#vanya: hell yeah I can i will wrench first chair away from her

[in-tua-deep]

20 for Vanya?

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

I have a lot of what-ifs and alternate timelines for Vanya lmao, especially ones that prevent the apocalypse because I’m a sucker for a happy ending tbh

What if Vanya was included? Why not? Klaus’s powers weren’t useful for missions, Allison’s story for Claire was literally like “yeah Klaus got distracted by ghosts in the background lol” so it’s not like a kid without offensive powers couldn’t do it

you have rebellious Vanya aus, where she decides, like some neglected children do, so act out. If her father isn’t going to acknowledge anything good about her, she’s going to make him acknowledge the bad. Punishment might be the only time he pays attention to her, after all.

(let’s call this an au where the pills suppress her powers but not so much her emotions)

So you have an au where she sneaks out and joins the missions. She breaks into the mausoleum and picks Klaus up and stares her father down with a challenge in her eyes. 

Five vanishes, and Vanya gets worse. She plays her violin at 2 in the morning. She refuses to eat her broccoli. she teams up with diego to see who can piss dad off the most

(her and Diego actually get along very well in this sort of au, honestly)

Vanya gets out and plays the violin and gets angry. She plays with fury and fire and gets second chair, because Helen is actually really very good. But she makes Helen work for it. Helen isn’t secure in her position, she always knows that Vanya is a step away from taking it from her

and maybe that should make them enemies, but it doesn’t. They’re rivals. Helen respects the hell out of Vanya, and Vanya can’t help but admire the woman who makes the most difficult pieces look effortless

(RIVALS TO LOVERS: VIOLIN EDITION)

Vanya writes her book. Except she kicks down Diego’s boiler room door and is like “DIEGO”

“WHAT”

“I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT HOW MUCH DAD FUCKING SUCKS”

“I’LL BE RIGHT THERE”

as one of the rebel kids, Vanya actually got along well with Klaus as well since she helped him sneak out and 100% also smoked at least some weed with him because it would piss off Reggie tbh though she didn’t get into the harder drugs like he did

(showing up absolutely plastered to breakfast when they were sixteen was hilarious even if the laps they had to run around the block were not)

anyway Klaus crashes at her apartment sometimes, with supervision, because she loves Klaus but he has a problem and has stolen from her before but he’s still her brother but regardless

Klaus-Diego-Vanya sleepovers where they brainstorm the book to shit talk their father. Honestly it’s kind of a blast. They all get super wine drunk and end up watching Mary Poppins together with some Very Loud Opinions about nannies in general tbh

klaus throwing popcorn at the screen: BOO WHY WAS OUR CHILDHOOD NOT A MUSICAL???

diego: idk if you can have cheery musicals about child soldiers

vanya: i mean if they can have a musical about child labor in factories and the starvation of the workers in oliver twist you could do something with child superheroes

klaus: EXACTLY thank you vanya

they publish the book (luther is uNHAPPY, vanya dedicates her book to ‘all my siblings who survived the Reginald Regime but especially those who didn’t’, and she gifts Reggie a copy that says “fuck you lol” and is signed by her, diego, and klaus), they continue living, they go to the funeral when reggie kicks the bucket

and then five shows up, feral and aching

and five tells vanya about the apocalypse, and vanya thinks about their father saying time travel messed with the mind, and then she thinks - fuck the old man he was wrong about her (ordinary, fuck that, she’s Vanya Fucking Hargreeves) and he was probably wrong about Five, too

and Five is wholeheartedly believed

“Let me call Diego,” Vanya says when Five tells her about the eye, “I bet he could totally wear a police uniform and get info about the eye. And if not, I’m absolutely sure Klaus could improvise a solution. He’s good at that.”

“Klaus??” Five asks, vaguely suspicious.

“We don’t talk about the Sleepover of 2012.” Vanya intones solemnly, and refuses to answer any further questions on the topic.

Harold Jenkins comes to the apartment and tries to woo Vanya or whatever, and Vanya is kind of like... “Look, Leonard. I can be your teacher for violin. It’s my job. But I am in a relationship. And also like, super gay. If you have a problem with that then I am not the teacher for you.”

Actually scratch Diego and Klaus getting called, which they do, Vanya looks at them and her thirteen year old brother and is like “wait. actually i know someone infinitely better to crack this case wide open.”

“Who?” Five, Klaus, and Diego all ask

“My girlfriend.” Vanya says proudly, called Helen up.

And Helen walks into the building like she’s at fucking war and has such demanding confidence that they just give her the information she seeks and apologize for inconveniencing her.

“Hey Vanya are we still on for date night tomorrow?” Helen casually asks after, and Five kind of wants to be her when he grows up honestly after watching her verbally eviscerate Lance or whatever the fuck his name is

“Yeah.” Vanya confirms, “Unless there’s other apocalypse stuff to do?”

“You take all the time you need, honey.” Helen says warmly, “After all the more time you take the less you have to practice.”

“I’m gonna destroy the concert piece and you know it.” Vanya threatens.

Helen sniffs, “Okay, whatever you say second chair.”

and then they kiss and Helen ditches and the others just kind of look at Vanya judgingly

“In fairness, she’s very hot and very talented.” Vanya defends herself.

Klaus nods sagely. Vanya nods back. He gets it. 

“Concert piece?” Diego asks, because he has priorities.

“Yeah, I’ve already asked for tickets for all of you and you will be attending Diego.” Vanya smiles prettily with all her teeth.

“When is it?” Five asks

“April 1st.” Vanya tells him, “And no that isn’t an April Fools joke. You will attend and you will marvel at my skill. And maybe run interference between Helen and Allison because I’m kind of afraid they’re going to rip each others throats out to establish dominance.”

“That’s the day of the apocalypse.” Five informs her.

“Not on my goddamn watch.” Vanya says, because her family will attend her fucking concert and they will make awkward small talk with her girlfriend and the fucking apocalypse has better lay down and get over itself because nothing can stop Vanya’s goddamn plans

“I can investigate Meritech more.” Diego offers, because Lance-or-whatever-his-name-is is clearly shady as shit, “I have police contacts I could go through. Hey Vanya, your concert tickets include a plus one?”

“They can.” Vanya shrugs.

“Sweet, let me see if Patch can come.”

“She’s way too good for you, bro.”

“Shut your goddamn mouth.”

Anyway the point is they all go home, and Diego goes to talk to his police contacts and Five is definitely at home for when Hazel and Cha-Cha attack the mansion, oops. 

“Whomst the FUCK.” Vanya yells, kicking Hazel in the crotch because she’s Vanya Fucking Hargreeves she knows self defense thank you very much

“Ah.” Five says. “Hazel. How’s it going.”

“Just peachy.” Hazel wheezes, “Why’d you betray the Commission?”

“Well, you know. They cut the dental. That was really the last straw.” Five says, sarcastically.

“The dental.” Hazel echoes back, nodding very seriously, “I fucking know. You know physical therapy isn’t even covered anymore?”

“No shit?” Five says, “I mean you’d think with a job as physical as ours...”

“I know.” Hazel howls, vindicated. 

“Five.” Vanya says, rolling her eyes, “The house?”

“Oh, right.” Five frowns, looking at Hazel, “I mean. Can you like, leave? And not come back?”

“‘Fraid not.” Hazel actually sounds somewhat apologetic, “You know what the Commission is like. They’re really gunning for you.”

Five nods, because really what did he expect, “Can you leave like, temporarily? I mean you’d pretty clearly outnumbered. I don’t even know where Cha-Cha is, but judging by the furious yelling she probably met our sister and brother and Luther is hard to kill. Trust me, if he wasn’t we would have killed him when we were like, eight. But for real, can you get out of our house? I mean. Storming the den? Seriously? What kind of information did they even give you?”

“They didn’t give us any information.” Hazel responds back, sounding appropriately outraged, “They didn’t even tell us you could teleport.”

“Well that’s just rude. You’d think they wanted you dead or something.” Five muses, “But seriously, get out of my house.”

“Yeah, that’s fair.” Hazel admits, and leaves, because honestly Hazel is chill like that and knows when he’s lost. And Hazel also has a lot to think about. Like the fact that the Commission sucks and doesn’t even have dental, and how pretty the donut lady is. 

and Vanya is just like... okay. Weird. Is that going to happen again? Probably? I mean. Okay, this day has already been so goddamn weird. This week, honestly.

And they keep getting attacked by the Commission. And Vanya finds out someone broke into her apartment and stole her meds. What the fuck. 

“Did your shitty assassin friends do this?” Vanya asks, waving an empty pill bottle.

“Why would they?” Five asks, honestly confused.

“Because they’re assholes?” Vanya says, honestly outraged.

“You got me there.” Five admits.

The combined forces of Diego-and-Patch (because Patch is actually thrilled that Diego is asking for help regarding an actual fucking crime) figure out that the eyeballs are being sold illegally

Klaus is not kidnapped so he’s fine, just tagging along and living his best life, however this also means that Klaus does not steal the briefcase and Hazel and Cha-Cha are fine

Vanya keeps Five close at hand because frankly she doesn’t want him to leave again and she did really miss him. Also if she does save the world she can lord it over Helen’s head forever. 

And so Five is around when Vanya’s powers manifest, probably because they just got targeted by commission goons again because they’re trying real hard to kill five and separate Vanya

“Holy SHIT.” Five says, very intelligently, “You have POWERS.”

“Wow. Gonna have to write a fucking sequel to the shit-talking-dad book.” Vanya says, honestly a little light headed.

And then Vanya finds out her powers are sound based.

“Oh no.” Vanya says, “Where the fuck are my pills. I am not relearning how to play the violin with-powers a few days before the big concert Five, what the fuck.”

“But you need to learn to control them!” Five protests, “They’re your powers!”

“They’re a goddamn inconvenience is what they are.” Vanya states, “I mean, what am I going to do with them? Stop a bank robbery with the Umbrella Academy? Yeah, no thanks, that ship has sailed and sunk to the bottom of the ocean Titanic style. I’ll figure them out when I’m not in danger of blasting the audience halfway across the continent.”

“Yeah.” Five admits, “That’s fair.”

“Besides, if I’ve been on that shit as long as I have, and it’s been a long time, I cannot even IMAGINE what quitting cold turkey will do.” Vanya points out, very sensibly, like a siblings who has watched Klaus go through withdrawal symptoms more than once.

“Maybe there’s extra at the manor?” Five suggests, “Pogo probably knows.”

“Oh yeah I bet Pogo knows something.” Vanya mutters maybe a little bitterly.

They go back to the mansion and the Commission is honestly pulling their hair out tbh, and they ask Pogo who kind of pales and is like “UHHHH YES I CAN GET VANYA EXTRA PILLS” and goes to get them from whatever stash

“Fucking sweet.” Vanya whispers, entirely done with this situation, “The only adult male role model I had and he hid my powers from me and betrayed me. Love that for us.”

Five shrugs, “I mean, you’re right. All of our adult role models were all kinds of fucked up.”

“You vanished when we were 13.” Vanya says, “Didn’t you find like, any other adults ever?”

“Oh let me tell you about the Handler.” Five says, and proceeds to do just that. Because let’s be real, the Handler was the only human interaction Five had after forty odd years alone it was pretty damn important

Vanya, on the other hand, has strong plans to eviscerate the Handler should the two ever meet because Five deserved way better than to be forcibly made into an assassin?? honestly fuck that woman

that’s it that’s the au

Vanya finds out she has powers and is like “i have a LIFE i don’t want to interrupt it with bullshit POWERS,,, also going cold turkey off my meds seems like a bad idea if I don’t want to deal with withdrawal symptoms during my concert for fucks sake, my gf would never let me live it down if i skipped”

so vanya takes her meds, does NOT destroy the world, makes every one of her siblings go to the concert and even invites Hazel and Agnes after Hazel betrays Cha-Cha to join team No-Apocalypse. 

and then introduces them all to her girlfriend

“Holy shit Vanya.” Helen deadpans, “Your family is all kinds of fucked up.”

“I know.” Vanya says, aggrieved, “It’s been a long fucking week. Want to go camping and help me figure out my cool sound based powers? Bet they’ll make me a better violin player than you.”

“I think the fuck not.” Helen hisses, always up for a challenge, “Let’s do this. Me and my violin vs. you and your dumb baby powers. You’re on.”

“FAMILY CAMPING TRIP.” Klaus hollers, with all the enthusiasm in his little heart.

“Holy shit this is going to be such a disaster, I just know it.” Diego mutters.

“Shut up, it’ll be nice.” Allison says, elbowing Diego with her pointy pointy elbows.

“It’s going to be a shitshow.” Vanya says serenely, because it is. That’s just who their family is. 

Wouldn’t have it any other way, though

#rebel vanya au #vanya is a rebel with a cause #she's GAY she's got POWERS and she's NEW IN TOWN #vanya discovers her powers and is like 'nope no thank you' the au #i mean vanya was ALMOST like that in canon honestly #vanya and helen are enemies to lovers 500k slowburn orchestra au #vanya plays an extremely complicated piece flawlessly and then helen makes out with her in the concert hall broom closet #helen: i can't NOT fuck her #helen finds vanya's competence and confidence extremely sexy and it keeps her on her toes #vanya is honestly the same tbh with a side helping of 'my girlfriend can DESTROY you' #diego and vanya have matching 'reggie sux' friendship bracelets #allison would like to have a sibling relationship with vanya #allison: you could do better than helen #vanya: hell yeah I can i will wrench first chair away from her #helen: OVER MY DEAD BODY YOU WILL #vanya: I HAVE POWERS NOW JUST TRY ME #and then they make out and allison is left going... what?? #far tua long #long post #ask game #headcanon game #Anonymous

[justatiredghost]

Everything I ever wanted Ch1 AO3

The Commission has the technology to offer Five a new body, but since the Hargreeves siblings went on the run after failing to stop the apocalypse, they’ve managed to advance that technology even further. When Klaus suddenly loses contact with Ben, he discovers they have figured out a way to restore the dead and they’re more than willing to use it to manipulate the siblings. Will they give in and let the apocalypse happen for their newly living brother? What about an old lover who died in the 60’s? What else might they regain only to lose for a second time before all of this is over?

-

“No one told me that being on the run from a time traveling agency would be so boring,” Klaus complained, leaning back in the old wooden chair precariously far. 

“Five said he’d be back soon,” Luther said, obviously equally restless but trying his best not to show it. “He just needed to check around for any signs of the Commission, then we can jump again.”

“Where to next?” Klaus asked. “The 90’s were fun. Great fashion. We should go there next.”

“It’s not like you’d actually be able to go out,” Ben replied. He was sitting up in the rafters of the old abandoned building they were camped out in just because he could and Klaus wondered if even he was getting bored too.

“This isn’t a joke,” Luther said. “We’ve been jumping around 2017 and 2018 to try and stay ahead of the Commission. If they catch up with us, even Five doesn’t think we’d stand much chance.”

“Can’t wait until they try,” Diego muttered, sharpening one of his knives.

“‘Cause that’ll go great,” Allison said sarcastically, rolling her eyes. She ignored his attempt to start a fight with her, though, by turning to Vanya before anyone could say anything more. “How are you doing?” 

Klaus felt a pang of guilt at that. He really shouldn’t be riling up Luther right now. Vanya had more than enough to deal with and she was already a bit skittish around Luther after everything. At least everyone else was likely thinking along the same lines because they all stopped bickering. 

“I’m--I’m okay,” Vanya said quickly, but she didn’t look it.

They’d managed to steal some of her medication from an earlier time period, but it was only a matter of time until she ran out and she was terrified of what might happen then. She, of course, had plenty of justifiable anger, but she hadn’t meant to try to kill them all or destroy the planet. She’d even been the one to suggest going back on her meds until they could find a better solution or wean her off slowly. Understandable, Klaus knew how miserable it could be to go cold turkey. 

But the fear on everyone’s mind was what would happen if she lost control again. Allison, thankfully, had regained her voice over the past few months they’d been on the run since they escaped the end of the world, but she still had the scar and Vanya looked sick every time she caught sight of it. 

There was a flash of light and suddenly Five was there, startling Klaus into losing his balance. He clattered to the floor with a surprised yell, Ben suddenly standing next to him trying not to laugh. 

“Get up, we’ve got a lead,” Five announced, hurrying around and gathering their meager things.

“Finally,” Diego sighed, sheathing his dagger with more force than necessary. 

“What is it?” Luther asked.

“The Commission had some local hires set up in a safehouse nearby. They just got sent out, so if we go now, we can get in, search the place for anything useful, and get out before they realize.”

“Sounds good,” Diego said.

“Sorry, Diego, but you need to stay behind,” Five said.

“Excuse me?” he snapped. 

Tension had been running high lately. Klaus supposed that’s what happens when a bunch of siblings who barely got along in the first place were forced together. He wasn’t sure if he should enjoy the show or try to divert their attention before it came to blows. Either way, he carefully moved back just in case. 

“We need this to be a small operation. I can get us in, Klaus can back me up, and we’ll meet at the rendezvous.”

“Excuse me?” Klaus said, startled to suddenly be dragged into this. “Are you sure that’s the best idea?”

“Yeah, I should be the one going,” Luther said, standing up to his full height. Not that it was necessary, he towered over Five even when sitting.

“Can you walk through walls?” Five asked. “I didn’t think so.”

“Not to nitpick, but I can’t either,” Klaus pointed out.

“No, but Ben can. He can scout ahead.”

“That’s you,” Klaus said to him.

“That’s me,” Ben echoed, looking as uncertain as Klaus felt.

“Don’t fuck it up,” Klaus said.

“You don’t fuck it up,” Ben said back, and Klaus was pleased to see he him smiling again. 

“There isn’t time to argue, here,” Five continued, ignoring their exchange. “Especially when we’re not all at full power. Are we agreed?”

“Yes,” Allison chimed in. “We are. We agreed to share the responsibility of leadership, remember? So we’re doing it Five’s way this time.” 

It looked like it took a considerable amount of effort, but after a moment of consideration, both Diego and Luther nodded. Maybe Diego was okay with it just because Luther was grounded as well. Either way, at least they weren’t still fighting.

Klaus opened his mouth to object, he was definitely the last person who should be going on a high stakes mission, especially since he’d only been sober for a couple months, but before he could say anything, and before Diego or Luther could change their minds, Five grabbed Klaus and they teleported away.

-

“I’m still not so sure this is a good idea,” Klaus whispered to Five as they crept though the darkened hallway. “What happens if we get caught?”

“I imagine we’ll probably get shot,” Five said absently, all his attention focused on the lock he was picking.

“Hey, why don’t you just teleport us in?” Klaus asked.

“Because I’m saving that for if we need to make a quick getaway.”

“All clear,” Ben said, popping his head through the door and coming to stand beside Klaus. “Did you tell him this is a bad idea?”

“Yes, I know, Ben,” Klaus groaned. 

“What did he say?” Five asked as the lock finally clicked open.

“He says there’s no one in there.”

“Good.” 

They crept forward slowly, carefully, aware that there could be all sorts of traps waiting for them. Klaus hovered nervously behind Five, Ben doing the same to him. Klaus turned to say something, to make some joke and generally just try to lighten the mood, when suddenly there was a loud crack and a flash of blue that blinded him. When his vision finally cleared, Ben was gone. 

“The hell was that?” Five demanded, searching for the source.

“Good question,” Klaus said, rubbing at his eyes. 

“I don’t seem to be hurt though. What about you?”

“Fine, but I don’t see Ben,” Klaus said before calling out, “Ben? Where’d you get to?”

No response.

“Ben?” he spun around, trying to spot him. “Come on, man, this isn’t the time to mess around.”

“Is he gone?” Five asked, kneeling next to a fried bit of technology he’d dragged out of a cupboard, but  Klaus wasn’t really paying attention.

“Yeah, what the hell, Ben? Whatever’s wrong, you can be mad at me later, this is kinda life or death, ya know? Not a great time to go off to sulk.”

“We need to go,” Five said, voice serious. “This was a setup.”

“You think?” Klaus snapped, but still kept looking around for Ben. He hadn’t done much with his powers since he managed to manifest Ben in the theater, but he tried to use them now, tried to reach out and feel for him, even though he wasn’t even sure his abilities worked like that. “Ben, where are you!”

“I think they’ve done something to him,” Five said.

“What? That’s crazy. He’s a ghost, what are they gonna do? Go all Ghostbusters on him?”

“Maybe,” Five said.

That got Klaus to stop. He turned to stare at him because he sounded way too serious for it to be a joke, but it had to be, right? Because how could that possibly be true?

“No. No, this is stupid, it’s not possible,” Klais said, throwing his hands up. “He’s probably just sulking somewhere. He’ll be back, he always comes back.”

He could feel the panic rising in him because Ben was always there. He was the only one who’d stuck around through everything, it didn’t make sense for him to just leave now. What if the Commission really had done something, then? What if he never saw Ben again? What if his brother was really gone this time? 

“Ben?” he shouted as he spun around again, frantically searching for something, anything, ignoring Five’s attempt to shush him. He had the sudden impulse to tear the place apart looking for him even though he knew Ben wouldn’t be hiding under the bed or in the closet. He just needed to find him. “Come on, get out here!” 

Five grabbed his arm and he tried to wrench himself free but the next thing he knew, he was being teleported away, feeling more alone than he ever had.

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