(y/n) - your name

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"Hey Five?"

"Yes, sweetheart?" I barely hear him as the wind whistled past us, his lips pressing against my cheek.

"What happened at the commission?" I feel Five's hands on my hips tighten on my hips and I furrow my brows at his response. "Five. What happened?" I push him but he was silent.

"Nothing-"

"-that's bullshit and you know it. Something else happened besides you meeting your 100-year-old self."

"(y/n) nothing-"

"-I'm going to park this bike on the side if you don't tell me what happened." when Five stays silent, I move the bike off the road and stop it, parking it as I turn around to face him. "Spill. Now." he sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. "From the beginning."

"Fine, fine. Long story short, I was the one that founded the Commission." I blink at Five before bursting out in laughter.

"Oh my fucking god! The fact that you hated the Commission your entire life to find out it was actually you who made it! The irony oh my god!" I take in a deep breath, calming down. "Ok, now I know there's something else."

"The whole Commission was wiped... The Kugelblitz somehow hit them and everyone was gone..."

"That's... how? They're outside of time though. Everyone... even Herb is gone...?" I mutter with a frown and Five nods. "That's why the suitcases stopped working..."

"When Lila and I met my old self, the bastard locked himself in a cell where it wouldn't be affected by time and he just talked in gibberish."

"But? I know there's a but."

"You're annoying you know that?" Five chuckles lightly and I smile at him but it falters seeing him look distant. "Look, I promise I'll tell you but not know ok. Let's just head home together." I purse my lips and I nod. I didn't want to push him so I turn back around on the bike and ride off again. It was quiet the whole ride, Five leaning his head on my shoulder and I was worried. He held me tighter like he was worried about letting me go... or worried that I might disappear. I lean down and hold his hand around my stomach, squeezing it and he nestles into my neck as I take us back home.

We arrived back after some time, parking the bike on the side. "Five?" he hums against my neck and I pat his hands. "We're here." He sighs almost tiredly and I remember that he hasn't slept a wink the entire night.

How the fuck is he still awake?

"Let's go find the others." Five takes my hand and blinks us to our floor, opening the doors to see the bedrooms empty. "Where the hell could they be?" we blink over to our bedroom to see if anyone was there but nope. We turn and see a door down the hall that was open, faint yelling escaping and we walk over.

"What the hell?" I open the door and peer in to see this extremely and ridiculously pink room with fluffy white furniture and weird decorations.

Is that a mammoth head or something?

"Five! (y/n)! Where the fuck have you two been!?" Diego exclaims frantically as Lila was yelling at him.

"Getting tattoos?" I shrug and Five walks over to them. "What happened?"

"Stanley got Kugelblitzed!" Lila sits on the chair with her head in her hands and I gape at her.

"Not the kid! I actually liked the little rascal..." I mutter sadly.

"Just check the chimney!" Diego was throwing things around the place in a frantic mess.

"He's not in the bloody chimney! He's been Kugelblitzed!"

There's a chimney in the hotel? This thing is a blocked building how would smoke be able to get out?

"Whose fault is that, huh? You're the one that brought him here!" I sigh as Diego and Lila yell at each other.

"Wait, what do you mean brought him here?" I look at Lila and she was nibbling on her bottom lip, looking guilty.

"Lila took the kid from his real mum from Berlin in like the 1980s or something!" Diego says.

"Lila! You didn't!" she looks away guiltily.

"Congratulations. You're both mildly terrible parents!" Five cuts them off.

"Diego! Your hand! You lost your fingers!?" I gasp as I see his bloody bandage and he looks down at it like it was nothing.

"Oh yeah. We both went through some weird glowy tunnel through that portrait and some demon with a scythe cut my fingers off!"

"Back up." Five steps to the side, pointing at the normal-looking portrait. "This, right here?" Diego and Lila both explain what happened and what they went through before yelling at each other again.

"Oi focus!" I yell out and the couple jumps, Five looking at me thankfully.

"How did this thing open before?"

"I don't know. It was already kinda open."

"'Already kinda open.'" Five mocks his brother as he ran around frantically. He really was worried about Stanley even though he wasn't his biological son. "Diego, you should have been an engineer. It's a lost opportunity." I look at the supposed door, prodding against it and trying to open it but it wasn't budging. I look at the glass circle in the middle of the door, something about it looking familiar while Five caught Lila and Diego up about Project Oblivion and Pogo.

The tattoo!

There was the symbols arranged the same way as the ones drawn in Pogo's book and I quickly walk over to Five, pulling him by his belt loops as I search his pockets. "What's with the frisky hands-?" I take out the skin, so glad I was wearing gloves.

"Look, it's the same." I show Five and his eyes widen.

"Amazing sweetheart." he kisses my head.

"Hello, are we not going to talk about you both wanting to go in there!?" Diego says and we turn to face him.

"Yeah? So what? This is about more than just you two." my boyfriend glares the couple down, his hands shoved in his pockets. He looks at me briefly and I knew this also had to do with what he was hiding from me at the Commission.

"Says the guy with all his fingers. I didn't get this by giving a mummy a hand job, all right?" I look away, stifling my laughter. "I went in there, and I lost my fingers to this thing!"

"Ok simple solution here... let's try to come up with a plan but first off, we gotta figure out how this thing even opens! Yeah!?" I point to the door when Luther and Sloane suddenly walk into the room and I narrow my eyes at them.

Yeah, no one in the family was forgiven but at this point, we had to try and work together to try and stop both Project Oblivion and the Kugelblitz.

"You guys are coming with us." Luther says with a smile and I don't think I like what's gonna happen next.

"This should be interesting." Five whispers to me as I pass him the skin back.

"Really, I smell trap." I scoff, crossing my arms. "Where to?" I ask.

"Sparrow Academy." Sloane starts.

"The world's ending, so I think it's time we put our petty bullshit aside and work together on this Kugelblitz." Luther ends.

"Fucking finally..." I sigh out.

But where did Luther suddenly get the leaderistic authoritative tone again?

"Yeah? Or what?" Diego narrows his eyes at his brother.

"Or Stanley won't be the last of us to disappear..." Lila says and I begrudgingly follow the group as Five tugs me closer with a hand around my hip.

"This is like an unpredictable ticking time bomb waiting to happen..." I hold my arms as I stood next to Five, the both of us steering clear from anyone else. He held me close, my foot tapping on the floor anxiously as I watched everyone grab cookies from a very broken and glitchy Grace.

What did they do to her...?

I frown seeing her broken eye, standing so eerily like a mannequin with a smile on her face. "Where's Viktor and Klaus?" I speak up, noticing that the whole family was here minus them, Fei and Ben. No one answered me or they shrugged like they didn't know and now I really had a bad feeling.

"Welcome. Please make yourselves at home." Fei suddenly walks in with Ben and I step closer to Five so he could blink me away when I asked him to.

I didn't want to be here... at all.

"I know sweetheart, let's see what they say and we can leave first thing." Five whispers into my hair, kissing my head.

"Everyone, sit down." Ben says and I notice a crow hover around the room and I glare at it as it perches on the second-floor banister. I flip it off, looking straight at Fei and smirking at her knowing she was probably seeing me. I walk over to the couch, sitting down on the end and Five sits down next to me as we both lean back into the pillows. I raise a brow at Luther as he struggled to decide on where to sit, with the Sparrows or with the Umbrellas.

"Look, I know there's been bad blood between us. Whatever. Bygones, right?"

"Bullshit." I hiss out lowly only for Five to hear and he chuckles, his leg crossed over the other as an arm was draped around my shoulder. I cross my leg over the other, leaning into Five's embrace as his thumb rubbed my shoulder.

"Question? Yeah, if I kill you, do we get our Ben back?" Diego says.

"He has a point, I got the same question." I hiss out and Ben looks at me sadly before glaring at Fei who was snickering.

"I'd like to get back to a plan if you're done wasting time." Five says. "We-"

"where is he!?" Viktor runs into the room and I quickly sit up. "What did you do to Harlan!?" he exclaims, looking at Allison and Ben and I narrow my eyes at them.

"What do you mean what did they do to him? Viktor? What happened?" I was on high alert now.

Harlan better be ok!