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[praevaricatio]

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[vampireboulevard]

[On the way to the hospital, Caroline sends out a couple of texts.

To the group chat:]

We were in an accident on the way to the hospital, though ambushed is more like it. Lydia is fine. Elena is not, we're in an ambulance now. Stiles is dead, but he had my blood in his system so he's transitioning.

I need someone to clean up the hunters.

[She's busy compelling people. Then to Alaric, after texting Jo about their predicament:]

I need you to get in touch with your contact in the sheriff's office. There are some hunter bodies off the main road that need to not hit the system.

[And finally, to Ryan:]

Can you meet me at the hospital with a change of clothes?

group chat: 1/?

[recrudesce]

Hunters?

[daydrinker]

( He reads one message, but a second is sent just to him, so he lets the group chat go on. )

DONE

[cholesterol]

Sammy and I are on our way. They run you off the road?

[vampireboulevard]

Yeah, you'll probably pass the wreck on the way. Pretty sure it's totaled.

[Which is probably not the thing she can be concerned about, but there's nothing she can do for Elena right now.]

1/2

[daydrinker]

We're taking care of the hunters.

[cholesterol]

Saves me from having to say not it

( And Sam can hold the phone while he tears out of Damon's roundabout. )

[vampireboulevard]

Thanks. We're pulling into the hospital now, so I'll update you when I know more about Elena.

[For right now, she has some compelling to do.]

[unforgivably]

Is Elena awake?

[vampireboulevard]

Not yet, but she was responsive coming in. Doctor thinks it might be brain swelling so they took her up for imaging.

[unforgivably]

They followed you. They waited. They're better organized than our captured friend, that's for sure.

All we can do is wait, then.

[vampireboulevard]

Any news on the missing werewolf?

[unforgivably]

I'm playing catch up, I'll let you know when I know something.

to Caroline:

[daydrinker]

You need your car cleaned up, too?

Caroline, how bad is Elena?

[vampireboulevard]

I don't think my car's going to be easy to move. But the hunters definitely don't look like they died in a car accident.

The paramedics think it's neurological. They're going to send her up for a CT scan when they get there.

[But, speaking of all that:]

Did you know there was a witch working with Elena at the hospital?

[daydrinker]

Then the hunters stole your car and were victims of an unfortunate animal attack.

Did they ram into your car?

My wife.

[vampireboulevard]

Yeah. They hit the driver's side and sent us spinning, then we rolled and landed in a ditch.

Not your wife. Male witch. He claimed he was Elena's coworker.

[daydrinker]

It was only you, Elena, Lydia, and
Who's Stiles?

What witch?

[vampireboulevard]

Stiles is a friend of Lydia's she brought for backup. He and a werewolf named Derek got jumped in the woods while we were pow-wowing.

[daydrinker]

Only you would call it a pow-wow.
And Stiles is now in transition.

[vampireboulevard]

They were using machine guns. If I hadn't given him blood when I did, he would likely be dead-dead.

[And that's no good for anyone.]

[daydrinker]

I'm not saying you shouldn't have helped him. I'm saying we have hunters that will run a car into someone else's and then finish the job with AK-47's.

And now we have two transitioning vampires.

( Stefan sent that heads up. Welcome to being in the loop, Caroline. )

[vampireboulevard]

[The ellipses appear and disappear several times as she tries to process this information. And then, because if someone's turning vampires, it's probably one person:]

Who did Damon murder?

[daydrinker]

Your hostage.

[vampireboulevard]

[Eyes rolling all the way up to the ceiling.]

How is THAT going to be helpful?