Summary: Set in S5. Based on the song “Down” by Jason Walker.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyGiDwhGaH
*Monster’s Ball*
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And I’m tired of waiting569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlJFAgS2WE
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwVmcnRJXx
“Who are you?” Katherine asked her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweJ5yWxmGj
“My name is Nadia Petrova and you are my mother,” she said.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9ABWPAsIH
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?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zslxJLbzf
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I thought I could fly?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LaN2ldXPp
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaicSusGPn
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmppYvGOEgN
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7yyBsMNEs
No, he thought to himself.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JanRgS3LO
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lV51S8zJm
“Katerina, can you hear me?” he called to her, not knowing how she was human or if she could digest vampire blood.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLhDx0MIMX
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKteHYQIEZG
“Elijah?” she questioned weakly, very weak from blood loss.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXqeG39wF5
“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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASxCh622X2
“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.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrU6nhazx9
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2PFPci8Bf
As he gently slid an arm under her legs and his other under her, she began to go under.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCxsHdWXUx
“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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtsLIAlnb7
Elijah gently pulled her out of the wreckage and picked her gently up in his arms, before blurring towards the Mystic Falls hospital.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmVspq4ZgD
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudzepOakXA
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6yU6SzRHJ
She smiled back.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjNdrGghSO
“You saved my life. Thank you.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAhhW2HhWa
“I will always save you, Katerina, no matter what,” he replied.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NpKq6rYk8
A moment later, they kissed.
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*500 Years of Solitude*
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You never know why569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ074o83hyt7
It’s coming down, down, down569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsT9hE2WX8O
Not ready to let go569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofnNNiAeBw
‘Cause then I’ll never know569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQCG21OrTR
What I could be missing569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMIsnhGtzg
But I’m missing way too much569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLq0wbKi7iL
When do I give up569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGCrOQc0ph
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zeNZsfQcS
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8v4INMqcaV
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’m stuck on the ground569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1eKGmQ7qF
So why do I try?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEJdJ0JDyu
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I thought I could fly569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZOpEtdmMg
So why did I drown?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7jyxiXvlj
You never know why569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6yFj6tQQ2
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYarPUzjYho
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVK6iKTiK9W
When Nadia heard a noise, she went to investigate and found her on the floor.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEg6ktVUfq
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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And I don’t wanna hear the sound569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3GuXMKlhm
Of losing what I’ve never found569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXdr2lPXXf
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So why do I try?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZzgPNV908
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I thought I could fly569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQLeUJJmdk
So why did I drown?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2i8LYC6dU
I’ll never know why569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYtSozMkZb
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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWUiDqa9GJ
As she fell to the ground below, she hoped Nadia and Elijah would forgive her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTrsHtuZol
When she felt like someone had caught her, she opened her eyes to see Elijah.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0inGmIfI43
He set her on her feet.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUzuHWx0qx
“What are you doing, Katerina?” he asked of her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWPAU46hVG
She knew he met to be asking why she would be committing suicide, when he was here for her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkUdChK4Zy
“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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7I1GNR0rN8
“I promise you, Katerina, we will find a way. We always do,” he replied.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweXwutd1ld
“Then save me,” she said.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1OYg2HJhO
“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.
