Summary: Set in 5x1 with 2x1 “The Return,” as a flashback. Based on Nickelback’s “I’d Come For You.” Just a Datherine songfic.
*The Return*
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
Please don’t dwell on it
‘Cause I didn’t mean it
I can’t believe I said
I’d lay our love on the ground
But it doesn’t matter
‘Cause I made it up
It was a dismal night, as Damon and Katherine stood in front of each other. He’d just asked her for the truth, needing to know what she really felt for him, but she couldn’t tell him the truth, when Klaus was on his way to town soon. She was afraid that if Klaus saw that they loved each other, that he’d kill Damon just to hurt her even more than he already had. So she lied to him.
“The truth is…I’ve never loved you.”
She turned around and slowly walked away, unhappy at having to lie to him after she knew he’d spent 145 years searching for her, only to believe the lie that she’d just told him.
*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
Forgive me now
Every day I spent away
My soul’s inside out
Gotta be some way
That I can make it up
To you now some how
By now you know that
I’d come for you
It was a dismal night, as Damon spoke to Katherine, trying to get her turn back around, Silas being in his head, knowing by his thoughts what was going on. Silas had asked Damon for a deal. Silas knew where Stefan was, so he was up for a deal. Katherine in exchange for information of where Stefan was. So that was why Damon was going to hand her over to Silas. Katherine was only human now. She had a human lifespan. Besides, at the end of the day, family came first. To him, right now, Katherine wasn’t family. Even if she did turn them both.
Katherine hung up with Damon, knowing that Damon was going to hand her over to Silas, knowing Silas wouldn’t have left that quickly after she’d left. That’s when Damon kept calling her, so she turned her phone off and put it in her pocket. Next thing she knew, she’d crashed the car into a streetlight pole, injuring herself quite a lot. She knew she had to leave, before Damon got there, knowing he’d probably be coming to find her, but she couldn’t move. She was in way too much pain.
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 was blindfolded
But now I’m seeing
My mind was closing
Now I’m believing
I finally know just
What it means
To let someone in
Once Damon realized that something was wrong, he left the house shortly after Silas saw in his thoughts that something had happened. Silas left to go make a different plan to get to Katherine, while Damon went in search of Katherine to find out what had happened. He just hoped Katherine was okay, human or not. Even though she wasn’t family in his perspective, he had told her that he’d protect her, just as she’d asked him to when she’d first shown up at his doorstep tonight. Besides, she’d been right earlier when she’d said that a part of him didn’t want her to die.
To see the side of me that no one does or ever will
So if you’re ever lost and find yourself all alone
I’d search forever just to bring you home
Here and now this 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
About an hour later, he finally found his nearly totaled car, but at the moment, he wasn’t angry at the nearly totaled car. Katherine was still in there and from the smell, she was quite injured. He blurred to the driver's side and forced the jammed door open. He could see that she’d lost a massive amount of blood and there was blood on either side of her head. She was very pale and there was a shard of glass in her thigh, protruding from her lower stomach, which he pulled both out and tossed them to the floorboard. She was barely awake, fighting to stay awake, and her left arm by her lower stomach was shaking some, which he figured wasn’t a very good sign.
“Katherine, I need you to stay awake. Hey, look at me,” he said gently, trying to do anything he could to keep her from going to sleep. He knew if she did, she may not wake up again.
He gently picked her up in his arms and blurred towards the hospital.
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
Yes, I’d come for you
No one but you
Yes, I’d come for you
But only if you told me to
And I’d come for you
No one but you
Yes, I’d come for you
Half an hour later, he arrived at the hospital and the doctors rushed her down the hall into a room to stabilize her, since she’d lost so much blood that she was barely alive, fighting for her life, though she wasn’t awake anymore.
After she was stable, they rushed her into surgery to take care of her wounds and save her life.
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
While she was in surgery, Damon paced in the waiting room, knowing that she wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for him. When she’d ran, he didn’t think it would be this bad, but it was. Now she was fighting to live, because he’d tried handing her over to Silas on a silver platter. He didn’t blame her for running. He probably would’ve done the same thing if he were in her shoes. He could only hope that she’d survive like she always did.
I’d crawl across this world for you
Do anything you want me to
No matter what
Remember you know I’ll always come for you
You know I’ll always come for you
A few hours later, Damon was seated on her bedside, waiting for her to wake up. They’d had to revive her once during surgery, but she’d survived the surgery. They’d also given her a transfusion to restore the blood she’d lost. She’d have to take it easy for a few days, but she’d be okay.
He rested a hand on hers and another on the side of her face.
“I’m so sorry, Katherine. I shouldn’t have done what I did,” he apologized, though he didn’t know if she could hear him or not, since she hadn’t woken up yet.
Later, she woke up and forgave him for what he did and he took her home.
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