I FEEL IT IN MY BONES ;

“so how many of you got arrested over break? just— an estimate?”

“…well, i can explain,” kate tilted her head, looking at the hole in the dorm wall with the arrow sticking out of it. “actually, i can’t. i was bored, everyone has been gone for ages and it seemed like i was the only one stuck here so i shot a hole through my dorm room. that’s all i got.”

Sonya wouldn’t exactly say that she was ‘excited’ to have all the little brats coming back, but it would mean things were more lively. The blonde was roaming the halls again, looking for wrongdoers. She was supposed to be helping students move back in, but that wasn’t going to happen.

The bodyguard was starting toward the closed-off parts of the school when she found someone. “Are you supposed to be back here?”

Shelby didn’t have the most interesting break. She had spent most of her times with her siblings. Now that she was back in the school she decided to explore while students were still arriving. 

            The second Shelby pulled her into a hug, it was like all of her worries melted away. Being in the presence of her older twin always seemed to have that effect. It was like when her mother would kiss her forehead, making her feel protected and safe—A feeling she had needed lately.                Readjusting her bag of snacks so that she could hug Shelby back, Audrey sighed softly. “I missed you too, Elby.” The name she had called Shelby since she first learned how to speak just felt right. “I’m so glad that you’re here and that you’re safe.” Her words were muffled by the fact that she had buried her face in her sister’s shoulder, but she hadn’t wanted to let go just yet. Maybe that made her selfish, but it had been too long since she had hugged Shelby.             “You’re okay,right? Everything is okay?” When doubt started to creep into her mind, Audrey finally pulled back and took a look at her sister. She tried to subtly scan her for any sign of injury or that someone was wrong, but didn’t spot anything that concerned her yet.

Clenching her jaw the brunette slowly loosened her grip before backing off indefinitely. “Pleasure.” She muttered. “Yeah, s’how I make friends where I come from you know.”

“I wouldn’t want to go there. I’d get way too many bruises.” She said with a smile sarcasm in her words. “I’m Shelby.”

“Don’t get me wrong, beautiful. I get it. Totally get it. Evil needs their ass kicked and taken in but aren’t the big guys already trying to accomplish that?”

“They are, but they kidnapped my sister so I think I deserve to kick their asses at least a little.”

“I’d take that as camping out in the woods but like.. to go after the bad guys? That’s something else.”

“…That’s one hell of a field trip. Aren’t field trips supposed to be.. fun and less.. life-threatening?”

Walking along with a completely blank face would appear normal to those who only slightly knew the Darkholme spawn. Lacking her usual etched into her face irritation with the student body. In fact she might have been mistaken for dead, one of the ghosts that Scarlet was always talking about. But on the inside she was screaming, wanting to sprint back to her dorm and hide forever. So she kept telling herself that wasn’t her, Darkholme’s didn’t hide and eventually forced herself out of cave. Regretting it the second she felt someone brush past her, instinctively spinning round and gripping the other’s throat - pinning them to the lockers with wild eyes. 

Shelby groaned as she was slammed into the locker. She looked at the brunette with mild annoyance. “I’d appreciate it if you let me go.” She said choosing to not use her powers to break the hold on her. She didn’t want to get in a fight with the brunette. “Is this how you normally greet people?” 

“What is happening?!?!”

“Me failing to bake a cake.”

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“my office hours are in the morning, so feel free to walk away.” Daisy mused flatly, not even turning to see who stood in the doorway. She could sense them, and that was enough.