recurring (low): when luther fucked up and doesn't know how to apologize, he puts on music so that they can all hear it
specifically, the I Think We're Alone Now... (but just Klaus's bits) scene from s1e1: hearing the music filtering through the halls, dancing with an urn in the kitchen. it's a complicated feeling, but it's something familiar from childhood. not really pleasant, but acceptable. that's just the way he is.
--- he doesn't know what the music is or where it's from; dancing to it comes easy, though, and there's zero self-consciousness about it.
recurring (high): he wants to see Five again, but he doesn't want confirmation that Five's dead; relief that he can't summon him
he's in his early teens; he fists his hands in front of his chest, scrunching up his face. his fists glow blue for a moment before they fade away, leaving him panting heavily but grinning widely.
--- he doesn't know what he's doing or why, but he knows he's hoping for something that he's also dreading, and when he fails, it's a good thing.
recurring (high): what it says on the tin; it's an adrenaline rush, but also guilt and not a little self-hatred
adult again, jerking awake in the back of an ambulance, his chest aching from the defibrillator shock and shaking it off as he grins, laughing as he high-fives the exasperated-amused-resigned paramedic. ben's hovering somewhere, but he doesn't really notice. everything's fuzzy around the edges.
--- there's a brilliant, floaty feeling that comes with this that he kind of loves? it also leaves him with a phantom ache in his chest that fades after a few hours.
it's therapeutic, and vanya doesn't need her room anymore anyway
some casual destruction. he's in his late teens or early twenties, definitely at least somewhat high, which gives everything a sort of hazy look with the occasional Bright Colors, and taking a sledgehammer to the wall of a very tiny room. it's exhausting and he's clearly not very used to physical labor, but despite the shake in his arms, the sweat dripping down his back, and the blisters forming on his hands, he's grinning widely--a bit manically. there's an asian kid in a black hoodie, leaning against the wall but not helping. he alternates between egging Klaus on and critiquing his sledge-hammer techniques. Klaus eventually breaks through to another, equally tiny, room and he whoops in glee even as the door slams open.
sometimes, there are people that look normal until they turn and they're bleeding or oozing or whatever--and sometimes they look like walking corpses, dragging themselves around at their moments of death.
he's twitchy and tries to avoid being touched by anyone but his siblings, but there are a lot of dead people around and he can't always tell who's alive and who isn't.
his siblings get annoyed, shove at him when he sways too far in their direction; their father, "Stand up straight, Number Four!" and "Stay in line!"; being threatened with extra training, which makes him go pale.
it's easier to just keep his eyes focused on the sky or the ground and to hum quietly to himself. the ghosts don't go anywhere, but they're less disturbing when they're at the very edges of his peripheral vision.
--- this is going to leave him feeling nauseous and shaky, but since his focus is straight ahead (or up or down) it's not...too bad. he suddenly understands why he turned to drink and drugs, though.
recurring (high): endurance/strength training, hand-to-hand, klaus is shitty at it but he doesn't really care; Vanya is usually at Dad's side
a particularly clear memory of racing up the stairs, one of his sisters (vanya) standing at dad's side. dad's face is still a little fuzzy, a little blurry, and Klaus has no real desire to try particularly hard. Five bamphs to the front, the dirty little cheat.
working on fighting, two brothers (diego and luther) really going at it with each other. getting distracted watching, and getting taken down by a sister (allison). actually trying, and getting taken down by her anyway.
--- so how good is he at fighting anyway? maybe he should find out somehow. or maybe he shouldn't.
recurring (low): giddy, excited, a little trepidation, all seven of them (even if Luther keeps being a little bitch), tasty sweets
they're quite young, maybe eleven or twelve, and all seven of them are squeezed into one of the booths at a very 50s inspired diner, with a huge platter of various doughnuts in the middle of the table for them. luther keeps kind of making noises about going back, but gets overruled by the rest. they sit the way they do at home, luther-diego-five on one side, allison-klaus-ben on the other, and vanya is squeezed in between five and the wall, making it uneven but she seems so pleased to be included even if she's so, so quiet.
the conversation ebbs and flows between them, mostly in the two groups of luther-allison-diego, and five-ben-vanya, and klaus interjecting into both conversations wherever he wants. it's a good night.
he carefully ignores the trucker with a broken neck that keeps trying to put coins into the jukebox and the sobbing woman dripping dirty water as she walks between tables.
A very, very, uncannily beautiful woman (Mom) opens the set of heavy wooden doors to Reginald's study; the man himself is behind his desk, writing in his journal.
He doesn't acknowledge them at all, doesn't even seem to notice they're there. It was hard to get the courage to want to do this, and it's a frustrating blow that he won't even look up at them.
The worst part is that the indifference actually hurt, despite it going basically exactly the way klaus expected it to.
recurring (low): stuff goes bad. it sucks. not too often, because they have to be careful since water and meds are in low supply
it's a very hazy memory, even for him. just flashes of being feverish and sick, and his gut in pain. nausea, hurling out his guts, half-convinced he's going to die.
OF NOTE: he's huddled in what appears to be ruins, with a dusty, dirty sky above him. the nights are very, very dark, and the only light is a fire. sometimes a water bottle is pressed into his hand, and a hand rubs his back, but there's no real visible face.
it's kind of stupid and it's hilarious and he doesn't really remember it happening but it made sense at the time
it's hazy and fuzzy and kind of psychedelic, but it's hilarious, and the guy doing the tattoo is kind of sketchy looking, and they're both drinking as klaus gets his tattoos. it hurts like hell, which means he drinks more.
after his tattoos are done and taped up, the tattoo artist drags him into a messy kiss and they end up making out with klaus's wrists pinned down to prevent him from ruining the tats. lucky for everyone watching, klaus doesn't actually remember what happens after, but it's pretty easy to extrapolate.
he jerks awake in an ambulance, clearly having just been resuscitated, and drags the oxygen mask off his face with shaking hands, laughing and cackling--the shock of the defibrilater is just as much of a high as the overdose was. there's a tiny tv in the back of the ambulance, BREAKING NEWS: the death of Reginald Hargreeves.
Ben crouches nearby, just as startled as he is. It's hard to process what he's feeling at first, but it solidly steadies into giddy relief.
recurring: this comes with all the nightmares, flashbacks, claustrophobia, fear of the dark
it starts with Reggie's hand tight around his arm as he fights tooth and nail against his hold, dragging his feet as he's pulled through a cemetery to a large, imposing mausoleum. he's thrown inside, his father shutting the door despite klaus's pleas for him not to, leaving klaus in complete darkness.
and then the ghosts (pale, spectral) are crowding up around him, hissing and shouting his name. it's loud and horrifying and he loses time, begging ("Go away!", "Dad, let me out!") and screaming. he's more scared than he's ever been before.
he's curled up in the corner, and Reginald looks down at him. even the the dim light feels like salvation.
R: Welcome back to the land of the living, Number Four. K: C-can I go now? R: Have you overcome your fear of the dead? K: (shaky nod) R: You must become the master of your own life, Number Four, or it will become the master of you. K: Please, I wanna go home.
There's a long moment here, when he actually believes he might be allowed out.
R: Three more hours.
Despair, horror settling in, "No, don't leave me!" as the door shuts and throws him back into the darkness. The screams of the dead start up again, and Klaus screams.
liking the way he looks and feels, a little scared but also thrilled, it's great until he's distracted by a ghost and falls down the stairs; in the infirmary and everything's dulled and fuzzy, but it's quiet and calm for the first time in his life ; his jaw is wired shut for two weeks
he's a pre-teen, sneaking into a closet with a number of very Fifties Housewife outfits, and steals a pair of heels. They're very tall and his balance in them isn't great, but he spins a bit, checking himself out in the mirror.
the hallways are empty, and he's having a great time, until a sudden, screaming shape bursts into being at the edge of his vision, causing him to lose his balance. his arms flail, and he screams as he falls down the stairs.
he blacks out.
when he wakes up, everything is fuzzy and hazy and is quiet for the first time in his life. not even the ghosts he'd expected to see lurking in the infirmary are there. he starts laughing, which is when he realizes his jaw is wired shut.
also, it hurts.
he laughs until he's crying, and their mom (a blond, impossible beautiful, poised woman) rushes in and sends another rush of morphine through his veins. as he fades out, she brushes the hair back off his forehead and tells him that he'd fallen down the stairs and broken his jaw. that his jaw'll be wired shut for two weeks.
"god the longest I've been with someone was... I don't know, three weeks? and that's only because I was so tired of looking for a place to sleep. he did make the most fantastic osso buco, though."
he's tired and hungry and cold, and not really looking forward to sleeping in another alleyway, especially as he's starting to come down from a high. Ben nags him about going to a shelter or rehab or something, but he's definitely not feeling that.
instead, he goes clubbing where he takes the tabs and pills and whatever he's offered and drinks what he's handed, and ends up grinding against someone on the dance floor. they go home together, and it's three weeks of drugs, drink, and sex.
everything's hazy and blurry, and he loses time and awareness a lot, but the homemade osso bucco is fantastic.
(s137--the main difference between this and canon is just the beginning. klaus never went to vietnam, so he isn't looking for luther to help him detox.)
Klaus almost walks past the entrance of the living room, when he sees Luther's bulk hunched over the bar-- "Holy shit..." He laughs, disbelieving. "You're drunk. And you busted into Dad's liquor cabinet. He's gonna be so pissed~!"
"Get him." Luther's voice is flat, rough. "Dad. Do it. Now." He turns to face Klaus, towering over him. It's intimidating.
"I told you already, all right?" He's frustrated, then. "I-- I can't!" Luther's not happy with that. He grabs Klaus by the throat with one giant hand, snarling as he forces Klaus backwards until Klaus's back hits one of the marble pillars, and then up so that all of Klaus's weight is on the grip Luther has on his throat.
"Please," Klaus manages to choke out, Luther tosses him to the ground, and it takes Klaus a good couple seconds of coughing to get enough air to call out to Luther's back. His voice is strained from being choked, but he's climbing to his feet as he raises his voice; it's important that Luther knows this: "Of course I tried! All right? God knows I've tried, but he is as he was in life. He's a stubborn prick!"
Luther's hurt and upset about Dad sending him to the moon, about how he never left, never had friends. He's no longer intimidating, and Klaus's heart breaks a little for his brother that tried so hard to be A Good Son to a man who never cared.
He's bad at calming people, but he tries the only way he knows how, offering to try and summon Dad again even though he knows he isn't clean enough. Luther drinks more, and Klaus tries to get him to stop, clumsily trying to cheer him up; when Klaus suggests trying to find the others, Luther says, "I don't want them to see me like this" and "I'd just hold them back. What they're doing is too important."
"What are you talking about? You're our Number One, remember?" Klaus teases him lightly, sitting down next to Luther. It's terrifying to see Luther like this--Luther's supposed to be the steady, steadfast leader. Luther's weak laughter turns into sobs as he slides sideways to rest his head on Klaus's shoulder, and Klaus just--doesn't know what to do.
Luther believes that Dad sent him to the moon because Dad wanted Luther (and his body) out of sight, and it's so obviously just wrong to Klaus. "Damn it, Dad was such an asshole right to the end," he can't help but say, and then offers anything else he could do, to which Luther says:
"I wanna be like you. I wanna do whatever it is that you--" And this is just so horrifying and awful and Klaus can't even believe it's coming out of Luther's mouth. "Come on, Klaus. 'Cause you always seem so carefree, and I just need it.
I wanna be Number Four."
And it's like being stabbed in the gut because he wouldn't even want to wish his powers on his worst enemies, much less his brother. He tries to convince Luther to sleep it off, to let it go, and Luther decides he's going to go by himself.
Klaus tries to chase him down, but Luther shoves him to the side, sending him skidding halfway across the room and Klaus pushes himself up to the sound of the door slamming. "Oh, shit."
(s137--the main difference between this and canon is that klaus isn't trying to stay sober, he just hasn't had a hit in a while, and he doesn't get the 'Nam flashbacks)
Ben is being "supportive" and reminding Klaus that Luther needs him (them); Klaus is going through withdrawal symptoms though, and it's awful. They've been looking for ages, and Klaus wants to go home, but Ben steps in front of him.
"You need to keep trying!" Ben says, "Help Luther." And Klaus is tired and frustrated and feeling like crap, because Luther could be anywhere. In fact, it might be a good thing, right? Because Luther's out there finally experiencing the real world! Ben points out that Luther's not ready for the real world, and Klaus snaps back that no one is. Not him, not Ben, and then he immediately apologizes.
"I know you weren't ready to die violently at a young age," because Ben's death is something they can joke about between the two of them but it's not something they bring up when they're being serious. Ben just looks at him, disapproving. "It's not my responsibility! I-- I didn't sign up to save you or him!"
"You're right. You didn't. But if you were in trouble, there is nothing in this world Luther wouldn't do to save your scrawny little junkie ass." And that hurts, coming from Ben.
What else can he do but keep looking? Seven bars, three strip joints, and a laundromat later, they find him. The rave is bright and colorful, neon, and the beat of the music pulses through Klaus's veins and bones like an external heartbeat. Luther is dancing shirtless in the crowd, uncaring of his body.
uther's drunk and high, and Klaus just wants to get him out of there. A girl drapes herself all over Luther, who is giddily enthusiastic about a pill that Klaus grabs and throws across the room.
He's suddenly overwhelmed by everything, withdrawal symptoms really not helping, and he scrambles across the room to the pill he'd thrown away. He's getting to his feet after picking it up when he sees a guy with two other big dudes carrying baseball bats heading towards Luther and the girl hanging off of him.
Klaus doesn't really think, just pushes his way through the crowd to jump on the ringleader's back. "Luther! Luther!" he tries to yell, but he Luther doesn't see or hear him. He's flung off of the guy's back and his head hits the ground.
(s137--the main difference between this and canon is that klaus never looks for dave)
The first thing he notices when he wakes up is how quiet it is. And then it's that, somehow, everything...is black and white...? He's on an unfamiliar country road. A little girl rides to him on her bike, and she stops when he flags her down.
"Where am I?" "Where do you think?" She sounds faintly amused. Or condescending. "I'm not sure. I'm agnostic, so... " "Doesn't really matter. You can't stay here." She gets slightly more agitated as she talks. "To be blunt. I don't really like you all that much."
"Yeah, me neither," he says thoughtfully. "Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to love all of us?"
She scoffs. "I made you, so I can pick and choose. And you don't rub me the right way." And she tells him, cryptically, "He's waiting for you."
Klaus can't imagine anyone who might be waiting for him, so it's not like he's super enthusiastic about this, but he does wander up towards the cabin she points at. When he steps in, though, it's an empty barber shop. He sits down in one of the chairs, and immediately as a towel wrapped around his shoulders.
It's Dad.
"What in god's name took you so long?" and even long dead, he sounds angry and disapproving, his voice clipped and harsh. He gives Klaus a proper shave with a straight razor as he talks. "I expected my son who can conjure the dead to have brought me forth days ago." Reggie reminds Klaus that he's weak, and that he just wanted them to live up to their potential, and that "You're my greatest disappointment, Number Four. You only scratched the surface of what you were capable of."
Also, when Klaus asks him to be careful with the razor, Reggie points out that "you're already dead," to which Klaus is like, right, okay.
He does ask if Luther's okay, which is a surprise, but when Klaus asks if he actually cares, Reggie says that everything he put them through was to prepare them for something. "You were never just kids. You were meant to save the world." And then Reggie drops the bombshell that he killed himself to bring them back together.
"Now listen to me Number Four, what I'm about to say is of great--"
And Dad vanishes, and Klaus tries not to go back, but he jerks to consciousness in the club. His head is swimming and he's nauseous and it's hard to stay standing. When he tries to find Luther, he learns that the bouncers kicked him out.
sneaking out in the middle of the night, ben on lookout for him, the terrifying sense of freedom THE WORLD IS HIS OYSTER
the colors are very bright, and everything's a little hazy, and he can't stop giggling, high on adrenaline and...well. a cocktail of drugs that he'd stolen from the infirmary.
"Shut up," Ben hisses, sticking his head through his bedroom door. "Come on, the coast is clear."
So Klaus hefts up his bag, stuffed with a few changes of clothes, a few trinkets that looked expensive, and all the drugs he had in his room. Ben keeps lookout for him, but they don't run into Dad or Pogo as he sneaks down the hallway. He thinks he sees Mom right before he slips out the window and down the fire escape, but he isn't sure.
The sky's never felt so big before.
"Now what?" Ben asks, and Klaus shrugs. It doesn't matter. They're finally fucking free.
DIEGO SAID IT WOULD GIVE HIM PUBES it just gave him a nastyish shock :C
He's hiding in his room with Diego, both of them giddy and giggling and Klaus unearths a big honking battery. "It'll totally work! Do it," Diego hisses, "Betcha won't. You're too scared to!"
Klaus is super indignant about that, squinting at the battery. "Course I'm not scared!" and then he licks the damn battery. He yelps and jerks it away, squeezing his eyes shut and clasps his hands to his mouth.
They're all in a line, and they don't have a choice, Dad watching over them as each of them are forced forward and into the seat. the sound of the tattoo gun is loud and buzzing and nonstop, and Klaus freaks out right before it's his turn, but Dad's hand is heavy on his shoulder, his fingers digging sharply in when Klaus tries to get out of the chair.
The tattoo artist doesn't care, holding his arm steady. He doesn't want it, he doesn't. It's not fair.
A montage of Klaus having sex with strangers, usually high and/or drunk. The experiences kind of all tend to blur together, and in this memory he'll sometimes start having sex with one person but then it's someone else between one blink and the next; when it's kinky it's more intense which makes it more interesting.
Ben usually has some sort of commentary when Klaus is still kind of soberish, but usually he's gone by the time Klaus looks for him again.
>> Klaus is not always very enthusiastic or entirely willing, but he never says no when he's asked (or told) to do something, especially when offered a tab or a pill with it. He has gotten people off and/or let them use him in exchange for drugs or a place to sleep. Whenever this happens Ben is almost always trying to convince him not to, but Klaus ignores him with the ease of a lot of practice.
They're in a room he doesn't recognize--it's very utilitarian, barely finished, and there's a heavy metal cell. Vanya's clearly screaming and crying, visible through the little window, but they can't hear her. Diego's at his side, and Luther's between them and Vanya.
"Am I the only person who didn't know this place existed?" He's distracted, briefly, but Ben reminds him to focus. Luther tells them it's because of Vanya's powers and implies that she's the one who cut Allison's throat. Both Ben and Klaus react to that,
"Whoa, no. Let's-- I ju--Sorry, just, let's go back, all right? This is Vanya we're talking about. Our sister, the one who cried when we stepped on ants as kids."
Both Diego and Klaus say they should open the door and just ask Vanya what happened, but Luther insists that it's for the best they don't. Klaus, in particular, is getting more and more agitated because he knows what it's like to be locked in a cage like this.
Allison shows up, her throat bandaged, and she tries to insist on letting Vanya go as well with her notebook, but Luther still refuses. She's too weak to stand her ground, and Luther tries to usher her out. Klaus and Diego look at each other, wide-eyed, and then Klaus looks over at Ben. They need to regroup, and figure out a way to free Vanya, but they can't do anything with Luther right there.
"We'll be back," he says to her fiercely, trying to make it a promise, but Vanya apparently doesn't hear him. And then he's walking out with Diego, still sending uncertain looks over his shoulder at Vanya.
They walk in silence down the corridor, up to the ground floor--and then the whole house shakes, and Diego grabs his shoulder to steady him. "An earthquake?" But, no.
The house shakes again, and then again and it doesn't stop and they're running out the door, Luther carrying Allison. Diego's about to run back in for Mom when Vanya appears at the front door, her eyes glowing white.
Ben's the first one to notice when Leonard shows up, grinning maniacally, and he gets Klaus's attention. "Who the fuck are you?!" Klaus turns to Leonard, which gets the rest of the sibilings' attention. It distracts Vanya briefly, and the glow fades a bit, just enough for Leonard to laugh and point out how, he told her so and that no one cares about her, and he keeps spewing poison.
Luther and Diego both start towards him as tears spill down Vanya's cheeks, and Klaus and Allison make their way to Vanya trying to talk her down. Everyone's yelling and trying to talk at the same time, and there is so much noise. Klaus doesn't see what happens next, but Leonard yells and then--Vanya screams.
When Klaus turns back around, Leonard is on his knees, grabbing at his face while Luther is panting, looking somewhere between confused and horrified. "It's fake," he says, a moment before the ground starts shaking again.
Vanya's whole body is glowing, white lancing out from her and a harsh wind kicking up. It's almost impossible to stay standing, and the siblings are completely ignoring Leonard, trying to make their way to Vanya.
"I can't-- I can't stop it-- I'm sorry." That's the last thing she says that they can hear. Out the corner of his eyes he sees Leonard get stripped away completely, his body disintegrating before he has the chance to scream, the house getting torn apart--
Klaus turns wide eyes to the side, meeting Ben's gaze for a moment.
they're five when vanya gets sick, and dad stops paying attention to her because she's ordinary
------- It's not a very clear memory, hazy in the way of all memories of young children.
Mostly he remembers one morning, when Vanya isn't at the table for breakfast, and Mom tells them that she's sick when Five asks.
And then he remembers she's gone for a few days, and then she's back. But the next time One through Six gets dragged off for training, and he sees her not getting called in for it. "Because she's ordinary," Dad says, short and sharp, and his voice brooks no argument.
And then snapshots of being jealous that she could avoid having to go through training--all from when they were young, before Five ran off.
recurring (high): very fuzzy and trippy, the highs off of different drugs and different drug cocktails, unsure which is which
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A bunch of short, interconnected memories that he can't quite place as different moments though he knows they are, partly because he's often dressed (or not) in different things. And sometimes, when he bothers to look around, his surroundings are different. Sometimes it's a club, sometimes it's a crack house, sometimes it's an alleyway, sometimes it's a shitty motel room, etc, etc.
Ben is in most of them, though Klaus can't always hear (or remember) what he's saying.
It's quiet, and when he opens his eyes, he's on familiar, black and white country road. Again. God is on her bike in front of him, looking incredibly unimpressed.
"What the fuck?" Klaus pats himself down, wiggles his toes, checks his dick. No apparent injuries?
"No," she says, and points at him. "I don't have time for this."
And before he has the chance to say or ask anything more, he's thrown back into his body. Which, ow, what the fuck, everything hurts. He coughs as he pushes himself up to a sitting position with a groan.
It's...quiet. But not the dead-silence of the afterlife; he can hear the quiet crackle of flames, and when he shakes his head he can feel and hear the rubble under him shifting. And then there's a sharp intake of breath, and Klaus looks up to see--
"Five? Five? Wha-- How are-- Five?!"
Because his brother is tiny and thirteen and looks exactly the same as the day he'd run out of the house, looks exactly as he does in the giant portrait of him that hangs over the fireplace.
His tiny brother who is looking horrified and shell-shocked, and frightened when Klaus stumbles over to him.
(Don't look down, don't look at who his toes bumped against, don't look at whose arm he must've just tripped over.)
And oh, thank fuck, Klaus can touch him, can catch him by the hands. He's alive, he's alive, he's fucking alive. He's just... Yeah. Tiny. It takes some talking and soothing for Five to calm the fuck down, but he ends up behind able to collect Five into his arms for a tight, tight hug, tucking him in under Klaus's chin and making sure he's facing away from the ruins of their home and their family.
It's quiet. For the first time in his life, it's actually quiet. Ben must've gone on to wherever it was ghosts are supposed to go when they were all killed. No one else stayed either--and he doesn't know if it's a result of Vanya's powers or if it's because it's the end of the world or--
Oh.
Oh, it's the end of the world.
He's alone at the end of the world with a baby. Teenager. Whatever. Five's going to have no idea what to do, which he's going to hate. Klaus is older now. Debatably wiser. Klaus's arms tighten around Five's thin body as he breathes out shakily.
Okay. He can do this. He's survived in worse conditions. He knows what to do.
He wanders into a pawn shop, looking around for things he might be able to pocket and sees, there, a collection of Umbrella Academy merchandise. He remembers the figures, of course--there's a set of them at the house. But there's also branded silly things like notebooks, stationary sets, and a themed Monopoly game, of all things. He's darkly amused to see that his figure is a little ghost, and points out the octopus to Ben, who rolls his eyes.
The clerk notices him and wanders over to chat. She's a little younger than he is, probably, old enough to remember reading about the Academy kids growing up. She mistakes his amusement for curiosity, and is cheerful about explaining the Umbrella Academy to him. He asks a few questions, just because he can, and learns that she liked Diego's ability best, thought Luther was overrated, and also that Allison was the reason she realized she's gay.
All in all, a fun, shallow conversation that was a pleasant way to spend about half an hour of his afternoon. He pockets a trading card of Ben on his way out, so he can throw things at it next time Ben annoys him, which turns out to be two hours later.
27. reading Vanya's book 👻 🐙 - ignoring group therapy to do this, Ben reading and commenting over his shoulder - incredulous pride that she did this--it takes guts - irritation/hurt she'd air their dirty laundry - frustrated/angry at her misunderstandings re:powers and how she was ~jealous~ of Dad's attention when he'd've given anything not to have had it
which leads to 28. Vanya 🐙 - seeing her out and about but actively avoiding her -- partly because of the book --- mostly because of the book - ben always tries to get him to talk to her, but Klaus ignores him, sometimes going as far as sticking his fingers into his ears and going "LALALALA" at the top of his lungs even when it makes people give him weird looks - if she sees him and tries to approach him, he runs away
29. Allison's movie star life 🐙 - he sees her movies when he can, often at shelters or rehab - sometimes sneaks into theaters but that's harder to get away with - finds out about her wedding, pregnancy, daughter, divorce via magazines/tabloids - Ben is so proud of her!!! - Klaus is both annoyed by and impressed by how well she is able to gloss over their past whenever it comes up in the press
30. Diego bailing him out 🐙 - diego picking him up from the police station and taking him home -- not the first time, won't be the last - klaus emptying his wallet before sneaking out in the morning -- ben very disapproving of this -- Klaus KNOWS he's burning Diego's goodwill but a guy's gotta survive okay - only sibling he sees semi-regularly
Klaus is shuffled in with the rest but just finds a corner to hang out in and watch as - Allison Rumors the leader to shoot his teammates - Luther comes in through th roof and tosses another robber out one of the windows - Diego knifes a robber - Five antagonizes a robber and steals his gun/replaces it with a stapler - Ben takes out the rest
And then they all go outside and pose for photos with Dad
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01: luther putting on music as "apology"
specifically, the I Think We're Alone Now... (but just Klaus's bits) scene from s1e1: hearing the music filtering through the halls, dancing with an urn in the kitchen. it's a complicated feeling, but it's something familiar from childhood. not really pleasant, but acceptable. that's just the way he is.
---
he doesn't know what the music is or where it's from; dancing to it comes easy, though, and there's zero self-consciousness about it.
02: trying and failing to summon Five
he's in his early teens; he fists his hands in front of his chest, scrunching up his face. his fists glow blue for a moment before they fade away, leaving him panting heavily but grinning widely.
---
he doesn't know what he's doing or why, but he knows he's hoping for something that he's also dreading, and when he fails, it's a good thing.
03: getting resuscitated after an overdose (🐙)
adult again, jerking awake in the back of an ambulance, his chest aching from the defibrillator shock and shaking it off as he grins, laughing as he high-fives the exasperated-amused-resigned paramedic. ben's hovering somewhere, but he doesn't really notice. everything's fuzzy around the edges.
---
there's a brilliant, floaty feeling that comes with this that he kind of loves? it also leaves him with a phantom ache in his chest that fades after a few hours.
04: knocking down the wall between rooms 🐙
some casual destruction. he's in his late teens or early twenties, definitely at least somewhat high, which gives everything a sort of hazy look with the occasional Bright Colors, and taking a sledgehammer to the wall of a very tiny room. it's exhausting and he's clearly not very used to physical labor, but despite the shake in his arms, the sweat dripping down his back, and the blisters forming on his hands, he's grinning widely--a bit manically. there's an asian kid in a black hoodie, leaning against the wall but not helping. he alternates between egging Klaus on and critiquing his sledge-hammer techniques. Klaus eventually breaks through to another, equally tiny, room and he whoops in glee even as the door slams open.
05: ghosts 👻 👻 👻
he's twitchy and tries to avoid being touched by anyone but his siblings, but there are a lot of dead people around and he can't always tell who's alive and who isn't.
his siblings get annoyed, shove at him when he sways too far in their direction; their father, "Stand up straight, Number Four!" and "Stay in line!"; being threatened with extra training, which makes him go pale.
it's easier to just keep his eyes focused on the sky or the ground and to hum quietly to himself. the ghosts don't go anywhere, but they're less disturbing when they're at the very edges of his peripheral vision.
---
this is going to leave him feeling nauseous and shaky, but since his focus is straight ahead (or up or down) it's not...too bad.
he suddenly understands why he turned to drink and drugs, though.
06: childhood training (physical)
a particularly clear memory of racing up the stairs, one of his sisters (vanya) standing at dad's side. dad's face is still a little fuzzy, a little blurry, and Klaus has no real desire to try particularly hard. Five bamphs to the front, the dirty little cheat.
working on fighting, two brothers (diego and luther) really going at it with each other. getting distracted watching, and getting taken down by a sister (allison). actually trying, and getting taken down by her anyway.
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so how good is he at fighting anyway? maybe he should find out somehow. or maybe he shouldn't.
07: sneaking out for doughnuts w/sibs 👻
they're quite young, maybe eleven or twelve, and all seven of them are squeezed into one of the booths at a very 50s inspired diner, with a huge platter of various doughnuts in the middle of the table for them. luther keeps kind of making noises about going back, but gets overruled by the rest. they sit the way they do at home, luther-diego-five on one side, allison-klaus-ben on the other, and vanya is squeezed in between five and the wall, making it uneven but she seems so pleased to be included even if she's so, so quiet.
the conversation ebbs and flows between them, mostly in the two groups of luther-allison-diego, and five-ben-vanya, and klaus interjecting into both conversations wherever he wants. it's a good night.
he carefully ignores the trucker with a broken neck that keeps trying to put coins into the jukebox and the sobbing woman dripping dirty water as she walks between tables.
08: waiting for Dad
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A very, very, uncannily beautiful woman (Mom) opens the set of heavy wooden doors to Reginald's study; the man himself is behind his desk, writing in his journal.
He doesn't acknowledge them at all, doesn't even seem to notice they're there. It was hard to get the courage to want to do this, and it's a frustrating blow that he won't even look up at them.
The worst part is that the indifference actually hurt, despite it going basically exactly the way klaus expected it to.
11: post-apocalyptic food poisoning
it's a very hazy memory, even for him. just flashes of being feverish and sick, and his gut in pain. nausea, hurling out his guts, half-convinced he's going to die.
OF NOTE: he's huddled in what appears to be ruins, with a dusty, dirty sky above him. the nights are very, very dark, and the only light is a fire. sometimes a water bottle is pressed into his hand, and a hand rubs his back, but there's no real visible face.
09: getting his tattoos (HELLO, GOODBYE)
it's hazy and fuzzy and kind of psychedelic, but it's hilarious, and the guy doing the tattoo is kind of sketchy looking, and they're both drinking as klaus gets his tattoos. it hurts like hell, which means he drinks more.
after his tattoos are done and taped up, the tattoo artist drags him into a messy kiss and they end up making out with klaus's wrists pinned down to prevent him from ruining the tats. lucky for everyone watching, klaus doesn't actually remember what happens after, but it's pretty easy to extrapolate.
10: finding out about dad's death 🐙
he jerks awake in an ambulance, clearly having just been resuscitated, and drags the oxygen mask off his face with shaking hands, laughing and cackling--the shock of the defibrilater is just as much of a high as the overdose was. there's a tiny tv in the back of the ambulance, BREAKING NEWS: the death of Reginald Hargreeves.
Ben crouches nearby, just as startled as he is. It's hard to process what he's feeling at first, but it solidly steadies into giddy relief.
12: mausoleum 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
it starts with Reggie's hand tight around his arm as he fights tooth and nail against his hold, dragging his feet as he's pulled through a cemetery to a large, imposing mausoleum. he's thrown inside, his father shutting the door despite klaus's pleas for him not to, leaving klaus in complete darkness.
and then the ghosts (pale, spectral) are crowding up around him, hissing and shouting his name. it's loud and horrifying and he loses time, begging ("Go away!", "Dad, let me out!") and screaming. he's more scared than he's ever been before.
he's curled up in the corner, and Reginald looks down at him. even the the dim light feels like salvation.
R: Welcome back to the land of the living, Number Four.
K: C-can I go now?
R: Have you overcome your fear of the dead?
K: (shaky nod)
R: You must become the master of your own life, Number Four, or it will become the master of you.
K: Please, I wanna go home.
There's a long moment here, when he actually believes he might be allowed out.
R: Three more hours.
Despair, horror settling in, "No, don't leave me!" as the door shuts and throws him back into the darkness. The screams of the dead start up again, and Klaus screams.
13: Grace's heels 👻 ; realizing that drugs help
he's a pre-teen, sneaking into a closet with a number of very Fifties Housewife outfits, and steals a pair of heels. They're very tall and his balance in them isn't great, but he spins a bit, checking himself out in the mirror.
the hallways are empty, and he's having a great time, until a sudden, screaming shape bursts into being at the edge of his vision, causing him to lose his balance. his arms flail, and he screams as he falls down the stairs.
he blacks out.
when he wakes up, everything is fuzzy and hazy and is quiet for the first time in his life. not even the ghosts he'd expected to see lurking in the infirmary are there. he starts laughing, which is when he realizes his jaw is wired shut.
also, it hurts.
he laughs until he's crying, and their mom (a blond, impossible beautiful, poised woman) rushes in and sends another rush of morphine through his veins. as he fades out, she brushes the hair back off his forehead and tells him that he'd fallen down the stairs and broken his jaw. that his jaw'll be wired shut for two weeks.
14: osso bucco guy
he's tired and hungry and cold, and not really looking forward to sleeping in another alleyway, especially as he's starting to come down from a high. Ben nags him about going to a shelter or rehab or something, but he's definitely not feeling that.
instead, he goes clubbing where he takes the tabs and pills and whatever he's offered and drinks what he's handed, and ends up grinding against someone on the dance floor. they go home together, and it's three weeks of drugs, drink, and sex.
everything's hazy and blurry, and he loses time and awareness a lot, but the homemade osso bucco is fantastic.
15: "I wish I was Number Four" 🐙
Klaus almost walks past the entrance of the living room, when he sees Luther's bulk hunched over the bar-- "Holy shit..." He laughs, disbelieving. "You're drunk. And you busted into Dad's liquor cabinet. He's gonna be so pissed~!"
"Get him." Luther's voice is flat, rough. "Dad. Do it. Now." He turns to face Klaus, towering over him. It's intimidating.
"I told you already, all right?" He's frustrated, then. "I-- I can't!" Luther's not happy with that. He grabs Klaus by the throat with one giant hand, snarling as he forces Klaus backwards until Klaus's back hits one of the marble pillars, and then up so that all of Klaus's weight is on the grip Luther has on his throat.
"Please," Klaus manages to choke out, Luther tosses him to the ground, and it takes Klaus a good couple seconds of coughing to get enough air to call out to Luther's back. His voice is strained from being choked, but he's climbing to his feet as he raises his voice; it's important that Luther knows this: "Of course I tried! All right? God knows I've tried, but he is as he was in life. He's a stubborn prick!"
Luther's hurt and upset about Dad sending him to the moon, about how he never left, never had friends. He's no longer intimidating, and Klaus's heart breaks a little for his brother that tried so hard to be A Good Son to a man who never cared.
He's bad at calming people, but he tries the only way he knows how, offering to try and summon Dad again even though he knows he isn't clean enough. Luther drinks more, and Klaus tries to get him to stop, clumsily trying to cheer him up; when Klaus suggests trying to find the others, Luther says, "I don't want them to see me like this" and "I'd just hold them back. What they're doing is too important."
"What are you talking about? You're our Number One, remember?" Klaus teases him lightly, sitting down next to Luther. It's terrifying to see Luther like this--Luther's supposed to be the steady, steadfast leader. Luther's weak laughter turns into sobs as he slides sideways to rest his head on Klaus's shoulder, and Klaus just--doesn't know what to do.
Luther believes that Dad sent him to the moon because Dad wanted Luther (and his body) out of sight, and it's so obviously just wrong to Klaus. "Damn it, Dad was such an asshole right to the end," he can't help but say, and then offers anything else he could do, to which Luther says:
"I wanna be like you. I wanna do whatever it is that you--" And this is just so horrifying and awful and Klaus can't even believe it's coming out of Luther's mouth. "Come on, Klaus. 'Cause you always seem so carefree, and I just need it.
I wanna be Number Four."
And it's like being stabbed in the gut because he wouldn't even want to wish his powers on his worst enemies, much less his brother. He tries to convince Luther to sleep it off, to let it go, and Luther decides he's going to go by himself.
Klaus tries to chase him down, but Luther shoves him to the side, sending him skidding halfway across the room and Klaus pushes himself up to the sound of the door slamming. "Oh, shit."
16: finding Luther at the rave 🐙
Ben is being "supportive" and reminding Klaus that Luther needs him (them); Klaus is going through withdrawal symptoms though, and it's awful. They've been looking for ages, and Klaus wants to go home, but Ben steps in front of him.
"You need to keep trying!" Ben says, "Help Luther." And Klaus is tired and frustrated and feeling like crap, because Luther could be anywhere. In fact, it might be a good thing, right? Because Luther's out there finally experiencing the real world! Ben points out that Luther's not ready for the real world, and Klaus snaps back that no one is. Not him, not Ben, and then he immediately apologizes.
"I know you weren't ready to die violently at a young age," because Ben's death is something they can joke about between the two of them but it's not something they bring up when they're being serious. Ben just looks at him, disapproving. "It's not my responsibility! I-- I didn't sign up to save you or him!"
"You're right. You didn't. But if you were in trouble, there is nothing in this world Luther wouldn't do to save your scrawny little junkie ass." And that hurts, coming from Ben.
What else can he do but keep looking? Seven bars, three strip joints, and a laundromat later, they find him. The rave is bright and colorful, neon, and the beat of the music pulses through Klaus's veins and bones like an external heartbeat. Luther is dancing shirtless in the crowd, uncaring of his body.
uther's drunk and high, and Klaus just wants to get him out of there. A girl drapes herself all over Luther, who is giddily enthusiastic about a pill that Klaus grabs and throws across the room.
He's suddenly overwhelmed by everything, withdrawal symptoms really not helping, and he scrambles across the room to the pill he'd thrown away. He's getting to his feet after picking it up when he sees a guy with two other big dudes carrying baseball bats heading towards Luther and the girl hanging off of him.
Klaus doesn't really think, just pushes his way through the crowd to jump on the ringleader's back. "Luther! Luther!" he tries to yell, but he Luther doesn't see or hear him. He's flung off of the guy's back and his head hits the ground.
Hard.
17. afterlife
The first thing he notices when he wakes up is how quiet it is. And then it's that, somehow, everything...is black and white...? He's on an unfamiliar country road. A little girl rides to him on her bike, and she stops when he flags her down.
"Where am I?"
"Where do you think?" She sounds faintly amused. Or condescending.
"I'm not sure. I'm agnostic, so...
"
"Doesn't really matter. You can't stay here." She gets slightly more agitated as she talks. "To be blunt. I don't really like you all that much."
"Yeah, me neither," he says thoughtfully. "Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to love all of us?"
She scoffs. "I made you, so I can pick and choose. And you don't rub me the right way." And she tells him, cryptically, "He's waiting for you."
Klaus can't imagine anyone who might be waiting for him, so it's not like he's super enthusiastic about this, but he does wander up towards the cabin she points at. When he steps in, though, it's an empty barber shop. He sits down in one of the chairs, and immediately as a towel wrapped around his shoulders.
It's Dad.
"What in god's name took you so long?" and even long dead, he sounds angry and disapproving, his voice clipped and harsh. He gives Klaus a proper shave with a straight razor as he talks. "I expected my son who can conjure the dead to have brought me forth days ago." Reggie reminds Klaus that he's weak, and that he just wanted them to live up to their potential, and that "You're my greatest disappointment, Number Four. You only scratched the surface of what you were capable of."
Also, when Klaus asks him to be careful with the razor, Reggie points out that "you're already dead," to which Klaus is like, right, okay.
He does ask if Luther's okay, which is a surprise, but when Klaus asks if he actually cares, Reggie says that everything he put them through was to prepare them for something. "You were never just kids. You were meant to save the world." And then Reggie drops the bombshell that he killed himself to bring them back together.
"Now listen to me Number Four, what I'm about to say is of great--"
And Dad vanishes, and Klaus tries not to go back, but he jerks to consciousness in the club. His head is swimming and he's nauseous and it's hard to stay standing. When he tries to find Luther, he learns that the bouncers kicked him out.
18: Leaving 🐙
the colors are very bright, and everything's a little hazy, and he can't stop giggling, high on adrenaline and...well. a cocktail of drugs that he'd stolen from the infirmary.
"Shut up," Ben hisses, sticking his head through his bedroom door. "Come on, the coast is clear."
So Klaus hefts up his bag, stuffed with a few changes of clothes, a few trinkets that looked expensive, and all the drugs he had in his room. Ben keeps lookout for him, but they don't run into Dad or Pogo as he sneaks down the hallway. He thinks he sees Mom right before he slips out the window and down the fire escape, but he isn't sure.
The sky's never felt so big before.
"Now what?" Ben asks, and Klaus shrugs. It doesn't matter. They're finally fucking free.
19: licking a 9-volt battery (8yo)
He's hiding in his room with Diego, both of them giddy and giggling and Klaus unearths a big honking battery. "It'll totally work! Do it," Diego hisses, "Betcha won't. You're too scared to!"
Klaus is super indignant about that, squinting at the battery. "Course I'm not scared!" and then he licks the damn battery. He yelps and jerks it away, squeezing his eyes shut and clasps his hands to his mouth.
20: getting the umbrella tattoo
They're all in a line, and they don't have a choice, Dad watching over them as each of them are forced forward and into the seat. the sound of the tattoo gun is loud and buzzing and nonstop, and Klaus freaks out right before it's his turn, but Dad's hand is heavy on his shoulder, his fingers digging sharply in when Klaus tries to get out of the chair.
The tattoo artist doesn't care, holding his arm steady. He doesn't want it, he doesn't. It's not fair.
21. sex (👻)
Ben usually has some sort of commentary when Klaus is still kind of soberish, but usually he's gone by the time Klaus looks for him again.
>> Klaus is not always very enthusiastic or entirely willing, but he never says no when he's asked (or told) to do something, especially when offered a tab or a pill with it. He has gotten people off and/or let them use him in exchange for drugs or a place to sleep. Whenever this happens Ben is almost always trying to convince him not to, but Klaus ignores him with the ease of a lot of practice.
22. apocalypse 🐙
"Am I the only person who didn't know this place existed?" He's distracted, briefly, but Ben reminds him to focus. Luther tells them it's because of Vanya's powers and implies that she's the one who cut Allison's throat. Both Ben and Klaus react to that,
"Whoa, no. Let's-- I ju--Sorry, just, let's go back, all right? This is Vanya we're talking about. Our sister, the one who cried when we stepped on ants as kids."
Both Diego and Klaus say they should open the door and just ask Vanya what happened, but Luther insists that it's for the best they don't. Klaus, in particular, is getting more and more agitated because he knows what it's like to be locked in a cage like this.
Allison shows up, her throat bandaged, and she tries to insist on letting Vanya go as well with her notebook, but Luther still refuses. She's too weak to stand her ground, and Luther tries to usher her out. Klaus and Diego look at each other, wide-eyed, and then Klaus looks over at Ben. They need to regroup, and figure out a way to free Vanya, but they can't do anything with Luther right there.
"We'll be back," he says to her fiercely, trying to make it a promise, but Vanya apparently doesn't hear him. And then he's walking out with Diego, still sending uncertain looks over his shoulder at Vanya.
They walk in silence down the corridor, up to the ground floor--and then the whole house shakes, and Diego grabs his shoulder to steady him. "An earthquake?" But, no.
The house shakes again, and then again and it doesn't stop and they're running out the door, Luther carrying Allison. Diego's about to run back in for Mom when Vanya appears at the front door, her eyes glowing white.
Ben's the first one to notice when Leonard shows up, grinning maniacally, and he gets Klaus's attention. "Who the fuck are you?!" Klaus turns to Leonard, which gets the rest of the sibilings' attention. It distracts Vanya briefly, and the glow fades a bit, just enough for Leonard to laugh and point out how, he told her so and that no one cares about her, and he keeps spewing poison.
Luther and Diego both start towards him as tears spill down Vanya's cheeks, and Klaus and Allison make their way to Vanya trying to talk her down. Everyone's yelling and trying to talk at the same time, and there is so much noise. Klaus doesn't see what happens next, but Leonard yells and then--Vanya screams.
When Klaus turns back around, Leonard is on his knees, grabbing at his face while Luther is panting, looking somewhere between confused and horrified. "It's fake," he says, a moment before the ground starts shaking again.
Vanya's whole body is glowing, white lancing out from her and a harsh wind kicking up. It's almost impossible to stay standing, and the siblings are completely ignoring Leonard, trying to make their way to Vanya.
"I can't-- I can't stop it-- I'm sorry." That's the last thing she says that they can hear. Out the corner of his eyes he sees Leonard get stripped away completely, his body disintegrating before he has the chance to scream, the house getting torn apart--
Klaus turns wide eyes to the side, meeting Ben's gaze for a moment.
Everything goes white.
23. Vanya is separated
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It's not a very clear memory, hazy in the way of all memories of young children.
Mostly he remembers one morning, when Vanya isn't at the table for breakfast, and Mom tells them that she's sick when Five asks.
And then he remembers she's gone for a few days, and then she's back. But the next time One through Six gets dragged off for training, and he sees her not getting called in for it. "Because she's ordinary," Dad says, short and sharp, and his voice brooks no argument.
And then snapshots of being jealous that she could avoid having to go through training--all from when they were young, before Five ran off.
24. getting high as fuck 🐙
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A bunch of short, interconnected memories that he can't quite place as different moments though he knows they are, partly because he's often dressed (or not) in different things. And sometimes, when he bothers to look around, his surroundings are different. Sometimes it's a club, sometimes it's a crack house, sometimes it's an alleyway, sometimes it's a shitty motel room, etc, etc.
Ben is in most of them, though Klaus can't always hear (or remember) what he's saying.
25. Meeting Five in the apocalypse
"What the fuck?" Klaus pats himself down, wiggles his toes, checks his dick. No apparent injuries?
"No," she says, and points at him. "I don't have time for this."
And before he has the chance to say or ask anything more, he's thrown back into his body. Which, ow, what the fuck, everything hurts. He coughs as he pushes himself up to a sitting position with a groan.
It's...quiet. But not the dead-silence of the afterlife; he can hear the quiet crackle of flames, and when he shakes his head he can feel and hear the rubble under him shifting. And then there's a sharp intake of breath, and Klaus looks up to see--
"Five? Five? Wha-- How are-- Five?!"
Because his brother is tiny and thirteen and looks exactly the same as the day he'd run out of the house, looks exactly as he does in the giant portrait of him that hangs over the fireplace.
His tiny brother who is looking horrified and shell-shocked, and frightened when Klaus stumbles over to him.
(Don't look down, don't look at who his toes bumped against, don't look at whose arm he must've just tripped over.)
And oh, thank fuck, Klaus can touch him, can catch him by the hands. He's alive, he's alive, he's fucking alive. He's just... Yeah. Tiny. It takes some talking and soothing for Five to calm the fuck down, but he ends up behind able to collect Five into his arms for a tight, tight hug, tucking him in under Klaus's chin and making sure he's facing away from the ruins of their home and their family.
It's quiet. For the first time in his life, it's actually quiet. Ben must've gone on to wherever it was ghosts are supposed to go when they were all killed. No one else stayed either--and he doesn't know if it's a result of Vanya's powers or if it's because it's the end of the world or--
Oh.
Oh, it's the end of the world.
He's alone at the end of the world with a baby. Teenager. Whatever. Five's going to have no idea what to do, which he's going to hate. Klaus is older now. Debatably wiser. Klaus's arms tighten around Five's thin body as he breathes out shakily.
Okay. He can do this. He's survived in worse conditions. He knows what to do.
They'll be okay. He'll make sure of it.
26. UmbAc Merch
The clerk notices him and wanders over to chat. She's a little younger than he is, probably, old enough to remember reading about the Academy kids growing up. She mistakes his amusement for curiosity, and is cheerful about explaining the Umbrella Academy to him. He asks a few questions, just because he can, and learns that she liked Diego's ability best, thought Luther was overrated, and also that Allison was the reason she realized she's gay.
All in all, a fun, shallow conversation that was a pleasant way to spend about half an hour of his afternoon. He pockets a trading card of Ben on his way out, so he can throw things at it next time Ben annoys him, which turns out to be two hours later.
27-30. siblings
- ignoring group therapy to do this, Ben reading and commenting over his shoulder
- incredulous pride that she did this--it takes guts
- irritation/hurt she'd air their dirty laundry
- frustrated/angry at her misunderstandings re:powers and how she was ~jealous~ of Dad's attention when he'd've given anything not to have had it
which leads to 28. Vanya 🐙
- seeing her out and about but actively avoiding her
-- partly because of the book
--- mostly because of the book
- ben always tries to get him to talk to her, but Klaus ignores him, sometimes going as far as sticking his fingers into his ears and going "LALALALA" at the top of his lungs even when it makes people give him weird looks
- if she sees him and tries to approach him, he runs away
29. Allison's movie star life 🐙
- he sees her movies when he can, often at shelters or rehab
- sometimes sneaks into theaters but that's harder to get away with
- finds out about her wedding, pregnancy, daughter, divorce via magazines/tabloids
- Ben is so proud of her!!!
- Klaus is both annoyed by and impressed by how well she is able to gloss over their past whenever it comes up in the press
30. Diego bailing him out 🐙
- diego picking him up from the police station and taking him home
-- not the first time, won't be the last
- klaus emptying his wallet before sneaking out in the morning
-- ben very disapproving of this
-- Klaus KNOWS he's burning Diego's goodwill but a guy's gotta survive okay
- only sibling he sees semi-regularly
31. Debut
Klaus is shuffled in with the rest but just finds a corner to hang out in and watch as
- Allison Rumors the leader to shoot his teammates
- Luther comes in through th roof and tosses another robber out one of the windows
- Diego knifes a robber
- Five antagonizes a robber and steals his gun/replaces it with a stapler
- Ben takes out the rest
And then they all go outside and pose for photos with Dad