# — ❞ BEER AND COFFEE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS ❞
╰┈➤ CHAPTER SEVEN ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ 𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙍𝙀𝙇𝙇𝘼 𝘼𝘾𝘼𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙔┊🕰️☔️🎻
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       IT WAS WEIRD WITHOUT GRACE. YES, she was a bit... odd, but once you got to know her she was like a second mother who made really good breakfast. First time she walked by Grace unplugged it felt eerie; like something was missing. When she walked by her the first time... like that, her just sitting there with the wires flowing out of her arm and her head titled — what she's been doing for years. Sometimes Starr felt like that; her name implied what her parents hoped she'd become and she never did, so she just stayed there, tagging along and following the program.

Eventually she broke her stare from the wires on Grace and headed downstairs to the kitchen where she found Five in in the same Umbrella Academy uniform he's been in since she's gotten here, blinking through the kitchen and making a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich.

When he blinked back to the table with the bag of mallows in his hand, he glanced up at Starr as he opened, "He didn't have coffee, but he had a hell of a lot of these," he held up the mallows in his hand, shaking the bag.

Starr squinted her eyes as she walked to the counter to get cereal, "Mornin' to you too, Amigo," she then got milk from the fridge and turned, "Why can't you just go back to that donut place and get some yourself?"

"Do you think I wanna get killed?"

Starr rolled her eyes as Five started making his sandwich and then lifted his head up again, glancing around the kitchen and then back to Starr, "It's too quiet here — where's Klaus?" he asked as he started spreading peanut butter on the bread.

"I don't know," Starr shrugged. "I presume he's wiping his ass with chocolate, but what do I know?"

Five sat down and chuckled while Starr looked at him in shock. Before he took a bite of his sandwich he raised his eyebrow in confusion, "What?"

"Oh, sorry I didn't know you could show any other emotion other than being annoyed at everyone and hating everything,"

"Believe me," Five said, taking a bite of one half of the sandwich. "When you've seen the future, that's not the worst thing."

"Have you met my mom? I think she's as worse as they come," Starr replied, pouring milk into the cereal bowl.

Five lifted the half of the sandwich up before taking a bite, "Join the club," after eating, he put the sandwich on the plate, crossed his arms, resting them on the table, "Meet Reginald Hargeeves — I think we could debate who's worse."

Starr shrugged, "Fair."

"Hey, since you've kinda been my 'partner' in this apocalypse stuff you wanna help me find a guy today? He knows an address —"

Starr frowned, standing up with the empty bowl in hand, "-Gotta stop you there," she then headed to the sink, "Allison wanted me to come with her today, something with Vanya I guess," Starr shrugged. "You're on your own with this one, but hey, the apocalypse-stoppers will rise again."

Five grimaced, "Never call us that again."

"There he is!"

When she headed back upstairs his gaze was glued to her, but he couldn't figure out why. He flickered his eyes away, frowning in confusion, his thoughts running faster than he could keep up and they surprisingly, mostly consisted of the girl who just walked up the stairs.

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AFTER GETTING READY, HER AND ALLISON headed out to go see Vanya. The duo headed up to the floor of Vanya:s apartment; every time they walked a creaking sound came from the wooden floor and Starr knew this place was old. While walking, Allison held a paper in her hand with Vanya's address and spotted a door opened three inches, squinting her eyes and sharing a look with Starr.

She took another glance at the door then turned to Starr, putting a finger on her lips to give a signal to be quiet and Starr nodded. As the girls entered, Allison slowly opened the door to try and make little noise. When stepped inside, Allison spotted someone inside the kitchen and pulled Starr back to the wall behind them so they wouldn't be seen.

When the guy came closer, Allison took a deep breath and Starr nodded. Allison came out of their hiding spot and kicked him to the floor, turning him around to see who it was and the guy put his hands up in defense, "Allison! Wait!"

Allison jumped back in relief, "Leonard! Sorry," she sighed Leonard got up and she looked around the room for her sister, "I thought you were... Um, where's Vanya?"

"She's at rehearsal," he got up, fetching keys from his pocket. "She... she left her keys at my place last night," he let out a ligh chuckle, "I was just returning them. I'm sorry if I scared you two."

"Uh...." Allison chuckled, glancing around once again, "So why are you inside her apartment?"

"Answer her pestering questions!" Starr spat from beside her.

Allison drifted her gaze to Start, knitting her eyebrows, "What was that?"

"Sorry," Starr chuckled. "I've been investigating a lot this week ," she sighed, crossing her arms against her chest, "Its become apart of me now."

"Oh, great."

Leonard chuckled at their banter, leaning a hand on the table with another hand in his pocket, "It's kind of embarrassing," he looked down at the floor and then back up, "I had to use the restroom," then he furrowed his eyebrows, "If you don't mind me asking, why are you two here?"

Allison crossed her arms against her chest, "Excuse me?"

"No, it's just... from what I heard, you didn't want anything to do with Vanya yesterday," he said. "So, I was just wondering."

"I don't know why that's any of your business,"

Leonard shrugged with a chuckle, "You're right," he pointed at her, "Probably not. Uh, it was nice seeing you and meeting your friend over here." I guess I'll just... drop these off to Vanya at rehearsal."

"You know what? We'll take the keys to her,"

"Sure."

As Leonard flopped the keys into Allison's hand he reluctantly walked out the apartment, saying goodbye to them. Starr had a weird feeling about this guy and by Allison's side eye, Start could assume she felt the same.

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AFTER LEAVING THE APARTMENT, THE GIRLS HEADED down to find Vanya's rehearsal. Doing so, they took this time to talk and walk around the city a little, which is how they ended up where the rehearsal was. When they arrived, Allison found this cart full of magazines, one cover showing a picture of Allison's daughter Claire and her ex husband. Next to it was Starr's parents with text saying we're doing fine! Subtitle being, what happened the diaz daughter now?

Starr's gaze was glued to the cover — she made me come to Hargeeves's funeral?! what's this for?! Starr thought to herself, her grip on the magazine tightening, causing the edge to wrinkle. Just as she was about to crumble the thing, Starr snapped her head up at Vanya's voice, letting go of the magazine, "Hey, what are you guys doing here?"

"Hey. I was looking for you," Allison folded the magazine in her hand with a light smile. "I... I wanted to be the one to tell you about mom."

"What?"

"Vanya, she's... she's gone," Allison sighed.

The shock washed over Vanya like a wave and her eyes widened, "I thought we were gonna wait a bit."

"It was those psychopaths last night," Allison explained. "They killed her."

Starr nodded, "Yeah, I saw her this morning... uh, I'm sorry."

"And, listen... last night, what I said —"

"No, no don't... don't worry about it," Vanya insisted.

Allison's gaze drifted down to her pocket and she took Vanya's keys and handed them to her, "Oh, I have your keys..."

"Why do you have my keys?"

"It's a long story," Allison sighed. "Do you wanna get a drink — and you drink."

Starr groaned, "Cmon! Five's thirteen and he can have coffee, but I'm thirteen and I can't have beer?"

"Physically — mentally fifty and beer and coffee are two different things,"

Vanya chuckled with a nod, "Sure."

➥ AUTHOR'S NOTE
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kinda rushed it but OUR BOY FIVE IS IN LOVEEE 😍😍👏👏 i was gonna add that scene with viktor and allison at the restaurant, but i felt too lazy so if u know u know. i also wanted to add in some more allison, viktor and starr moments cuz i feel like i haven't done a lot with them

plsss don't be silent / ghost readers cause reading your comments keeps me motivated <33

— see you soon, meg!