Light As A Feather..Diego Hargreeves

twenty five.

This Was A New Level Of Diego Mad

present !

They put Five in bed to let him rest from his wound. They tried calling Vanya to see if she would pick up. They had to tell her about Leonard, or Harold. "Anything?"

"There's no answer at Vanya's place and the receptionist at her music school said she was a no show for her lessons today."  Diego was staring into the room at Grace. Maria heard about what happened to Grace and she knew that Diego wouldn't want to talk about it. She saw Pogo trying to fix Grace a bit ago and he just shook his head indicating not to tell anyone. She let everyone figure it out on their own. She looked at Diego and realized his look. "Diego, are you okay?"

"Yeah. I don't know, it's just surreal seeing her. I just wanna tell her that I'm s-We don't have enough time we gotta go." Allison then answered him with a bit of concern in her voice. "I don't know Diego, Five is laying there unconscious, we need him."

"We can do this ourselves."

"We did that remember. Most of us ended up dead." Maria was staring at Diego. She noticed that Diego always had kind of a scowl on his face but this look was something that just made her feel sad for him. Allison interrupted her thoughts. "I don't know. Just...I'm thinking I should go and see Claire before-"

"You can't run away from this, Allison. That's what started this whole mess in the first place. Luther was right." Allison and Maria looked at her with shock on their face. "I'm sorry, Luther was what?"

"I didn't think I'd ever hear you say those words."

"Yeah, well, we gotta stick together." When Diego said that, he looked at Maria. He just accepted the fact that he really liked her and he didn't know how to handle it. All he knew is that whenever he saw her, he just wanted to hold her forever. Allison then asked, "Where do we start? Maria, do you know anything?"

"I'm sorry, what?"

"Have you figured out anything else?"

"Wait, are you actually asking me?"

"Yeah...so...do you?"

"Uh no, I haven't found anything else, but I did have a suspicion that wherever he took her, he would take her somewhere not near us, you know so it would be harder for us to find her." They all started walking out of the house and continued their conversation. "Well, there's no other addresses in the file, but there is another relation listed. Jenkins grandmother. She lived near Jackpine road."

"You think he took her there?"

"It's a good enough place to start." Suddenly, Diego pulled Maria and Allison the other way. "Nope, come on, this way."

"Isn't the car that way though?"

"Trust me, okay? Come on."

"Wait, Diego, why are we going away from the police, I mean don't get me wrong, I hate the police, but I thought you were friends with some detectives?"

"They're here for me uh...They think I did something." Allison looked at him confused and said, "What do they think you did?"

"Murder."

"Did you?"

"No, no, no, no of course not, okay? Why would you even ask me about that anyway?"

"I mean, you do carry knives with you everywhere." Maria then interjected. "And you kind of look like someone from Mission Impossible."

"Yeah, okay, we're going to have to split, okay?" Allison started running to her car and Maria was about to go, but Diego grabbed her wrist. "What is it?"

"Just remember Vanya needs you and I know you're gonna get her safe."

"Don't do anything stupid."

"No promises." She laughed a bit and then ran to catch up with Allison.

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"Hey Allison, you okay?" She was remembering all the times she used her rumor powers and it was really hurting her. "Yeah, I'm fine. Look, we've been pretty quiet the whole car ride, why don't we have a little sister talk?"

"We aren't sisters though."

"Well, we're close right?"

"True. Sure, what did you want to talk about?" Allison was blanking a little bit until the perfect topic hit her mind. "So...Diego's pretty cute." Maria looked at her with disgust. "Ew Allison, he's your brother, I mean I know you and Luther had a thing but still, I mean Diego, really?" Allison mentally slapped herself. "No I meant he's cute for you!"

Maria was now a bit confused. "He's cute...for me?"

"Yeah, I mean as kids you guys were always close."

"I was close with everybody."

"I know, but you guys were just...I don't know...we all thought you guys would look good together and you guys aren't siblings so..."

"I don't know, I mean I guess he's okay looking, but I'm not into him."

"Oh well, I'm pretty sure he's into you." Maria laughed a little bit. "Where did you get that from?"

"Girl, have you not seen the way he looks at you?!"

"The way he looks at me, what with his creepy scowl he has on the whole time?" Allison laughed at that knowing full well she was right. "No, I mean like he's always staring at you and I've seen him checking you out."

"Have you really?" Maria wasn't totally believing her. I mean, her and Diego were friends and just friends...right? "Yes, and when you were talking about Thomas he looked so mad and jealous the whole time."

"Diego always looks mad."

"Yeah, but this was a new level of Diego mad." Maria thought about it a little bit. She had caught him staring at her a few times. "So do you like him?" Maria had to think about it. She had gotten this fluttery feeling every time she saw him, but she thought it was just she was sick or something. She had caught herself staring at him a little bit, but not often. She was always thinking about him and she even kept her drawing of him. "Oh, Maria, you're hesitating."

"I'm just thinking."

"About Diego?" Yes "No."

"Well, I'm going to take your silence as a yes."

"Oh great." Maria looked back out the window. Just watching everything go by. "You know, I think you two would make a cute couple. I mean you're both bad asses, you would be running around doing something stupid and he would have to go get you out of any mess you got yourself into. Oh my god, imagine if you guys had kids!"

"Allison!"

"I'm just saying, those kids would meet Klaus and they would just become the spitting image of him." Maria did like that thought of having her kids being the spitting image of Klaus and Diego just praying to god that they change. Maybe she did like Diego. For awhile now she had this little voice in the back of her head that was saying, "What are you doing?! You clearly love him!!" And that voice was right. Maria was in love with Diego Hargreeves.

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