𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓 | five hargreeves

Stress

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"Klaus I swear to God if you don't get up."

Katherine was standing in front of her brother, arms crossed with a pissed off look on her face. He refused to come along with them to find Harold Jenkins– and even Katherine had agreed to go.

"Sorry Kitty, but you can't make me."

A poor attempt at a lie.

Before Diego could through his knife into the sofa Katherine pointed up at the ceiling and in a second he was up against it. He had to blink a few times before he realized what was happening and began to panic. "A little exercise never hurt anybody!"

He laughed nervously, holding his breath as Katherine slowly lowered him to the ground. "That's what I thought." She hummed with a small smile.

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"Oh fuck, you know what he looks like? The guy from that Hellraiser movie, you know the ones with all the pins in his head?"

Klaus gasped, "You're right! Except the guy in the movie wasn't as..." he trailed off as he stared at Harold's body for a minute. "Bloody?" Diego turned himself around so he couldn't see.

"You people are disgusting, what the hell is wrong with you?" He scolded which made Katherine and Klaus snicker to themselves.

"No signs of Vanya." Five interrupted as he walked closer to the body.

"Let's get out of here before the cops come." Diego suggested which made Katherine glance out the window suspiciously.

Five knelt over the body and pulled a small cloth out from his coat. "In a minute." Inside the cloth rested the glass eye and Katherine had a good idea of what he was about to do.

"Don't touch anything, Five." Katherine had seen enough crime shows to know not to leave finger prints. She plucked the eye from his hand with the tips of her nails and flicked her index finger, watching as the bandage on his eye tore itself off.

The manipulator touched her index finger to her thumb then spread them and his injured eye opened itself. She snickered quietly when she heard Diego vomiting in the corner. Katherine placed the eye into his socket and leaned back, watching as Five's eyes widened.

"Same eye color, same pupil size. Guys this is it. The eye I've been carrying around for decades, it– it's found its rightful home." He sighed in relief. "Alrighty Kat take it back out."

She glared at him as she pulled the eye back out, groaning as Five began to doubt himself. He began to drone on about the letter from the Commission he'd gotten as a realization hit Katherine. "Vanya did this."

Klaus opened his mouth to protest, "Look before we start pointing fingers why don't we find her and ask her?" As soon as he had finished talking Five had teleported to who knows where, making Katherine sigh quietly.

"If Vanya got away from this guy, she might be headed back to the academy." Diego pointed out, trying not to look at Harold's body.

Katherine shrugged, still upset with her sister but admittedly a little worried about her as well. "Well, lets go then."

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"Diego you can't just leave!" Katherine exclaimed loudly.

He fought back an eye roll, "Look Kat I have some unfinished business with those fools, just let me go." Katherine scoffed and threw her hands up. "Fine, whatever." She watched as Diego nodded and took off down the stairs, she ran a hand through her hair and turned back to Five and Klaus.

"You know if he gets to leave, so do I." She was stressed and frustrated and it was starting to show. Five's eyebrows furrowed, "Kitty where are you going?" Klaus spike before his brother could as they watched her race down the stairs.

She stood at the bottom of the staircase and looked up, sighing loudly before answering. "Anywhere but here... at least just for a little while. I'll be back soon." Five watched wordlessly as Katherine disappeared out the door, wondering if he should follow her or not.

"Just let her be," Klaus said quietly. "She just needs some Kitty time."

Five suddenly perked up, pushing aside his worries for her. "Yeah well we have bigger problems than her right now."

Klaus patted his brothers back comfortingly as Five began bombarding him with questions about Reginald and the apocalypse.