Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.440Please respect copyright.PENANAkHomxf5Cm9
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at440Please respect copyright.PENANA46Jx3Y7b7x
I’m standing out the back440Please respect copyright.PENANAgiQ0FGC0x7
And I’m tired of waiting440Please respect copyright.PENANAXwamDw51kV
Waiting here in line440Please respect copyright.PENANAwaXoMlmqkA
Hoping that I’ll fine440Please respect copyright.PENANAa1Rl4IyBnQ
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAmCqi02OJQ4
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.440Please respect copyright.PENANAsRJm12cDjF
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.440Please respect copyright.PENANAuJ6ClCBK23
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 sky440Please respect copyright.PENANAyMXO1RbMg5
I’m suck on the ground440Please respect copyright.PENANAUGdNmo7Cyh
So why do I try?440Please respect copyright.PENANAQKKy1ChuOx
I know I’m gonna fall down440Please respect copyright.PENANA830XNiuGWm
I thought I could fly?440Please respect copyright.PENANAiTSjgM5ORP
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAdpqcQbpRbY
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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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAXqeEu84PFl
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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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAe9AAyGehsM
No, he thought to himself.440Please respect copyright.PENANAhpMeiEPJi8
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANA0WliQCJzb4
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.440Please respect copyright.PENANAkI1rj3rSvq
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANASOhVUD7RXZ
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.440Please respect copyright.PENANAnZET0bs4mN
“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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAlTrmdcwy75
“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.”440Please respect copyright.PENANAPHvWq3O0R6
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAA6veUkfUkl
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.440Please respect copyright.PENANAaCM4TwNE7u
“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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAa8Ee7I7I7A
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.440Please respect copyright.PENANALyzuabgzEp
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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.440Please respect copyright.PENANANsA0qFPpjm
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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.440Please respect copyright.PENANACw2D1d5es7
She smiled back.440Please respect copyright.PENANAIRukOEX9nJ
“You saved my life. Thank you.”440Please respect copyright.PENANABuEelZpVtr
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.440Please respect copyright.PENANA7dxoGDK430
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why440Please respect copyright.PENANAfiAfPQEjpd
It’s coming down, down, down440Please respect copyright.PENANApQNYx6OfMZ
Not ready to let go440Please respect copyright.PENANA52XoOTXpl6
‘Cause then I’ll never know440Please respect copyright.PENANACf46pCGuQG
What I could be missing440Please respect copyright.PENANA6D5X6ikvow
But I’m missing way too much440Please respect copyright.PENANAGcqdik9BvP
When do I give up440Please respect copyright.PENANAoqxJ1e7UpQ
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAA7QnK5sj3O
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAxP3r3bsSK1
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 sky440Please respect copyright.PENANAybkp90vsFf
I’m stuck on the ground440Please respect copyright.PENANAXP1kF1hMWP
So why do I try?440Please respect copyright.PENANAEKCU2wJlJG
I know I’m gonna fall down440Please respect copyright.PENANA4Q2RejXsJC
I thought I could fly440Please respect copyright.PENANAr4qmvV4t2t
So why did I drown?440Please respect copyright.PENANAroXiIPpXNq
You never know why440Please respect copyright.PENANA2lbOqaZDUL
It’s coming down, down, down440Please respect copyright.PENANAid7M4GxPXZ
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAfDzY9QXteW
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAJY3JbBwE6T
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.440Please respect copyright.PENANAxutQdFCGo1
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 around440Please respect copyright.PENANAyJtwfND82A
And I don’t wanna hear the sound440Please respect copyright.PENANA928cJxECeD
Of losing what I’ve never found440Please respect copyright.PENANAsdupi8SwOz
I shot for the sky440Please respect copyright.PENANAYmHxfMnmdf
I’m stuck on the ground440Please respect copyright.PENANAip1bV84sNl
So why do I try?440Please respect copyright.PENANA7tH5zd4sAo
I know I’m gonna fall down440Please respect copyright.PENANAocgtwNwvE4
I thought I could fly440Please respect copyright.PENANAbFusSun5w6
So why did I drown?440Please respect copyright.PENANA9oOsIjrsz8
I’ll never know why440Please respect copyright.PENANAvmRmrlZdFC
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.440Please respect copyright.PENANARFuyp4ihGg
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.440Please respect copyright.PENANACYj6WMBgon
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.440Please respect copyright.PENANAXwcB1gBUX5
He set her on her feet.440Please respect copyright.PENANAY9z4r8LKLe
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.440Please respect copyright.PENANAVfF93UqKUJ
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.440Please respect copyright.PENANAE7imY8EAYP
“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.440Please respect copyright.PENANAItfWxLGZHI
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.440Please respect copyright.PENANA3nnNIVswyn
“Then save me,” she said.440Please respect copyright.PENANAzKuR4bTV8R
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky440Please respect copyright.PENANArZHv3AGvMx
I’m stuck on the ground440Please respect copyright.PENANAQFLB8KdMca
So why do I try?440Please respect copyright.PENANAjXFrk9DPLK
I know I’m gonna fall440Please respect copyright.PENANAzQz4rEjXsj
I thought I could fly440Please respect copyright.PENANAU1t8RWS3pb
So why did I drown?440Please respect copyright.PENANAhr84nNO8z1
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.