Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.431Please respect copyright.PENANAo4lU6mfKAZ
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at431Please respect copyright.PENANAjHCKoJeaqJ
I’m standing out the back431Please respect copyright.PENANAavNeA38Wcw
And I’m tired of waiting431Please respect copyright.PENANAAr97K1HbvE
Waiting here in line431Please respect copyright.PENANA3UqYJQlhA9
Hoping that I’ll fine431Please respect copyright.PENANAJd7lO1BmYU
What I’ve been chasing
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANANspcdHaihq
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.431Please respect copyright.PENANA9wCDvmDfyo
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.431Please respect copyright.PENANA0kdYoYQ8eG
Katherine looked at her silently, shocked that somehow, fate had intervened and brought her daughter back to her.
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
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I shot for the sky431Please respect copyright.PENANApzLJ0IEShf
I’m suck on the ground431Please respect copyright.PENANAwMqTBoY7dJ
So why do I try?431Please respect copyright.PENANAoZbTtWSRgu
I know I’m gonna fall down431Please respect copyright.PENANAFjrw9xj1QB
I thought I could fly?431Please respect copyright.PENANAiqOZpBIkED
So why did I drown?
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANA5sNn5hOCFK
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAMg2WrbijSc
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAp3jbGidh3s
No, he thought to himself.431Please respect copyright.PENANAlv5jjjoqS3
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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAiGPkJ84wTL
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.431Please respect copyright.PENANAixPl1ZD5c1
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.431Please respect copyright.PENANASDOXQlUowk
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.431Please respect copyright.PENANA73Gp0EfXdd
“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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAlBKelwFAqL
“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.”431Please respect copyright.PENANAsKAgCi1OTY
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.431Please respect copyright.PENANArCCmdSccVT
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.431Please respect copyright.PENANAGIw377HLT4
“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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAZrkWgNq7IW
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.431Please respect copyright.PENANAfWuPXm5sKq
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAUrbyQogsVx
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANApi7ZtjLvAR
She smiled back.431Please respect copyright.PENANAcp0T5HSKtL
“You saved my life. Thank you.”431Please respect copyright.PENANAZuFka52zUw
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.431Please respect copyright.PENANAkMXg4rZI6u
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why431Please respect copyright.PENANAxkytjqXrRw
It’s coming down, down, down431Please respect copyright.PENANAk2Qcota8ZV
Not ready to let go431Please respect copyright.PENANAWPgauCgz6E
‘Cause then I’ll never know431Please respect copyright.PENANAX2srj6Rup2
What I could be missing431Please respect copyright.PENANATW7UvvviFe
But I’m missing way too much431Please respect copyright.PENANAuVaqsxaF8F
When do I give up431Please respect copyright.PENANANv6d4zcQfS
What I’ve been wishing for?
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANA9BHNwJ4v38
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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAn1cyypwhiO
So, after the spell had been finished, she was a healthy human again.
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*Fifty Shades of Grayson*
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I shot for the sky431Please respect copyright.PENANAWn1plLHIZ4
I’m stuck on the ground431Please respect copyright.PENANAFIX7HFj09I
So why do I try?431Please respect copyright.PENANAURcNo2Byfh
I know I’m gonna fall down431Please respect copyright.PENANAkIJ5aAFfzR
I thought I could fly431Please respect copyright.PENANAWP3OGda8Wy
So why did I drown?431Please respect copyright.PENANAVaWuZpxRL3
You never know why431Please respect copyright.PENANAdlxGrjohsk
It’s coming down, down, down431Please respect copyright.PENANAvGyNdhqtHx
Oh, I’m going down, down, down
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It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as Katherine went downstairs for a drink, Nadia in the parlor.431Please respect copyright.PENANAblL6CYvJwZ
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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAbHL4xPamWJ
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.431Please respect copyright.PENANAddlrcVi4hh
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.
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*Dead Man On Campus*
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I can’t find another way around431Please respect copyright.PENANAzhmiZPW0wc
And I don’t wanna hear the sound431Please respect copyright.PENANA4kqQipg07K
Of losing what I’ve never found431Please respect copyright.PENANA6FwlHJ3teX
I shot for the sky431Please respect copyright.PENANApTGfXbdsZk
I’m stuck on the ground431Please respect copyright.PENANApRyBU3SvSA
So why do I try?431Please respect copyright.PENANAfXCfih7YD9
I know I’m gonna fall down431Please respect copyright.PENANAvwMe0XTgIj
I thought I could fly431Please respect copyright.PENANAFT4xhgY6Dp
So why did I drown?431Please respect copyright.PENANAZdve6Tdq6U
I’ll never know why431Please respect copyright.PENANA1kq0BQVpW1
It’s coming down, down, down
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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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAKOYc3MlaNE
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.431Please respect copyright.PENANAwwDqPFHHeq
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.431Please respect copyright.PENANAPgHa3yetsV
He set her on her feet.431Please respect copyright.PENANA7lzb3Xz90i
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.431Please respect copyright.PENANAXlxskUYPFf
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.431Please respect copyright.PENANAIprg6kAbRK
“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.431Please respect copyright.PENANAxxmfJ3iu23
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.431Please respect copyright.PENANAaOpQReywBd
“Then save me,” she said.431Please respect copyright.PENANAVM1iKSTvqc
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky431Please respect copyright.PENANAevSSiqwdwW
I’m stuck on the ground431Please respect copyright.PENANAPhZKQ6CYbl
So why do I try?431Please respect copyright.PENANA4MRIRUtkus
I know I’m gonna fall431Please respect copyright.PENANAk1ss6jsH05
I thought I could fly431Please respect copyright.PENANAKoslSUvzeC
So why did I drown?431Please respect copyright.PENANA5HwvJc5HA0
Oh, it’s coming down, down, down
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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.