Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.448Please respect copyright.PENANANYNI878lV2
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at448Please respect copyright.PENANA5AXh5VCYRD
I’m standing out the back448Please respect copyright.PENANA8oWXOit2lx
And I’m tired of waiting448Please respect copyright.PENANAS3b1RN7bNF
Waiting here in line448Please respect copyright.PENANAUrlMczhO2o
Hoping that I’ll fine448Please respect copyright.PENANADXPjwFiDFW
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAWFiZUBoxMi
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.448Please respect copyright.PENANAfwnrwRjEMy
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.448Please respect copyright.PENANARjDaJz7Gqe
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 sky448Please respect copyright.PENANA2vsELj2kdq
I’m suck on the ground448Please respect copyright.PENANAL0EqsY3g6O
So why do I try?448Please respect copyright.PENANAmVJKHTbJLO
I know I’m gonna fall down448Please respect copyright.PENANAAmtAaSR0r9
I thought I could fly?448Please respect copyright.PENANAzmaEDHOHYh
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAa8Im9I8k8Q
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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.448Please respect copyright.PENANA1ASCMYmFtG
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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.448Please respect copyright.PENANA4PUrkp4AsP
No, he thought to himself.448Please respect copyright.PENANAsr6edK94Ga
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANApHQSx5ghfM
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.448Please respect copyright.PENANAJPHEljCikV
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAw4Qq8OqDer
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.448Please respect copyright.PENANAAVANDZPjHk
“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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAMV5SWLoOXK
“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.”448Please respect copyright.PENANA55f98P8oHs
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAyiEHl2p1mX
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.448Please respect copyright.PENANAKgaejch5q6
“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.448Please respect copyright.PENANASMd1btzrsT
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.448Please respect copyright.PENANAHQm0Bbb2cb
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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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAchDr2OyzEH
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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.448Please respect copyright.PENANA2L1HJ4TzWN
She smiled back.448Please respect copyright.PENANACXcOwj1ETU
“You saved my life. Thank you.”448Please respect copyright.PENANAVETynZAK0b
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.448Please respect copyright.PENANAFCJzMO5bHm
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why448Please respect copyright.PENANAcMs97Lntcr
It’s coming down, down, down448Please respect copyright.PENANA9A0zlSPg22
Not ready to let go448Please respect copyright.PENANAHzURcdrmXr
‘Cause then I’ll never know448Please respect copyright.PENANABxwdJqmbpT
What I could be missing448Please respect copyright.PENANA8TmNHSMxvg
But I’m missing way too much448Please respect copyright.PENANARdbPKkAo4m
When do I give up448Please respect copyright.PENANAUEAkB7WCBk
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAB1aDzGlior
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAnblqCrUo4d
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 sky448Please respect copyright.PENANAdPDgWCuqJw
I’m stuck on the ground448Please respect copyright.PENANADkpEg346Ku
So why do I try?448Please respect copyright.PENANAq3oex86ZJS
I know I’m gonna fall down448Please respect copyright.PENANAV95mrgXqq7
I thought I could fly448Please respect copyright.PENANAj7bquZiP9N
So why did I drown?448Please respect copyright.PENANArCfb5AkVoc
You never know why448Please respect copyright.PENANAYVoVEaE0tR
It’s coming down, down, down448Please respect copyright.PENANA28OdWdFfYu
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANATcGEEgokz6
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAb01bePSkgg
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.448Please respect copyright.PENANAeOzT4xrhfv
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 around448Please respect copyright.PENANAD900YdNDff
And I don’t wanna hear the sound448Please respect copyright.PENANAyq58hczcaC
Of losing what I’ve never found448Please respect copyright.PENANA84tIgb5CKB
I shot for the sky448Please respect copyright.PENANA5IkluURuKl
I’m stuck on the ground448Please respect copyright.PENANABx2vA2FPVX
So why do I try?448Please respect copyright.PENANAbPFyh8xofA
I know I’m gonna fall down448Please respect copyright.PENANAbAqmMMiskE
I thought I could fly448Please respect copyright.PENANAh9mVnmEcP6
So why did I drown?448Please respect copyright.PENANAnOS8hlUMum
I’ll never know why448Please respect copyright.PENANANUjGogm1R2
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.448Please respect copyright.PENANACBmJAb1vzV
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.448Please respect copyright.PENANAM88pQqMWLo
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.448Please respect copyright.PENANAn0lr3j0cSi
He set her on her feet.448Please respect copyright.PENANAL8C0biq0SK
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.448Please respect copyright.PENANAUGXhTj29zY
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.448Please respect copyright.PENANAfEJvuVOyrJ
“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.448Please respect copyright.PENANAxBdDBxMu9j
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.448Please respect copyright.PENANAUoQu0d9RIW
“Then save me,” she said.448Please respect copyright.PENANAW575HPlGDn
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky448Please respect copyright.PENANA6Wm5sWWsD5
I’m stuck on the ground448Please respect copyright.PENANAee6mU0KcUA
So why do I try?448Please respect copyright.PENANAVffP8gcggl
I know I’m gonna fall448Please respect copyright.PENANADgfSwKnQtp
I thought I could fly448Please respect copyright.PENANACHeUDsMIkK
So why did I drown?448Please respect copyright.PENANAX4GKnPgQ2M
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.