OUAT/VD: Broken (Rumatherine)

Set in VD and OUAT S7. Kat appears, injured from her time in the prison world with Kai. After Rumple saves her, what will ensue? Based on “Broken” by Lifehouse.

A/N: There’s no curse like S7 has shown, so everyone still lives in Storybrooke.

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The broken clock is a comfort

It helps me sleep tonight

Maybe it can stop tomorrow from stealing all my time

I am here still waiting, though I still have my doubts

I am damaged at best

Like you’ve already figured out

I’m falling apart

I’m barely breathing

With a broken heart that’s still beating

In the pain

There is healing

In your name, I find meaning

So I’m holdin’ on

            It was a nebulous night, as a human Katherine appeared on the shoulder of the road. She’d just escaped the prison world and Kai, so she was quite injured. She had a dagger protruding from her thigh, an arrow was in her lower stomach, there were multiple other wounds, and there was blood on either side of her head. Despite her injuries and having trouble staying awake, she could still see that the road sign read Welcome to Storybrooke. After seeing that, everything went gray and then started to go black.

            Rumple was walking down a road, but stopped when he saw someone laying on the shoulder of the road. It wasn’t anything new. Once in a while, people would appear in town. Even from a distance, he could tell that she was injured, so he decided to help her. After all those years with Belle, he’d changed in a way.

            When he knelt beside her, he saw that she was quite injured and was losing a lot of blood. It made him wonder what had happened to her and who had hurt her like this.

            After pulling the arrow and dagger out and setting them on the ground, he hovered a hand over her wounds, healing her.

I’m holdin’ on

I’m barely holdin’ on to you

The broken locks were a warning you go inside my head

I tried my best to be guarded

I’m an open book instead

I still see your reflection inside of my eyes

That are looking for a purpose

They’re still looking for life

I’m falling apart

I’m barely breathing

With a broken heart that’s still beating

In the pain (In the pain)

Is there healing?

In your name (In your name) I find meaning

So I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’ on)

            The next day, when she woke up, she wasn’t on the road anymore, but rather, in a bed.

            She slowly sat up in bed, realizing she was completely healed, and went to investigate. She was curious as to who had saved her and what kind of town this was.

            When she came from the back of the shop, she saw some guy in a suit. Because she was descended from Travelers, she could sense that he had magic.

            Rumple entered his shop to see that she was awake.

            He approached her, as he spoke.

            “I see you’re awake, dearie. I go by many name’s, but people here call me Gold or Rumpelstiltskin. It’s up to you what you’d like to call me. I saved your life as you’ve probably already figured out, but I’d like to know who you are and what happened.”

            “I’ve been known as many names too, but I’m Katherine Pierce. Only those that knew me when I was human the first time get to call me by my human name,” she informed him. “I turned into a vampire 538 years ago, but on my doppelganger’s high school graduation, I picked a fight with her in vengeance, figuring she was partly responsible for Elijah leaving, and she shoved the cure for vampirism down my throat before I could kill her. After the summer ended, my daughter, Nadia whom was torn from my arms for being illegitimate, found me. Then, after an immortal, Silas, drank the cure out of me, I began aging. Then I lost Nadia forever when she was bitten, since a werewolf bite to a vampire is deadly within 24 hours. My greatest enemy’s blood is the cure, but I’ve always been afraid of Klaus. Besides, he’d never save her and Nadia just wanted me to be happy. She didn’t want me to give anything up just to save her. Shortly after, I died and ended up in a prison world that a Gemini witch named Kai is trapped in. I escaped and that’s when I ended up here,” she summarized. 

I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’ on)

I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’ on)

I’m barely holdin’ on to you

I’m hangin’ on another day

Just to see what you throw away

And I’m hangin’ on to the words you say

You said that I will be OK

The broken lights on the freeway left me here alone

I may have lost my way now

Haven’t forgotten my way home

I’m falling apart

I’m barely breathing

With a broken heart that’s still beating

In the pain (In the pain) there is healing

In your name I find meaning

So I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’)

I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’)

I’m barely holdin’ on to you

I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’)

I’m holdin’ on (I’m still holdin’)

I’m barely holdin’ on to you

            When Katherine had finished summarizing what had happened, how she’d ended up in Storybrooke, and some of her past, he felt sorry for her. It also seemed to him that they were alike in more ways than one, despite being from two different worlds. They’d both done horrible things, lost a child, and lost someone they loved dearly.

            “Well, welcome to Storybrooke. And I’m sorry for your loss. I know what it’s like to lose a child and someone you love,” was all he could say.

            “Thanks for that,” she replied. “And thanks for healing me.”

            Several months later, they fell in love and she stayed in town, so they go their happy ending.