It had been a long time since Caroline had been forced to fight for her life. Maybe too long; her instincts were rusty, and the months without her powers had left her even more out of practice. But the Salvatore school was her home, it was her children’s home, and there was no way she was letting it be taken over without a fight.
The creatures she faced down wasn’t something she recognized, looking more like a fairy tale than real life. Trying to decipher what it was took second priority, though, behind avoiding the teeth and claws it was lashing out with in all directions. “Get away from them!” she shouted, hurling herself into it to buy the nearby students some time. “Pedro, take the others to the main hall! Find Dr. Saltzman, okay? Go now!” There was enough time to get the words out before she was tossed across the hallway and into one of the unforgiving walls.
She groaned as she forced herself up, staring the thing down as the sound of footsteps and a voice approached from behind her. “If you’re not here to help me kill this thing, you should probably run. Right now,” she called, without even looking back. “Go find the others.”
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