Light As A Feather..Diego Hargreeves

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The Man Child's Back

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You will learn a bit later in this chapter as too why there is a picture of a necklace at the top. It was inspired by Newt's necklace from the Maze Runner and for future reference this is what Maria's necklace looks like. I know it's confusing right now but you'll know what I'm talking about later.

present !

⸺WHEN MARIA AND KLAUS LEFT, THEY went up to Klaus's room. Maria sat down on his bed and Klaus was looking around his room for something. "Hey, Klaus, what are you doing?"

"Looking for a rope." Maria hesitated a little bit. "Why are you looking for a rope?"

"So then I won't get high."

"How is a rope supposed to help you?"

"Well, if you tie me up, then I can't get to my drugs, and then I'll get sober and I can see Dave. You know when we were being tortured, and they tied me up? That was the most sober I've been since I was a kid."

"Klaus, there's better ways to get sober."

"I know, but I need someone to take away my options."

"Klaus, I'm not gonna tie you up."

"Maria, you promised you would help me with everything."

"I did, but Klaus, there are better ways. You don't even have your drugs anymore."

"I know, but I'll go and buy more."

"No, you won't because I'm with you the whole time, so you won't be able to go."

"Okay, how about this? You take an hour to yourself because you need it. I mean, the entire time you've been back from that war, you've been shoving it off like nothing happened and your letting your emotions build up. Take an hour and I will not go and buy any drugs for an hour."

"Do you seriously think you can go without me for an hour?"

"I will try and if I do, I will just remember that my little flower believes in me." He gave her a little smile and Maria knew he was up to something, but he was right. She did need some time alone. She went up to her and Ben's room and looked at the bookshelf. They had it organized so that whatever books they finished went on the right of the bookshelf and the ones they wanted to read were on the left side. She looked over them all and realized they read all of the books at least twice.

She looked over at Ben's desk and there was a picture of the two of them hugging with giant smiles on their face. She smiled a bit and let out a tiny laugh, but her face dropped. She went over to her closet and got changed out of her sweats and hoodie. She has had a rough couple of days so she was just not caring about what she looked like. She got changed into black leggings, a cropped tight black tank top and a white oversized zip up hoodie. It was so big on her that one side hung off her shoulder. She saw some paper and a pencil on the desk and she sat down in front of it.

She started sketching just whatever came to mind. She didn't even really know what she was drawing she was just sort of letting the pencil do it's own thing. About forty five minutes later she finished drawing. She looked at the paper and realized what she drew. She drew Diego. She looked at the page confused. How did I end up drawing Diego?

She was proud of it because it was pretty good and maybe she didn't mind it. She took the picture out of the frame of her and Ben. She looked in the drawers of the desk and found a small tube necklace. She took the picture and the drawing and rolled them into the small tube. She put the necklace around her neck. She was about to walk back down stairs when suddenly....

8:15 again !

"Hold on, hold the phone. We all died fighting this thing the first time around. Remember?" Diego then spoke up with something nobody ever thought they would hear him say. "Klaus shockingly has a point. What gives us a win this time?"

Suddenly Five appeared out of thin air and fell on top of the bar. "Je-Jesus!"

"Hey look, the man child's back!"

"You guys, am I still high, or do you see him too?"

"Five, where have you been?" He rolled off the bar with a briefcase. He grabbed Allison's coffee and she just looked at him with a confused look. "Are you alright?"

"Who did this?"

"Irrelevant." Maria gave Allison her coffee since she hated it and Allison nodded at her, silently saying thank you. Allison poured it into a glass and drank a bit of it. Luther then spoke up. "So, the apocalypse is in three days. The only chance we have to save our world is, well us. The Umbrella Academy."

"Yeah, but with me, obviously. So if you all don't get your sideshow acts together and get over yourselves, we're screwed. Who cares if dad messed us up? Are we gonna let that define us? No. And to give us a fighting chance to see next week, I've come back with a lead. I know who's responsible for the apocalypse." He was about to hand them a piece of paper with the name on it, but Maria spoke up. "Harold Jenkins."

Everyone looked at her and Five looked at her impressed and confused. "How did you know that?"

"Well, it wasn't that hard. There are six supernatural beings in this town so, generally, all of the energy of an apocalypse would have to happen near us, so the person who caused it would have to be near us. So I calculated the exact time that everyone who lives within an eight mile radius of this house, where they will be in around three days and I found that only one person leaves the eight mile radius with Vanya. Which seemed a bit odd to me and after that, theoretically, if the apocalypse had never happened, he would never come back, thus starting the apocalypse because if he did come back, then he couldn't have encountered the apocalypse. So yeah, Harold Jenkins!" Everyone looked at her with now the same expression Five had. "What, I got bored."

"Well, actually you're completely right." Diego looked back at Five. "Okay, well, since she's right, who the hell is Harold Jenkins?"