Summary: Set in S4 after Jeremy was killed. What if Damon hadn't had her turn her humanity off? What happens when Katherine shows up in person at the boarding house?
"No, no, no, no. I can't. I can't," Elena Gilbert sobbed.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZwMa2sFdS
The match she held burned her and she let go. Before it could hit the floor though, Stefan Salvatore caught it and put it out.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9esKJX3SVj
"Listen to me, Elena. You can do this," Damon encouraged her. "Let me help you."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRtrbmEUF9
She dropped to her knees and sobbed.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV45haitATn
He knelt down by her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlQ7FwQbag
"I can help you."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpyR2JnlaL
She wrapped her arms around Damon Salvatore and sobbed into his shoulder. As she did, he wrapped gentle arms around her and looked up at his brother.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9028563ux
"We have to do something. She won't be able to live like this," he told his little brother.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xH2gHHhWi
"I know."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IpbXEf22x
He looked at Elena again.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcz08qa2Gr
"I can help you, Elena but right now, I want you to come home with me."
Half an hour later, she and Damon were in Damon's room. Elena was seated on his bed and Damon was seated beside her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNk2sqk6T8g
"It'll be okay, Elena. You'll get through it."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTeTEZabTU
"Have you been like this before?"
"Well, not like you are, obviously but I have some experience with losing someone close. You know the basics, but you don't know what happened before Katherine."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMhEYpGMsk
"What happened? Whom did you lose?"807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡie71tON2sS
"We lost our mother. After that, we vowed to stay close and to never let a girl get between us."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EOsg9UROT
"But Katherine did."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJgfpjCjGd
"Yes. But not until after I met her. Stefan met her while I was fighting in the war. I met her after I came home on leave to see Stefan."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeZip1sYVj
"So, wait, you were in the war?"807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsy5RrS89V6
"Yes. For the South; and that is not something you forget. My point is that time heals some things. It did for me."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg78giN32IJ
"How?"807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuAkRyuclM
"By enjoying everything life can give you. And you have people that are willing to help you in every way."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZcy0PhRoQ
"Thank you, Damon."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxYw35E4an
"You are very welcome, Elena."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmL2akqibS
"Am I interrupting something?" came the voice.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88KRe7JIy3
They looked to see Katherine Pierce standing in the threshold, the cure in one hand.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcC6A4s05S
"I assume you want this. That's why you're looking for me. We can give Elena half and I can use the rest to Klaus. Assuming Elena wants the cure. Or shove it down either Klaus' or Silas' throat. Pick either one, but I vote for Silas. He's awake and that's bad news. Klaus can be dealt with another time."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14TfagFkKR
"How brave of you to come here after everything," Damon commented, as he glared at her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7fprASUSg
"It's not my fault Silas killed him. All I needed was the cure. I didn't know he was going to kill him. But I wanted to get it and then go," she explained.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeoiNcgqUq
She set it down on the table and walked into the room.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh6dHoc8Tl
At vamp speed, Elena pinned her to a wall with a hand around her throat.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aspZydO5X
"Don't," Elena growled in warning and anger. She wanted to rip her head off, but knew they needed answers and she had them. "You have no right to come in here and talk about my brother!"807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0BwfCg7nG
"I was trying to apologize. I know what it's like to have all your human family killed," she explained through the pain from Elena's too tight of a hold. "Elena, please," she added in almost a whisper.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JWEsrAfa7
She knew Elena was upset, but she didn't need to be so rough. She knew if Elena didn't let go, she was going to black out. She was already hurt. Now she couldn't breathe and her vision was dim and gray.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Jn3jgiLGt
Damon saw that Elena had too tight of a hold on her and saw Kat's reaction. Then he smelled the mixture of hybrids and her blood. That's when he knew he had to help her. She was dying. No wonder she had said she didn't want Klaus dead yet. She had been apologized.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtOH9LsjaT
He was instantly at Elena's side.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzZXGDGZpZ
"Elena, let go," he said, as he used the Sire bond to make sure she'd do what he asked of her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIM6e4XK17
Elena let go and stepped back, as she wondered what was wrong. As she did, Katherine slid down the walk with her back up against it. She coughed and gasped as she sat there with her eyes closed.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYnSZxr536
Damon knelt down beside his Sire.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3jG7wMbBe
"Damon?" Elena questioned.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOp5vjkhTDQ
"Bitten by hybrids," he told her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPhinhkBMp
"That's what that smell is?"807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjWvZkAVRV
"Yes."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tCqoTyg9O
The elder vampiress stopped gasping and coughing. She felt extremely weak and tired, as she dimly heard their conversation.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimU9r4WZNF
He looked at his Sire. She looked so pale to him.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGqovtrLse
Her head rolled to the left and he gently used his hand to keep her head up.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCsTfQ4Ya8
"Katherine, can you hear me?" he called.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmOwYVzgzj
"Damon," she whispered.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qsWdpRUwC
"How long ago? I'm going to help you."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELakfLjb3T
"Two hours," she whispered.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tibfq7tlY
As he picked her up in his arms to get her on his bed, she went limp as she blacked out.
Once he had her on his bed, he sat on her bedside and looked at Elena.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9S0RsSxAyz
"Go see if there's anything left of the cure in the basement."807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQIryZM5lM
He watched her vanish to go obey him.
Half an hour later, he had given the cure to her and they both were standing at her bedside.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QvKMy3t5n
Kat groaned, as she came to.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrHa4FPE91
When she woke up, she saw that she was on his bed and they were both looking down at her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyYOTI3z33
"Welcome back," he greeted her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfOPI5u1cu
"Thanks," she replied.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUG1wleSF6c
Kat sat up in bed and smiled warmly at them.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwXae8LhfH
Elena smiled back.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHattZMxOg
Damon just looked down at her.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjbGGCV6sF
"You saved my life," she added.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBdNB2zeCD
"You're welcome," Elena said with sympathy.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyONUuxOrbG
She knew Elena was trying to apologize.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoclKvc1zsP
"It's okay, Elena," she assured the youngest vampiress out of the three of them.
and then Add to home screen.