Hotel California

It's actually on A03 this is just my backup lol

The Hotel Cortez - opened August 23rd 1926 - was notoriously constructed and owned by serial killer James Patrick March
Unfortunately, Klaus Hargreeves never paid that much attention to history.

After narrowly escaping Vanya's apocalypse, Klaus and the rest of the Hargreeves siblings are scattered throughout time. After landing in 1932 on his own, separated even from Ben, a desperate Klaus accepts help from the kind but enigmatic Will Evers; a young man so entangled in the dark mysteries of the Cortez that Klaus's new ally may in fact cost him everything.

So this was an idea that I had a long time ago but that I decided to write out now because @Zweebie and I had a two hour long rant about Klaus's characterisation in season two of TUA, so I felt compelled to give my boy the love story that he deserves.

So this piece is obviously completely canon divergent from season two. It's mostly season one compliant with a few exceptions;
-Klaus never went to Vietnam. Sorry hardcore Klave stans, this fic definitely isn't for you! No hate though!
-Because Klaus never went to Vietnam, his reason for getting sober was when he died and Reginald told him he was a disappointment because of all his untapped potential he had that 'fuck you' moment that the TUA writers keep denying us and decided he was sick of being treated like an extra by his family.
-Klaus still has PTSD but it's from his childhood our boy has Suffered.
-Minor detail but obviously since Klaus didn't Vietnam he also didn't Vietnam Tattoo.

My reason for separating Klaus and Ben in this fic is because I kinda wanted to have Klaus completely alone and isolated, plus I never really connected with Ben so I feel like my characterisation of him would be super forced.
Also Ben has the brain cell so like half of the shit that happens in this fic wouldn't happen if he was there.