Summary: Set in S5E1. Based on the song “Cut” by Plumb. Damon finds an injured Katherine. Will he save her?
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No I am yours484Please respect copyright.PENANAFa5Bm2zpe2
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And tears that still drip sour484Please respect copyright.PENANAmZNB7tZZos
A fragile frame aged484Please respect copyright.PENANAPapcDVddIU
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And when our eyes meet484Please respect copyright.PENANAiIIg9DkZC1
I know you see484Please respect copyright.PENANAqkclvdQx44
I do not want to be afraid484Please respect copyright.PENANAooDMLJTGbp
I do not want to die inside just to breathe in484Please respect copyright.PENANAD7PukjdmO9
I’m tired of feeling so numb484Please respect copyright.PENANAZZRfQ2ZdhN
Relief exists I find it when484Please respect copyright.PENANAKRitxibV7q
I am cut
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It was a nebulous night, as Katherine walked through town. She’d left town for a whole summer after being turned into a human when Elena had shoved the cure down her throat. Now she was back in town after suffering from being homeless, hungry, tired with blistered feet from heels, and suffering from fear. She was also hurt emotionally and physically. She was hurt and angry for being left in the dust by Elijah. She was physically injured because she was worthless as a human and could barely defend herself. She knew she was taking a risk, but she decided to try and get to Damon. He had once loved her the most. Surely he wouldn’t turn her away in her time of need, no matter what she’d done in the past.484Please respect copyright.PENANAF6Ba5uDM1n
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An hour later, give or take, she grabbed hold of a building wall by an alley, weak with blurry vision and her sight was going. She knew that this meant that she’d lost a lot of blood. She didn’t want to die; especially, alone, but she couldn’t do anything to prevent it. She could only hope to be found in time.
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I may seem crazy484Please respect copyright.PENANA59kjU0IXDH
Or painfully shy484Please respect copyright.PENANAP0rJQg7G39
And these scars wouldn’t be so hidden484Please respect copyright.PENANAK1T5r2c2Zl
If you would just look me in the eye484Please respect copyright.PENANA4jFHpugnXC
I feel alone and cold here484Please respect copyright.PENANA9r6ZeGEPF4
Thought I don’t want to die484Please respect copyright.PENANA2LhcNSMBpa
But the only anesthetic that makes me feel anything kills inside
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Damon was on his way home, not far from an alley after feeding in the woods, when he smelled human blood. And so he decided to follow it.
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I do not want to be afraid484Please respect copyright.PENANAh4v9xcMeZP
I do not want to die inside just to breathe in484Please respect copyright.PENANAiRZbVl5Z0h
I’m tired of feeling so numb484Please respect copyright.PENANAfxmNyJv1LN
Relief exists I find it when484Please respect copyright.PENANA89s1jI7Usi
I am cut484Please respect copyright.PENANAWf2CJecaZT
Pain484Please respect copyright.PENANA27TtCAXgcK
I am not alone484Please respect copyright.PENANAG7TcC41iwD
I am not alone
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When he arrived a short while later in an alley, he stood silent for a moment, debating whether to help her or not, seeing her seated on the ground with her back against the brick wall. There was a dagger in her lower stomach. She was very pale too and had lost a lot of blood; too much blood.
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I’m not a stranger484Please respect copyright.PENANAAaOCA8QF0P
No I am yours484Please respect copyright.PENANAZqoEHXljEy
With crippled anger484Please respect copyright.PENANA1efeNGbt0z
And tears that still drip soar484Please respect copyright.PENANAbAJWT92JpH
But I do not want to be afraid484Please respect copyright.PENANAfeLOGKFYeL
I do not want to die inside just to breathe in484Please respect copyright.PENANAQszGxnS0t9
I’m tired of feeling so numb484Please respect copyright.PENANAYSGubjtAy6
Relief exists I found it when484Please respect copyright.PENANATo8OE1Qvnr
I was cut
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He blurred to and knelt in front of her. He could see that she was barely awake. He rested a hand on the side of her face.484Please respect copyright.PENANAiDECuVxvVv
“Stay with me. I’m going to save you. Just keep fighting.”484Please respect copyright.PENANAXdllB6Ftwd
He gently picked her up in his arms and blurred to the hospital. He would have healed any normal human, but no one had ever taken or, in her case, gotten the cure shoved down their throat before. He didn’t know if she could digest vampire blood and he wasn’t taking any risks.484Please respect copyright.PENANAglddTmAUyw
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An hour later, after surgery, he was seated on her bedside, a hand on top of hers, waiting for her to wake up. She’d be okay now and he promised himself that he was going to keep her safe and alive.