Hargreeves Manson | Day

[knife_bender]

For those of you keeping count: Vanya was missing, Allison had gone after her, Diego was in jail, which left Luther, Klaus and Five holding down the fort. And Luther barely counted, he was so hungover at the moment.

Luther	Luther was pretty sure he was dying. It had taken a lot of alcohol to get him drunk last night and now he regretted every single one of his life choices that led him here today. It'd be easier to deal with if Klaus wasn't making so much damn noise right now..
Klaus	Having the most experience of, well, anyone in this house (and probably this block, maybe even the city!) in dealing with hangovers, Klaus already had a cup of coffee ready to give to Luther. Like a good brother would! "Here we go, this will fix ya."
Five	Whiiiiich of course meant that a newly patched up Five was taking the cup from his hand before Luther could even take a sip. "Jesus, who do I have to kill to get a decent cup of coffee?"
Luther	Luther hated you, Five. Hated you so much. "Can we just get started?"
Klaus/Ben	"Anyone seen the others?" Klaus asked and was met with both blank and unimpressed stares. "Diego? Allison? No? All right then, this is the closest thing we'll get to a quorum that we're gonna get. Now, listen up. There's no way to say this, so I'm just gonna spit it out." By talking around it a bit first. "This is a bad idea," Ben chimed in. Because it really was. Why wouldn't anyone (meaning Klaus) listen to him? "Yeah," Klaus agreed, but continued on anyway. "I conjured Dad last night."
Luther	Luther really was too hungover for this shit right now. "You said you haven't been able to conjure anyone in years."
Klaus	"Ah, yes, but I'm sober!" He posed a little to let them know it was the honest to god truth for once. "Ta-da! I got clean yesterday to talk to someone special, and then ended up having this conversation with dear old daddy himself."
Luther	"Has anyone got any aspirin?" This was awful. He was never going to drink again.
Five	"Top shelf, next to the crackers," Five said, drinking his absolutely terrible coffee because he wasn't a quitter.
Klaus	"Hey, hey this is serious guys, alright?" Klaus said, watching both of them, you know, not take it seriously at all. You cried wolf just a couple times and suddenly no one listened to you! "This really happened, I swear."
Five	Five sighed and tried not to roll his eyes, but the vibe was totally there. "Alright, I'll play. What did the old man have to say?"
Klaus	"Well he gave me the usual lecture about my appearance and my failures in life," Klaus said like that was just a given for their father. "Yada yada yada. No surprise there. Even in the afterlife couldn't soften a hardass like Dad, right? But he did mention something about his murder. Or lack thereof. Because--" At least Ben was willing to play along with a, "Wait for it." "He killed himself," Klaus finished like the pièce de résistance. Because it was. It really was.
Luther	... "I don't have time for your games, Klaus."
Klaus	"I'm telling you the truth, Luther. I'm telling you the truth," Klaus insisted, trying to express it as much as he could with an open expression.
Five	Call Five the cynic of the family (because he was) because he actually started to consider that idea. "Why'd he do it then?"
Klaus	"He said it was the only way to get us all home again." And look at that! It was true, wasn't it?
Luther	That was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. And Klaus said a lot of ridiculous things. "No. Dad wouldn't just kill himself."
Five	Yeah, but now he had Five on his side for this argument. Did that help or hinder it? "You said yourself he was depressed. Holed up in his office all day and night."
Luther	Dad was always in his office, it's the only way you avoided seven kids! "There weren't any signs," Luther said, shaking his head. "Suicidal people exhibit certain tendencies, strange behaviors."
Klaus	"Like sending someone to the moon for no reason," Klaus chimed in. Because yeah, yeah, Luther was annoying and all and never gave him money or anything, but... that had to suck.
Luther	Rude, Klaus. Super rude. "I swear to god, Klaus, if you're lying..."
Klaus	"I'm not!" Klaus replied immediately. "I'm not!"
Pogo	That was when Pogo decided to make his presence known. Usually he stayed behind during family arguments, but he wanted to take Klaus' side when he was correct for once. "Master Klaus is correct," Pogo said. "Regretfully, I helped Master Hargreeves enact his plan."
Luther	Oh Pogo, you were already on his shitlist already, don't make it worse. "What?"
Pogo	"So did Grace," he said. "It was a difficult choice for both of us. More difficult than you could ever know. Prior to your father's death, Grace's programming was adjusted so that she was incapable of administering first aid on that fateful night."
Five	"Sick bastard," Five scoffed, finding himself thoroughly unsurprised that a control freak like their father would go out that way.
Luther	This was all sorts of screwed up. "So the security tape we saw...?"
Pogo	"It was meant to further the murder mystery." In a very confusing, unnecessary way. "Your father hoped that being back here, solving it together, would reignite your desire to be a team again." See how it worked? See?
Five	"To what end?" Because that was a dumb plan and Five had heard some real dumb plans before.
Pogo	"To save the world, of course." Like Sir Reginald had been preparing them for their entire lives.
Klaus	You know, if he wanted that, maybe he shouldn't have messed them all up so badly. "Alright," Klaus said kinda dubiously.
Luther	"First the moon mission, now this," Luther said, getting up from the kitchen table, "You watched me search for answers and said nothing. Anything else you want to share, Pogo? Any more secrets?"
Klaus	"Hey, calm down, Luther." You know it's bad when Klaus was trying to be the reasonable one here.
Luther	"No, I won't calm down," he said. "We've been lied to by the one person in this family that we trusted!"
Pogo	Pogo looked genuinely hurt by that outburst. "It was your father's dying wish, Master Luther. I...I had no choice."
Luther	Luther shook his head, which only made his hangover worse. "There's always a choice." It was hard to flounce effectively when you were as big as he was, but he managed it.

Five	After Luther flounced off to be upset to learn that their father was, in fact, the worst, Five was stuck trying to rally the troops. Which mostly just meant Klaus. He knocked on Klaus' door before another brother could pull a runner on him or something. "Hey, get up. We're going." To, you know, go save the world and their sister.
Klaus	"Where?" It was like he couldn't see the narrative or something.
Five	"To save the world." Now shut up and accept that he was trying to be a team player here.
Klaus	"Oh, is that all? Great," Klaus replied. Because if the world rest on his and a terrifying 13 year old's shoulders... yikes.
Five	"So Pogo said Dad killed himself to get us all back together, right?" Five said, mostly just to get it out there. "It got me thinking, I had to jump to the future to figure out when it happened, but Dad, he can't time travel. So how'd the crazy bastard know to kill himself a week before the end of the world?"
Klaus	Ooo, that was an interesting question! "Well, you know--" Klaus began.
Five	Five cut him off to save his brain cells from dying out of self defense. "Don't answer, that was purely rhetorical. Truth is, our whole lives he's been telling us we'd save the world from an impending apocalypse."
Klaus	Probably for the best. "Yeah, but I always thought he said that to scare us into doing the dishes," Klaus admitted.
Five	"Me too. But what if the old man really knew it was going to happen?" What if there really was more to this than either of them knew. Well, mostly Five. He didn't think Klaus knew much at all.
Klaus	Rude, but fair. "Yeah, but knew how?" He wasn't omnipotent. At least hopefully he wasn't.
Five	"No idea," Five admitted. Which was painful, but there they were. "But the fact remains that his fakakta plan worked. We all came home. We're here, we might as well save the world." Best inspirational speech ever, right?
Klaus	Ehhh. Could use some work. "Oh yeah, like the two of us?" Klaus asked. Well, technically three.
Five	"Well ideally, no, but I've got to work with what I've got." And what he had was Klaus. God help them.
Diego	Diego must have had some sort of charm, because he managed to talk his way out of jail. He went back to the mansion and headed straight to his room, intent on loading up on more knives.
Five	"Where have you been?" Look, he'd been unconscious for that whole thing.
Diego	"Jail, long story." Well, not that long. "Where's Luther?"
Five	"Haven't seen him since breakfast," Five replied. With how a mountain of an ape-man managed to flounce out.
Klaus	"Yeah, two days before the world ends and he picks a great time to drop off the grid," Klaus agreed.
Diego	Oh great. "Shit. Allison is in danger." And so was Annie, but Diego knew it would be harder to take her down.

Luther	Okay, just ignore any previous narrative about Luther never drinking again. Because he was currently at the nearby bar drinking again. Fuck Pogo, fuck Dad, fuck this entire family.
Klaus	Okay, gross. But you know, they all were aware of the weird sexual tension between Allison and Luther. "Trying a little hair of the dog, are we?" Klaus said, coming up beside Luther.
Luther	"Leave me alone." Let him drink away thirty years of lies, please. He had to catch up to the rest of you guys.
Diego	This was pathetic. He looked over at Klaus and Five. "Give us a minute."
Klaus	"Yeah, okay," Klaus said, leaning over in Five's direction. "Maybe they'll brood each other to death." It was possible, you know!
Diego	Truth be told, he just really didn't want Five or Klaus hearing him while he tried to appeal to Luther. It might get embarrassing and sappy. "Look, Dad was wrong to lie to you. To lie to all of us."
Luther	"Look, I did my time, all right? Four years, watching and waiting, because he said the world needs me," Luther said. "Four years of nothing but soy paste and processed air because I was naïve enough to believe that dads don't lie to their kids." God, he was an idiot. "But guess what? The joke's on me. I'm done. With all of it. With him. With you. With this entire family," he said. "You want to save the world, you go right ahead, but I'm going to sit here and finish my beer."
Diego	Diego sighed. "You want to turn your back on me, the guys, that's fine. But Allison deserves better than that."
Luther	"Allison?" Yeah, that would get his attention. "What are you talking about?"
Diego	"Turns out Vanya's boyfriend is Harold Jenkins, a convicted murderer," Diego said. "Who would have seen that coming? It's a little hard to trust anyone who wears corduroy."
Luther	God, they had relationship issues in this family. "Wait, where's Allison now?"
Diego	"She decided to go after Harold Jenkins." With his girlfriend, hopefully.
Luther	Luther got up immediately. "Why didn't you start with that?"

[NFI, NFB, OOC is fine. Taken from 1x08 "I Heard a Rumor" and preplayed with apocalypsehow]