[Authors note: holy shit this is it folks, the final episode! It’s been a wild ride! I’ve got 2 more chapters after this coming out over the next few days, and then i’m gonna take a couple days to rest my brain and let my arm recover from the tattoo i’m getting tomorrow.]
In this chapter: A new development to our shield ability, We bust some balls, and heart to heart with Klaus about the future (really season 2 but still)
The white Violin pt 1
The result of willful ignorance
"Okay, so on a scale of one to ten, how fucked are we right now?" You slammed open the door to Klaus' room and flopped yourself down onto the bed. Klaus and Ben had taken up residence back on the floor and resumed their ghost patty cake, in an effort to try and get Klaus to make Ben tangible again.
"Well," You sigh, sliding a hand down your face, "In about...oooh.... a couple of hours, Vanya will, uh, destroy the house. So get a good look at this room, cause after tonight, it's gone."
Klaus looks over to you, missing how Ben accidentally phased his hands through Klaus torso a bit. "I'm sorry?"
"It's. Gone. She...goes on a destructive path, has a lovely little trip down memory lane, and makes the manor crumble at the foundations. Like...BOOM!" You throw your arms up and simulate an explosion for emphasis. "Oh. Well, I can't say I'll ever miss this place, it didn't exactly fill me with glee to live here." Klaus shrugs and resumes his practicing. Before you have the chance to say anything, you hear a loud rumble, followed by an even larger BOOM.
"Okay, maybe I misjudged the timing and it's happening now! Haul ass, sweeties, we need to move!" You grab Klaus and Ben's arms and haul them out the door. Diego, Pogo and Luther meet you all in the hallway. You can hear explosions, and glass shattering and heavy creaking from the ceiling. "Yo, what the hell is going on?" Diego asks.
"Those explosions sound like they're coming from-"
"Vanya." Luther finishes Klaus' sentence and everyone but Pogo fixes him with a glare.
"We need to get to safety, outside the Academy." Pogo insists, and you turn to look at him with wide eyes. You had forgotten about his fate, about how he was doomed to die, impaled by Vanya in an effort to save everyone else. "Pogo, I-" Another explosion halts whatever you were going to say next and you feel yourself being pulled away by Klaus and Ben. You hear Luther shout "Don't forget mom!" And you begin to feel sick.
Two lives were going to be lost tonight and there was nothing you could do to stop it.
You haul ass up the stairs behind Diego and Klaus, just barely keeping pace with Ben. Though you feel it's more for your benefit he's doing this. As a ghost, he knows this stuff can't hurt him, and could easily pop away and come back once it's all over. But over the course of the last few days, Ben's become a larger presence in your life than you initially thought he would be. Maybe including him more seemed to be making a difference.
When you reaches Graces sitting area, you find she's nowhere to be found. "Mom!" Diego cries out, "Where is she?" You have to duck and dodge to avoid pieces of ceiling collapsing around you. "Mom!" Klaus echoes, and you join in. "Grace! Where are you?"
You rush across the hallway, screaming her name in the vain hopes that you might be able to find her before the end. A piece of ceiling falls, bouncing off of your shield instinctually but somehow able to knock Klaus and Diego temporarily unconscious.
"Oh, shit! Klaus! Diego! Come on guys, now is not the time for a nap!" You fall to your knees and shake Klaus as he clutches his head with a groan. "Oh, thank god!" You cry. He sputters and coughs before looking up at the ceiling with wide eyes and you look up as well, only to see a giant portion start to crack and crumble. You pull Klaus to his feet and try and drag Diego but he's proving to be heavier than he looks. When you look up, you see Ben pull him to safety, looking at you all in shock. You aren't quite sure who made him tangible, you or Klaus, but you can't bring yourself to care right now.
"Holy shit." Klaus whispers.
Looking over you see Diego groaning, looking up and staring with wide eyes at the piece of the ceiling that had nearly crushed him. Priorities people!
"Come on you, two we can gawk later, now move!" You order and they quickly get up and follow you. Letting Klaus take the lead you all follow him outside through a fire escape, dodging falling debri along the way. Stopping for a moment in the alleyway, you look up. Ignoring Klaus pulling you into a brief hug, you allow him to check over you and Diego, "You okay? You okay?" He repeats, and when he sees you both looking up, he glances as well, not sure what he's supposed to be looking at.
"Hey!" Diego grabs Klaus' face and forces him to look at him, "You just saved my life, man."
"Okay, great." Diego pulls him into a hug and you and Ben just give him a gobsmacked look.
"Really?" You mouth and point at Ben. He holds his like "What else am I supposed to say?" and returns the hug.
You ignore them both and stare up at Grace, smiling sadly and waving. "Guys, Grace!" You smack Diego in the back and he looks to where your pointing.
"Mom! Mom!" You turn your back and try to keep the tears in as you hear the two of them scream out for her to get out.
"Mom! Get out of there! Get out!" You flinch with every plead. 'I'm so sorry' You think.
"I'm coming after you!" Diego shouts and you let Klaus pull him back from the destruction, hearing their pleas and screams.
You have to clench your fists to keep from rushing back in and trying to save her. There was nothing any of you could have done. Your shield could only last so long and there wasn't enough happiness right now to expand and cover both you and Grace and get out before the building collapsed around you. In a situation like this, there was no way you'd be able to save everyone.
At least, that's what you told yourself. Maybe one day you'll believe it.
You turn back around and watch as the building that you had come to call home for the better part of a week fell apart around you. Windows burst, walls cracked and crumbled, nothing but the moon in the sky to illuminate your surroundings. "Mom!" Diego tries and pull through the rubble and hopefully get her out "Klaus, [Y/N], come help me search!" but you have to physically hold him back with Klaus. "Diego, please." you plead. There's tears pooling in your eyes again. How many times have you cried this week alone?
"Diego. Just stop it. Stop." Klaus is calmer than you thought he would be.
"No, what-what are you- let me go! What are you doing?"
"Stop, stop. She's gone. She's...gone, okay? She's gone." There's a note of finality in his voice that has Diego stunned.
"What do you wanna do? You wanna-wanna...w-w-w-walk away from this?" You shake your head no as Klaus does the same. "No."
"What about Pogo?"
"He didn't make it." Luther's voice causes you to whip over at him in anger. "What?" Klaus breathes out. "Vanya killed him."
Diego shakes his head. "But Vanya wouldn't-"
"I saw it. Just before we got out. And [Y/N] knew it would happen." Your eyes narrow and your fists clench in anger.
"First mom, and now Pogo." Diego sits down in shock and you can feel the anger growing when Five comes rushing in, clutching a newspaper. "Guys! Guys! This is it! The apocalypse is still on, the world ends today!" Your eyes flash blue for a brief moment and Klaus has to grab your hand to try and calm you down.
"I thought you said it was over." Luther asks.
"I was wrong, okay? [Y/N] tried to warn me and I didn't listen. This newspaper, I found it in the future the day I got stuck. The headline hasn't changed." But Diego is shaking his head in denial.
"That doesn't mean anything. The time could have been altered since that newspaper came out this morning." Five grits his teeth in anger.
"You're not listening to me. When I found it, I assumed this place came down along with everything else. But here we are, the moon's still shining, the earths in one piece, but not the Academy."
"Vanya is the bomb." Klaus breathes out and looks at you. You had known, and tried to say something the other day and everyone ignored you, yet again. No wonder you were pissed off right now.
"Listen to me, you idiot!" Five shouts. "Vanya destroys the academy before the Apocalypse." Sighing, he runs his fingers through his hair. "I thought Harold Jenkins was the cause, but he's the Fuse. Vanya is the bomb. Vanya causes the apocalypse....just like [Y/N] said."
And that's the straw that broke the camels back. Your eyes look over everyone, electric blue and furious.
"Yeah, you're right. It IS how I said. And you know what? THIS IS THE RESULT. I told you all that locking Vanya up was a bad idea. I told you all that Harold Jenkins was the catalyst. I told you all that Vanya had powers and she needed to be treated like a sister before anything else. Not ONE of you, besides Klaus and Ben, listened to me. And this is the result of your willful ignorance!" You throw your arms out in emphasis, a shockwave of wind blows out around you, and you cry out in shock. The blue fades from your eyes and you look around warily. "How did I do that?"
The sound of helicopters and sirens draws your attention away, and you ignore whatever Luther was saying to see the police making a beeline for the manor. You feel Klaus pull you away and the two of you plus Ben run off in some random direction, to try and get out of the spotlight, so to speak.
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"Okay, what the hell was that earlier? The whole...shockwavey wind thing?" Klaus, you and Ben were walking to the bowling alley, avoiding taking the main roads and using as many side alleys as you could. "I don't know!" You reply to Ben. Your nerves were still frayed and your hands were shaking. You hold your hand up and see the trembling digits, before interlocking that same hand with Klaus' and squeezing it.
"Well, maybe you have more powers than you thought? Maybe anger makes the shield turn into a shockwave?"
You whip around and glare at Ben. "Ben no offence, but right now, finding out more about my powers is the LAST thing I want to do." You pass by an overturned car, the driver clearly dead and you force yourself to look away from the sight. Great. Vanya's already been here.
"Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Just...hold on, okay?" Klaus grabs your shoulders and forces you to look into his eyes. "It's not the - well okay, it IS the end of the world - but it's not the worst thing out there to find out you can do more than you initially thought. And we don't have to work on it right now!" You scoff and walk off in the direction of the bowling alley, arms hugging yourself. You didn't have time for this.
Klaus turns you around after running to catch up with you, and there's a serious look about him. "What's going on? Talk to me."
Shaking your head, you hug yourself tighter. "This is scaring me more than I thought it would. I-I thought I could handle it, but I can't! And every time I think I have a grasp of my own situation, another rushes out and sweeps me away! I don't know how much more of this I can take! Constantly finding out new things about me, always being blamed for everything going wrong or not telling someone something...how much more crap is the universe going to throw at me?"
Klaus looks at you with sympathetic eyes, and folds you into a hug, you clutching his shoulders instantly. "What is wrong with me?" you whimper.
"Absolutely nothing!" Klaus pulls back and looks into your eyes. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with you! You are [Y/N], my beautiful," a kiss on your lips. "Smart." a kiss on your nose. "incredible sexy universe hopper." a longer kiss on your forehead. "And we are gonna take the time once this whole mess is over, to properly figure things out. As a couple. And I don't know about you, but I want to spend the rest of my life with you, however long that may be."
You smile sadly and pull him into a desperate kiss, clutching his curly locks. You didn't have the heart to tell him what would befall this family, or where they would end up, before this mess had started. It was the naïve hope that you could keep things from reaching this point in the first place. But now?
Now you could at least give him some advanced warning before hand.
Pulling away, you look hard into Klaus' eyes. "About that. There's something you need to know, about what's to come...."
You told me the exact same things we had already been through.
And I never learn.
I don't know which part of me is more hurt. Is the fact I saw this coming and I knew this was going nowhere, but its the fact that I stayed and waited until you decided to destroy me again.
I knew it. I
I keep replaying in my mind how the conversation went, how everything was fine, how you told me you wanted to change things and how you still wanted me if I still chose you.
And then you started saying that no, that you couldn't, that you just couldn't.
It didn't even mattered what I wanted anymore. Once again, I had no choice, I was cornered in taking one, I didn't wanted.
I woke up still thinking how to talk about this with you and I caught myself realizing: oh, that was it
That was it.
I will never talk to you again.
I will never see you again
Your last words to me were: im gonna leave
And mine were: goodbye
I'm still thinking of ways on fixing us. I know I shouldn't.
But I think of calling you, of sending you a message just so we can talk about this again and end up in the same result.
You hurt me.
I'm afraid of letting you see all the damage you caused in me, because you could either never approach me again so you would never hurt mr again, or you could not care and continue to use me me when you need me.
They both terrify me.
I feel so guilty, cause I'm not there and I always told you I was gonna be there. But I also told you that I was gonna do what I had to do to protect myself in the long run, and I know that is letting you go.
The bullet went straight into Glace's chest as a red gas escapes from her mouth and she falls onto the ground. Her were back to normal as she seemed to being coughing some black blood.
“Holy shit,” Abe said, and suddenly Wil and Dark turned around, as if suddenly remembering that the two of them were still in the room.“It appears we still have two intruders left,” Dark said, illiciting a manic grin from Wil.“I’d be delighted to fix that,” Wil said, and leveled his still smoking gun to aim it at Abe.@ynkilled
