Jealousy || Lila x Diego
It had been a couple of months since the Hargreeves had returned to 2019, but this time with a new team member. Lila.
When they had got back, the house was deadly silent. there was no Mum, no Dad, no Pogo, but most importantly, no apocalypse.
It had taken a while for the siblings to get used to Lila, but she settled in quick enough. There would be moments where she would forget that these people weren't her family, and she didn't not grow up with them. She was finally happy, and content.
It was a chilly morning, and the calming sound of rain hitting the roof was one that had went on all night.
Slowly but surely, all eight of them came down for breakfast. Lila was the last wake up.
When she entered the kitchen, it was a fairly normal normal sight, for this family at least. Luther was standing over the hob, making a very large amount of eggs. Allison and Vanya were laughing at something on Allison's phone. Klaus was chattering away to Five, who was hunched over a cup of coffee very protectively, and doing his best to ignoring his brother.
And Diego, Oh Diego. He was twirling a knife in one hand, and hold a spoon in the other. "Show off" She muttered to him as she sat in the chair next to him.
"Mm maybe." he said back. "I've got to go to work today, Do you want to stay here or come?"
Five snorted from across the table. "Work? You mean run around in some black spandex like a low-grade batman?"
Diego flipped him off.
Lila sniggered at the two. "Yeh sure, I'll come. And I'll show you up in front of anyone who's watching."
"Hmm I'd like to see you try." Diego said, leaning in for a kiss.
"Oh you would, would you?" She laughed.
"Yep"
"Eww, no snogging at the table, thank you." Klaus said in disgust. "Honestly, get a room." He turned to five, waving his hand. "Millennials these days, eh?"
Five just shook his head and left, blinking to who knows where.
The rest of them slowly filtered away to get dressed, until it was just Lila and Diego.
"Ready?" He asked her.
She nodded, and left to get ready.
About an hour later, they were leaving. It was comfortably quiet in the car.the windsceen-wipers were on, and there was that constant patter of water hitting the car.
Diego turned on the radio, and a familar up-beat pop-song came on.
Lila gasped and tuned to Diego, grinning. "Oh. My. God. I love this one!" She turned it up, and sang along to the lyrics.
Diego chuckled at her. His stomach was doing flips. God, he was in love with this girl.
They arrived at the police station fairly quickly. He slammed the car door behind him. "OK, let me do the talking, alright?" He put his hood up, and she did the same.
Lila rolled her eyes, and mockingly mumbled something along the lines of "Yes Sir".
"What are we actually even doing here? Like, surely the don't just let people walk into a police station."
"Yeh, but i'm not just people." He said, zipping up his jacket. "Let's go."
They walked into the tall building, taking down their hood. Diego was walking in front and Lila followed closely behind. A couple of people nodded at Diego. He nodded back.
"What, do you know these people?" She whispered to him.
"Some of them, yeh" he whispered back.
Suddenly, a woman was standing right in front of them. She just popped out of no where!
"Diego?" She asked. There was a hint of something in her voice, but Lila couldn't quite place it. She had long dark hair which was drawn back into a tight bun, and light olive skin. When Lila thought about it, the two of them actually looked quite similar.
Diego stopped, almost like a deer in headlights. He did't move for a couple of seconds. "Eudora?"
The woman, who Lila assumed was called Eudora, laughed nervously. "Oh my god, Diego! Wow! Long time no see, eh?"
Diego nodded. He could barely get his words out. "Um, uh, Yeh. It's uh, been a while."
Eudora nodded. "How have you been?"
Diego just nodded again. "Good, yeh, good. How about you, how have you been?"
Eudora smiled, and glanced at Lila. "Yeh, good."
"That's good." He muttered.
"So, where have you been? Nobody's seen you for weeks!" She asked.
"Um, yeh. I've just been, Uh," He glanced to Lila, whose eyebrows were raised. "Spending some time with my family. A lot."
Lila squinted at him. Something was off here.
The woman nodded, but she didn't look convinced. "Right. And is this one of your sisters?" She pointed at Lila.
Lila laughed, very loudly. "What?!"
She stopped laughing when she seen the look on Eudora's face. "Oh my god, are you being serious?"
"Yeh... Why?"
Diego opened his mouth to speak, but Lila got there first. "I'm not his sister, I'm his girlfriend!"
They all went quiet.
Diego wanted to die. Like, really properly die.
Eudora just look at him with sheer, utter, distain.
A man appeared at Eudora's side and and handed her a file. He muttered something into her ear, to which she nodded, smiled at Diego, then left.
Eudora took in a deep breath and clapped her hands together. "Well, whatever your name is, it was lovely meeting you." She then turned to Diego. "And to you, get fucked." She then turned on her heels and left.
Diego put a hand to his face. Could that have gone any worse? Probably not, he thought.
Lila just stood there, her face just full of confusion. "Who was that?" He didn't answer, and just left.
"Diego!" She shouted after him. When he didn't turn around, she began to run after him.
When she caught up with him, he was already outside and walking towards the car. It was properly raining outside.
She grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him round. "Hey, what the fuck was that about?!
Diego tried to keep on walking.
"Hey! Don't try to ignore me, dipshit!"
Diego wouldn't look at her, but instead chose to look at a passing car.
Lila's voice became softer. "Hey, talk to me." She put her hand to his cheek at turned it towards her. "Who was she."
He shook his head, looking into her eyes.
"What- Why won't you tell me?!"
He pursed his lips.
"What was she, an old fling?" She joked. She soon seen from the look on his face, that she had struck a chord.
He was now staring at the ground, and the way the raindrops made the puddles ripple.
"Diego..."
"I-"
"How long were you dating for?" She asked, cutting him off.
He sighed. "A while."
She nodded, trying to keep calm. "Ok. How long has it been since you broke up?"
"I don't know. But like a couple of days before the apocalypse, she was murdered by some commission bitch. I didn't even know if she was actually going to even be here, I promise!"
She looked at him in pure disbelief. "Wait, did you come looking for her?!"
He thought about lying, but decided to tell the truth. "Yes." His voice was quiet, and she could just about hear him over the passing of traffic going through the puddles.
Lila nodded, and rubbed her face with her hand. She couldn't believe she was about to ask this. "Did you come here deliberately so you could see her?"
He took a deep breath, "Yeh, I did.
Lila laughed, but it wasn't happy.
Another car drove past, it almost splashed them. At this point, it wouldn't matter if one did, they were both already soaking. Water was dripping from Lila's hair, and her face. Or maybe those was tears.
"So what am I to you, just some stupid fling?" Yep, those were definitely tears. It sound like she was holding back a sob.
"No, Lila, of course you're not!"
"Someone who you'll just discard as soon as you're bored and done with too, huh?"
"No!" He was almost shouting.
People were beginning to stare at the two of them, and Diego was beginning to notice. "Look, let's not do this here. come on."
He tried to take Lila by the arm and direct her towards the car door, but she was having none of that.
She slapped his hand off her arm. "No actually, I would like to do this, here and now."
"Fine, what even is there to argue about? So what, I went out with someone else before I even knew you. Is that a crime? Come on, you must have dated other people before us." He said.
"Yeh Diego, of course I dated other people before us, but I didn't fucking bring my current boyfriend to stalk my dead ex-boyfriend!"
Diego threw his hands up in the air. "For gods sake, I only wanted to see if she was alive! Is that too much to ask?!"
"No, of course not, but it's not too much to ask, to not bring me!"
He rolled his eyes. "Honestly, you are over-reacting a little here."
She blinked at him. "I'm over-reacting?"
Diego shrugged. "Yeh, you are."
"I'M OVER-REACTING?"
"Ok, you need to calm down." He said, his arms were out in front of him.
"You know what Diego, fuck off. Just, fuck off. My mum was right, you aren't worth it." She said as she started to walk away.
"Oh Lila, don't be like that, come back! Lila!" He shouted after her. The rain was dripping from his face. "Lila!"
"Lila!" He shouted again. She didn't turn around.
"Lila!"
"Lila!"