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Luther, Five and Klaus being the only ones who had shown up to the meet up point made Five have to throw the travel briefcase in the air as it explodes. That was Five's last straw making him storm off and for Luther to take the lead. Luther instructs Klaus to check on Allison and find the others together while he went off after Five.

Back at the house Zelma had put away her gun back in her purse as there was no reason for it to be out, especially with all the training she's had she could take and arm her gun in under ten seconds.

"Oh, sweet Jesus, what the hell are we gonna do?" Ray asks his wife about the dead body in their living room couch

"It's okay, it's okay. Calm down, Ray"

Allison's words did nothing to calm down Ray, making him try to see why he was freaking about, "Calm down? Allison, you killed a vacuum cleaner salesman in our goddamn living room"

"Well actually," Zelma raises her hand half way interrupting the couples letting them remember she was in the room, "Killing him was a group effort. Also that man is not a vacuum sales person, he's some assassin who tried to kill you because you're collateral damage"

"Zelma!" Allison scolds the woman for her straight forwardness "Don't call my husband collateral damage!"

"They think that. Not me." Zelma points to herself not at all thinking that Ray is collateral damage just was able to see it from the brothers perspectives

"There is a giant dead white boy on our couch," Ray states not understanding how the women before him were not understanding the repercussions this could have for them and if anything only for him

Allison looks over at the bloody dead body on their off-white couch, "Yeah, you know, I'll admit, that doesn't look good"

"Oh, we're done." Ray starts to deeply spiral about all the consequences that the dead body can lead to "The movement is finished, Allison. They're gonna give me the chair for this."

"They're not gonna give you the ch-" Allison stops at a knock from the front door

"Okay, okay," Ray calmly states walking over to the front door while holding out a hand signaling for Allison to stay there. All the while Zelma takes out her gun and halfway hides behind the wall so she can have a sight of the open door

Once at the door Ray moves the blinds making him sigh in relief at the sight of who stood on the other end. At the open door Klaus says, "Hey, Ray-Ray. I'm so sorry it's late, but, uh-"

"Klaus, now is not a good time" Ray says the door only open a sliver making Zelma put away her weapon as Klaus wasn't an enemy

"Oh, I'm sorry." Klaus apologizes only to catch Allison peeking through the hallway making him push past Ray to get inside and hug his sister "Allison! Hey! I was so worried about you. Thank God you're okay."

Klaus then spots Zelma making him open his arms to pull her in, "Doctor Z! You're here. What's, uh... What's the matter?"

Stepping away from the hug Klaus takes in the state of the living room and the blood on Allison's face and Ray's white shirt, making Klaus ask, "You guys have been wrestling in here or something?"

"No Klaus. No," Zelma shakes her head as he was way way off

"Oh. Oh, I see. It's gonna be one of those kinda nights, huh?" Klaus asks walking over to take a closer look at the dead body and rolls up his sleeves "So, are we burnin' or buryin'?"

"Hadn't thought of that," Zelma tilts her head having only thought about if Five had left them behind or not

So as they planned what to do with the corpse Zelma questioned Klaus the best she could about what happened at the meet up time. Klaus did give her answers as in mentioning how Diego didn't show up and how he had mentioned he had something to do - making Diego and Vanya the only ones unaccounted for.

Zelma did worry that Diego had gone looking for Lila and that put him in trouble. She did know that Lila was just a friend for Diego, someone who was as crazy as him to help him escape the asylum he had been sulking in. So while Zelma also knew Diego has feelings for her she knew that in the past years in not having seen him she had no time to miss him - it was almost out of sight out of mind type situation mixed with trying to survive.

Now that he was back to being in front of her and she was no longer searching, the feelings she had four years ago were still there and growing. Only back then and now they never solidified who they are to each other - feelings she spoke out loud for the first time to Klaus as they raid Allison's closet for the new day that was breaking through

"...Like should I just be the first to make Diego my boyfriend?"

Klaus raises a shirt to Zelma's chest before shaking his head and throwing it on the bed, "Doctor Z you should never chase a man. Now I love Diego but he needs to obsess over you and not a Kennedy"

"From your mouth to Diego's brain," Zelma says as they reach the end of Allison's hanging shirts "Does she really not have a fitting shirt?"

"Have you ever worn a dress? They're really comfortable, breezy"

"Your breeze and my breeze are very different," Zelma walks over to grab a shirt from the pile she thinks can look good with one of the dresses Klaus passed through "How about this?"

"With those shoes?" Klaus points down to the black loafers then points at her purse strapped around her "That-"

"Stays"

Klaus takes a step back glancing over at the bed and nods, "No hesitation"

It was not the first time Klaus comfortably talked to the air and Zelma couldn't help but ask, "You lied about your brother not surviving the time jump, didn't you?"

"No," Klaus scoffs only to look back at the bed and shush the ghost only he sees

"I'm going to try something," Zelma says taking a step forward and grabs his hand only to then let go when she doesn't see any person out of place in the future vision she lets go and frowns "Huh, nothing"

Klaus only finding it slightly weird that she just grabbed his hand lets it happen, "If trying something is holding hands I can see why you and Diego need a push"

"That's not-" Zelma shakes her head letting go of his hand as over the years she'd gotten better at controlling her powers but the era and use of gloves just made her fashion choices to be normal "you don't know? Diego never told you guys?"

"That holding hands is a major step for you two?"

"I literally propositioned him for sex the day i met him-"

"Nice," Klaus approves having a better feeling about Zelma

"-Thanks. He never told you I see the future? That I'm psychic?"

"Crystal ball, tarot cards psychic or the Hargreeves special?" Klaus asks because he could not handle another pair of siblings having the hots for each other

"More of I hold your hand and can see parts of your ever changing future," Zelma raises her hands to move her fingers as if they hold her power "I was born with it but three years after yall"

"Diego really needs to share more secrets"

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The answer to Klaus' question was answered when they decided to do the first step in both by moving the body down to the carpet to roll him up. The two doing the hard work were Ray and Allison who kneels down and questions, "God, why are people so much heavier when they're dead?"

Ray looks up from tying a knot on the rolled carpet end, "You got a lot of practice at this?"

Klaus and Zelma walk into the living room, one walking over the dead rolled up body to sit on the couch and the other walks over to the kitchen to grab the sandwich she'd made while the couple had changed clothes first.

A zapping whoosh is heard through the living room makes Zelma take out her gun and point it in the direction of the surprise noise that everyone had screamed at.

"Shit!" Ray shouts dropping the body

"Oh!" Allison screams letting go of the body allowing the other end of the body fall

"Oh, good. All right," Diego looks around the living room having been told Zelma was also in the house turns to find her only to see her lowering a gun that had been aimed at him "you're all here. All right, we gotta go."

"Diego, Jesus!" Allison shouts at her brother who scared them all

A short man standing next to Diego says with glee, "Wow. Number Two, Three, and Four. We almost have an Umbrella straight flush here."

"Ray, this is my other brother, Diego." Allison introduces as her husband still stood with his back against not being able to process everything as quick as everyone else

"Hey, man." Diego walks over to his new brother-in-law and extends a hand "Sorry to crash in here like this."

Ray shakes Diego's hand hesitantly before the man with long hair returns to the spot he'd arrived at. Klaus, not sure if the new man before them was a ghost or not asks, "Hey, who is this guy?"

"Herb. He worked with Five at the Commission." Diego introduces the man before walking over to Zelma and pulling her into the living room with everyone else

"The Commission?" Klaus questions the name sounding familiar only out of Five' s lips

"We monitor and maintain the time-space continuum." Herb explains making Zelma's eyes light up

"Okay." Klaus leans deeper into the couch not fully totally believing it

"No, for real. I was just there. It's awesome." Diego turns to look at Zelma with a grin knowing she would be so jealous and the way she pinched his hip he knew she was making him squirm away before turning his attention to his siblings, "Okay, I got to look at the timeline. I know what causes doomsday. It's Vanya."

"Wait, what? How?" Allison questions as their sister being the cause of the apocalypse felt like years in the remaking again

"Gonna blow up the federal building at Dealey Plaza just as the president's passing through in less than one hour. We gotta find her and stop her, now." Diego quickly says in a hurry as they were on a time crunch to stop it all

"Wait, Vanya kills the president?" Allison asks as the president being killed was always in the set timeline

"No, no, no." Diego quickly counters having seen it all and for once understood Zelma's way of geeking out about time travel "See, the explosion causes the motorcade to drive off. Kennedy lives. Everybody thinks Russia's behind it, including the president. He strikes back, they strike back. Before you know it, it's raining nukes."

"But our timeline" Zelma trails off knowing them being there meant a change in their timeline but what Vanya could potentially do is disrupt that timeline meaning there would be no home to get back to

"Okay, um..." Allison quickly digests the information that Vanya once again causes the apocalypse

"Holy shit." Klaus curses understanding that nukes raining meant war and being a vet he didn't want that for anyone

Allison, spotting her husband frozen in panic, walks over to him and does her best to calm him down while also knowing she was now going to say goodbye because she was going to help Vanya.

While Allison talks to her husband Diego pulls Zelma by the hip over to the door archway.

"You look pretty" Diego kisses her forehead missing her after being knocked out and waking up The Commission and understanding that Lila confused friendship for more meaning Zelma being angry had merit

"This is your sister's dress," Zelma looks down at the sleeveless navy pinstripe dress that falls well past her knees considering it was Allison's who was taller than her. While it was a beautiful dress and she can move in it Zelma wanted her clothes because she knew fighting in flowy dress meant limiting movements and vision because of the puff of the skirt 

"Still cute," Diego kisses her forehead again making Zelma furrow her eyebrows wondering why he was being so openly sweet considering she'd last seen him yesterday

"How did you end up at the Commision?"

"Uh, I need to ask you something first"

"Okay"

"Will you Zelma de mi Alma," Diego starts out making Zelma narrow her eyes at him not knowing where he was going with his words but doesn't interrupt "Relax, I'm asking you'd want to be my partner. You know boyfriend and girlfriend"

"Partner?" Zelma questions considering she never thought he'd use that word

"You're out of my league." Diego states which makes Zelma slowly nod her head trying to predict what he was going to say but had no idea "If me calling you my partner rather than girlfriend I don't care as long as we're together"

Zelma couldn't help but smile at his words and leans up to kiss his cheek, "That was cute. You are cute. Of course I'd be your partner"

At the intimate moment Klaus rests his arms around the new official couple's shoulders "I think we did some great manifesting" 

"We should really get going," Zelma moves to open the house door

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Arriving at the empty federal building and getting in was easy, allowing the four to be the only ones in the elevator.

"I hope we find Vanya in time." Allison states as the elevator starts to go up 

The elevator rattles as the lights go off leaving them still being able to see that the numbers signaling the floor stops red on theirs. The elevator doors open making them instantly be hit with a wave of light blue energy sending them back against the elevator walls.

The doors being opened lets them see a man in a suit dead as his blood was splattered on the wall. Closest to the exit Klaus pushes himself towards the elevator doorway and with his head out being able to see the hallway he sees agents dead against the walls.

Zelma unties the belt around her waist and outstretches a hand so she can let go of the belt making it get sucked out into the hallway and quickly fly down, "We're working against gravity here"

With a grunt Allison pushes herself out of the elevator and into the hallway fighting against the energy surge that made every step feel as if she was pushing against jello. Everyone follows after Allison being able to make it towards where she hid behind a floor length desk that covered them from the energy surge - Klaus had a little more trouble as he was struck with the energy surge making him fall and have Allison reach out for him.

With all four hiding behind the desk Klaus weakly asks, "Question, guys. Who are we trying to save Vanya from?"

"FBI!" Everyone around him shout in unison

"But if they're all sucking ceiling right now, why hasn't she stopped?" Klaus shouts over the energy surge

Klaus brought up a valid question and yet the plan still remained to save Vanya so Diego shouts so everyone could hear him over the energy, "Vanya's in the room at the end of the hall."

"How do you propose we get to her?" Allison asks the energy starting to effect their hearing

"I haven't figured that one out yet." Diego admits thinking only about the end result and not the how to get there

"Quick trial and error," Zelma mentions having no ideas on how to get from one side to another without resources and very limited on time

"You can count me out." Klaus says taking out a flask he carried at all times

"Klaus!"

Not being able to take a sip from his flask Klaus defends himself, "What? You guys should save her. You're great at all the hero shit."

"Oh, Klaus!" Allison hits him annoyed with his words

"Listen, listen. Vanya would understand 'cause she has realistic expectations of what I am. And what I am is sexy trash." Klaus shouts hugging his flask wanting to stay there rather than face the scary energy

"You're a big pussy, that's what you are." Diego shouts back

"We need everyone Klaus!" Zelma shouts as she was scared but pretending not to be had been her go to move in the past years

"Guys, now is not the time." Allison tells them

"Why? Because I don't wanna die? Who does? And martyrs aren't around to enjoy the victory party 'cause they're dead!" Klaus

"You are going out there..." Diego crawls over Allison towards Klaus to grab him

"I'm not! Go away!" Klaus pushes Diego away

"...Or I'm gonna beat you, and not the way you like it!"

At her brothers' fighting Allison rolls her eyes and quickly moves away from the desk and into the hallway opening "That's my cue."

Taking a deep breath Zelma stands up and runs to follow after Allison only for it to feel like her whole body had gotten slapped, "Fuck"

"Hey! Allison!"

"No! Zelma!"

The brothers protest against both women fighting their way through the energy surge but kept hidden behind the desk making it so they couldn't see that fighting against the energy was making Allison's ears bleed or Zelma's nose bleed.

Diego does take a peak behind the desk at the women gaining movement in the hallway towards the door but a big energy surge throws them back making Zelma push Allison closer to the wall making her slide down the hall floor and stop at the desk wall. Zelma on the other hand, not being close to the wall, flies back past the desk and only stops once her back hits the end of the hallway.

"Zelma!" Diego shouts wanting to run towards her but wouldn't be of any help if they didn't stop Vanya

"All right. I'm going." Diego announces it being his turn and now he had more determination to do get to the end

Klaus takes hold of his jacket to stop him, "No, wait, wait, wait, wait."

"What?"

"If you don't make it back, there's one thing that I need to tell you." Klaus says with desperation in his voice

"I don't have time for this." Diego turns again but it stopped by the hold on his jacket

"Please."

"What?"

"You look like Antonio Banderas with the long hair. I just thought you should know." Klaus shares his longing important news which through the chaos was nice to hear

"Thanks, man." Diego smiles before quickly turning to make his way out from behind the desk and into the hallway

Only just like Allison and Zelma, Diego was met with resistance from the energy. Diego uses his knives to stab the floor and use the hold to push him up and closer to the door at the end of the hallway.

"Klaus!" Diego shouts having turned to look back and on seeing Allison's unconscious body knew he wasn't going to last much longer, "I'm not gonna make it! It's up to you, buddy! You gotta save the world!"

"No, Diego, that's a terrible idea!" Klaus replies covering his ears with his hands

Diego uses his knives to now make his way towards the wall where a firehose rests and in letting go of one of the knives he reaches up to the levar releasing the firehose. It extends down the hall towards the top of the desk

Klaus, being the only one left to make his way down the hallway, uses the fire hose to pull himself against the energy current as blood pooled down his ears and nose. Reaching the end of the fire hose and hall Klaus launches himself towards the room the light was coming from. Grabbing onto the door handle Klaus is able to open it only for a power surge to knock him backwards and lands with the rest of the group.

All everyone remembered was going down, meaning when they woke up to a hallway that no longer was glowing light blue let them know Vanya had stopped. When their vision clears they are all able to see Vanya running towards them, "Are you okay?

"Vanya." Allison states glad to see her sister even if her body hurt from being slammed into the desk

"Physically or emotionally?" Klaus questions

Diego looks around glad to see his sister didn't have white eyes that led to the end of the world but in remembering where Zelma had fallen to he stands up and runs to the end of the hall. Zelma laid down on the ground with dried blood down her nose and was slowly waking up as Diego kneeled down by her.

"Zelma," Diego moves the hair out of her face and helps her sit up "Are you okay?"

"Did we make it?" Zelma groggily asks slowly blinking as her vision starts to turn clear
"Seems like it" Diego smiles glad she was okay and does his best to wipe the blood from her nose with his sleeve

At his action Zelma frowns and raises her hand to learn that her nose had bled at one point and while her body ache she felt good, "Are you okay?"

"Perfect now," Diego leans down to kiss her lips neither letting it get farther than a simple kiss before pulling away to see each others face

"Help me?" Zelma asks extending out a hand for Diego to take and help her up

Diego checks his watch for the time which let him know not a lot of time had passed while unconscious, "Kennedy's a few minutes away. I can still save him."

"No, Diego!!" Zelma exclaims knowing he had pure intentions but Kennedy needed to be a fixed point in time after all the ripples they had caused

Diego runs to a window and pulls the blinds of the window that looked out at the blocked off street for the parade. It was all still happening, everyone unaware that Vanya unknowingly kill people with her power at the top of a building near them, "I still have time to stop Dad before Kennedy makes his final turn."

"No, no, where are you going?" Zelma softly grabs his hand

"Look, I saw the explosion." Diego tells her as his time at The Commission was still something he had share with her but for now only what was relevant "I saw the tapes, Zelma. The explosion causes doomsday. You're safe now. He doesn't have to die."

"No, Diego please!" Zelma pleads knowing he was only going to encounter heartbreak down there

"Wish me luck," Diego grins kissing her lips before running off

Zelma thought she should stop him - she could try to fight him or shoot him - only a part of her didn't want to stop him. If Diego was able to stop Reginald then Five's rambles of the Commission who hated change they didn't plan were what Diego was up against.

"KLIF bulletin, from Dallas, three shots reportedly were fired at the motorcade of President Kennedy today, near the downtown section. KLIF News is checking out the report. We will have further..."

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a/n: if anyone is still reading... S3, would Zelma have to fear running into her present self or would Reginald unalive her like the rest?