Vanya looked equal parts confused and horrified. Five hadn't really thought it through before saying the words out loud, but he figured that it would be far easier to start with the truth, then go back to the beginning.

"Do you remember anything before today?"

"Well I…." She stammered, dipping her head as she bit her lip. "I suppose I remember… playing my violin at the concert hall. There are other things but… I guess I dreamed it all."

"What things?" Allison asked.

"I know it sounds crazy but… the Academy was gone and I..." Vanya raised her head, "I had powers."

She met each of her siblings' gazes with defiance, and Five felt a surge of pride. This was good. This was the Vanya they needed to see.

"You do have powers." Allison took a step closer, Luther not far behind. "It's why the world was destroyed."

"Why would I destroy the world?"

"I guess it started because I… I pushed you too hard and hurt you."

"More like she hurt you." Luther growled.

"We all hurt her." Allison snapped. "All those years in the Academy and none of us treated her like a true sister. We couldn't see past our own problems to help each other like a real family should."

Luther looked like he wanted to argue, but then Diego spoke up. "Allison's right."

There was a moment of stunned silence as they took in Diego's rare show of positive affirmation.

"What happened?" Vanya asked.

Each of them looked at each other before turning to look at Five.

He heaved a heavy sigh. "If I'm going to do this, then I need a decent cup of coffee first."

"Say no more!" Klaus scrambled to his feet and all the siblings cursed and shut their eyes as he attempted to retie his flamboyant robe. He wasn't wearing anything underneath.

"Really Klaus, how about some decency." Luther chided.

"Says the ex-gorilla man whose first time having sexual relations was with a strange girl he met at a rave while he was high."

That certainly shut Luther up. Five smirked as he turned bright red and tried to avoid Allison's glare.

Allison pursed her lips as she looked back at Klaus. "Is that my kimono?"

"What, this?" Klaus threw a lanky arm around her shoulder. "Oh yeah, I didn't really feel like putting on those dreary pajamas dad made for us so I went through your closet. You usually have nice things tucked away in the corners. I didn't think you'd mind."

"Well I… guess you do pull it off pretty good."

"You hear that Ben?" Klaus wiggled his butt and looked at their quietest sibling, who was munching on a stiff waffle. Ben gave him a double thumbs up.

Five took this strange interruption to the meeting in stride. "Yes, we all agree that you look good in Allison's clothes Klaus, now can we please get back to the part where you said you'd make some coffee?"

"Right you are Five." Klaus saluted at him and set to work.

Diego nodded at Five. "We've only got about an hour before dad expects us in for breakfast."

"Very well," Five frowned, then turned to Vanya, "it's a long story. You'd better sit down."

The siblings didn't bother to clean the table of half eaten waffles and pop tart wrappers, but most of them sat as Five stood before them, his hands in his pockets. Diego chose to lean against the wall with his arms crossed.

Five took a deep breath and told the whole story as efficiently as he could. The other five siblings put in their two cents here and there, occasionally bickering until Five snapped at them to get to the point. Vanya started out watching Five's every move, but by end of it she was frowning down at the table.

She didn't respond right away, and Five hadn't really expected her to. It was an awful lot to process. But it didn't stop the siblings from trading looks with each other. Five knew they were all thinking the same thing. Would Vanya lose control? Had this meeting been a mistake?

Vanya's face was pale and her expression troubled, but seemed to be in control of her emotions.

For now.

Or perhaps as a child she had a better grasp on them.

The silence seemed to drag on until she finally said: "That's some pretty messed up bullshit."

Five sipped at his second cup of coffee and smiled to himself. This was the Vanya he loved, not that fearful shadow of a girl he'd watched her grow into as children.

"Yeah. We've been a pretty terrible family." Klaus said with a sigh. "So we should probably… I don't know, use this strange time travel situation as an opportunity or look to the future or something like that."

"Great pep talk." Luther rolled his eyes. "Real inspirational."

"I was just trying to be you." Klaus stated defensively.

"It may be a badly worded and simplistic answer, but it's true nonetheless." Five replied, cutting off Luther's retort.

"I agree." Allison spoke up.

"So I caused the apocalypse because I used my powers." Vanya murmured.

"Because you didn't have control of your powers." Diego interrupted once again, surprisingly, with something constructive.

Five put a hand in his pocket and started to pace. "As I told you before, we didn't know you had them until a few days ago. Well, a few days ago for us but a couple years into our future in terms of the timeline. What I didn't tell you is that we tried to stop the apocalypse several times, but each attempt failed. The only way we figured we could stop it for good was to go back in time and get to the source of the problem."

"And I'm the problem."

"You're never a problem." Five corrected.

Vanya smiled shyly at him.

"You're our sister and we want to help you!" Allison said earnestly, "The apocalypse happened because you lost control. Since we know you have powers now, we can try to help you control them."

"Leonard tried to teach me how to control them, and look where that got us." Vanya gazed around at them all, one by one. "What makes you think it will be better this time around?"

"We don't," Diego said simply, "But we have to try."

"For the sake of our family." Allison smiled.

"For the sake of the world." Luther added, and for once Five didn't disagree with him.

"The only way we can do this is together."

"Yeah," Klaus added. He had somehow conjured up a bottle of vodka, and was attempting to pull off the top one handed. "Maybe this time around, we can all learn to be- hey man that's not cool!"

Klaus stuck his tongue out at Ben, who'd snatched the bottle out of his hands.

Ben frowned at him. "If you start drinking vodka at thirteen you're going to be an addict a lot sooner than before."

"How come Five can drink Brandy but I can't drink vodka?" Klaus whined.

"Because he's at least sixty years old." Ben provided helpfully.

Klaus flipped him off.

"Ben has a point," Diego grunted, "Let's try to keep this sobriety thing going, okay Klaus? I mean you remember what you did in the theater right? That was because you were clean. Who knows what other cool shit you could do."

"Diego's right," Allison hurried to add, "I think there's a lot of things about our powers that we don't actually know."

"What about dad?" Vanya asked quietly.

Dad.

The silence that reigned after this question was complete.

"We can start by finding that book of his," Allison said slowly, "He's got all of his notes on Vanya's powers in there. Maybe if we can find a way to sneak them out and make copies..."

"That's not a bad idea." Five mused. "All we'd have to do is find out where it is, and get Pogo and Mom out of the way long enough for me to grab it when dad's looking the other way."

"Then we can take some pictures, and dad will be none the wiser." Allison agreed.

Vanya looked doubtful.

"It's not perfect, but it's a start." Diego nodded.

"That's good enough for me." Ben added his advice for the first time.

Klaus shrugged. "I guess it is for me too."

"Okay." Vanya said.

Five grabbed her hand. "We'll figure this thing out, together."

"Together." Allison agreed, grabbing her other hand.

Vanya smiled tentatively at her.

All around the table there seemed to be general agreement, although Five knew Luther was only going along with whatever Allison wanted.

However, Diego was right. It wasn't a perfect plan by any means. In fact, it was a pretty shitty plan by most standards, but it was a start. The rest would fall into place eventually. Come hell and The Commission, they'd make this thing work. They had to.

"To the Umbrella Academy." Five raised a cup of coffee in mock salute.

"To the Umbrella Academy." the voices of five other siblings joined together.

They looked to Vanya.

"To us," She said at last, "The Umbrella Academy."

She smiled as she raised her glass, included for the first time, and together they drank in unison to the bright unknown.

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I apologize one thousand ways for waiting so long to finish this fic! As usual, I got distracted by a nice and shiny new fic and put this one on the back burner, even though it only needed one last chapter.

I don't know about you but I have a hard time finishing things. It's so satisfying to do, but mentally difficult. However, I'm glad I was able to finally put this one to rights.

Thank you to everyone who cared anougb about my rendition of the siblings to carry on through the entirety of it! Here's to season 2!

Cheers friends!