"You found something? What is it?" Alaric voices his surprise in the light of this new information and she nods.
"A location. I'm not sure where but I thought I'd alert you immediately. Here, this is where the locator spell leads." the female witch responds that they found a location then hands him a piece of paper, saying that it has the information of where the spell leads after making it clear she's unsure of where the location is yet wanted to let him know.
"Thank you." Alaric thanks the witch after he takes the paper from her and she nods, accepting the thanks, before she heads out of the library.
Alaric unfolds the paper in order to look at it, surprised that it's nothing but coordinates rather than an address.
He shows the group the piece of paper and this time, Matt reacts quicker than the rest of them.
"According to Google Maps, the coordinates lead to a location that is just forty-five minutes away from the backroad." Matt squints at his screen in order to see where the coordinates lead then shows them the phone so they can see it and they all exchange glances.
"Let's hit the road." Marcel advises that they all hit the road, seeming determined to find Hope.
"I'm going to stay here actually. To watch over the younger kids as well as keep an eye on the coffins." Emma decides that she isn't going to be tagging along, wanting to watch over the younger kids and the coffins.
Alaric nods in understanding to the decision and they all leave to head to the location the coordinates lead.
"This is probably a trap. I mean, the tracking class gets nothing for an entire month and now they're suddenly able to get coordinates." MG expresses his belief in it being a trap then brings up the fact that the tracking class constantly failed for a month before finally getting something, which mildly worries them.
When they reach the location, they find out that it's a gas station which has them look around the scene in confusion.
"I'll go talk to the clerk while you guys do some investigating." Dorian just heads into the building in order to talk to the clerk after suggesting that the others stay outside so they can investigate.
"Wait, you said that this area is forty-five minutes away from the back-roads, which was twenty minutes away from the school. That means this was the gas station Hope was at when she got her slushie. How did the school manage to track this place down?" Josie determines that the gas station they're currently at is the same place Hope got a slushie from before asking how the school managed to get a lead on it.
"Aaah!" Lizzie yells a blood curdling screech that gets all of their attention, including Dorian, who rushes outside while everyone else rushes to Lizzie.
"Lizzie!" Josie shouts for her twin and reaches her before the others catch up to them then places her hands on her twin's shoulders, turning Lizzie to face her.
"What's wrong?" Josie immediately asks her what's wrong and she looks back while pointing to where she was staring moments earlier, causing the group to look where she is currently staring, which is at a dumpster.
There's a dead body in the corner, right next to the dumpster, it being a male body that looks like it was mauled by an animal.
"Well, this isn't the clerk, I was just talking to him. So, who the hell is this guy?" Dorian deduces that the dead guy next to the dumpster isn't the gas station clerk then wonders who the dead man is.
"Does it matter? The only important thing is that it's not Hope." Josie questions if the dead guy is important as she expresses her relief in the fact that the body isn't Hope's.
"Well, something here got the school's locator spells flipping out meaning that something of Hope's must be here." Jed deduces that something of Hope's must be somewhere on the property or else the school's witches wouldn't have gotten a lead on the location.
"He's right. But what?" Penelope agrees with Jed's point then looks around the area to see what could possibly be there that belongs to Hope as Roman crouches down to get a closer look at the deceased.
"Him. It's the body." Roman has them turn their attention back to the body which has them all stare at him in confusion.
"Are you sure?" Freya asks if Roman's sure that the body is radiating something of Hope's and he nods.
"Yep, his neck was simply broken but the blood that's on his body is Hope's. Her blood has a very distinctive smell." Roman confirms his words as he stands up, horrifying them all with the revelation that the dead man's covered in Hope's blood.
Both Lizzie and Josie look near tears, Josie because Hope's clearly in more danger than she thought and Lizzie because she's traumatized by seeing a dead body.
"Roman's right. It's the same smell the blood scrawled across the walls in that house had, meaning it must be Hope's." Kaleb backs Roman up by saying the blood on the deceased male has the same scent as the blood on the walls in Caroline's old house.
"Can we head back now?" Lizzie wonders if they can head back to the school now, seemingly having enough dramatic information being revealed for the day.
"A body just showed up. This gas station is getting shut down and is officially a crime scene." Matt's tone is exasperated as he realizes that the situation is escalating as he classifies the gas station as a crime scene that's being shut down.
"You guys head back to the school, I'll call the department to help shut this place down and make it a crime scene." Matt suggests that the group heads back to the school and grabs his walkie talkie in order to contact the department for help.
They take his suggestion and the group heads back to the school, taking the necessary precautions in order to ensure that no one finds the school before they head into the library where Emma is currently reading the journal that Hope updated weekly.
"Welcome back." Emma welcomes them back when she hears them enter the library and focuses her attention on them.
"Just be lucky that you decided to not tag along, Emma." Lizzie is the first one to speak, numbly advising that Emma gets lucky in the fact that she didn't come with them, still looking haunted.
Emma is clearly confused but she shakes it off as she holds up the journal.
"So, I was reading this journal and up until more recently when she started taking an interest in the knife, it was just her writing random thoughts that came to her, expressing her love for her parents, updates on her spell, nothing too important. But it also says that there are, in fact, more journals that I'm assuming are somewhere on campus." Emma informs the group what she was doing, revealing that there are more journals.
"Does it say where the journals are?" Josie wonders if the journal says where the other ones are and Emma just shakes her head at this.
"Nope, I just read this journal cover to cover. It doesn't say where the other journals are." Emma denies that the updated journal has the location of the other journals, still shaking her head.
"Can this girl not keep something a secret for once?" Kaleb expresses his annoyance at the fact that everything Hope uses is a secret as he wonders if she can not keep secrets at least once.
"Secrets are like a person's privacy. It gives a person boundaries, annoys most of the people around them, yet eventually is something that's figured out and/or invaded. We just have to take the time to think like Hope." Rafael gives the room an analogy of secrets and privacy then advises that they take longer than two minutes to think like Hope in order to help them find the other journals.
"Philosophical, accurate, and some very sound advice. I'm officially inspired." Penelope lists the first words on the top of her head as she describes that what Rafael has just said is inspirational as well as philosophical.
Everyone nods in agreement with both Rafael and Penelope's statements before Lizzie simply decides to speak.
"Maybe we should give Roman the task of finding the journals. Since he's apparently a freaking genius mind reader when it comes to Hope's secrets." Lizzie snarkily suggests that Roman looks for the journals as she crosses her arms then reveals her belief that he is a mind reader when it comes to Hope, rolling her eyes as she calls him a 'genius mind reader'.
"I'm not a mind reader, I just know her well." Roman denies the fact that he's a mind reader, assuring them that he simply knows Hope but doesn't say anything against the suggestion Lizzie made.
"If that's the case, here. Maybe you can determine the fact that she has put some secret hidden message within the pages in order to tell us where she had stashed the other journals." Lizzie snatches the journal out of Emma's hands and shoves it in Roman's chest, then makes an exaggerating remark about the possibility of him finding some secret code within the pages of the journal with another eye roll.
Roman can't help but look mildly amused with Lizzie's behavior towards him as he takes the book from off of his chest and then opens it.
The group just sits around and waits for Roman to read the journal, praying that he will prove Lizzie right.
Roman reads the entire journal in a matter of ten minutes, not skimming any pages, and closes the journal.
"Yep, Emma's right. It doesn't say anything about the other journals' location." Roman's words seem to disappoint the group after he says that Emma's right about it not saying anything.
"I'm honestly shocked by that response. I thought for sure that Lizzie would have been right." Emma expresses her shock at the fact that Roman agreed with her, believing that Lizzie's remark would've been correct causing Roman to chuckle at this statement.
Roman sighs, seemingly disappointed at the fact that he came up empty in reading the journal before he finds himself thrust into a flashback of Hope.
Roman is sitting in an empty room when he hears one of the windows creak open and he realizes that someone's sneaking in.
He turns his head to the side, only to be stunned to see that Hope has snuck in the room.
"Hope, what are you doing here?" Roman questions Hope's sudden appearance but she just shyly smiles at him.
"I heard you got detention, so I thought that you might want company." Hope confesses that she heard Roman got detention then sheepishly admits that she thought he'd want company, this admission having Roman smile to himself before getting thoughtful.
"You shouldn't be here, you could get trouble." Roman sounds mildly concerned as he warns Hope about the fact she could get in trouble but she just snorts.
"Yeah, because I'm going to get in trouble for sneaking into detention." Hope retorts with a snarky tone, not buying the fact that she'd get in trouble and he just chuckles at this, knowing that she has a point.
"What is it?" Hope notices Roman staring at her after a moment and he just smiles at her in return.
"I'm just surprised that you snuck into detention to keep me company." Roman says what's on his mind and she momentarily blushes before reaching into her bag and pulling out a book.
"I wanted to read you one of my favorite stories. It's the Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which is the first book. I have only brought the one, simply because it's my favorite." Hope changes the topic to the book she brought, claiming that she wanted to read it to him.
"What I love about this book is that it's about another world just behind a wardrobe found in a dusty old room. That's what I'd do if I felt like it, keep a wardrobe in some dusty room or attic that holds a bunch of my books or something. With an obvious easy access, of course. But anyway, on to actually reading the book. Unless you don't want me to." Hope tells Roman why she loves the book then states that she'd love to keep a wardrobe in a dusty area that she'll be able to easily reach before realizing that she should read the book but retracts the offer when she sees Roman's stares.
"No it's fine, you can read it. It's just, no one's ever read a book to me before." Roman assures her that it's fine and he does want her to read it before admitting that no one's ever read a book to him, causing her to smile at him.
"Okay. Um, chapter 1…" Hope opens the book and starts reading it after she expresses her happiness in the fact that he wants her to read to him.
"Roman." Penelope's voice seeps into the memory having him snap out of it to see Penelope staring at him in confusion.
"You totally zoned out." Penelope claims that he zoned out and he just shakes his head as though he's still snapping out of his memory.
"Dr. Saltzman, does this school have an attic?" Roman ignores Penelope's concern, instead turning his attention to Alaric, wondering if the school has an attic.
"Yeah, it's just above Caroline's office. No one's allowed up there but the faculty." Alaric agrees that the school has an attic and states that no one's is allowed in the attic except teachers.
"Something tells me Hope didn't heed the warning. Could you lead us to it?" Roman asks if Alaric can lead them to the attic, as he's the only one who knows of its location, after making the assumption that Hope didn't listen to the warning.
The entire room's confused but Alaric leads them to the attic despite it and once they reach the attic, they realize that Roman might be right.
There's a bunch of boxes, as the attic is used for storage but there's now a table that is covered with candles, a filing cabinet against the wall that's behind the table, two wooden chests, and a very nicely carved wooden wardrobe that Rebekah seems to recognize.
"That was one of her father's wardrobes from centuries ago. And so are these chests. I'd know, I saw him make these." Rebekah points out that the wardrobe and the two chests were hand carved by Klaus centuries earlier.
"Hmph, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe." Roman snorts slightly before muttering the title of the book she showed him in the memory he recently had then makes his way over to the wardrobe and opens it, only to reveal that men's clothes are hung up but on the floor of it, there are a bunch of boxes.
"You could if you would and so, you did." Roman smiles as he mutters under his breath again after pulling a box out and opening it to reveal journals that look similar to the one Lizzie found with all of the spirals.
"Found the rest of the journals." Roman announces that he found the rest of the journals that the one diary had mentioned.
"How did you think to check up here?" Dorian questions Roman, stealing the question that everyone else wanted to.
"Hope might have brought something up three years back." Roman answers vaguely by saying that Hope mentioned it three years ago.
"Great. Let's take them back to the library." Kaleb expresses his interest in the fact that they found the journals quickly then advises that they take the boxes back to the library.
So, the members of the group each take a box and head back to the library.