Summary: Set in S6. Damon finds a human Kat in need of help. Will he save her or just leave her? What will ensue?489Please respect copyright.PENANA53lqIuyfcy
It was a beautiful day by the woods, as Damon tried to figure out where the hell he had ended up at. As far as he figured, it wasn’t exactly peace and neither was it hell. He knew he hadn’t disintegrated with the Other Side, though. He had been taken here.489Please respect copyright.PENANA4GwbnXa6bx
Suddenly, smelling the all too familiar scents of blood and human, he followed the scents into the woods for a distance. As he did, it began to pour, matching his not so great mood.489Please respect copyright.PENANApWmqmnlLIk
He stopped half a distance from the scene, seeing a guy he didn’t care to question nor did he recognize, standing over someone. By the sudden familiar scent of his former sire, it was the one person he never wanted to see ever again. There had to be a reason that he ended up where she had, so he did the only thing he knew was the right thing to do. In a blur, he snapped his neck from behind and then knelt at his human and injured ex’s side and gently pulled her into his arms, before vanishing from the woods and, once he realized that it was like an abandoned Mystic Falls, he knew where to go.489Please respect copyright.PENANALdImGMWNFz
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Once in his room, he gently layed her down on his bed and soon had gotten what he needed to take care of her wounds.489Please respect copyright.PENANAgtoTYNEI82
A few minutes after he had finished, he sat on her bedside and rested a gentle hand on the side of her face, looking down at her.489Please respect copyright.PENANAo4UI2Tz9gR
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. I know I don’t deserve for you to do what I want or need, but I did just save your life.”489Please respect copyright.PENANAhLdT67LnV7
After a few minutes of waiting and getting nothing, he began to wonder when she was going to wake up.489Please respect copyright.PENANAKMNeFsOIKc
He sighed, not knowing what else to do for her. He had done everything possible to help her, apart from feeding her his blood. He hadn’t fed his blood to her, because he didn’t know if she could digest vampire blood. In the real world when she had been human and dying of old age, she hadn’t been able to digest vampire blood.489Please respect copyright.PENANAX2Z2co3Ukh
After deciding to go inside her head to find out what was wrong, he saw everything that had happened between her and Kai, before finding her, and knew why he couldn’t wake her up.489Please respect copyright.PENANAiVoNqErmA4
“Damon?” She questioned. “What are you doing here?”489Please respect copyright.PENANAm00gmCHBZT
“Don’t worry. I’m not here to cause any trouble or torment you. I ended up here, wherever here is, after sacrificing myself to save Mystic Falls from the Travelers. I saw you and him in the woods, so I saved you. I couldn’t wake you up, so I came here to find out why. I know you’ve been through hell, but you can’t just give up. You didn’t get this far to give up.”489Please respect copyright.PENANAa5GkJQ0iNA
“Thanks for the save and your concern, but I don’t need or want saving. We may be a lot alike, but you don’t know how it feels to never be truly free.”489Please respect copyright.PENANAAhLcoijJov
“True, but you know I’m right, even if you don’t want to admit it. Besides, she wouldn’t want you to give up.”489Please respect copyright.PENANAfAwFhq9H12
As she looked at him, she knew he was right about everything. She wondered what had happened for him to want to help her. Had he seen something she hadn’t wanted him to see? Had something happened with or to Elena? She would have to find out, but not right away. When it came to talking to him about Elena, it was a touchy subject.489Please respect copyright.PENANAFUFTX9E6fO
“Fine. Get out of my head and I’ll wake up.”489Please respect copyright.PENANAHlU48L2qRr
At that, he left her head and she soon awoke.489Please respect copyright.PENANA3gMS1VKdtx
She gave a smile and he smiled back.489Please respect copyright.PENANAPOuvZ3IuB7
“So, what are you? My knight in black until we return?” she questioned.489Please respect copyright.PENANAPYju37XN7i
“We’ll see,” he replied.489Please respect copyright.PENANA9qH5qDoPqI
She knew that that was as much of a yes as she would get out of him.489Please respect copyright.PENANAup2NSbKxcv