Defining Moments

Ch.5: As I Lay Dying

It was a dark night, as Damon staggered through the Mystic Falls streets, very warm and sweating, not exactly himself.

Meanwhile, Katherine was out looking for her elder childe, having found that he was MIA.

Once she found him, he began to hallucinate, and pinned her to a pole, her back up against it.

"I choose you, Katherine."

When he went for the side of her neck, she knew what he was hallucinating.

*Flashback-1864*

It was a dark night in the Mystic Falls woods, as Katherine stood with her back up against a tree, human Damon in front of her.

She used a fingernail to make a cut on her left collarbone.

"If you want it, take it," she instructed, teaching him something she had always done as long as she had been a vampire. Take whatever you want, no matter the cost to others.

He bent towards the cut.

"I choose you, Katherine."

She smiled.

*End of flashback*

She rested gentle hands on either side of his head, making him stop, keeping him from biting her and making him look at her.

"You're hallucinating, Damon. Stop," she said gently.

"Katherine?" he said, looking at her, realizing he had almost bitten her in the present, when he had hallucinated.

"I'm here. It's okay. You didn't hurt me," she assured him.

He let her go and stepped back, which turned into a stagger.

When he began to lose his balance from sudden weakness, she was instantly beside him and put an arm around him to help him. She then used her body weight to keep him on his feet.

"Let's go home," she stated.

Half an hour later, he lay in bed with his sire wetting his face down with a cool, wet washcloth. He was very pale and weak.

As she sat beside him on his bed, she felt helpless. She was helpless next to him. She was his sire and girlfriend. She was supposed to protect, or at least save him, but all she could do was watch him slowly and painfully die. Her only hope was for Stefan to get the cure and bring it in time.

"You should go. I could hurt you," he whispered.

"You won't. I'm here until the very end."

"I love you," he replied in susurration, thinking this may be the last time he'd get to say it.

"I love you, too."

She bent down and kissed him, before pulling away.

He closed his eyes.

"Thank...you," he managed to whisper.

A moment later, Klaus walked in with a vial of blood in hand.

She sensed a presence, so she turned to look, and was surprised that he was there with the cure, instead of Stefan.

"I hate to interrupt dear Katerina, but here you go," he said, walking over to her.

She took it from him.

"Where's Stefan?" she questioned.

"Oh, he's paying for this. Bringing out his inner demons. See you around, Katerina," he replied, before vanishing.

She turned back to Damon and uncorked the vial, before putting it to his lips, making the blood go down his throat.

Half an hour later, he came to, cured, and she told him what he had missed. Now, it was time to get Stefan back on track.