Summary: Set in 5x1 with 2x1 as a flashback kind of. After Damon tries handing her over to Silas, she tries to run and crashes the car. When he gets to her, will he be able to get her to the hospital in enough time so they can save her life?
*The Return*
When I look into your eyes
It’s like watching the night sky
Or a beautiful sunrise
Well, there’s so much they hold
And just like them old stars
I see that you’ve come so far
To be right where you are
How old is your soul?
Well, I won’t give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I’m giving you all my love
I’m still looking up
It was a dismal night at the Salvatore boarding house, as Katherine and Damon stood in front of each other. They had just made out, but Damon had asked for a break after getting his senses back in order.
“I have a question. Answer it and it’s back to fireworks and rockets red glare. Answer it right and I’ll forget the last 145 years that I’ve spent missing you. I’ll forget how much I loved you. I’ll forget everything and we can start over. This could be our defining moment because we have time. That’s the beauty of eternity. I just need the truth, just this once.”
“Stop. I already know the question and its answer. The truth is…I’ve never loved you.”
As her words sunk in, she turned around and walked away, before walking slowly out of the house, hating that she had just broken his heart. She was doing this to protect him, though. If Klaus knew that she had found someone else to love, he’d rip his heart out just to hurt her even more, when he returned to town soon.
*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
And when you’re needing your space
To do some navigating
I’ll be here patiently waiting
To see what you find
‘Cause even the stars they burn
Some even fall to the earth
We’ve got a lot to learn
God knows we’re worth it
No, I won’t give up
After she tried to kill Elena whom shoved the cure down her throat on Elena’s graduation night, Katherine knew better than to stick around. Though she was human with too many enemies to even begin counting, she had to leave for an entire summer, as to not be in the same town as Elena and Damon. Elena she knew hated her and Damon she knew would probably kill her if she stuck around, for trying to kill his girlfriend. So, she fled from Mystic Falls for the entire summer until Elena had gone off to college. Then she came back to Mystic Falls, hoping that Damon would grant her protection from any enemies that came around.
I don’t wanna be someone who walks away so easily
I’m here to stay and make the difference that I can make
Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use
The tools and gifts we got, yeah, we got a lot at stake
And in the end, you’re still my friend, we didn’t burn
We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in
I had to learn what I’ve got, and what I’m not, and who I am
Damon was talking on his phone with Elena, when he entered his house and then the living room. When he saw Katherine in his living room, helping herself to a shot glass of his Bourbon, obviously waiting for him, he told Elena over the phone, “Listen, I gotta go.” Then he hung up and walked into the living room.
“It’s been a long summer, Damon,” she said.
She finished her shot glass of Bourbon and then set the glass down.
“Katherine,” he said, though it wasn’t a greeting. Looking her over, he added, “You’re miserable.”
“Please. I’m Katherine Pierce. I’m a survivor.”
“You’re a liar. Your hair’s messed up, your nails are chipped. You’re a sad, miserable human being and you want me to turn you. So, here.” He bit his wrist and offered it to her.
She gripped his arm, but hesitated.
“Go ahead, drink up. I’ll kill you, you’ll bite the mailman, you’ll be a vampire again. Go ahead, come on,” he encouraged.
She let go and looked at him.
“I can’t, okay? No one’s ever taken the cure before. If I die, there’s a good chance I may never wake up.”
“And that would be tragic,” he commented, not caring.
“And deep down, in that mushy-gushy Elena-loving heart, there’s a part of you that doesn’t want me to die,” she said, standing in front of him, a hand on his chest. Then she stepped back. “I have enemies everywhere. What happens when word gets out that I’m a human? I can’t protect myself. I’m weak and I’m slow. Do you have any idea what it’s like to run in heels? I have blisters, Damon. Please, just…help me,” she pleaded with him.
He looked at her in silence, debating on what to do. She was right, because they would always have a connection. He hated that and her, but he couldn’t deny it.
“Fine. I’ll protect you,” he stated, not sure if it was a promise or not. Then he left the room, not wanting to be in the same room as her.
*Crash*
I won’t give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I’m giving you all my love
I’m still looking up, I’m still looking up
Well I won’t give up on us (No I’m not giving up)
God knows I’m tough enough (I am tough, I am loved)
We’ve got a lot to learn (We’re alive, we are loved)
God knows we’re worth it (and we’re worth it)
I won’t give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I’m giving you all my love
I’m still looking up
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It was a dismal night, as Damon searched the streets for his car after he’d tried handing her over to Silas, but she’d realized what he was trying to do and had hung up. Since he couldn’t get a hold of her, he had to look for her. He just hoped that she was okay. A part of him didn’t want her to die, so she’d been right earlier. When he smelled the blood though, it didn’t take long for him to find his nearly totaled car that had crashed into a streetlight pole. He could see easily that she was still inside the crashed car. From the smell of blood, he knew that she was injured, but he didn’t know how bad it was.
He blurred to the driver’s side and forced the jammed door open, hoping that if she was worse off than he thought, he’d be able to save her in time.
When he scanned her, he saw that there was blood on either side of her head, there was a shard of glass protruding from her lower stomach and another jabbed into her thigh, which had opened up her thigh artery. Also, she was very pale from all the blood loss and a piece of glass had slit one of her wrists. He knew from her injuries that she was in very bad condition. He knew this was his fault for trying to hand her over on a silver platter, just because Silas had told him that Stefan was suffering and he knew the location of where Stefan was.
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head.
“Katherine, can you hear me? If you can hear me, I need you to wake up for me,” he called, hoping to wake her up. He knew it wasn’t a good thing for her to be out with all the injuries she had.
He didn’t get anything from her.
“Stay with me, Katherine. I know I screwed up and I’m sorry. Just keep breathing.”
He took his hands away from her head and slid one under her legs and the other under her, gently pulling her out of the wreck and into his arms. He then blurred towards the hospital, knowing she couldn’t digest vampire blood now that she was human.
Please, don’t die. I can make it up to you for doing what I did. I just need you to fight and stay alive. Don’t leave me, he thought.
Half an hour later, he stood in the waiting room and watched the doctors rush her down the hallway, hoping that they could save her.
Amazingly, after surgery, she survived, so Damon was seated on her bedside, waiting for her to come to, knowing now that she’d be okay. It had been a close one, but she’d survived yet again.
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