Posie one-shots

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Re-writing 1X06 because I just re-watched and it pissed me off.

Josie's hand shoots through the ground, and Penelope and MG reach for it simultaneously. They pull Josie up, and MG circles around to pat her back while Penelope and Hope look at her in a state of semi-shock.

Penelope thinks she speaks for everyone when she says her heart breaks a little at Josie crying and desperately trying to catch her breath.

"It worked" Hope whispers, "the talisman."

Josie catches her breath, "What's it supposed to do?"

"Make quiet things heard." Hope says with finality, and Josie grabs at the necklace. Josie takes another gathering breath, and frantically starts pushing the dirt off of her legs.

MG pulls Josie up, and Penelope jumps up to stand beside her.

"Are you hurt Josie?" she asks, and Josie shakes her head. "Just-my head, I think she knocked me out."

Hope and MG let Penelope take the lead, but Josie is still standing with MG's support. "Okay, well let's get you cleaned up and then we can see. Can you walk?"

Josie nods again and takes a few shaky steps forward, with Penelope and MG matching her pace in case she does need their help.

The group walks to the school in mostly silence, besides MG babbling on about how they fought real zombies, which actually amuses Josie so nobody tells him to stop.

Hope steps away, "I'm going to find Alaric and your..."

"Mom" Josie finishes with a sigh, and Penelope glares at Hope for bringing up her dead bio-mom who just rose from the dead and tried to kill her. It really should have been common sense to not mention it.

"Sorry." She cringes and sets off to find Alaric.

MG squeezes Josie's shoulder, "I'll go find Lizzie and tell her we found you."

"Guess that leaves me with you." Penelope says and opens the door for Josie with a hand hovering over her back in worry.

"You can stop the worrying, I'm fine and I'm not hurt." Josie says in a scratchy and entirely unconvincing voice.

Penelope lets Josie take a step forward and gives her some space, "Okay, sorry." She follows Josie up the stairs, surprised when Josie speaks up as they get closer to Penelope's room.

Josie is leading them to Penelope's room. Oh.

"Where was Lizzie?"

Penelope frowns, "What do you mean?

"You guys came to get me but...where was Lizzie? Is she okay?" Josie repeats, and Penelope's heart dips in sympathy yet again. It would make sense for Lizzie to be in a predicament similar to Josie's, but she wasn't, she was dancing away with Raf and the rest of the school while he sister almost died.

"She's at the party." Penelope reveals, wishing she could tell Josie literally anything else.

Josie's face scrunches up in confusion, "What do you mean? She didn't realize I was gone?"

Penelope sighs, "No, I guess not."

"So why were you there then?"

Josie is stopped in the hall now, looking dejected and Penelope nudges her along to her room with a gentle hand on her back.

"I...was looking for you. I saw you weren't at the party and then all of that happened." Penelope scratches the back of her head, looking bashful for once.