Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”548Please respect copyright.PENANA93xLD3Ayzl
*The Last Day*
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Would you dance548Please respect copyright.PENANAwSeKCFnW5y
If I asked you to dance?548Please respect copyright.PENANAkflL8upMq4
Would you run and never look back?548Please respect copyright.PENANAqHwzJ6WhEO
Would you cry548Please respect copyright.PENANAq5d7gnDKd8
If you saw me crying?548Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZGYJJuoKd
Would you save my soul tonight?548Please respect copyright.PENANAKnHw0aqElW
Would you tremble548Please respect copyright.PENANAFNSR1y1BuD
If I touched your lips?548Please respect copyright.PENANATQuwyz6WGs
Would you laugh?548Please respect copyright.PENANAUVNVlyLLuX
Oh, please tell me this548Please respect copyright.PENANAYq4zDfqegp
Now would you die548Please respect copyright.PENANAz10tZcRcYu
For the one you love?548Please respect copyright.PENANAcCtVjGRiWw
Hold me in your arms tonight548Please respect copyright.PENANA5cKkgGTZiB
I can be your hero, baby548Please respect copyright.PENANAz8oSUdrAG6
I can kiss away the pain548Please respect copyright.PENANAYRkg0WSwOk
I will stand by you forever548Please respect copyright.PENANApMcf35wTWm
You can take my breath away
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It was a beautiful day, as Damon knocked on Ric’s apartment door and waited for someone to open the door. Klaus was keeping her hostage, so he thought he’d come by and give her a vial of vervain to use so he couldn’t compel her. He hated Katherine, but no one deserved torture, captivity, or being ripped of their free will. If she was alive, he’d help her the best of his ability.548Please respect copyright.PENANAEstZXLIv23
Ten minutes later, when no one opened the door, he figured he should see what was going on, so he did just that. He walked inside, closing the door behind himself. That’s when he saw her on her back on the floor, skin burning in the sun, and a bite on the left side of her neck. Because of the burning, he assumed that Klaus had taken her Daylight bracelet.548Please respect copyright.PENANA7b5T9p9OyT
He went over and closed the curtains to stop the burning. She was a vampire just like himself. If a vampire burned long enough, they’d die. He didn’t know how long that she’d been burning. If he hadn’t come today, she probably would’ve died before the sun went down.548Please respect copyright.PENANA4UIghOzyY1
He knelt at her side and scanned her with his eyes. He’d gotten to her just in time, since she had started showing veins from burning in the sun. The veins were starting to disappear and her skin was starting to heal, but not as quickly as vampires usually do. He knew it was from the vicious bite.548Please respect copyright.PENANAtjQ7ySfAAX
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.548Please respect copyright.PENANAeirEhhmTLZ
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”548Please respect copyright.PENANA0steQ9XBhI
When she didn’t reply or move a muscle, he patted her right cheek gently, his right hand resting on her forehead to keep her head still. In this state, she was fragile. He hated to call her that, but she was burning up. That, and she looked very weak and pale, not to mention, he was having a hard time waking her up. If and when she woke up, she wouldn’t be able to go anywhere. She’d be too weak to stand, much less walk. Even if she did wake up before he left with her, he’d still have to carry her.548Please respect copyright.PENANA4M55WZcL7r
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.548Please respect copyright.PENANAmIFbI971FX
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.548Please respect copyright.PENANARI8ZnBlffP
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.548Please respect copyright.PENANA4NqKVg7v2B
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”548Please respect copyright.PENANAe32u7D78WK
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.548Please respect copyright.PENANAZznkEsdXdJ
“Don’t worry. I’m not here to kill you. I’m not an hallucination either. I’m getting you out of here, but you need to tell me where he’s go the cure. Surely, he didn’t leave you to die without leaving the cure behind.”548Please respect copyright.PENANA35pLvN40ow
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.548Please respect copyright.PENANARHtNawOBGa
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.548Please respect copyright.PENANASc0WQEb5Hs
She blurrily watched him go and turned her head to the left to watch him look for the cure; Klaus’ blood. As she did, everything began to seem too far away. She was also in a lot of pain from the bite and felt tired.548Please respect copyright.PENANAu6eEzOdxXN
Once he’d found the vial of Klaus’ blood as well as her Daylight bracelet, he put the vial inside his jacket and blurred back over to her.548Please respect copyright.PENANAFlA9REdqno
Once knelt at her side, he could tell that she was about to go under again. He removed her jacket and slipped her Daylight bracelet on her wrist, before putting her arm around his shoulders and pulling her gently into his arms. Then he got to his feet and looked down at her.548Please respect copyright.PENANA0nQosJUmjm
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”548Please respect copyright.PENANAuPtTvkGm4f
He blurred towards his car outside and gently sat her in the passenger’s seat, before taking the vial out. By this time, she’d gone under.548Please respect copyright.PENANA5mapQHE3J2
He slid an arm under her head, gently positioning her head back. Then he put the vial to her lips, making the cure go down her throat. Then, after he figured she’d had enough, he layed her head on the seat again and closed the door. Then he drank the rest, having been bitten by Tyler, and got in the driver’s seat. Then he drove away, towards the boarding house.548Please respect copyright.PENANAJjTbMAYB0o
Later, she was cured and lived to see yet another day.
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*Before Sunset*
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Would you swear that you’ll always be mine?548Please respect copyright.PENANAhp4OmNRns5
Would you lie?548Please respect copyright.PENANA2B8rRiwic6
Would you run and hide?548Please respect copyright.PENANAIa9BLQcxHG
Am I in too deep?548Please respect copyright.PENANAmqPXY8Vywq
Have I lost my mind?548Please respect copyright.PENANAtuBJwzCuBz
I don’t care548Please respect copyright.PENANA9rmvf0ZR3X
You’re here tonight
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It was a dismal night at Mystic High, as everyone tried to kill Klaus. Katherine opened up a couple grenades saying, “Kaboom,” before throwing it at the hybrids that were coming to help Klaus. Killing Klaus didn’t happen in the end though, because Stefan stopped Damon to save him. If Klaus died, Damon would’ve been hunted down and killed by Klaus’ hybrids.548Please respect copyright.PENANAp0KJ8u1Uh3
Later that night, when Katherine was heading down a hall towards the side exit where she’d parked her car, she was pinned against a set of lockers by Rebekah. Apparently, someone had undaggered her and she had heard about the plan to kill Klaus. She knew that that meant that she was on vengeance strike. She definitely knew that when Rebekah plunged a hand through her chest.548Please respect copyright.PENANApYuQcta025
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.548Please respect copyright.PENANAqK9KL2swqR
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.548Please respect copyright.PENANAgjA6HTzGAK
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.548Please respect copyright.PENANAk38gNlXuBX
“I don’t doubt that you’re capable of killing all of us, but would you take away Elijah’s love? Could you live with yourself? You have too good of a heart. I don’t think you can kill me,” Katherine stated truthfully to her. She had no reason to lie. She didn’t know much about Rebekah.548Please respect copyright.PENANAws4qwQMAxF
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.548Please respect copyright.PENANATJ0RaVVxqq
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.548Please respect copyright.PENANAD2XoCtrI5U
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.548Please respect copyright.PENANALGkPNwlt5a
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.548Please respect copyright.PENANAa4DmkRtLHJ
“Maybe I’ll take you up on your offer,” she heart the ancient vampiress say. Then she felt the thing, maybe a stick, start to pierce her heart. Then she felt her ass on the floor and even more pain. Then it was as if she couldn’t breathe and she closed her eyes.548Please respect copyright.PENANAxpkOG74aMo
Damon, seeing the scene, snapped her neck and knelt in front of Katherine, before quickly pulling out the stick and tossing it to the floor. He then bit his wrist and put it to her lips to heal her quicker, which worked.548Please respect copyright.PENANAwqsjhVcb3T
After she’d healed, he gently pulled her into his arms and blurred off wit her.
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*Graduation*
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I can be your hero, baby548Please respect copyright.PENANAux9vWOze5s
I can kiss away the pain548Please respect copyright.PENANAtrRhXWoBQi
I will stand by you forever548Please respect copyright.PENANA08KXpIfwY1
You can take my breath away548Please respect copyright.PENANAcX3RInQApH
Oh, I just want to hold you548Please respect copyright.PENANAy7QbyVVgZb
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah548Please respect copyright.PENANAKVjxRW1mA7
Am I in too deep?548Please respect copyright.PENANAgEAGBvNIED
Have I lost my mind?548Please respect copyright.PENANAErEsq4WBUP
Well, I don’t care548Please respect copyright.PENANAVdgKlkZqe7
You’re here tonight
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It was a dismal night, as Damon searched for Katherine through each Mystic High hall, having heard from Elena that she had shoved the cure down her throat when Katherine had almost killed her. It had been a few hours ago, but he hoped she’d still be here somewhere. He knew her as well as he knew himself. As a vampire, she had everything going for her. As a human, she’d be alone and scared, not to mention hurt and maybe a little paranoid.548Please respect copyright.PENANAun4cIgOBRQ
When he’d found the hall they’d fought in, she was gone, so he went back to his car to try and find her elsewhere. He’d search every road of Mystic Falls if he had to. For some reason, her being human made him care about her well-being. He hadn’t cared about her since 1864.548Please respect copyright.PENANAg7eMLWyBQL
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Twenty minutes later, he found her limping down one of the desolate roads. Knowing her, he figured asking her to get in would prove to be unsuccessful, so he pulled over and got out.548Please respect copyright.PENANAXjFZBZgKoZ
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.548Please respect copyright.PENANAO2oaDRdn62
She turned around to face him and he let go.548Please respect copyright.PENANAlTnt3ZOT8X
“Come to celebrate in my misery? Come to finish what Elena started? Go ahead. Put me out of my misery,” she said with anger, angry at herself that she’d been defeated by her baby vampire doppelganger, and taking it out on him.548Please respect copyright.PENANAGf8dEZZUvt
“I’m not here for either reason. I’m going to help you. You need help. You’re human, injured, and not as powerful as you were. Let me help you.”548Please respect copyright.PENANAauwFYjAmJ0
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.548Please respect copyright.PENANADvxlisjG0e
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.548Please respect copyright.PENANABFghBPpIew
He blurred right behind her and put an arm around her. Then he knelt down with her against him. That when he saw a shard of glass in her thigh and a bigger shard of glass in her stomach.548Please respect copyright.PENANAzMWCAjdlIc
Once he’d gotten her in the car, he pulled both out, tossing them to the ground, and used a towel from the backseat to tie around her thigh. He used the other one for her other wound.548Please respect copyright.PENANAdJ7MxiXjEn
As he drove, he used his right hand to apply pressure with the towel, trying to slow the bleeding. Normal people would’ve taken her to the hospital, but there was a first-aid kit at home. He figured that he could use that to get her wounds taken care of. He figured she’d ben find after that.548Please respect copyright.PENANAXboeYtk9W3
When he’d taken care of her wounds in his room, he was right. She’d be fine.
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
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I can be you’re hero, baby548Please respect copyright.PENANAgzcG8YNNZY
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah548Please respect copyright.PENANAEqZ6JXJw6C
I will stand by you forever548Please respect copyright.PENANA0WUYawy4iK
You can take my breath away548Please respect copyright.PENANARmmjN9xKQ4
(I can be your hero, baby)548Please respect copyright.PENANA3TQKoawK0Z
I can be your hero548Please respect copyright.PENANAj94nhwz0CR
I can kiss away the pain548Please respect copyright.PENANAbK0BXq0uco
And I will stand by you forever548Please respect copyright.PENANAKqAET830C0
You can take my breath away548Please respect copyright.PENANAkmGk5YXft0
You can take my breath away548Please respect copyright.PENANA18PPSXBiZo
I can be your hero
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“Katherine!” he yelled, as he raced towards his wrecked car that she sat in. He’d broken his promise he’d made to her that he’d protect her from Silas. Now she’d somehow caused his car to be totaled. The hood and both sides were crinkled, including the trunk. Also, all of the windows were shattered and he could smell a lot of blood; her blood.548Please respect copyright.PENANA2Ye5brjJd7
When he tried opening the door, it was jammed, so he forced it open. Then, when it opened, her left hand fell off the seat. He gently turned her head towards him and snapped her seatbelt in two. That’s when he saw that she had a dislocated shoulder and a piece of glass grazed in the right side of her neck. She had blood on either side of her head too and was bleeding from the back of her head, but he’d already seen that. He pulled the glass out and scanned the rest of her. Seeing more glass in her, he did the same he’d done with the first glass he’d seen in her. Then he used his vamp strength to move a piece of the car in the floorboard, to free her foot so he could get her to the hospital.548Please respect copyright.PENANA9tdHSkfpLe
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.548Please respect copyright.PENANAojWDT1Wl3g
“Katherine, can you hear me? Open your eyes. I’m going to get you to the hospital. I just need you to open your eyes.”548Please respect copyright.PENANAmb8YWdYsDc
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.548Please respect copyright.PENANAsj56zLra5C
“I’m so sorry, Katherine. Silas told me to hand you over in exchange of him telling me where Stefan is. I promise you, I will never do that again.”548Please respect copyright.PENANAq0LBL4qe0j
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.548Please respect copyright.PENANAxxt1VHrIp1
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Half an hour later, as she was rushed down the hall, because of her extensive injuries, her body was going into shock.548Please respect copyright.PENANAcN3EVAolFi
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Hours later, after surgery, she was settled into a recovery room and he was told he could see her. So he went to sit on her bedside and rested his hand on top of her right one. She hadn’t woken up yet, so he was just silent, happy that she was alive.548Please respect copyright.PENANAXGGQwCMx2K
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.