𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒯𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 - 𝐵𝑒𝓃 𝐻𝒶𝓇𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓍 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇

Part V

"What the fuck do you mean!?" Klaus cried, distress and worry lacing his voice.

Y/N and Ben were silent. They looked at one another, then back to the spilt alcohol on the ground. After almost half a minute, Ben stood. He trudged right past Klaus and through the wide open doors of the living room which somehow, the couple hadn't heard opening.

Klaus watched his brother disappear into the basement, probably to get cleaning materials for the mess on the ground. In the meantime, he walked over to his future sister in law and knelt down on the ground before her, taking both her hands in his.

"Y/N, please talk to me," he begged, "Is Cedric really back? Is he bothering you? How did he even manage to speak to you?"

Y/N looked deeply into his eyes. Her usually comical and seemingly carefree Klaus was now pleading with her, his eyes sad and troubled. She couldn't just refuse his questions.

"Klaus..." she started, pausing briefly to look at Ben who had entered and was cleaning the floor, "Remember when we were kids, and after our first mission at the bank, I suddenly started to act different?"

Klaus remembered her strange behavior all too well. The girl they'd all believed to be soft spoken became so sharp tongued in the days following the mission. Her seemingly calm persona changed, giving way to much a more violent side of her.

"I remember," he confirmed, "You became so much meaner... you even punched Luther when he called you Number Seven instead of Number Eight."

Y/N cringed at the memory. At the shock on Luther's face as he lay on the ground, feeling the blood drip down his nose. She'd always made her stance firm: Vanya was Number Seven, and she could not be replaced, but the real her would never go to such lengths to impose that.

"Dad was so shocked," Klaus reminisced, "He locked you up in a spare bedroom for days as punishment."

"It wasn't to punish her, Klaus." Ben uneasily informed him. He'd put the cleaning supplies away and now came to sit beside his brother on the floor.

"My parents would've never allowed me to be locked up for days, far from home. Not just for a punishment." Y/N's statement made sense to Klaus, but now there was another question in his mind.

"Then what...?"

"To train her, Klaus." Ben stated. 

Klaus blankly stared at him, awaiting further explanation. However, Ben only looked to his fiancee, giving her the chance to continue.

"My powers allow me to shapeshift into any object or animal I want. When it comes to people however... there's a bit of a catch." She took a deep breath.

"Whenever I shapeshift into a person, they stay in my mind forever. They're usually quiet, but every once in a while, they resurface and talk to me, giving me advice on how to face certain situations. Some of these voices are good, because they belonged to kind people. Some of them are bad, because they belonged to terrible people."

Klaus took a moment to let it all sink in. He blinked a few times before gripping his hair in confusion.

"So after the bank mission..." he started, "The reason you were acting out was because a bad voice was telling you to do bad things?"

"Yes. It was the voice of the bank robber I'd shapeshifted into, to get the code to the vault. Back then, I couldn't control the voice. It took over my entire sense of logic and reasoning, and just made me do whatever it felt like. I had no control over my actions."

"And that voice felt like hurting us," Ben added, "Because we'd hurt him during the mission."

Everything began to make much more sense now, but the inquisitive Klaus still had questions.