Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.441Please respect copyright.PENANAIbx7qc1Wb9
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at441Please respect copyright.PENANAf0TGmdqRoG
I’m standing out the back441Please respect copyright.PENANA61WIcdIjrW
And I’m tired of waiting441Please respect copyright.PENANA28fshGQf4Z
Waiting here in line441Please respect copyright.PENANA7v0R4w0ebo
Hoping that I’ll fine441Please respect copyright.PENANAfkVHglkxpf
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAbWF531Qz8R
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.441Please respect copyright.PENANA8NbIQYqYSV
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.441Please respect copyright.PENANAjnBcgSaF59
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 sky441Please respect copyright.PENANAzzCeSA1hYn
I’m suck on the ground441Please respect copyright.PENANAcFlzYAvViL
So why do I try?441Please respect copyright.PENANAlw1Oujdof7
I know I’m gonna fall down441Please respect copyright.PENANAl5rjWrL8WX
I thought I could fly?441Please respect copyright.PENANAyedBGRDtEH
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAbcVE7V9sLO
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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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAP4bxaWNxK1
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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.441Please respect copyright.PENANABK38k06ST6
No, he thought to himself.441Please respect copyright.PENANAmuogqyzBue
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAyVnDvsm3Gw
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.441Please respect copyright.PENANAGZ8yWlAip0
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAgWakjfWOlZ
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.441Please respect copyright.PENANAzsa9h2GzRM
“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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAWG0Avhldft
“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.”441Please respect copyright.PENANA8W94cHf6Do
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAXoYpvQSC2P
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.441Please respect copyright.PENANAaJM3yzUKqv
“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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAfd1PCId3bq
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.441Please respect copyright.PENANASKc3ffio8f
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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.441Please respect copyright.PENANA2DwkfSB2JV
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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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAvAHxoPHIqs
She smiled back.441Please respect copyright.PENANAWEkYiA9N4n
“You saved my life. Thank you.”441Please respect copyright.PENANAs0FHtOk83O
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.441Please respect copyright.PENANA4zGgEfP4fv
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why441Please respect copyright.PENANArUE41Ro60Q
It’s coming down, down, down441Please respect copyright.PENANAwFTtjeqWcO
Not ready to let go441Please respect copyright.PENANA0j0EFXrDkO
‘Cause then I’ll never know441Please respect copyright.PENANAbdy4Y6d45K
What I could be missing441Please respect copyright.PENANA4C8c5aPkqW
But I’m missing way too much441Please respect copyright.PENANATBHcmilccR
When do I give up441Please respect copyright.PENANAAzx7aAutap
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAwObbNwTaec
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAvQEQumJXHB
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 sky441Please respect copyright.PENANAMyzKaXf9nX
I’m stuck on the ground441Please respect copyright.PENANAjMmD0Qfyql
So why do I try?441Please respect copyright.PENANAoPxIB58jx6
I know I’m gonna fall down441Please respect copyright.PENANA9esryGocdT
I thought I could fly441Please respect copyright.PENANAKoe3kJIPA2
So why did I drown?441Please respect copyright.PENANAXpBnTiJH78
You never know why441Please respect copyright.PENANABpSK1edX3W
It’s coming down, down, down441Please respect copyright.PENANAeTD0Le3Kd7
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAzpMn9HS4pH
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANAgXamxQW35e
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.441Please respect copyright.PENANALpqxEX3rl6
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 around441Please respect copyright.PENANAsXq7kxNJ7S
And I don’t wanna hear the sound441Please respect copyright.PENANALg3u0scehO
Of losing what I’ve never found441Please respect copyright.PENANA44TP8jJXfp
I shot for the sky441Please respect copyright.PENANAHg9ZlKo5Hb
I’m stuck on the ground441Please respect copyright.PENANAHJFnpGWUsd
So why do I try?441Please respect copyright.PENANAbSpMzR09A4
I know I’m gonna fall down441Please respect copyright.PENANA9yY6gvCAfn
I thought I could fly441Please respect copyright.PENANAFrtDyxaRvh
So why did I drown?441Please respect copyright.PENANARfQAyZjtrm
I’ll never know why441Please respect copyright.PENANAfFFdWvc0BO
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.441Please respect copyright.PENANADfj7BfS2Fq
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.441Please respect copyright.PENANArCIrzgOIbd
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.441Please respect copyright.PENANAGphrxuDQI1
He set her on her feet.441Please respect copyright.PENANA5HzOjZWglJ
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.441Please respect copyright.PENANAHEHYNVs2rG
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.441Please respect copyright.PENANA5sqRCuWQRb
“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.441Please respect copyright.PENANA7CVKBN5ZRf
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.441Please respect copyright.PENANAheeat7Q2ME
“Then save me,” she said.441Please respect copyright.PENANAKPgWKEuJrU
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky441Please respect copyright.PENANAGw7iepOxp1
I’m stuck on the ground441Please respect copyright.PENANAMEro34Qhz4
So why do I try?441Please respect copyright.PENANANyYOKRzHrQ
I know I’m gonna fall441Please respect copyright.PENANAyOvpFUSgbX
I thought I could fly441Please respect copyright.PENANAoUXWqQNq4m
So why did I drown?441Please respect copyright.PENANAvdSOHg34zu
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.