eneG dnA naeJ
Yall the fucking timing is horrible. I got classes again.
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(y/n) - your name
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"Fucking hell..." I groan loudly from the splitting headache that was pounding my head in right now, curling up in a ball as I grip my head tight and calling for Five. "Five...?" I peek out from beneath the blankets, squinting against the bright light that stepped through the gaps of the blinds. "Shit..." I hiss as I slowly sit up, blinking away the sudden flash of purple light? I grumble and open my eyes again to see Five?
"Baby?" he groans, sounding sick.
"What...? When did you get here?" I ask drowsily and he blinks at me groggily. "You look like shit..."
"So do you..." he gags, clutching his stomach like he was gonna throw up.
"Five-!?" I straighten up when he steps back but suddenly disappears into thin air with a flash of purple. "FIVE!?" I gasp when he suddenly reappears again, stumbling towards the bed. I quickly crawl over to hold his shoulders as he grunts, covering his mouth. "You feeling ok-?"
"-no! I don't think I am, sweets!" my love quickly stumbles away and rushes for the bathroom, throwing up in the toilet and that spurs a chain reaction from my body as I scramble out of bed to throw up in the other bathroom toilet we had.
"Fuck, man!" I grumble out as I hag into the toilet.
"You don't think you have the same thing as I do, right (y/n)?" I hear my boyfriend grumble out in a sickly tone.
"I fucking hope not-" I heave into the toilet, throwing up all the alcohol I had downed last night. I feel Five rub my back as he holds my hair back for me after he was done hanging.
"Baby, you gotta tone it down with the drinking..."
"Says that 64-year-old alcoholic..." I groan as I clean myself off with the toilet paper, closing the toilet lid and flushing everything down. My love helps me back up on my feet and takes me back to our bedroom bathroom so I could wash my face and brush my teeth, handing his brush to him to clean his teeth too. We throw out our yucky brushes and open new ones, walking out into the living room after and dropping on the couches with a groan. "So... what the fuck...?" I look at my sweet assassin as he runs his fingers through his hair. "You got a haircut..." His hair was now shorter, reaching up to brush it back and wipe away the sheen of sweat on his forehead. "It looks really good."
"Thank you, sweetheart. But that's besides the point right now." He pinches the bridge of his nose, something he usually does when a headache starts to form.
"I'll go make you some tea."
"-but-"
"-I am not taking no for an answer. You look and sound like shit. You need tea." I hiss softly, standing up and stumbling towards the kitchen to brew us a batch of green tea and honey. "Can you please explain to me how the fuck you got your powers back!? AND WHY IT'S PURPLE AND NOT BLUE!?" I exclaim, turning to look at him as he loopily stares out into space like he was trying to process my words.
Fucking hell he's gone...
I sigh, grabbing some painkillers for the both of us. "I don't know if this will help but better than nothing." I hand him a packet, setting a bottle of water for him.
"My powers are purple?" Five gasps out after chugging half the bottle down like he was starved of water! "And you're not experiencing anything weird?"
"Of course not. The reason I feel like shit is the different reason you feel like shit! I'm hungover. You got your goddamn powers back! What happened!?"
"I don't know... I started feeling terrible when I woke up this morning for work. It just got worse when I got to my office, going through everything about Grossman."
"And?" I ask, grabbing the glasses with tea and coming back to set them on the coffee table before dropping back onto the couch next to Five.
"He checks out. He's a legit taxpayer." He sighs as he lets me take his vest off and uncuff him to get him too cool down, turning a fan on to relieve him of his fever. "Thank you, (y/n)..." he sighs softly in relief.
"You think your family is going through it too like you are? Whatever this is... you think they got their powers back too?" I ask and my boyfriend sits up straight in shock.
"Shit, you think?"
I shrug. "We should probably go talk to them." I grimace.
"Shit... I think so." Five sighs, slowly standing up but I pull him back down, pointing at his untouched cup of tea.
"Drink." he sighs but smiles at me, kissing my cheek as we both finish our teas as quick as possible. I get up to change clothes while my boyfriend puts his vest and blazer back on. I wear my winter cargo trousers with tights underneath, wearing a heat-tec shirt, my plaid shirt-that my love also wears-and a puffer vest on top. I get my day bag and Five and I stumble our way out of our apartment to- "-your car is at the agency, isn't it?" we both freeze when we realise and my sweet assassin sighs in annoyance since he teleported back to me and left the car behind.
"We gotta bus it."
And that's what we do. It took way longer to get to the old house by public transport than it did by a car. We both felt like shit but my love looked worse than me. He was sweating and grumbling against my neck. We got out at our stop and walked the rest of the way, walking into the run-down academy to already hear fighting and yelling from the rest of the family members that were in the foyer. We were missing a few people so Five and I drop onto the couch to just wait and relax, the both of us rubbing our heads from the noise-induced headache but I pull him down to rest his head on my lap. He groans as he shifts to hide his face against my stomach, hugging me tight as I comb my fingers through his hair.
"Someone explain what the hell is going on here real quick!" Viktor barges into the house yelling and he looks just as bad as the rest of his siblings.
"Well, Viktor, that's what we're all trying to figure out..." my love sounds nasally as he sits up from resting his head on my lap, his hair an absolute bird's nest.
Luther complains about how he looks. "Then cover up with your robe ape-man." I grumble.
"At least you're back to your old self, alright!" my boyfriend complains. "The rest of us feel like someone injected motor oil in our veins!" he groans.
"It's so strange. Because, I, for once, feel fantastic." Klaus pipes up happily.
"Yeah? Well, you think you got problems?" Lila scoffs. "Look at this!"
"Oh, wait. No!" Diego tries to stop her and all of a sudden she had fucking green lasers coming out of her eyes.
"Shit!" Five hisses and pulls me down on the floor with him, covering my head as everyone screams and ducks to avoid being lasered in half.
"Not inside!" Luther yells at Lila. "What!? What the hell!?"
"What the fuck Lila!?" I exclaim as I look up while she blinks the pain away.
"I'm sorry." She pants, turning to look at us but the lasers shoot out again and we all drop to the floor.
"LILA! TURN IT OFF!" Me and Luther scream at her.
"I don't know how!"
"Closing your bloody eyes!" I shrill and the lasers blip away when she does. "Fucking Cyclops wannabe!" I hiss at her and lift my head to see her blink and reins in her powers.
"There." she sighs in relief but then realises the damage she's done to the house. "Oh, sorry about that..."
"Just be careful!" Five exclaims, standing up and pulling me up with him. He still held me tightly, his hand on my head and back.
"How do you do that?" Diego asks.
"A gun to my head, I couldn't tell you!" Lila laughs, Luther going on about original sconces for the house?
"I don't give a shit about your sconces!" Viktor hisses. "I want answers, now!" his powers bubble around him and my love quickly pulls me back away from his brother to keep me behind him.
"Woah!" everyone warns him as the floor and the house start to rumble, Viktor turning red and everyone tells him to calm down and breathe. "Viktor, easy." I love how unafraid the siblings were around him now, even with his powers.
"Precious cargo." Five quickly says, holding me behind him tight and Viktor calms down.
"I'm sorry, (y/n)." he breathes out. "Are you... having trouble too?" he asks and slowly walks up to me knowing I struggled last time keeping in control.
He holds my hands and turns them around but I shake my head. "You mean have a twisted version of my powers again? Nope. Sparrow (y/n) is not back. I'm still human."
"Exactly, so everyone, take it easy in here." Five warns his siblings, pulling me to his side away from his brother.
"Relax, Kodiak Jack." We all turn to look up at Ben as he walks down the steps, all sluggish and drained.
"Ben ew." I gag as he walks past us and tentacles were coming out of his back. "Indecent public flashing much?" He shoots me a glare and I flip him off.
"It was me." he smirks.
"What? Got caught on Chris Hansen's date line for showing yourself to little children?" I kick his tentacle away from me.
"No!" he hisses at me. "I know you're all too terminally emo to do what had to be done, so I made the executive decision and spiked your sake with the marigold."
Everyone gasps and groans in frustration.
"Why am I not surprised!" Five sneers at Ben but he quickly looks at me with worry.
"You stopped me from having that last sake bomb from Ben... I think I'm ok..." I whisper to him, remembering how my boyfriend stopped drunk me from drinking more.
"You had no right to do that, asshole!" Viktor yells at Ben.
"Oh, trust me, you'll thank me later." Ben scoffs at him.
"Yeah, or I'll kick your ass right now!"
"My money is all on Viktor." I whisper to Klaus and he nods quickly.
"Oh yeah. Now, that I would love to see." Ben laughs, moving to sit next to Allison on the couch but she gags in disgust and quickly moves away form him entirely because of his tentacles.
"What is with the tails?" Diego asks as he, Luther, Viktor and Klaus start to surround Ben.
"I don't know. They won't go back in!"
Luther pokes a tentacle but it smacks him in the face. "Oh! God. Why is it cold?" Luther gasps.
"The real question is why would you even touch it in the first place!?" Lila and I look at the tentacles in disgust.
"Forget about my tails, alright!" Ben exclaims. "I haven't felt this good in years! Maybe you guys need to take some more." Ben rubs more marigold in his mouth and Five quickly walks up to him, smacking Diego's hand away sharply.
"Ok, you know what? Give me that!" he snatches the jar away, walking back to me to close it and passes it to me to hold as I sat on the couch.
"Hold on, Klaus, rewind to you feeling good." I pipe up. "Why do you feel good?"
"Yeah, Klaus. Why aren't you sick?" Allison pipes up.
"Well, because one Sake bomb is too many, and a thousand is never enough."
"Huh?" I gawk at him with his fantasy rhyme but I figured he didn't drink.
"You didn't drink it." Allison mumbles and Klaus says no. He explains he just threw it over his shoulder.
"Deceptive fake drinking. I like it." I nod and raise my hand for him to hi-five me which he does.
"Do you realise what you've done!?" I jump when Viktor yells out, swinging arms at Ben and I gasp when he manages to land punches on him one after the other.
"Yeah! Hit him Viktor!" I cheer him on while Diego and Luther pull him off Ben. I screech and duck when something from Ben suddenly comes flying past, turning around see that he squirted ink from his chest as it lands on a wall. "Disgusting!" I gag.
"The fact is you're all too busy living in loser mindset to realise we're much better off this way." Ben scoffs as he gets up from the couch with a grunt.
"That wasn't your decision to make!"
"Give me one good reason why we shouldn't have our powers back!"
"1. apocalypse from season 1 that Five got trapped in that Viktor causes. 2. the second apocalypse from Dallas with the war between Americans and russia. 3. the third apocalypse with the Kugelbltiz destroying our timeline. 4. the sparrows being dead-"
"-ok! I get it!" Ben hisses at me.
"Yeah well, you clearly asked and there's your consequence. These powers of yours are our doomsday! There's no good to them! These powers are the reason why we keep having apocalypses! Three times!"
"We also saved it three times." Diego pipes up and me and Five gives him a face.
"Eh, 50/50 there." I have my hand in a 50/50 motion.
"Well, that part's highly debatable, Diego." My love sighs out.
"Forget about saving the world! I just spent 5 years building a life for myself! A real life! Away from all this, away from dad, away from our past!" Viktor exclaims angrily and I feel so bad for him. Because we understood where he was coming from. I look at my boyfriend sadly and he had the same expression on his face knowing the life we just started to build was ruined now. "And you had to go and fuck it all up with one sake bomb!" Viktor yells at Ben who looks dejected.
Everyone was silent for a while and he sighs out. "Look. I was trying to help."
I scoff. "You weren't helping us, you were bringing us down to your shit backwash and fucked up rejected life you have now knowing you have nothing to come back to once you got out of jail! You were helping yourself, to make yourself feel better for being a fucking screw-up when the rest of us actually have lives that we built from the ground up!" I yell at him.
"No, no, no! They're right! None of us asked for this! I could've lost my job!" Luther exclaims.
"Did you?" Five asks and I groan in frustration for him ruining the tense moment with something stupid.
Why is he acting like this now? Did his powers just start deteriorating his brain?
"Well, actually, no... My boss bumped me up from brunch buffet to Prime time. And I have been booked in Atlantic City next weekened-but still!"
Ben grins at Luther's words and I pinch the bridge of my nose in annoyance as he goes to Allison next. "Come, on Allison. You can't tell me you're not a little bit glad to have your powers back after all these years?"
"Now why would I be, Benjamin? Why would I want my powers back?" she rolls her eyes. I look over to see Lila doing something weird with a rubber ducky that I had no clue how she found.
"Maybe you can rumour your way out of those corny-ass laundry commercials you have to do and finally get off the B-list." Ben laughs at her, putting his hand up expecting someone to hi-five him but no one does.
"Ooo he did not..." I gasp behind my hand. Allison goes on about how she's the face of a national campaign but the words go in one ear and out the other.
Ben ignores her and turns to Klaus but he physically moves away from him and tells him he's not gonna go down the same path as everyone else with the Marigold. "I already told you. It's not gonna happen."
"Why not?" Five pipes up, getting fed up with his family. "Maybe with your powers back, you won't have to keep living life like a human sippy cup."
"Five!" I gasp and wack his arm. "You did not!"
"Alright, I'm sorry! Stop smacking me." he hisses softly, holding my hands in his and I huff at him but he just smiles and kisses the back of my hands so I wouldn't be mad at him.
God, I hate it when it works.
"It's a slippery slope. Alright." Klaus huffs out.
"Into what?" my boyfriend asks.
"Powers, ghosts, drugs, sex, oblivion! It's one big spicy gumbo of bad, and I'm not going back to that old Klaus! I like this Klaus! Hey, he collects coupons. He's frugal, respectable, reliable. And most importantly, he's a Klaus that Claire likes!"
My love softens when he hears his brother say this, since he also wanted Claire to like him as an uncle too. "He has a good point..." he sighs softly to me and I press a soft kiss on his cheek.
"She likes you, I know she does. She's just a teenager so it's harder to get through to her." I press more kisses on Five's cheek to make him feel better. He has been trying to get along with Claire but she prefers Klaus over anyone and it kinda deals a big blow to my boyfriend's ego. "Just... listen to what she says and remember key details about her and buy gifts from those details."
Ben suddenly started throwing up and I quickly look away, my sweet assassin covering my ears knowing I would react and want to throw up too. "Ok! All right! We need to go back to the dry cleaners and get more information. Hopefully, a way to get the Marigold out of us." he sighs, throwing a pillow at Ben to shut him up before he holds my hands to help me up on my feet, leading me outside. Diego agrees and says that he will drive everyone in his van since obviously, it has more seating space.
Everyone gets in and Five sits in the front passenger seat next to Diego and I raise a brow. "And where am I supposed to sit?"
"Just come on up here, sweets." my boyfriend pulls me up to sit on his lap and he closes the door. I flustered heavily and he holds me tight and pulls the seatbelt around us before his brother drives off, his hand holding my thighs.
"You're a little shit... you know that." I whisper to him, ignoring the snickers I could hear from the other siblings behind me.
"You love it." my sweet assassin grins and whispers against my cheek.
Diego drives us all back to the dry cleaners and we get out of the van, walking along the building to the front door. My love held my hand tightly, pulling me in behind him as Diego opens the door and goes on about him doing all the talking. But as soon as we walk in...
"It's empty..." I gasp, looking around the building to see all the clothes, equipment and machines that were in this building just gone. It was emptied out entirely. Five hands me to Diego to keep me behind him as he walks into the building further, a piece of paper clipped to a hanger coming around through the turning belt and he grabs it.
"Well, looks like Sy flew the coop." Allison mutters.
"Or somebody got to him." my boyfriend says and I walk up to him as he opens up the paper in his hands, which is actually a map.
"He did say he was in danger." Diego says and the rest of the family walks in while my love hands me the map knowing I had a better sense of direction and way of reading maps.
"Look at this. New Grumpson, Maine." Five says, showing Diego the map and the area circled in red.
"The hell's in New Grumpson?"
"Maybe Sy's daughter, Jennifer." Lila pipes up.
"Or maybe that's where our dry cleaner scampered off to."
"Damn Allison, way to be pessimistic." I roll my eyes at her and she scoffs.
"Or maybe this is all one big setup!" Viktor exclaims.
"Well, there's one way to find out." Five says and I whip my head at him.
"No! Absolutely not!" I exclaim. "I agree with Viktor! I know it's too late now that you have the Marigold but can't we just forget this happened and move on with our lives!? Just ignore this and go back to how it was beforehand!?" I beg the siblings, not wanting this to be ruined.
Viktor nods and agrees with me. "We can just step away from this now and dust our hands off this." he stands next to me, the both of us trying to persuade the family.
"We need to know how this Jennifer got the Marigold and that box full of stuff on us-"
"-no we don't!" I cut Diego off loudly. "We really don't! Why can't we just forget this ever happened!? Just... continue living life...?" I beg them and even Five sighs and shakes his head. "Five... please..."
"There's something going on... you know that (y/n). Whatever is happening... maybe if we don't stop it now, don't figure it out sooner... it could get worse later on... the marigold... this timeline..." he sighs in exhaustion. "As much as I hate to do this... we need to investigate... we're part of this now... even if we don't want to be."
"Please... don't do this to yourself..." I look at him sadly. "Not again... anything but this.. anything but you ruining yourself again... I'm begging you..." I was pleading with him now and he walks up to me to hold my cheek, his thumb brushing against my skin sadly and I look at him dearly. "Please..."
"I'm sorry (y/n)... I need to protect this... us... the life we have now..." he whispers to me. "I need to make sure you have a future-we have a future... what we built now lasts as long as we live..." I pull away from him in defeat knowing he wasn't going to budge, my palm against my forehead in frustration. My boyfriend takes that as a begrudging yes from me and we all stagger out of the shop and back into Diego's van. I walk slowly behind everyone as they all scramble into the van, complaining about the cold and yelling at each other like the crazy dysfunctional family they are but I hesitate.
After what happened last time... I don't even know if I want to go through with this anymore...
"Crazy, come on!" Diego and Klaus both say and I sigh heavily as I card my fingers behind my neck.
"Do you even need me anymore? I know just as much as you and well... the show pretty much moves on without me anyway from what I've seen. I'm just a background character now-"
"-you are not a background character!" Lila gasps. "Girl, you're part of this family."
"Well, you're married into it-"
"-so are you! In a way... with shithead over here-bit still part of the family!" Diego's wife says as she lowkey mocks my boyfriend who flips her off.
"Look, I'll be in the way-"
"-(y/n), you're trained now... you won't be in the way." my sweet assassin jumps back out of the van to walk towards me. "My love, you'll be fine. We will be fine. You're one of us now. You're family." I blush as Five kisses my hand with his promise ring I was wearing. "And we do everything together. Even if it goes against everything we worked for." he hisses as he glares at Ben. "You're a Hargreeves." he turns back to me with a gentle smile, slowly pulling me towards the van. "And... I need you..." he whispers to me and that has me blink at him quickly. "I... can't do this without you..." he mumbles to me softly and that's what gets me.
"...Alright..." I nod and I let him get back into the van, helping me back up onto his lap to settle in as he buckles us both in.
"First mission back!" Diego yells as he hits the top of the van.
"Why are you so loud?" Five groans in annoyance, Lila cheering in the back and Ben suddenly saying something about killing Jennifer...?
We all turn to look at him weirdly. "This is a rescue mission idiot." I scoff and he blinks at me trying to process the words.
"Right. Yeah, sorry." he coughs.
Diego finally starts to drive off and I end up becoming the navigator, using my phone instead of the map cause ya know... it's easier.
For fucks sake...
I cover my ears in annoyance to block out Baby Shark that HAS BEEN PLAYING NON-STOP FOR THE LAST HOUR!
The city buildings and skyscrapers had finally switched to rural and empty open roads with the fields on either side of us covered in snow. I bury my head against Five's chest, blocking my ears harder to try and keep the song out of my brain.
"Will you please turn that song off!?" me and Viktor exclaim loudly.
"I can't. It's stuck." Diego answers and I start hitting my head on my boyfriend's shoulder.
"Make it stop..." I groan, kicking the radio but it does nothing except get an earful from Diego about kicking his precious van.
"Try to sleep, sweets." Five says and I close my eyes to do that as he takes over to be the navigator.
I think I managed to sleep for a few hours at most, waking up groggily to still hear that damn song playing. "Fucking hell..." I sit up, my ass starting to hurt and I look around the van to see everyone looking like shit.
What's wrong with them...?
They all look sick, clutching their stomachs and I turn to look at my boyfriend who grimaces. "Five...? You don't look so good..." he shakes his head, groaning and I hear his stomach grumble.
"Diego...? Uh... Maybe, uh, pull over..." Five says.
Klaus suddenly opens up a bottle of some healthy juice and my body becomes over-stimulated. The jerky movements of the van, feeling the speed we were going down the road, having not eaten anything since I've been awake, sitting in a vehicle for over 2 hours and the rancid juice smell was getting to me.
Oh shit... the motion sickness is hitting.
"I don't feel good either... Diego pull over...!" I clutch my stomach. I had to get out of the moving van and get some air or I was gonna throw up like everyone else in here.
"Can't. We're making good time." he shakes his head.
"Ok. Well, I'm gonna hurl..." Five says and I cover his mouth.
"Not on me, you're not!" I hiss. Everyone else in the van starts to complain about needing to do different things and I really was gonna throw up now. "Diego! I have motion sickness! Stop the van!"
"You what!?" he exclaims.
"Pull over man!" my boyfriend gasps out.
"We are sticking to the itinerary!"
"Five, open the window! Now!" Luther says and that's my cue. Cause I know immediately why someone asks that.
"DIEGO PULL THE VAN OVER OR SO HELP ME I WILL SMASH YOUR WINDOWS OUT!" I scream at him and he gets scared that he swerves the van before stopping abruptly.
I quickly unbuckle the belt and open the door to jump out, my world spinning as I cover my mouth from throwing up. I hear everyone else rush out, running for the trees in front of us to either pee or throw up. Five scrambles past me and hurls past the side of a tree to throw up and it takes everything in me to not throw up either as I kneel on the road to steady myself and get some air in my lungs. I really didn't feel good, my vision becoming dizzy and I try to hold off the motion sickness.
"Baby..." Five groans out after he was done hagging out his stomach and he stumbles over to me to help me sit up. "Are you ok...?"
"I should be asking you that..." I groan, trying to get some fresh air in my lungs.
"You're swaying."
"Everything is a little dizzy right now... I didn't take pills for my motion sickness. I didn't bring them..."
"Why didn't you say anything... We could've stopped at a convenience store to get you some..."
"I thought the drive wasn't going to be that long... Is it...? How far is New Grumpson?"
"It's another 13 hours to New Grumpson-"
"-WHAT!?" I exclaim when I hear Luther. "I am not staying in that van for 13 hours straight! We're getting a hotel on the way!"
"We're going to lose time that way-"
"-don't even fucking try me Diego!" I snap back at him.
"Ok, how about we find someplace along the road to make a pit stop and catch some quick rest." Five takes my phone to look something up. "... the nearest place is another 7 hours..." I fume up, ready to throttle someone- "-sweetheart... I know it's tough." my boyfriend holds my hands before they can wrap around someone's neck. "Let's try to get to the motel first."
"He better pull over when we need to." I hiss, glaring daggers at Diego.
"-but-"
"-I promise he will sweets." Five says sternly and his brother sighs in defeat. "Ok, it's settled. Everyone go piss or whatever and get in the van after." he calls out to his siblings who go further into the woods to do that.
"I am not doing that." I glare at my boyfriend who sighs in defeat.
"Alright, let me see if there's a nearby gas station or convenience store." He uses my phone to do just that. "There's a gas station a few minutes ahead of us. We can fuel up, use the bathroom and head to the convenience store next door for food."
"Oh thank god... I'm starving..." I sigh, my sweet assassin helping me back up on my feet.
We round everyone up to get back into the van and Diego begrudgingly drives off to make the pit stop at the gas station. We all split up and do our own thing while he fuels up, me and Five heading in to buy some extra toothbrushes and paste, coffee, and a few other things along with my meds before heading into the convenience store next door to buy a shit tonne of drinks and snacks for the rest of our 7-hour drive. I also bought a new pair of clothes and underwear cause I don't know how long this trip is gonna be and I ain't being nasty.
My love and I sit outside on the curb while we ate our very late and unhealthy breakfast, just trying to calm down from the entire chaos we just went through. Soon enough, everyone huddled all back into the van with equipment and much-needed supplies for our trip.
I settle back on Five's lap and he gently pulls my head back onto his shoulder. "Go to sleep. You'll feel better. I'll help Diego navigate." I nod and close my eyes to catch some shut-eye.
I don't know how long it's been but when I slowly became conscious again, I could hear Diego and Five talking and I decided to listen in.
"I think she's cheating on me."
WHAT!? LILA!?
It takes everything in me to not react, to not even twitch a little to signal the brothers I was awake.
"Lila... she goes places at night. She goes places, and she lies about it."
"You know, she's got that book club." Five mumbles and I feel his hand pet my head and I get sleepy again.
"Yeah, what is it? A book club of two, Five?"
"What are you talking about?" My boyfriend suddenly stops petting me and I pout but I was more awake again to process the conversation.
"Two nights ago, I followed her. She was in some cafe with some guy. Some Greek-looking son of a butch with a creepy moustache."
"The moustache was creepy?" Five starts petting my head again and I feel relaxed.
That's what he gets out of that information?
"Oh yeah. Sleazy as hell. Just pencil-thin. You know what I mean?"
"Diego, whatever this is, trust me... it's nothing."
For some reason... those words struck a cord in me. Like a bad feeling in my gut.
"You guys got the house, a family." I frown hearing Five's words, hearing the longing in his voice. "Only an idiot throws that away. Lila is no idiot."
"So am I supposed to just ignore it? Say nothing?"
"That would be correct. Bury it. Deep. Cover that shit with concrete..."
Why does he sound so solemn...?
"You're a good brother." Diego says and I suddenly feel another hand to pat my head. "You're good to (y/n). But don't hurt her. I just hope whatever you have buried deep doesn't affect her either. I know you say this from experience. Whatever lies, secrets you have hidden away... just don't hurt her..."
"You know I won't." I feel Five kiss my forehead.
"We're not the only ones who got the life we wanted. You did too. Don't downplay it Five. I see how happy you are with her."
The boys go quiet and I lay against Five's chest for a while, thinking over the conversation. I felt guilty but... also worry. I just couldn't shake off the gut feeling I had... that something was wrong-will go wrong. I end up dozing off again for a short while until I feel my world tilt and I open my eyes to see my love carry me out of the van.
"Where are we...?" I yawn and he shushes me softly.
"At the motel I found. We're gonna stay here for the night and rest up for the trek tomorrow." I nod sleepily and he carries me into what I assumed was our room. "Don't worry. I check for bugs and stains. The bed is ok." I chuckle softly as he sets me down on the bed and I realise our stuff is in the room already. "You can go wash up first before Lila and Diego get in."
Ah, so that's what the second bed is for. We're sharing.
I press a tired kiss on my boyfriend's lips and he smiles happily, holding my cheeks to kiss me back before leaning back and kissing my forehead. I go to grab my store-bought pjs, underwear and a small towel before heading to the bathroom for that shower. I wash off today as quick as I could assuming the hot water in this place wouldn't last, drying off and putting on my pjs before heading out to see Diego and Lila clocked out on their bed. I chuckle, smiling sadly at Five as he checks the room for cameras and security bugs.
Old habits certainly die hard.
He locks the door and checks that it is secure knowing I get freaked out before grabbing his things to take a shower too, passing me not without a quick kiss on my cheek. I smile and lay in our bed that was closer to the bathroom and away from the door, settling beneath the blankets and sighing in relief that the room was warm against the frigid cold outside. I charge my phone and scroll through it, emailing my work that I would be taking some of my sick leaves.
Still need to get money but I can't tell them we're on a rescue mission for some girl.
Five comes back soon after his shower, in a long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants and he looks so cute in this domestic scene as he climbs into bed with me. He turns his back to the other bed and pulls me back against his chest to snuggle me tightly, burying his face against my neck and I chuckle softly.
"Look who's being clingy now." I whisper and he holds me tighter in response and he sighs out happily in bliss. He curls around me as I curl around my pillow and we end up falling asleep like this.
"RISE AND SHINE SHITHEADS!"
"Ah fuck!" I scream as I get startled, rolling off the bed but Five quickly catches me and pulls me back on the bed. I hear Lila groan unhappily since her husband was the one to start yelling and waking us up. "I swear to god Diego!" I snap at him, my boyfriend holding me back from attacking his brother.
"We're losing precious time here! Hurry up and get ready!" He exclaims, already dressed up as he leaves the motel room.
I grumble and flop back on the bed, my love pressing light kisses on my neck to ease me. "I'll get ready first and let you sleep in for a bit." I nod and he goes to do that so I could get some more shut-eye. Lila gets ready after Five and he wakes me up again when it was my turn.
I was so sluggish in the morning, not getting enough sleep since the sun barely was up this morning. I brushed my teeth and washed my face, dressing back in my winter clothes from yesterday and grabbing all my belongings. I see the other siblings come out of their rooms exhausted and angry since Diego had been banging on their doors to get up.
I head to the motel foyer to see that they had a breakfast buffet open so I decided to pack away some extra food for the trip while having my breakfast with my boyfriend. The siblings thought to do the same thing before we all clambered back into the van that Diego thankfully started up so he could get the heater on blasting for a while.
"Hurry up!"
We all yell back at Diego that we are getting in, buckling up and I settle back on Five's lap to sleep against his chest as he runs his fingers through my hair soothingly. The van drives off and we all just sigh in defeat that we have a few more hours left to go for this ride.
"I need a fucking drink when we get back..." I groan and everyone agrees. "Ben's not invited." The siblings immediately uproar in agreement.
"As if I want to go to your lame hang-out." He scoffs.
"He so wants to." Five snickers softly in my ear and I chuckle, leaning into his gentle kisses he presses against my neck. He turns in his seat away from his brother to give us what little privacy he had to press more open-mouth kisses along my shoulder.
"Five." I hiss at him when he nips at my skin. "Not here."
"I'm bored! And you're so warm, baby." He hums and I bite back my whimper when he bites and sucks a mark against my neck.
"That is no reason for you to do this when you're bored!" I hiss softly, grateful for the annoying Baby Shark song playing. Five pulls back and pouts and I pinch his nose. "No. Behave." I push his forehead back with a finger and he sighs in defeat but smiles at me, letting me rest my head on his shoulder again as we take turns to navigate Diego on the journey to New Grumpson.
It was a bloody long 6 hours, taking pit stops every now and then to stretch our legs or have bathroom breaks but hey, we finally made it to damn New Grumpson.
"Fucking finally." I sigh as I see the sign for the town before we drive past it, hitting the dashboard to start waking everyone up as I throw bags of chips and snacks at their head. Obviously I didn't do it to Klaus, he's too precious. "Wake up!"
"Jeez, why so mean?" Viktor groans sleepily.
"Cause yall a bunch of pricks. Besides Klaus."
"Thanks boo."
"Anytime honey." I send a flying kiss to my bestie. We drive for a little while longer until Five tells Diego to stop when he sees a phone stand? Fuck what are they called again? Phone booths? His brother stops abruptly and we all yell as the van jerks to a sharp pause, temporarily choked by our seatbelts. We cough as we scramble out of the van, waddling with pins and needles in our limbs from being stationary for too long. My boyfriend goes to check the phone booth and I peek over his shoulder to see him flipping through a phone book. "Oh smart! Seeing if they're listed."
"And guess what. They're not." he looks at me and shows me the names where they're supposed to be in the book before we come back out to tell the family. "No Sy Grossman listed. No Jennifer Grossman either."
"Easy. Investigation over! They're not here and Ian lied to us." I clap my hands together. "Let's go home." I start walking back to the van but I choke when I get pulled back by the back of my collar.
"Yeah, well, we'll have a look around. If she's here, we'll find her." Allison says but I was too busy fighting off Diego who held me back.
"Let me go!" I hiss at him and he pulls my hoodie over my head. "Diego!" I scream at him, irritated more than usual since I have been very uncomfortable for 6 hours!
"No can do amigo. We still have a mission."
"I'm not your fucking amigo bro!" he turns me around before I could attack him. "Five!"
"Diego, stop pissing off my girlfriend." he walks over to me and gently pulls me away with his hand on the small of my back. Ben goes on about doing recon as if we were a team and Viktor scoffs. Ben just manages to irritate everyone, Diego included while Luther was too busy taking scrapbooking pictures of the family hanging out together again after so long.
"Ok, everybody! Look over here and smile!" Everyone groans when Luther takes a picture of all of us even though we did not want to immortalise the mess we all are in right now. I was flipping him off in the picture.
"You know what? Screw this!" Ben exclaims. "You know, one or two of you are fine. But all of you together? You're just a bunch of drooling, stunted toddlers. I'm going back to my penthouse downtown."
"Uh Ben, that penthouse belongs to the federal government now." Luther reminds him.
"Shut the hell up, Luther." Ben starts walking away from the family down the road, his tentacle slipping out from beneath his jacket and we all snicker.
"Poor Ben-arino." Klaus awes.
"We're better off without him!" Diego yells from the back of his van.
"That's true." I nod and the others agree.
"Alright, everyone. Let's split up and look for this girl. Let's be discreet. If you find her or the dry cleaning guy, don't do anything on your own. Let's wait for the team."
"And there goes Number 1, leader of the Umbrella Academy. Guess that role really has been drilled into you, huh Luther?" I pipe up and he crosses his arms with a pout.
"Oh, sweet jesus..." Allison suddenly says and I turn to look at where she was staring with the others and I quickly turn back around to face Five instead with wide eyes when I get an image scorched into my brain I want bleached out immeditaely. He immediately groans and looks away as he covers his eyes.
"Jesus fucking Christ Diego! That's too tight! No one wants to see how you knocked Lila up! Twice!" I exclaim.
"(y/n)!" she gasps out, her face red.
I hear keys rattling and I look over to see Klaus avoid a set of keys being thrown at him by his brother who puts him on guard duty of his van. "Here. You're in charge of Wanda. Don't go anywhere without us."
"You named your van... Wanda...? That rundown decrepit thing?" I raise a brow and Diego starts going off about how his van had been there for him through everything and I raise my hands in defeat as I start walking away to avoid listening to his temper tantrum.
Klaus wishes us luck and Five catches up stride with me, keeping a tight hold on my hip. "You got your gun, baby?" he whispers to me and I nod. It was hidden away beneath my shirt.
We walk across the road and into town that seem very peaceful, with kids playing around and riding on a carousel, singers carolling Christmas songs, parents out and about with family and shopkeepers greeting everyone.
It's kinda cute and quaint actually.
A bit grey and dreary though... but I guess that's everywhere and everything when you grow up.
We split up but not before I catch a bit of Luther getting excited over house decor and its kinda funny but sad seeing how he loves the home decor, explaining how Sloane would love all this.
Is he... rebuilding the academy... for her...?
Oh, Luther...
I sigh sadly, following Five, Diego and Luther. My love held me close to him to keep me warm, taking me to a beverage stand to get me some hot chocolate and him some coffee as we relax and look around the little town. "You know... I don't understand how carollers don't get sick and tired of singing for hours like this? And the same Christmas songs over and over." I nod over to the singers as I lean back against a phone booth with my boyfriend who chuckles in response.
"Some people are just holiday fanatics."
"Oh look, people are dressed up as elves too." I point out and he just smiles, getting up to collect our drinks once they are made and handing me mine. I sigh in relief from the warmth from the cup in my hands, taking a sip and being in bliss from the sweetness. "Exactly what I needed today. Thank you."
"Anytime, sweets." my sweet assassin beams down at me, kissing my cheek before he takes a sip of his coffee and grimaces.
"Bad?"
"Oh, yeah." he coughs. "I can't wait to go home and drink your brewed coffee."
"Awe, I'm honoured." I settle against his side and he pulls me close.
"How's the little shit at home?" I laugh softly at how he expresses his concern for our cat at home.
"My colleague is saying kitty Five is having fun playing with her cats at her place so he's not lonely. Which is good. But she says he meows when he misses us." I show him a video of our kitty meowing at the front door expecting us to come home.
"Oh..." Five frowns briefly. "We'll get home soon enough for you to squish your baby."
"We better! I miss him so much!" We chill for a little longer, walking around and we see an area for stall games. "Awe, the plushies are cute!" I point to the little reindeer. My boyfriend doesn't say anything and suddenly hands me his cup as he goes to the stall, paying the vendor and takes hold of a toy shotgun to shoot all the balloons on the board easily in like 10 seconds flat. "Well, shit..." I blink at him in surprise as he brings back quite a big reindeer plush, handing it to me and taking the cups away so I could hold the plushie. "He's a big boy!" I gasp, feeling how firm and stuffed he was and he was the the perfect cuddle buddy when I didn't have my love at home with me on my day offs. I hug the plush tightly and smile happily and my sweet assassin kisses the top of my head. "I love him!"
"I'm glad to hear it, sweets. You want anything else? Cause I can-"
"-I'm ok. He's enough. Thank you!" He smiles at me and pecks my nose sweetly.
"Shithead!" Lila calls out and we turn around to see her walking over to us and leaving her husband at the axe-throwing game.
"What do you want, Lila?" Five sighs out.
"I'm just wondering, since we got our powers and all, can you blink?"
"And why would you want to know if I can blink?"
"Just wondering! Sheesh. Trust issues much?"
My boyfriend rolls his eyes but sets the cups down on a table and steps forward to give it a try. Lila was right, I haven't seen him try to blink besides when he accidentally came home from work. He tries to blink, grunting softly as he tries to 'jump' but it doesn't work.
"Looks like you're trying to do your kegels in public now."
"You know, just trying to stay limber. Not give myself deep vein thrombosis." My sweet assassin grunts sarcastically and gives up as he shakes his head.
"At your age, you gotta look out for that. Don't wanna disappoint your younger missus." Lila winks at me as Five walks back to me and I roll my eyes at her.
She couldn't be further from the truth but anyway...
Lila suddenly pulls my love away from me by his arm and I blink at them strangely, him with his arms crossed and her looking thankful? I stare them down with narrowed eyes, seeing my boyfriend glance back at me every now and then looking worried as he spoke to Lila. I glare at him and he bristles when he senses my heated stare on his back, tapping my foot on the ground getting very impatient.
"What's wrong?" Diego walks up next to me.
"Them. They're whispering about something and it's pissing me off for some reason."
"Well, let's go find out then."
"Wait, Diego-!" He takes my plush from me and walks over to our partners as I grab the cups and rush over.
"What are you two talking about?" Knife boy asks sharply.
"Trying to decide which festive drink to partake in." Lila quips back and I stare her down knowing I wasn't an idiot like her husband and she clears her throat as she glances away from me.
"And?" Diego asks.
Dude, really? You're gonna believe that? Why would two ex-Commissioners wanna talk about something so frugal and unimportant?
"Well, mulled wine for myself. Eggnog for the lady." Five pipes up, pulling me to his side and kissing my cheek but I huff. "... cause I know (y/n) hasn't tried it before." He sighs softly knowing I was mad at him. Well more suspicious than mad really.
"You've never had eggnog before!?" Diego gasps as he hands me my plush back after I finish my drink and my boyfriend takes his back. I groan knowing his attention was on that little piece of I formation about myself now instead of being suspicious of his partner like I was with mine.
Touché guys, touché. You got one but not the other.
I roll my eyes and turn to look around us, stopping short when I see some random guy staring right at us. "Five... why is he staring...?" I tug on his coat and he looks in the direction I was looking at.
"Who?" Diego asks.
"That elf over there..." my boyfriend mutters and the other couple looks too. "(Y/n) says he's been staring at us."
"I mean, he's not even looking away..." I mutter, instantly getting creeped out. "I have a bad feeling Five..." he looks at me with worry and nods.
"Let's get back to the van." Diego says quickly.
Before we could even start to leave, that damn elf suddenly pulls a leave and everything starts to slow down creepily. People slowed to a stop and turned to look at us, the singers too and they stared at us.
"Five..." he moves me behind him.
"Oh, shit..." he mutters, holding me tightly. There was a sudden explosion that ruptured the silence and suddenly every single person here around us was grabbing weapons! "Oh shit!" Five hisses, quickly holding my hand and pulling us to run away.
"Oh fuck! Not again!" I yell out.
DASI RUN RUN BITCH!
I scream as I get shot at for the second time in my goddamn life!
Five covers my head as we ran for our lives. "Gotta be Sy the dry cleaner! He screwed us!"
"You think!" I yell at him, shrieking when he pulls me forward and suddenly blinks us away. I hurl as I cover my mouth from the world twisting, finally being steady when we land wherever we landed away from the town maniacs! "What the fuck!" I cough, trying not to throw up from the way my stomach twisted and I hear my boyfriend call out for his brother. I stand up and stumble when I see where we are.
A train station?
"Five? Where the hell are we!?"
"I don't know ok! I end up blinking here every time I try to use my powers! I have no clue what this is!" he gasps.
I look at the strange symbols on the wall, curious about what lies past the gates but I shake my head. "It could be dangerous. And we need to get back to the others!" I urge Five but the curiosity gets the better of him as he starts walking towards the gates. "Five, please."
"Just... let's take a quick look and get back to them."
I sigh out and follow him as he reaches out to hold my hand tightly. We pass through the gates, walking down the stairs and onto a platform. It looked like an average train station except for the glowing map, strange symbols and just the eery emptiness of it. I flinch from the warped voicespeaking on the sound system.
Is that backwards?
I take my phone out to try and record the voice but it spritzes and fissures, the screen turning black after. "What the fuck!?" I hiss softly, smacking my phone but it doesn't turn back on again. I look up when I hear a train coming closer and I peek over to see it coming through a tunnel, glancing at Five and he looks at me before we look at the train that stopped in front of us. The doors chime and open up, the voice speaking again but I really didn't like the idea of all of this. I look at my love and I notice that he was contemplating getting into the train. "Five no." I hold his arm tightly and pull him back away from the train. "We don't know where this takes you-what any of this even is!"
"We need to find out exactly that, sweets. We should try and see where this takes us."
"I don't know..." I hesitate, the voice going off again and the signal rings for the doors soon closing.
"(y/n), please." my sweet assassin begs me but he sees how scared I am about this. "You can stay here... and I'll go. I can come back after-" I pull him into the train with me just before the doors close, gasping as it shuts and I turn around to see us leaving our platform. Five holds my hand tightly as we stare out the windows, the train speeding through a tunnel that glows yellow. I grow faint and he gently sets me down on a seat, sitting down next to me and holding me tight. I was beyond nervous, beyond terrified and anxious and he knew this. "Why did you come with me?" he whispers, cradling my head against his shoulder."I didn't want to be left alone..."
"I-fuck... I'm so sorry , my love." He whispers into my hair, rubbing my back. He whispers for me to take in a deep breath, to try and regulate my breathing so I don't panic and he eases me. "You're doing so good for me." He presses kisses against my hair. "Thank you for coming with me."
I sigh out, lifting my head to look around the train, trying to understand the train lines and directions but it was all just wack symbols that didn't make sense to me. I gave up and settle next to my boyfriend as we rode on for seemed like a few more minutes. It was hard to tell without a clock. We soon arrived and the tunnel glows before we slowly arrive at another platform. The atmosphere was a bit more cooler, more blue as we slowly stepped out onto the platform. The speaker's voice was male this time.
"The hell?" me and Five mutter out. We head towards the stairs after, rushing up them to arrive at the freaky town again.
"What...?" I mutter in confusion, everyone minding their own business this time and not even paying us any attention like they weren't going to attack us. My love holds my hand securely and we walk further into town, him glancing at the town statue of its founder. "What's wrong?" I ask him and he just looks at the statue in confusion.
"Where is everyone? The others?"
"I... don't know..."
"And I swear that statue had a male founder... not a female one."
"That doesn't make sense? Why would the statue be different? Unless we're in a different town?" I ask and my boyfriend's eyes widen in realisation.
"Not different town." He points to the date on the banner and the clock on the city hall building. "It's the same day, same time... but different timeline." he looks at me and I blink back at him in shock.
Well, semi-shock. I'm from a different timeline too but to be in another one for the second time in my life is one too many times.
I gasp when Five pulls me back down the stairs with him into the train station, jumping back into the train we got off and the doors soon close before it rails off down the tracks.
"So that train station... takes us to different platforms which are different timelines? And this is connected to your powers? Why has your powers changed in the first place? Why has all of this changed the foundation that is the Umbrella Academy? It doesn't make sense." my love sits down in a seat as I pace back and forth in front of him. "Your powers only used to allow you to jump to different points in time in the one timeline only? Has it evolved to different timelines now?"
"I... don't know... I don't think I can jump back and forth in time anymore... Every time I try to blink-"
"-you get taken back to that train station..." I mutter out when I realise. "You can't time jump anymore. That ability is gone..." my boyfriend nods and I pinch the bridge of my nose, trying to make sense of all this now. I move to sit down next to him and lay my head on his shoulder as we wait for the train to arrive at another platform. It takes a few more minutes but we stop and step out, the sound system voice being male again as it announces the stop we're at even though I couldn't understand it. "Five... this isn't our timeline..." I panic and look at him.
"It has to be-"
"-the sound system for our timeline was female-" he suddenly runs up the stairs and I wait until he comes back.
"You're right... not our timeline. How do we get back!?"
"I... this might be a big hunch but we left on a train away from the flight of stairs in our timeline and arrived on a different timeline away from the stairs, so we need to get on a train going towards the stairs to get back to our timeline. I don't even know if that makes sense..."
"Makes perfect sense. We can try and go on the other side of the platform." We take the risk and wait for a train to arrive, getting on it as it rails down the track after. I grip my reindeer plush tightly in nervousness, Five holding me tightly as we arrive at another platform. We get off and he rushes up the stairs and comes back down a few minutes later. "The one we were in before with the female statue."
"Ok, one more stop!" I pull him back into the train before the doors close and I press my face against the glass to watch it rail through the tunnel that glows yellow.
Our timeline?
I pray quietly as the train stops at the freakishly yellow platform we first were on in this strange journey, hearing a female sound system announce our stop. "Is this...?" I hope and glance at Five, the both of us rushing up the stairs and we see our gates. "Oh thank god!"
My love suddenly kisses me urgently, full of relief and nervousness as his hands hold my face dearly. I hold his blazer tightly, dropping my reindeer plush as I kiss him back before I pull back remembering why we were rushing to get back home. "We need to get back to the others."
"Right..." he breathes out, stealing one last kiss from me. "Thank you..." he tries to calm down before he steps back from me, holding my hand tightly and he blinks us both away from the station and back into the town but we were getting bullets fired at us.
"Fuck!" I scream, Five covering me with his body.
"(y/n)! Five! Get in here!" Luther pulls us in front of him with Allison and Viktor, protecting us as he takes on the rain of bullets.
"Luther!" I exclaim as he groans out. I tear up as he cries out in pain, feeling useless that I couldn't help him. "Let me just-"
"-no!" my boyfriend snaps, stopping me to get my gun.
"Five-" he blocks my ears when I flinch from a bullet grazing past us.
"I can't hold things much longer!" Luther yells out.
Somewhere in the distance, I suddenly hear that brain-numbing baby shark song playing and I look over to see Diego racing with his van down the road. We all scream out when he hits the guys shooting us, turning around to look up at the body flailing in the air before landing hard onto the ground with a wet thud.
"Get in!" Diego yells at us when he breaks the van.
"Fucking Santa Claus was shooting at us!?" I exclaim as Five pulls me towards the van and pushes me in before getting in after, the others jumping in as well before the van zooms off quickly away from the town. I gasp loudly when I turn around and see Klaus bleeding out in the backseat. "Klaus!" I scream and he glances at me with a sad smile. "No!" I shriek, holding his hand as the others try to stop the bleeding and I push down on the wound. "What happened to him!?"
"One of the crazy townsfolk shot him!" Ben quickly says.
"Guys, he's dying!" Allison screams out.
"Five! Marigold!" Lila yells and he glances at me knowing I was in possession of the jar.
"But he doesn't want the marigold!" I beg, tearing up.
"Baby, you can't just let him die." Five quickly says and he softens as I cry.
"I know! I know... but he doesn't-"
"-(y/n), he's stopped breathing." my boyfriend quickly tells me and everyone begs me too and I nod, giving him permission to go through my backpack and get the jar. He grabs it and passes it to Lila, Allison and I apologising to Klaus over and over again knowing he doesn't want his powers back but we need him.
We can't let him die... We have to bring him back...
I can't lose him, not like this...
My hands shake as I watch Lila pour the Marigold in Klaus' bullet wound, his chest glowing before it slowly closes up.
"Klaus, come on!"
"Wake up, Klaus!"
"Come on!"
"Klaus-!" we all scream when he suddenly jerks awake, taking in a deep gasping breath.
I burst out even more in tears as Five pulls me back onto his lap to buckle us both in. I was so relieved that Klaus was alive again. "Hey, shhh it's ok. You're ok." my boyfriend tries to calm me down as I hiccuped, getting wet wipes to wipe the blood off my trembling hands as his thumb brushes my tears away. "He's ok. You did good..." he kisses my head over and over as he calms me down.
"W-what did you do? What did you do?" Klaus stammers, shaking and I couldn't bear to look at him knowing I went against his wishes.
I felt so guilty and my boyfriend pulls my head against his shoulder. "He'll forgive you. You did a good thing..."
I just sigh out guiltily, Five grabbing the jar back from Lila and putting it in my backpack. The family falls quiet for some time, trying to process everything they just went through a few minutes ago.
"Well, that was a weird fuckin' town!" Viktor exclaims.
"You know it was all Hargreeves goons!?" Luther pipes up and I whip my head to look at him along with everyone else in the van.
"What!? How did you know that!?" I gasp.
"I saw his logo on one of their bodies!" he answers.
"At least we got who we came for." Five pipes up and he holds my jaw gently to turn my head to look at the new stranger in the van.
"Oh! Hello!" I gasp, seeing the girl sitting next to Ben.
"Hello." she answers softly.
"Oh yeah! Good job, buddy. You found her!" Luther praises Ben who smiles softly before turning to the supposed Jennifer we were trying to find for Ian.
"Hey, we're gonna get you back to your dad safe and sound."
"My dad?" Five looks at Jennifer when she sounds confused and I do too.
"Yeah, Sy Grossman." Ben asnwers.
"Who?" she sounds even more confused.
"Are you fucing kidding me!? What this all a fucking trap!?" I hiss out angrily. "I told you we should've left this all alone and never investigated it in the first place!" I scream out.
"There has to be an explanation with the town and Jennifer-" The loud sound of a car revving interrupts Ben and we all get thrown off course roughly as the world spins when it collides into the side of the van. Agony rips through from my head down through to my body as my vision blurs and blackens from the painful impact, catching a glimpse of Five holding me tightly before he passes out and Diego trying to protect us both before I pass out.
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