April 3, 2019 – 21:30
The motel is swamped with police and rubberneckers by the time they pull up in the van. Luther and Diego hop out and head straight for the scene when Five blinks behind them and tugs on their clothing, yanking them back.
"Five!" Luther barks.
"This way," Five hisses and waves to follow. He darts behind the van. Allison and Vanya are already waiting there.
"I'm going to jump us in."
"But-"
"No. This way, we can skip encounters with the police. I don't think Diego is their favorite person right now, not to mention that civilians aren't normally allowed to peruse a crime scene."
"Oh, they love me, Five."
"Just grab on!" Five retorts impatiently.
They jump into the middle of the taped off motel room. Fortunately, there are no investigators inside. The room is dark, save for the light coming through the curtains and the open doorway. Even with the lack of light, the siblings can still make out the horrific scene before them. The entire room is in disarray and smells strongly of blood. Various tools are scattered about. An ice bucket lays on its side. There is glass in piles everywhere from the shattered lightbulbs. A large trail of blood makes its way down the center of the room. The original color of the closet carpeting is impossible to detect. There is a slight indent in one of the walls. Five starts shuffling around the room, looking for clues. He pulls out a striped, torn cloth from the trash can in the room. It's the shirt Klaus worn on the night of the almost-apocalypse. They check over the rest of the room, but neither Klaus nor his captor are around.
Vanya jumps when she realizes she is standing in a pool of congealed blood. The room shakes a bit and if there were any more lightbulbs to crack, Vanya's burst of energy would have demolished them. The unstable wall with the indention collapses. Someone shouts to "run" and the siblings bolt towards the door in the opposite direction of the crumbling wall, just as part of the ceiling falls over the entrance. Before the stunned cop standing outside the door can say a word, Five grabs them all and blinks away to an alley a block away.
Everyone collects their breaths for a minute until Vanya breaks the silence with a timid voice.
"What happened there?"
No one has a suitable answer.