(y/n) - your name

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I groan softly as I drift in and out of consciousness, too tired to wake up and my body was trying to get me to go to sleep again but voices whispered above me.

"Is she ok?"

"I hope so..."

I felt someone run their fingers through my hair lovingly, their fingers stroking my cheek.

"I don't like you boy but you look after her. I quite like the young missus."

"I swear to look after her, swear to care for her for the rest of my life. I want her to be ok again, I need her to be ok again..."

"Good. I may be an old man but this old man knows when he sees sincerity. She's good to you, you however..."

"I don't deserve her..."

"I agree, but you love her deeply, more than I have seen any man love their partner through my years."

"Cinco! Oh hi Chet!"

"Klaus shut up! You're gonna wake her up!"

"Oops sorry! Just came back to check on crazy. She still asleep?"

"I hope so. She needs her rest badly. She's been out cold for a whole day."

"What!? And you just slept on the couch here with her Five!?"

"I couldn't bear to move her from my lap. Plus I think sleeping in the public here is helping her ease her fears I think."

"You lot are loud..." I huff softly and I immediately feel hands shush me and others cover my eyes. "Ok hands off." I shake them off, blinking my eyes open to see Five frowning softly with worry in his eyes as his thumb brushed over my cheek. "Hey..."

"Hey..." he whispers, his fingers gently massaging my head. Oh loved that feeling. "I'm fine, there's no pain."

"Are you sure?" He helps me sit up from his lap, guiding my head to rest in his shoulder. "You're not hurting anywhere?" He squeezes my waist lightly, moving to hold my jaw to have me look at him and I nod.

"Yeah, I feel better actually."

"No nightmares? You slept ok?" Five asks and I nod, feeling warm from how caring he is right now.

"I promise you Five, no nightmares." I whisper against his neck and I see his lips curl up into a smile as he kisses my forehead and brushes my hair back. "You're still here so obviously I didn't try to stab you."

"And she ruins it." My boyfriend chuckles, pressing a light kiss on my jaw.

"Yay! My crazy is ok! Let's go see dad now!"

"Klaus, I love your enthusiasm but fuck, I need to eat something first." I groan as I climb off my loveable assassins arms to stand up straight. I stretched my arms up with a yawn, flushing when I feel Five stand up behind me to hold my waist.

"We'll meet you outside Klaus."

"But-" the last thing I see is his pout before his brother teleports us away back to my room.

"That was mean of you to do that." I muse softly as my boyfriend presses a light kiss on my neck as he hugged me from behind.

"Like you said, you needed to eat first," he whispers in my ear, kissing my jaw. "And maybe I could help you with that shower."

I gasp and smack his arms lightly. "Oi, you horndog!"

He chuckles. "I'm only joking (y/n). I'm glad you're ok now." He presses one last kiss on my cheek before stepping back from me and I turn to look at him. "But seriously, I'm staying here in case you need anything ok." I nod at his words and he sighs before pulling me into a hug. He held me like he had been scared to lose me and I hug him back tightly.

"Ok, let me go brush my teeth and all." He nods and lets me go, sitting on my bed to grab a change of clothes and a towel before I walk into the bathroom to freshen up. I brush my teeth and then strip for the shower, doing a deep clean before coming back out, drying off and wearing my fresh clothes. I walk back out to see Five buttoning up his white shirt and I notice that his hair was wet so he probably took a quick refresher too. I smile and walk up to him to dry off his hair with a towel, him smiling down at me sweetly. I press a kiss on his chest before he finishes buttoning up his shirt.

I don't know why I felt so affectionate right now with him but I knew he didn't mind it since he pecks my nose in response. I step away to put the towels in chairs to dry off, putting on my shoes and sitting down next to my boyfriend as he fixes his cuff links and his vest before putting on his blazer. We sit frog ether for just a moment, a single moment of peace and quiet as I leans against him and he pats my knee softly. I sigh out heavily, not wanting to move away from the quiet, I just wanted to stay like this with him.

No ghosts, no fighting, no time dilemma.

"I know you don't want to go sweetheart." He kisses the top of my head. "But at least come with me downstairs to eat something." He mumbles into my hair and I nod. "That's my good girl. Up we go." He stands up and pulls me up gently by my hand, entwining our fingers together and not letting me go as we teleported down to the buffet area.

My boyfriend lets me go and watches as I take a plate and fill it with stuff I wanted to eat, getting some coffee but he quickly teleports to me and takes it away. "Five-"

"-no, not again." He frowns and hands me a cup of my favourite tea instead. He takes me back to the couch and we both eat gradually, taking our time. He waited for me to finish as he rubbed my back. "Ready to go?"

"I guess. Klaus probably has been waiting outside for so long now."

"We can keep him waiting for more." Five shrugs, pulling me back to have me lay in his chest but I chuckle and shake my head.

"Nope. Come on, let's go. Don't be an ass to your brother."

"Alright fine. Only cause you asked, my sweet girl." He winks at me as he stands up, the both of us walking out of the hotel and onto the pathway of New York.

Five held my waist tightly and I tried to look for Klaus. "Where is that man?" I mutter, looking down the road to see a car speeding before it halted with a sharp break in front of us. I blink when the lanky man-child sticks his head out and pulls down his sunglasses to look at us.

"Get in losers! We're going dad hunting!" I laugh softly in amusement, Five leading me to the car with his hand on the small of my back. We get in and Klaus speeds off. "So crazy. Explain the whole possession situation."

I lean back in the car and just sigh in exhaustion. "Ok so I killed my doppelgänger from this timeline and now her ghost wants my body." I start going on a rant and explaining everything to Klaus.

About the explosion that I caused, about accidentally killing my Doppel from this timeline cause of a secret 8th symptom of Paradox Psychosis that Reggie explained, about our atoms colliding and all that science shit. Klaus struggled to wrap his head around it all and I don't blame him. All we knew was that my Doppel was out to get me for killing Her and she wanted my body. She was furious, I knew that. And I knew she wanted to hurt a lot of people. Who, I didn't know.

"That's... well damn, that's crazy, Crazy." Klaus mutters as he drove the car.

"Are you ok?" Five whispers as I rubbed my arms, him moving to grab hold of my hand and entwining his fingers with mine.

I move to take my hand away but he squeezes it. "Five you shouldn't-"

"-I'm always going to choose you. Nothing will take me away from you. Especially not that bitch trying to stab me." I look at him as he furrowed his brows, completely serious and that made me worried for him. "You're everything to me... I'm not losing you." I lean my head against his shoulder as he hugs me, planting a soft kiss on the back of my hand he was holding.

"Let's change the subject-Oh I know! Diego has a kid!"

"What!?" I gasp as I look at Klaus in absolute shock. "Since when!?" I look at Five to see if it was true and he nods. "How!? When!? With who!?"

"Lila's here and apparently just dropped him off with Diego before bolting." my boyfriend shrugs and I gawk at him at the fact Lila was here and that Diego legit has a son!

"I don't much care for that one." Klaus says.

"Well technically, she's family." I raise a brow at my boyfriend's words.

"She was trying to murder us, all of us." I cross my arms.

"Like yesterday!" Klaus agrees with me and I give him a so-so.

"It's been longer than yesterday Dallas time Klaus. Did you forget?"

"Anyway, like I said, 'family'." Five chuckles after my comment. Klaus opens his mouth to say something but nods, agreeing with his brother.

"Man they do it once and don't even bother to wear protection. Thought they were smarter than that-"

"-(y/n), we didn't..." my boyfriend whispers in my ear nervously when he thought about that night, slightly panicked when his brothers words click.

"Oh! Got an implant. Hurt like a fucking bitch but we're good." I mumble back with a reassuring smile and he relaxed against the car and so do I. "So who does the kid look like? More like Diego or Lila?"

"Definitely got Diego's eyes and attitude. I think?" Klaus mumbles out like he wasn't sure and I raise a brow at him.

"How old is your nephew?" I ask and both boys shrug. "Oh my god, you guys really need to start bonding with the family." I sigh out.

"So, how are we sneaking in home to see dad?" Klaus asks to change the topic and I shrug, looking at Five.

"Figured you could jump us in?" I ask and he raises a brow at me.

"As idiotic and as half-baked this plan is, I see that we have no other choice. We need answers so we're going to say hi to dad."

"Let's hope the Sparrows don't catch us." I sigh out as I look out the window.

"I have a good way of sneaking in without being noticed but I'm not sure if you're going to like it. Involves... swimming through sewage-"

"-fuck no Klaus!" I grimace and he chuckles, speeding down the road to park the car a couple of blocks away from their old house.

"And we're here my lovelies! Home sweet home! If it wasn't riddled with birdbrains." I ignore Klaus and take my seatbelt off as Five does the same.

"Ready?" I ask him and he nods, squeezing my hand.

"Let's hope his office is still where it is." Five sighs out and I close my eyes as a flash of blue envelops us. I quickly open my eyes as my feet hit the floor, rapidly looking around and making sure She wasn't around.

"What are you two doing here!?" Reginald narrows his eyes on us as he gets up from his couch the second he sees us teleport in front of him, his tiny TV playing some old show. "You both-"

"-shut it." I hiss lowly and both men look at me in surprise. "I have had enough of your backstabbing lies so for once, tell me the fucking truth to my questions. Or I reveal to the whole world who you are. I'm sure you don't want the government coming for your ass to experiment on you." I seethe and Reginald grinds his jaw before nodding, gracing us to have a seat on the couch but I don't move. I was tired and mad and I just wanted answers.

"What did you want to know?"

"Why is my Doppel haunting me. She died so why is her ghost out to possess my body and hurt the ones I love?" I just throw the situation out, not beating around the bush and Reginald goes rigid.

"That's not possible..." he mumbles out, almost in fear.

"Don't keep things from me! What's going on!?" I exclaim and Five holds my shoulders gently to try and calm me down.

"It's true about the end result of the 8th symptom of Paradox Psychosis in your case only. The two of you would've been erased to try and balance the timeline but since your Doppel passed away, there should be no issues."

"But?" I urge on knowing there was a 'but' and Reginald rubs his chin.

"It's possible but only in theory, for it to actually happen-"

"-spit it out old man." Five snaps.

"The collision between you two should create a neutral force like protons and electrons colliding to create nuetrons. But if what you say is correct, the collision you two created was negative. She never was erased. The timeline hasn't balanced you both so now your Doppel as the negative force will try to take your body as her own."

"That doesn't make sense! None of this does! That's not science!" I pace the floor, running my fingers through my hair as I avoid looking at the mirrors in the room.

"Maybe not-" everyone freezes when they hear footsteps and Five grabs me to hide us both behind a wall, him leaning over me with my back against the wall while he peered over the corner.

"It's num num time dad." Jayme and Alfonso walk into the room with a bowl and some pills? I watch in confusion at the scenario that was playing out right in front of us.

The fuck...?

"Must I take these children?" Reginald sighs and I watch in surprise that he was being ordered around by the Sparrows, forced to take some strange pills.

Damn Reginald, what happened to you!?

You're being bossed around by the kids here!

"Good, eat it all up and we won't have a problem." Alfonso says and Five tugs me away from the wall to blink away but I shake my head, him narrowing his eyes at me.

"Not yet..." I whisper and he shakes his head.

"It's not safe, we need to go." He whispers in my ear but I hold his arms, hoping that he understood that I needed to stay and ask more questions. He frowns down at me and nods in defeat with a soft sigh, caressing my cheek before the both of us turn to watch the Sparrows leave. We both wait, the kids soon taking Reginald out from his room for his daily walk like a domestic animal and we slowly creep back out after a couple minutes once the door closes.

"Keep an eye out." I whisper and Five nods, standing by the doorway as I ransacked through Reginald's stuff on his desk but making sure to put everything away where it was. He had papers and books of gibberish on his desk and in his draw until I checked the bottom one. There was a single small leather-bound book in the drawer and I quickly take it out, flipping through the pages. "Holy shit..." it was a journal of the Sparrows growth and improvement of using their powers, ordering from 1-7- "Number 8?" I read out, confused at there being an eight super kid. "He adopted 8 in this timeline!?" I gasp out, scanning the page when I freeze.

"(y/n), we need to go! They're coming back!" Five urges me and I quickly take pictures of the pages with my phone, putting the journal back where I found it and cleaning the table as to how it was when my sweet assassin blinks back to me and grabs my waist to blink us back into the car where Klaus was sleeping.

"Klaus! Drive!" I slam my hand against the chair and he jolts awake, scrambling to pull away from the curb and racing back to the hotel.

"That was a close call!" Klaus laughs out as all three of us walk into the hotel and I go straight for the water jug, filling a cup and downing it to try and ease the nervousness and shakiness in my body.

"Yeah... close call..." I sigh out, pinching the bridge of my nose when I feel a slight headache hitting me but it eases immediately when I feel Five hug me from behind, kissing my shoulder and I rest back in his arms with a soft sigh. I knew he was worried for me from the way he squeezes me, holding my chin to turn my face to look at him. "I don't know what to think anymore Five... about any of this." I whisper to him. "About what's going on anymore... I just wanted peace for our family... I just wanted you all to be happy." I mutter and he holds me tightly, as if to protect me.

He kisses my neck sweetly before whispering. "We are, we will be. This... we just need to figure out how to keep you safe from this thing and we can be free." I smile softly as my sweet assassin turns me around, him smiling down at me in assurance and holding my chin to lean down to kiss me softly. I grab his hat from his head and block us from view as we kissed, him smirking against my lips at the action as he leaned back to peck my nose.

I felt much more at ease now as he brushes his fingers across my jaw and neck while he peppered kisses against my cheek. "I need a drink, what about you?" I ask, putting on Five's hat and he chuckles softly as he pulls back.

"Do you even have to ask?" He steals one last quick kiss from me before taking me to the bar with a hand around my waist, making some margaritas for us both and going to sit down with Klaus at one of the high top tables when Diego walks up to us with a kid.

"I have been looking for you three everywhere!" he hissed out and I lean over to the side to take a look at what was Diego's supposed son.

I turn to my boyfriend who does the same and we both give each other a knowing look. "Yeah, Diego that's not your kid." I point out as I drink my margarita and the little boy gawks at me.

"What!? Of course, he is! Lila said-"

"-have you seen this kid? He's a pasty white child while you are Hispanic and Lila is South Asian. Boi has no melanin like his parents!" everyone slowly turns to look at the kid, actually taking a proper look at him, my sweet assassin muffling his laughter against my shoulder.

"You know, crazy is kinda right." Klaus pipes up and Diego defends Lila and this strange kid.

"Lila wouldn't lie to me. If she says it's my kid, then he's mine. No matter how much of an ass he is." I slap my hand over Five's mouth before he could say anything else to his brother who's a foster dad now.

"I wanna see how long it takes for Diego to realise. I think this might be a good way to show himself that he can be a good dad." I whisper and my boyfriend raises a brow at me, feeling him smirk against my hand. "Do not lick me." I quickly pull my hand away and he chuckles, taking my hand back to kiss my palm.

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