MHA # 2 | Sunday Evening

[knife_bender]

The whole family dinner thing had not been Diego's idea. In fact he made it abundantly clear that he thought it would be a disaster. But it was three against one, so Diego ordered a couple pizzas and invited Five and his abomination over to eat with them.

This was the weirdest goddamn weekend.

[For Hargreeves and Hargreeves adjacent]

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[knife_bender]

"Yeah, won't it cause some kind of paradox?" Where was Five to explain this?

[knife_lights]

"Pff." Autumn waved a hand, not really answering that question. It totally would create a paradox, probably, but also, like, she didn't want to outright lie to her dad? "Oh, here's a bunch of pictures of my friend's dog. I took like a hundred the one day we hung out."

So they'd have to scroll through those for awhile in order to find this mysterious family photo, of course.

[knife_lights]

And there went Ben, casually leaving towards the living room with a margarita in his hand. Mission: Accomplished.

Maybe.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Like, impressive, children. Annie was distracted enough by cute dog pictures and impending paradox-inducing ones that she almost didn't notice her margarita wandering off.

Almost.

"Wait one second, there, Ben," she called, pushing Autumn's phone aside. "Nice try."

[knife_bender]

"That was a nice try," Diego said. "I think we would have noticed if you were drunk at the dinner table though."

[knife_lights]

"Who gets drunk off of half a margarita?" Autumn asked, before very swiftly adding, "I mean, I've heard that's not a lot."

From adult people.

[knife_lights]

"Smooth," Ben said under his breath.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"That is a very cute dog," Annie informed Autumn, taking her drink back. "Wasn't cute enough. And you probably shouldn't show us that picture."

Or maybe there'd never even been a picture at all!

[knife_bender]

"Agreed," he said. "Only to avoid your mom seeing me with long hair and actually liking it."

[knife_lights]

"Gross," Autumn declared cheerfully. "But like, spoilers, think she probably does."

She made a face to offset this revelation.

[knife_lights]

Ben's grossed out face looked remarkably like his sister's. "Ugh, gross."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I'm having trouble picturing it," Annie said, both truthfully and diplomatically, "but I think that just means that maybe I'll get to be surprised someday."

Or that her version of Diego would just have short hair forever, and she was fine with that, too.