Light As A Feather..Diego Hargreeves

thirty nine.

Dead Or Alive But Mostly Dead

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a/n: Just for clarification, Caleb thinks of Maria like a little sister he was just flirting with her before to piss off Diego.

present !

Five and and Lila had left Elliott's house for different reasons, but Elliott, Diego, Caleb and Maria were just waiting at his house. Lila had already come back, but they were still waiting on Five. Diego was sitting on the couch, Caleb was in the kitchen making coffee, Elliott was eating something with chopsticks and Maria was sitting on the couch next to Diego and Lila was sitting on the coffee table, playing Chinese chopsticks with Maria. Five then spacial jumped into Elliott's house and scared Maria a bit. "God Five, I hate when you do that."

"Sorry."

He started to explain everything that happened with Vanya and Luther. Caleb came in the middle of the explanation and sat across from Diego and Maria. Diego was a little pissed off since he figured Five had one job to do and he thought it would have been easy.

"So, what? You just let her go?"

"Well, Vanya had a lot to process. She'll come around, I know she will."

Maria rolled her eyes. She knew that it was her fault she got her eyes slashed, but she was pissed off that she made her forget everything for four and a half years. "What about the guys that went after her?"

"The Swedes?" Maria's head shot up in confusion. "Swedes?"

"We'll explain a bit later." They went back to their conversation. "Okay what about the Swedes? I mean how do you know they won't go after her again?"

"We don't."

"Mm, any idea who sent them?"

"Oh, I have my suspicions." Maria's head shot up again and so did Caleb's. Caleb then spoke up, he even sounded excited, like a little boy who just won a prize. "Oh, those commission people!"

"Yeah."

"Nailed it!" Caleb and Maria high fived. "Look, right now, our priority is finding dad and getting answers cause everything else depends on it."

"Which for the record, I found him already."

"And then let him go before we could have a meaningful conversation."

"He stabbed me!" Maria mumbled under her breath, "I would've done it sooner but he beat me to it."

Diego turned around and looked at her with disbelief. "What was that?"

"Nothing!" She just smiled and tilted her head. He gave her a sarcastic smile and turned back to Five. Lila, Elliott and Caleb all laughed a bit under their breath. Maria's expression changed from pride to realization. She then stood up and pulled a piece of paper out her pocket. She walked over and gave Diego the piece of paper. "What the hell is this?"

"It's where Reggie's going to be tonight." Five and Diego looked at her, really impressed. "What?"

"How did you find this?"

"I found it while you were busy getting shanked."

The three of them laughed again and she just smiled up at him with a cocky smirk. Lila snatched the piece of paper out of his hand and read it out loud. "Hoyt Hillenkoetter and the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas cordially invites you to a gala."