CHAPTER TWELVE:
THE WAR

Five and Luther were sitting in Diego's room. Five on the bed and Luther in front of him on a chair.

"When's it supposed to happen?" Luther asked, "This apocalypse."

"I can't give you the exact hour, but from what I could gather, we have four days left."

"Why didn't you say something sooner?"

"It wouldn't have mattered."

"Of course it would." Luther argued, "We could've banded together and helped you

try to stop this thing."

"For the record, you already tried." Five said softly.

"What do you mean?" Luther asked curiously.

there was a long silence. and then Five finally answered.

"I found all of you." He then whispered, "Your bodies."

"We die?" Luther was shocked and it could be detected from his tone.

Five was quiet like he was remembering something.

"Horribly. You were together, trying to stop whoever it was that ends the world."

"Wait, how do you know that?"

Five took out an eyeball from his jacket, "This was clutched in your dead hand when I found you." He then added, "Must've ripped it out of their head right before you went down."

"Whose head?" Luther asked as he examined the eyeball.

"Like I said, I don't know."

"Well, there's a serial number on the back." Luther tried to be helpfull, "Think maybe you could try-"

"No, that's a dead end." Five interrupted and let out a light chuckle., "It's just another hunk of glass."

He then turned serious, "There's something else."

Luther looked up from the eyeball, "What?"

Five wetted his lips, "I- You know how when I came back I was surprised that Alex was dead?"

Luther set the eyeball aside and fully looked at Five, "But you knew that Ben was dead."

Five nodded, "Exactly. I found Vanya's book in the library, the one she left for Dad. I read it and found out about Ben but there was nothing on Alex."

"Yeah, it was weird that she said nothing of him, They were close after all. she was almost as bad as Klaus when he died."

Five leaned closer, "That's the thing. When I found the bodies,"

He took a deep breathe, "I found Alex."

Luther went still, "What?"

"I was looking for you all, and then I found Klaus. He was looking at something and that thing was Alex's dead body a few feet away from him."

"But Alex's dead!" Luther argued.

"Well that's the thing, in the future, he wasn't."

And then the door opened with a bang and a furious Diego came inside.

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Alex landed somewhere, on his face. He groaned and rolled onto his back.

"Ouch!"

"Alex!" Came a very happy voice from his left. He turned to see Klaus- a very naked Klaus with only a towel and a jacket to cover himself and let's not forget the dam briefcase.

He smiled like a teenager, "Hi."

Klaus laughed, "Hey."

They were still looking at each other when they heard someone clearing their throat. They both turned and saw a man sitting on his bed and staring at them in shock.

The man stared at them, and the duo stared back.

That's until another man came in the room- now Alex noticed that there were other beds- and started to shout making every man wake up and start dressing.

And that's how they ended up in Vietnam.

Klaus and Alex were handed clothes and forced to serve in the war.

And they did.

The man that was staring at them earlier later found them again in the van they were all in.

Klaus was sitting next to Alex and holding his hand, but the other couldn't see.

They still needed to talk about the whole being alive and lying for years. Klaus had the feeling that it would be more arguing than talking with tears and broken hearts. So as much as he wanted answers, he decided to wait till later, when there were lesser ears to listen and eyes to watch. He didn't know what the outcome would be. would they finally break up after years of being together -even though they stayed together when he thought that Alex was dead- or would they work it out and go back to normal, before Alex had died.

So for now, he would enjoy the physical contact that he couldn't have for years.

He turned his head and watched Alex for a moment. the uniform fitted him perfectly.
he opened his mouth to say something, probably something stupid, when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

he turned around and saw the guy from earlier. He smiled, "I'm Dave."

"Klaus and this is Alex." Klaus smiled back.

Alex looked at Dave sheepishly, "Sorry we woke you up."

Dave laughed, "No, it's fine. I wasn't actually sleeping."

Alex nudged Klaus with his elbow making him wince, "And I'm sorry that I was half naked."

Dave smiled, "no problem."

And that was the start of a new and beautiful friendship between the trio.

After they're official meeting in the van, they became closer and had each other's back in the war. Alex would go invisible from time to time and during that time, one of the enemy's bases was mysteriously burnt to dust.

Klaus didn't say anything but Alex could say that he knew from his smile.

Dave still didn't know about their relationship. They couldn't tell the man that they were siblings because they were not. they didn't share a mother or a father, and their adoptive father raised them like teammates rather than siblings. Their relationship, on the other hand, was another complicated thing. People in 2000's still couldn't accept the same gender couple. so they had no idea what to except in the past.

So they kept everything a secret and told Dave that they were cousins and best friends.

Dave never questioned a thing. He might have suspected stuff- Because no cousin and best friend would smile at the other like the other's presence made him full of joy and life- but he never said anything.

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Sup guys!

I had a hard week deciding on what to do with my babies.

Thank you all for helping me decide what to do. Without you all, it was all up to me and my friend. (who wanted Alex to stay in present time.)

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