Ch.11: How To Save A Life
Summary: Set in S7, but kind of a future fic. Elena is back to going to college with Caroline now that she has awakened after Bonnie’s death. Bonnie died from the pills, since they couldn’t find a way to save her. What happens when Damon sees Kat on the side of the road? Will he save her, or leave her to die?
Step one, you say we need to talk415Please respect copyright.PENANAAPBu7z6D86
He walks, you say sit down, it’s just a talk415Please respect copyright.PENANAIRBmkhHszg
He smiles politely back at you415Please respect copyright.PENANAEWlUQ9V0ti
You stare politely right on through415Please respect copyright.PENANAwgxsfvxXZg
Some sort of window to your right415Please respect copyright.PENANAUzQo1KcT5P
As he goes left, and you stay right415Please respect copyright.PENANAqpt7u3xmDY
Between the lines of fear and blame415Please respect copyright.PENANAKtOZ5urQAR
You begin to wonder why you came415Please respect copyright.PENANASolyEcApSF
Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANAouC5k0CBMe
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANAWPHHAKeUKC
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANAnFOzfJ1P71
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAwPXUjH4akG
Had I known how to save a life
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It was a dismal night in Mystic Falls, as Damon drove back to the boarding house after a few drinks. He’d gone to see Elena at Whitmore College, since she’d ignored his calls for a few days. He had to make sure she was safe. And she was. Now he was heading back home.415Please respect copyright.PENANA3rBCa7hjQ7
Suddenly, on the desolate road, he saw someone lying down on the shoulder of the road. Usually he’d just pass by, but he had a gut feeling that he should stop, so he stopped the car by the person, close to the shoulder of the road.415Please respect copyright.PENANAXjXThNKbVT
As soon as he went around his car and knelt by her, he saw her familiar face, but he didn’t want to believe that it was really her.415Please respect copyright.PENANAVSYmehZPF6
“Katherine?”415Please respect copyright.PENANAcntA6D9knc
He gently got her on her back. That’s when it was confirmed that Katherine was indeed alive, human, and injured. She was pale with blood on either side of her head. There was also blood pretty much everywhere. He could barely see where her wounds started and where the blood started. That’s how much blood there was. He could tell that she’d lost a lot of blood. He listened for a heartbeat and breathing and if his heart could beat, it would’ve sunk. He didn’t care what had happened to her for her to be like this. He only knew that he couldn’t leave her to die. She was slipping towards it, though. Her breathing was shallow and her heart was slowing.415Please respect copyright.PENANAWgicE7PkF0
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head.415Please respect copyright.PENANAwkKeBgoP4x
“Katherine, can you hear me? If you can hear me, open your eyes.”415Please respect copyright.PENANAcgPbNaODn4
After a moment of no movement from her, he took the chance and bit his wrist, putting it to her lips, making his blood go down her throat to heal her if all possible.415Please respect copyright.PENANApjz9gHOSBH
When her wounds had healed and she wasn’t dying anymore, he took his wrist away which obviously healed, and sighed in relief. Sure, he hated her, but whatever had happened to her, he wouldn’t wish on anyone.415Please respect copyright.PENANAQXnj249Jwp
“Let’s get you out of here,” he said, and as he gently picked her up in his arms he added, “Upsie daisy.” Then he walked over to his car and gently set her in the passenger’s seat. He then closed the door and got in the driver’s seat and started driving again.415Please respect copyright.PENANAFb3NV0W0BL
As he drove, he looked over at her, hoping for a sign that she was going to be waking up soon. He knew she was alive and healed, so he didn’t understand why she hadn’t woken up yet. He figured she had been through a lot though and just needed to rest for a while. He knew that after going through a lot, it made people exhausted. He’d gone through a lot himself. If he wasn’t a vampire, he would’ve been tired of all of this a long time ago. Even as a vampire, he wished sometimes that he could just go and take a long overdue nap and not have to deal with anything or anyone.415Please respect copyright.PENANAmwLYTXH0cP
He rested a gentle hand on top of her left one and looked at the road again. Maybe if she knew that she wasn’t alone and that she was safe with him, she’d wake up.
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Let him know that you know best415Please respect copyright.PENANAVaoxXcrhWr
‘Cause after all, you do know best415Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4LIkWgfRd
Try to slip past his defense415Please respect copyright.PENANAaxdKYXQznv
Without granting innocence415Please respect copyright.PENANAbBXOIybFyL
Lay down a list of what is wrong415Please respect copyright.PENANAijXrezgNkl
The things you’ve told him all along415Please respect copyright.PENANATMm6YPvqkT
And pray to God he hears you415Please respect copyright.PENANAIxUvpWfaju
And I pray to God he hears you415Please respect copyright.PENANATmcg8ENxFt
Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANAsxiVi09IvV
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANACZIbWXc6Ib
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANAtcmaKhct06
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAOLma57x0Cn
Had I known how to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANAomBAf9XGiq
As he begins to raise his voice415Please respect copyright.PENANAQrYgeZzOQO
You lower yours and grant him one last choice415Please respect copyright.PENANANIvelKFeZI
Drive until you lose the road415Please respect copyright.PENANAhuSIuBArU4
Or break with the ones you’ve followed415Please respect copyright.PENANAqGULr5fh4a
He will do one of two things415Please respect copyright.PENANAU92mLA2LJa
He will admit to everything415Please respect copyright.PENANAFir76F2Nom
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same415Please respect copyright.PENANA8Um0lWnLzD
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came
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“Katherine, I don’t know if you can hear me or not, but I’m right here. I’m not going to hurt you. Whatever happened, I’m here for you. I promise you, you’re safe now. I won’t let anything happen to you. It’s okay now. You can open your eyes,” he said, as he continued looking at the road, hoping it would work. He didn’t want to have to go inside her head, considering he’d been cruel to her the last time he’d done that to her.415Please respect copyright.PENANAZFeO90TYyK
As the minutes clicked by and she still didn’t stir, he wondered if he would have to go inside her head or take her to the hospital, after all.415Please respect copyright.PENANAMruTgBAgJz
“Look, Katherine, I need you to wake up so that I know that you’ll live. I know now that I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been so cruel to you. You were dying and reliving your grief over your mother. You didn’t deserve what you got from neither Klaus nor me. I’m sorry for what I did to you. If I could do it over, I’d give you peace, instead. Please forgive me,” he confessed, meaning every word. Without her in his life or alive, he didn’t feel whole. The moment he’d watched Stefan kill her to get her out of Elena’s body, it felt like a small piece of him died along with her.
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Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANAZDth4nK2sk
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANAkeWgPEyQGF
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANA818IQND62z
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAKC16PX1mwE
Had I known how to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANADbLo5mfXIo
Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANAbsiX8sPvUt
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANAAY2yoqBmQF
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANACON7btYIuh
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAicCWqJ6Lab
Had I known how to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANAXXmprASbBi
How to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANAvLq5Udte6L
How to save a life
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After his confession and everything he’d said, which she heard through the darkness, she began to awaken half an hour later.415Please respect copyright.PENANADwjLTXUVUI
When she woke up, she was still weak but otherwise felt fine. The second thing she noticed was Damon driving with a hand on top of hers and a worried look. Seeing her awaken though, she saw him give her a smile, which she returned.415Please respect copyright.PENANAqVPn6dAOwO
“How do you feel?” he questioned.415Please respect copyright.PENANA1tZtjlAs6V
“I feel fine.”415Please respect copyright.PENANATz36sXh7qb
“Good,” he replied.415Please respect copyright.PENANABbnhYwBgtQ
He pulled up to the house and she couldn’t help but comment, saying, “Home sweet home.”415Please respect copyright.PENANA4fsqF20WhP
“Don’t worry. It’s just you and me now. Stefan left town and we broke up a while back,” he assured her.415Please respect copyright.PENANAU04G1Bjn9O
She smiled, happy about that.
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Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANAG9Z8eZrtTz
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANAE0HA0roBhA
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANAM76cCjVOHs
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAUTOd2L1tKO
Had I known how to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANAOuKHLJyGtA
Where did I go wrong?415Please respect copyright.PENANADlPomlH8pf
I lost a friend415Please respect copyright.PENANA2V2qHsZL2C
Somewhere along in bitterness415Please respect copyright.PENANAwD63Y53ItK
And I would have stayed up with you all night415Please respect copyright.PENANAoUE04hAy5t
Had I known how to save a life
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After a year of living together in the boarding house, they finally fell back into love. And so their love story continued on. And the plus side was that she could digest vampire blood and was no longer dying. She just looked like she used to be before turning the first time. And so, after finding that out, she had Damon turn her back and he was glad to do so.
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How to save a life415Please respect copyright.PENANAQQDwol12GO
How to save a life…