CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN:
THE PHONE CALL

this chapter is dedicated to the amazing and wonderful MoonWolf2004

"Alex!"

All the Hargreaves children that were present, shouted and looked everywhere in the remains of what was once their home, looking for their brother and lover.

"Guys," Luther called out when he found what was once the living room, Pogo's corpse laying a few feet away from where he was. "This is where he was, there's nothing left of it."

The six remaining Hargreeves walked to where number one was, and they instantly knew that nothing could survive this destruction. Even if Alex was alive before, they doubted that he was now.

Allison started to sob silently, Diego had a murderous look on his face. His hands were grasping at the Handel of a knife he had taken out of nowhere. Allison ran to him and sobbed on his chest. Seeing this, Diego wrapped his arms around her and rubbed her back gently.

Five was looking at the newspaper, trying to see if he could find anything about a body being found or something, anything that hinted at Alex being alive. Or even if he- if he wasn't alive, there should be a body! he couldn't have just disappeared.

Luther was staring at the destruction. Silently blaming himself for what happened. If he hadn't knocked Alex out, he could have got out. If he hadn't reacted the way he did to Vanya, None of this wouldn't have happened. Pogo, Grace, and Alex would still be with them

Ben was just staring at his surrendering with a hunted look on his face, "He-"

Klaus looked over at him, "Ben, Come on."

Ben turned and looked at him, "Klaus, can you see him?"

"I-" Klaus looked at the others, they were either in mourning or in shock, "I can't see him."

Diego lightly patted Klaus on his shoulder, the other arm still around Allison, "Let's get out of here."

"What about Alex?" Five asked with a panicked look on his face that made the others pause, the brother that was older than all of them and had worried about nothing but the apocalypse since he had arrived, was worried for his brother. The brother that acted like an older brother despite them all being the same age. Five usually didn't show emotions unless it was towards Vanya or Alex and at that moment they were both unavailable. One being the cause of the destruction around them, and the other one being under the said destruction.

"Do we even know if he's alive?" Allison wrote on her notebook.

Luther looked at Five, "Didn't you say that he was...dead in the future?"

"But so were you guys, What has changed, why is he the only one dead?"

Klaus' voice suddenly startled them all, "Why are you talking like he's dead?!" He paused and glanced out their sullen faces, "He's not dead! He can't be, Maybe he's invisible? He's done this before."

Diego looked uncertain, "Even if he made himself invisible, How could he have gotten out from under all of this?" He kicked some rock and rubble.

"He's Alex! he's the best at everything." Klaus tried again.

"Not at staying alive," Ben said softly.

"Shut up Ben!"

Luther stepped forward before an argument could break out, "What about this, we look some more, if we find nothing, we have to go and stop the apocalypse," He looked at Five for confirmation and received a nod, "We have to stop everyone from dying. That's what Alex would want us to do."

"I-fine," Klaus gave up, but that didn't stop him from looking around trying to spot Alex--Ghost or real.

They looked.

They found Grace's body and laid her beside Pogo.

They looked some more, but there was no sign of Alex. It was like he had disappeared.

So they left and went to a bowling place,—weird place to gather around— where they all sat down and thought some more.

"Look, I hate to be the one to say this, but everyone needs to prepare," Luther said after some time.

Diego questioned him, "For what?"

"To do whatever it takes to stop Vanya." Luther's answer go him a punch from Allison, who was sitting next to him

"I- We may not have a choice, Allison."

"Bullshit, There's always options."

"Yeah, like what?" Five asked.

"I don't know."

Luther stood up, "Look, whatever we decide, we need to find Vanya. And fast, okay? She could be anywhere."

Klaus opened a newspaper next to him and on the page, there was a poster of Allison's concert, "Or...here." He shook the paper a bit, "Look at this."

Everyone gathered around Klaus, but it was Diego who spoke, "That's right. Her concert is tonight."

"Hello," a woman who worked there was standing behind them, "I hate to intrude, but my manager says if you're not gonna bowl, you gotta leave." She shrugged and then left.

Diego played along, "Whose turn is it?"

Luther looked over at the manager who was a middle-aged man and had just slammed bowling shoes on the counter, "Oh for-" He then threw a bowling ball aimlessly. The ball went to three lanes from their lane and made a strike.

You tell 'em, Luther! (ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴀʟᴇx ɪsɴ'ᴛ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀʀʀᴀᴛᴏʀ ʜᴀs ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴀʟᴇx)

Allison quickly wrote something down and then showed it to Luther, "She's our sister."

"We're the only ones capable of stopping this. We have a responsibility to Dad."

That got a reaction out of Diego, "To Dad? No, I've heard enough about--"

"He sacrificed everything to bring us back together."

It was Five-and-Luther agree time, "I'm with Luther on this one. We can't give her a chance to fight back. There are billions of lives at stake. We're past trying to save just one."

Ben looked at Klaus, Klaus raised hir eyebrows, " Hey, you know, guys, uh... maybe I could help."

Five rolled his eyes. (ʀᴜᴅᴇ)

"Now is not the time." Luther said with an air of 'I'm done with this shit.'

Diego defended Klaus, "No, let him finish." Luther looked confused, "He saved my life today."

"Really?" Ben asked Klaus.

"Is that true?" Luther questioned him.

"Yeah, yeah, I did... take credit for it. In fact, the real hero... was Ben."

Luther looked.

Diego looked.

Five looked.

Allison looked. She also shook her head.

Ben wanted to die again.

Klaus sighed, "Today, Listen today, He punched me in the face," H pointed at his mouth, "And earlier at the house, he was the one who saved Diego's life, not me."

Diego moved closer to Klaus so he could look him in the eye, Maybe to make sure that he was sane and hasn't gone crazy with Alex being dead.

"You are unbelievable, Klaus." Luther's tone was filled with disbelief.

Allison was where she was from the beginning, with her hands crossed over her chest and just looking done with them.

"You want proof, is that it?" Klaus picked up a bowling ball, "All right. I-- I'll give you proof." He looked at Ben and Ignored Diego, "All right, it's showtime, baby."

Ben, bless him, got on position to catch a freaking bowling ball.

"Catch!" He threw the ball.

Everyone looked. Five moved slightly so he wouldn't be harmed.

The ball flew to Ben, and then straight through him.

Diego didn't even turn to look at the ball, he was still staring at Klaus with his arms crossed.

Klaus' hand came down and went on his like a silent 'fuck'.

"Is there any way to silence that voice in your head that screams out to be the center of attention?" Luther brutally murdered Klaus with words.

Klaus looked at his right, like he was looking for someone but instead found Diego, still being a creep, "You know, I liked you a lot better before you got laid."

Allison looked at Luther, Luther stared wide-eyed at Klaus, and Klaus started rumbling, "Which was a complete... It-- It wasn't his fault, 'cause he was ridiculously high, right? And-- And the girl, she thought he was a furry..."

"Stop!" Luther turned and slowly looked at Allison who was already looking at him, she picked her notebook and left. Luther followed her, like a creep, "Allison, wait."

"Excuse me!" This made Klaus look at the approaching figures.

A woman -Who was weirdly familiar to Klaus- came over to them with her son, "Excuse me, it's my son Kenny's birthday today, and... Uh... wouldn't your son be happier playing with kids his own age? Assuming it's okay with your two dads."

Klaus looked at the lady, Diego looked at the lady. Then Klaus looked at Diego and Diego looked at Klaus.

A beat of silence and then-

"I would rather chew off my own foot."

Kenny's mom went from happy-unicorn-rainbows to The-fuck-I-don't-deserve-this, "Let's go Kenny."

There was a whooshing noise and Five went to check it out.

"If I was going to date a man, you'd be the last man I would date."

"You'd be lucky to get me. Also, back off bitch I'm taken."

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"This is bullshit!" Alex yelled.

There was no response, "What do you mean Elena choose Stefan over Damon?! This book is shit, Yeet!" He threw the book aside and went to explore. cause he's a drama queen.

It was a calm day in the academy, Alex had broken his hand in two places and was benched until Pogo gave him the okay. This wasn't anything new, he got hurt on missions a lot. A broken bone here and there, and being unconscious for days. You know, typical superhero stuff.

Alex was running down the halls, sliding on the rails and he might have broken one or two vases. Might have! you can't prove anything!

As he was walking around and causing mischief, he found Vanya and Mom, Vanya had a case on her lap.

"Is that a Violin? Cool!" Alex ran up to Vanya and checked the Violin that she was holding, "Can you play?"

"umm, No. Not yet. But I'm going to, I will learn to play it. I am going to be extraordinary."

"Hell yeah, you gonna!"

Grace smiled at the two, "Put your whole heart into it, dear, and I promise, one day, you will be."

"And I'll help," Alex said and then rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, "I can't play it, but maybe you could teach me," He shrugged, "Either way I'll be with you."

Vanya smiled at him, "Thanks, Alex."

He smiled back.

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"Listen, we can't do this now." Luther said to Allison, "I'm so sorry, I should never have slept with that girl...uh, woman."

Allison didn't even look at him, "Uh, look... I had just found out that Dad sent me to the Moon for nothing. All right? And I just felt so lost and alone. Klaus wasn't lying, I got drunk. I mean... really drunk. Plus the pills. You know, 'cause it was a rave, and... I'd never been to a rave before, and... Well, they're- they're pretty amazing, actually--" Allison silenced him with a hand on his mouth, and then wrote something on the notebook, "I need your voice."

Outside the bowling place, Allison and Luther stood inside a telephone booth.

Allison dialed the number and waited.

The phone ranged, and when the phone was picked, Allison started crying. Luther took the phone from her, "He-- Hello? Hi, uh, Claire? Uh, yeah, this is your Uncle Luther."

"Spaceboy!" Claire said with excitement.

Allison chuckled through her tears.

"Yeah, yeah, uh... Spaceboy. I'm the one your mom told you stories about. Yeah, yeah, I know all about you, too. And you know, Claire, I've been wanting to meet you since the day you were born."

There was a pause while Luther listened to Claire.

"Uh, well, uh... she's here, with me now, and... she really wants to talk to you,Claire. But... But she can't, because... uh... she has a sore throat, but, uh... Your mom wants me to tell you, Claire, uh, she... she says that she loves you more than anything in the whole wide world. And she--"

Allison dropped her notebook that she was writing in and she started crying, until Luther held her hand, "Wait, wait. Hey. Hey." Allison looked at him.

"Uh, your mom says... She says... 'I miss you. I miss you every day that I'm not with you. I know that I let you down, but I would do anything for you. You make me wanna wake up each day. And you're in my dreams every night. You're the most important person in the world to me."

Allison and Luther stared at each other.

"That's, uh... That's what your mom says. Yeah. Yeah, I-- I promise. She'll be home soon. She...uh...She also says that she found Mathew."

A loud excited sound could be heard over the phone, "Matty!"

They chuckled, "Yeah he's fine. He said to tell you that he misses you." A pause, "Yeah, You can play twister when he comes back." Another pause, "Yeah I'll tell him."

Luther ended the call. Both of them had tears in their eyes.

•WORDS: 2310•

I'm sure I got you at the flash back part. You were like "yayy, Alex is back!!" And then o went "sike! You wish!"

If not then I look like an idiot rn

Next chapter is the last chapter.
Get ready to say goodbye to Alex and Co.

I'll post some one-shots here to have some fun and pretend nothing bad has happened :)

WASH UR HANDS, U DISGOSTING

^Actual footage of Alex trying to live his life ^