(y/n) - your name

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After a while, I notice the red lights turn back to blue, and he lets me go to hear Allison crying. "You murdered our brother!" she screams at Reggie after she gets out of the straps and my eyes widen in shock.

"And Jennifer!" Viktor exclaims after he gets out with Diego.

"Children! Whatever anger you may feel towards me is misdirected. May I remind you that it was the other Sir Reginald Hargreeves who committed this horrible act?"

"What are you going on about?" Lila asks quickly.

"When we were kids, the 'other' Hargreeves killed Ben and Jennifer." Luther yells out.

"And he had a perfectly valid reason for doing so!

"They were two innocent kids!" I scream at Reggie in fury, Five quickly pulling me back. "You had no fucking right to kill children!" I shriek.

"Left to their own devices would have set off a cataclysmic chain of events, leading to the extinction of all humanity!"

"You are no different to the other Hargreeves." Luther yells out.

"You're both fսcking psychopaths!" Diego screams in tears, Lila holding him back with a frown seeing how heartbroken her husband was learning about his deceased brother.

"This family lost their Ben twice! You had no fucking right to end his life the first time!" I exclaim.

"It's not his fault." Abigail quickly walks up, everyone looking at her. "Reg is not responsible for what happened to your brother and that poor girl. I am."

You've got to be shitting me right now!

"Years ago, I synthesized a new element. The very essence of the universe."

"The particle we know as marigold." Reggie pipes in.

"And at the same moment, unbeknownst to me, a second particle was created. Durango. When Marigold and Durango interact, they cause... a reaction, a physical reaction."

"Jesus fucking Christ. Or in science fiction words, a bomb when two fucking elements of the same coin collide. Or like the universe correcting itself when trying to kill two of the same person in one timeline after they collided!" I glare at Reggie for what he tried to do last time even though I know it's not the same 'him'.

"Yes. In those same standards." Abigail continues and I sneer at her. "Unstoppable, irrevocable. The extinction of everything we know."

"The Cleanse." My love mutters and Abigail nods in confirmation.

"By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late for our world."

"You couldn't have known, darling." Reggie tries to console Abigail.

"This is all your fucking fault!" I scream as I lunged at her but Five holds me back. "This started with you! It's all you! All this pain and misery that kept following the Academy! Everything that Five went through in the apocalypse and with the Commission, Luther losing Sloane, Diego losing Grace and Eudora, Klaus losing Dave, Allison losing her family, Viktor losing Sissy, Lila losing her parents, and everyone losing Ben when he died! You are the cause of their misfortune!" I yell at her and Reggie pulls Abigail. I was seething in anger and heartache, this bitch is the reason for the hurt every single Hargreeves sibling had to go through.

All the pain Five had gone through over and over again.

"YOU RUINED THEM!" I scream out. "YOU DID THIS!"

But at the same time, if she didn't... None of the Hargreeves would've been born... 

I quickly look at Five with sorrow and he frowns softly as he pulls me towards him gently to calm me down.

I wouldn't have had the life I'm living with Five right now... with the love of my life...

"I... don't mean to be a dіck and all, but what the fսck does any of this have to do with us?" Lila breaks the silence and everyone turns to Abigail but my sweet assassin lets me hug him tightly as I bury my head against his chest, his hand petting my head softly.

"The other particle, it is inside of Jennifer. That's why it's imperative that none of you can come into contact with her." Reggie explains.

Wait, did it go in Jennifer the same way the Marigold is in the Hargreeves? Through an unexpectant mother?

"What happens if we do?" Lila asks.

"We end the world." Five sighs out.

"Wow. Such world-shattering news..." I mumble sarcastically.

"Uh... Guys? We... may have a problem." Luther stutters and we all look over at him and I remember that Ben went after Jennifer to save her from Jean and Gene.

"You think... they came in contact already? Ben and Jennifer?" everyone goes quiet and there is an uneasy tension in the air as Luther slowly turns red. "Luther. Spit it out already!"

"Maybe...?" his breath hitches, twiddling his fingers nervously. 

"Well, shit..." I sigh out, every one of us heading back upstairs to listen to the ape-man as Diego shoves him into a seat to start talking but he was so nervous, snacking on the finger food of sandwiches and sandwiches I figured Abigail offered to the siblings before half of us got here. Luther explains what happened and what he saw, cheeks full with his words muffled as he goes on about the infection he saw spreading on Ben's arm. "And you just let him go!?"

"Well, how was I supposed to know Ben was infected with this... whatever this thing is?"

"Great work, Luther. Really great." Five rolls his eyes, tone sarcastic as ever as he held my waist to keep me from pacing. I huff as he holds me closer to him, raising a brow at me at my petulance right now.

"The rash on his arm. What did it look like?" Abigail asks and I roll my eyes at the tone of the inquisitive scientist she has right now.

She clearly doesn't give a shit right now.

She just wants info like every power-tripped scientist.

"I dunno. It was just kind of... You know, it kind of looked like that thing that Klaus caught when he came home from Ibiza."

Everyone groans collectively and I blink at the siblings, looking at them with slight curiosity but disgust over wins. "Yeah... I don't wanna know."

"It wasn't pretty." my love whispers to me.

"That's all I need to know. Don't even show me photographic evidence." he chuckles softly with a nod.

"Are you a doctor? Or do you just play one at bachelorette parties-OW!" Diego hisses when I smack the back of his head and he glares at me.

"Are you a doctor?" I pipe up and he rolls his eyes.

"Luther, was there anything unusual about this rash?" Abigail pipes up again while he keeps eating.

"No. It was just, you know, red-hey!" I smack the sandwich out of his hands to make him focus before taking the petit-four stand to set it on the floor away from him.

"Enough with the eating. Explain." I dust my hands and he pouts.

"Ok fine. It was glowing. And pulsating."

"You didn't think maybe that was worth bringing up?" Five scolds his brother and I facepalm.

"I just thought it had to do with our powers coming back. I mean, we've all been having issues. I know I have."

"Dude, did it still not cross your mind to say something if it had something to do with your powers anyway!? Ingesting the Marigold changed things differently than before! I mean Five's time jumps are purple now, not blue! And Lila doesn't have her camelian powers anymore! She shoots fucking lasers from her eyes! Ben has his bloody tentacles coming from his chest and not his back!"  

Luther thinks it over and nods. "Yeah... you're not wrong about that."

"I've heard enough." Reggie suddenly says and I look up to see him walk off before coming back with a loaded harpoon gun.

"Whoa! What are you doing!?" we all exclaim as the sibling sitting down shot up to their feet, Five hiding me behind him immediately.

"It's time to hunt."

"He's gonna kill Ben all over again!" Viktor exclaims.

"One of the hosts must be eliminated before the reaction is complete."

"Reaction? You do realise that you're talking about human beings and not lab rats, correct?" Allison hisses.

"What? You miss Jennifer and you gonna kill the family instead?" I seethe. "Or maybe take down all 8 of your kids!?" I yell out as I step out from behind my love. "What's your decision, Reggie!? What's your fucking end-all or be-all masterplan here!? You gonna fucking murder everyone one of them again!? Abigail, it's about time you see what you married." I glare at her and her eyes widen. "The man has countless stains of blood on him, of the many dead bodies he has hoarding beneath his feet. Actually, you both are so perfect for each other. A murderer with a murderer." I snap and she flinches.

"Enough! I understand! You've grown attached to your brother. But you don't seem to appreciate what's at stake here! We must act before it's too late." 

I pass Allison a hefty ceramic paperweight and she immediately pegs it, the siblings gasping when it hits Reggie square in the back of his head when he turns around. "How about you shut your mouth!?"

He crumbles to the floor with a pained gasp and I walk over to him. "How dare you!"

"You know, I think it's high time you realise you're not running the show here anymore, old man." I immediately stomp down on his chest and he wheezes in pain.

I glare at Abigail and make her freeze in her spot while Viktor rushes over to use his powers to make the harpoon fly away from Reggie's reach before he tries to grab it again. "Don't even think about it!" we yell out.

Reggie gasps, struggling beneath the heated pressure that Viktor was pushing down on him. "Do you think these childish theatrics will stop me!?"

"Okay, well, I can step it up a notch if you like." the pulsating increases and Reggie exclaims in pain, suffocating on the floor.

"Viktor, please don't hurt him-" I shove Abigail back harshly before she can reach her husband and she falls to the floor.

"Why not!? Why shouldn't I?! All he does is hurt everybody else! Ben, Jennifer, me. All of us!" Viktor yells out in anguish.

"Spare me the waterworks! One life isn't more important than the entire planet!"

"Oh, but your wife's is!?" I hiss, pulling out my handheld gun to aim it at her head and Reggie yells at me to not hurt her.

"You stuck your nose in where it didn't belong, and you allowed Jennifer to escape. This is your fault!"

"Oh no, no, no! This is your fault!" I glance up to see the marble cracking and fissuring beneath Reggie as Viktor fumes, glowing brighter and burning hotter in fury. "My whole life, all I wanted was for you to see me, to make me a part of the team. Instead, you treated me like I was broken. And I believed you! I thought you knew me better than I knew myself, but I know now you don't know shit! You're the failure! You're the reason this happened! And I am not gonna let you kill Ben! Not now, not ever! AM I CLEAR!?" Viktor screams out and I blink at him, feeling relief and satisfaction that he finally got to say his piece to Reggie, to stand up against him and finally express all the hurt he had gone through.

Reggie gasps and chokes, looking almost...

Sad...? That can't be right...

I grip my gun tightly before pocketing it reluctantly and I walk over to Viktor to hold his hand gently. He breathes out shakily and looks over at me softly as he slowly calms down, his powers waning off as he squeezes my hand back tightly.

Reggie slowly gets up, fixing his appearance when a security guard approaches him to tell him something. I tug on Viktor's hand and he glances down at me. "You did good." I whisper and he smiles faintly.

"It seems we may have found your brother." Reggie says and everyone starts getting ready to head out but I hold Fivr's blazer to have him wait a minute.

"What is it sweetheart?" he turns back to brush his thumb against my cheek.

"What about Klaus? Where is he? Shouldn't we get him first? What if something happened to him now that he has the Marigold? Or he relapsed-"

"-if he did relapse, he's probably knocked out cold at home right now." Luther pipes up and that didn't make me feel any better.

"I'm worried. He's been gone for a while." I sigh out, getting a bad feeling in my stomach. "Something is wrong."

"I'm sure he's ok. Klaus is eccentric and whimsical. He probably is in some trouble but he knows how to get out of it." my love tries to reassure me that his brother will be fine as he pulls me out with the rest of his family to get into the van.

"Fine... but if there's no trace of where he is or any contact by the end of today, we should look for him. I'm not leaving him behind again like when he was kidnapped by Hazel and Cha-Cha and not any one of you realised until later!"

I grimace deeply in disgust as I kick away the wriggling cut-off tentacle in front of me, shivering from nausea from the way it was still moving. We all were at a farm right now, just standing in the midst of a massacre while police and detectives are trying to figure out who or what did this.

If only they knew what we knew...

"Okay. Ben is an asshоlе. I'll give you that. But a mass murderer?" Allison sighs.

"Turned everyone into haggis." Lila scoffs, walking over to a severed hand and picking it up to show us the tattoos. "And they have terrible taste in tattoos."

"Some next-level psycho shit." Diego mutters and his wife keeps waving the hand.

"Lila, can you not!" I try to not puke at the scene and the smell right now, covering my nose.

"This could have been a rescue mission." Viktor exclaims but Reggie obviously disagrees.

"More likely a massacre by two individuals who are growing increasingly violent by the minute."

"You don't know that!"

Five comes back after talking to his fellow CIA colleagues or whoever in the police department he was getting info from. "All right, so my guys tell me that this whole farm actually belongs to those two lunatics who ambushed us at New Grumpson. Gene and Jean Thibedeau."

"Well, maybe Ben killed them too." Luther hopes and I grimace as Allison pokes a dead guy on the floor with a stick.

"He dead, dead." I mutter and she nods before throwing the stick away.

"Forensics found fresh tracks leading out of the barn. My guess is they escaped." my love destroys that hope and the family groans. He takes his scarf off and wraps it around my neck and face, tugging it up so I wouldn't smell the wretched smell of blood, guts and gore. Allison makes a guestimate of time of death with her acting skills and I roll my eyes as Reggie orders for the car to be ready, my sweet assassin guiding me with his hand on the small of my back. 

I get in but before he does, Lila drags him away further down the farm to talk and I narrow my eyes at them.

Again?

What are they hiding?

Why are they having so many of these secret little meetings away from the family?

Wait no, are they going to try and use that time travelling train?

"Diego!" I call out for him as I unbuckle my seatbelt and he perks up.

"What's up little Chiquita?" I nod to our secretive partners.

"They're doing it again?" he narrows his eyes seeing his wife with his brother and holds my hand to pull me with him, barging into their conversation. "Mind sharing with your girlfriend and husband?" he says sarcastically, and I raise a brow at him for his passive aggression towards his wife.

What the fuck did Lila actually say to him for him to be acting this way!?

"Can I talk to you for a second?" Knife boy asks his wife, and she glances at Five. "Do you mind?" he glares at his brother who shrugs.

"Yeah." my boyfriend takes my hand to pull me away to let the married couple talk. 

We walk further away before I stop him. "Are you going to use the train?" 

Five's eyes widen a bit but the reaction was gone as soon as it appeared. "I didn't-"

"-don't lie to me. It's dangerous! You don't even understand how the routes work!" I exclaim.

"I know... but Lila made a good point. If we don't try then we'll never know."

"Ok, so what's the fucking plan!?" I hiss.

"She thought we could use it to go back in time to before Ben and Jennifer touch-"

"-and how the fuck will that work!? From what we saw, that train station doesn't take us back in time, it takes us to currently acting timelines of the present!" Five grimaces and he looks away and I grab his jaw to make him too look at me. "You going back to 2006, aren't you?" I glare at him but I was terrified that he would get stuck again like last time. "Don't tell me you're actually going to jump back in time!" I grip his jaw tighter. "Your powers are different now! That's more than a decade big of a jump! You haven't practised doing that in years-" Five pulls my hand off him and holds my wrist gently which surprises me, his thumb gently rubbing my palm to calm me down and I falter.

"You're scared... I know (y/n)." I sigh and nod.

"You're damn right I am... you know I am..." I whisper and he reaches up to hold my cheek and I lean into his touch.

"As soon as there are first signs of trouble, I'm coming back to you ok." Five whispers to me and I frown sadly. "It's just an option we got try and cross off."

"Five! You can't be seriously considering this-!"

"-(y/n)-" Five cuts off when he looks behind me and I turn around to see a man walking over towards us. "My boss." he whispers to me, clearing his throat and I groan out. 

For the love of god! Why can't we just sit down and have a proper conversation!? I get it, time crunch and all with the impending apocalypse but come on!

"Sir?"

"Mr. Five. I thought you said you had this situation under control." he glances at me.

"She's with me sir." my boyfriend says, stepping closer to me. "Also, the situation is proving more kinetic than anticipated."

"No shit. We have the Texas Tentacle Massacre out here. Okay, I need to know who's responsible for this bloodbath."

"Well, sir, I do have a few leads, but I need a favour before I can follow up."

"I'm listening."

"Okay, you see these two idiots over there?" Five sighs as he nods over to Diego and Luther messing around with the dead bodies and moving severed limbs. "Those are my brothers. Now, they're kind of stepping all over the crime scene, asking dumb questions, getting in my way. Do you mind taking 'em back to HQ? You know, show 'em around. Maybe let them hold some guns."

I look at Five with a raised brow at his audacity to ask something like that from his boss, but I'm not surprised.

"You're asking me to babysit."

"You want this case solved, don't you?"

Damn, blackmail.

"You owe me, Five."

"Diego! Luther! Come over here. I wanna introduce you to my boss. Deputy Director Lance Ribbons." My boyfriend calls his brothers over before guiding me back to the van.

"Five-"

"-sweetheart, let me sort through this mess first ok? Let me handle this."

"But-"

"-(y/n)." his tone was stern but still kind and I relent.

To be honest, after a while of domestic living, I haven't been cut out for this stuff again. I would be useless at this point if I even tried. Being trained in using a gun and having field experience doesn't mean that much either.

"Ok, fine... Just... please come back to me Five." he leans over to hold my cheeks, pulling me down and pressing a long gentle kiss on my forehead.

"I'll come back to you." I sigh and watch him walk off as I sulk in the van. I wait there for some time until I hear someone's phone ring and surf through the back to see that it was Allison's phone. I look at it to see an unknown number and climb out of the van to pass the phone to her. She answers it but her face falls immediately and she rushes to call for an uber. "-wait! Allison, what happened!?"

"It's Klaus and Claire!" she just yells out and immediately leaves and my stomach sinks hearing that Klaus might be in trouble.

Shit, shit, shit!"

"Diego!" I call out for knife boy and he turns to me.

"Crazy-"

"-do you have Claire's number!?"

He blinks at me and scrambles to get his phone out once he hears how worried I sounded for the younglings of the Hargreeves. "What happened!?"

"I don't know. Allison just left after getting a call. Something to do with Klaus and Claire-"

"-shit ok, here's the kid's number. Do you need us to come?" Luther walks over as well.

"I'll call Claire and see what's up. It should be fine."

"Ok but call us if you need back-up." Diego ruffles my hair as I call Claire and she picks up, saying hello so I walk off somewhere quiet.

"Hi Claire, this is (y/n), Uncle Five's girlfriend. One of your mum's brothers." I started pacing, getting really worried for Klaus.

I knew I should've gone to look for him! 

"Oh hi!"

"Hi dear, um your mum just rushed off like there was an emergency? Is Uncle Klaus alright?"

"No... He's not. He just rushed off with a tv, all skittish and all and I haven't seen him since."

Shit.

Claire goes into depth about what happened and I tell her I'm on the way. She tells me her address and I order an Uber, waiting for the car before getting in and it driving off.