(y/n) - your name

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He Doesn't Need Anyone Else But You.

Stop it!

Make Sure No One Else Gets Close To Him.

STOP IT!

I stumbled down the hallway trying to get to Five as quick as possible, trying to ward off the voices. I needed him to shut them out, to make them disappear. I just needed him.

He could make them go away.

I shake my head and walk to the showers where he was probably at by now to talk to Lila.

Why Is He Going To See Her?

I hear talking the closer I get and I recognise it as Five and Lila talking.

Why Did He Not wait Until She Was Out Of The Shower!?

Burning rage suddenly flamed through me from the sudden thought, everything becoming hot. I was mad, but I didn't know why, sneering with jealousy as I heard the two talking.

I grip the corner of a wall before I had to turn the corner to balance my stumbling, everything suddenly feeling heavy and sticky. I was boiling from possessiveness, ignoring the cracking of the wall as I walk closer to the showers and had a clear hearing of the conversation.

Did this little shit literally walk into the woman's bathroom!?

"The hell are you doing in here?" Five asks.

"Shaving my nest, you little perv." I could hear water sloshing so I figured she was in the bath if she could speak so clearly untroubled.

And that makes me furious.

"Don't flatter yourself, Lila. I already have someone that I love." Five scoffs.

"Oh my god did you finally confess to (y/n)!?"

Lila... sounded excited?

"It doesn't concern you... but yes, I did."

My entire body softens, that boil rage simmering away. I felt at ease now as I continued to listen to Five, smiling softly from the sound of his voice and the fact that the thoughts quietened down.

"And we have been together for a while now."

"Finally! I've been trying to pin you two together in Dallas!"

The sweet moment gets ruined again when I hear water sloshing and I remembered that my boyfriend was in the women's bathroom, talking to his enemy while she was fucking naked. I open the door to scold at him when something suddenly flies towards me and I quickly duck, looking behind me to see a knife lodged into the wall.

"Sorry (y/n)!" Lila calls out when she and Five start fighting, literally while her being butt naked.

"Yeah, I'm not dealing with this." I stare down the little assassin. "Five." I sneer and my tone quickly catches his attention as I glare at him.

"Yes, sweetheart!?" Five answers while he narrowly dodges Lila stabbing him with the knife she teleported behind me to grab from the wall.

"Your ass is on the line after seeing another woman naked!" I seethe and he looks at me in horror, quickly apologising to me but I slam the door closed in his face to let the two finish duking it out.

I wait for a few minutes outside the door for the grunting and pained groans stop, leaning against the wall with my arms crossed. I was still mad, still annoyed and those feelings from earlier weren't helping at all.

It becomes quiet inside and I open the door to see Five sitting on the edge of the bathtub with a busted lip and bruised skin while Lila was the same. "All right, enough!" She grunts in pain. "I'd forgotten how much I hate you, you puny little turd."

"The feeling's mutual, Lila." Five pants as he hisses in pain. "As much as I'd love to stand here shoving each other, I have bigger concerns than you."

I grind my jaw as I watch Lila finally pick up a towel to cover herself. "Thanks for finally covering yourself up." I roll my eyes at Lila who gives me a sheepish smile while I was glaring at Five. "I get it that you made a promise that the next time you see Lila, you would kill her, but for fucks sake there's a time and place where one half of the party isn't naked!"

"(y/n), I'm sorry-"

"-not going to happen Five Hargreeves." Lila grimaces as I snap at him, looking back at her now. "What do you know about the grandfather paradox?"

"Well, I read the same training manuals as he did." Lila answers as she nods over to Five. "Why?" She asks me.

"Because it's happening." I answer and her eyes widen.

"You're not serious are you?" Lila glances at both of us who stay quiet. "Shit..."

"Hand over your briefcase. I need to go to Herb and find out how he let things get so cocked up." Five grits out as he stands up from the bathtub.

"Over there with my knickers. Toss them to me, will you?" I stare down at Five when he makes a move but he quickly steps away instead as I go to Lila's clothes and toss them to her.

"Lila, why the fuck do you have two suitcases? I remember you only stealing one from the battle in Dallas." I ask when I see them both and Five quickly walks over to me as I pick them up and set them down on the edge of the bathtub.

"One's yours. Nicked it from the Sparrows. Go on. Give it a go." Lila says and Five takes his suitcase, opening it up. "First we try yours." The machinery inside sputters and sparks, glowing red before burning out and Five frantically takes Lilas suitcase from my hands. "And then we try mine." her suitcase does the same thing. "Yeah..."

"This can't be happening. The odds of one of them failing, it's in the millions. But two of them..." Five mutters out.

"Astronomical. Yeah."

"So, what does that mean exactly? End of the world?" I ask and the two ex-Commissioners look at me.

"Oh, it's much worse than that." Five sighs out. "It means Lila and I are gonna have to work together." He grinds his jaw as he sets the suitcase down and Lila grimaces in disgust.

"Shit..."

"Ok, you change." I point to Lila and she stands up to take the towel off. "Oi! Not in front of my boyfriend for fucks sake!" I snap at her quickly she chuckles sheepishly at me as I grab Five by the shirt to drag him away while he quickly grabs the suitcases, taking him outside the showers and d as jamming the door shut.

"(y/n) we hate each other-"

"-I don't care about that! You fought her! While she was naked! You saw her!" I snap at him.

"Her body means nothing to me." Five sets the suitcase down as he steps towards me but I turn away with my arms crossed.

"You didn't even leave when you saw her in the tub! Or wait for her to, I don't know, get dressed first before you two started fucking butting heads!" I throw my hands up in the air, absolutely pissed off.

"(y/n), you're the only one I want, I swear it." Five says but I huff. "I'm sorry, you're right. I should've waited for her to be dressed first before we fought. I was so wrapped up in my head to try and solve the paradox quickly without thinking about hurting you."

"It's common sense Five! You see someone naked in the showers, you leave! Hell, you knew she was in the showers and didn't even wait for her to come out!" I turn around frowning at him and he looks down at his shoes in guilt when Lila comes out. "And you!" she jumps as I snap at her. "Do you not have the fucking decency to tell someone off to leave the showers or even get dressed before starting a fucking fight with them!?"

"I-"

"-you should've told Five to leave Lila! Or tell him that you would meet up with him later!" I yell at her, cutting her off and the two look away in guilt.

"Lila! You need to take this kid with you-ok what is going on here?" Diego rounded the corner to see me scolding his girlfriend and his brother.

"Nothing." I hiss at the two of them, walking away. "These two are going to go try and stop the end of the world and I'm going to go get a fucking drink before I break something over Five's head." I shove past Diego who flinches away from me.

"What did you two do to her!?" Knife boy snaps at Five and Lila as I get into the elevator once the doors open, heading down to the foyer. I was fuming, absolutely furious. I know that Five and Lila have not one ounce of respect or mutual feeling towards each other but it made me so angry that they didn't even have common decency!

I storm out of the elevator once I reach the foyer, going to the bar to grab a bottle of soju, a jug, straw and yakult to make my alcoholic pint. I pour everything into the jug and mix it, drinking from a curly straw and walking back to the siblings who were still talking.

"Now those Sparrow psychopaths think we took their Number One. We're never getting the briefcase back." Allison speaks up and I look over to see her, Viktor and Luther speaking.

"Nice of you to finally show up Luther." I take a giant swig of my alcoholic mix. "Five has the suitcase from the Sparrows but it's broken and he's trying to fix it. Do whatever the fuck you want with that information." they all gawk at me as I walk away, heading outside to get some fresh air when I suddenly feel hands grab me by my arms.

"Sorry (y/n)." Viktor chuckles nervously when he holds one of my arms while Allison holds the other, dragging me away to a car.

"Put me down! What are you doing!?"

"I have no purpose of being here. Why am I here?" I sigh out, sitting down on the edge of the fountain in the Sparrows backyard where Ben's statue would've been if this had been the normal timeline.

I miss that Ben...

Viktor and Allison just brought me to the handoff with the Sparrows for some reason. "Is no one going to answer me?" I was in a very foul mood, swirling my drink in the glass jug that I still had with me..

"I know we should've asked you first but we were hoping you could somehow convince Ben?" Viktor asks and I stiffen immediately.

"No." I quickly stand up but Allison blocks my way and I turn to Viktor.

"(Y/n) please-"

"-no! I don't want to be near him!" I exclaim, cutting Viktor off. I was scared of what Ben might do and I was starting to panic.

Why was I panicking all of a sudden?

Where did this sudden fear come from?

Why was I shaking so much?

"Nothing is going to happen to you. We swear." Viktor holds my shoulders gently, narrowing his eyes at Allison. "Right Allison?"She nods wordlessly but that doesn't ease my worry. "Please (y/n)?"

"... ok fine but what do I say? How exactly am I going to convince them? Also, convince them of what?"

"That we don't have Marcus. They think we kidnapped him but he might have disappeared cause of the grandfather paradox." Viktor answers me and I look at him in confusion. "Luther told us that people started disappearing and it might be because of the paradox. Marcus might have been... one of those to disappear."

"Holy shit..." I look at Viktor in shock. "It's gotten worse... shut it got worse so much quicker!"

"That's why we have to convince them we don't have their brother!" Viktor explains. "That we never took him in the first place!"

"And what about the paradox!? We need to tell them the truth!" I exclaim.

"They won't believe us!" Allison says and I raise a brow at her.

"They still deserve to know even if they don't believe us. Their brother is technically dead!" I snap at her.

"Shush (y/n)!" Viktor looks around nervously as if he was worried they might hear us. "Just try." I purse my lips and just nod, all three of us waiting for the sparrows to join us.

I was getting anxious, gripping my arms tight and becoming skittish as every little sound ticks me off. I was terrified they She might show up again, holding my ground as best as I could when I see Ben and Fei approaching us.

Where's Sloane?

I was looking around for her, hoping she would be here to help me but she wasn't. But I was glad Jayme wasn't here either. I notice Ben staring at me and I felt cold shivers run down my spine and I hide behind Viktor, Fei raising a brow at me as she speaks up. "I don't know if you both are blind but she is obviously not Marcus."

"Duh, I don't have a dick." I mutter out to myself, keeping an eye on Ben but he just keeps his eyes on me as both families argue. Fei and Allison were at each other, both of them in bitchy moods apparently.

"Where's the rest of your pathetic family?"

"Aww. Is that the best you can do?"

"Last warning."

"Yeah, you don't get to warn me about shit, Flock of She-Gulls." Ben snickers but quickly shuts up when Fei glares at him.

"Whatever. Where the fսck is Marcus?" Ben clears his throat and Viktor stutters, trying to tell him what happened to his brother but Allison scoffs and cuts him off.

"Safe. For now. But that'll change real quick if you don't do exactly as we say." Viktor and I look at Allison quickly when she blatantly just lied.

"See? I told you they have him." Fei hisses to Ben.

"I warned Marcus, but no. He said we had to hear what you had to say." Ben glares at Allison and Viktor, avoiding me.

"Look, he wasn't wrong, okay? We want to make things right with you-" Viktor tries to speak to the Sparrows in a civil way but they weren't having it.

"-by kidnapping our brother!?" Ben snaps.

"No, that's-"

"-yes." Allison cuts Viktor off and I scoff.

"Jesus fucking christ Allison!" I step out from behind Viktor, growing annoyed with her for not being able to be fucking civil for once and trying to work with the other heroes to try and get us out of the grandfather paradox mess!

She had to lie!

Had to make things fucking worse!

Does she have nothing better to do then besides making it that much more difficult to get out of our inevitable death situation!?

"You and your fucking attitude! Just tell the fucking truth for once!" I throw my hands in the air and she glares at me.

"(y/n) don't you dare-"

"-We don't have your brother! If you haven't noticed, people are missing left and right from New York and we figured the same thing must've happened to Marcus!" I quickly dodge Allison when she was about to grab me, her gritting her teeth in annoyance when I tell the truth to Fei and Ben as I stood in front of them.

"You shouldn't have brought her here! I knew it was a bad idea!" Allison goes off Viktor and I shove her away from him.

"Don't you fucking dare mouth off to Viktor." I hiss out and she glares at me.

"Or what!? What are you going to do? Make things worse!? That's all you have been doing!" I growl lowly as I throw the glass jug at the wall behind her head and she flinches as the glass shatters near her head. I was panting hard from how fucking mad I was, my vision darkening as I grind my jaw.

"Use your fucking head! We have the suitcase, there is no need to fight with the Sparrows. We should be asking them for help!" I yell out and my head twitches as I hear the whispering in my ears again. I stumble back as I panic, not picking up on the words Allison was yelling at me as I felt piercing pain sink through my head like claws sinking in.

No! NO!

I hyperventilate when I see the dark vines consuming my arms, gripping my head as I scream out in pain. "What the fuck is happening to her!?" Fei exclaims in disgust, standing back and getting ready to fight me but Ben had a more worried look in his eyes.

"(y/n)!? What's wrong!?" Viktor grabs my shoulder but I throw his arms off me.

"Don't touch me!" I scream out in fear. Fear of hurting him, of letting him know what was going on with me.

All I could hear was Her cackling all around me, telling me to give in to the anger. There was this burning heat that built inside me and it hurt, it hurt so much! I felt like I was burning alive inside! I just needed the pain to go away!

"(y/n)!"

I shriek loudly, a shrill pitch echoing as a blast of darkness erupts from around me, the academy kids flying back from the impact as I panted. I tried to keep in control but I was slipping away, I could feel myself tipping backwards while my visioned darkened. The darkness seeped out from my body, dripping down my arms and bubbled around me from the puddle surrounding my feet.

"(y/n)..." I look over at Viktor who looked at me with wide fearful eyes as he struggled to get up from the floor, huffing in pain since he collided against a wall.

No...

I tear up, the pain of knowing that I had hurt him was my tipping point and I fall backwards into the darkness, succumbing to it.

I open my eyes as I rise up from the darkness, turning to look at my so called siblings with a wicked smile. I stare at my sister, grinning with sharp canines when she recognises me. "Number 8... It can't be..." she stumbles back in fear.

"Hello, Number 3, My Dear Sister." I stretch my claws out in relief.

"You died! You..." Number 3 and Ben scramble back up on their feet from the floor as I raise my arms, tilting my head at them with a smirk.

"Did You Forget? I Crawled Out From Hell. That's What You Have Always Told Me Sister. Didn't You? That I Came From Hell. A Monster." I sneer wickedly, Number 3 summoning her crows that fly out from her back. "Your Pests Won't Help You." the darkness that pooled around my feet bubble and rise up to form vines, sharpening into stiff spikes as they hovered behind me.

They point straight at the Sparrows, Ben summoning his tentacles and that makes me flinch in fear of him, snarling at them both and flicking my wrists. The spikes zoom through the air and pierce through the crows in a blink of an eye but I hiss when pain shoots through the back of my head and I blackout.

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