It was later in the day and Blair had changed her clothes and had finally found somewhere to stay. After sobbing to Heyward she informed him of her current problem and he allowed her to stay in the spare bedroom of his home. She was immensely grateful and vowed to herself she would make it up to him, Heyward, however, needed no thanks. He looked at Blair as his daughter and was more than happy to have her living with him. The group stood together surveying the map and the scene around them. Blair stood next to Pope with her arms crossed refusing to look at JJ or even be near him at the moment, she was still furious. "We're in battery, right here." Pope said as he looked at the map and Blair leaned into him to get a better look at the map for herself. "So, if this is parcel nine, then its somewhere northeast of here."

"Somewhere over there." Kiara pointed.

"Right."

"Over there? Guys thats not Tannyhill thats a subdivision." JJ said as Blair rolled her eyes.

"Tannyhill plantation was the entire island. It got sold into smaller pieces over time." John B informed as Blair studied the map.

"So we're just looking for an old stone wall." She pointed out as her finger trailed along the map and Pope and JJ stood watching her. Pope nodded at her as she looked up and smirked.

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They were now driving to where the suspected would be the right place, judging by the map. John B and Pope sat in the from while Pope gave instructions and the other three sat in the back. "Okay so the road should split up here." Pope told John B.

"Okay."

"All right you're gonna take a left." Pope said as John B almost swerved to the left.

"Okay, John B! Precious cargo back here." Blair yelled to him after almost toppling over.

"Sorry." he shouted back to her as JJ looked to her with softer eyes, he had been furious at her and was still mad at her just throwing money at his situation but he knew he had hurt her, he did need her. He needed her more than he knew.

"That looks like a stone wall to me." Blair remarked as the van drove past and the rest of the group looked at the wall as well.

"This is it." Pope said as the van stopped.

"Not the Crain house." John B muttered.

"Are you kidding me?" Kiara asked rhetorically as the group climbed out the van and looked to the huge house in front of them.

"Worst case scenario." JJ said as he stood next to Blair. Blair quickly moved away and stood next to Pope as JJ looked hurt at the action, Blair shot him a look and stood next to pope.

"Why'd it have to be here, of all places?"

"Aren't we all being a tad dramatic?" Blair asked looking at the group.

"No." Pope, Kiara and JJ all shot back.

"Damn, okay.." Blair shrugged furrowing her eyebrows as she looked back to the house.

"I heard the mrs Crain buried her husbands head on the property." JJ said, fully serious, as he looked to Pope and cringed seeing Blair so close to him.

"And I heard that Santa claus resides in the basement." Blair muttered, not believing the story.

"Ha ha Blair, funny." JJ muttered, not impressed. Blair shrugged and smiled. The group continued walking through the dense, green garden. Blair walked alongside kiara as she admired the old statues and brushed green branches away from her face as she walked. She held back a particularly bendy branch and let it go as it swung back and hit JJ, JJ let out a small yelp at the contact and spat out the leaves that had hit his mouth, Blair smirked and giggled at her petty action as Kiara elbowed her and gave her a stern look, a look a mother would give her disobedient child.

"What? It was funny. And he deserved it." Blair whispered to her in defence and JJ still wiped off leaves and dirt from his face.

"Look you guys know whose house this is right?" Kiara asked as they continued walking.

"Oh yeah no I do." JJ said from behind the two girls.

"Honestly, I dont really believe the stories of this place." John B said.

"Agreed." Blair replied back as she looked at the statue of a woman in the garden. "Who keeps this in their garden, this shit would be creepy in the dark." She muttered as her fingers lightly touched the decaying stone. Pope shushed the group, feeling paranoid that the old woman in the house would catch them lurking in her garden.

"Which stories did you hear?" JJ asked kiara pushing in between the two girl.

"The one where she killed her husband with an axe and that she's been holed up ever since. On certain nights when the moon is full...you can see her in the window." She taunted JJ and turned to look at him as Blair smiled and walked beside Pope.

"No, Kie its not funny 'cause its all true. I swear to god guys, this is all real. I knew Hollis. Jeez!" JJ jumped at a statue the was hidden behind a bush.

"So you knew Hollis Crain?" Blair asked, skeptically.

"Yeah."

"Dude, how do you know Hollis Crain?" Pope asked full of surprise as he knocked JJ's chest.

"She was my babysitter man. She told me all about it. Told me the truth... about her mother and what happened in this house. So as a kid, she heard all the stories that her mother killed her father, and... she was a murderer and all. Hollis didn't believe it. Until that night."

"What night?" Blair asked, now curious to the story.

"It all came back to her." JJ looked at her dead in the eyes and then looked to the building, Blair cast a look to Pope who shrugged but they both turned back to JJ as he continued speaking. "When Hollis was six years old, she heard her parents arguing downstairs. So she goes downstairs to see her mom washing her hands in the sink...full of blood. Her mother just sys that she cut her finger. The next morning she says her and her father split up. But then hollis noticed something. Her mother going into the parlor constantly, in and out and in and out with plastic bags. Weeks pass and Hollis decides to use the outhouse. And as she's using it she looks down, and there in the outhouse, is her fathers head, looking straight back at her." JJ finished, looking at John B.

"God you are so full of shit." John B quipped ta him.

"Yeah JJ thats a real nice story, but no." Blair told him with her arms wrapped around her waist.

"Dude, I swear to god, man." JJ defended.

"Did she call the police?" Blair asked as she raised her eyebrows and tilted her head.

"She didn't have time." John B had had enough and began walking further towards the house. "Wait dude!" JJ called desperately to get him to stop.

"What?"

"You sure you wanna do this? She's an axe murderer. You got a cast on."

"I don't give a shit if she's an axe murderer, okay? I got nothing to lose, right? You coming or what?" John B asked. JJ scratched his arm as the group all followed John B, crouching in the long grass to stay hidden. "Hey, come here." John B whispered to the group. "So here's the plan. We need to look for the wheat near the water like it said in Denmark's letter."

"Okay like what kind of water? Like, pond water?" Pope asked.

"Bong water?" JJ chuckled. Pope, Kiara and Blair all looked to him disappointed.

"No it- it just said look for water, okay?" John B said deciding to ignore JJ.

"That is the shittiest secret message ever." Kiara observed as she got up and began moving again with Blair closely following behind.

"You wanna complain a bit more Kie? Nobody said it was gonna be easy." John B said defensively.

"Okay, attitude." Blair told them off as Pope and JJ spoke behind them. They continued walking through the bushes, Blair walked with Pope and JJ as they crawled through the hedges looking for any sign of a body of water. Blair was startled when a bird flew near her head and instinctively grabbed JJ's hand. Once the moment had passed she quickly let go of his hand, feeling embarrassed and put her hand in her pocket.

"Hey why'd you do that?" JJ whispered to her as she walked in front of him.

"You dont need me, remember?" She hissed at him before John B called out to them, preventing JJ from forming a response.

"Here, this is the only place we haven't looked." John B said as they looked into the small opening to the presumed basement. John B crawled in first followed by the rest of the group. It was dark and damp and Blair walked through careful to not step on anything as her flashlight illuminated her path.

"Down came mrs. Crain and cut off all out heads. Up came the sun and dried up all the blood." JJ sang as Blair and Pope turned to him.

"Can you stop?" They both said at the same time, Blair annoyed with his presence as was Pope as he knew what JJ had said to the girl and how heartbroken she was over his words. Pope cautiously reached for Blair's hand and held it in his as she smiled gratefully at him and they continued walking following in John B's footsteps. JJ looked at the two and glared at their connected hands. He was jealous and wanted nothing more than to go over there and pull their hands apart and apologise to Blair, she had never been this mad at him and he knew he had hurt her. But she needed time. They continued looking around the creepy basement with their flashlight and looking at all the items inside, desperately looking for any water.

"You guys see any water?" Kiara asked looking around.

"nope." Blair answered swatting away a mosquito that surrounded her face. "Damn bug." She muttered as Pope looked down to her and smiled while swatting away another mosquito.

"Another dead end?"

"There's not even water on the pipes." JJ obsevered.

"There's no water here." Pope said solemnly.

"Not a dropamino."

"Know why we didnt find it? Bad karma." Kiara said, giving John B a look.

"Oh shit." Blair muttered under her breath. This wasn't going to be good.

"Oh god here we go." Pope also muttered from beside her. She let go of his hand and took a step towards kiara, ready to intervene in a fight that would most likely erupt.

"You know, we had a good thing going and then you decide to rope in Barbie, and now the trails gone dry. Coincidence? Probably not." Kiara accused, squaring up to John B.

"Guys don't fight." Blair whispered to them. But her pleads were left ignored.

"This is exactly why I didn't wanna tell you about Sarah." John B said walking. Closer to kiara. Blair went to step closer and push the two apart but both JJ and pope held a hand and pulled her back, both boys giving each other a look.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. What the hells the deal with you two?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing? Is it because I kissed you? Is that the problem? Blair gets along with her just fine."

"Uhm actually Blair doesn't." Blair spoke up as John B glared at her. Just as Blair went to stick up for Kiara she gasped as Kiara's hand collided with John B's face.

"Oh shit!" JJ and Pope exclaimed.

"That echoed dude."

"Stop treating me like I'm some girl obsessed with you instead of your best friend who's actually looking out for you." Kiara narrowed her eyes, almost growling at John B.

"Did you, uh... hit me?"

"Skeeter."

"Skeeter?" John B asked as he hit her back. The two continued to hit each other and fight.

"For fucks sake, are we children?" Blair asked them as she rolled her eyes at their fighting, she was over it. The other three were also distracted when they themselves got swarmed with the mosquitos. "Why are there so many of these damn things?" Blair question as she moved out the way and smacked her legs and arms to rid of the plentiful mosquitos landing on her.

"Hey, sh! Keep it down." JJ told them all, acutely aware of the axe murderer residing upstairs. John B and kiara continued to hit each other and Kiara giggled as the rest of them were preoccupied with the mosquitos landing on them. Blair watched as Pope dropped a pebble down the floorboards. Both of them looking to another in shock when they heard the pebble hit water. The two rapidly moved down to move the boards as the others tried to silence them.

"Help me move this." Pope instructed as Blair leaned down and pulled up the wood exposing the large drop with water and the bottom, she smirked slightly in triumph. "Well, well, well." Pope said as she shone his flashlight down the well.

"That was a good dad joke." John B remarked as blair couldn't help but snort in laughter.

"They built this part of the house right over it."

"This is where she hid the bodies." JJ said.

"Oh dude, come on. It's bodies now?" Blair asked as she looked up at him with a tired expression.

"No im dead serious."

"Stop it."

"She probably doesn't even know its here." Blair told him, hoping it would get him to be quiet.

"So, we found water." Pope smiled.

"We're gonna need a really big rope." John B smirked as the rest of the group looked to each other.

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The group had left the Crain house and had split up for the time being, Pope and Blair were currently walking home as John B went to retrieve Sarah. "So, how are you feeling?" Pope asked Blair as they walked.

"Im okay." She answered with a tight lipped smile.

"No you're not." Pope observed.

"Yeah, okay. It's just JJ, what he said hurt... a lot." She whispered, ashamed the fact that his words had affected her so much.

"Its okay to feel hurt Blair." Pope whispered to her as they came to a stop and faced each other.

"Yeah, I know. I just feel like I'm being a tad dramatic." She chuckled as pope looked to her. He watched her pained smiled and looked into her beautiful green eyes.

"Please... dont get mad at me." Pope pleaded in a soft whisper to her as she made a confused face. She went to ask him what he meant but before she could say anything, Pope's lips crashed onto hers, his hands holding her face as she stood frozen before he pulled away and leaned his forehead on hers.

"What?" She whispered to him.

"I like you Blair." He whispered back and her heart broke as she bit her lip.

"No, no you dont." She sighed as she pulled away to look in his eyes. "You like Kie, I can see the adoration every time you look into her eyes."

"No, Blair, I dont. Kiara is great, but she..." he struggled to find the words. "You're special Blair." Blairs heart was in pain, she knew Pope didnt like her the way he thought he did.

"Pope, I love you, you know I do. You're my best friend. But you like Kie, Pope." She sighed as she put a hand on his cheek. "What you feel for me isn't real and no matter how much he hurts me, I love JJ and I think I'm always going to be in love with JJ." Pope sighed and looked away from her. "Pope please look at me." She said as tears began to well up in her eyes and her voice broke.

"I.. I cant Blair. I-I just." He said as he walked away from her.

"Pope please!" She yelled at him.

"Just give me a minute." He yelled back at her as he walked away faster. Blair fell ono the bench that was beside her and ran a hand through her hair.

"What the fuck?" She whispered to herself.