Coraline belongs to Neil Gaiman, movie innovations belong to Henry Selick (I think). Katie and other bits are mine.
Part 2 of Adelphai, the 13 Sagaverse ficlets. The Sagaverse (which has yet to be posted) has multiple endings and story paths, so I've labeled each ficlet with the relevant tracks. Which won't make sense til it is posted, but helps keep things neat.
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6. Gentle (Coraline, unnamed doctor) (Tracks 2-6)
What has this child been doing? the doctor thought with horror as he gently examined one of the girl's injured hands.
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7. One (Katie, Coraline) (Tracks 3-6)
There were two who went—but only one who came back.
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11. Blur (Coraline, Mel, Charlie) (Track 1 or 4)
She doesn't know why they gave her the solo, she doesn't (and sometimes she wonders if they don't either) but she's done her best to learn the notes, and it's finally time and she's onstage and she's singing it and she's almost done it, and then what day it is (what happened six months ago) hits her full force and her voice cracks, and sudden tears turn the audience into a dark blur, and a single word changes unbidden as she sings the last verse (dona eī, dona eī, sempiternam requiem, sempiternam...) and there's more anguish and loss and grief and pain and feeling in that one different word than has been in her voice for months, and then it's over, her voice trailing off the last note (requiem...) into a sob and her hands come up to her face and she sinks down as her knees fold, and as everybody murmurs quietly (they're all unsure what to do or what to make of the last verse), two of the audience members fly forward and up the stairs and fall to their knees beside her, never mind how much the lace and satin on the pretty white dress cost (it doesn't matter) and put their arms around her and rock back and forth—they know why the word is different and who it is and they know why she cries and they cry with her, because it's all they can do, because ea est non hīc, and ea never will be again.
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24. Now (almost!13!Coraline, almost!17!Katie) (Track 6)
It had been a long, long time since she had felt right, but now it was really over—the monster was gone, and her sister was back (albeit rather...elevated in her abilities), and all was well with the world.
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26. Goodbye (Katie, Coraline) (Track 4-6)
"Lock the door and melt the key and..." and here her voice became much softer and sadder "...and I love you so, so much."
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29. Safe (Coraline, Katie—Christmas 2009) (Track 6)
Coraline lunged at her sister, shaking with sobs, and buried her face in Katie's chest and held onto her for dear life, and Katie wrapped her arms securely around her sister and whispered through her own tears, "It's over now, really over—we're safe."
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34. Sing (Coraline) (Track 1 or 4)
She often had an inexplicable urge to sing something, but only whispered the lyrics to herself, because without her sister she could never hold a tune.
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35. Sudden (Coraline) (Track 1 or 4)
It had been weeks, but any abrupt reminder of her sister—a song Katie had liked, conversations about gorgeous senior Catherine Prescott that Coraline overheard in the school hallways (it didn't matter that the name was spelled differently, it still sounded the same), a girl with black hair, even someone with a laptop—was enough to make tears come to her eyes.
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36. Stop (Coraline, Mel, Charlie) (Track 1 or 4-6)
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"I'm going to stop dying my hair blue, and dye it back to black," Coraline repeated, looking at her stunned parents, and then she swallowed and continued in a whisper, "because of Katie."
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37. Time (married!Coraline, unnamed husband, January 20XX) (Track 1 or 4)
"It's that time of year again, isn't it," Coraline's husband said quietly, laying a hand on his wife's shoulder as she sat on the couch, clutching a framed picture to her chest as silent tears ran down her face.
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41. Power (Coraline, Katie) (Track 6)
"Corrie, I'm...I'm like God!" Katie exploded, "and I don't want to be!" and she burst into tears.
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47. Harm (Other Wybie, Coraline) (Tracks 2-6)
He hadn't been able to save her sister, but he would not let her come to harm.
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50. Believe (Coraline) (Tracks 2-6)
She knew that if the police questioned her that they would not believe her testimony—that they would think she was crazy—but that didn't stop it from being true nonetheless.
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Dona eī sempiternam requiem translates here as "Grant her eternal rest." Ea est non hīc means "She is not here." A properly-formatted version of Blur can be found in the next chapter.
EDIT 5-7-16: cleanup, formatting, deleted extraneous chapters