Out and About (open to perfectblue

She'd made it outside again, and this time managed to have a much firmer control on the steering where of the car. It was just up into town, up and down all the aisles of the closest grocery store, and then home again. It was the sort of trip that could've waited, really. Small enough that people smiled and pulled their carts behind you in line, because you wouldn't take long, and they could get a preemptive start on loading their cartful right behind your small pile on the small, black, moving sidewalk. But her trip also purchased Fred more time to think.

And she thought, all the way until she reached the front walk. And then Fred blinked, because at her feet was something that looked oddly like it belonged in her old lab, the subject of an experiment one too many. She briefly considered that it was part of one of Sam's spells, something to further protect the school. Then she decided against the idea. But clean up on aisle three wasn't appropriate, so it'd have to be her. Right after the groceries for safely delivered inside.

A plan Fred was very, very focused on until she got inside just in time to catch Viola and Sebastian blasting by, a blur of white fur chasing hard at their heels. Their very fast moving heels.