The Beauty of Being Numb | Klaus Hargreeves x Reader

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Klaus lays (Y/N) on her bed. Immediately, she curls up and hides her face on the pillows. Klaus touches her shoulder, humming to calm her down.

-I'm here, love, I'm here.

-Don't let them hurt me, Klaus- (Y/N) hugs her and cries on his chest.

-I won't, I swear. And if someone dares to hurt you, I'm coming for them. I'm coming for all the ones who twist your stars into shadows, love. I will never let anyone hurt you again.

After an hour, she ends up falling asleep as Klaus sings to her. He's just seconds away from doing the same when the bed rocks violently. For a moment, he's not sure if he imagined it but immediately after, the walls creek and some things fall to the ground.

-(Y/N), love wake up!- he gets off the bed-. (Y/N)!

Some plants fall to the ground, the pots crashing, and she wakes up confused.

-What...?

-Come here.

Klaus takes her by the hands and they leave the room. On the corridor, Diego, Pogo, and Luther are giving each other terrified looks as everything trembles around them.

-Yo, what the hell is going on!?

A loud bang vibrates the house. Things start breaking and falling around them.

-Are those explosions coming from...?

-Vanya- Pogo confirms-. We need to get to safety outside the Academy.

More explosions are heard as they process the situation. Diego runs down the stairs as Klaus takes (Y/N) hand and follows him.

-Don't forget Mom!- Luther goes back for Allison.

Rumble and shattering are heard all over the Academy as they run, trying not to maintain the balance on the shacking floor.

(Y/N) head hurts and she doesn't understand what's happening at all but doesn't stop.

-Mom!- she isn't in her usual spot-. Shit, where is she?

-Mom!- Klaus runs to the other side.

-Mom!

-Grace!

They try to reach the emergency stairs but just some feet away from them, some pieces of the ceiling fall down and hit them, making Klaus and Diego fall. (Y/N) gets to skip them, but leans on the railway which flutters, she goes backward. Screaming, she manages to hold on to the floor.

-Ouch!- Klaus grunts, and then coughs, trying to recover.

The whole house trembles.

-Klaus!- (Y/N) can't keep her grip with all the moving-. Klaus!

He doesn't hear her with all the noise. Looking beside him, he discovers Diego has fainted; the ceiling creeks, about to fall.

-Diego!- Klaus tries to wake him up-. Diego!

He manages to move, trying to push Diego away from danger.

-Klaus!- he finally sees (Y/N). His heart drops-. Help!

He looks at Diego and then at (Y/N). He tries to reach for her hand as he pushes Diego with his legs but doesn't have enough force.

-Diego, wake up!

-Klaus, I'm gonna fall!- she looks beneath her: there's a bunch of debris. If the fall doesn't kill her, that will-. Klaus, help!

He doesn't know what to do. The ceiling creeks again and it breaks, a huge peace falling just where Diego is laying.

-Diego!

As he holds to his brother's shoulder, someone drags them to the other side of the corridor, saving them. When the ceiling hits the floor, this breaks and (Y/N) screams, falling. She closes her eyes, embarrassing for impact, and her inevitable death. But instead of feeling the sharp and hard debris, she falls on something soft, but strong. Still holding her breath, she opens her eyes to find a tall blonde man holding her.

-Was zur Hölle? (what the hell)- she whispers as the man puts her on her feet.

He smiles at her as she notices a bullet hole on his chest, beside a pair of dog tags. The man does a military salute and then fades in the air. (Y/N) thinks she's dead.

Upstairs, Klaus watches Ben in awe, not believing what he just did.

-Holy shit!- Ben is as confused as him-. Fuck, (Y/N)!

He runs over the fallen ceiling, scared. He feels his heartbeat again when he sees her standing without any scratch.

-(Y/N) get out!- she looks up, realizing she's still alive-. Now!

-Ja!

She runs to the main entrance to leave as Klaus and Diego get out by the emergency stairs. Outside, she meets with Allison and Luther.

-Where are the others?- he asks her.

-Emergency stairs- she manages to say, still shocked.

Before them, the Academy, once a magnificent structure, falls and turns to dust in a matter of seconds. Small fires spread over the ruins, burning the few things that had survived.

Klaus and Diego run to the others.

-Mom!- Diego looks for her- Mom!

Allison and Luthur just stare as (Y/N) sits down on a rock, trying to figure out who or what just saved her.

-Klaus, come here! Help me search.

-Diego. Just stop it- he takes him by the shoulders-. Stop!

-No, what... What are you... Let me go! What are you doing?

-Stop. Stop! She's gone. She's... She's gone, okay?

(Y/N) notices she's stepping on a photo and when she takes it out from the rocks, she discovers its the only photo she has of Klaus and her together; from their time on rehab. She smiles and takes it out from the broken frame and folds it to save it on the pocket of her pants. She looks for the other two photos she had on her night table, but they're lost.

-He didn't make it- she hears Luther say.

-Who?

-Pogo- Klaus answers.

-What?- a tear falls down her cheek.

-Vanya killed him.

No one can believe that.

-But Vanya wouldn't...

-No, I saw it- Luther reaffirms-. Just before we got out.

-Dad. Mom. Now Pogo.

Diego sits beside (Y/N), devasted.

-Guys- Five runs to them across the ruins-. This is it! The apocalypse is still on! The world ends today.

-I thought you said it was over.

-I was wrong, okay?- Five shows them a journal-. This newspaper, I found it in the future the day I got stuck. The headline hasn't changed!

-No, that doesn't mean anything- Diego is denial-. The time could've been altered since that newspaper came out this morning.

-You're not listening to me! When I found it, I assumed this place came down along with everything else. But here we are. The Moon's still shining, the Earth is in one piece, but not the Academy.

Klaus takes the newspaper from his brother's hand, irate, and reads it.

-I'm confused.

-Then listen to me, you idiot! Vanya destroys the Academy before the apocalypse. I thought Harold Jenkins was the cause, but he was the fuse. Vanya is the bomb... Vanya causes the apocalypse!

Helicopters start to arrive as well as the police.

-We have to find her- Luther looks up-. We gotta go, now. Regroup at the Super Star. GO!

Everyone runs in a different direction.