The Year 1985

Chapter 04: The Offer

"Five! Oh, my goodness, long time no see! Your arrival is very... surprising. What brings you here?" The Handler stood up from her fancy swivel chair as the sound of her heels fills the entire office, earning a smirk from the schoolboy, as his blue eyes met her black ones, attempting to act like nothing's been going on. He shrugged in response as he gazed up at her incredibly tall height.

"Well, I have some complications currently and, am still in the process to search for something that I used to do. Like a mission. I'm interested. Tell me again. Who is the girl?" The Hargreeves said as he avoided her gaze and soon wandered around her room, pretending that his intention was different.

The Handler secretly grinned at his answer and watched him gawk around her place, like a literal schoolboy it was it's his first time seeing an elegant place. The boy's expression turned into an aggravated one when he drew his sight to the other dimension. There is a short pause before the blonde-haired lady could acknowledge his utterance. "That means you visited me here so I could offer you something that you can accomplish and it's about the girl?" She clarified his motive gaining an instant reply from the Hargreeves. "Hmm. Let's see what you can propose to me. Impress me."

The boy deliberately drew his gape again to the Handler, bringing likewise that smirk formed on his lips, as the sunlight from the outside enters through the windows and reflects his blue irises. She then chuckled at his reaction as the fifth Hargreeves carefully observed her actions. The lady went back to her seat, as the bracelets that surround her wrist created noise due to the glassed desk. The schoolboy furrowed his eyebrows, waiting for her to finish grabbing something from the table's cabinet.

"Come closer, I'm sure you would be taking this." Five went near to her desk as he curiously stared at the white folder, with many paper clips attached to it. He gradually opened the file as he wasn't predicting what he just discovered with his own two eyes. His heart rapidly beats and struggled to keep a usual expression to show to the Handler, not wanting his plan to fail. It is a girl's picture with short gradient brown hair to the bottom part, she has clear brown eyes and her nose dripping blood from it, wearing a fierce manner. It's Five's first time to see a teenage girl with different charisma as soon as he would stare at her picture.

"This girl has something..." He thought.

"You might be wondering, she's from in this city, obviously, Hawkins. She has the ability to manipulate everyone or everything with her mind." The Handler whispered.

"And Five, I want you to search for her and the reward is, you'll be back in the timeline where you actually belong, also the apocalypse would vanish if you could give her to me."

The fifth Hargreeves persisted to widen his eyes in confusion at the same time amazed when she found this odd-looking girl, cuts and bruises scattered on her beautiful face. The schoolboy nodded as a sign of he is committed to accepting the offer from the Handler, but deep inside, will betray her if the conclusion appears.

"Consider it done." Five simply answered back and grinned at her, as he immediately snatched up the folder, and left the Handler's office with a beaming smile on her face, expecting this would finally be her triumph. The young Hargreeves shook his head in disagreement with the lady's goal and plan against the innocent girl.

"She thought she tricked me. How pathetically foolish." Five thought.