She with The Flowers in Her Hair| Number Five

🌻CHAPTER 17: Shitty Fights, Shitty Coffee🌻

The memorial couldn't be stopped by a bit of rain, the children along with Pogo and Grace walked out carrying black umbrellas, except for Luther and Diego that let the rain soak them and Klaus who opted to carry a tiny, little, clear parasol with a pink rim. Ellie stood in between Five and Klaus, her nose crinkling as she inhaled the smoke from the man's cigarette. "Klaus, that's bad for you, you know." She said, surprising Klaus in the process. "Oh, this? Well this is just for my Anxiety pixie." his reply making the girl shake her head, her gaze returning to Luther who stood in front of the group, his hand grasping their father's urn.

"Did something happen?" Grace asked in her usual sweet, melodious voice, making the Hargreeves children look at her in disbelief.

"Dad died. Remember?" Allison answered looking at their robotic mother.

"Oh. Yes, of course." the woman said, her reaction not really paralleling her words. Making Allison utter the question that everyone had in mind. "Is mom okay?"

"Yeah, she just needs to rest, you know. Recharge." Diego defended, looking over at the woman that had spaced out, not really listening to anyone anymore.

Pogo then went ahead to walk forwards urging Luther to get on with the ceremony. The burly man sighed before he took off the urn's lid and then tipping it upside down to spill the surprisingly small amount of ashes, onto the floor in a very ungraceful manner. "Could've been better with some wind."

"Does anyone wish to speak?" Pogo bellowed, clearly expecting at least one of the children to honor their father's memory with a few words. The silence was anything if not defeaning deafening as the rain continued to pour. "Very well. In all regards, Sir Reginald Hargreeves made me what I am today. For that alone, I shall forever be in his dept. He was my master and my friend, and I shall miss him very much. He leaves behind a complicated legacy--"

"He was a monster." Diego cut out the lamenting chimp, Klaus laughing at the blunt declaration. " He was a bad person and an even worse father. The world's better off without him."

"Diego." Ellie tried to scold him but to no avail as the man maintained his hard façade.

"My name is Number Two. You know why? Because our father couldn't be bothered to give us actual names. He had mom do it." Grace who sensed the tension tried to diffuse it. "Would anyone like something to eat?" "I can go for some cookies Ms. Grace." Ellie smiled at the woman who smiled widely back "Oh, okay I'll whip some up later Ellie."

" Look, you wanna pay your respects? Go ahead. But at least be honest about what the kind of man he really was" The monologue pushing Luther, his face hardening as Diego spoke.

"You should stop talking now."

"You know, you of all people should be on my side here, Number One." The man with the knives, sneered in a mocking way to his brother.

"I'm warning you."

"After everything he did to you? He had to ship you a million miles away."

"Diego, stop talking!"

"That's how much he couldn't stand the sight of you!" The altercation getting violent as punches began to fly, the two beginning to hit each other, the ones around them backing away, Vanya pulling Grace with her and Klaus extending a protective arm in front of Ellie that was pushed away by Five. The two men continued to hack at each other much to Pogo's disappointment, the chimp walking away from the fight as Vanya began to shout at her brothers to stop and Klaus characteristically cheering on the fight to continue in more violence. "We don't have time for this." Five muttered, grabbing Ellie's hand as he began to walk away, just in time for them to witness Luther's punch land on Ben's statue, making it fall to the ground and breaking off in pieces. Well, nothing like a fight to memorialize their father.