ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ꜰᴏᴜʀ ᴏꜰ ᴅɪᴠᴏʀᴄᴇ
'ʀᴜᴍᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴇ'

"Careful now" Diego spoke quietly as Inanna slowly sat up, supporting herself with her hands propped up behind her. "Careful" Diego repeated, putting his hand on Inanna's back to hold her up.

Inanna forced her eyes open, pushing back the burn that ran over every inch of her skin as she staggered to her feet.

"I said-" Inanna shoved Diego's hand off her "-careful" Diego muttered.

Inanna didn't say anything as she looked at the almost unrecognisable bodies of Jayme and Alphonso in front of her, knowing that their murderer but also her saviour stood behind her.

Diego whistled, pointing at Stanley as he jumped over the desk. "You! Upstairs! Now!" Diego shouted.

Diego walked over to Stanley, stopping in front of him when he noticed the look of fear that had washed over his son's face. Stanley didn't say anything and hugged Diego tightly.

After a moment, Stanley left Diego, going upstairs like he had been told and Diego turned around, his hand placed over his chest where Stanley's head had just been.

Klaus entered the hotel, wearing a long coat and spinning as he walked through the door, he stopped in front of Jayme and Alphonso in shock "Oh man. Heavens to Betsy. What did you do?" Klaus asked. "Did Viktor go full 'Carrie' again?" Klaus asked pointing at his brother.

Viktor shook his head. "We didn't do this" Allison said, glancing to Harlan.

"Harlan?" Viktor took a few steps towards the old man.

"Don't" Harlan flinched and Klaus raised his hands taking a step back from him.

Inanna was very certain that her ears weren't deceiving her and when she glanced over her shoulder, looking at the old man, Inanna could see the slight resemblance between him and the young boy that Viktor had saved days before at his family farm.

"Don't come near me, please" Harlan said.

"I just want to make sure that you're okay" Viktor said as Harlan pressed his fingers against his temples, trying to silence the ringing in his head. "You can... you can talk now" Viktor said.

Klaus walked around the bodies to Diego as Allison did the same thing.

"I can do a lot of things now" Harlan said.

Inanna pressed her fingers against her throat, finding her pulse to make sure she was in fact not dead — Diego had believed she was moments before when Viktor had failed to find her pulse — while she walked over to Klaus, Diego and Allison.

"Who the hell is creepy grandpa?" Klaus asked.

"That's the kid Viktor saved in Dallas" Diego said.

"Oh shit!" Allison's eyes widened "You're right!" Allison said as Klaus said "Oh yeah, shit".

"But didn't he get rid of all the kid's mojo when he did all 'that'?" Klaus shook his body, demonstrating what Harlan had done in the barn.

"Clearly not" Inanna muttered.

"What's he doing here, now?" Klaus asked.

"Who's cares?" Diego asked. "He saved us from the Sparrows".

"Wow, he did that?" Klaus asked looking at Jayme and Alphonso with wide eyes.

Allison elbowed Diego, nodding her head over to Luther and Sloane as Sloane began waking up.

"Sloane, are you all right?" Luther asked.

Sloane groaned in pain as she sat up slowly and her gaze landed on the bodies of her dead siblings. Sloane gasped and stumbled to her feet, moving out of Luther's hold as he repeated. "It's alright".

Sloane took off towards the stairs, holding her arm which had been hurt in the attack, while Luther called her name.

"You got a live one, Luther!" Diego shouted.

Luther ran after Sloane and Diego ran after him and Harlan broke off from Viktor, running up the other set of stairs.

"Harlan, wait!" Viktor shouted.

Allison followed after Diego and Viktor chased after Harlan, leaving Inanna with Klaus.

"What did I miss?" Klaus asked.

Inanna took Diego's knife out of her pocket and followed after Allison, ignoring Klaus as he called for her to not leave him.

Inanna wasn't exactly sure where the others had gone, but she could hear Allison running through the halls in search of her brothers who had got a lead on them and so Inanna followed the sound of Allison's foot steps which eventually lead her to one of the communal bathrooms where Diego held his knife to Sloane's throat.

"If you hurt her, I will bury you" Luther shouted pointed at Diego.

"You gonna bury me too, Luther?" Allison asked as Inanna walked across the bathroom to them, almost bumping into a naked man who only had a towel around his waist.

Sloane was scared, Inanna knew that much, not only from seeing two of her siblings dead but also because she believed she had fallen right into a trap which Luther had played a part in.

"Just..." Luther's shoulders dropped as he looked between Allison and Diego, "Just let me talk to her. Okay? Please".

"Oh, trust me" Allison said, nodding her head as she looked at Sloane. "She's gonna talk" Allison said.

Diego let go of Sloane, keeping his knife in his hand as he sat on the edge of the bath next to Allison with Sloane stood in front of them with her back against a pillar.

Inanna stood opposite Luther, still holding Diego's knife which she planned on keeping until Lila returned her knife which she had taken at the farm.

"I heard a rumour-" Allison started, growing impatient at Sloane's refusal to speak to them.

"Whoa, Allison, hey" Luther tried to interrupt.

"-you're gonna tell me the truth" Allison finished her rumour.

"Let her do her thing, man" Diego said to Luther, pointing at Allison with his knife.

Sloane's eyes turned white and her body shook as she fought Allison's rumour. Allison leaned forwards, resting her arms on her knees.

"Where's the briefcase?" Allison asked.

Inanna tensed at Allison's questions. Clouded by the news that her parents were dead, Inanna had forgotten to tell Allison that the briefcases were with Five and that they supposedly didn't work.

A tear rolled down Sloane's cheek as she kept her mouth shut, refusing to speak. "Tell me" Allison pushed. "Where is it?" Allison asked.

Inanna tightened her grip around the knife, feeling the blade dig into her skin as she watched Sloane struggle against the pain.

Allison stood up as Sloane continued fighting the rumour. "Where the hell... is it?" Allison spat.

"Five has it" Inanna said.

Inanna didn't avert her gaze from Sloane as Allison turned to her, watching a trickle of blood run from Sloane's nose. "What did you just say?" Allison asked.

"Let her go and I'll talk to you" Inanna turned her head to look at Allison.

Allison scoffed and Sloane gasped loudly, grabbing the pillar behind her as Allison's rumour wore off.

"Do you want to do this the easy way, Inanna or my way?" Allison asked taking a step towards her.

"Rumour me and see how far that gets you" Inanna responded.

Allison's lips pulled into a smirk. "Where's Five?" Allison asked.

Diego glanced to Luther, unsure of if he should step in. "I don't know" Inanna said.

"You don't know?" Allison asked. "But you know he has the briefcase?".

"Lila had it" Inanna said as Allison leaned down to her. "She took it from the Sparrows".

"And you didn't think to tell anyone?" Allison asked.

"It wasn't the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning, no".

"Where's Five?" Allison repeated.

Inanna shook her head, she didn't know where Five was, even if Allison rumoured her she'd get the same answer. "Inanna, I'm not playing. Tell me".

"I don't know" Inanna repeated.

Allison tilted her head. She didn't believe Inanna, no matter how many times she had said it. "You expect me to believe you when another version of yourself can light herself on fire?" Allison asked.

"You think that if I had powers like Anna's I wouldn't have used them at some point? I almost froze to death in the apocalypse with your brother, being a human match stick would have come in handy then, don't you think?" Allison squinted her eyes, trying to work out if Inanna was lying or not. "If you don't believe me about Five's where a bouts or the power shit, rumour me. You'll get the same answer" Inanna said.

Allison's smirk faded. "I heard-".

Diego stood up and grabbed Allison's arm. "Don't" Diego said to his sister when Allison looked at him. "She's not lying. Not about Five and not about having powers" Diego didn't exactly know if Inanna was lying or not about having powers but he chose to believe her.

Allison tore her arm out of his grip and turned back to Sloane. Luther stepped in front of Sloane, protecting her with his body.

"You've done enough" Luther said to Allison.

Allison stepped passed Luther, pressing her hand against the wall as she turned away from them, irritated by the answers she had been given.

"You better ask yourselves which side you on, bro" Diego said putting his knife away.

"Would you just get out of here?" Luther asked. "None of this would have happened if Inanna had told us about the briefcase".

"And she'd still be choking on her words if I didn't say anything" Inanna pointed at Sloane as Luther turned to her. "Don't put the blame on me".

"Both of you, just get out of here" Luther said.

Diego walked across the small space that separated himself and Luther "Gonna tell me what to do now?" Diego asked.

"All of you, just get out!" Allison shouted, turning to look at the others. "She doesn't leave your sight" Allison pointed at Sloane as she spoke to Luther. "Do you understand? This isn't over".

Inanna left the bathroom with the others and while Luther took Sloane to his room, Inanna followed Diego to the lobby where Stanley was waiting — even after being told to go upstairs.

"You're gonna clean up every square inch of this" Diego said to Stanley, looking up at the burnt and disintegrated banner which Stanley had destroyed with the Molotov cocktail.

"What? Most of this wasn't even my fault. It was the man, the octogenarian" Stanley argued.

"I don't give a shit where he grew up. You're gonna clean. No one-".

"Yeah and you're just mad that you got your ass kicked by a floating cube!" Stanley shouted, making Klaus laugh as he approached them wearing clean clothes that didn't smell like human waste.

"That's it. You're grounded" Diego said to his son before he turned to Klaus. "And why are you laughing? I mean you were conveniently absent when all this shit went down".

"I was talking with Dad" Klaus said.

"Don't move an inch" Diego said to Stanley.

Diego grabbed Klaus by his shoulder, pulling him away from Stanley and he grabbed Inanna's forearm, dragging her with him as she looked up at the banner.

"Hey!" Inanna shook her arm trying to shake Diego off her.

"You ask him about the mother shit?" Diego asked Klaus.

"Yeah" Klaus said turning to Diego as Diego dropped Inanna's arm.

"What did he say?" Diego asked.

"That he didn't kill them" Klaus said.

"Oh, and you believe him?" Diego asked.

"Well" Klaus shrugged. "I don't know. It's hard to say. The Sparrows have got him all doped up like a... like a me!" Klaus smiled holding his hands up by his head. "It doesn't alarm you at all? The fact that they're drugging their father?" Klaus asked.

"Wish we would have thought of that" Klaus sighed at Diego's response.

"Auntie Red" Stanley beckoned Inanna over to him, making Diego look over his shoulder to his son.

Inanna sighed, leaving Diego with Klaus to ask if he had anything else to tell him. "Stop calling me that" Inanna said to Stanley as she stopped next to him.

"Well, I don't know your name" Stanley shrugged.

"You don't know my name?" Inanna asked, her brows furrowing as Stanley nodded. "Inanna" Inanna told him.

"What kind of name is that?" Stanley asked.

"What kind of name is Stanley?" Inanna asked. "Your mom could have been a little original".

"It's Stan. Stanley is babyish" Stanley said.

"It suits you" Inanna smiled as Stanley frowned. "What did you want?" Inanna asked.

"I want to make a deal, what do you say?" Stanley asked.

Inanna scoffed. "I say, if you're trying to get out of cleaning, I want no part in it, kid".

Stanley shook his head. "But it wasn't even my fault" Stanley said.

"And it wasn't mine either" Inanna shrugged.

Diego ended the conversation with Klaus and walked over to Chet as he wheeled out a cart of cleaning supplies.

Chet held up a large set of keys and a list which was written on a piece of paper. "As requested" Chet said.

Diego turned back to Stanley and held out the keys and the paper to him. "What the hell is this?" Stanley asked.

"Your punishment. And when you're done here, you're gonna clean every room on Chet's list to pay for this shit, okay?".

Diego glanced over his shoulder and grabbed Klaus who was hanging a towel over his arm like a restaurant waiter. "And your Uncle Klaus is gonna watch over you".

Stanley and Klaus both protested against the idea.

"Why can't you do it?" Klaus asked Diego.

"Because I have to babysit Luther in case Allison pops off again. Okay?" Diego said.

"Why can't Inanna do it?" Klaus asked pointing at Inanna.

"Absolutely not" Inanna shook her head.

"She's staying with me until Five comes back. If she dies again, I don't want to be responsible" Diego said.

"Again?" Inanna repeated.

"You died?" Klaus asked, his eyes wide as he held his hands out towards Inanna, who's face mirrored the same shock.

"Almost died" Diego corrected himself. Klaus smacked his chest and Inanna hit his back. "Viktor just doesn't know how to find a pulse".

"Almost and actually died are two very different things, Diego" Inanna said.

"Do you want to baby sit?" Diego asked. Inanna shook her head no. "All right" Diego looked from Klaus to Stanley. "You two have tons in common".

Diego turned on his heel as Stanley and Klaus asked what they had in common.

"Being a pain in my ass" Diego said.

Inanna followed after Diego while Stanley shouted "Eat shit" and Klaus said "You're an asshat".

Inanna and Diego stayed in the hallway outside of Luther's room, sitting silently as they watched over the door, incase Allison decided to go for round two with Sloane, but after twenty ish minutes, Luther opened the door with Sloane behind him and called a family meeting.

Once they had found Allison and Viktor, the six of them gathered by the pool tables and Luther started explaining the plan him and Sloane had come up with.

"You can't be serious" Allison said, her hands were tucked into her pockets and during the time she had been left alone, Allison had cut her hair above her shoulders.

"We use Sloane as an olive branch" Luther said going through the key part of the plan again. "We let her go as a gesture of peace, along with the bodies of Jayme and Alphonso".

"Once I'm back with my family, I can convince them the old guy had nothing to do with you and get them to stand down" Sloane said.

"You wanna let her go after attacking us? Uh-uh" Diego shook his head, hating the plan that Luther had made, holding a pool cue in his hands.

"Me?" Sloane pointed at herself. "I lost two of my siblings to you and your murder troll" Sloane said.

"Again" Luther held his hands out towards Sloane. "Harlan not with us".

"Well, he's not not with us" Diego said.

"He was just trying to protect me" Viktor said.

"This only works if I can convince my family he isn't a part of your team, so is he with you or not?" Sloane asked.

"Harlan saved our asses. He can stay here as long as he wants" Diego said. "You know what, Luther? He can take your bed. Since you're sleeping with the enemy".

"Watch it" Luther stepped towards Diego.

"Stop" Inanna sighed uncrossing her arms. "Are you really arguing over this?" Inanna asked taking a step into the middle of the room. "Offering Sloane back as an olive branch could work".

"You're not in charge here " Diego said, turning his head to look at her.

Inanna nodded crossing her arms over her chest again. "Well the only person who ever gets shit sorted in this family is currently MIA and after spending an awful amount of time with him, I think he'd say that Luther's plan isn't completely terrible".

"It's a good plan" Luther nodded.

"Five's not in charge either" Allison said.

"Guys" Viktor stepped next to Inanna, standing in front of Sloane. "Having an ally on the inside could help us right now" Viktor said.

"Right?" Luther nodded, extending his arms out to his sides.

"Yeah, but how do we know we can trust Gravity Barbie?" Allison asked.

"I trust her" Luther said.

Diego scoffed out of a laugh "Yeah, you trusted emails from a Nigerian prince".

"Tunde was not a prince, he was a king and he was unjustly deposed" Luther argued.

"Oh my God" Inanna muttered.

"Okay" Sloane sighed walking towards them. "So rumour me again" Sloane said to Allison. "Go on, not hiding anything. Whatever it takes".

Allison scoffed "Do whatever the hell you wanna do, Luther" Allison said "That's on you. I've got bigger shit to deal with".

Allison walked off, heading towards the stairs and Diego followed after her, calling for her to wait as he placed the pool cue on one of the tables.

Viktor left shortly after, telling Luther that he would go along with him to return Sloane to her family and Luther left Inanna by the pool tables with Sloane while he ran down to the lobby to make a call to the Sparrows.

"I- I never got to thank you" Sloane said making Inanna look up as she pulled herself up onto one of the pool tables. "For earlier when Allison rumoured me" Sloane nodded her head towards the bathrooms.

"Oh" Inanna nodded. "Don't worry about it" Inanna shrugged.

"You know, it's really weird talking to you" Sloane said taking a hesitant step towards Inanna. "Not because you're weird or-".

"Because of Anna?" Inanna asked. Sloane nodded. "I know how you feel. I spent a day with two versions of my husband" Inanna chuckled as Sloane's eyes widened, interested in what Inanna had to say. "There was my Five, the one who helped trash your home and then fifty-eight year old Five in his old body..." Sloane nodded, showing that she was following "Old Five almost convinced Luther to murder my Five".

"He did?" Inanna nodded. Sloane chuckled holding her arm tighter. "You're a lot like Anna, I know you're the same person, but..." Sloane shrugged, unable to find the words. She and Anna had been closer when they were younger, but the older they got the further apart they grew. "I have to tell you something" Sloane said.

Inanna straightened up at the change in Sloane's tone. "Earlier when you told Allison that you don't have powers, were you lying?" Sloane asked.

"No. The thing my body does, the phasing-".

"The regenerating" Sloane said at the same time, causing Inanna's brows to furrow. "That's what our Dad called it" Sloane's words only left Inanna even more confused.

"What?" Inanna's voice was barely above a whisper and Sloane walked towards her until she was stood in front of her.

"I overheard him and Pogo once and I assumed they were talking about Anna but when you showed up in our home, I knew it was you he was talking about" Sloane said, recalling the night she had accidentally heard the private conversation.

"So your dad has a weird obsession with me" Inanna grimaced.

A saddened look washed across Sloane's face. "Our dad always pushed Anna to be this-" Sloane thought for a moment trying to find the right words "-well, you, I guess... And then one day we were sent to stop a bank robbery" Inanna shifted in the pool table as Sloane continued. "Everything went wrong and it wasn't what our dad thought. Anna and I went into a back room with Alphonso to check for hostages like we had been instructed to do by Ben, but the second Anna pulled open the door a bomb went off. It should have killed us and it would have but somehow Anna absorbed the blast".

Inanna's quiet "What?" was lost in the tension that hung between her and Sloane as Inanna recalled the moments of her briefcase incident in her mind.

"She was knocked unconscious for three days and woke up without a scratch, the only difference is-".

"Now she could barbecue us all?" Sloane nodded. "Great".

it's 12 am and i'm half
asleep (so i apologise
for any spelling
mistakes that i might
have missed) but i
felt bad for how
i left the last chapter.

anna's powers will be
further explained, but
there is only two people
who can explain it...