CHAPTER EIGHT: MERITECH PROSTHETICS

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Flashback start...

You were six years old and were laying in the bed, your whole body was shaking as you were hiding under your sheet, scared of the dark and scared of the thunder outside.

There was another rumbling noise causing you to grab your pillow before putting it over your head, trying to press it against your ears to try and made the sound go away but it didn't work.

You closed your eyes as a tear felled from them while you started crying as you tried to fall asleep but you couldn't.

Then suddenly you heard the sound of a door opened.

"You okay?" a voice asked and you removed the pillow and the sheet to see Five in his pyjamas.

"I'm scared" you said, sobbing a little bit "It's okay Y/n/n, it's just thunder" he said "I can't sleep" you said before looking down.

"Sorry I woke up" you said "Actually you didn't woke me, I woke up myself 'cause I could feel that you were scared" he said before he closed the door and walked over to you.

You furrowed your brow as you saw him walking over to your bed before he pulled the sheet down.

"What are you doing?" you asked but he didn't answer as he lay down next to you.

"I'm gonna stay here until you fall asleep" he said as he pulled the sheet over him again.

"You don't have to" you said "I know, but I care about you Y/n/n and I can't handle you being sad or are hurt" he said before he lay down.

"Try to get some sleep, I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere" he said and you nodded before you lay down.

Five closed his eyes but suddenly he felt something on his chest and he opened his eyes to see your head laying on his chest.

"Y/n" he said "What?" you asked "There is a pillow right next to you" he said "Yeah, but I think you're my favorite pillow" you said as you snuggled more against Five's chest.

"Yeah, you're my favorite and comfort pillow" you said as you took a deep breath before you quickly fell asleep to Five's heart beat, breathing, his touch and his warm.

Five could move you, but he couldn't get himself to do it, beside he also like it.

He smiled before he closed his eyes as he wrapped an arm around you before falling asleep.

Flashback ends....

The next morning you and Five was standing in the Meritech Prosthetics, it was a lab where the eye came from.

You were holding the prosthetic eye in your hand as the the two of you could hear indistinct chatter as you were standing ten feet away from the receptionist's desk, both of you looking around the room you were in.

A man on crutches was being helped walk across the room before entering another room.

It didn't take long before a man in a lab coat came walking in, going towards the receptionist's desk, but he stopped when he saw the two of you "Uh, can I help you two?" the man asked causing you and Five to turn around.

You took a quick look at the eye in your hand before you and Five stepped closer to him "We need to know who this belongs to" you said as you lifted up the eye so the man could see "Where did you get that?" the man asked "What do you care?" you and Five asked and the man raised his eyebrow.

"We...We found it...at a playground, actually. Uh, must have just..." you started said before you paused and the two of you clicks your tongue "...Popped right out" Five finished with a smile and the man nodded.

"We wanna return it to its rightful owner" you said "Yeah, my girlfriend and I think it was sad that the owner doesn't get their eye back" Five said.

"Oh...what thoughtful kids" the receptionist said with a smile.

"Yeah. Look up the name for us, will ya?" Five said with a sharp tone while looking at the receptionist with a innocent smile on his face and you also smiled fakely at the receptionist.

"Uh, I'm sorry, but patient records are strictly confidential. That means I can't tell you..." "Yeah, we know what it means" you said, cutting him off.

"But I'll tell you two what I can do. I will take the eyes off your hands and return it to the owner. I'm sure he or she will be very grateful, so if I can just..." the man said and reach to grab the eye but you moved her hand where you were holding the eye back "Yeah, you're not touching this eye" you and Five said as you gave Five the eye and he put it in his pocket.

"Now, you listen here, young man and little girl-" but then both you and Five grabbed the man by his shirt's collar and pulled him down to your eye level before you both glared at him causing the man to grunt.

"No! You listen to us, asshole" you started "We have come a long way for this, through some shit you pea brain couldn't even comprehend so just give us the information we need, and we'll be on our merry way and if you call me 'young man' or her 'little girl' one more time" Five said "We've gonna put your head through that damn wall" you finished "Exactly" Five said "Oh dear" the receptionist said as she put her hand on the phone.

"Call security" the man said scared and the receptionist nodded "Yeah" she said before she lifted the phone to her ear and began dialing.

You and Five glanced at the man one last time before you both let go of him and walked into the elevator.

"So what now?" you asked "We need someone crazy enough to trick the doctor into giving us a name. Someone who look like a grown up, doesn't have to act like one, just have to look like one" Five said and the two of you thought for a bit until you looked at each other.

"Are you thinking about the same person I'm thinking about?" you asked and Five nodded.

"Klaus" you both said with a small smile "I just think we need to give him money" you said and Five nodded "At least tell him that we are gonna give him money" he said before smiling

"I'm glad we are still thinking the same" he said "One soul, two bodies" you said and he smiled.

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Vanya opened the door to the Academy "Five. Y/n" she called out as she walked towards the stairs "Are you two upstairs?" she asked.

Vanya walked upstairs and towards Five's room. She saw you were laying on your back on Five's bed while Five was standing by the window, looking out "Oh, thank God. I was worried sick about you two" Vanya said and looked at you "Sorry we left without saying goodbye" you said as Five turned around to look at her.

"No, look I'm the one that should be sorry" Vanya said and Five turned around before putting his hands in his pockets as he stepped closer to her.

"Yeah, I was dismissive, and...I--I guess I didn't know how to process what you two were saying. And I still can't, to be honest" Vanya said "Maybe you were right to be dismissive" Five said before he scoffs "Maybe it wasn't real after all" he said and you sat up before looking at him with a raise eyebrow.

Five gave you a look, telling you to play along and you gave him a small nod before he turned around and walked over to his desk "It felt real" you said as Five put his hand on a toy truck that was standing on the desk before he rolled it back and forth on the desk "Well...like you said, the old man did say time travel could contaminate the mind" he said, walking back to Vanya with a smile "And maybe it mess with my mind as well, when he took me with him" you said.

As the two of you spoke, you they were both thinking back to the apocalypse. That trauma will forever be stuck in you both.

Of course you and Five were glad that you had each other and you knew that you wouldn't have made it alone and without the other. You both kept each other alive and sane, kept each other going.

 "Then maybe I'm not the right person for you to be talking to" Vanya said and took a quick look over at you "Maybe you two should talk. I think having you both with each other is the best thing right now" she said before she looked back at Five "Look, I used to see someone. A therapist. I could give you two her information" Vanya said "Thanks, but...I think we're just gonna get some rest" Five said "It's been a long time since we've had a good sleep" you said "Okay" Vanya said with a sigh before she turned around and walked towards the door, leaving the room.

"Why did you change your mind about telling her? Why decide not to ask for her help?" you asked "I had to. She doesn't need to carry the weight of something like this, not yet. I think, for now, it's better if it's just us" he replied "That is logical. Too many moving parts can lead to comlications" you said "Exactly" he nodded.

As soon as she left, you and Five walked over to the door.

As soon as you reach the door, the closet next to it open and items felled out with a clatter sound "That's so..." Klaus said as he felled out of the closet.

Klaus put his hand over his heart, tripping over the objects on the floor "...touching, all that stuff about family and Dad and time. Wow!" he said "Would you shut up" you spat as you and Five turned to him "She'll hear you" Five said as he pointed on the door.

"I'm moist" Klaus said as you and Five eyed him down, looking at his clothes "Really Klaus" you said "We told you to put on something professional" Five said "What? This is my nicest outfit" Klaus said softly and the two of you sighed as you rolled your eyes "We can raid the old man's closet" Five said "As long as I get paid" Klaus said "When the job is done" you said as the three of you walked out of the room.

"Okay, but just so we're clear on the finer details" Klaus said as you and Fie walked out into the hallway and you both sighed as you stopped before you turned around to look at Klaus.

"I just gotta go into this place and pretend to be your dear old dad, correct?" Klaus asked as he looked at the two of you "Yeah. Something like that" Five said "But you are not my dad, I'm the girlfriend" you said. 

 "What's our cover story?" Klaus asked "What?" Five asked "What are you talking about?" you asked "I mean, was I like young when I had you? Like, 16? Like, young and...terribly misguided?" Klaus asked in a overdramatic voice as he put his hands on his chest, dramatically "Sure" you and Five said, going along with what Klaus said.

Five were getting annoying.

"Your mother, that slut" Klaus said in a overdramatic voice "Whoever she was. We met at..." he said, looking around the room before he turned his head back to the couple as a smile appeared on his face "...the disco" he said and chuckled "Okay? Remember that" Klaus said and snaps his fingers "Oh, my God, the sex was amazing" he said before he looked at you and Five "You two know what I'm talking since you guys are married, you must have done it" he said as he pointed between the two of you "Did you two ever..." he moved his hips a bit.

"We have" you said "How was it?" Klaus asked but you both ignored his question.

"You haven't changed a bit, Klaus" you with a smile.

 "What a disturbing glimpse into that thing you call a brain" Five said before you and him turned around, walking down the hallway "Don't make me put you in time-out" Klaus said, pointing his finger at him.

"How do you deal with him? He must be good at the naughty stuff otherwise you wouldn't be with him" Klaus said "It was not easy, but I managed to be able to tolerate him, just like the was able to tolerate me" you said "Is he good in bed?" Klaus asked "Jesus Klaus, you really are a weirdo" you said.

"You know what I think would be funny?" he asked "What?" you asked "That you and Five, should made a tiny Five" he said and you raised an eyebrow "Why would that be funny?" you asked "Just imagine having a little mix of you and Five running around. That would be nice and cute" Klaus said and you and Five glanced at each other.

You always wanted to fall in love, get married, live your own life, but you only wanted it with Five. Lucky that happen.

And if you gotta be honest a part of you actually want kids. Giving your kids that childhood you didn't get but always wanted. But then you landed in the apocalypse and you didn't wanted a child to grow up in a broken world, even so a part of you didn't wanted that to stop you from having family of your own, but that never happen and when you and Five finally got out of the apocalypse you were both too old. So maybe that is a sign that you and Five are never meant to have kids.

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"Like I told your kids earlier, any information about the prosthetice we build is strictly confidential" the doctor said as he was sitting in his chair by his desk as you, Klaus and Five was in his office.

 "If another person think that we are brother and sister, I'm gonna punch them" you whispered.

"Without the client's consent, I simple can't help you" the doctor said.

Both you and Five took a step forward from where you were standing "Well, we can't get consent" you started "If you don't give us a name" Five said as you both put your hands on the desk before you gritted your teeth.

"Sorry. Now, there's really nothing more I can do, so--" "And what about my consent?" Klaus asked, cutting the doctor off and he looked at him "Excuse me?" he asked "Who gave you permission...to lay your hands...on the kids?" Klaus asked and pointed at you and Five.

"What" the three said confused "You heard me" Klaus said "I didn't touch the kids" the doctor said "Oh, really?" Klaus said, leaning forward in his chair "Well, then how did he get that swollen lip, then?" he asked before getting up.

"He doesn't have a swollen..." but the doctor got cut off when Klaus swung his arm around and punched Five in the mouth causing his body to turn as he grunt, his hand shooting up to where Klaus had punched him.

Klaus then turned to the doctor "I want it. Name, please. Now" he said as he put his hands on the desk while Five wiped some blood off his lips before he glared at Klaus.

"I'm not giving you anything" the doctor said "Well, then how did my daughter get that bloody nose?" Klaus asked as he turned to you "Klaus, don't you dare touch her" Five said as he glanced at him with a killer look.

Klaus then lifted his hand before he punched you in the face causing you to let out a groan as you stumble back while you had your hands on your nose.

Five rushed over to you before he grabbed your face while looking at the bruise and bloody nose.

"You okay?" he asked "I'm fine" you said and he smiled as he stroke his thumb down your cheek.

"I'm gonna kill him or punch him" Five hissed "No can do, Hargreeves. And if you do that, you're gonna have to go through me first" you said.

Five then stepped forward before he grabbed a box of tissues and started wiping the blood underneath your nose off "Thank you" you mumbled "You're welcome" he mumbled as you two looked at each other with a smile while he continued wiping the blood off your nose.

"You know that you don't have to do it. I can do it myself" you said before you grabbed the tissues "Okay" he said before he stepped back and he also took a tissue out before he start wiping his lips with it while you did the same with your tissue.

Klaus then turned to the doctor "I want it. Name, please. Now" he said as he put his hands on the desk while Five wiped some blood off his lips before he glared at Klaus.

"You're crazy" the doctor said as he pointed his finger at him and Klaus chuckled "You got no idea" he said before he looked down to see a snow globe that was standing on the desk right under his head.

"'Pace on Earth'" Klaus said as he picked it up "That's so sweet" he said before he smashed it into his own head causing the glass to shattered all over his head and hair while he let out a groan.

As Klaus smashed it into his head, Five push you behind him, shielding you from the glass while Klaus let out a small yell in pain.

"God, that hurt" he said, removing his hands from his face, it was bleeding a little bit from his forehead and he was a little bit wet and had some fake snow after smashing the snow globe on his face "You are a idiot" you said.

The doctor grabbed the phone "I'm calling secur..." but cut off when Klaus lunged forward and he wrestled the phone from the doctor before he put it up to his ear "What are you doing?" the doctor asked and Klaus started gasping "There's been an assault...in Mr. Big's office, and we need security, now. Schnell" he said into the phone before he dropped the phone on the desk while he sighed.

"I think you better listen now" you said.

"Now, here's what's gonna happen, Grant" Klaus said "It's...Lance" the doctor said "In about 60 seconds, two security guards are gonna burst through that door, and they're gonna see a whole lot of blood, and they're gonna wonder 'What the hell happened'?" Klaus said and you and Five smirked, realizing that Klaus wasn't too bad after all.

You both thought that Klaus was just an high and drunk idiot. But he can actually be useful.

"And we're gonna tell them that you...beat the shit out of us" Klaus said as he started sobbing dramatically before he let out a sigh "And you try to touch me. We are gonna tell them that you assaulted us, and I don't think they are gonna like hearing that you assaulted three people, especially if two of them are innocent little kids" you said making a sad face.

"But I didn't do anything" Lance said "Do you really think they are gonna believe that. It's three against one, it's your words against ours, and who do you think they are gonna believe, two innocent kids, or an adult. Don't you think that they believe a kid's words over an adult?" you raise a brow.

"You're gonna do great in prison, Grant. Trust me, I've been there. Little piece of chicken like you. Oh, my God, you're gonna get passed around like a..." Klaus said as he started moving his body around in circles before stopping and put a hand out "You're just. You're gonna do great. That's all I'm saying" he said with a smile.

"Jesus, you are a real sick bastard" Lance said "Thank you" Klaus said before he spit some glass out of his mouth while you and Five looked at Lance with a smile.

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While Lance struggled to look through all the files quickly, you and Five stood on the other side of the counter across from Lance while Klaus was sitting on the counter, leaning with his one hand on the desk as his other arm was draped over his crossed legs as he sat to the right side of Lance.

You grabbed a box of tissues before you turned Five's head so he was facing you and you started wiping some of the blood on his lips off "You are still bleeding" you said.

"You don't have to do that" Five said as he kept looking at you while you were wiping the blood off his lips "I still want to do it" you said "I'm gonna break Klaus' arm for hurting you" he said "No can do Loverboy" you said "Why not?" he asked "For the first, he helped us and for the second he is our brother" you said.

"By the way, good acting" Five said "Thanks" you said with a smile.

Lance found a file before he lifted it up and opened it "Oh, that's strange" he said "What?" Five asked "Uh, the eye. It hasn't been purchased by a client yet" Lance said.

Klaus jumped down from the counter to the other side, making him stand next to Lance "What? What do you mean?" he asked before he started walking around to the other side of Lance making him feel uncomfortable.

"Well, uh, our logs say that the eye with that serial number...." Lance said before he looked down on the file "This can't be right. It hasn't even been manufactured yet" he said before he looked up at you and Five "Where did you two get that eye?" he asked and the two of you let out a sigh before you both looked down. You both knew that you couldn't say that you found it in the future.

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