*𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢*
Lilith's eyes widened a bit at Diego's response as she gets up, "Okay Diego, I don't know if the stab that you got from dad affected your brain somehow. Think about it. If we kill dad, we won't be able to exist in this timeline."
"How?" Luther asks, making Lilith roll her eyes, "We won't know each other. Umbrella Academy won't exist. Comprende?" She asks as Luther slowly nods.
"None of us are supposed to be here, right?" Vanya asked, "I mean, what if it's us?" Landon turned to Lilith as she gave a look.
"Has anyone here done anything to screw up the timeline?" She asked as everyone grew silent. "Diego's been stalking Lee Harvey Oswald." Luther started.
"And you're working for Jack Ruby."
"Allison has been very involved in local politics." Klaus added.
"Okay, you started a cult." Allison stated. Lilith nodded, not surprised.
"I'm-- I'm just a, a nanny on a farm." Vanya simply said.
"I'm just a dad and husband."Landon shrugged.
"Yeah, I don't think me and Landon have anything to do with all of that." Vanya said, Landon nodding but then he stopped. "I did want to take the job as a security guard." Landon mumbled to Lilith. She nodded trying to understand the connection.
"Well, maybe you do, we just don't know it yet." Allison added. Diego whistled, catching everyone's attention, "Listen to yourselves. Everything in our new lives is connected to Kennedy. That can't be a coincidence." Diego stated.
"Luther works for Ruby, Allison is protesting the government, Dad is on the grassy knoll, Klaus is--doing something weird and pervy but probably related."
"Landon went to take a job as a guard." Lilith added. Diego snapped his fingers, pointing at her, "See? Clearly, we were all sent back here for one special reason: saving John Fitzgerald Kennedy." Diego concluded as everyone started to argue. Landon just looked at them as Lilith did the same but remembered her last memory of all of them together.
"Guys, you all die." Five stated, silencing them. "Me and Lily were there. We saw it. We want to forget it, but we can't." He told them as Lilith nodded, as she looked down the memory playing in her head.
"Russian nukes vaporize the world with all of you in it," Lilith added as she inhaled looking at her siblings. "In a war that never happened until we brought it."
"And Hazel gave his life to save us, so you may need to shut up and just listen to Lily and me. I don't know if the things we've experienced here are all connected. I don't know if there's a reason for everything. But dad will." Five concluded, Lilith turning to him, Five already looking at her. "We need to talk to him before everyone and everything we know is dead." He said to everyone, but a part of him was mostly telling Lilith as she sighed.
"Okay, I'm out." Luther said as he got up, making the couple look at him.
"Did you even hear me, Luther?" Five asked.
"Yeah, yeah I did. I heard a fifty-eight year old man who still wants his daddy to come and fix everything. Well, you can count me out. It's time we all grew the hell up."
"Luther!" Landon called out as he left. "Come back!"
"Where you going?"
"Save it, Diego."
Lilith then stood in front of Luther, "What the hell? I distinctly remember you being daddy's number one."
"I swear Lilith," He walked closer to her.
"Watch it." She pointed as he stopped, a bit nervously. He shook his head as he walked around her, as she watched him. She sighed as she teleported in front of him in the steps, Five next to her as he did the same as they looked up at Luther.
"No one leaves until we figure this out." He told him. Luther sighed as Lilith looked at him suspiciously. Before she did anything, Luther grabbed her and five and threw them over the balcony, as they teleported outside in the alleyway.
"Jesus.." Lilith said as she leaned on the wall.
"When did the monkey learn how to fight dirty?"
"He worked for Jack Ruby." Lilith simply said.
There was rock clatters as they looked up and saw Lila and Rose. "Son of a bitch."
They smiled as they ran off and then, they ran past the alleyway as Lilith and Five turn to each other. "Shit." Lilith responds as they ran after them.
|~✽~|
Landon heard silence as he heard the doors close, "Did he just throw Lily and Five?" He asks, Klaus rubbing his back.
"Probably. They'll be okay. Also, I could really go for some tacos right now. Allison? Tacos?"
"Shouldn't we wait?"
"You know them. I mean, it could take forever for them to bro it out. And Lilith will kick their asses anytime now." Klaus shrugged as he turned to Vanya and Landon, "Vanya? Landon, tacos?"
"Is there any way that tacos are gonna cause the end of the world?" Vanya asks.
"I mean, there's only one way to find out, right?" They all got up as Landon walked into the kitchen. "Hey, we're going to get some tacos." Landon told them as Valerie nodded.
"Alright, we'll wait." She said with a smile as Landon looked at her confused but Klaus walked in.
"Hey fam, want to come with us for some tacos?" He asked patting the twins backs as they smiled.
Valerie looked at them, "You sure? Maybe you guys should catch up?"
"Nah, we'll catch up together." Klaus responds as he put his arm around Valerie as she gets up, chuckling.
"Elliott?" Landon turned to the man, "Tacos?"
"Oh, I'll stay here. Need to do some stuff, but thanks for the offer." He smiles at Landon.
"You sure?" Derek asks. Elliott smiles at the boy and nods.
"We'll bring you back tacos!" The twins respond as Klaus carried Aurora, Derek carrying Atticus. Elliott smiled at them and nodded as they all headed out.
(~~*~~)
The family ate tacos as they enjoyed their time together. The twins and Derek bonding with their aunts and uncle. Valerie and Landon smiled at the scene, "Your family is pretty cool." Valerie says. Landon nods, "I'm glad you like them."
"I think the kids love them." She says as Klaus started to chug the salsa's as the kids, Allison and Vanya cheered.
"Yeah, they do." Landon smiled.
(~~*~~)
They finished eating as they went to drop off the tacos for Elliott as they went to leave. "I'm gonna take the kids home for the twins nap time. Phillip should be back as well." Landon nods, "Okay, I wish you guys could stay here at Elliott's."
"Yeah, but I need to do the bills." She said, chuckling. Landon nodded, "I'll go with you."
"No, stay with your family. Spend time with them. I can handle the kids." Landon was hesitant but a kiss from Valerie reassured him. "Go spend time with them." She tells him as Landon nods. Valerie left with the kids as Landon went with Allison, Klaus and Vanya.
They were in a salon where Allison works as they sat down talking and drinking. Allison was telling them about Ray, "The nerve of that man. I mean, one thing goes wrong, and he's on a warpath. I mean, doesn't know who I am? No, no. No, Ray, you know exactly who I am. You just can't handle it."
"Ow, from what?" Klaus asks.
"The end of the world, for one."
"Is the world really gonna end in six days?" Vanya asks. Landon turned to Allison and Klaus, " Well, it did last time, and we did everything Five and Lilith could think of to stop it."
"Hey, wouldn't it be weird if Five and Lilith grew up all hot?" Klaus asks as Landon cringes, "She's my twin sister."
"Ew." Allison responds to Klaus.
"Oh! 'Oh, ew! Ew!' Please, Miss 'Luther was my lover.'"
"We have never even kissed." Allison defends.
"Yeah, but you guys were making little sick moon-dog eyes at each other all through puberty and breakfasts and all that." Klaus states as Vanya turns confused.
"Aren't we all brothers and sisters, or..." Vanya asks, making Landon snort out a laugh.
"Explain that to Lilith and Five, who are happily married." Landon says, taking a sip.
"Well technically," Allison starts.
"'Technically?' If you have to word--use the word technically, you're already in trouble." Klaus says laughing as he turns to Landon and Vanya, them laughing with him.
"Okay, can-can we focus? I mean, clearly we're not saving the world tonight, but maybe, maybe, we could at least try to save my marriage."
"No!" Klaus says as the alcohol overflows, "No, because that's like--that's like asking a nun how to hump someone's leg."
Landon and Vanya looked at each other confused, before turning back to him, "I mean, who in this room knows shit about relationships? This one?" He pointed at Vanya, "In secret love with some farm Frau."
"Her name's Sissy."
"Which is an improvement on her previous love interest, the serial killer." Klaus mumbled as Landon and Allison agreed.
"What?" Vanya asked concerned, sitting up as she looked at Allison and Landon. Klaus pointed at Landon, " This one is happily married with a lovely wife and kids, which is an amazing improvement from the girl that cheated on him." Klaus points out as Landon scrunched his nose. "But the sensitive guy he is, doesn't really understand what the woman wants but goes with anything she says sometimes. He's in a healthy relationship but does not understand it, so he rolls with it."
"Does anyone understand women?" Landon asks as Vanya pats his back.
"Meanwhile, I'm carrying a torch for a soldier I haven't technically met yet, and Luther is in love with his sister."
"Okay, again, we are not biological." Allison defends.
"Face it, the healthiest long-term relationship in this family and most messed up is Five and Lilith banging each other with a ring on it." Klaus concludes as Landon threw a crumbled paper ball at Klaus. "The only thing the Umbrella Academy knows about love, is how to screw it up." Klaus says, lifting his arm up holding the flask.
"Cheers, I guess." Landon says.
"Cheers." Allison responds.
"How do you guys deal with this?" Vanya asks.
"What?"
"I mean, all of it. The time travel, seeing the dead, the end of the world."
"Well, I get really high." Klaus starts.
"I stay on the positive." Landon adds as he takes a sip.
"Allison--Allison, lies to herself." Klaus whispered, loud enough for her to hear as she kicks the stool at him. "And you suppress all your emotions deep, deep down until you-you blow shit up." Klaus says to Vanya.
"Yeah, I'd really like to not do that anymore." Vanya says.
'Well, you've got six days, missy."
"What the hell are we supposed to do with six days?" Allison asks.
"A lot." Landon says, "Starting with me spending the time I have left with my family."
Klaus and Allison nods, "Good start, Lannie."
Landon turned to them, "Both families." He adds as they turn to him. They were shocked but they really shouldn't. That's the person Landon is, he's always respected his siblings.
"I'm gonna tell Sissy that I love her." Vanya says as Landon smiles at her, patting her shoulder, as she smiles back at him. "I don't want any secrets."
"Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right." Allison agrees as she gets up, holding the bottle. "Yes, 'cause, you know, if--if it's all gonna go tits-up, the least I could do is be honest with my husband." Landon nodded with Allison.
"Oh, does that mean I have to face my cult?" Klaus asks. "I just hate group breakups. It's why I stopped dating twins."
Landon nodded, "Amen to that." He took a sip from the bottle as Vanya smiled, "This family's amazing."
They laughed, "Yeah, sure." Landon got up with Klaus and Allison.
"Okay, let's not get ahead of ourselves."
"Come here, Vanya." They opened their arms, waiting for Vanya to join the hug. "Come on."
Vanya got up as she joined as they laughed, "I love you guys."
"Oh! You guys! I love this song!" Allison says as she went to turn up the volume as they danced.