CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN: TALKING ABOUT RELATIONSHIP 

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The song 'Baby shark' by Pinkfong was playing in the radio of the van as it was driving down the long and empty road.

"Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" a child sang over the radio.

"Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo shark. Mommy shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Mommy shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. Mommy shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Mommy Shark" the child sang as Diego was driving down the snowy road as Natasha, Five, Zach and the others was all sitting in the van.

"Daddy Shark doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. Daddy Shark"

"God! Will you please turn that song off?" Viktor asked "I can't. It's stuck" Diego replied "Grandma Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, Grandma Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" the song continued and Klaus moved his head to the music which cause Allison to roll her eyes.

"This is gonna be a long drive" Natasha sighed.

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ONE HOUR LATER.

"Grandpa Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Grandpa Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" the song kept playing on repeat.

As the song kept playing Natasha looked at Five could see that he was not feeling well "You okay?" she asked "I'm fine, just taken it slow" he replied.

"Grandma Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Grandma Shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo"

Five turned his head to lok at Diego as he could feel he was getting worse. He felt nausea.

"Let's go hunt..."

Ben's stomach started gurgling.

"Let's go hunt, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, let's go hunt!..."

THREE HOURS LATER

"Run away doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, run away doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" the song kept playing and just like the others Natasha, Five and Zach was about to lose their mind.

"Run away doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, run away"

"I'm going to lose my mind" Zach mumbled.

"Run away doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, run away"

The sound of turbulent gurgling was heard as everyone except for Natasha and Klaus was getting worse.

"Diego will you change that song?" Luther asked out a little loud "I can't!" Diego snapped.

"Safe at least, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo"

Klaus then opened something to drink he have brought with him "Oh my God, that smells rancid" Lila said as she was sitting in between Zach and Klaus while Ben was sitting behind them and Luther sitting in the trunk.

"What? You don't like my kale-kiwi-carrot-cabbage kombucha?" Klaus asked and Viktor made a face in disgust while Ben smell to himself "It's good for the soul and great for the bowels" he said "It looks disgusting" Natasha grunt.

 "Diego?" Five said as the sound of wet gurgling was heard "Uh...Maybe, uh, pull over" he suggested as he felt worse and he felt like like were about to throw up, just like the rest.

"Can't" Diego shook his had "We're making good time" he said "Okay. Well, I'm gonna hurl" Five said "Can you pull over? I need to pee" Lila said "Please pull over Diego, the others looks like they are about to throw up, so I suggest you pull over" Natasha said.

"You don't want a sippy of this potenit elixir?" Klaus stretched the bottle forward to Five who was sitting in front of him "So good for you" Klaus said "No" Five push it away with his left arm "Get it away" Natasha push the bottle away with her right hand causing both hers and Five's hand to touch which caused an electric warm and wonderful feeling to go through them both. The two looked at each other and they felt themself blush but they quickly moved their hands away from each other.  

"All right" Diego lifted something up from his feet "Heads up. Here" he showed them a bottle "Oh no" Viktor said.

"You know what it is. Right. Use it" Diego said "Not the pee bottle" Lila said "Have you even clean it?" Zach asked.

But Diego just throw it back to Lila, Allison, Zach and Klaus and all made disgusted clamoring as they past it each other, trying to get rid of it.

"Pull over man" Five said "We are sticking and shaking to the itinerary" Diego said as the song kept going.

"Five, open the window" Luther said "Open the window" Ben said "Oh God!" Allison hold her nose.

"Open it!" Luther snapped "Please" Viktor said and Five started rolling down the window.

But by accident the handle came off which caused Five's eyes to widened.

"What the---Did you just break the window, man?" Diego hissed as he reach over to Five's side to grab the handle which cause him to turn the wheel and that made the van began to veer to the left which made Klaus spilled his drink.

"Hey, you spilled my kombucha!" Klaus said but then Lila threw up and the same did Allison "Hey" Klaus said.

Then Five started throwing up "Everyone, hold it in!" Diego shouted as Five lifted his head "They can't, it's like morning sickness, you can't hold it in" Natasha snapped at Diego.

 "Run away, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo"

Lila and Allison threw up again while Klaus made a face in disgust "Pull over, pull over!" he said.

"We're making good time!" Diego said before Five and Allison threw up again "Good time my ass, pull the fuck over!" Zach shouted.

Viktor covered his ears as the sound of energy thrumming was heard "Stop puking!" Klaus shouted "They can't!" Natasha shouted back.

Then suddenly some energy sound came out of Viktor which broke all the windows in the passenger seat as the others let out a scream.

"Son of a bitch!" Diego shouted before he pulled over and stop the van causing the brakes to make a screech noise.

"All right, enough! Okay?" Diego said before he turned to look at the others "No more fighting! And no more puking, all right? And no...no more powers. Not until we get to Maine. We'll get there. We'll find this girl. After that, we'll go back to our regular lives. Are we clear?" he asked the group.

"Are we clear?" he asked "Yes" Klaus said "Yeah" Viktor said "Good" Diego said.

But then his stomach started gurgling and he felt he was about to throw up.

"It's your turn now" Zach said and some small vomit came out of his mouth "Ahh!" Klaus said "Wipe?" Diego asked "We've run our of baby wipes" Lila said.

"Here you go" Klaus lifted up a small wipe "I gotcha buddy" he handed it to Diego who grab it before stepping out of the car.

"Where's he going?" Klaus asked "What are we supposed to do? Turn around?" Allison asked "No. We've come this far" Luther said "It's only another 13 hours to New Grumpson" Natasha sighed "Jesus" Ben said as they all groaning.

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Day turn into night and while Natasha was asleep on the passager seat next to Lila, Five and Zach was sitting next to Diego on the front seat.

Diego slap himself to keep him awake as he was still driving while everyone except him, Zach and Five was asleep.

"Do you want me to drive?" Five asked "I can also drive" Zach said "No, I'm good" Diego answered.

"How can you keep yourself awake?" he asked his brother and nephew was look like he was wide awake "Spend some of your life alone in an apocalypse, and some of it in the Commission, you get use to stay up all night if you have to" Five said "And when you are trained from the age of eight to be an assassin you learn how to stay up all night" Zach said.

Diego then looked over his shoulder to make sure that Lila was asleep "I think she's cheating on me" he said softly as he looked at Five "Lila" Diego said and Five looked at him "She goes places at night. She goes places, and she lies about it" Diego said "You know, she's got that book club" Five said "Yeah, she have a book club" Zach "Is it? Or is it a double date?" Diego asked "What are you talking about?" Five asked.

"I saw her and Nat, they were in some café, they were on a double date with some guys. Some Greek-looking sons of a bitch with a creepy mustache"  Diego said and Five and Zach glanced at each other as they realized that the guys Diego was talking about was themself, but in their undercover outfit and the two realized that Diego must have seen Lila and Natasha talking with Zach and Five about that meeting they were at with Gene and Jean.

"The mustache was creepy?" Five asked "Oh yeah" Diego nodded "Sleazy as hell. Just pencil-thin. You know what I mean?" Diego glanced at him.

Zach and Five couldn't tell Diego the truth. They was nervous that Diego would think that Zach was the one Lila was cheating with. And they wouldn't believe if they told him the truth. And the two also think Lila should said it herself, it should come from her and not Zach or Five. Beside this was between Lila and Diego.

"Diego, whatever this is, trust me...it's nothing" Zach looked at his uncle before looking forward again "He is right. You guys got the house, a family. Only an idiot throws that away. Lila is no idiot" Five said "So am I supposed to just ignore it? Say nothing?" Diego asked "That would be correct. Bury it. Deep. Cover that shit with concrete" Five said and Diego looked at him.

"You speak like a true love expert" Diego chuckled softly "You've changed Five, in a good way" he said "Well, after the lost of both our kids, and after not getting Luna back, and Nat and I broke up, I grew tired of being angry all the time. I mean I can still feel angry but..." Five sighed.

"Do you two miss it? I mean, your old job in the Commission?" Diego asked.

"No" Zach shook his head "The killing? I don't miss that at all. And I know Nat don't either. But if I have to kill someone or anyone again to save Nat, our son or you guys? I'd do it in a heartbeat so would Nat" Five said "And so would I" Zach said.

"You're a good guy Zach" Diego looked at his nephew who let out a small smile.

"And you're good brother" Diego said as he looked at Five which made Five glanced at him.

That was the fourth person from his family that have told him that. And still he didn't know what to say or how to react.

"You still love her, don't you?" Diego suddenly said and Five looked at him "What?" he asked "Natasha? I see the way you look at her. The way you still look at her" Diego said "I don't look at her in anyway" Five said "You sure about that?" Diego asked "Yes, I'm sure Diego" Five nodded lightly.

"Five, you deserve someone who gets you. You're allowed to have that special someone. I don't know what happen between you two, but I don't think it's unfixable" Diego said and Five let out a sigh "Why don't you give it a second chance?" Diego asked "It wouldn't work, we only end up hurting each other" Five said "But not being with each other is also hurting you" Five looked at Diego.

"You two have to give it another chance, you both deserve it" Diego said "He is right dad, both you and mom deserve another chance, after everything you have being through, your relationship deserve another chance" Zach said.

Five didn't wanted to admit it but he was still in love with Natasha, he still loved her and he actually wanted to get back together with her, but he was scared that she don't want to get back together and he was scared that their relationship wouldn't change. And they will be fighting more. Natasha and Five have actually not had a huge fight since they broke up. But it was painful for him not to be with her. He miss her so much.

Both Natasha and Lila opened their eyes as they both had heard the conversation.

Natasha let out a sigh when Diego and Zach said that to Five.

She didn't wanted to admit it but she was still in love with him, she still love him and she actually wanted to get back together with him, but she was scared that he didn't wanted to get back together and she was scared that their relationship wouldn't change. And they will be fighting more. But it was painful for her not to be with him, she miss him so much.

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The next morning, the van drove past a sign saying 'New Grumpson' before Diego stopped the van by a phone booth and they all got out so Natasha could call someone that could check if either Sy or Jennifer lived in the town.

Natasha tended the call before she turned to the family "No Sy Grossman listed. No Jennifer Grossman either" she told them.

"Well, we'll have a look around. If she's here, we'll find her" Allison said "This is why you do recon, asshole" Ben said and the others look at him "Recon? Why are you saying 'Recon'? We're not the A-Team" Viktor said "Oh really? Shit. You fooled me" Ben said sarcastically.

"Are least we still have a team" Diego said "What's that supposed to mean?" Ben asked and Diego grabbed Ben's collar.

"Okay, everybody. Look over here and smile" Luther smiled as he was holding up a small camera as everyone turned to look at him.

"What?" Allison asked "No" Viktor said "Smile!" Luther said and Diego wrapped an arm around Ben who leaned his head on his shoulder while smiling. Lila covered her eyes with her hands while Viktor touch his forehead. Both Natasha and Five looked annoying while Zach raise a brow as Luther took a picture of them.

"You know what? Screw this" Ben got away from Diego as soon as Luther have taken the picture "One or two of you are fine. But all of you together? You're a bunch of drooling stunted toddlers. I'm going back to my penthouse downtown" Ben started walking away from the group.

"Ben, that penthouse belong to the federal government now" Luther said "Shut the hell up, Luther" Ben said as he walked away "All right" Luther respond.

As Ben walked away one of his tentacles came out which cause the other to stifle snickering while giggling "Aw. Poor Ben-arino" Klaus said "We're better off without him!" Diego said as he was standing behind the van, putting his holster with knives on him.

"He's right" Viktor said "All right, everyone. Let's split up and look for this girl" Luther said while Diego was putting his belt with the knives which cause the belt to start straining cause Diego have put some weight on since the last time he had the holster on.

"Let's be discreet. If you find her or the dry cleaner guy, don't do anything on your own" Luther said "I can't feel my legs" Diego said "Let's wait for the team" Luther said.

"Oh, sweet Jesus" Zach said as they saw Diego came back and Natasha and Zach tried to hold their laugh "Like a glove" Diego said "Sure. Like OJ's glove" Lila said sarcastically.

"Diego, you look ridiculous in those, you can't fit that anymore, it squeeze you a certain place so you got frog's eyes" Natasha said which made Five and Zach to chuckled  "She is right Sweety" Lila said to her husband. 

"Here" Diego threw the keys to Klaus but instead of catching them he jump back "You're in charge of Wanda. Don't go anywhere without us" Diego told him and the others started walking away.

"You do realize you're waddling? Yeah" Allison asked Diego who was waddling because his clothes was too tight "Yeah. Just trying to walk like you" Diego said "Hey" Allison gave him a small kick "Guys stop. Let's just find this Jennifer and get out of here" Natasha said "Use one of those knives...." Luther said "Good luck. Don't get killed" Klaus said as he stayed behind.

As Natasha and the others enter the town, they started splitting up, Luther, Viktor and Allison went down the street while, Natasha, Zach, Five, Lila and Diego went to the place where a carousel was.

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A group of people were signing a Christmas carol while Diego was thorwing axes as a target and he hit right in the middle.

He looked at Lila who was standing next him holding a cup of coffee.

Then while looking at Lila, Diego threw another axe, hitting right in the middle again. But Lila just kept looking at him annoying before rolling her eyes.

Diego covered his eyes before throwing the last axe toward the target and hit in the middle again.

He then pointed at another stuff reindeer wearing a red Christmas shirt.

The guy by the target grab the reindeer before giving it to Diego who already had two "All right. I got Grace and the twins covered" Diego put the reindeer with the other two that he was holding with his left arm "You want one?" he looked at his wife "No, thanks" she said before walking away.

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