chapter thirteen, episode five
the impossible.

ALMOST for an hour luther, five and bonnie have been in the car. Luther was driving, five was in the passenger seat, while Bonnie was in the back seat humming to songs.

Bonnie had her arms leaned against the middle and her head on her hands continuing to hum to the song she was singing. "tainted love." five muttered underneath his breath making Bonnie quickly look up at him with a confused face. "you're humming the song tainted love."

bonnie smiled at him nodding her head before going back to humming her song. Luther letting her hum and five listened to her hum and he could hear that she had the vocals to sing good, even if with her humming he heard it almost like an Angel.

he glanced down at her when she wasn't looking and he could never understand how this girl has such an affect on him. how ever since he saw her in the apocalypse he has always wondered and worried about the girl. when Diego and bonnie came back and Diego said that they tortured her, his heart dropped to his stomach. he felt his whole mind stop working and his breath became shallow.

he glanced away not wanting to get caught and this time it was Bonnie who turned her head over at him and her eyebrows frowned softly and the inner corner of her eyebrows lifting up as she stared at the boy in front of her. in such a small amount of time she has grown to tolerate the guy, she has learned to affect the fact that he is always grumpy, always demands thing and always wants thing his way. she has learned that she always feels different around five.

they always feel more free when they're with each other.

Luther stopped the car softly in the middle of nowhere and five sighed deeply. "you know, i never enjoyed it."

"what?" luther asked turning his head over to five holding the black suitcase in his lap.

"the killing." five said looking down at Bonnie and then at the front view, "i mean, i was - i was foot at my work, and i...i took pride in it but it never gave me pleasure."

bonnie made a downward smile as she crossed her arms in front of her and dropped her head down looking at five.

"i think it was all those years alone. solitude can do funny things to the mind." he glanced back down at bonnie who closed her eyes for a solid seconds before opening them back up and locking them with his, "now im not so alone."

"yeah, well, you were gone for such a long time. i only spent four years on the moon, but that was more than enough. it's the being alone that breaks you." Luther said understanding where five was coming from, every single word thay he said he understood it.

bonnie let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding lifting her self back and grabbed the black suitcase. "you think they're gonna buy it?"

five looked at the suitcase and then at bonnie, "well, what i do know is that they're desperate. it's like a cop losing his gun. if the commission finds out, they'll be in deep shit. oh, not to mention the fact that they'll be stuck here until they get it back."

"well, i should hold onto it." luther said grabbing it from Bonnie who send him a glare really hoping that luther could stop being a dick to her.

"hm?"

"I'm case they make a move on you or bonnie." luther said nodding his head at bonnie who took that as a point that he was slowly staring to warm up to her.

"okay, luther, but be careful." five said, "i mean, ive - I've lived a long life, but - you're still a young man. you got your whole life ahead of you. don't waste it."

he gave luther a soft smile and the man was too stunned to speak along with Bonnie who's mouth went wide open and once she stopped talking she burst into laughter dropping herself onto the back seat. Luther looked at her through the rear mirror and smiled finding the situation funny.

"you sound like a grandma, old man." Bonnie's laugh died down patting fives shoulder. "you want to give me some life advice next?"

five smiled sarcastically at her turning his body towards her, "yeah, sure. don't talk to much."

Bonnie's smiled dropped and she gave him a cold stone glare watching him turn back to the front and he let out a hum. "here we go." he said as the car started to approach them.

the trio got out of the car and went to stand on the middle of the road. when Bonnie noticed the two inside of the car her breath started to quicken and rapid flashbacks of that day flashed inside of her mind. she shook her head walking backwards wanting to get back inside of the car but five was quick to placed his hand behind her back to prevent her from bumping the car.

"you're okay, bonnie." five said his facial expression softening as he noticed the scared face of bonnie moore. "i won't let them hurt you." the arm that was behind her back trailed down to her hand and she intertwined them together.

this small act made them forget on how not even 10 minutes ago they made a snarky comments to each other. this small act of physical touch calmed down the girl who took a deep breath in and out nodding her head and closing her eyes.

"if this all goes sideways," five started to say looking over Bonnie's shoulder over to luther, "do me a favor and tell delores im sorry and take care of her." with the last statement bonnie didn't notice when he glanced down at her telling luther that, her, was Bonnie.

the car opened and shut, cha-cha and Hazel coming out of the car. five gave Bonnie's hand a tight squeeze before letting go and walked over to the two adults with masked. Bonnie closed her eyes walking over to luther and standing next to him.

they watched as five talked to them and then cha-cha stuck out a gun pointing it at five who stayed calmed the entire time. five talked to them a little longer before nodding his head briefly at them and then walking back over to luther and Bonnie.

Bonnie was quick to walk towards five who gave her a soft tiny smile and leaned against the car. "what happens now?" luther asks from behind Bonnie as they all glanced out towards cha-cha and Hazel.

"now we wait."

once five said that they heard a ice cream truck song far from the distance making them all confuse looking at the ice cream truck that was going to them in full speed. "is that her?" luther asked as the ice cream truck got closer and that was when they got a closer look to who was inside.

Klaus and Diego.

a part of Bonnie was happy to see them but the other part was worried that they might ruin what they have planned to save the world.

"what the hell is he doing here?" five gritted between his teeth. Bonnie eyes widen when hazel and cha-cha pointing their guns and then and started to shoot at them, at the truck and at the trio.

five was quick to pull Bonnie behind luther who stood in front of them holding his arms open to protect them both. then, in a matter of seconds, time stopped completely.

there was no more screams, no more gun shots, no more ice cream truck music. absolutely nothing. bonnie and five gave each other a confused look as they walked away from Luther's behind and started to walk around.

bonnie gave a little spin in awe as nothing was moving but she was still moving and breathing along with five. "neat trick, isn't it?" Bonnie's entire lungs and heart sunk down to the pit of her stomach as she stopped spinning around and slowly turned her body to face her.

the handler.

five jogged up to Bonnie standing in front of her protectively as the handler smiled at them. "hello, five." she said before glancing at bonnie, "hello, bonnie. long time no see."

"I wish it would be longer." bonnie snarled back at the handler who let out a chuckle finding it funny.

"you look good," she said now looking at five up and down, "all things considered." she was talking about the fact that he is back to his fifteen year old body.

"it's good to see you again," the handler said still talking to five, "feels like we met just yesterday. course, you were a little bit older then. congratulations on the age regression, by the way."

five scoffed nodding his head still in front of Bonnie who was giving the older women a nasty look.

"very clever. threw us all off the scent."

"ah, well, I wish I could take credit. i just miscalculated the time dilation projections, and - well, you know. here I am." five said with a tight smile opening up his arms.

"you realize your efforts are futile. so why don't you tell me what you really want so that I can tell you what I want." The handler said looking mischievously at Bonnie.

"I want you to put a stop to it." he says simply.

"you realize what you're asking for is next to impossible, even for me. what's meant to be is meant to be. that's our raison d'ētre." as she said that five moved his blazer to the side and grabbed the gun that was on his shorts and pointed it to her.

"oh boy." bonnie mumbled rolling her eyes and crossing her arms over her chest.

"yeah? well how about survival as a raison?"

"I'll just be replaced." the handler said shrugging her shoulders, "I'm but a - small cog in a machine." the handler dropped her arms to her back where she was holding the brief case and slowly walked towards them, "this fantasy you've been nurturing about summoning up your family to stop the apocalypse...is just that. a fantasy."

bonnie raised her eyebrows taking a small step back as she got closer to them. "I must say, though, we're all quite impressed with your initiative, your - stick-to-itiveness, really quite - quite something. which is why we want to offer you a new position back at the commission," she lifted her hand up as she created a pause with a huge suspense before saying, "in management."

"sorry, what's that now?" five asked with a dry chuckle.

"come back to work for us again. you know it's where you belong." the handler was now closer to them at gun point with five.

"well, it didn't work out too well the last time."

"but you wouldn't be in the correction division any longer and you won't be alone." the handler said a smirk appearing in her lips, "I'm talking about - the home office and you'll be working with our precious bonnie, if she says yes."

"No." she immediately said but the handler wasn't really paying attention to her.

"think about it, you'd have the best health and pension, and an end to this ceaseless travel. doing all that with the girl who you like the most." the handler said and bonnie wanted to say something but she was too slow, "you're a distinguished professional in - schoolboy shorts. we have the technology to reverse the process. i mean, you - you can't be happy like this."

the handler placed her hand on fives gun knowing that she hit a soft spot on five and she lowered it down. five blinked at the handler and shook his head, "I'm not looking for happy." and as he said this he placed his hand behind his back where the handler couldn't see and reached for Bonnie's hand.

the girl glanced down at his hand and placed hers ontop of his intertwining their fingers together. But the handler noticed this and smiled putting fives face, "we're all looking for happy. we can make that happen. we can make you," she glanced down at his body stepping away, "you again."

five sighed now dropping the hand with the gun down completely to his side. "and what about my family?"

"five." bonnie whispered to him, her eyebrows knitting together questioning herself if five was truly thinking about joining them.

"what about them?"

"I want them to survive." he deadpanned and the handler sighed looking over at luther and then over at Diego and Klaus.

"all of them?"

"yes, all of them."

"one more thing," the handler said swaying her body side to side before glancing over at Bonnie who still had her hand on his with her eyes glued on hers. "you choose if she comes or she stays."

she was playing a trick game. bonnie knew that the minute she arrived, she was going to make five choose knowing damn well that was gonna say that she stayed but since Bonnie has grown in a soft spot who knows what she would say.

the handler grinned stepping away from them and five was quickly to turn around and say, "you're staying." to Bonnie who scoffed and frowned her eyebrows.

"No."

"yes."

"No, five."

"yes, bonnie."

the two locked eyes and they were having a little staring contest to see who would win but five wasn't going to give up and bonnie was too stubborn to let five win.

"I'm going."

"No!" five immediately whispered shouting shaking his head quickly giving the handler a glance who was looking at her nails. "you stay here, I promise I'll be back."

bonnie laughed snatching her hand away from him since it was still on his and crossed her arms. "you are terribly funny, five." five groaned throwing his head back as Bonnie pointing a finger at him ,"I'm going with you!"

the two stayed silent until the handler made a ticking noise making Bonnie sigh. "look, five, let me go with. you don't have to be worried about me since I'll be stuck with you 24/7, you'll always keep an eye on me and I'll most likely annoy the living hell out of you." bonnie smiled softly at him as he was already starting to worry, "I can't let you do this alone."

alone was something that five has always had to deal with and now he has the opportunity to not be alone, to be with the girl who he knows he would never get tired of and he's afraid. he afraid that she'll leave and make him be alone again.

"a bonus point would be that we might actually make a good team." bonnie said and she felt accomplished when she saw his lips lift up a tiny bit before sighed deeply.

"she goes but she stays with me." the handler smirked in triumph stepping forward to them and quickly sticking out her hand at five.

"so," the handler said slowly, "do we have a deal?"

five let out a breath glancing down at her hand, "one thing." five walked away from them and started to do things with the guns, throwing it over somewhere else, he moved the bullet to where it won't hit luther and once he was satisfied he made his way over to them.

five grabbed Bonnie's hand tightly and then placed his free hand on the handlers shaking them and bonnie, as always, started to regret it.

anything for the boy you might like, right?

authors note
absolutely gonna love
writing them in season 2.