n16Ne
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dYAUHmyGF
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCLcpBTG8k
“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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOtqwxOyEB
“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.”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHPLhJsEi9
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUM57cG0SP
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfDOFamtI0
“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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uHVgZFIDX
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXRE2ZQJ0J
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqNC4QCVAC
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjcfWh5ycF
She smiled back.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRO7u9fKRS
“You saved my life. Thank you.”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9E2L1pve03
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sncHjuNRH
A moment later, they kissed.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡchwuboRjEF
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*500 Years of Solitude*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡeD02YilDf3
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You never know why18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgG0fZIeJWs
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJ5y0cWUe1
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6ek4hY1jH
So, after the spell had been finished, she was a healthy human again.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXS3r4rjo6
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*Fifty Shades of Grayson*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCJYFIh0mw
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It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as Katherine went downstairs for a drink, Nadia in the parlor.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnr52hpGVPw
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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fc7bEhDlY
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPe2Axtwts
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.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWEc05hspF
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*Dead Man On Campus*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡynihmX0EYm
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QBfZ6AeOh
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lyYheweuF
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgja6SZNVv
He set her on her feet.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WmFblLLAA
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BWBAdQ6rk
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8A6jHZivU
“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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzRae2w0O6
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARIwtiJkpb
“Then save me,” she said.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEckfiDWhWr
“You know I will,” he replied.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡICcmPcs6ER
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*No Exit*copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdf3vC1vgZ
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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.copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSmoebBGhg
