As Hope progressed through the forest, the pain inside of her thumped. She didn't know how far she could go, she had never felt pain like this.. well not physically. She stumbled forward, and before she knew it she was crashing to the ground. She gripped the dirt underneath her.

After a couple of minutes, she pushed herself upwards she was successful in her attempt, but that didn't make the pain any less painful. As she stumbled forward, she leaned onto a tree. She wanted to turn back, but she didn't want anybody to get hurt. Death followed her everywhere, and she didn't know how stop it.

As she challenged herself to continue on, she was met with an familiar sight, the highway leading out of Mystic Falls. She was grateful to see it, but also disappointed that she didn't get as far as she would have liked.

As she staggered forward, she was faced with an familiar scent, it took her a minute but she could finally place it.. Josie. Her heart fluttered, why wasn't she in the school? She willed herself to move towards it. As she arrived outside an motel, she leaned against the sign, the pain was slowly getting worse, but she tried to ignore it as she pushed herself towards the entrance.

She stumbled through the ajar door, she instantly fell towards a wall, as she could no longer support her own weight. As she began to look up, she was met by an unexpected sight, Josie and Penelope at the mercy of the Hybrid.

"Get the fuck away from them.." Hope managed to blurt out.

"Run.. Hope go!" Josie begged as she locked her eyes onto Hope.

Hope shook her head, and the hybrid swiftly blocked Hope's view of Josie and Penelope. "So nice of you to join us! I didn't even have to try," He let out a chuckle.

Before Hope could react, the hybrid dug his claws into Hope's stomach wound. "If I remember correctly, I told you, I would make you regret you didn't die the day we first met".

Hope couldn't say anything, the pain was swallowing her whole. She adverted her eyes to look into the hybrids ones. She quickly gripped him onto the shoulder and pushed him back. Hope let out a welp of pain as his claws left her wound. She tore a piece of wood from the wall frame, and dug it inside of his chest.

As soon as the hybrid fell, Hope looked to Josie, but was surprised to see her eyes were already locked onto hers. Hope slowly progressed towards Josie, and put her hand on her shoulder.

"You need to get, yourself and Penelope, back to the school," Hope mumbled, as she tried to control her breathing, "You'll be safe there".

Josie opened her mouth to protest, but was met by a rush of pain, she grabbed her head with one hand. "No.. not without you, I'm not doing that again". Silence filled the room until Penelope eyes abruptly opened, "Penelope!" Josie yelled

Penelope gave Josie a smile before gripping Josie down into a kiss. Hope hung her head before looking up, "Go.. before you get hurt, well, more than you already have," Hope repeated.

"No," Penelope helped Josie to her feet as soon as she found her own footing, "We didn't just come to get fucked around, we came for you, and now you're fucking telling us to leave?"

Hope gave an slight nod, "Nobody is dying because of me, as I said multiple times."

Silence once again reigned. Everybody stood looking at each other, with only Hopes uneven breaths making noise. Everybody quivered when they heard a grunt coming out of the hybrids mouth.

Before anybody could react, he reached out for the nearest person that happened to be Hope, and dropped her to the ground and regained his position, standing over her.

Winces escaped Hope's mouth as she tried to stand up, she fought to keep her eyes open, but soon she fell into darkness.

"Leave them alone, just take me." Josie begged as she stood in-front of Penelope.

Hybrid let out a chuckle, before speeding towards Josie. Penelope pushed Josie back so she could stand in-front but was met by the hybrids fist slamming her to the ground and knocking her into unconsciousness.

Josie felt fear creep up her spine, she was the only one awake, she was Penelope's and Hope's only savior in this situation. She stumbled backwards and swiftly bent down to pick up one of the pieces of wood.

The hybrid chuckled, "Put that down before you hurt yourself."

Josie made an slight movement towards the hybrid, but before she could continue, she was up against a wall, with the hybrid holding her by the collars on her shirt...

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Sorry for this being short :( I barely have anytime to write so sorry if this seems rushed.