Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.454Please respect copyright.PENANAAR70S7VCHk
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at454Please respect copyright.PENANACqY659bz0S
I’m standing out the back454Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2SuPXNRnp
And I’m tired of waiting454Please respect copyright.PENANAjEmYmvZ90i
Waiting here in line454Please respect copyright.PENANAioks9PkxGs
Hoping that I’ll fine454Please respect copyright.PENANA7wBAgxbBSf
What I’ve been chasing
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It was a nebulous night in an alley, as she stood not far from the vampiress after finding her after she’d grazed the vampire’s heart that day, thinking she was the enemy.454Please respect copyright.PENANAPBIFf4hMFp
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.454Please respect copyright.PENANAQi8Dq6cjjL
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.454Please respect copyright.PENANAo7TNpuXG3G
Katherine looked at her silently, shocked that somehow, fate had intervened and brought her daughter back to her.
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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
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I shot for the sky454Please respect copyright.PENANARUhHmdahDg
I’m suck on the ground454Please respect copyright.PENANA1p9QN3dxqJ
So why do I try?454Please respect copyright.PENANABR8y3QPXI1
I know I’m gonna fall down454Please respect copyright.PENANA6wxbxxThTF
I thought I could fly?454Please respect copyright.PENANAYogEBDXR8r
So why did I drown?
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It was a dismal night, as Katherine sat in the driver’s seat, injured after the car crashing into a street light pole. She’d been trying to get away from Mystic Falls so that Silas couldn’t get to her, but had managed to crash a car that she’d stolen from a road.454Please respect copyright.PENANAEYBRSRkw16
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Meanwhile, Elijah Mikaelson had just arrived back in town to check up on his Katerina. He’d ignored several of her calls this summer and recently, not wanting to speak to her or see her. She hadn’t left any messages, but now that she hadn’t been answering her phone when he called back, he was worried and had the feeling that something had or was about to happen. If something ever happened to her after he’d left her to fend for herself, he’d never forgive himself. She was his world and he loved her for who she was, no matter what. If she died while he was in New Orleans, he didn’t know what pieces of him would still be intact, if any would be left. It would shatter him into a million pieces if she were dead. Despite everything she’d done, he loved her. He loved both the good and bad parts of her, just as she did with him.454Please respect copyright.PENANAj8aZJdz5OX
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Half an hour later, once on a desolate street, he saw a wrecked car that had crashed into a street light pole. He saw that there was still someone inside, but not moving. Due to smelling the mixed scents of human, blood, and Katerina, he knew who it was.454Please respect copyright.PENANAfRrYvF7SWW
No, he thought to himself.454Please respect copyright.PENANAvFVVRfy2Is
He vamp-sped to the driver’s side and forced the crinkled, dented, and jammed door open. He assessed her condition with his eyes and saw that there was blood on either side of her head, some scrapes and scratches, and her lower stomach was bleeding from a shard of glass protruding from it. He pulled the shard of glass out and tossed it on the floorboard, before gently resting his hands on either side of her head.454Please respect copyright.PENANA3eGIuG1e8Y
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.454Please respect copyright.PENANAA3bGTBQWL9
Hearing a familiar voice through the darkness that surrounded her, she fought against the darkness and when she woke up a few minutes later, she was met with Elijah’s worried face.454Please respect copyright.PENANArop8KZeqZ5
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.454Please respect copyright.PENANAhUfuPTOKlP
“I came back to check on you, since you weren’t answering my calls back. I’m glad I did. Can you digest vampire blood?” he replied.454Please respect copyright.PENANAGb3kUFbhfT
“I don’t know. Elena shoved the cure down my throat shortly after you left me, since I was upset and took it out on her and tried to kill her.”454Please respect copyright.PENANA5WJnK3D6jW
He wasn’t happy that she’d tried to kill Elena nor was he happy that Elena had shoved the cure down her throat, but he didn’t show it.454Please respect copyright.PENANA1QEDuOo1xa
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.454Please respect copyright.PENANALVwwlWHZ1P
“You’re going to be okay, Katerina. Just stay with me. I’ll protect you, but you have to fight for me,” was the last thing she heard, before she plummeted back into the darkness.454Please respect copyright.PENANAsTPlnY8ahc
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.454Please respect copyright.PENANAMukr3ltYdE
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After pacing in the waiting room for a few hours, a doctor finally came in to tell him that the surgery went great and she was in a recovery room, but she had a concussion, so it could be a day or so before she woke up. He thanked her and went to her room to stay with her. He knew Katerina. She was a fighter. It wouldn’t take too long for her to wake up. He figured anyway. He could only hope that the odds were in their favor.454Please respect copyright.PENANAxTPhwVgYNS
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The next afternoon, when she woke up, he gave a smile, knowing that she’d be okay. He could only hope, anyway. The cure had been shoved down her throat. Since it had never been taken before, they didn’t know if there were any side effects to it.454Please respect copyright.PENANA6lN3xxhtUz
She smiled back.454Please respect copyright.PENANAUUDIoPQks7
“You saved my life. Thank you.”454Please respect copyright.PENANAzy8tF3wUOR
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.454Please respect copyright.PENANAknlAIT3WFl
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why454Please respect copyright.PENANAQmhtoigTOv
It’s coming down, down, down454Please respect copyright.PENANAYvwSgWzlEG
Not ready to let go454Please respect copyright.PENANAByRbHgEedd
‘Cause then I’ll never know454Please respect copyright.PENANAZMBvFo3wZm
What I could be missing454Please respect copyright.PENANAIROJzIQ1R3
But I’m missing way too much454Please respect copyright.PENANAkix7cys6ri
When do I give up454Please respect copyright.PENANAcedlbtTFLj
What I’ve been wishing for?
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It was a beautiful day at the Mikaelson mansion, as she lay in bed. She’d had a heart attack last night and now she was on bed rest until the very end, Nadia at her side. Nadia wanted her to live instead of letting herself die, but she had just found her weeks ago. She didn’t want to do that to her. She didn’t want to lose her, so she was choosing death.454Please respect copyright.PENANAmxb79pY2dl
After hours had passed, Elijah came to her bedside with a way to save her. He had a witch in New Orleans doing a spell that would reverse the dying of old age at a rapid pace side effect of the cure.454Please respect copyright.PENANARDvxDA54lM
So, after the spell had been finished, she was a healthy human again.
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*Fifty Shades of Grayson*
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I shot for the sky454Please respect copyright.PENANAC07pxxt352
I’m stuck on the ground454Please respect copyright.PENANAwbQdCNIOMb
So why do I try?454Please respect copyright.PENANAH51VixvhjY
I know I’m gonna fall down454Please respect copyright.PENANAhn23F0cfA3
I thought I could fly454Please respect copyright.PENANA3Mma03NRuO
So why did I drown?454Please respect copyright.PENANAiqrbuZl6Mj
You never know why454Please respect copyright.PENANAc25cLFje1P
It’s coming down, down, down454Please respect copyright.PENANA5nnTHNy7Rs
Oh, I’m going down, down, down
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It was a dismal night at the Mikaelson mansion, as Katherine went downstairs for a drink, Nadia in the parlor.454Please respect copyright.PENANAZX8OIH8Lna
Once she’d cleared the stairs, she stopped, a hand on the left side of her chest, pain having travelled up her arm and all the way to her chest. It was like she couldn’t breathe. Then everything went black and she collapsed.454Please respect copyright.PENANAZfQwLsnYFH
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.454Please respect copyright.PENANAQHy9baaOOL
When she knelt by her, she realized that she’d had a heart attack. So, after getting her to the hospital, she told Elijah on the phone, who then said he’d be there as soon as he could.
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*Dead Man On Campus*
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I can’t find another way around454Please respect copyright.PENANA32zVoiyVWv
And I don’t wanna hear the sound454Please respect copyright.PENANAjvJN5Zlk6l
Of losing what I’ve never found454Please respect copyright.PENANAo6PrivERpC
I shot for the sky454Please respect copyright.PENANAb9InY0WijV
I’m stuck on the ground454Please respect copyright.PENANAIJfkF85L5B
So why do I try?454Please respect copyright.PENANAD8ahXGhB0l
I know I’m gonna fall down454Please respect copyright.PENANAWh1ugK1RhZ
I thought I could fly454Please respect copyright.PENANAciIW5OUqB3
So why did I drown?454Please respect copyright.PENANABUw5mXhzWF
I’ll never know why454Please respect copyright.PENANAbEkYiet38q
It’s coming down, down, down
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It was a nebulous night, as Katherine closed her eyes, ready to end her suffering of dying of old age, not wanting to go through all of that. She’d been told by an expert on vampires that she can’t be fixed. She was aging and it couldn’t be helped. She then stepped off.454Please respect copyright.PENANAeNkvu3wOFY
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.454Please respect copyright.PENANApIdFudaWrv
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.454Please respect copyright.PENANAjqdFYKCcun
He set her on her feet.454Please respect copyright.PENANAPnmYy4L7gY
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.454Please respect copyright.PENANArh17juclQV
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.454Please respect copyright.PENANARsVrsfEBxz
“Because I’m dying of old age and it can’t be stopped. I went to an expert. I don’t want the pain of dying of old age,” she explained.454Please respect copyright.PENANATpdxbkaVdN
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.454Please respect copyright.PENANA9Xql3HmTqw
“Then save me,” she said.454Please respect copyright.PENANAZPUnqPH6Uk
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky454Please respect copyright.PENANAbr3rbFD3pC
I’m stuck on the ground454Please respect copyright.PENANAxVEJOGxakV
So why do I try?454Please respect copyright.PENANAc6SrO7buq3
I know I’m gonna fall454Please respect copyright.PENANAWlGdHo1oTN
I thought I could fly454Please respect copyright.PENANAOzsW12b4x6
So why did I drown?454Please respect copyright.PENANAJlM2QuJmwt
Oh, it’s coming down, down, down
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After Nadia died of Tyler’s bite at the Mikaelson mansion because she didn’t want Katherine to have to sacrifice anything for Klaus to cure her, all Katherine could do now was to sit by the bed on the floor and cry. Elijah was there, but all he could do was hug her in comfort. There were no words to say.