Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iPXE8QkWO
*Monster’s Ball*
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTPBwU3d7d
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYJENEwxBr
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlONU7xpqXt
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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So why do I try?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSeUpVhqXZ
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I thought I could fly?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxHwQbADfY
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTVc8bSijz
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7OcOleGeH
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCxHXSCuNa
No, he thought to himself.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YNkP7ZAAM
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVG9NcCI1Z
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNDbabYLl9
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlgV9IzfSa
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIllOEanQw
“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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNOMeHqDP8
“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.”519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStG2Un3eGr
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbBKbDUu22
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzTurtlfyk
“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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUfE0q2dug
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvRh7z4Cri
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEpf4sZQG4
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPShsKk7TC
She smiled back.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJlj97Lmxo
“You saved my life. Thank you.”519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGsFZssmGG
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8Cs4TgMpc
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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It’s coming down, down, down519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAYXE9IsYI
Not ready to let go519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoXnkUnw1x
‘Cause then I’ll never know519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80PrPC3Fwo
What I could be missing519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡng09uG58vH
But I’m missing way too much519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX70xFEzr04
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMoudh44kJ
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomDIVaqa9V
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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So why did I drown?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡij6yP5PWIT
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQr49GWhQc
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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFr5aP17Jr
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ078fviCBlp
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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So why do I try?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefHoHUiin5
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrtfCjk6lw
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTDx9UB7Ex
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1PpsZsS2h
He set her on her feet.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0f3ZGWH4J
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8FQ1gXd5p
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzuiVf37aq
“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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhnfsQclC5
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UCsCVA2tY
“Then save me,” she said.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11L88zhfHv
“You know I will,” he replied.
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*No Exit*
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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.
