After finding Allison bleeding out in the cabin, Thea and the boys dragged her body into the car and drove as fast as possible back to the Academy. Thea couldn't stop shaking in nervousness and anxiety. She was terrified of losing her sister and was dazed the whole trip back.
Pulling up to the Academy, Thea ran inside ahead of the boys - who were carrying Allison - to shout for Pogo and Grace for help. "Mom! Pogo! Help! Allison's hurt!"
Grace and Pogo came running in and once the boys had brought Allison's body inside, they all made their way into the room where a stretcher and medical equipment was all set up. Grace was putting pressure onto Allison's neck to stop the bleeding and she turned to the rest of the siblings who stood around anxiously.
"She's suffered a severe laceration to her larynx. One of you will need to give blood," Grace stated.
"I will." They all chorused without hesitation. Luther pushed his way forward, "I'm doing it."
Pogo spoke up, "I'm afraid that's not possible, dear boy." At Luther's frustrated look he explained, "Your blood is more compatible with mine." Thea cringed at the blunt statement and Klaus stepped up next.
"Hey, don't sweat it. I-I got this, big guy. I love needles." Klaus began slapping his arm to prove his point. Pogo again stepped in, "Master Klaus. Your blood is... how shall I say this? Too polluted."
Thea opened her mouth to tell them to just let her do it and get on with it but Diego cut her off, "Move. I'll do it." He walked up to Grace and as she lifted the needle up, Diego let out a whimper and fainted.
Thea rolled her eyes and pushed her way next to Grace, offering her arm. "We're wasting time. Quickly." Grace nodded as she pricked Thea's arm and began taking the blood instantly. Thea glared at the rest of them, muttering "boys" whilst shaking her head.
She stayed sitting by Allison's side as the rest of the boys besides Luther wandered off. Klaus kissed Thea's forehead before walking off upstairs. Thea was beginning to feel dizzy from the blood being taken and decided to take a nap while she could. She knew Grace would wake her up if anything happened and worrying about her sister's state wasn't going to do Thea any good. With that thought in mind, she closed her eyes and drifted off.
Luther watched his sister sleep, one arm draped over Allison's bedside as the tube delivering the much-needed blood continued to flow.
Thea had been woken up earlier by Diego, explaining that she'd given enough blood and that the remaining family were talking in the living room - minus Luther. She'd nodded and followed him, feeling drowsy all the way there.
Once she'd gotten to the living room, Thea had fallen onto the sofa next to Klaus and closed her eyes. Thea didn't mind giving blood, needles had never bothered her, and it wasn't painful, but Allison had lost a lot of blood and so Thea was feeling a little lightheaded.
"The bastard that nearly killed our sister's still out there, with Vanya. We need to go after her." Diego stated, pacing around the living room.
Five stood up too, "Vanya is not important." Thea's eyebrows rose in shock and she gave Five a heartbroken look. "Five, she's our sister..." she choked out.
Five sighed and gave her an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, that didn't come out right. I mean, Vanya isn't important in the grand scheme of things. If the apocalypse happens today, she dies along with the other seven billion of us."
Thea bit her lip at his reply. She knew he was right, and if it weren't Vanya that was in trouble, Thea would probably think the same way. But it was her sister that they were talking about, and Thea realised she couldn't be logical about this, she was too emotionally invested.
"Harold Jenkins is our first priority," Five reminded them.
Diego looked thoughtful but eventually agreed. Klaus spoke up from beside Thea and she noticed he was biting his nails anxiously. "You guys count me out. I mean, no offence or whatever. I just, kind of feel like this is a lot of pressure for a newly completely sober me..."
Diego and Five looked at him incredulously while Thea was concerned. She placed her arm on his shoulder, "Are you okay, Klaus?"
Klaus glanced at Thea and then back at his two brothers. He tried resolutely not to think about what had just happened upstairs with Ben punching him. He didn't want to get her hopes up for Ben being able to materialise - something he never even knew he could do - but he also felt ashamed because he'd been tempted to use drugs again, the kind he'd promised Thea he wouldn't. Because of these mixed emotions, he tried to focus on what was going on, knowing if he didn't broadcast what he was thinking, Thea wouldn't hear anything important or feel the need to focus in on his thoughts.
"No, you're coming," Diego told him.
"I mean, I think we can all agree that my power's... I mean, it's pretty much useless. I'd just be holding you guys back."
"You're not useless. And you definitely don't hold us back," Thea disagreed.
Diego and Five were still unimpressed, and Five snapped at him. "Klaus get up."
Klaus' eyes narrowed at the two. "You can't make me," he said petulantly. Thea was confused as to where Klaus' sudden unwillingness to help came from. Had something happened? She watched the tension heighten between her three brothers and worried about what would happen next.
Diego threw a knife so quickly none of them saw it coming and it pierced the sofa right between Klaus's legs. Klaus' face was annoyed, and he lifted his hands in mock surrender. He got off of the sofa reluctantly, "Then again, a little exercise couldn't hurt."
Diego went to grab his knife, but Thea beat him to it. She ripped it from the sofa and took a threatening step towards Diego and Five.
Klaus turned back to see what his sister was doing and saw her pointing the knife at Diego. "If you ever throw one of these at him again, or even think about it, I don't care if you're my brother, I'll shove it straight up your ass. And I won't need a super power to do it," she growled out. Diego's eyebrows rose in shock and he gulped at Thea's serious expression.
Thea dropped the knife into Diego's slack grip and patted him on the chest, before walking out the room. The three boys jumped out of their shock and ran after her in a hurry.
Thea still felt a little bad for threatening Diego earlier, and even though she believed he deserved it for even thinking of throwing a knife at Klaus, she was still regretful. It didn't matter that Diego had perfect aim and knew how to control his knives better than anybody, what angered Thea was that he even used his ability on Klaus in the first place. She was sure she could've convinced Klaus to have come without threatening him.
I guess we're both sometimes hot-headed. Thea still remembered letting her emotions get the better of her at their Father's memorial when Luther and Diego broke Ben's statue. We all make mistakes. For now, let's just focus on finding Vanya.
Thea was worried for her sister. She felt awful for not being able to tell the kind of person Leonard - or Harold Jenkins - was. Thea knew it wasn't her fault, she didn't listen to people's thoughts out of respect for their privacy, but she couldn't help but wonder if this all could have been solved if she'd have only known about his duplicity earlier on.
The four of them had made their way to Harold Jenkins' home only to find him dead on the floor, his body riddled with sharp objects of all kinds. Thea also noticed that he had a bandage covering one of his eyes, something he hadn't had when she'd first met him.
"It's not exactly what I was expecting," Klaus said. He was leaning over the body looking at Jenkins with morbid curiosity.
"Understatement of the year," Five muttered.
"Vanya isn't here," Thea pointed out worriedly. "Where could she be?"
"Let's get out of here before the cops come," Diego instructed. He and Klaus began walking out, while Thea and Five stared at the body below them, one in sadness and the other in contemplation.
Thea felt bad for Harold Jenkins. She knew what he'd done and didn't condone any of it, especially putting Vanya at risk and hurting Allison. But Thea felt pity for the young boy that she met all those years ago, who'd only wanted to be special. She bit her lip and finally turned away from the dead man.
Five watched his sister struggle with her emotions and when she turned away, he decided to test out his suspicions. He ripped away the gauzing on Jenkins' eye and pushed the prosthetic eye he'd been carrying into the empty socket.
At Diego's retching, Thea turned around to see what Five was doing and she cringed in disgust.
"Same eye colour, same pupil size. Guys this is it." He turned around to face them, "This is the eye I've been carrying around for decades. It's found its rightful home."
Five pulled back Jenkins' eyelid and used his fingers to scoop out the eye. Thea squeezed her eyes shut and shuddered at the repulsive squelch it made.
"We got the guy we needed to kill to stop the apocalypse," Diego said.
"Yay! Let's go."
Thea put an arm on Klaus to stop him from leaving and turned to Diego and Five, "But what about Vanya? If Leonard- I mean, if Harold Jenkins is dead, then where is she?"
Five agreed. "She's right, it can't be this easy. Look, this is the note I got from the commission. The one that says, 'Protect Harold Jenkins' aka Leonard Peabody." He pulled out the letter he'd shown them before with the assignment on it. "But who killed him? Who did this?"
"I have a crazy idea," Klaus spoke from behind them. "Crazy, but why don't we find Vanya...and ask her what happened?" Thea nodded her head in agreement. She wanted to find her sister as soon as possible.
"If Vanya got away from this asshole, she might be headed back to the Academy," Diego said. Hearing this, Thea pulled on Klaus' arm to get them moving. "Then what are we waiting for?"
Once they'd gotten back to the Academy, they'd split up in search of their missing sister. Thea had chosen to search upstairs in all their rooms, especially Vanya's, but she was having no luck and wondered if her brother's had done any better.
Thea had turned around to re-check through the rooms again when she heard a faint voice from downstairs. Thea was about to ignore it - thinking it was one of the boys - but she recognised it as female. Knowing Allison was still sleeping and unable to talk anytime soon, Thea began following the voice that she hoped was her missing sister.
Thea was about to reach the overhead balcony when the voice stopped. She froze in place and tilted her head in confusion, trying to listen for the voice she'd heard only a moment ago. Worried, Thea began making her way down the stairs to an empty entryway. She could hear banging from down the corridor and followed it, her stomach twisting in knots with anxiety.
Thea still had paranoia about someone invading their house after the two hitmen had kidnapped her and Klaus. But Thea had to find her sister, and so despite her nerves, she carried on following the banging coming from behind a door that Thea had never seen before.
Opening it, she saw it led down and made her way down the steps tentatively. She could still hear the dull banging and hurried her pace. When Thea turned the corner she saw Luther, Diego and Klaus crowded around what Thea thought was a vault.
"What's going on?" she asked weakly.
At her voice all the men turned around quickly, Luther was grave whilst Klaus and Diego both had looks of disbelief on their faces. Thea couldn't see what they were looking at and so she pushed her way through only to freeze in horror. Vanya, her sister, was locked inside the vault and was crying in distress as she banged against the small window.
Thea stumbled forward and put her hand against the glass, looking at her sister's crying face in shock. "W-what's going on? Why is Vanya in there?" Thea heard Luther grunt in frustration before explaining his suspicions.
"You locked up our sister because you think she has powers?" Diego asked in disbelief.
Thea couldn't look away from Vanya's terrified eyes that were spilling with tears. Her throat was dry, and she struggled to catch her breath as she took everything in. Her hand mirrored Vanya's on the glass window, desperate to touch and comfort her distraught sister.
"No, I know she does. Pogo told me. He's always known, and so did Dad." Luther defended himself.
"Why would they hide this from us?" Diego asked. "I mean, am I the only one that didn't know this existed?"
"He hid so much from us," Klaus whispered.
"He hid it because he was afraid. Of her."
Diego and Klaus began denying Luther's claims, but Thea ignored them all. She focused on her sister and knew she had to do something. Luther wasn't thinking straight. He was worried about Allison and was lashing out at Vanya. Thea didn't care if Vanya had powers, she didn't care if their Father was afraid of her. Their Father was a spineless coward in Thea's opinion if he'd built this to lock up a child for something they couldn't help. She was their sister and she was afraid. It wasn't fair to lock her up like an animal when she clearly couldn't control her powers and was terrified.
Thea glanced at her brothers discreetly and saw they were all arguing over what to do. She lowered her hands slowly to not bring attention to herself and began calmly turning the hatch door.
Vanya was looking at Thea in hope and gratitude and Thea gave her a reassuring smile as she continued to slowly turn the wheel.
Thea let out a yell of surprise when she was suddenly ripped away from the door. Luther's gigantic arms wrapped around Thea's tiny frame, caging her in as he pulled her away from the door. Thea began screaming and hitting his arms.
"Let me go! Let go! Luther, I swear I'll kill you, let me go!" she turned to Vanya in desperation, seeing her sister crying even harder at the sight of Thea kicking and screaming. "Vanya! Luther please, let me get her out!"
Luther held her tightly as Diego and Klaus watched on in shock. Neither of them had noticed Thea opening the door, and they could see that she'd opened it halfway before Luther had caught her. Thea turned to Klaus in despair, "Klaus! Klaus please, help me! Let her out!"
Klaus rushed to Luther and tried pulling his arms off of his sister, "Hey, man, let her go. Come on, let her go."
Thea turned her gaze to Diego who was watching them all, torn between helping or keeping Vanya inside for now. Thea's eyes narrowed in on him and she wrapped her mind around his own in total control. Her highly-emotional state only intensified the control over him. "Diego. Open it. Now."
Diego turned robotically towards the vault door and lifted his arms to begin turning the hatch. Vanya was still crying behind the glass window and watched her brother hold her sister tightly as she screamed and hit him, trying to get Vanya out.
Diego had the hatch wheel almost all the way turned when Luther suddenly hit Thea over the head, knocking her out. Her connection with his mind snapped and Diego let go of the wheel in shock. Klaus let out a cry as he saw his sister, who lay slumped over in Luther's arms. He pushed at Luther and snatched his sister's body away, cradling her in his own arms. Diego gave Luther a scathing glare at having hit Thea unconscious.
"What the hell did you do?" Klaus yelled.
"Luther, what the hell, man?" Diego asked in anger.
Luther gazed down at Thea in regret, but his eyes were determined as he looked back up at Vanya. She was watching Thea in horror as she lay in Klaus' arms, out-cold. She began hitting the glass window even harder and crying out for Thea.
"It had to be done. She was going to let Vanya out." Luther tried to justify himself. Diego and Klaus sent him matching glares. The three of them heard footsteps approaching from behind and turned to see Allison.
Allison's neck was wrapped in a bandage and her skin was sweaty and pale, but as she looked past Luther at the scene in front of her, she seemed to turn even paler.
She looked at Klaus who had Thea wrapped up in his arms on the floor and took out her pen and notepad. What happened? It read.
Before Luther could defend his actions, Diego cut in. "This idiot thought locking our sister because she had powers was a bright idea. Then continued this brilliance and knocked out Thea when she tried letting Vanya free."
Allison turned to Luther incredulously and gave him a look of disappointment. Let her go she wrote.
Luther shook his head in denial, "I can't do that. She hurt you."
Allison looked down and began writing on her notepad again, the rest of them could only watch and wait. My fault.
"I'm sorry, but she's staying put," Luther said.
Allison shook her head in denial and went to walk past Luther, but he stopped her with a hand. She glared at him and tried again. When Luther stepped in her way, she began pushing and hitting his chest in anger.
"She stays put," Luther said sternly.
Diego began to walk away, and Klaus followed, carrying his sister's small body bridal-style.
Allison continued to hit Luther in frustration and let out choked sobs as she was feeling lightheaded from her neck wound. Luther began leading her away and Allison allowed him, looking back to Vanya who continued to cry inside the vault as she watched them leave.
Thea woke up to a headache almost as bad as the time she and Klaus got kidnapped. She'd joked about feeling like she'd been punched by Luther last time, only this time she actually had been.
'He felt a sudden desire to find out what it was that was so strange about the woman.' Thea could hear Ben's calming voice and it instantly soothed her pounding skull. She kept her eyes closed and just listened to his voice.
'In the first place, she appeared to be a girl quite young, and she was walking in the great heat bareheaded and with no parasol or gloves, waving her arms about in an absurd way.' Thea smiled fondly at Ben's voice, he was reading one of her favourite books, one that they'd both enjoyed discussing when they had free-time as teenagers. Thea sighed in content and opened her eyes.
She recognised the ceiling of her room and knew that if she could hear Ben, then Klaus must also be here with her. Thea realised Ben had stopped talking and turned to face where she guessed his voice had been coming from. "Why did you stop? Keep going, I like listening to your voice," she said honestly.
Klaus snorted from his bed across the room, "Don't look at her like that, it's making me sick with the sweetness of it all." Thea giggled at her brother's words and grinned goofily.
"What happened? I mean, I remember Luther hitting me but what...Vanya!" Thea gasped out her sister's name and shot up from her bed. She put a hand out to steady herself after the dizziness kicked in from sitting up so quickly.
Klaus stopped what he was doing and walked to sit on Thea's bed. Ben was sat on the other side of her. Thea turned to Klaus with a worried expression, "But Klaus, what about Vanya? We can't keep her there! It isn't fair, she must be so scared..." she choked out. Klaus took her hand and rubbed it with his thumb soothingly. He was debating on whether or not to tell Thea what had happened with Ben. He was worried in case she wanted proof, and he didn't know how to do it again.
He looked past his sister and caught Ben's eye. Ben nodded at the silent question, encouraging him to tell Thea the truth. Klaus knew she deserved it, especially as it involved both her twin and her love, and so he took a deep breath.
"Thea, I have something to tell you...but please don't be mad and understand I might not be able to do it again." Thea was intrigued at Klaus' statement and nodded her head, "Of course, you know you can tell me anything," she reassured him.
"I may or may not have tried taking drugs again-" at Thea's heartbroken expression he rushed to defend himself. "-it's just, I was out looking for Luther and found him at this club, a-and there were drugs everywhere and I just- I just could have sworn I saw Dave...I just, needed to take it all away. I'm so sorry, Thea. I'm so, so sorry."
Thea watched Klaus' ramblings in sorrow. She wasn't mad at him for nearly re-lapsing, she understood just how difficult being 'mostly sober' was for her brother and she knew the temptation that hard drugs held for him.
Thea wrapped her arms around Klaus' neck and whispered into his neck, "Don't apologise. I'm not mad, I understand. You could never disappoint me, Klausy. I love you no matter what." She pulled back and bit her lip as she glanced around nervously.
"It's kind of awkward to talk about you like you're not here, Ben, but Klaus-" she turned back to him, "-you saw how I was after Ben died. You saw what it did to me and how broken I was... still am, and I understand that you're going to go through similar things because of Dave."
Klaus let out a sob and tucked his face into Thea's neck. She could feel the tears on her skin and rubbed his back soothingly. She heard Ben sigh from beside her and sent a sad smile in his direction. As Klaus let out some of his pent-up emotions, Thea heard Ben's voice close to her ear.
'I'm sorry for what my death did to you, love.'' Thea had a small smile on her face as she continued comforting Klaus, "It's not your fault. I just miss you. Being able to see you and hug you. It hurts a little less knowing you're here. Even if only you can see me."
'I'm glad, love.'
At Thea's mention of seeing and touching Ben, Klaus remembered what he'd meant to tell her. Taking a deep breath and rubbing his eyes, he continued his explanation. "That's not all. What I meant to say was that when I was going to take drugs, Ben kept telling me not to and to be responsible - blah blah blah - but when I ignored him, he punched me."
"Punched you? But wouldn't his hand just go straight through? No offence." She mumbled giving the empty space next to her a sheepish smile.
'None taken.'
"Well, yeah, that's what normally happens. But Ben said it was something I did and so, it got me thinking, what if my power can go further? Dad said something about my potential and how I wasn't pushing myself when we had our dear old chat."
Thea had a thoughtful expression on her face as she pondered the possibilities of what Klaus had said. "I mean, who knows how far any of our abilities go? Look at me for example, as a kid I thought I could only read minds, but it developed into full mental manipulation. What's stopping you from taking seeing the dead further into controlling them?"
Klaus was thankful his sister believed him without asking him to prove it - although he could see a small glimmer of hope in her eyes at the thought of Ben being able to become tangible.
"Maybe. I don't know, but now we've been practising trying to do it again, but so far no results."
Thea leaned forward and kissed his cheek, "Keep at it, I believe in you Klausy." She turned sideways and blew a kiss in the general direction she thought Ben sat, "You too, love."
Klaus saw Ben smile at Thea with love shining in his eyes and couldn't have felt happier. He had his brother and sister by his side, and the two had been able to reunite - in a way - in thanks to Klaus himself. He wrapped his arms around Thea's shoulders in content.
Their happy moment was ruined when they felt the house shake and groan. Dust fell from the ceiling as the shaking continued and the twins turned to look at each other in worry, realising what, or rather who, was happening.
"Vanya."