"Please tell your husband to stop making analogies that don't make any sense." Allison said as Lavender walked into the room with a rub to her eyes.

"Stop making analogies that don't make sense, Klaus." Lavender said to him as he gave her a look of disbelief while Allison held a expression of satisfaction.

"Where you going?" Klaus called for his sister who was hurrying toward the door with stacks of papers in her hands.

"To find my damn husband." Allison stated as she stormed out the house while Lavender stole her cup of coffee.

"God, I hate sugary coffee." Lavender gagged as she poured it down the drain.

"Well...." Klaus trailed off as he gave Lavender a look as she raised her eyebrow.

"I can't believe he's done this, again." Ben said from where he was pushed up next to Lavender in the small booth at the diner, watching Klaus talk to Dave while Lavender drank her black coffee.

"Hey, he's copping, he needs this." Lavender said to the boy as he gave her a look.

"Don't look at me like that, you're dead." she said while drinking her coffee.

"And you're old." Ben shot back as she gave him a eye roll.

"That doesn't look good." Lavender said as she saw a older dude stand before Klaus and Dave, talking down on them.

"What is he saying?" Ben asked as they watched closely.

"Well, I don't know, Ben, I can't hear either." Lavender said as Ben rolled his eyes.

"You think I should go over there?" the dark haired girl questioned as Ben shook his head.

"Give it a second." he spoke as Lavender nodded, watching Klaus try and talk to the both of them.

"Oh, hell no." Lavender said as she stood up quickly, storming over as she saw the older guy yank Klaus from the seat and shove him away.

"Is there a problem here?" Lavender asked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Stay out of it, woman." the man said as Lavender scoffed and raised her eyebrows in disbelief.

"Excuse me?" she snapped before she felt Dave pull her back with a shake to his head.

"I just need five minutes of your time, Dave." Klaus said as he looked at the boy.

"You just gonna sit there and listen to this pansy?" the man asked as he looked at Dave who let Lavender go as she went to Klaus side, trying to convince him to just leave.

"You don't have to join the military to be a man."

"Hit the queer."

"Klaus, lets go."

"Don't sacrifice yourself."

"Hit him, damn it!"

"Cause I love you."

"Hit him!"

"I love you."

"Klaus, come on."

"You were my best fri-" Klaus began before Dave shot forward and threw his fist into Klaus's jaw making him fly backwards and fall onto the table.

"You son of a bitch." Lavender said calmly as she grabbed Dave's shirt and slammed him onto the table.

"Lav, don't!" Klaus said as he stood up, looking at her with a bloody lip. Lavender saw the look in his eye, telling her to let the boy go. And she did... because she knew she'd only be hurting Klaus.

"Come on." Lavender said as she grabbed the mans hand and pulled him out the diner after throwing a bill on the counter for her coffee.

"Let me see." Lavender spoke as they got into the car, grabbing his face.

"A lot of force, not much bite. Shouldn't even bruise." Lavender said as she stared at it, looking at him with a sad smile.

"I'm sorry it didn't go as planned, darling." she said while rubbing circles on the side of his face as he frowned.

"Why don't we do something today? Anything you wanna do. Don't you like those parks? You know, the ones with the ducks?" Lavender asked with a forced smile, trying to make him feel better as he sighed.

"I know where I wanna go." he said as Lavender smiled.

"Where?" she asked, unaware of where he was headed to and unaware of how upsetting it would be.

"Klaus, we aren't doing this." Lavender said as Klaus drug her into the liquor store quickly.

"It's not to late, Klaus." Ben said as he held the same disappointed expression Lavender did.

"Oh, I think we all know it is." Klaus said with a giggle as he picked up one of the bottles from the shelve.

"You've done so good though." Lavender said as he waved her off.

"You really wanna throw three years of sobriety out the window?" Ben asked him in disbelief as Klaus laughed loudly.

"In case you didn't notice, the last three years have been a royal shitshow." Klaus said as Lavender scoffed.

"Woah, okay, thank you Klaus." she said, offended and hurt by his words.

"Oh, you know what I mean." he said while waving her off again and grabbing a bottle.

"No, I don't think I do actually. Last three years have been a shitshow, good to know i'm the only once enjoying this marriage." she said as Klaus groaned and looked at her.

"I didn't say that." he said while opening the bottle.

"Lets just leave, okay? You're not in the right mind space and i'm not gonna take your words personal." Lavender said as she stared at him, watching as he raised the bottle to his lips.

"Klaus!" she protested as he ignored her and took a huge gulp of the bottle.

"I can't do this, i'm waiting outside." Lavender said to Ben as Klaus danced off down the aisle.

Lavender sat on the steps outside, making sure to straight the polkadot dress. She gave small smiles to the children that passed by, their mothers giving her a judging look. Lavender looked to her right as Ben sat next to her, his attempt to put a hand on her back failing as it passed right through.

"He'll be okay." Lavender spoke, seeming like she was trying to tell Ben when she was really just trying to reassure herself.

"I'm so sorry." Lavender apologized for Allison as she opened the door, immediately seeing Klaus's drunk figure as he mumbled spanish.

"Oh sweet, jesus." Allison said as she opened the door more for Lavender to stumble in with Klaus.

"I didn't know where else to take him, i'm so sorry, our house was found by the community and I didn't want them to see him like this and he ran off, i'm sorry." Lavender apologized to Allison, feeling humiliated for Klaus's actions despite it being his sister.

"Lavender... it's okay." Allison said to her and she finally met her eye making Lav nod and pull Klaus toward the couch as he talked out of his mind. Allison looked at Lavender with a unreadable expression as Lavender gave her one back, putting a blanket over Klaus as she kissed his forehead.

"I'm really sorry." Lavender said again quietly as she walked through the house and out back.

Within the next ten minutes Allison joined Lavender outside, sitting next to her as the two didn't say anything. They just sat together, both disappointed and stressed. The stars where bright much like the street lights where, lighting up the backyard enough for the two to see each other.

"I don't know how to handle this stuff." Lavender admits, looking out at the yard as she took a breath, "I wish I knew how so I could help him but I don't."

"You shouldn't have to know how to do this stuff." Allison spoke as she put a hand on Lavenders back, staring at her as Lavender turned to look at her, the visible tears in her eyes.

"He was doing really good, and i'm not just saying that." Lavender said as Allison nodded, listening to her closely as she rubbed the woman's back.

"What even happened?" Allison asked as Lavender sighed and ran a hand through her shoulder link, the bisexual hair cut Klaus said, hair.

"It's a really long story." Lavender said with a sad laugh, knowing it wasn't her place to tell Allison about Dave and she couldn't even began go understand it either.

"Even if it was just a short, explainable thing I still couldn't explain it. My mind was one way, telling me one thing but now it's completely different because I have no clue what to think of the situation." Lavender spoke, feeling something with Dave and Klaus but not wanting to admit it out loud.

"He listens to you, you know? He'll tell you things if you ask, he loves you." Allison spoke as Lavender nodded sadly, biting the inside of her mouth.

"Did you find Ray?" she asked, remembering Allison leaving early this morning.

"Don't even get me started." Allison said with a scoff and a loud sigh, "Another long story."

"I guess long stories we can't explain will just have to be our thing." Lavender said with a laugh as Allison joined in and bumped her shoulder with the brunette.

"Guess so."

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BABES! IM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG AND SUCKS! IM TRYING TO JUGLE SEVEN BOOKS RIGHT NOW PLUS MY SCHOOL!

also a little rough patch going on rn with my babies and lav being insecure about dave... i'm gonna get into that more soon!