Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAVNrJ8mUkGa
*The Last Day*
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Would you dance426Please respect copyright.PENANAovfNjD2GVN
If I asked you to dance?426Please respect copyright.PENANA431mEI934y
Would you run and never look back?426Please respect copyright.PENANAlmd2KAi3ib
Would you cry426Please respect copyright.PENANAPwsRlZtpGp
If you saw me crying?426Please respect copyright.PENANAoZjU1Yc6q8
Would you save my soul tonight?426Please respect copyright.PENANAFVhM82I4Ao
Would you tremble426Please respect copyright.PENANAcS5dWsDsIo
If I touched your lips?426Please respect copyright.PENANA6gJ1YH3xR7
Would you laugh?426Please respect copyright.PENANAdinRfN0haA
Oh, please tell me this426Please respect copyright.PENANA5jKQnDelW1
Now would you die426Please respect copyright.PENANAgFtfIFIecl
For the one you love?426Please respect copyright.PENANAWHv9qjtOky
Hold me in your arms tonight426Please respect copyright.PENANA6rSGnttpzX
I can be your hero, baby426Please respect copyright.PENANAoFJzqAUngc
I can kiss away the pain426Please respect copyright.PENANAv5Z4gkSPrl
I will stand by you forever426Please respect copyright.PENANAFEMOdeVmUQ
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANABDcsNEwszT
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAhsKRMryYbR
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANANPCe8f0ns3
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAvNUEkaY841
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.426Please respect copyright.PENANAxQIxo4rS5q
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”426Please respect copyright.PENANA2tTsu2h2PT
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAR5DjFbwF71
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.426Please respect copyright.PENANA7qkBeqkZvS
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.426Please respect copyright.PENANA6MrVfn8Vvm
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.426Please respect copyright.PENANAR6FSGTRDJt
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”426Please respect copyright.PENANA39jCL4KZP2
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.426Please respect copyright.PENANA8rJNXq3TSh
“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.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAUpy4866RCH
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.426Please respect copyright.PENANAkiqA3XTRF9
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.426Please respect copyright.PENANAYg05aXb3Jz
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANA6rpLUPsJMZ
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAlDwaqmrawJ
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANALAjjCXGnyp
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”426Please respect copyright.PENANA25yu5C4sA3
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAB4WqauXULf
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAzgWAwapIup
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?426Please respect copyright.PENANAsPqA6GNJCA
Would you lie?426Please respect copyright.PENANAMcH4qud85X
Would you run and hide?426Please respect copyright.PENANA4A005ocwHE
Am I in too deep?426Please respect copyright.PENANAHXmCTHnA46
Have I lost my mind?426Please respect copyright.PENANABhpoUCaelh
I don’t care426Please respect copyright.PENANAxGTfZW0d5t
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANA1dXfksPYNt
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAlbwG69LghA
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.426Please respect copyright.PENANA4oAg7L2cID
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.426Please respect copyright.PENANAIkcx1IyPCG
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.426Please respect copyright.PENANACeqO7L8HNM
“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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAVYAfUcjOdc
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.426Please respect copyright.PENANAbgnEj0y2eC
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.426Please respect copyright.PENANA6ScMqNu7tU
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.426Please respect copyright.PENANAEWbmc08573
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.426Please respect copyright.PENANAhoU9ztFUd8
“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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAaG6wUYaolC
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANADTo8b8UP1l
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, baby426Please respect copyright.PENANA0xFe6CgEWN
I can kiss away the pain426Please respect copyright.PENANAxyOmhN36Yp
I will stand by you forever426Please respect copyright.PENANAKl988GJfoT
You can take my breath away426Please respect copyright.PENANAaZP7xBLK0O
Oh, I just want to hold you426Please respect copyright.PENANAmOZzCy0OE4
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah426Please respect copyright.PENANAa3bYpFTXRY
Am I in too deep?426Please respect copyright.PENANAvNBu4kBV9f
Have I lost my mind?426Please respect copyright.PENANAXbZ5B1XF8e
Well, I don’t care426Please respect copyright.PENANANVGJsLVNOT
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAgyOoB5ijr5
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 1864.426Please respect copyright.PENANAqBasKUTC0n
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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.426Please respect copyright.PENANArDKSBgY0gD
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.426Please respect copyright.PENANALSxD4cjdwz
She turned around to face him and he let go.426Please respect copyright.PENANACrnsoxf8iI
“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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAkMd5JHFKMz
“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.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAOvfjPjolu2
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.426Please respect copyright.PENANAexKkpfJcn3
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.426Please respect copyright.PENANAt1f9dEkFdt
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAj9TioKm7xl
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANA7y6w6E350F
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAsn2Nd3nIpi
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, baby426Please respect copyright.PENANAnwXwB1zypg
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah426Please respect copyright.PENANAZXbXwQCkLb
I will stand by you forever426Please respect copyright.PENANAC7svoYOYyo
You can take my breath away426Please respect copyright.PENANAtxS2LrH49I
(I can be your hero, baby)426Please respect copyright.PENANACQA9OKzGCb
I can be your hero426Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZRSbS051L
I can kiss away the pain426Please respect copyright.PENANAKeIsNKjPQl
And I will stand by you forever426Please respect copyright.PENANA0Qdx3CPkwq
You can take my breath away426Please respect copyright.PENANA9ojyHbcHJO
You can take my breath away426Please respect copyright.PENANAoYVArq3dNI
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAoQv0rMP9P3
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.426Please respect copyright.PENANA0372vQ7oiX
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.426Please respect copyright.PENANAg3623O32ru
“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.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAT8YJfmj53g
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.426Please respect copyright.PENANAGMiaryGtrY
“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.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAPULTyN1zxL
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.426Please respect copyright.PENANA7WdhA2AKWh
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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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAgw4rpIH5vV
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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.426Please respect copyright.PENANAIjkqtYR8z5
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.