MHA #2 | Wednesday Evening

[knife_bender]

It wasn't often that Diego spoke to Pogo, less often that Pogo called him, so when his phone rang that evening he knew that it was probably important.

And it was.

"He what?" Diego asked. "That's not--I just saw him."

...

"What do you mean he hasn't left the house in---oh." It all made sense now, why his father had visited last weekend. It was easy to brush off as a coincidence at the time since he hadn't known he was dead. Now...

"When's the funeral?" he asked. "Okay. Okay, I'll be there."

Diego hung up a few moments later and immediately shot off a text to Five. This was news best told in person.

[For a few!]

Comments

[defenderofdesmoines]

"He might surprise you," Annie offered. "And if he's awful, I'll do something bad to the guest room next time he stays over."

It was useless to try to outright ban Five from the apartment. Annie knew this.

[knife_bender]

"I totally support that," he said, kissing her again. "Even if he's not awful, please do it."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I'll switch all the coffee in the apartment to decaf and not tell him," Annie threatened. "We can do that over the weekend."

It would cheer everyone up after this funeral!

[knife_bender]

"Perfect," he said. "And it'll be really hard to kill you when he inevitably tries."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I would honestly pay money to see Five try to fight me," Annie told him, considering that. Like, he could dodge her blasts and shove her aggressively like A-Train had, but it wasn't like an axe was going to do much to her other than piss her off. "But he'll be too sleepy, anyway."

This was why this was a brilliant plan, really.

[knife_bender]

"He'd have to resort to psychological torture," he said. "Which I also think you could handle, since he'd be tired."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Yes, see?" Annie nodded wisely. "This way, we psychologically torture him first. Especially since he probably won't even know it's different."

This wasn't bad for baby's first psychological torture-slash-playful prank, right?

[knife_bender]

Diego laughed. "Wow, I didn't realize you had such a dark side. I'm scared, now."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Look at that: she got him to laugh. This was what Annie could help with. Right here.

"You shouldn't be. We're a team," Annie assured him with a small smile as she leaned up to kiss him again. "United front."

[knife_bender]

"Always," he said, kissing her.