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The Eighth Child (~TUA AU~) - Season 3

Chapter 9: Double Wedding at the End of the World (I)

Warning: Strong language, mention of trauma

(The Eighth Child Masterlist)

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"Mr. Rodo," dad called as soon as we entered the hotel.

"Sir Reginald, welcome back," Chet greeted, completely ignoring us. "It's been quite some time."

"You two know each other?" Klaus asked.

"Of course we do, I own this hotel," Reggie explained. "Please prepare my suite, Mr. Rodo."

"Right away, sir."

"Hey, is everything ready for later? The venue, and the music, the decorations..." I leaned over the counter.

"Everything according to your fiancé's request, ma'am," Chet nodded and I had to hold back not to give him a hug, I was so excited!

"Wait, Vicky, did you hear the part about dad owning this hotel?" Klaus whispered, somewhat exasperated.

"We don't have time to discuss the finer points or real estate investment just now," Reggie interrupted. "We must strike while the iron is hot!"

"No, dad, we must prepare to get married tonight. Your little girl is leaving the nest so... Maybe we should focus on that."

"And the end of the world will just have to wait, I suppose?"

"Yes! Yes, the end of the world will just have to wait, because I've been putting my own life off for ages just to save this stupid world, it can let me have this one thing just today! We can discuss your brilliant plan after my honeymoon."

"We've been engaged since 1963, we've been dating for about four years but only ever spent two weeks together, this might be our only chance," Klaus held my hand, standing his ground. "But I promise we can discuss the whole saving the world thing too, just not right now."

Our siblings, Lila, and what was left of the Sparrows were all in our designated meeting room upstairs. I was so glad to share the good news until I noticed all of them holding stupid little jars with stupid little notes attached to them.

"What is going on?" I tried to keep smiling.

"Vicky! Klaus! Here," Luther offered each one of us a little jar filled with candy as well. "We are getting married today, here's your invitation."

"Invitation? Klaus, why don't have an invitation?" I laughed though my chest was bubbling with anger.

"Of course you have, you're holding it," Sloane pointed at the jar.

"No, you absolute dumbass! I mean an invitation for MY wedding which is also happening today!" I shouted and Ben covered his laughter. "We are getting married!"

"Oh... I'm sorry," Klaus frowned. "I didn't think we would need invitations since it's just family and we're the only people left in the world by the looks of it."

"I've been doing everything for everyone my whole life! Today is for me!" I was pacing around the room, trying not to blow up and smack the shit out of Luther and his little fiancé. "Eu estou noiva há não sei quanto tempo e tenho que dividir meu dia com essa sonsa do caralho? Não! Luther você é o pior irmão que eu já vi na minha vida, puta que pariu, como eu te odeio! (I've been engaged for God knows how long and I have to share my day with this stupid bitch? No! Luther, you are the worst brother I've ever seen in my life, fuck, I hate you so much!)"

"Hey, there's no need to be mad, we can do this together, we're family," Sloane took my hand.

"You are not my family!" I barked before entering her brain to do some damage, only this time I knew I was doing it and it was completely intentional.

"Ah! It hurts, oh my God!" she fell to her knees, holding her head and squirming on the floor.

"Vicky stop it!" Luther yelled.

"You want what she's having?" I turned to him, effectively taking his mind in my grasp as well, twisting his brain like you do when getting the excess water off a soaked towel.

"We'll go after you! You can get married first, we'll do it after!" Sloane begged while dad took notes, probably documenting my progress. "Please just stop!"

"I am tired of sharing! It's always been share share share with my seven siblings! I don't even get a birthday of my own!"

"Liebling, who cares if they get married after us?" Klaus kissed my temple gently. "We're the main event today, at least to me you are the main event. What matters is that we're doing it, right? After 30 years."

"Argh!" I let go of Luther and Sloane with a cry. "Sorry, I don't know what's happening to me, I'm just- I'm sorry. Yeah, we can go first and you two will go second. Let's start over, congratulations on the wedding."

"So, nobody's gonna talk about dad being here?" Diego asked. "Are you all hanging out now?"

"We were in a little end of the world family road trip kinda thing," Klaus sighed relieved once I relaxed. "We laughed, we cried, we played in traffic... Got our very well deserved power boost and long story short, I'm immortal now!"

"And Vicky is a professional torturer?" Allison asked. "Can do it even from long distances."

"I didn't mean to, I'm sorry," I looked down embarrassed of my own behavior. "But yeah, I can alter people's memories, watch them, control how their minds react. I can't make anything happen to them in real life like you though. I also return the impact when something hits me. It's not as exciting as saying 'I'm immortal', but I still think it's pretty cool."

"It is," Diego agreed.

"Well, children, gather around-" dad started, but I shook my head.

"No, it's our wedding day, our brother is getting married too. I told you! No saving the world talk right now!"

"And uh... It's a per plate situation, so invitations are limited," Luther took back the little invitation Sloane gave to Reginald.

"Is this how I raised you? To fiddle while Rome burns?" dad asked.

"Yeah! You raised me to thrive in chaos, to make the best out of misery, so now that's what I'm gonna do. Tomorrow we discuss the plans, tonight I'll get drunk and have post-marital sex with my future husband," I insisted.

"Dad, have you been taking your pills?" Sloane asked.

"As a matter of fact, I haven't. And I can confirm that I've never felt better in my life. You thought you could dope me up and slow me down, take control of my affairs and squander my fortune? Klaus here was good enough to wean me off that wretched poison, and now that the fog is lifting I can see all of your dastardly designs with bracing clarity," Reginald rambled.

"You took him off his meds? What were you thinking?"

"Do not talk to Klaus like that," I warned, in my eyes a threat. I wonder if my warnings would always carry a threat from now on, I really hoped not. "Besides... I helped," I lied to share his load.

"And clearly they are the only ones doing any thinking at all," father continued. "All of you could learn a thing or two from this impressive young man and this remarkable young lady."

"The world really is ending, oh my God," Diego snickered.

"Project Oblivion can wait," I looked at dad, knowing he was about to start another rant about resuming training.

"Oh, the old Project Oblivion," Five leaned in. "I heard all about it from Pogo. And he confirmed what I always thought about you. You're a sadistic lunatic who plans on gambling our lives in another pointless mission."

"Is this true?" I frowned. Somehow when I tried to enter and find out, his mind was not a black room like the others. I couldn't access his memories or his senses, it was a blank. "What are you doing? How are you hiding from me? Why can't I read you?"

"Do you take the word of a disgruntled chimp over the one of your own father?"

"Yeah! Pogo and Grace were the ones actually caring for us while you took notes and turned our lives into a living hell!"

"Nobody wants you here, dad, leave," Luther placed one hand on my shoulder, we finally agreed on something. If he wouldn't let me in, it's because he had something to hide, and if what Five said was true... He was using us. "Like Vicky said, today is for us."

"You don't speak for all of us, big guy," Ben protested.

"Then go! You're not my brother Ben, so fuck off!" I grumbled.

"That's what we've come to? Insurrection?" Reggie asked.

"No no no, that's not the kind of erection we're driving for here. Everybody just needs to be cool, we can do our thing, then we can do his thing... When we're all in the same chakra frequency," Klaus suggested.

"Dad is lying, Klausie, he tried to get our trust so we would let him back in! He's hiding something from us!" I gave him a look and it wasn't complicity that met me in his eyes, it was fear. "Are you- are you scared I'm gonna do something bad to you if you don't agree with me, honey?"

"I think we're all scared of that," Allison snorted.

"I don't wanna hurt anyone," I murmured, unable to hold back my tears. "You all think I'm a monster? Klaus, do you think less of me now?"

"Of course not, Liebling, I'm not scared of you," he said, but his thoughts were completely contradicting his words.

"You are! I'm not a monster, I couldn't control it. I did it once intentionally, but I regret it, I wasn't thinking straight, I'm all over the place. I'm really sorry," I turned to the others, and Sloane nodded, taking my hand.

I guess I knew now more than anyone what Viktor felt ever since the moon incident. He never wanted to end the world, it was something bigger than him, something he couldn't control and it ended up hurting the people he cared about.

"We understand. I'm not scared of you at all, right guys?" Viktor nudged Diego's arm and he agreed. "New powers are scary, it's hard to deal with them, especially when you're already so emotional over the wedding."

"Maybe I should go, I still have to make the cake," I wiped my tears with my wrists.

"Wait, would you like to get ready together? Kinda like a little bachelorette party?" Sloane asked and her being nice to me after what I did to her stung even more, it only highlighted how truly shitty I've been.

"Yeah, sure," I nodded. "I'll meet you in your room."

"Dad, why don't we go have a nice cup of tea? I still have to talk to Five about being my best man, but I think we need to talk first."

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I hesitantly walked down the hall to Diego's room, Lila was there by the open door and I froze when I heard:

"I'm not going to that wedding."

"Dieguito?" I called. "I... Was gonna ask you to give me away."

"See, you knobhead? Your sister wants you to give her away to your brother! Like hell you're not going!" Lila exclaimed.

"It's the end of the world, there's gotta be somebody's ass we can kick! I gotta save it, we have a kid to take care of!" Diego was clearly moved by my request, but he didn't wanna budge, it wouldn't be him if he budged on the first try.

"Speaking of him, where's Stan?" I asked.

"He's been Kugelblitzed, I guess that's why he is so passionate about saving the world now, no other reason," Lila immediately added, and honestly I didn't feel like investigating further. That had been enough mind reading for one day. "Anyway, not all fights are worth fighting for, odds are we don't survive this one."

"Stan..." I cried in disbelief. "Well, I'm gonna leave you two alone, but. I really need you to come at least for the ceremony. I wanted you to give me away and I want you as my maid of honor."

"Maid of honor?" Diego grimaced.

"Yeah, I love you, D! It would be really special to me."

"He's going," Lila accepted on his behalf. "Just give me ten minutes and I can convince him."

"Thank you so much! I still have to get the cake ready and make sure they have a vegetarian option for dinner, I have to talk to Five..."

I quickly entered Klaus (no pun intended) for a second to see where he was and, not surprisingly, he was still trying to teach dad how to be a decent human being at the White Buffalo suite.

"There is such a thing as catching more flies with honey," Klaus was saying when I came in. "Vicky, come here. You know how little boys will pull little girls' pigtails to get their attention at the park because they like them?"

"Uh... Weird conversation. But yeah," I laughed.

"Did I ever pull your hair?"

"Not without me asking first."

"And do you love me?"

"Desperately."

"My point exactly! Berating them won't make them like you any more or listen to what you have to say," Klaus concluded, pouring himself a drink. "I want you to say something nice to me. I can go first. Dad, I love that necktie pin waistcoat combo. Vicky, you've been eating better the last few days? You don't look so pale anymore. Now you, babe."

"I love that your hair is curly again, your hair is like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and I just wanna run my fingers through it all day long," I smiled and we both turned our attention to dad who had to think for a few seconds.

"You have a well proportioned forehead. Which tells me you're considerate, yet easily excitable."

"It's the eyebrows," I added. "Those thick expressive eyebrows balance his face so well."

"Thanks," Klaus tried to see the bright side of that weird compliment. "That's great, could use some work, but it's a great start. The point is, they don't know you like we know you, they just need a little time to warm up to this version of you."

"Unfortunately time is something of which we have very little," dad lamented.

"Good thing we have the wedding tonight then."

"We do? Why? No one wants me there, not even Victoria wants me there."

"I never said that," I mumbled. "I just don't know why you kept blanking your head so I couldn't see it, what do you have to hide?"

"An old man has no right to privacy in his own thoughts? Would you like me reading all your filthy thoughts?"

"I guess not... I'd like you to come to our wedding. Maybe we can dance together," truth was, I had been thinking about that ever since we first visited him. I chose an acoustic version of the song Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof, I always wanted a father-daughter dance for my big day.

"See? They want you to earn being there," Klaus explained. "Be a dad, not a boss. Trust me, showing support for us and Luther is gonna go a long way."

"By the way, I came here to ask who's gonna be your best man?" I took his hand, admiring the engagement band he got from the lost and found.

"Five, I just gotta ask him."

"Good, can you also ask him to be our officiant? I'm really busy with the food and I still have the bachelorette thing with Sloane..."

"Yeah, of course, I'll talk to him during the bachelor party. We're having karaoke," he kissed me softly. "Have fun and be nice to her."

"I'll do my best."

"Those are daddy's orders!" he teased as I left.

"Those are what?" Reggie asked, but quickly decided he didn't want to know.

And daddy's orders I followed. Luther ended up helping me with the cake (mostly by eating the leftover batter from my mixing bowl, but still). Since it was just for us, I made a simple chocolate cake with a chocolate filling and fluffy chantilly on top, it looked like a dream.

By the time I was done, it was past three and I headed to Sloane's suite so we could do whatever she had planned. I would've invited Lila as well, but I didn't think she'd be in the mood after her child was absorbed by a series of black holes destroying the world.

"Hey, I'm so glad you came," Sloane opened the door and pulled me inside. She had a bucket of popcorn ready as well as a pile of movies for us to watch. On her bed, two matching silk robes and a nail kit.

"Where did you find all that?" I asked.

"The lost and found, they have everything over there..." I still didn't understand how the lost and found seemed to have seemingly brand new stuff and exactly when we needed it, but I accepted the explanation.

"Cool, so we're gonna watch chick flicks and do each other's nails?"

"Yeah! I thought it would be fun. Didn't you and your sisters ever do that?"

"Um... No, Allison was always hanging out with Luther, so I mostly used to do that with Klaus. Although my nails would never be perfect for long, I always ended up ruining them during the missions."

Maybe she wasn't so bad after all, and if she made Luther happy and didn't hold the whole Jayme juice incident or the mental torture against me, I was willing to at least try and get along with her. She did go through the trouble to set everything up and seemed genuinely happy to be there with me.

"So you and Klaus have always been close?" she asked after a while. I can't imagine Luther said many good things about us.

"You can say so, he is probably the only person who really understands me, I can't live without him."

"That is so sweet. Of course it's a little weird, but finding someone like that is hard."

"Weird? Weird because we grew up together?"

"I mean, I couldn't see myself marrying Ben or Christopher..."

"That's because Ben is an asshole and Christopher is a floating cube. I don't see myself marrying my other siblings either, what I have with Klaus is totally different. I called him brother because that's what my dad told me to do, but I've never seen him that way."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you," Sloane paused the movie to look at me. I could tell she was still scared of me and I hated it. "I know why you don't like me. Luther told me you don't like it when things are different from when you were kids and I understand. But I think you're amazing and brave. You're powerful, beautiful, intelligent, and funny too. I'm sorry if I ruined your wedding day."

"What are you saying? You don't have to flatter me just because you're scared. I'm not gonna hurt you even if we disagree on something."

"I'm not scared."

"I can hear what you think. If you only invited me here to get on my good side, you didn't have to."

"No! That's not it, I swear! I'm just sorry about the invitations, you deserve your own invitations and your own day. I just really hope we can get past this one day and you can see me as part of the family, maybe we can even be friends."

"Look, I don't dislike you, at least not anymore. But it hurts my feelings that you think I'm a bad person, I know you do, you still think I'm horrible because of what happened to Jayme's body."

"You cut open my sister to steal her saliva, that is not really the best way to start a friendship."

"I'm sorry for what I did, but this is my third apocalypse. I had to spend three years away from the man I love because of this mess that is in no way shape or form my fault, I was tortured for two days and stranded in Vietnam for almost a year without him, having to strip so I had a place to sleep. I have been mind-fucked and abused my entire childhood, I left behind the only person who ever made me happy because of a stupid job, I lost my brother who ran away from home and never came back, and I watched my other brother die a violent death. I watched my fiancé waste his life away with drugs and alcohol while I couldn't do anything to help. All the friends I managed to make along the way, I had to either leave behind or know that they died because of me! Sorry it's been about ten years since I felt as happy as I did when Jayme used her power on me, I just wanted to feel that again."

"I didn't..."

"You didn't know, yeah I bet. I'm not a bad person," I tried to hold back my tears. "I am the best person that I can be given the circumstances. And I'm sorry I hurt you, that won't ever happen again unless you hurt someone in my family first. I think I should go."

"No, please stay, I promise I won't bring any of that up again."

"I don't need your pity either. I'll see you at the wedding, I'm not mad at you," I picked up my keys and left, struggling to tune out her thoughts. "Welcome to the family."

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mlobsters · 10 months

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supernatural s5e21 two minutes to midnight (w. sera gamble)

what is this, nickelodeon? neon green slime, come on.

DEAN You can't do this.

SAM That's the consensus.

DEAN All right. Awesome. Then, end of discussion.

what a way to deflect. "that's the consensus"

CASTIEL You are not the burnt and broken shell of a man that I believed you to be.

good talk, bro

DR. GREEN You mean my brothers. What they did to my brothers. No. The only reasonable thing to do here is to...take it out of their healthy young asses.

i... what lol

both sam and dean's hair looks weird. dean's too dark, sam's is... sitting funny and looking different. maybe just funky lighting

PESTILENCE So, you've got to wonder why God pours all his love into something so messy... and weak. It's ridiculous.

i mean, i don't think god is pouring anything at the moment

SAM Did you kiss him?

DEAN Sam!

SAM Just wondering.

cute. totally could have dropped it there. but i guess they hadn't made something awkward and embarrassing in a while, quota to fill

CROWLEY You kill demons. Gigantor over there has a temper issue about it.

things you thought were just fanon. crowley's got a bit of a complex

SAM You, Bobby, Cas ... I'm the least of any of you.

DEAN Oh, Sam.

SAM No, it's true. It is. But ... I'm also all we got.

just the frank and earnest belief that he's not good. oof.

CROWLEY You two are lucky you have your looks. Your demon lover, Brady?

just read a fic like that lol

this interlude introducing big d death, really featuring the song. they haven't used much of the classic rock persuasion this season. some interesting tidbits about the o, death song

(wiki)

CW senior VP and creative executive Chris Donovan, decided that using the old spiritual "O Death" (heard in "Brother Where Art Thou") fit well with the themes of Season 5. He contacted Jennifer Titus, a well-known name around the CW, about singing the song. She recorded a preview of the song on her iPhone and sent it to him.

Donovan was extremely impressed, and upon a slight re-write of the lyrics to fit the show better, Titus came into the studio and recorded the official version. CW Staff members recorded the humming heard in the song, and Leonard Richardson, the executive in charge of music on the CW, mixed the track. Source.

i'm not surprised but also side eye at crowley "fixing" bobby

DEAN God? You'll reap God?

DEATH Oh, yes. God will die, too, Dean.

DEAN Well, this is way above my pay grade.

DEATH Just a bit.

liked this conversation and turn of events

the umbrella academy s3 julian richings as chet rodo

DEAN What do you think Death does to people who lie to his face?

BOBBY Nothing good.

DEAN Yeah.

BOBBY What'd you say?

DEAN That I was cool with Sam driving the bus on the whole Lucifer plan.

so i hate to say it, but man sometimes i think they're asking jim beaver more than he can deliver with bobby. like he was so clearly trying to have some sort of revelation in the warehouse when sam was evacuating the humans, but it was so. over the top. and still not really clear was his deal was. it was strange. but things often feel sort of forced with him and this character, to me.

BOBBY So I got to ask, Dean. What exactly are you afraid of? Losing? Or losing your brother?

he only went to hell already to save sam, what kind of question is that bobby :p i know this was just for the show's sake and i hate to bring reality into it but anyone is gonna be freaked out about their sibling killing themselves even if it's for the greater good.

sidenote i also appreciate that the captions on netflix use Cass for cas, because that is totally how they pronounce it and along with my pronunciation surprises over castiel and alastair i also was not expecting cas to be said like that. cas would with regular english rules be ending in a more z sound! don't be afraid of the more feminine spelling lol

#supernatural #spnwatch #spn 5x21 #hiky #spnhiky #julian richings #the umbrella academy #sera gamble

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