"i've been in this house for a few hours and something crazy happens already?!" lilith shouts, annoyed as she storms out on the courtyard. but then she staggers as she sees the blue ripple on the sky in the middle of their courtyard
"what is it?" vanya asks as she took a step forward, but lilith pulls her back. "hey! i don't want you blues skidooing in the damn thing!"
lilith yells as she puts a protective arm around vanya
"looks like some sort of temporal anomaly," luther said. "either that or a miniature black hole. one of the two."
"gee thanks for the insight, neil degrasse tyson!" lilith mocks luther, getting a glare from the man himself
"out of the way!" klaus yelled from behind them as he pushed his way to the front.
"klaus? what are you doing with that-" lilith's query was cut short as klaus attempts to defeat the black hole with a fire extinguisher
"oh my god i didn't think you lost all your braincells from drugs!" she yells at klaus, forcefully gripping his arm and pulling him beside her
"what is that gonna do?" allison asks
"i don't know," klaus confesses, "do you have a better idea?"
before lilith could throw another insult his way, the ground shakes
"whoa, whoa, whoa," luther yelled "everyone get behind me!" "yeah, get behind us," diego counters, both of the men fighting for authority, therefore sandwhiching the other siblings, much to lilith's annoyance
"will you two stop one upping each other and actually i don't know- lead?!" at this point lilith's patience was reaching its limit with her siblings
"i vote for running, c'mon!" lilith looked up at the blackhole and sees a midde aged man, however if she squinted her eyes and took a closer look, she'd see his face changing.
and she knew that face
lilith covers her mouth to prevent a gasp, she grabs the sleeve of klaus' jacket and tugs it lightly "d-do you see what i see?" she asks him
she didn't need an answer, his silence was all she needed to know
the thing in the sky dissapears, and just moments after it does, a young boy lands on the pile of leaves before the hargreeves siblings
they all slowly start to walk up to him, none of them willing to separate from each other
"does everyone else see a little number five, or is that just me?"
the boy stands up, he wore a tuxedo that was pretty much to large for him and in other circumstances lilith would hit him for wearing one in beige, but really it wasn't the time
he brushes off the leaves that had stuck to his tuxedo. the boy looks up and eyes each of the siblings carefully
"shit" five mutters
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the hargreeves siblings all watched in utter shock and confusion as five paced around the kitchen, grabbing the neccesities needed for his marshmallow sandwhich
"what's the date. the exact date?" five asks
"the twenty fourth" vanya replies
"of what?" five asks almost imaptient
vanya flinches from his tone, regardless if he was a thirteen year old boy "march"
five relaxed a bit after vanya's answer "good." he nods
"so, are we gonna talk about what just happened?" luther asks looking back at five
"it's been 17 years" he continued
"it's been a lot longer than that."
five says and takes a step forward, teleporting behind luther to grab something up from a shelf
"I haven't missed that." luther whispers
"where'd you go?" lilith asks, still not letting go of klaus' arm out if fear that she may faint
"the future. and it's shit, by the way" five answers
"called it." klaus says, a hand raised, earning a chuckle from lilith
"i should've listened to the old man, jumping through space is one thing, jumping through time is a toss of the dice." he says, sitting on the chair and began making his well missed and deserved sandwhich
he looks over at klaus and noss
"nice dress."
"oh, well, danke!"
"wait, how did you guys get back?" asks vanya
"in the end, i had to project my consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across every possible instance of time." five answers nonchalantly, grabbing the peanut butter marshmallow sandwhich he had finished making
"that makes no sense." diego muttered, eyes widening in confusion. "well, it would if you were smarter." five smirks
before diego could react to five's comment, he meets lilith's glare and decides that it was best not to
"how long were you there?" luther interrogated
"forty-five years. give or take." five replied causing them all to take a step back, wide eyes in disbelief, speechless
lilith raises her hand to question them "so what you're saying is, that you are fifty-eight?" five's eyes meet the rest of his family, as he starts clenching his jaw.
"no, my consciousness is fifty-eight. apparently, my body's thirteen again." five clarifies
"wait, how does that even work?" vanya asked to wrap her head around it.
five chuckles, taking a bite off of his sandwhich "delores, kept saying that the equations were off. huh guess she's laughing now huh?"
lilith tilts her head, curious about this delores person "delores?" she asks, an eyebrow raised, but she was ignored by five
"hmm. guess i missed the funeral." five mused picking up today's paper, briefly looking over it
"how'd you know about that?"
"what part of the future do you not understand?" five retorted in mocking tone.
"heart failure, huh?" he asks, tilting her head the read the paper
"yeah." "no." luther and diego spoke at the same time causing the lilith to roll her eyes in annoyance
"hmm." five clicks his tongue and walks out of the room, not acknowledging the others
"uh, that's it? that's all you have to say?" allison shouts to a retreating five
"what else is there to say? the circle of life."
"well, that was interesting." luther sat back in his chair as allison scoffed at five's answer
"um no...interesting is someone being able to pull off wearing socks and crocs together," she points at where five once stood "that...was fucking magic"
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it was raining really hard, the hargreeves children didn't know whether or not this was a good thing or a bad thing.
all the siblings srood in a semi circle, with luther holding their father's urn and pogo by his side.
lilith did find it amusing that everyone but diego had a black umbrella meanwhile she and klaus had pink umbrellas, signifying that she and klaus were truly the different ones.
she looks over to ben's statue and smiles sadly, wishing that he was standing right next to her and for him to hold her.
little did she know that that was exactly what he was trying to do at the moment.
"did something happen?" grace asks, snapping lilith out of her little daydream to look at her mother with sympathy and a bit of confusion
"dad died...remember?" allison reminds her, and grace mutters a quiet "oh" before looking back at luther
"is...mom alright?" lilith asks, her face full of concern
diego almost instantly answers "yeah yeah she's fine. just needs to rest, you know recharge?"
"whenever you're ready dear boy" pogo tells luther who was holding their dad's ashes in one hand. he takes a deep breathe and pours the ashes onto the ground, but instead of getting the cinematic effect where it was supposed to fly away magically, it all just clumped into one big pile of dirt on the ground
"well that was...anticlimactic" lilith whispers over to diego who shoots her a quick look of amusement.
"probably would have been better with some wind" luther says awkwardly, glancing at his siblings before looking down.
"does anyone wish to speak?" pogo paused for anyone, only to get dead silence from the family
"very well. in all regards, sir reginald hargreeves made me what i am today. for that alone, i shall forever be in his debt. he was my master and my friend, and i shall miss him very much. he leaves behind a complicated legacy-" pogo's eulogy was cut short by diego's comment
"he was a monster." getting a laugh from klaus and a smirk from lilith while the others gave him shocked expressions as he glared at the lump on the ground
"he was a bad person and a worse father. the world's better off without him."
allison tried to interrupt him "diego-"
but diego didn't hesitate to snap at her "my name is number two. you know why? because our father couldn't be bothered to give us actual names. he had mom do it." lilith and the others stayed quiet, as they knew that what diego said was in every way the truth.
"would you anyone like something to eat?" grace asks
"no it's okay mom"
"oh. okay"
diego stepped forward looking at everyone's face then looks down to glare at their father's ashes
"look, you wanna pay your respects? go ahead. but at least be honest about the kind of man he was."
"you should stop talking now." luther scowls at his brother
"you know, you of all people should be on my side here, number one." diego spat.
"i am warning you." luther tensed."after everything he did to you? he had to ship you a million miles away."
"diego, stop talking."
"this is gonna be delicious" lilith says, resting her head on klaus shoulder
"that's how much he couldn't stand the sight of you!" he says, taking closer steps to luther making him feel tenser than he had been since diego had started.
and before anyone knew it, luther took a swing at diego who had dodged it
lilith and klaus hold each other in excitement "called it!" she shouts out as klaus leans towards her "you wanna bet?"
the siblings who didn't join in on the childish fight watched, some occasionally throwing a few "stop"s no one actually did anything. this "funeral" had suddenly shifted into an episode of UFC. five shakes his head and turns to walk inside "i don't have time for this" he mutters
the two continue to battle it out with klaus and lilith already pulling out their wallets, but lilith's smile seemed to slowly fade as the fight drew closer to ben's statue
"wait...are they really going to..." she watches in silence as the boys continue to fight, not paying any mind to the fact that they were getting dangerously close to the statue
"guys? guys stop it!"
they both ignore her. "come on big boy" diego begins to taunt luther and smirks as he takes the bait. luther pounces on diego but he had side stepped, making luther ram head first onto ben's statue, breaking pushing it off its place.
"and there goes ben's statue" allison clicks her tongue and shakes her head as she walks back inside.
klaus looks at lilith with worry, hoping and praying that she wouldn't turn into the devil
"no!" she shouts, dropping her umbrella and running towards the statue, attempting to save it
but it was too little to late as she watches his head get decapitated from its metal body. she doesn't cry, she stares at it in horror, holding his body and head in her arms "it's alright ben, i got you..." she whispers, as if he were there.
lilith turns around to see that luther and diego were still fighting, she growls and it sounded more beastly than how a normal person would
that's right my dear
let them feel your wrath
and for a few seconds, she almost does. but her focus had been fully set on ben and ben only
her ben
"get inside. both of you." she says coldly, the both of them don't atop, instead they continue to act like children and fight to the death
"do i have to repeat myself?!" she roars, stopping the both of them instantly. she gives them a cold glare and looks back at ben's statue, still caressing it
luther glares at diego before storming back inside.
diego looks at lilith, wondering whether or not if he should say something. he decides not to and instead stands in silence
vanya walks up to diego, who still seemed pretty riled up from the fight "you just never know when to stop do you?"
"got enough material for your sequel?"
"he was my father too"
diego glances back at lilith and gave her an apologetic look before going back inside with mom by his side. but lilith didn't look up, her eyes still glued to ben's statue.
"lil, we have to get inside" klaus says sheltering her with his pink umbrella, watching her with sympathy as she holds the statue close to her
"ben...he...i..." she stutters, looking as meek and weak as she was a child.
klaus sighs, it was so painful to watch his sister fall apart. it was even more painful knowing that he could probably stop it but knows that he can't. "klaus, do you think ben ever thinks about me?" she asks, her voice low
klaus could hear ben tugging on his shoulder "i do...i do...klaus please...please tell her" ben pleads
however he brushes him off and instead he scoffs playfully "well duh, who wouldn't forget the little girl who'd hide behind anyone when a pin fell?" he feels some sort of weight being lifted of his shoulders as soon as he sees her smile.
"hey, i wasn't that much of a coward"
"well then my dear little sister, we have a lot of catching up to do"
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"where's vanya?" allison asked
"oh, she's gone," klaus said. "she left about an hour ago," lilith explained.
"that's unfortunate," five muttered. "yeah," lilith said, she was about to add something about it but then she seemed to realize that five wasn't talking about vanya
"an entire square block. forty-two bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, but no, not a single drop of coffee," five complained as he threw an empty coffee container on the ground
lilith rolls her eyes. "really? coffee at night? i've tried that when i was working late, the next morning i had eyebags galore!" she explains.
"well, i barely sleep so i might as well stay up," five mutters
"dad hated caffeine," allison reminds him. "well, he hated children, too, and he had plenty of us," klaus said with a laugh. lilith chuckled.
"and we turned out to be pretty cool! like, not dysfunctional at all!" she said making klaus laugh again.
"I'm taking the car," five said as he began to walk out of the room, but is stopped by lilith's question
"where you going kiddo?" she teases
"yeah, where are you going?" klaus questioned. "to get a decent cup of coffee," Five explained monotonously
"Do you even know how to drive?" allison asked. "i know how to do everything," five says, fixing the collar of his uniform.
"future, remember?" lilith asked.
allison nodded and looked down
"well whatever you two are doing, have fun and try to not kill people" lilith says, waving him off, looking down at her empty glass with confusion.
"oh i'll be back," five assured her, before the two disappear from view
klaus stands up, he staggers a bit but he manages "i feel like we should try and stop him, but then again, i also just kinda want to see what happens," klaus said. lilith pours herself another drink. "they'll be fine," she stated before sitting on the table, leaning on klaus' shoulder.
just then, the sound of a car engine starting could be heard from outside before the squeaking of tires.
"alright, I guess I'll see you guys in, what, ten years? when pogo dies?" diego walks in the kitchen, it omight've been a joke but his tone and face didn't seem to lighten "not if you die first,"
"yeah, love you too, sis," he says, approaching allison.
"good luck on your next film,"
"hope it turns out better than your marriage, huh?" he taunts, walking away.
lilith shakes her head and calls out to her brother "diego"
"what?" although it may not have seemed obvious, diego was pretty surprised that lilith would be talking to him after that catastrophe in the courtyard.
"are. . .are we leaving?" klaus asks, sitting up from the table
diego shoots him annoyed look and shakes his head "no, I'm leaving, me by myself," he clarifies further, as if klaus was stupid.
klaus clasps his hands together "oh, fabulous! I'll get my things!" he says cheerily, leaving lilith and diego alone in the kitchen.
"so uh, i heard you got engaged again" diego says, bringing up her engagement to her fiance
it was a cheapshot to try and talk her into being in a good mood after what he had done earlier, but even she was worn out afterr today's events
"yeah. trevor"
"i really don't think it's my place to tell you this. but he seems like an asshole...so why him?" diego asks, his arms crossed
diego's never met the guy, so lilith could only assume that he's been watching the interviews that surrounded their engagement
the engagement was merely a stunt for the sales in their own companies to skyrocket. and sure enough it did
they just had to survive each other
she had to survive him
lilith stares at diego "what are you insinuating?" she asks, scared yet interested to find out where the conversation would go
"does he hurt you?"
lilith's heart stops as he said that. how could he have possibly known?
"n-no! why would you say that?!" lilith argues, stepping down from the table
diego scoffs and shakes his head "i've noticed in every single one of your interviews you're always wearing a jacket, you're neck is being covered by a turtle neck, and he always has a grip on you"
lilith says nothing, instead she sits there in awe as she listens to diego's observation. was she really surprised though? diego used to be in a police academy, he should've picked somethng up from there
diego approaches lilith slowly, eyeing her head to toe "but you know what really takes the cake?" he asks her and he didn't wait for a reply at all
"there is not enough makeup in the world to hide the bruises on your face" he whispers to her
under his gaze, lilith could've easily broken down right there right now. but she knew the friendly feeling of peer pressure, so she stayed strong and pulled through. giving diego a challenging look
"fine. trevor isn't the friendliest, but everything i do i do it for my company, even if i have to get a few bruises once in while"
"but it's wrong" diego argues, trying to get it into lilith's head, but she blocks it out
"looking out for my company isn't wrong. it's the men in this world who think women don't get a say i anything that are wrong" lilith states, grabbing her purse from the table and walking out of the room, not looking back as she was afraid to meet diego's eyes
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that's it that's all im putting there. so thank you for reading this crappy 3000+ words chapter