Chapter Twenty Three: Klaus

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I slowly waken, my head hurts like a bitch. That's what I get from drinking. I rub my eyes and look up, I see Five and Luther talking, must be a serious conversation.The apocalypse. I put my arms around Five from behind. I rest my head on his shoulder. He leans his head on me.

"When is it supposed to happen?" Luther asks me and Five. "This apocalypse."

"Look, we can't give you the exact hour but from what we gather, we have four days left." Five looks down.

"Why didn't you say something sooner?" Luther looks at Five.

"It wouldn't have mattered." I kiss Five on the cheek and then rest my head on his shoulder again.

"Of course it would. We could have banded together and helped you both try to stop this thing." He looks at the both of us.

"For the record, you already tried." Fives eyes water.

"What do you mean?" Luther asks us.

"We found all of you. Your bodies." I bite my lips.

"We die?" Luther asked him in a quiet unit serious tone, Five zoned out.

"Horribly." I say. "You all were together trying to stop whoever it was that ends the world."

"How do you guys know that?" Is he dumb, we said we were there when it happened.

Five reached into his pocket and pulled out a cloth and unwraps it, the eye.

"This was clutched in your dead hand when we found you." He tossed the eye to Luther. "Must've ripped it out of their head right before you went down."

"Whose head?" We didn't know that ourselves, if we knew we would have our information we needed by now.

"Like we said, we don't know." Luther looks at the eye.

"Well, there's a serial number on the back. Think maybe you guys can try—" I stop him.

"No, that's a dead end." I say.

"It's just another hunk of glass." Luther hands Five the eye back which he puts it back in his pocket.

We all hear Diego barge in, he was angry.

"Piece of shit. Do you have any idea what you just did?" He grunts and tries to lunge at Five, Luther catches him.

"Nope, let me." Says Luther.

"Get your ape hands off of me!" Diego shouted, this man was pissed.

"I can do this as long as it takes to calm you down." Luther has Diego lifted up in the air slightly.

"Fine." The look on his face.

"Now, wanna tell us what you're talking about?" I sit next to five while Diego and Luther talk.

"Our brother and his little girlfriend have been pretty busy when they got back." I listen.

"Wife." I cough, they ignored me.

"They were in the middle of the shootout at Griddy's, and then at Gumble Brothers, after the guys in the masks attacked the Academy, looking for them." He points at Five and me.

"None of which is any of your concern." I look down as Five spoke.

"It is now. They just killed my friend." I felt bad, the man was shaking.

"Sorry." I say, I show Diego a sad smile.

"Who are they?" Luther asked the both of us.

"They work for our former employer. A woman called The Handler. She sent them to stop us. Then, soon as Diego's friend got in their way, we'll, fair game." Diego sent Five a glare.

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