Stanley tries to do karate which is not going so well. Diego is on the floor drained out and tired.
"I'm so confused."

Five leans on the pool table tired as well.
"Shocking."

I sigh sitting on a chair listening to Viktor state the obvious.
"Well, someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn't exist. But clearly, we do exist, and the universe can't handle it, which is a problem."

Five shakes his head while drinking black coffee.
"Big problem."
I look over to Five while he's drinking his coffee and roll my eyes.
Gosh, this family's complicated but at the same time I can't be talking.

Stanley attempts to do a high kick in the air but is stopped but none other than his dad.
"Stanley! Now is not the time to be doing karate, okay?" "Mom said I need to practice."
Diego begins throwing his knife up in the air and lecturing his son or should I say insulting him.
"Yeah, well, she's not wrong. You're very bad."
"Well, I saved your pathetic ass."
I giggle and go up to Stanley and high-fived him
"Look at you saving your idiot excuse of a father."
Diego rolls his eyes at my comment. Five looks at me clenching his jaw. What's up with him?

Allison interrupts our conversation by focusing on the important stuff.
"Okay, hold on. Five, so we caused a paradox. What does that mean?"
"It's hard to say. It's all been theoretical until now, but things have started to disappear."
"What things?"
"Right now? Uh, lobsters."  Klaus adds onto what Five was expressing "And a sh¡t ton of cows!"
Five sighs glancing at me with a worried expression.
"But I have a feeling this is just the beginning."
Allison puts on a bitchy face tired of all this end-of-the-world shit. "A feeling? Aren't you retired?"
"I want nothing more."
Allison steps ahead pointing her finger at Five outraged she then proceeds to collect herself and then completely fails.
"You know, you can't drag us through hell because you have an itch only an apocalypse can scratch and then expect us to deal with the fallout. You're not the boss."

I cross my legs and arms listening in on their discussion, which is slowly boring me.
Five clenches his fists and whisper shouts at Allison.
"Fine, I'm the messenger, and I'm telling you something terrible is coming."
"Then let's go attack the Sparrows, get the briefcase, and go home."
I look over at the green-eyed boy and see him look up at Allison with a mixed expression of sadness and blankness.
"This is our home, Allison. Accept it."

As I stand somewhat close to Stanley I watch him attempt to do who knows what and he breaks this wooden table.
"That's it! I'm telling your mom."
Stanley snaps back with sarcasm while looking up at his dad unfazed.
"Ooh!"
I nudge Stan as a sign to unwind and he took the hint and whispers
"Geez sorry."

Five turns to Diego with a confused expression.
"Wait, where's Lila?"
"Shower. I told her she could stay with us."
"Wait. When did Lila get back?"
Five grabs his things to leave but I don't pay attention as their whole conversation is boring me.
Everything just shuts out and I zone out in my own thoughts.

"Five, where you going?"
"Go talk to somebody who only has half her head up her ass."
Klaus whines practically begging Five not to go.
"Don't leave, Five. Don't leave."
Five calmly replies strolling away.
"No, Klaus. I'm leaving."
Five sighs then takes one last glance at me and disappears into the hallway.

Viktor turns around to face everyone else.
"I mean, he has a good track record with this stuff. I feel like we should listen to him."
"Sure. Hey, quick question."

Stanley continues trying to learn karate and I snap out of my thoughts and hear Stanley shouting.
"Cobra Kai! Yeah!"
I examine my surroundings confused as to where Five took off to but I shifted my attention back to Stanley and his karate obsession.

Klaus grabs a beer and the book and scans everyone in the room attempting to get everyone's engagement.
"Do none of you heartless bastards care about our murdered moms?"
Diego points out so blankly that it makes me chuckle.
"Klaus, the only one that we knew plugged into a wall."
Klaus opens the book and places it next to his face demonstrating his point.
"Oh yeah? Well, this is my real mother. And she's called Rachel. And I have her eyes. See? Come on! We need to find out who did this! This is the thing! This is the main thing!"
Diego slams his hands down on the surface and almost shouts.
"Is that all you want?"
"Yeah."
"Cause it's obviously Dad, all right? He knew where we were born. He hated us in '63. Boom. Murders."
"You think Dad is capable of killing innocent people?"

Diego guffaws tilting his head slightly.
"Absolutely. Oh, it's Murder City, buddy."
"Yeah, I guess so."
Just as Klaus says that the big ape man wanders in with a sparrow tote bag and drink.
"Little late for a meeting, pal."
"I was being held captive. By the Sparrows."
"What? Wait."
"Did none of you notice?"
I chimed in finally interested.
"What's his name again?"
Stan proceeds to do high kicks and answers
"I think his name is Luthy or something."

"We're happy you're home safe and sound."
"Yeah."
"Oh my God."

Allison rolls her eyes at her family along with glaring at every one of them.
"Stop lying."

"Oh yeah. Okay. Nice."
"Did they hurt you?"
"Who? The Sparrows? God, no. Not at all. Excellent hosts. Really quite charming, actually. Oh, and you should see their gym. Outstanding! I really think we got these guys all wrong."
Klaus and Luther drink at the same time and look at each other.

Allison holds up a soundtrack of the sparrows.
"Says the guy they kidnapped."
It then finally hit me that my family kidnapped an umbrella. I walk up to Luthy and question him.
"Wait Luthy my family kidnapped you?"
"My name is Luther but yes, they kidnapped me."
Allison rolls her eyes at me.
"Stop acting like your family isn't capable of doing that."
I clench my fists and begin to acknowledge her eristicness. "I never said they weren't so shut it, lady."
I motion my hand for her to shush so I can question Luther. "What did they want?"

"Oh. Marcus. He's missing. They want him back. Unharmed." Viktor looks at Allison and then at Luther
"We don't have him."
"Well, damn. I was hoping we'd solve that one quickly and then move on to problem number two. Disappearing people."
Once again Stan ruins the moment by breaking a vase.
Stanley puts the stick in his left hand and his voice becomes a little shaky.
"Ooh! Uh, it was... it was the wind."

Luther looks at his family with a questionable expression sipping on his drink.
"Who's the kid?"
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Still Vanessa's pov

Me, Stan, and Diego are walking through the hallways while Diego lectures Stan. I was mostly thinking about Marcus. I should be at home looking for him. I couldn't help but think it was my fault, what if it was because the was looking for me.

Diego grabs Stanley's back and continues
"Discipline. That's what you need to learn. When I was your age, I was up at dawn, all right? I was training, honing my skills. The biggest thing, I was becoming a real man."
"Right."
I butt in giggling at Diegos remarks
"Don't worry Stan what your dad meant was that he was becoming a boy."
Stan chuckles and Diego grabs my wrist maddened
"Vanessa stop being a bad influence on my son before I toss you out the window."
I roll my eyes at the challenge Diego just brought to himself. Don't get me wrong he's a good fighter but his imagination is higher then his addict brother.
"Stan sorry in advance."

I turn invisible and go behind Diego as he is clueless as to where I am so I use my foot to push him forward I grab this vase in the hallway and break it on his head and turn visible kicking his face causing him to fall.
"I'm sorry what was that Diego?"
Stan stands there in amazement cheering the fight on.
"Woahh."
I pat his shoulder encouraging him.
"I think you should check up on your dad."
Diego groans in pain holding his head that's bleeding.
"My ass hurts."
"Maybe you shouldn't wear those tight pants then."
I can't help but giggle at his words.

Diego eventually gets up and we all see Lila come out of the bathroom.
"Lila?"
"Hmm?"
"You need to take this kid with you."
We then shortly see Five come out as well.
"The hell were you doing in there?"
My exact thought.
Lila stands next to Diego with a towel wrapped around her. "Bathing." "Together?" Diego interrogates
"Oh, okay. Diego, we don't have time for this. Lila, Vanessa, and I have got important sh¡t to do."
Diego tried to stop the blonde-haired woman from going anywhere.
"Wait. What's more important than family?"
Lila greets her child while attempting to walk away.
"Hey, love."
"End of the world, genius."
Five walks away and grabs my wrist. "Hey let go of me, you idiot." "We need to go." "I'm not going anywhere with you."

Diego grabs Lila's hands in hopes to convince her because, after all they have a connection, he's never felt with anyone ever.
"Lila? What's more important than us?"
"There is no us, Diego."
Diego pulls Lila away being persistent
"Come here."

Five drags me into the elevator but I step away annoyed. Five grabs my wrist and pulls me into this hallway.
"We need you for this Vanessa stop resisting."
"Mhm okay well I can't I'm occupied."
I get out of his grasp and attempt to walk away again but Five brings me back and clutches onto my arms.
"We need to go to the commission to see what's going on since the briefcase isn't working. This is really bad timing to be grumpy, just get in the elevator."

I inhale deeply trying to figure myself out, it's like since I saw him walk out of the bathroom with Lila I've felt strange and bothered.
I slapped his hands away and walk out of the hallway into the elevator laying my back on the elevator wall while crossing my arms together with a bitter facial expression. Five gets in soon after me and stands beside me. I noticed him staring at me from the corner of my eye with a worried look plastered on his face.

I can't help but overhear Lila and Diego's conversation, or argument?
"The only relationship we have left is the one with our child. So you better not screw that up."

"Wait! What am I supposed to do with him, huh? I got important shit going on too!"

Lila gets in and positions herself right in front of me.
"I doubt that. Figure it out, Diego. Be a dad."
The elevator door shuts due to Five pressing the button.

We reach this place with a unreal amount of wires.
"So got any ideas?"

"Why don't you try to start the briefcase with your power along with those wires over there like I don't maybe combine both, your power along with the wires might help start the briefcase."

I definitely knew that wasn't gonna work but I urged him to do it to make him suffer.

Five obeys my suggestion without a doubt and gets everything ready.

Lila leans on a metal box inspecting Five from head to toe.
"Nice suit."

Five fixed his suit as a way to show it off to which I gave him an eye roll.
"Thanks. Tailor in the lobby is a master craftsman."

Lila chuckles and nudges Five as a way of teasing him.
"Still, I will miss those pasty knees."

Weird.

Five sarcastically smiles throwing shade to the brown eyed woman.
"Yeah, well, we could all stand to be showing a little less skin these days."

Lila hands over tools to the boy while he is completing the finishing touches.
"For you."
"Yeah."
I lean on the closest wall crossing my arms yet again.
"Ready to hot-wire this briefcase?"
"Let's do this."
I push the button and Five begins to feel the energy run through him causing him pain not to mention his attempt to use his powers. "Ah shit! shit! Vanessa. shit!"

Five groans in pain while me and Lila sit there laughing our asses off.
I step out of the room still giggling and sit down watching Five recover. Lila claps her hands together laughing.

I glance at Five and confess while swinging my feet.
"Yeah, I was 99% convinced that wouldn't work."
He darts his green eyes at me catching his breath.
"Well, I'm glad my pain amuses you."
"You know I think it may be the one thing that cures my sadness."

Five sighs in disappointment then glares at me for a few moments before leaving around.
"Well, now we are down to one half-dead briefcase, and my jumps are only accurate up to a couple minutes. So, essentially, we're screwed."

"Hmm, you sure about that?"
I begin smiling cheekily while teasing the boy that is located in front of me.

"Oh god, I hate that smile."

I jump off my seat and smirk at the green-eyed boy.
"Listen, on your own, your little jumps are relatively tragic. But if we all use our powers together, you blinking, Lila mimicking that blink, and me also attempting to blink I think we could produce some kind of feedback loop and get sufficient juice to jump-start the case."

Lila gives me a confused expression to my last statement. "How do you know what my power is?"

"Diego brought it up while we were spending some time with your son."
Lila tried to hide her little smile but completely failed.

Five rolls his eyes and resumes the conversation.
"All of us together."

Lila also rolls her eyes glaring at none other then Five.
"We'd have to trust each other."
"Lila, you just spent the better part of the last ten days trying to end my life."

Lila shouts out to Five with a manner that showed she was hurt. "You killed my birth parents."

I lay my head back to hit the wall sighing at their bickering.

Five had no choice but to agree because I mean, it was reasonable.
"Fair enough."

"And your entire family stood by while that greasy Swede put a cap in the woman who raised me."

Five took a few steps closer to Lila while raising his voice. "The Handler was going to kill you, Lila. In fact, she did kill you. Then I rolled back time and let the meatball do his work. Oh, and by the way, if you're leading Diego on as payback for what happened in Texas, you're pissing up the wrong ladder there 'cause that idiot may actually love you. The Handler never did." 

As Five turns around, Lila has teary eyes and snaps at him. "What do you know? You spent years shagging a mannequin."

IM SORRY, WHAT?

Five aggressively walks up to Lila pointing his finger at her. "Do not talk about Delores like that, Lila."
"This is insane. There is no way we're gonna get past this to make it to the Commission."

Five sighs then takes a minute to calm down before speaking. "Okay, perhaps we can't get to trust, but there is a certain honesty in white-hot hatred."

Lila gives Five a smug look before walking towards him. "Then come over here, you god-awful little shit. And hold my hand."
Lila walks near the door holding her hand out waiting for Five to grab it. Five ignored Lila's last remark and took hold of my hand and pulled me into the room.

Lila inspects everything to make sure everything is going well. "Okay, relax."

Five shudders his head in disgust. I look over to him and crack up at his expression but Five sadly noticed and shoved me.
"I can't Lila. Your breath is terrible."

Lila clenches her fist in excitement then put sit up in the air. "Garlic is for winners. Enough foreplay!"

"This is so stupid."
I nudge Five annoyingly while scowling at him.
"Hey don't call my plan stupid dipshit."
We all place our hands down and use our powers.

Lila shouts with encouragement while clearly suffering too."That's it. Let me in!"

Five groans barely getting words out. "I can't! It's too much!"

I yelp at the immense amount of exhaustion I felt.
"This is really tiring me out."

"Don't bitch out on me now guys!"

Five raises his head still struggling.
"I hate you so much!"
"Then get this right, or it's you, me, and Vanessa in the Stone Age forever! Now! Do it now!"
I use up all my energy and focus. Shit does this take a lot of work but I have to keep going.

We successfully blinked to the middle of nowhere.
I finally blinked and on my first try too.
I land on Five and quickly get up. I feel snow landing on me and I feel pretty cold.
Five looks at me annoyed and begins blabbering.
"Oh, brilliant idea, Vanessa. Welcome to the Ice Age."

I turn around smirking looking at a building that most likely might be the commission.
"Would like to welcome you there but I'm pretty sure that we're definitely in the right place you shitheel."

Five whispers still holding the briefcase.
"The Commission. shit."
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ANOTHER CHAPTER DOWNN

2 chapters in less than 24 hours is crazyy
Anyways guys
THAT'S A WRAP FOR CHAPTER 7
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