Characters: Kat, Elijah, Aurora, Elena, Klaus
Summary: Set in VD S4 and TO S3. Based on the song "I'd Come For You" by Nickelback.
Pairings:
Kalijah
*American Gothic*
Just one more moment
That's all that's needed
Like wounded soldiers
In need of healing
Time to be honest
This time I'm pleading
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It was a beautiful day in an alley in New York, as they stood in front of each other, half arguing and half talking.
"Is that what I am to you? A means of survival?" he questioned.
"No, of course you're not a means of survival. You looked out for me when I had no one. You've given me a second chance now when no one else will. I love you." She rested a hand on the side of his face. "Elijah." He moved his face away and she dropped her hand. "You don't believe me."
"I want to. It's my disease. I just keep on wanting to believe you, but how can I when, at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don't know you. I don't think I ever will."
She felt helpless and desperate to make him stay with her, but knew she couldn't, as she watched him walk away.
That night, when she handed the cure over to him, that was the first sign of trust that she had been willing to give him and that he hadn't seen in a very long time. As she had told him, he didn't even owe her anything. She was letting him choose where they stood with their relationship.
Please don't dwell on it
'Cause I didn't mean it
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That night, Elijah chose to follow Klaus to New Orleans, so he told her goodbye and kissed her on the forehead.
After he had left, she was heartbroken and angry and thinking Elena had said something to Elijah that had screwed everything up, she tried to kill her, but Elena shoved the cure down her throat, turning her human.
Six months later, she died and was taken somewhere that wasn't the Other Side. It was a hellish prison world.
*Present*
I can't believe I said I'd lay our love on the ground
But it doesn't matter 'cause I made it up
Forgive me now
Every day I spend away
My soul since I love
Gotta be some way I can make it up to you now
Somehow
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It was a dismal night in New Orleans, as Elijah walked, heading for home after a few drinks. He was unhappy at Niklaus for everything, but was staying due to the prophecy and Aurora. She hated Elijah for compelling her not to go with them back then, but hated Klaus for moving on.
He stopped, seeing a girl on the sidewalk. He hadn't expected to see her in town as long as he and Klaus were here, nor had he expected her human. He knew she had to be human, smelling the blood.
By now you know that
I'd come for you
No one but you
Yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
I'd fight for you
I'd lie it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'll always come for you
I was blindfolded
But now I'm seeing
My mind was closing
Now I'm believing
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He blurred across the street towards her and knelt at her side. He rested gentle hands on either side of her head and scanned with his eyes for what her injuries were. She was very pale, as he did so.
"Katerina, can you hear me?" he called to her. "Katerina," he said after a moment of nothing.
He gently picked her up in his arms and took her to the only working hospital, figuring she was human due to the cure and not knowing if she could digest vampire blood.
"I'm so sorry, Katerina. Forgive me. Stay with me, Katerina. Please," he said, as he blurred towards the hospital.
I finally know just what it means to let someone in
To see the side of me that no one does
So if you're ever lost and find yourself all alone
I'd search forever just to bring you home
Here and now I vow
By now you know that
I'd come for you
No one but you
Yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
I'd fight for you
I'd lie it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'd always come for you
I'd always come for you
No matter what gets in my way
As long as there's still life in me
No matter what
Remember you know I'll always come for you
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After the doctors had cared for her, he sat on her bedside, his hand in hers. He hated seeing her like this, but was thankful that she was at least alive, even if she wouldn't be waking anytime soon. It would break him if he lost her of all people. He couldn't let Aurora find out about her. She might use or kill her.
"Katerina, I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm here. I'm not leaving. I will never leave you again. I promise. I never should've left. I hope you can forgive me someday."
Yes I'd come for you
No one but you
Yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
I'd fight for you
I'd lie it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'd always come for you
No matter what gets in my way
As long as there's still life in me
No matter what
Remember you know I'll always come for you
You know I'll always come for you
In the end, a few months after Klaus had disposed of Aurora by sealing her in the garden, she woke up from her mild coma just fine and she and Elijah got a second chance.
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