apocalypse? Really? sweet Jesus five Hargreeves story

CHAPTER 6 EXTRA ORDINARY

flashback 5 years ago (violet still frozen)

No one P.O.V

"My name is Vanya Hargreeves and this is my story..."

Vanya was sitting at her table with an old typewriter and a full pot of coffee, writing her whole life down. Since she lost the one person she could talk to about all of this, she needed a way to get it all out. 

"We were never a real family. We were our father's creation family in name and smile but not in fact."

Vanya sat in front of flashing cameras and lights, taking pictures for her book and hoping Violet wouldn't hate her for what she had done.

"In the end, after our brother Ben died and our sister Violet froze herself in time due to the grief of losing Ben, there was really nothing connecting us. We were just strangers living under the same roof..."

Luther was doing push ups in the room he never left, reading his sister's book, Notes on the Side, which he made himself on the book. 

"destined to be alone"

Alison was sitting in front of a large mirror having her makeup done while she read the same book. She was not happy when she read the book, causing her to shoot forward, messing up her makeup.

"starved for attention."

Diego was at the gym, taking all his anger out on a punching bag, which had the book cover of Vanya's book taped to it. He was angry as his sister was, and she had no right to tell Violet's secret without her consent.

"Damaged by our upbringing"

"Oh my god.. she wrote that... I cant believe she would do that, especially to Letty. "

Ben said he was reading the book over Klaus's shoulder as he sat in a rehab therapy session, taking in every word of the book his sister wrote

"Shhhh," Klaus shooed him away as he continued to read, oblivious to the world around him

"And haunted by what might have been"

Ben had a look of such pain on his face. He knew what happened to Violet after he died, but it was still painful to see it written in Vanya's book.

"We all wanted to be loved by a man incapable of giving love. The 2 people who made the family feel like a family were gone and we had no reason to act anymore."

Five was sitting in the apocalypse with the world up in flames behind him. He was reading everything that happened to his siblings when he went missing, what happened to Ben and what happened to Violet after Ben died. He was distressed, and more than ever, he wanted to get home.

"Our father never missed an opportunity to remind me that I was ordinary, a hard thing for a little girl to hear."

Sir Reginald looked at the book and the message he got from number 7 but never even thought about reading it. He closed it up and put it with the many books on his shelf. out of sight out of mind, But every so often when he was sat in his office he would take looks over to the book thinking he might one day read it. but he never did. 

"If you're raided to believe nothing about you is special, if the benchmark is extraordinary, what do you do if you're not?"

end of flashback