Little stars

Plans

It only took Vanya a week to find an apartment, her current landlord was sympathetic to her slightly made up story. She told him that her dad wasn't happy that she had a kid so young but kept her in the house until he grew tired of her and the baby and threw them out. It wasn't entirely true but it wasn't a lie either.

Her apartment wasn't too big, it was a one bedroom with a tiny kitchen and bathroom, but to Vanya it was perfect, she knew that it wasn't the best for a child but still she didn't care, it was better than the academy. Fivea was eleven months old now, her birthday was four days ago, they had spent it in a tiny hotel room.

Vanya couldn't believe it had almost been a year since her baby was born, as much as that night scared her, she loved her little girl more than anything.

Another thing she needed to do was find a job, she needed to support her and Fivea. There were so many places hiring, but she needed to be careful, dad was most likely tracking them, trying to find them so he could force them back into that room in the basement. The more Vanya looked back on it, the basement wasn't as good as she thought it was, she was just a scared mother trying to look on the bright side of things.

She shook her head in an attempt to rid her brain of the sad basement in the academy.

Another thing she needed to figure out was furniture, but for now she was going to sit on the small couch that was left by the old tenants and try to find a job

She was in for a long journey.

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Klaus hadn't told anyone about what had happened about a week ago, but the guilt was eating him up, his sister didn't know how the world worked and she had a baby with her. Their father showed no concern about the whereabouts of his daughter and...daughter's daughter, Klaus could never see dear old Reggie as a grandfather type man, then again he could never see him as any type of parental figure. But that's besides the point, Diego decided they should sneak out again, after the whole Vanya fiasco dad kept a close eye on all of them.

This was the best time to tell them since Luther decided to sit it out, still sore from dad's personal torture training. Allison almost didn't go but decided at the last minute she wanted to go.

It didn't take long for them to get to griddy's, when they were done ordering Klaus decided to tell them. Klaus opened his mouth and said "so...uh...I need to tell you all something," "What did you do Klaus?" questioned Allison, "Uh...so you know how we all haven't seen Vanya in a bit?" asked Klaus "Yeah?" answered Their siblings.

Deciding to rip the bandaid off Klaus said "Well, she uh, ran away a week ago and I kinda helped her by giving her money, I don't know where she is though."

"What the fuck did you just say" replied Diego, Ben and Allison looked shocked, they couldn't get anything out of their mouths due to the shock.

"Klaus, explain what you just said to us more slowly, okay?" asked Ben, but Klaus's mouth couldn't move. They didn't know how to explain, but he decided to try their best.

"Okay, so a week ago I was high as fuck, the regular you know? and I went downstairs to get some food, and that's when I saw them, Vanya was halfway to the door with our little niece. She had a backpack and Fivea's diaper bag, I didn't know if I was hallucinating or something, so I asked if it was her and she said yes, she was real. We just...talked and she just couldn't stay here, she didn't want to raise Fivea here, she said she couldn't do that to her. I gave her some money I was gonna use to buy some pills, she let me see Fivea," Klaus said, the end was more of a mutter, he felt sad, he probably wouldn't see Fivea or Vanya for a while.

Allison and Ben both were just staring at the table and Diego had his head in his hands, the table was silent. Vanya and their niece were out there, alone, In New York.

"We need to find her and bring her home" Diego suddenly said, "It's not safe for her or Fivea to be out of the academy."

The other three looked at Diego like he was insane, because he is, they had no idea where Vanya or Fivea were, and for their safety they wanted to keep it that way.

"Diego we can't, she's already out there, and only god knows what dad will do if we somehow do bring her home!" Allison quietly shouted. "Alli is right Diego, they're already out there" agreed Ben

"B-B-But what if somethi-thing happens to her or F-Fivea? What if they get hurt and we're not there to protect them?" asked Diego with a stutter.

The table was silent again, and it stayed that way until the waitress came to their table with their food, Allison stabbed at her salad, while Ben stared at his fries, Klaus took small bites of his chicken strips before deciding to speak.

"We should leave this alone until we're eighteen, then we can leave the academy and look for her," the others just stared at him, Diego was the first to "okay, fine, we turn eighteen in two years, Fivea will be three right? that way we can have a good relationship with her and Van early on" Allison and Ben like before were silent, but they nodded.

"You think Vanya will let me spoil Fivea?" asked Allison. Ben, Diego, and Klaus smiled, "Yeah probably, you're her only sister so you're gonna be Vea's only aunt, unless one of us gets married" said Ben with a smile. "Vea?" questioned Klaus Ben quickly replied "It's short for Fivea, I don't wanna call her" Ben trailed off at the end before clearing his throat "y'know?" The others gave small sad smiles before nodding.

They ate, happily picturing their older selves with their niece and sister.

What they didn't know was that their sister was asleep with their niece in the shitty apartment only five blocks away from the dingy dinner.

Another thing they didn't know was that the plan to find their sister at eighteen so that they could be in their niece's life would never happen.