Klaus POV

Diego, Vanya, Allison and I all sat in the waiting room of the women's health clinic, waiting for the nurse to call us in. This was a special day.

Why, you may ask?

Because today was the day that I got to figure out the gender of Allison's baby. Well, Diego and I. Allison picked us to know, so that we could plan a gender reveal party for the family. Vanya had just come along for moral support. I was absolutely honored, and in the future, I can tell the little squirt I was the first to know what parts they had. Well. Maybe I shouldn't work it exactly like that.

'Do you think they forgot about us?', Vanya whispered to me quietly, tapping my leg with her foot as I looked through a maternity magazine.

I shrugged my shoulders, frowning comically.

'Look here, it says you can't eat raw eggs when you're pregnant.', I pointed out to her and Diego, showing them the picture in the magazine.

'Why would you want to eat raw eggs anyway?', Vanya asked softly.

'Pure protein, baby.', Diego added, giving the gross explanation. Vanya cringed.

'What it's intending is for you to not eat raw eggs in things like cake batter and cookie dough.', Allison explained, looking down at a different magazine.

'Well dang, I'm never getting pregnant, that's for sure.', I commented, making Vanya giggle slightly. The woman sitting at the front desk heard me and looked up, giving me a strange look. I tilted my head at her, and went back to the magazine.

'Allison Hargreeves?', a nurse with a clipboard finally came out of the door, calling for her.

'That's us.', Allison said, folding her magazine back and placing it on the table. We all got up to go with her. We walked past the nurse, who was dressed in pink scrubs, 'Melinda' written on her name tag.

'Oh my, Allison Hargreeves and co, I see!', she said, laughing nervously as we followed her back.

'It takes a village, Melinda dear.', I said, smiling at her.

She laughed, seeming overwhelmed by the amount of people following her into the exam room.

'Here, just sit down right here, and we'll get you started.'

Allison sat down on the exam table, and Vanya sat in the extra chair while Diego and I stood against the wall. I poked my finger through a plastic model of a uterus on the counter and Diego swatted my hand away.

'Any unusual symptoms lately?', the nurse asked Allison, tapping on her computer.

'No, nothing unusual, just a bit of nausea in the mornings.'

'That is to be expected.'

'Ok, if there's nothing you need to note, I'm going to go ahead and take your vital signs and get you started.'

I zoned out for a minute while the nurse took her heart rate and blood pressure, and stared down at the uterus model. It was a strange looking thing. Weird to think how every human on earth spent eight or nine months in one of those, yet none of us spent more than twenty minutes. And man, am I glad of that. It seems super cramped in there. I don't see how babies do it for so long, I'd get such a massive crick in my neck. If only there was-

'Klaus, the nurse needs you.', Allison said, drawing me from a deep train of thought about uteruses and baby feng shui.

'Oh, yeah.'

She turned the monitor to me as Diego and I looked on.

'Now try and keep a straight face, you don't want Allison to know what you're seeing, alright boys?', the nurse asked us, laughing slightly.

'I wouldn't worry about that, I have no idea what I'm looking at right now.', I said, making Diego laugh.

She held up a clipboard, motioning us to come near so she could whisper to us. She pointed on the screen at the indicators, and explained what the pictures meant. And then it finally made sense.

'Oh my goodness! Oh my gosh! Holy crap Allison!', I exclaimed, making Diego kick my shin.

'Quit reacting so hard! Gosh, Klaus, you have no chill.'

In the moment I had forgotten that I wasn't really supposed to react, so I caught myself, and put a finger over my lips and nodded. Allison giggled slightly and her eyes grew wide.

'You got that?', the nurse asked us, nodding her head.

'Yeah, we got it.', Diego answered for us, nodding at me. I nodded as well, my finger still over my lips.

'Well then, you all are free to go, if that's all your appointment was for today.'

'Yes, thank you so much. That's all we needed.'

'Well, I wish you all the very best, have a nice day!'

I stopped at the door as we went out, pointing to a jar of suckers, eyeing the nurse. I asked her with my eyes.

'Yes, you can have a sucker, sir.'

'Ooo, merci!', I said, poking one in my mouth and getting out the door to catch up with the others.

I patted Diego on the back as I caught up with him. We had driven separately, so that Diego and I could go buy supplies for the gender reveal party that Allison put us in charge of after we left. I was excited for that. Diego said I could make the cake. Ben was going to help me.

'Let's go shopping, knife boy.'

Diego POV

'Where the heck do we find the colored fondant?'

Stores were stupid. They can't just arrange things according to their purpose? No? Can't ever find anything in stupid Walmart.

'I think that it might be in this aisle, it says birthday party.', Klaus answered me, making me groan internally.

'See, there's balloons, and all those goodies. They have to have the cake stuff there too.'

'And why do you assume that, Klaus?'

'Because of birthday cakes.'

'Klaus, that's not good logic.'

'Oh come on, let's just look here.'

He started off into the aisle, and I, seeing that I was pushing the cart, had to follow him no matter how illogical I thought he was being. He rummaged around the whole aisle, skipping down it, looking right and left.

He picked up a bag of party favors.

'Look, Diego, they have bouncy balls! In five different colors!', he said, waving them in front of my face. 'And, oh, look! Look at these costume jewelry rings! We should get these!'

'Klaus, focus. We need to find colored fondant.'

'You're not any fun, Diego, you don't even get excited about bouncy balls. I personally think these rings would look lovely with your complexion.'

Klaus was difficult to handle sometimes. That coupled with the fact that I was getting hangry, because it was three in the afternoon and I hadn't eaten since nine A.M, was making this shopping experience crappy.

'Hey Klaus, how about you go and find the colored fondant, and I'll go to the bathroom and run my head through a wall.'

'Ok, you have fun with that.'

'Thank you, I appreciate that.'

I left the cart with him, and walked off to the back of the store, to the bathroom. I didn't need to use it, I just needed a break from this.

I opened a stall, and stood in there, and there was nobody else in the bathroom. I rubbed my temples, starting to get a headache.

And then I heard a sound, a sound a whole lot like it sounded when Five blinked across the room.

'Five?', I asked, looking around to find him.

'Not exactly.', a familiar voice spoke from behind me, and I turned to see who it was.

Holy crap.

'Lila?!'

'That's what they call me.', she said, shrugging and smiling.

I was awestruck, appalled, and speechless. I opened my mouth to speak, and only a little squeak came out. There we stood, after four years of no contact, in the Walmart bathroom stall. I shook my head in disbelief.

'W... whe... where have you been? Why are you here? What-'

'Oh, hush up, Diego. Let me explain myself before you make your tongue dissolve forcing it to work so hard.', she said, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. I nodded slowly.

'I'll get straight to the point. I'm here because I need you to come with me.'

'And w.. why would I come with you?'

'Because your siblings are going to do something that you really aren't going to like, and you won't be able to stop them without my help? Is that a good enough reason?'

'Explain.', I said, my stuttering calming. What did she mean?

'Listen, I've seen the timeline. I have that privilege now, seeing that the Temps Commission has officially made me the new handler, and crap.', she said, smiling.

I shook my head in disbelief once more.

'We've been monitoring your family.', she said coolly, looking down at her nails. I tilted my head and opened my mouth to protest, but she hushed me. 'And before you get your trousers in knots, let me finish.'

'Your siblings are all having big bundles of babies, yes? Multiplying like rabbits? Dividing like cells in mitosis?'

'It's only Allison that's pregnant, Klaus has one kid.', I answered her, not understanding.

'Yeah, details. Listen. Years down the road, Five is going to get this bright idea to start a new and reformed Umbrella Academy, train all your children like dogs, and do all the same crap your father did. Like the sound of that?'

I immediately got angry at the sound of that.

'No way on earth I'll allow that.', I said, gritting my teeth. 'I won't allow him to put the kids through the same crap we went through. Not happening.'

The mere suggestion of it made me so frustrated. Was Five himself not one of the greatest victims of our upbringing? What about Vanya? All of us. Had we not been socially stunted and traumatized for life because of how we spent our childhoods?

'Well then I suggest you might better come with me, now shouldn't you?', she said, smiling with a closed mouth.

'Hold up, though. You show up here, after four years, completely out of the blue and expect me to just believe whatever you spout? How do I know this ain't some sort of trick?', I said, skeptical of her motives.

'I've seen it Diego, quit being so defensive. I'm not tricking you. If you want to keep these kids from that future, you need to help me.'

I nodded after a moment.

'Alright, take me there.'

Lila POV

I'd seen it all on the infinite switchboard. There they were, a group of six teenagers, joined together and single handedly destroying the Temps Commission. These children, some yet unborn, were destined to take us down in fiery destruction. We would be wiped out. The commission completely and utterly gone forever. And if we didn't stop it now, if we didn't knock the kids out before they grew up, there was no stopping it. They would grow up to be a force of nature, a force that nothing could stand against when they were united.

I couldn't allow that to happen. I had to protect the commission.

So I came to Diego. I knew he'd be so staunchly opposed to the idea of this future for the kids. It doesn't matter that I didn't tell him the whole story. All that mattered is that I had leverage now. Leverage. Blackmail. Muscle. The only things I had at my disposal in such a situation.

And now, he came with me willingly.