On the negative side, Shawn is over two hundred pounds of pure muscle and it’s in that moment, as Caroline leans forward to reach into her briefcase, he literally flips the mahogany table. Chaos erupts in the room, and she doesn’t have time to scramble back from the impact, only able to raise her arm up to protect her face in the seconds she does have. It’s not nearly enough, and her face feels like it’s exploding as she blinks up at the ceiling in a daze, the shouting in the room muffled to her ears. It’s all she remembers before she’s at the hospital.

