Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaX9OgU4aUL
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*Monster’s Ball*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5Y8G2CWUI
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnFISVlGSS
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjljReebqax
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjV03jvzUd
Katherine looked at her silently, shocked that somehow, fate had intervened and brought her daughter back to her.copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6vxD0qUmb
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡedhcmXfZT9
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LEsGjsomG
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQO0vgHOJ6b
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hy3MPLByR
No, he thought to himself.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYf9l1Hlur
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkWpnpbjbC
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eTBhGr2i0
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5Y9ekbVFG
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnl0jKnIWGU
“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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJ8rlq8Nsq
“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.”23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmvMwK7HGM
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn48ooTM7Ps
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ncbPyBXl4
“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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9rUWXF3Fl
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3qYrPSdWH
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMXDLpsDCo
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJ1wmMVOqy
She smiled back.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMRBd48yIr
“You saved my life. Thank you.”23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9AhyZYPEv
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4de5JBREqi
A moment later, they kissed.copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTCsrftR9P
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*500 Years of Solitude*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3n3kzphOoa
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What I’ve been wishing for?copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6p5yvnVEW
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJ3Jl2s108
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlGQSwt2B7
So, after the spell had been finished, she was a healthy human again.copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBQ24hhx9r
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*Fifty Shades of Grayson*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡncOqwoQOde
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It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as Katherine went downstairs for a drink, Nadia in the parlor.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmTnk35mul
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3l9Foxtud
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurkBXv6u8U
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 protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfarifJANS
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*Dead Man On Campus*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a4QBBerps
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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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7waw1lllaf
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6r6aGJ5Lq
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlQU6A4qGg
He set her on her feet.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNMvjNQF91
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUF7mMh3wnO
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWY9NSfnWF4
“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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0SZvcNmRW
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLCv8oNbUb
“Then save me,” she said.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0R99E1p2Y5
“You know I will,” he replied.copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaZrCiHlTu
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*No Exit*copyright protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVEiLfU0Gk
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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 protection19ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wL2YokFJd
