Summary: Set in S2-5. A songfic based on the pairing Datherine and song “Hero.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Yf0BCgTJe
*The Last Day*
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbbczOEeut
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKrfXGLkho
Would you dance550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GxjAGXuFA
If I asked you to dance?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIztepnRaHa
Would you run and never look back?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzT9t02YKAu
Would you cry550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWUquLmENG
If you saw me crying?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m1MwIaaH5
Would you save my soul tonight?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd26AHXyxU4
Would you tremble550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbj77nI8b2
If I touched your lips?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitvOQ6PbGo
Would you laugh?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iNyiy3Q3U
Oh, please tell me this550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfINKkxcW6r
Now would you die550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdpbJanSDe
For the one you love?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtX38Hyq80
Hold me in your arms tonight550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlE9gCeGDTg
I can be your hero, baby550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozoBUdJpKx
I can kiss away the pain550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXu4Aa13fc7
I will stand by you forever550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gZou5AAfV
You can take my breath away
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtlhvpNasp
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQYjKXrWfx
It was a beautiful day, as Damon knocked on Ric’s apartment door and waited for someone to open the door. Klaus was keeping her hostage, so he thought he’d come by and give her a vial of vervain to use so he couldn’t compel her. He hated Katherine, but no one deserved torture, captivity, or being ripped of their free will. If she was alive, he’d help her the best of his ability.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsm3Qdn132h
Ten minutes later, when no one opened the door, he figured he should see what was going on, so he did just that. He walked inside, closing the door behind himself. That’s when he saw her on her back on the floor, skin burning in the sun, and a bite on the left side of her neck. Because of the burning, he assumed that Klaus had taken her Daylight bracelet.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZfQPZx2xa
He went over and closed the curtains to stop the burning. She was a vampire just like himself. If a vampire burned long enough, they’d die. He didn’t know how long that she’d been burning. If he hadn’t come today, she probably would’ve died before the sun went down.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPh2Q3zObdm
He knelt at her side and scanned her with his eyes. He’d gotten to her just in time, since she had started showing veins from burning in the sun. The veins were starting to disappear and her skin was starting to heal, but not as quickly as vampires usually do. He knew it was from the vicious bite.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zyHja1yV1
He rested gentle hands on either side of her head, avoiding touching the werewolf bite.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kNjQwryhO
“Katherine, can you hear me? I need you to wake up. If you can hear me, open your eyes.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZarlp0UUx
When she didn’t reply or move a muscle, he patted her right cheek gently, his right hand resting on her forehead to keep her head still. In this state, she was fragile. He hated to call her that, but she was burning up. That, and she looked very weak and pale, not to mention, he was having a hard time waking her up. If and when she woke up, she wouldn’t be able to go anywhere. She’d be too weak to stand, much less walk. Even if she did wake up before he left with her, he’d still have to carry her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwE3L6WHLKA
“Come on, Katherine; wake up. You need to tell me where the cure is,” he said, still patting her cheek.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKhGkyHXoi
He stopped trying to wake her, when she began awakening.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3xghvHAel
When she opened her eyes, he gave a smile.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvO9eZlxLzf
“Hey. Welcome back to the waking world.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fxa9YuQdt
“Damon?” she inquired weakly.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdSFXvEVK7
“Don’t worry. I’m not here to kill you. I’m not an hallucination either. I’m getting you out of here, but you need to tell me where he’s go the cure. Surely, he didn’t leave you to die without leaving the cure behind.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKQIaYctl5
“In a kitchen cupboard,” she weakly replied.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSq1uHFmUa
He took his hand from her forehead and went to the kitchen to look in the cupboards.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszBWrdHClw
She blurrily watched him go and turned her head to the left to watch him look for the cure; Klaus’ blood. As she did, everything began to seem too far away. She was also in a lot of pain from the bite and felt tired.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c8ZUulruv
Once he’d found the vial of Klaus’ blood as well as her Daylight bracelet, he put the vial inside his jacket and blurred back over to her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydOAONhMQz
Once knelt at her side, he could tell that she was about to go under again. He removed her jacket and slipped her Daylight bracelet on her wrist, before putting her arm around his shoulders and pulling her gently into his arms. Then he got to his feet and looked down at her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMaeCi6ivE
“You’re gonna be okay, Katherine. You hear me? I’m gonna cure you, but not here.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNDkUJVUwK
He blurred towards his car outside and gently sat her in the passenger’s seat, before taking the vial out. By this time, she’d gone under.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxLikVT7ty
He slid an arm under her head, gently positioning her head back. Then he put the vial to her lips, making the cure go down her throat. Then, after he figured she’d had enough, he layed her head on the seat again and closed the door. Then he drank the rest, having been bitten by Tyler, and got in the driver’s seat. Then he drove away, towards the boarding house.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3jl3E7pys
Later, she was cured and lived to see yet another day.
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklbDeAwt5J
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7tPB8OYG3
*Before Sunset*
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGozOLBc9Z
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhLtL538GH
Would you swear that you’ll always be mine?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DP5gYdpNj
Would you lie?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYXeIIrWjv
Would you run and hide?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7memSzVch
Am I in too deep?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNX6Eng2N6
Have I lost my mind?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW65SjJ3nUV
I don’t care550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoIDmnvIn4
You’re here tonight
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsJtS3TACq
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4gXHyLMlp
It was a dismal night at Mystic High, as everyone tried to kill Klaus. Katherine opened up a couple grenades saying, “Kaboom,” before throwing it at the hybrids that were coming to help Klaus. Killing Klaus didn’t happen in the end though, because Stefan stopped Damon to save him. If Klaus died, Damon would’ve been hunted down and killed by Klaus’ hybrids.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTc20xWzzyM
Later that night, when Katherine was heading down a hall towards the side exit where she’d parked her car, she was pinned against a set of lockers by Rebekah. Apparently, someone had undaggered her and she had heard about the plan to kill Klaus. She knew that that meant that she was on vengeance strike. She definitely knew that when Rebekah plunged a hand through her chest.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GlitkrPYB
“I should rip your heart out right now,” Rebekah said.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuJJxujufV
“In that case, how about you kill everyone involved,” she replied.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhrMkOpSJ1
“Maybe I will,” the Original sister said.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf32E29EgwZ
“I don’t doubt that you’re capable of killing all of us, but would you take away Elijah’s love? Could you live with yourself? You have too good of a heart. I don’t think you can kill me,” Katherine stated truthfully to her. She had no reason to lie. She didn’t know much about Rebekah.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHsu8co2uH
She felt another squeeze of her heart and everything went blurry.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYjYTD1EyJ
“You underestimate me,” she growled at Katherine.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DXsET7Yxt
“Then go ahead and kill me. It’ll make you feel so much better,” she urged her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4U5mFD4Xzh
She felt her hand leave her chest and then felt pain of something being stabbed close to her heart.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CDbWgA1Uh
“Maybe I’ll take you up on your offer,” she heart the ancient vampiress say. Then she felt the thing, maybe a stick, start to pierce her heart. Then she felt her ass on the floor and even more pain. Then it was as if she couldn’t breathe and she closed her eyes.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgR7Il9yfh
Damon, seeing the scene, snapped her neck and knelt in front of Katherine, before quickly pulling out the stick and tossing it to the floor. He then bit his wrist and put it to her lips to heal her quicker, which worked.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyaZifccRF
After she’d healed, he gently pulled her into his arms and blurred off wit her.
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzkvmimoya
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2k8MMw3JNO
*Graduation*
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJUQFEMVU1
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbX00JoJso0
I can be your hero, baby550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiASLIPPYIH
I can kiss away the pain550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBe6bM4jCU
I will stand by you forever550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToiNhb3khn
You can take my breath away550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHXpQWoWUL
Oh, I just want to hold you550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG5NUhOCL7
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CKrLik0zp
Am I in too deep?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVq9lnX5PSq
Have I lost my mind?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuP2cq4FhSo
Well, I don’t care550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroT3wYzNtR
You’re here tonight
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRZ990OvdM
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPCxgtyEcX
It was a dismal night, as Damon searched for Katherine through each Mystic High hall, having heard from Elena that she had shoved the cure down her throat when Katherine had almost killed her. It had been a few hours ago, but he hoped she’d still be here somewhere. He knew her as well as he knew himself. As a vampire, she had everything going for her. As a human, she’d be alone and scared, not to mention hurt and maybe a little paranoid.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4reEgjsqyY
When he’d found the hall they’d fought in, she was gone, so he went back to his car to try and find her elsewhere. He’d search every road of Mystic Falls if he had to. For some reason, her being human made him care about her well-being. He hadn’t cared about her since 1864.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcguI4w8Wz7
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZEgwmMlnv
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPTX3oq79f
Twenty minutes later, he found her limping down one of the desolate roads. Knowing her, he figured asking her to get in would prove to be unsuccessful, so he pulled over and got out.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl03DkTtluG
“Katherine.” He put a hand on her arm, stopping her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡak4TkMecgo
She turned around to face him and he let go.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGILiQHBdGL
“Come to celebrate in my misery? Come to finish what Elena started? Go ahead. Put me out of my misery,” she said with anger, angry at herself that she’d been defeated by her baby vampire doppelganger, and taking it out on him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4OlkqIQ5A
“I’m not here for either reason. I’m going to help you. You need help. You’re human, injured, and not as powerful as you were. Let me help you.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBxQuUPMus
“Fine,” she said, before limping towards the car.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotxjmgkaOa
Just as he began following behind her, he saw her begin to collapse.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZqYdPVthY
He blurred right behind her and put an arm around her. Then he knelt down with her against him. That when he saw a shard of glass in her thigh and a bigger shard of glass in her stomach.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXEweeFvny
Once he’d gotten her in the car, he pulled both out, tossing them to the ground, and used a towel from the backseat to tie around her thigh. He used the other one for her other wound.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5gYbqIbPy
As he drove, he used his right hand to apply pressure with the towel, trying to slow the bleeding. Normal people would’ve taken her to the hospital, but there was a first-aid kit at home. He figured that he could use that to get her wounds taken care of. He figured she’d ben find after that.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtfAdaDUJX
When he’d taken care of her wounds in his room, he was right. She’d be fine.
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs55MKCLylP
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOVg1mnUo4
*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCXiEd9iaz
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlvAszEmqs
I can be you’re hero, baby550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoV3tkPYQO
I can kiss away the pain, oh, yeah550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDN7BIbAdp
I will stand by you forever550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JAK7NrLiM
You can take my breath away550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvw1wd0RIZ5
(I can be your hero, baby)550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6XlObg8i4
I can be your hero550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxrJOgw8yu
I can kiss away the pain550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsY0lijHgs1
And I will stand by you forever550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFHK4Y3fXT
You can take my breath away550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIZU3wvHvU
You can take my breath away550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJwgXgTDfW
I can be your hero
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6E9QTBTLIZ
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GL4HUQL28
“Katherine!” he yelled, as he raced towards his wrecked car that she sat in. He’d broken his promise he’d made to her that he’d protect her from Silas. Now she’d somehow caused his car to be totaled. The hood and both sides were crinkled, including the trunk. Also, all of the windows were shattered and he could smell a lot of blood; her blood.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AeK7xdnB5
When he tried opening the door, it was jammed, so he forced it open. Then, when it opened, her left hand fell off the seat. He gently turned her head towards him and snapped her seatbelt in two. That’s when he saw that she had a dislocated shoulder and a piece of glass grazed in the right side of her neck. She had blood on either side of her head too and was bleeding from the back of her head, but he’d already seen that. He pulled the glass out and scanned the rest of her. Seeing more glass in her, he did the same he’d done with the first glass he’d seen in her. Then he used his vamp strength to move a piece of the car in the floorboard, to free her foot so he could get her to the hospital.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QxfYCyc0f
He rested gentled hands on either side of her face, head still turned towards him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkOegVf7ub
“Katherine, can you hear me? Open your eyes. I’m going to get you to the hospital. I just need you to open your eyes.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqFjAIMjTU
After ten minutes, she finally opened her eyes to see him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq7Vxeenyv
“I’m so sorry, Katherine. Silas told me to hand you over in exchange of him telling me where Stefan is. I promise you, I will never do that again.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKpoeTLAue
She began to close her eyes and he carefully pulled her into his arms.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLl1nDtRQs
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxIXoo0hIc
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXbSTR048Y
Half an hour later, as she was rushed down the hall, because of her extensive injuries, her body was going into shock.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQljFGlZtM
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyeXQWhaWx
550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCSvx5fobL
Hours later, after surgery, she was settled into a recovery room and he was told he could see her. So he went to sit on her bedside and rested his hand on top of her right one. She hadn’t woken up yet, so he was just silent, happy that she was alive.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9G2Z1qmMA
He gave a smile, realizing that he more than cared about her. He was falling for her all over again.
