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Luther was on the moon when he got the message.
Diego was doing his best Batman impression.
Allison was on the red carpet.
Klaus was proudly showing his best attempt at frosting to his chuckling husband.
Five was in the future, that tended to numb things a bit.
Ben was standing behind Klaus, rolling his eyes at his ridiculous brother.
Vanya was walking down the side of the street.
They all decided that it’d be best to return to their childhood home.
-
“Did you remember to pack everything.” Dave asked as Klaus set his suitcase on their doorstep.
“Yes love.” Klaus chuckled. “You worry too much, it’s three days away and then you’ll be joining me for the rest of the week.”
“And I’ll be there.” Ben added.
“Thank you Ben.” Dave sighed with a smile at the currently visible ghost.
“Hey!” Klaus exclaimed. “I can take care of myself just fine!”
This was, of course, said with a dramatic flip of his boa-scarf that ended with Klaus nearly tripping over his suitcase.
“Of course dear.” Dave chuckled as Ben laughed behind him and Klaus pouted.
-
“It’s been awhile.” Klaus sighed as he stared up at the gates in front of them.
“I’d be thrilled if it was longer.” Ben said dryly.
“I wouldn’t complain if I didn’t have to be here either.” Klaus sighed as he headed up the steps.
Klaus had got there before anyone but Luther and he had no desire to talk to that particular brother first, so Klaus wandered into Reginald’s office. There wasn’t much of interest there, mostly expensive and pointless trinkets set next to files. Klaus was sitting with the window open flicking through one file in particular- mainly the bit about him and how disappointing his father found him when Luther stormed in.
This was unfortunate for a variety of reasons that all lead back to the fact that Luther storming into the room caused Klaus to promptly and accidentally drop the file out the window and into the garbage below just as a particularly unpleasant person walked by. It’s a shame, a lot of effort could have been saved if Luther had just waited the two minutes it would have taken Klaus to set the file down.
“Klaus.” Luther growled. “What are you doing up here?”
“A bit of light reading.” Klaus smiled innocently at his brother.
“Get out of his office.” Luther demanded.
Klaus rolled his eyes and complied.
-
The family meeting went just great.
“So do you think Luther actually thinks that one of us killed dad?” Ben sighed from his spot on the kitchen counter.
“Hmm, maybe.” Klaus sighed from his spot sprawled out across the table glaring at Reginald’s ashes.
“You don’t have to summon him.” Ben said softly.
“I know.” Klaus frowned.
“He wasn’t murdered, you heard Diego about the coroner's report.” Ben said.
“Yeah, but… would it help them?” Klaus bit his lip. “Or would being able to talk to him just make it worse?”
“With this family? Who the hell knows?” Ben replied honestly.
“Too true!” Klaus laughed brightly.
Any further contemplation was cut short when the room began to shake.
“What the hell?” Ben muttered, jumping down from his perch.
“Well, let’s go see what they’ve done now.” Klaus said brightly, grabbing a fire extinguisher on the way out.
It turned out to be Five, back to looking thirteen and just as arrogant as Klaus remembered. However, it turned out that he was just as observant too.
“Nice dress.” Five commented as he looked up at the assembled siblings.
“Danke.” Klaus grinned.
Then Five looked closer and a look of surprise crossed his face.
“When did you get married?” Five asked curiously.
There were several chocking sounds behind Klaus and Alison of all people replied.
“I’m not married anymore.” She said stiffly.
“I know, you’re not wearing a ring.” Five rolled his eyes. “Therefore I wasn’t taking to you.”
“A little over two years ago.” Klaus replied.
Diego stiffened beside him as if several things had suddenly aligned in his head at once and he was not thrilled with the implications of this new information.
“Sorry about the lack of an invite, but fate was very much against any of you lot coming.” Klaus said dramatically. “I ended up in the ER when I tried to talk to Vanya, never even made it to the door.”
“You tried to invite me?” Vanya asked softly.
“Of course, you’re my sister.” Klaus said bluntly. “I figured I should have some living family there. Ben’s speech was very touching though.”
“It had better been, I worked hard on that.” Ben muttered from where he was curiously hovering over Five.
Klaus laughed at that.
“There’s no need to bring Ben into this.” Luther snapped.
“What are you talking about?” Five frowned. “Why wouldn’t Ben go to his wedding?”
“Klaus can’t see Ben.” Alison said softly, as if breaking bad news.
“When he’s high.” Five rolled his eyes. “And he’s clearly sober. Not even Klaus would show up high on his wedding day.”
“Then you can summon dad!” Luther exclaimed.
“I’m getting coffee.” Five sighed, jumping away.
“Fuck you Luther.” Klaus said bluntly and promptly stormed out of the room.
“Klaus, wait!” Diego shouted after his brother.
“Diego.” Klaus turned to face his brother, both of them now out of the kitchen.
“I wanted to apologize.” Diego said in a rush as if he was afraid if he didn’t spit out the words they would become forever lodged in his throat.
“For what?” Klaus asked, genuinely confused.
“For kicking you out when you were trying to tell me you were getting married.” Diego said.
“Oh, well, like I said, bad timing all around.” Klaus shrugged.
“No, that’s not an excuse.” Diego said. “I should have been there with you, I shouldn’t have thrown you out like that.”
“Diego, it’s okay, it’s okay.” Klaus said, grabbing his brother’s arm. “It’s not the end of the world.”
“It was your wedding, I missed your wedding!” Diego snapped.
“And Alison hung up on me after five seconds.” Klaus said. “Our family is fucked up, what can I say?”
Diego stared at Klaus a moment before laughing, a harsh sound that started at the back of his throat and honestly never really left it.
“Do you want to meet him?” Klaus asked a bit nervously.
“What’s his name?” Diego smiled.
“Dave.” Klaus smiled brightly. “His name is Dave.”