Hey I know it's been a while sorry but this story is not abandoned. Shortly after the update of the last chapter I lost a very important person in my life and fell into a really bad depression. I am still working through it but I was able to write a little.

2005

It had been a week since Vanya and Diego declared their feelings for each other and they had spent every day together. Vanya spent the training sessions exclusively helping Diego and he spent his afternoons in Vanya's practice room listening to her play. When their father returned Vanya was forced to rotate amongst her siblings during training but Diego still spent his afternoons in the practice room which did not go unnoticed by their father.

One day, Vanya walked into her bedroom to find Ben lying on her bed reading one of her magazines. "So what's going on with you and knife boy?" He asked not looking up from the page he was reading.

"I don't know what you're talking about." She said lying next to him and taking the magazine out of his hands.

"I was reading that." He took the magazine back. "Don't think that all the time you spend together has gone unnoticed."

"You were reading what eyeshadow makes your eyes pop?" She asked with a laugh.

"The answer is blue." He replied. "And you are avoiding the question. What is going on between you and Diego?"

"I love him."

"Vanya!" That was the first time Ben had heard her say it out loud.

"And he loves me." She smiled.

"Vanya, that's amazing. Tell me everything!"

He listened as she told home about the almost kiss on the patio and Diego giving her the violin and about the training room incident. He pulled his sister into a hug. "I'm so happy for you!"

"Now for the real reason I came in here." He said standing from the bed.

"You mean you didn't come in here to talk about my slightly incestuous relationship?" Vanya laughed with a mocking gasp.

"First don't call your relationship that. It's weird and you two aren't related so it isn't incest. And second I did want to talk to you about Diego but I also wanted to show you this." He pulled out a Black velvet box and opened it.

"Whow Ben I'm flattered but I only see you as my brother." She said catching the pillow that flew at her head the second she finished talking.

"Haha." He said sitting back on the bed next to her. "It's for Eudora smartass. I'm going to ask her to run away with me."

"B, it's beautiful but are you sure? I mean you guys are only 16 you have your whole lives to be together. Why rush it?"

"Because I want to run away from the academy and be with her."

"Ben just wait one month and if you still feel the same I will help you get out."

"Okay." He smiled and pulled his sister into a hug.

"Hands off my girl Ben." Came a voice from the doorway. Diego walked in and sat on Vanya's bed pulling her onto his lap.

"About time you pulled your head out of your ass." Ben smiled. Then his smile faded and his face became serious. "Hurt my sister and I will make sure dad never finds the body."

"Ben, stop it." Vanya laughs jokingly, slapping his arm while leaning back into Diego's arms.

Diego looked over to Ben and saw him make a beheading motion with his hand. He gulped and nodded knowing his bother well enough to know he was not joking.