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Bitchy shapeshifter? Oh, yeah She was a bitch, all right And a murderess

It made sense that the victims hadn’t been sexually molested The killers weren’t sexual predators; they si to do anything to create chaos and blame it on the race they despised

"I should have expected you," Fiona said "Really Ishock"

Valentina laughed "I’ht you’ll be a dead bitch"

She wasn’t beautiful anye into so ferocious, to slap her, claw at herkill her

But she was stopped by the person behind her

The woet this done Don’t touch her! If you wanted to hurt her, you should have hit her harder"

Fiona knew the voice And as the woman stepped out of the shadows, she also knew the face

It was Jennie Jennie Mahoney The brilliant, un-crowned queen of the shapeshifting co at Fiona

And then she started to change--into a vahing all the while

Behind her, Valentina began to laugh, and she started to change, too, shifting into Billy Harrington

There was no tian to change herself, at the sa for one of the vials of holy water

Valentina reached for her, and she threw the vial

Valentina shrieked and fell, twitching, screae burst into the rooe, Jennie Mahoney flew at hi form

But a shapeshifter’s weakness was that she could never be as strong as the real thing Even as Jennie ripped and tore at hiht her, slowly but surely bearing her down

Valentina was on the ground, twisting and turning, beco out a suction-cupped arm to wrest Caitlin from the table Caitlin eak, but she beca the attack

Someone else was there

Mateas Grenard

Fiona didn’t knoas who anymore, and she tossed holy water at Mateas, who stared at her blankly

"Sorry!" she cried swiftly

She dug in her pockets for another vial Valentina was a tiger now, and she lunged at Fiona, who ducked behind her parents’ to at her with his fangs

"I need holy water!" Caitlin, back in her own form, cried

Fiona freed the vial from her pocket and tossed the water over Jennie Mahoney, who screamed as she writhed Fiona splashed the rest of the vial’s contents over Valentina

Then the smell of charred flesh filled the air, and thick smoke rose fro was silent

Exhausted, the four of the, both of theed through the doorway