Summary: With the Apocalypse around the corner, will Diego and Vanya be able to fix their broken relationship and stop the end of the world at the same time? (3rd part of "Flawed" series).
Word count outside of Author Notes (Full Story): 43,559
A/N: I want to say THANK YOU to anyone who has read the 1st and 2nd part of this series and has favorited, followed, and/or left a review, you guys are the best! Also just wanted to say that this story, along with "Flawed" and "Damaged" have photo collages, if anyone wants to go check those out. This story in particular has Fan-Art by shi-lisa that can be viewed through my AO3 account and/or my Tumblr account, both are under the same username "HunnyDreams42". Special thanks to shi-lisa for the billionth time for creating such beautiful pieces of art.
Warning: Story contains pseudo-incest and naughty language.
Hope you guys enjoy :)
Diego couldn't help himself from roaming his eyes over her, yesterday didn't make for a good time to take in her appearance, with their siblings giving each of them varying looks and with Vanya avoiding anything that was remotely in his vicinity. But now with her standing in front of him, he took his time to look at her. Not much had changed, subtle differences could been seen such as her hair was longer, she had bags under her eyes indicating that she was tired, she had also gained a bit of weight in the right places if you asked Diego, she looked good.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him, Diego couldn't hear any anger in her voice just curiosity, at the very least he prepared himself for her to be upset with him but she didn't look it nor did she sound like it, not yet anyways. Diego can't say he would have this composure if the situations were reversed.
"Can we talk?" He asked her as he glanced down to Luna, she was swinging her hand in Vanya's, staring at him with interest, her wide little eyes going over him much like the way his own just did to Vanya.
"About?" She questioned, Diego raised an eyebrow in response to that, he didn't want her to make this more difficult then it was already going to be, but he couldn't fault her for it either, the fact that she's still standing in front of him and letting him speak at all is nothing short of a miracle.
"You, me, us, Luna...everything," he fired in quick succession.
"There is a me and there is a you but there is no us Diego, you made your thoughts and your feelings very clear, so there's nothing to talk about," she still didn't sound angry, just accepting of what she believed to be the truth.
"There's nothing to talk about? NOTHING at all to talk about Vanya?" He kept his gaze on her but let his head tilt downward to Luna, who was now completely focused on jumping back and forth over a crack in the cement, playing a game well the boring grownups talked.
That was able to send a spark of displeasure through her, she knew logically that ignoring him and walking pass him to go into the house wasn't going to go over well, just as she knew that it wouldn't be an option to resolving anything. She didn't want to talk to him but she knew she had to, he might not feel what Vanya feels for him but that's not a reason to keep Luna away and refuse for Diego to be in her life if that's what he wanted, and unluckily for her the only way to know where they stood was to talk, no matter how much she didn't want to.
"Okay," she agreed, she nodded to her door and led the way inside, she wasn't about to have a private conversation out in the open where her neighbors could hear her business. Luna looked relieved to be going inside, before the door was open all the way she shot threw it and went straight to her room, bangs and clanks of toys being pulled out could be heard filling the house.
She led Diego through the living room to the kitchen so she could make some coffee, she wasn't about to have a sit down without at least one cup. Before she walked through the small arch that led into the kitchen though, Diego grabbed her from behind, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulled her to the wall, a blade in his hand and flying into the kitchen before she had time to even process that she wasn't walking anymore.
A flash of bright blue appeared from thin air in front of her and suddenly Five was standing there, a blade in his hand with a smirk on his face.
"Your getting rusty in your old age Diego," Five teased, Diego snatched his knife back with an eye roll. Vanya for her part was still trying to recover from how quick Diego reacted to someone being in her home, her heart was going a mile a minute from the short burst of adrenaline.
"What are you doing here?" She was asking the same question to a different person in less then 10 minutes, her house was a popular one today, Vanya thinks this is the most people that have ever been in here at once.
"I came to talk to you," he stated, Diego was still crowded into her space, so Vanya pushed him away from her and again made her way to the kitchen for some much needed coffee if she was going to be dealing with both of them. They followed her, Five eyeing Diego and Diego eyeing Five, both curious as to why the other was there.
She was a lot more interested in talking with Five at this point, she missed her brother and she definitely wanted to hear what's happened to him in his time away, she knows he went to the future but he didn't give much more information then that last night, and even if he had Vanya was so preoccupied with her own thoughts on seeing Diego that she would have completely overlooked it and Five didn't deserve that.
Focusing her attention on what Five had to say sounded far easier and simpler then going through a talk about everything with Diego.
"Get in line," Diego scowled at him, Five's talk would just have to be pushed back for another day, Diego was there first and he wasn't leaving without talking to Vanya and he didn't want Five there to bare witness to a private conversation.
"What are you doing here?" Five questioned him as he sat on a bar stool connected to the island, making himself perfectly comfortable, an obvious show that he wasn't leaving.
"Me and Vanya have some things to talk about," Diego didn't sit down anywhere, he didn't want to seem like he was pushing Vanya's hospitality.
"Some things that by the look of it should have been talked about a long ass time ago, if you ask me." Vanya nearly forgot how blunt and unfiltered Five could be, he never did care if people took offense to his speech, he said what he was thinking and wasn't timid of the reactions it could possibly bring.
"I am curious though, how long has this," Five motioned between them with a pointed finger, "been a thing?"
"It's not a thing," Vanya was quick to say, her and Diego did what they did and it was fun and happy but then it wasn't and it was in the past and Vanya would very much like to keep it there, she couldn't afford a breakdown over Diego.
"It's not a thing but you guys have a kid together?" Five looked like he was enjoying his tormenting far to much for Vanya's liking.
"It's not, now moving on, what did you want to talk about?" Vanya grabbed the coffee pot and poured all three of them a cup, she wasn't going to serve Five one but the way he eyed the pot clearly said he was about ready to jump over the island and steal it if she tried to withhold it from him.
"The future," Vanya hated when Five would be vague about things when they were little, he often made a game of confusing her and their siblings by either being to vague or to detailed, seems that trait hasn't went anywhere, strangely she's missed it.
From the corner of her eye Vanya could see Diego stiffening in his place next to Five, he was growing impatient with the avoidance she seemed to be exhibiting, she wasn't doing it on purpose at this exact moment, it's not like she could very well ignore Five or kick him out when he came here to speak with her.
"What about the future?" Diego asked, just as he did Vanya noticed red splotches on Five, he's been back less then a day and he's already getting into the kind of trouble that leaves him bloody.
"Is that blood?" She motioned to his shirt, she knew it was but she wanted to see what he had to say.
"Yeah, it is," leave it to Five to sound completely unconcerned about a wound, "but it's fine now I used your stuff in the medicine cabinet to clean it out." Vanya guessed she must have just missed Five showing up here when she went for her walk this morning.
"Why were you hurt to begin with? Who hurt you?" Diego demanded, Five has always and probably will always have a talent for getting on his nerves but that didn't mean he wanted to see him hurt, Five was his brother and if someone was trying to hurt him, he needed to know.
"Some mistakes were made on my end, I thought I had more time, I was wrong." In a typical Five style it was explanation that explained absolutely nothing, it just left Vanya and Diego more confused.
"But that's not what's important guys," Five hesitated, he came here to inform and talk to Vanya, not Diego and Vanya but he supposed it didn't really matter now.
"Then what is Five?" Vanya couldn't believe the complete disregard he had for his own safety.
"The world's ending in seven days," he bluntly said to them, Diego had to admire the complete lack of emotion in Five's face when telling them that. Both Vanya and Diego froze in their place, they didn't even dare blink, they were quiet, not entirely sure what to say to Five in response to the bomb he just dropped on them.
"I'm gonna need more coffee." Vanya finally whispered to the room.
A/N: Diego and Vanya aren't gonna have it easy, not if I have anything to say about it "cue evil laugh" lmfao jk
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