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I don't know. It seems like they're picking off people while they're alone. I feel like they'd be too smart to attack a school full of supernatural students.

[Or they're not on the list. Either way is a win.]

Unless they're Triad.

( Which would suck. )

I think Aunt Bonnie called Danny.

So she's okay.

[That's good. And she was with Isaac and Caroline and Ryan, so hopefully they're all good as well. Then, her face drops out of frame as she goes to text Damon, just to be sure.]

Are you okay?

[She'll send one to Elena too, and when the response comes back, she'll come back into frame again:]

Elena is fine. She's heading out of town to meet the Winchesters in Kansas.

Enough to call.

( But yes.

Still dead, but alive. Did they go after the school?

Damon waits to see if he needs to alert Caroline. )

Boy, they move fast.

No, we got a heads up from Klaus. Elena and Katherine got ambushed at the hospital but they got away and are heading to Kansas. We haven't seen any hunters.

[She's not going to bring up her mom just yet.]

Have to seize the element of surprise, I guess.

Elena's heading where?

to Elena

I don't remember the Wizard of Oz being one of your favorite films. )

I'd pick somewhere less flat and boring, but I've also never run for my life. ...Are we going to?

[Elena rolls her eyes, but fondly this time: Sam and Dean have a bunker there. We're going to use it to lay low.

Josie just just going to let the two of them sort it out and focus on her sister. Especially when Danny turns and says: "Looks like we're not on the list."]

I guess not. But looks like Mom might be.

( Sam and Dean are suddenly inner circle, care to comment?

Now Damon's just being a bitch. )

Dad will call us back. Or, mom will. Mom's fine. But, their life here probably isn't.

( Hope, fully caught up (17), comes back, drying her wet hair but changed back into the clothes she wore that day. Her night clothes are still folded in her hands as she lets herself into her and Josie's room.

"So, where are we going?" )

[Dean is my boyfriend, Damon. That's all Elena's going to say on that. She doesn't feel like she needs to justify it more than that.

Josie looks over at Hope, before shrugging.]

Doesn't look like we need to go anywhere. We're not on the list. But your dad is heading to your aunt Rebekah.

[So if Hope wants to go to her family, Josie wouldn't blame her.]

( I didn't know.

Congrats.

Drive safe to Kansas, check in when you get there.

And then he sends to Stefan

Were you doxxed in the land of haggis?

Hope, having joined...

"Is aunt Rebekah okay?" Human, she knows, but also a witch by ancestry. )

I'm going to leave you guys to this, talk with Danny. Let's regroup in the great room.

[Elena responds not long after: Stay safe, Damon.

Stefan ... is currently asleep. He'll be getting back to you in a couple of hours, sorry brother.

Josie signs off with her sister before turning back to Hope.]

As far as we know she's fine. But she was on the list, so I think your dad wanted to go and make sure himself. Most of your family is heading there with him, I think.

( Nice math. Enjoy that sleep, Stefan. He's going to stew a bit in the meantime.

Home continues to dry her hair. )

And you think that where my family goes, I'll go. Do you want to go to New York to check in on my family?

I think that you'll want to make your own informed decision so I'm providing the information.

[It's Hope's family; it's her choice.]

I ... don't particularly want to get drawn into Mikaelson trouble, no. But I don't want you to feel like I'm holding you back either.

You could never hold me back.

( She tries to make it sound romantic, but coming from the Tribrid it gives her pause. )

I mean, we're together and I'm not making this decision alone. Am I worried about aunt Rebekah? She's just a witch now, and a mother, and her husband's almost as old as the Salvatores, but human, and understanding that is ... confusing, but she also survived my grandfather Mikael. And her brothers and sister? Are on their way to tear the city down. I don't know if we need to be there.

[She nods.]

Maybe we should just ... play it like normal. Go to Tulane and pretend there's nothing to worry about?

[The more normally they behave, the less chance they have of drawing unwanted attention in either direction.]

Go to college? Have a normal life?

( Yeah, she thinks they could swing that. She drops the towel from her hair, holding it to her side. )

What about Lizzie?

I don't know.

[She finally acknowledges her ringing phone and prepares to join the FaceTime.]

I'll take this. You should update your parents.

Right.

( And she tries her mother, whom I'm guessing doesn't answer. )

[She does not, but given that she's a mother she's a bit more responsible with her phone, so at some point when Hope is talking to Klaus, she gets this text back:]

I'm fine. Going off grid in the bayou. Will reach out when I can. Are you okay?

( Klaus tells Hope to stay away, they have this handled. And no, Kol isn't with them, he ran off with his witch of the week. He tries not to speak dismissively but it comes off so dismissive.

She throws Klaus on speaker to text her mom back:

"That's Kol for you, something they have to do in Baltimore, some crisis or other." )

I'm okay. Josie and Lizzie's parents are going off grid, too, and we're deciding what we're doing.

We're not on the list.

[Well, that's a relief, if nothing else.]

Good. Try to stay that way. I'm with Derek, his sister, Josh and Aiden. We'll keep each other safe.

OK.

I think I'll be near. We're thinking about still starting at Tulane. When things die down, I'll be close. And if you need me, I'll come, okay?

Okay. But don't worry about me. Have fun at school, alright? You've earned it.

Asking me not to worry about you and dad is like asking me to do a repeat trip through Malivore's dimension. IF I choose to worry, it's because I love you.

How about I promise not to let my worrying get to me enough that I find you myself.

I will consider that an acceptable compromise.

Love you too.

[And with that, she will drop off and head back to her group.]

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