#kliego fanfic

[ao3feed-kliego]

by hereis_jAYDE

Jayde’s The Umbrella Academy (TUA) One-Shots and Short Stories (JTOS3)

REQUESTS OPEN!!!

INFO IN FIRST CHAPTER, TABLE OF CONTENTS IN. SECOND CHAPTER!

THIS FIC WILL ONLY WRITE THESE SHIPS: Diego/Klaus, Diego/Five, Klaus/Five, Diego/Klaus/Five

Words: 190, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Umbrella Academy (Comics), The Umbrella Academy (TV) RPF

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Diego Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy), Klaus Hargreeves

Relationships: Diego Hargreeves/Klaus Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy/Klaus Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy/Diego Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy/Diego Hargreeves/Klaus Hargreeves

Additional Tags: Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Family Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Protective Number Five | The Boy, Polyamory, Pansexual Klaus Hargreeves, Bisexual Diego Hargreeves, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags

#AO3 works tagged 'Diego Hargreeves/Klaus Hargreeves' #ao3feed #fanfic #kliego #kliego fanfic #ao3fee

[prettynerdboy]

Domestic Life - Kliego

Dreaming a life they couldn’t afford to live.

#diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #the umbrella academy #kliego #ben hargreeves #allison hargreeves #five hargreeves #tua fanfic #vanya hargreeves #umbrella academy #luther hargreeves #tua #the umbrella academy fan art

[yucky-zuccy]

Hey! With the new season of TUA coming out soon I wanted to rework a old RP plot from 2019 into a fanfic. In case anyone was interested in keeping up with it as I updated I wanted to share the summary. The entire story is mostly focused on the struggles of Diego and Klaus coming together to watch over (and eventually raise) five who instead of jumping to the apocalypse and living through it went to Reginald’s funeral. At the end of the day it’s all for fun but I wanted to share in case it would be enjoyable for anyone else out there.

(I haven’t gotten to posting any of the chapters yet but was too excited not to share!!!)

#kliego #tua klaus #tua diego #tua five #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #the umbrella academy #tua #fanfic

[mokolat]

Heeyyy! I wish I could send you from my secondary Kliego account! I just love your art so so so much, it's unbelievably good! I was wondering if you could make more comic pages of Kliego? There's this one fic that's about Klaus being not adopted with the 7 umbrella kids, then he ends up at the academy's door with his full powers and he falls in love with Diego! I believe it would be fabulous transfered into your art 😭

Aaaw, thanks you so much for your compliments! I am very glad you like my fanarts! ♥♥♥ I don't plan to do more Kliego comic for now, because I draw among my imagination or special fanworks event and I am into blank about them. Comics takes me times, and I prefer to not engage myself or fanfic autor into project I am not absolutly sure to finish (in another way, my commissions are open to do illustration for fanfics - less complex than comics - for who is interested). But thanks you again for your kind proposition, I hope you'll find more Kliego content, and I come back with some TUA fanarts soon! ♥♥♥

#Thanks for the kind words #Ask #Answer #Mokolat

[vveissesfleisch]

i am a dark and wicked thing - part one

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Pairing: Klaus/Diego

Rating: E/NC-17

Word Count: 5.7K

Warnings: Underage (they are 17), Vampire AU, Canon Divergence, Horror, Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking, Child Abuse, Medical Stuff, Knives, Horror, Blood, Blood Drinking, Pining, First Time, Kissing, Sex, Masturbation, Eventual Smut (in part two), Adopted Sibling Incest

Summary: Klaus is staring at Diego with hollow eyes, straw still perched between his lips. No reaction, not even a spark of joy or schadenfreude as he watches Diego disrupt breakfast. Diego shifts. He’s seen corpses before, and were Klaus not sitting close enough to touch, chest rising and falling visibly with his breath, Diego could easily mistake him for one.

 Vampire!Klaus AU

Notes: At last, my TUA Vampire AU! I have been working on this here and there for SO LONG! Please read all the tags on AO3 quite thoroughly. I’m wrapping up the second part, and I’m aiming to post it within the week. If you enjoy part one, please feel free to drop me a life-and-muse-sustaining comment on AO3.

Friendly reminder that it costs zero dollars to not click on this, or to press the back button if it isn’t your jam!

Read it on AO3 here.   

#the umbrella academy #tua #tua fanfic #tua smut #klaus/diego #klaus x diego #klaus hargreeves x diego hargreeves #kliego #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #kliego fanfic #fan fiction #tua slash #m/m #horror #my fanfiction #my fanfic #my writing

[spikeymarshmallows]

I’d like to welcome myself to The Umbrella Academy fandom in the way I usually welcome myself anywhere: with porn.

Please heed the tags.

#klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #kliego #tua #kliego fanfic #service top diego #maybe #i haven't decided yet #but this *very* nearly became daddy kink #they're just so soft for each other T.T #no matter what they get up to #they're JUST. SO. SOFT T.T #and LOVE. EACH OTHER. SO MUCH. T.T #the umbrella academy

[kliegoweek]

Hello Tumblr!

We are a blog dedicated specifically to generating & curating any and all content centered around Kliego (Klaus/Diego of The Umbrella Academy), and we’re working on an upcoming ship week event for this magnificent pairing (yay!). 

A ship week is exactly what it sounds like: one glorious week where we collect and post the content you’ve created for this ship--from fanfic to art to playlists to edits to moodboards and beyond, whatever you create, we will reblog with gusto! There will be a theme for each day, and more details on this will be revealed later.

BUT FOR NOW...we must choose a date for our week of shippy goodness!

In order to give folks enough time to create the content of their choosing & maximize participation, we’re opening the floor to everyone to give their input on ideal dates. The choices are:

May 13-19

May 20-26

May 27-June 2

Please reply to this post or shoot us an ask off anon with your preferred date! Once we have enough responses, we’ll announce the date and get this roaring good time started! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to shoot us an ask. 

With love & UST, your mods,

@hannibalssweaters & @snarkysnartes

#kliego #klaus/diego #klaus x diego #kliegoweek #kliego ship week #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves x diego hargreeves #tua #the umbrella academy #kliego fanfic #fan art #fan fiction

[roroyaoi87]

Masterlist

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ A few days ago someone asked if I had a master list, I had never thought about that, and I'm pretty new in Tumblr, so I thought I'd make one. I hope you like it. ♥

𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚

🍎  🎀  𝐹𝒾𝓋𝑒/𝒦𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓈  🎀  🍎

𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝: 

𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫.

"𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫" - 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠

"𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭" - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬

"𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭" - 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟" 

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦: (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭) 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈; 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈

𝐊𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟔, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲. 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟔 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧 (𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐲, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐬, 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝟏𝟒). 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬 (𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲).

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈; 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈; 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈𝐈

𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚, 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

-𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭? - 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝, 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡. -𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 - 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭, 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬.

-𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮- 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞: (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝟑𝟎𝐬) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 "𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞" 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 "𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞" 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬.

𝐒𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐬 "𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞'𝐬 "𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞" 𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬. 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)

"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨" 𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐳 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲.

"𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞?" 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨'𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.

"𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭" 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐨𝐡 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

"𝐎𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲? "𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐦 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭," 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐲, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.

"𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬.

𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?" 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬' 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, "𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮? 𝐀𝐦 𝐈 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮?" 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝.

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫. 𝐇𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬?

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 "𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝" 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢�� 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭) 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈;  𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬'𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬'𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐛 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧.

𝐒𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

"𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐲" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞.

"𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫" 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚'𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦" 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬' 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 "𝐈𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐮𝐬" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫.

𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦.

𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰:

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬.

"𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧?" 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬

"𝐍𝐨, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧" 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?

𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 "𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬" 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬' 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 "𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐞"

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥. 𝐂𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐨... 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮...?

𝐍𝐨, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞?

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞" 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐢𝐭.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥" 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫

"𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥?" 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. "𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐞."

" 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐬."

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?"

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞-𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐲.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞" 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬.

𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞. 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛, 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚. 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞?

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛, 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩, 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒é𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞.

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐠𝐨. 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐱. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐟𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬' 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟔𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐀𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚, 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬.

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲.

･ﾟ⋆  🎀  𝐵𝑒𝓃/𝒦𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓈  🎀  ⋆ﾟ･

𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨:

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝, 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩. 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬. 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. 𝐀𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐲. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨:

𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐞, 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐟 𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐀𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲, 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬.

𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐧, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬 (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚, 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬.

𝐇𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝.

𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬' 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞'𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭.

"𝐎𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝" 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐦��𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨, 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭...

"𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐩," 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

"𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞."

𝐇𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐦?

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𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 (𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)

𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞. 𝐀 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐇𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲.

𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝.

"𝐎𝐡 𝐦𝐲, 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐝" - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐀𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐲, 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬' 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐇𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝.

"𝐓𝐰𝐨," 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫. 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐨.

"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲" - 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬" - 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐰𝐨. "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐈'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞"

𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐤𝐞 - "𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬,"- 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, -"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮"-

𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨'𝐬 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲 - "𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝" - 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩.

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝:

"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭, 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭"

"𝐁𝐞𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐤," 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧.

"𝐈 𝐚𝐦," 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, "𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭. 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝," 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, "𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬?

"𝐃𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐁𝐞𝐧." 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

"𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝. 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭?

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬.

"𝐘𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚"

"𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬."

"𝐘𝐞𝐬"

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𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭)

𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚'𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝, 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐟𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚.

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬," 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚, 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲" 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞," 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. "𝐃𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲.

𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐲 " 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞" 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚, "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭" 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫, "𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐭" 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 " 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐭 " 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝

"𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬" 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚

"𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫," 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭: (𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭) 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈; 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠.

"𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐞" 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲.

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐇𝐮𝐡?" 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 "𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐝?"

"𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝" 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮"

"𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫"

"𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭"

🐨  🎀  𝒱𝒶𝓃𝓎𝒶/𝒦𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓈  🎀  🐨

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞:

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐲.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮?" 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝, 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞

"𝐈...𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠," 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐲, 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞

𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨. 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬, 𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝, 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐚.

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞. "𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧," 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞.

#masterlist #The Umbrella Academy #fanfic #five x klaus #ben x klaus #diegoxklaus #luther x klaus #fic request #DiegoxKlausxBen #tua #tua netflix #omegaverse #klaus hargreeves #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #klausxvanya #vanya hargreeves #klive #horrance #kliego

[turtlenecksaremykink]

Once again Diego gets with a woman that resembles Klaus personality wise HA

I just call it as I see it 🤷‍♀️😏🤷‍♀️

#klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua season 2 #tua fanfic #kliego #diego x lila #lila pitts #tua #tus s2 spoilers #tua klaus #tua diego #klaus x diego #diego x klaus #tua 2 spoilers

[starkid-pottah]

It's what they would want

#kliego #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #the umbrella academy #fanfic

[sparklebubbles]

I'M SORRY SKDKENRKDD

#kliego #Klaus x Diego #diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #tua fanfic #tua netflix #tua

[prettynerdboy]

“At almost three o'clock in the morning, Diego managed to fall asleep, too tired to keep his eyes open and fight the fear of his nightmares. Two hours later, he awoke suddenly, with his heart pounding and tears in his eyes. By instinct he turned to the side of the bed that was usually occupied by Klaus, in search of his comfort. He had a heart attack when he realized that Klaus was not there. Then he noticed the paper under the door and went to pick it up, with a certain hope in his chest. Maybe Klaus wanted to send him a message asking to go to him. He started reading and the more he went on, the more those words didn't promise anything good. So Diego came out of his room with his heart in his throat, he wanted explanations, he wanted to know what Klaus wanted to tell him and to tell it to his face if he had the courage. Then he saw the door to Klaus' room wide open. There was no one in there. Number Two felt an even more horrible feeling in his stomach and began to look for him in every corner of the house, more and more panicked. It could not be. He went up to the terrace, to their special place in front of those beautiful flowers that Number Two had received as a gift. He wasn't even there. He couldn't believe it...Klaus had abandoned him in that house. He had left without him. In a fit of rage, the boy began to uproot the poor plants, threw the vases to the ground, crying out loud like he had never done before. The worst nightmare had come true, Klaus was gone, Klaus had run away forever and without him. Diego was alone, totally alone. His heart had broken into a thousand pieces, he could feel that pain physically in his chest. He fell to his knees and punched his fists on the floor. He wouldn't stop shaking, thinking about how selfish Number Four had been to leave him there. Going away together had been their live's project and instead he had left him in the lurch. He told him that he loved him, he told him that without him he would never have left...He told him a lot of crap apparently. Diego was on his knees, the rain had started to fall, mixing with his tears. When the anger subsided, the boy couldn't help thinking he had destroyed one of the last things he had left of Klaus. His flowers, the little lives he had looked after for months until they blossomed, destroyed. He took a pink hydrangea in his hand, remembering its meaning and he placed it on his heart. “

Frome “Scary Love”, Chapter “All I Want” 

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[latteisnotnormal]

Kay but hear me out, I’m writing an Umbrella Academy fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26436160/chapters/64406875 

“Get up Two,” Klaus hit his arm repeatedly as if beating Diego’s arm would make him move any faster, “We’re getting the fuck out of dodge as they say.”

or

14 year old Klaus, months after the death of Ben, coerces Diego to run away

#umbrella acedmy #the umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #kliego #well potential future kliego #fanfic

[eighth-hargreeve]

So, here's a list of Umbrella Academy characters and the food they would be in some alternate universe:

Luther: Bread. Just a single loaf of bread.

Diego: Uh, probably Doritos. Either that or like, sharp cheddar cheese.

Allison: I definitely see her as a cinnamon roll girl, 100%

Klaus: hmm....weed brownies???

Five: Tiramisu for sure

Ben: a snickerdoodle cookie :))

Vanya: A chocolate filled croissant.

Hazel: A donut, obviously

Cha-Cha: Something about her is making me lean towards celery. I have no idea why.

#if yall got any suggestions just rb #tua #the umbrella academy #tua s2 #tua fanfic #tua theories #tua fanart #tua vanya #tua klaus #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #reginald hargreeves #grace hargreeves #fiveya #kliego

[vveissesfleisch]

In the Soil of Your Desire

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV)

Pairing: Diego Hargreeves/Klaus Hargreeves

Rating: NC-17

Word Count: 3.6K

Warnings:  extremely dubious consent, crying, fight sex, jail sex, rough sex, unsafe sex, the amount of bodily fluids you’ve come to expect from me, derogatory language, anger/feelings, pseudo-incest, JUST READ ALL OF THE AO3 TAGS. 

Summary: “And yet here we are, in the same fucking place.” Klaus wrenches his arm free. “Because you’re so much better than me, aren’t you? A failed cop wannabe skulking about the city, breaking bones and cracking skulls to satisfy your own sadistic rage in the name of justice? Meanwhile, you’re probably way worse than the overwhelming majority of the people you put down, wouldn’t you say?”

Alternatively, Patch finally makes good on her threat to lock Diego up for the night for interfering in an investigation. Luckily, his cellmate provides an outlet for his frustration.

Notes: Happy 4/20, Passover, & Easter I guess, have some dubcon jail sex! 

Read it on AO3 here. 

#klaus/diego #klaus x diego #kliego #klaus hargreeves x diego hargreeves #smut #lemons #kliego fanfic #my fanfic #my writing #the umbrella academy #tua slash #slash

[romanticizedtaboos]

hiii the newest chapter of my kliego fic is up so go read that if u want!! i appreciate any and all feedback

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