A/N: Hope you guys enjoy :)


Chapter Two: Bestest Sandwiches!

When Vanya was younger, she wondered how the world would end, she went through a brief phase in her teen years where she legitimately thought she had to be ready for a zombie apocalypse, this was brought on by too many late-night horror movies and an overactive imagination. She pondered at the time of the many different ways the world could end, it could be something that you see in movies and shows, all slow and dramatic at the same time, maybe some disease would just take over or some "cure" that wakes the dead would be administered out to the sick. Or maybe it'll be more probable, like running out of resources in the world, or maybe something unusual, like aliens would come down from outer space and destroy their planet. As she listened to Five recount what he had seen and done to survive in the future, she couldn't help but feel disappointed when he told her he never found out how the world ended, he just knew that it did end, and it was happening in seven days. The teenager in Vanya was not too fond to still have that question up in the air of how the world would end.

She detested the image she conjured up of Five in a desolate burning world not being able to come home, his powers failing him when he needed them most. The things he described were something no person should ever have to go through, especially alone, no one there to comfort you, to talk to you, to keep you sane.

"I tried getting home for years, but every time I tried it just didn't work, I don't know why." Vanya couldn't stand to see Five's lanky figure slightly shaking from the memories of that empty world, he was always so nonchalant and confident about everything, arrogance oozed from Five's pores, but this was obviously a sensitive topic for him that comes with deep emotional baggage attached to it. Vanya's first thought when he started talking was that he had gone mad, their father always warned Five of that happening as a result of time travel, but she saw the truth in his panicked eyes, Five wouldn't freak out over nothing, he was to logical for that. And in any case, it paid to be prepared and aware of the things that could happen no matter how insane they sounded, then to be caught off guard. So even if it turned out to be all in Five's head, which Vanya very much doubted, it wouldn't hurt to try and stop the end of the world and ease Five's mind that it wasn't something he was going to have to deal with on his own.

"Why do you still look like a kid? You said you were there for years." Diego questioned, it wasn't that he didn't believe Five, he did, it was just bizarre and little freaky to see Five not a day aged from when he went missing 17 years ago, especially compared to himself and Vanya, who had aged.

"Time travel is messy, I obviously didn't get the equations completely right and that resulted in this." Five gestured to his body with a grimace, he evidently didn't like seeing himself in his child body any more than they did, but Diego would argue that it would still more strange for them then it was for Five.

"Seven days isn't a whole lot a time to save the world." Diego said, how could that possibly be enough time to save an entire planet from an unknown enemy.

"Where do we even start?" Vanya's bemused voice pitched in with her question, agreeing with Diego.

"With this," Five reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out the fake eye he had wrapped up in a cloth, "I found it clutched in Luther's hand." Vanya cringed away from the fake eye, that was gross and ugly, how Five was casually holding it up looking at it as if it was a lifeline she had no clue, not wanting to be anywhere near it she took several steps away from him to distance herself.

"You found Luther?" Diego asked, he too was looking at the eye like it was their saving grace, though he wasn't as creepy about it as Five was.

"I found all of you," Five soberly replied, he wrapped the fake eye back up and put it in his jacket pocket for safe keeping, his eyes flickered to Vanya, "Well almost all of you." He amended.

"What do you mean?" Diego and Vanya asked at the same time, one with thinly wrapped worry and the other curiously.

"I didn't find Ben or you Vanya," Five now understood why he didn't see Ben's body with the others but even knowing Vanya didn't have powers he found it unusual that she was nowhere close to their siblings, he looked for her, but all his searching came up empty. What's even more unusual now though is that he knows she has a daughter, whose father is Diego, who wouldn't have let either of them go that far away from him, Diego was to overprotective to allow them out of his immediate reach, Five should have found them somewhere close by but he didn't, "I didn't know to look for Luna but I imagine she was where you were and I never found you." Diego did not like the sound of that, Vanya and their daughter lost, him not there to protect them or console them.

"It doesn't matter now because it's not happening, you being here has already changed the future Five, I don't know how much but the butterfly effect and all that bullshit." Diego muttered out, hot with anger at his future self for not being with Vanya and Luna. He was no expert on time travel but if movies have taught him anything it was that one thing had the power to set off chain reactions. With Five here they knew of the upcoming apocalypse, therefore they aren't completely blindsided by it, they have time, not that much time but something was better than nothing to come up with a decent plan.

"It doesn't exactly work like that," Five knew the misconceptions that came from movies, he wishes it was that simple, and in theory it probably would be but with The Commission working to make sure the timeline stays on course to the end of the world, that theoretically simple solution becomes beyond complicated, "but I agree with you, it doesn't matter. I didn't come all this way only to get a front row seat to the world ending, and you guys dying."

"So, our first step is to find out who the eye belongs to?" Vanya wanted to clarify, she stayed quiet when Five was speaking of not finding her body or Luna's mostly because she didn't want to think of her and her daughter dead in a future that is fast approaching. Better to focus her attention elsewhere before she worked herself into a frenzy over something that has yet to happen.

"Yeah, and then we can..." Five paused when a tiny human ran into the room, he didn't know that much about children, but he figured you shouldn't traumatize them with world ending news before their out of toddler years, that seemed like it would be detrimental to their mental health.

"Mamma I'm hungry." Five and Diego watched in amusement as the little girl struggled to pull herself up the bar stool to sit on the island, refusing Vanya's help when she silently offered it, determined to do it herself, once up on the island countertop she turned her small body until it faced Vanya.

"Really little bug, are you sure?" Diego thought it was adorable how serious Luna looked at her mother, she was all business. Vanya's demeaner had changed in a split second when Luna came running into the kitchen, Diego couldn't see the stress or the concern that was just there a second ago, only a big playful smile on her face aimed at their daughter.

"Yes." Luna gave a firm nod in response, her legs started swinging outward from where they hung off the counter.

"Alright well if you're sure," Vanya teased, "What do want to eat?"

"Sandwich!" Luna squealed, Diego didn't know he was smiling at her until Five nudged his ribs with his skinny elbow, that annoying smirk plastered on his face, he dropped the smirk though when he seen Vanya reach into the cabinets for peanut butter and marshmallows, instead of into the refrigerator for mayo and ham. She liked peanut butter marshmallow sandwiches?

"Oh, hell no, that's what you've been feeding our daughter, those monstrosities!" Diego exclaimed, how could Vanya feed Luna those nasty sandwiches, Five didn't have the same sentiments as Diego did, he was grinning for once instead of smirking, very obviously approving of the snack choice.

"Yes, I have, she happens to love them, Diego." Vanya caught when he said "our daughter" she guessed that answered part of her question on whether Diego wanted to be involved in Luna's life or not. Thankfully, Luna was too young to understand quite yet what he said and what it means, she's a smart little girl, but she was too young to understand that she hasn't had a father in her life up until now. Vanya has actually been dreading the day that she isn't too young to understand that and the conversation that would have no doubt followed but now she doesn't have to, Diego was half in love with Luna already if the look on his face was anything to go by.

"They the bestest sandwiches in the whole world!" Luna proclaimed very loudly and proudly, leaving no room for anyone to doubt her statement.

"Smart kid." Five nodded his head in approval.

"You've doomed her to have bad taste for the rest of her life." Diego joked, he's never understood how Five could eat those gross sandwiches, Vanya ate them too but not as religiously as Five did. Diego tried eating one when they were kids out of curiosity, and it was safe to say that it was not for him, the resulting stomachache he had gotten from the sandwich scarred him for life.

"Shut up Diego." Vanya replied without real force, he was joking with her and Vanya kind of wanted to kick herself in the ass from how much she missed it. Her and Diego at some point did have an easy relationship, it was fun and light, she looked forward to his teasing and looked forward to his crappy jokes and belly laughs. Where that all went wrong, she doesn't know and she's not sure if she wants to find out.

After she made the sandwich Vanya put it on a blue plastic plate and led Luna to the living room to sit her down on her child sized table and chairs that had characters from the movie "Moana" on it, she turned on the TV and clicked on "Moana" for her little bug to watch her favorite movie. Vanya can't count the number of times she's watched the kid's movie over and over again, she's memorized practically every line from it, Luna couldn't seem to get enough of it.

"You watch the movie, I'm going to go back to the kitchen, okay?" She asked but Luna was already stuck on the TV and wasn't paying any attention to what she was being told.

Vanya was a bit unsure what to think of Luna not questioning the presence of the two-extra people in the house, it was not often that someone came here so Vanya had expected her to be sprouting questions left and right but she wasn't. Last night when Luna met everyone Vanya had introduced Five, Luther, and Klaus as her brothers, Allison as her sister, and Diego as her friend because it was too weird to say her brother when she hasn't thought of him that way in a very long time. Luna doesn't know what it means to have uncles and aunts, what they are and who they are, so Vanya knows she doesn't quite understand but it's still unusual that she's keeping quiet, but considering Vanya wasn't ready to answer questions she was glad that her little bug was going with the flow for now, Vanya hopes she keeps doing that.

When Vanya walked back into the kitchen, Five was just finishing saying something to Diego, "... we need to stop by the manor so I can get changed, I'm not going anywhere looking like this." She suppressed a smile at Five's disgusted look to his outfit, he looked every bit of a schoolboy and it was honestly cute, but Vanya knows he's more annoyed with the dirty state his clothing is in and not the actual clothing itself.

"What's going on?" Vanya asked them, she was going to start picking up the little mess she made from making Luna's snack but the kitchen was clean, she spotted Diego placing the kitchen rag back into the sink, she didn't verbally mention anything to him but she did give him a small smile before she sat down next to Five to continue their conversation.

"There's some company name printed on the eye, I think we should stop by there first and try to see if they can tell us who it belongs to." Diego told her moving to lean against the counter in front of them, Five once again was holding the creepy thing in his hand, Vanya wished he would put it away permanently, it really freaked her out.

"All of us?" Vanya highly doubted that they meant her as well, but she chanced the question.

"Yeah." both Five and Diego answered at the same time, Vanya's eyes must have grown three times their size from her shock, she was sure they were going to tell her to stay behind, not only because she was ordinary but also because she has Luna now.

"You can get a babysitter for Luna, right?" Five was sure someone could watch Luna well they went to investigate where the eye came from, he wanted Vanya with them, Five came here originally to tell HER of the world ending soon, so he wanted her thoughts on things along the way. Not that Diego in and of himself wasn't good to have as a companion, but Five and Vanya were each other's favorite siblings growing up, Five isn't too sure what has or hasn't changed in the years they've been separated but he did know that he still trusted her and her judgment above any other person in his life.

"Yeah, our neighbor Eleanor can probably watch her, it's a little short notice but she's always offering, I just haven't taken her up on it yet." Eleanor was a sweet old lady whose children have all grown up and moved out years ago and whose grandchildren don't come to visit. She lived three houses down, Vanya had met her the fifth day living in the neighborhood, she had come baring cupcakes and cookies and told Vanya her life story in less than an hour of introducing herself.

She had started offering to watch Luna when she thought it was an appropriate time for Vanya to "get back out there", Vanya still hasn't taken her up on the offer yet, not willing to tell poor Eleanor that she wasn't "out there" to begin with. Eleanor's husband died some years ago and with hardly any family coming to visit her, Vanya has found herself on the receiving end of unwanted encouragement and advice, she knows Eleanor means well and she really is a sweetheart so Vanya doesn't ever have the heart to tell her to stop. But she hasn't had her babysit Luna either, not wanting to get the poor women's hopes up that she's getting back into a game that she was never playing to begin with.

"Alright then Vanya you go ask..." Diego started to say but was interrupted by the doorbell ringing, Vanya frowned in confusion, she wasn't expecting anyone to come by right now. All three of them made their way into the living room, Diego pausing next to Luna and Five throwing himself onto the couch, Vanya went to answer the door.

On the other side was a man with short brown hair and a smile peeking out the corners of his mouth. His smile got a little bigger upon being greeted with the door opening but it immediately disappeared when he caught sight of the puzzlement on Vanya's face.

"I'm Leonard." The guy said looking more and more worried and embarrassed by the second, Vanya shook her head a little bit at him, Leonard? She doesn't know a Leonard.

"Violin lessons? Do I have the wrong house?" The guy asked in a panic, looking around to the other houses on her street like someone was going to come out to correct his house mistake, a blush dusted his cheeks and ran down his throat that he cleared a few times in awkwardness.

"Oh! Oh my god! I completely forgot; I am so sorry!" Vanya accidently shouted at him, she winced from the volume of her voice, she moved aside so he could walk past her into the living room, the embarrassment that he felt moments ago was now spreading to her, she couldn't believe she forgot about her appointment today, she was too caught up with Diego and Five.

"No, no it's fine. I can reschedule for a different time if you want?" He was looking around the living room as he asked his question, curiously assessing everything, his eyes paused on Diego who had shifted in his stance, Diego felt uneasy vibes coming off the guy and he didn't like it. Five was eyeballing the guy from the couch as well and looking how Diego felt, something was off, he just wasn't sure what.

"No, you don't have to do that." Vanya assured him, she moved around him and caught sight of Diego's and Five's faces but didn't say anything to them.

"I'm sorry, um I'm Vanya," she introduced herself, putting a hand on her chest signaling in a Tarzan manner who she is "That's my brother, my friend, and my daughter." She pointed to each of them but avoided names, mainly because introducing Five with his name was going to raise a question she didn't want to answer right now, Leonard nodded to Diego and Five and gave a smile and a wave to Luna who had stopped watching the movie when the new person came into the house, she didn't wave or smile back.

"Down the hall, last door to your right is the lessons room if you want to go get comfortable, I'll be in there in a minute." Vanya led him to the beginning of the hallway and pointed out her instructions. Looks like she's not going to be going with Diego and Five after all.

"You guys go head and go, I appreciate the invite, but I forgot I have work and I can't just kick him out, but let me know what you guys find out, okay?" She told them, she really was looking forward to going with them, but work was work and she couldn't just put it off to go play detective, no matter how much she wanted to do just that.

"You still got the same number?" Diego didn't feel right leaving Vanya and Luna here with that guy but he knew if he said something it wouldn't go over well with Vanya so he kept his mouth shut, but he could at least make sure they have each other's number to make himself feel better knowing she has a way to contact him if she needs help.

"Yeah." She replied, Vanya hadn't changed her number in the past few years, she's a little ashamed to admit that at first it was because she had hopes in the back of her mind that Diego would call her and ask her to go back, now she's not sure what her excuse is and she's afraid of diving deeper into it in fear that she'll find that her excuses and reasons for keeping the same number haven't changed as much as she likes to believe.

He nodded, "Me to call me if anything, alright?" Vanya nodded back to him, she doesn't know what he thinks is going to happen well he's gone but she knew how adamant Diego can be in his overprotective mode, so it was just better to nod and agree then to argue and question.

Both Diego and Five walked to the front door to leave, "Bye mister Diego! Bye uncle Five!" Luna shrieked from her table, waving her hand frantically in the air, trying to get their attention, Diego laughed "Bye miss Luna." Five didn't respond back to her, not sure how to when he heard "uncle Five", instead he just tipped his head in acknowledgment which Luna seemed satisfied with because she turned her focus back to her movie. Vanya had introduced him as "uncle Five" last night but he didn't realize Luna was going to call him that so soon after meeting him.

Vanya was closing the door behind them when Diego whipped around and told her "We still need to talk Vanya; don't think I'm letting you off the hook that easy." Before she could respond back to him, he walked away from her. Rationally she knew just because Five brought the apocalypse back with him, nipping at his heels and she had an unexpected student didn't mean their talk wasn't happening at all but she was happy to live in that fantasy where it was a perfect world and the talking wasn't needed between them, that is until he opened his big mouth and ruined it for her.


A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed, feel free to drop a review :)

P.S. Did anybody else get the creepy vibes from Leonard from the very start or was that just me? I screamed at the TV that he was no bueno and she should get the hell out of dodge, but TV people don't ever listen to me lol