VD: Datherine

Why Don't You Stay

Summary: Set in 2x1, 2x21, 3x3, and 3x5 as flashbacks and 5x1 as the present. Based on Sugarland's song "Stay."

*The End Of The Affair*

I've been sitting here staring at the clock on the wall

And I've been laying here praying, praying she won't call

It's just another call from home

And you'll get it and be gone

And I'll be crying

And I'll be begging you, baby

Damon was getting a shot glass of Bourbon, when his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and then answered it, telling her, "You're interrupting my drink."

Katherine was driving as she answered him, saying, "I'm just calling to tell you goodbye."

After she told him that and they'd exchanged a few more words, he said, "Take care of yourself, Katherine."

They soon hung up.

*As I Lay Dying*

Beg you not to leave

But I'll be left here waiting

With my heart on my sleeve

Oh, for the next time we'll be here

Seems like a million years

And I think I'm dying

What do I have to do to make you see

She can't love you like me?

Why don't you stay

Damon and Katherine stood by a table in Ric's apartment. She'd shown him the bite on his arm and had asked him what it was, telling him that Klaus had said that he was as good as dead, so he couldn't use Damon for the ritual. When he told her that it was a werewolf bite, she was afraid that he was going to die.

"So, what? You're just going to die?"

"Depends. Ever hear about a cure?"

She was silent and he took that as a no.

"Yeah, me neither," he added.

"So 145 years and no last goodbye?" she asked him.

"For you? You don't get a goodbye."

He began to head for the door.

She blurred over to stand in front of him.

"Don't. Don't leave mad."

"Us ending up on good terms isn't on my bucket list, Katherine," he replied.

*The Reckoning*

I'm down on my knees

I'm so tired of being lonely

Don't I give you what you need

When she calls you go