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[color=darkcyan]“I meant like body bag him; a doubletap to the head and calling it suicide,”[/color] muttered Vashti darkly under her breath. She began to pull her knees up to her chest and winced at the spike of pain. Stupid. She stretched her legs out in front of her and propped her hands behind her like she was basking in the glow of the exit sign as Trevor continued to reinforce the idea that the government did not work for the people. It was refreshing to hear one of their own at least admit it. 

Vashti closed her eyes and let out a low groan as Madison explained to her that Kayla wasn’t as reliable as she had seemed at the Dairy Queen. Vashti opened one eye and gave Madison a skeptical half-smile at the suggestion that she and Herik just wander around a college campus to find her. Yeah, right. If she was avoiding them on purpose then she wouldn’t want people snooping after her. Likewise, if she was working on something important then she definitely wouldn’t want people coming to bother her. 
 
“...since you're clearly not okay with this...”

[color=darkcyan]“I never said I wasn’t okay with this,”[/color] said Vashti, tilting her head towards Madison. She had just said it was stupid. It was a big difference. She ended up going along with stupid ideas all of the time, like meeting a stranger on the Internet to study magic under...or meeting with strangers from the Internet to join a Coven that caused chaos whenever more than three of them were within a square block of one another. Vashti chewed on her lip. Maybe she should stop meeting people from the Internet. 

She turned her eyes back towards Lyss, who Vashti viewed as the de facto leader of the Coven despite Lyss’ apprehensions. Vashti let out a heavy sigh as Lyss sided with Madison, rolled her neck, and climbed up to her feet. She rubbed her forehead as the girl spoke. By the time Vashti dropped her hand to the side she had managed to force a smile. 

[color=D3D3D3]“If anyone has any suggestions, I want to hear them now.”[/color]

[color=darkcyan]“Yeah. Use protection,”[/color] said Vashti, her fake smile turning into a real grin as she shot a look at Maya. She turned back to Lyss and Madison as she relaxed her shoulders. Her voice hovered just below genuine, and was strangely calm for the normally frantic girl. [color=darkcyan]“Look, I’m sorry if I came off as a jerk. I barely know any of you, but I still don’t want anyone else to get hurt. The Outsider couldn’t stop us, so a rich loser caught with his pants down will hardly be a problem for you girls. I guess that’s why I didn’t see it as something that should be such a priority. But I respect your decision. That said, I’d only be getting in the way. But I’m not gonna go look for Kayla or go home.”[/color] 

[color=darkcyan]“I’m going to go sit with Emily so that there’s someone there when she wakes,”[/color] clarified Vashti. As she turned and began walking towards the door back into the hospital, the dark wave of emotions swelling inside of her released as her voice grew more and more indignant. [color=darkcyan]“Or, you know, in case Babylon comes back for her.”[/color] Vashti’s hand grabbed the door handle, cocked her head to the side, and tapped a finger against her temple. [color=darkcyan]“Oh, did we all forget about the bitch that [i]actually[/i] killed one of us and nearly murdered another!? Well, anyway...”[/color] Were they really so up their own ass with their want for revenge that they forgot the real danger to the Coven? Vashti opened the door, stepped through, and turned so that the rest of the Coven could see the angry disappointment on her face.

[color=darkcyan][b]“Enjoy your [i]FUCKING [/i]orgy!”[/B][/color]

With a mocking salute, she slammed the door and stormed away.