The Real You

Part-9

After finally convincing himself that everything was going to be alright and that Hope was strong enough to handle the witch, Ryan felt just a little better. The town Caligo Falls was a few miles away from Savannah GA and they had already covered two hours. The closer they came to the town the more anxious he got.

"Tell me how you met her?" He heard Hope ask as she looked at him , while driving the car.

Why did she always drive though? Didn't she trust him enough to drive or did she think that his human self didn't know how to drive one. He made a mental note to himself to talk with her about letting him drive sometime. It would definitely help get his mind off certain things.

"When I first met the witch I was at a very dark time in my life and she exploited me. She made me believe that I could trust her and that she would help me be free from malivore, but she just wanted something that she thought I had, when things didn't go according to her plan she snapped."

"What did she want?"

"I have no idea, I just know it wasn't with me at that time."

"How can you not know what she wanted from you?"

"It's because she never directly asked for anything. She used to ask a lot of questions about my father and my origins and then one day she just snapped, got all angry and kept repeating, ''It's not with him."

"Do you have any idea what it could have been?"

"A few actually. To begin with I think it could have been the artifact capable of granting your heart's deepest desire, the one with that had the muse locked inside of it. I also had an ancient dagger that I had lost just months before I met the witch. It was believed that the dagger was capable of killing everything that walked on this planet."

"She wouldn't want Cleo, or she would have targeted the school; it must be something else. Maybe she wanted the dagger so that no one could kill her using that. Do you remember anything else?"

"I don't know Hope, I have had a lot of mystic objects and dark objects, it could be anything."

"Yah, no doubt about that one. I mean look at the mora miserium, trident, freaky illusion ring, it's like you have a library of dark objects."

"I did have one though" he smirked. "It's all gone now. Everything became a property of Triad after I went in to malivore the first time."

"Hmm. Do you want to stop or can I just continue driving." Hope asked as they just passed a gas station.

"Didn't we just cross this gas station half an hour ago?"

"Nope, don't doubt my navigation skills "

An hour later Ryan was completely sure that they were going in circles. He had definitely seen the gas station the third time and the trees and locality were exactly the same, and judging by the look on Hope's face he knew that she also realized that something was wrong. But Hope Mikaelson was nothing if not stubborn.

"I don't think it's the right way" he said as he pointed to the same gas station that they had passed at least 3 times by now.

"It is the right way." she said, frustrated.

"Admit it. We are lost." Ryan said with a smile playing on his face. He was clearly amused. For once the great Hope Mikaelson had failed at something.

"No we aren't." she said with more force as she gripped the steering wheel tightly.

"Well then miss navigator, where are we?"