Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.447Please respect copyright.PENANAS8HvFQfQGs
*Monster’s Ball*
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I don’t know where I’m at447Please respect copyright.PENANA3gtvjAf9ta
I’m standing out the back447Please respect copyright.PENANANOepBC5vy2
And I’m tired of waiting447Please respect copyright.PENANABHp3629ZbP
Waiting here in line447Please respect copyright.PENANAn3o9hQM4si
Hoping that I’ll fine447Please respect copyright.PENANAWnYPnvdPlD
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAmif9QqPE9m
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.447Please respect copyright.PENANANolGHSks2G
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.447Please respect copyright.PENANApoytcfUdOy
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 sky447Please respect copyright.PENANAF54iS2mf67
I’m suck on the ground447Please respect copyright.PENANAIWeKsdvnZZ
So why do I try?447Please respect copyright.PENANAHxN7ATlpCF
I know I’m gonna fall down447Please respect copyright.PENANARk9WCrGANu
I thought I could fly?447Please respect copyright.PENANAcojsIgtp22
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAxmsRkRuCiJ
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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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAf9KK0HfQVW
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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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAvaPPfR6Rpj
No, he thought to himself.447Please respect copyright.PENANAXcV7J2xXCb
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAibKU1OelWC
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.447Please respect copyright.PENANAesb6BtQL8Y
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAHk8f359EP9
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.447Please respect copyright.PENANALOf79vIdAa
“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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAxvbIQZl5ba
“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.”447Please respect copyright.PENANAzuepRKWHB5
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANA3nD0NJfC5h
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.447Please respect copyright.PENANAEG9Y3t8aTV
“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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAWy66VXOIvb
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.447Please respect copyright.PENANAfEK03s19lY
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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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAvhwEUQLpeD
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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.447Please respect copyright.PENANApCgTImLvB3
She smiled back.447Please respect copyright.PENANA2BvavEYO6W
“You saved my life. Thank you.”447Please respect copyright.PENANAfx94KrH8Ek
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.447Please respect copyright.PENANAURpbnxM5W4
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why447Please respect copyright.PENANA25sWJZYzEk
It’s coming down, down, down447Please respect copyright.PENANAKCeSnGDZ4r
Not ready to let go447Please respect copyright.PENANAKYZDDQsSuA
‘Cause then I’ll never know447Please respect copyright.PENANAUzcME6Su9y
What I could be missing447Please respect copyright.PENANAvhABBFXewR
But I’m missing way too much447Please respect copyright.PENANAFvi76pxEHD
When do I give up447Please respect copyright.PENANAsgB5wqeJ33
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAE6YWFkJ40Y
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAjM7wlTQOFB
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 sky447Please respect copyright.PENANANMx6ZNRxcC
I’m stuck on the ground447Please respect copyright.PENANAmqOlZDYtee
So why do I try?447Please respect copyright.PENANAhl1nezeHEH
I know I’m gonna fall down447Please respect copyright.PENANAR7JEccHWK3
I thought I could fly447Please respect copyright.PENANAcnWEL8IePm
So why did I drown?447Please respect copyright.PENANADg7troSDJr
You never know why447Please respect copyright.PENANAa3jCogOaIw
It’s coming down, down, down447Please respect copyright.PENANAE6btVjVfwa
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANApsGi6j1q39
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANA8Z56jMK2ix
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.447Please respect copyright.PENANAJXBjZgWJnO
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 around447Please respect copyright.PENANAk2AmrqsT2F
And I don’t wanna hear the sound447Please respect copyright.PENANANeoIThxGPs
Of losing what I’ve never found447Please respect copyright.PENANAgup0AiH8vo
I shot for the sky447Please respect copyright.PENANA4qAnkrUnYj
I’m stuck on the ground447Please respect copyright.PENANAQfDVjEK2uJ
So why do I try?447Please respect copyright.PENANAs8y6hCmZJM
I know I’m gonna fall down447Please respect copyright.PENANAlx5QN8bmcL
I thought I could fly447Please respect copyright.PENANAAMVfiq5zmH
So why did I drown?447Please respect copyright.PENANARKDhGoQ5xG
I’ll never know why447Please respect copyright.PENANAxAwvwbZFyL
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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAc3LKYBh89R
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.447Please respect copyright.PENANAuRorbl6mKK
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.447Please respect copyright.PENANAmblivOM2vJ
He set her on her feet.447Please respect copyright.PENANADNKpsb34l1
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.447Please respect copyright.PENANAepVFtkjOd8
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.447Please respect copyright.PENANAoWPsHmIr16
“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.447Please respect copyright.PENANAtrWBMqAWfF
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.447Please respect copyright.PENANAt73e7Lgp0h
“Then save me,” she said.447Please respect copyright.PENANAi4HG4h5h9O
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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I shot for the sky447Please respect copyright.PENANAiO1Y99RPVA
I’m stuck on the ground447Please respect copyright.PENANAIVXIw585CC
So why do I try?447Please respect copyright.PENANAZT0D3INttL
I know I’m gonna fall447Please respect copyright.PENANAalC5Flvuit
I thought I could fly447Please respect copyright.PENANAawz6VIdMyT
So why did I drown?447Please respect copyright.PENANAuAZDcZGtNm
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.