Dandelion

Chapter 3

Run Boy Run

A bell rang!.

As all the children ran downstairs and stood behind a chair while we waited for Reginald.
A few seconds later Reginald arrives with his stupid smug face.
"Sit" we pulled our chairs and sat down I was seated near Five and I can feel that he's thinking of something and that got me quite anxious.

The room was silent,the only sound you can hear are silverware clanging and the radio.
Luther and Allison looked at eachother, Diego was carving something on his chair, Klaus was "ugh" do I have to say it, ofcourse he's taking drugs.
Ben was reading a book while Daniel and Vanya were playing under the table.
I noticed Five glaring at Reginald, as he did the same, he stabbed the knife on the table making us all stare at him.
"Number Five" Reginald said in a scolding tone.
"I have a question" Five started, as I already know what he's gonna say, we've already talked about it for couple of days but he wont change his mind.
"Knowledge is an admirable goal, but you know the rules,No talking during mealtimes, you are interupting Herr Carlson"
Five slides his plate forward then looks at me.
"I want to time travel" Vanya and Daniel looked at each other widened.
"No" Reginald answered
"But I'm ready. I've been practicing my spatial jumps, just like you said" he then dissapeared and reappeared near Reginald.
"See?"
"A spatial jump is trivial when compares with the unknowns time travel"
"One is like sliding along the ice, the other is akin to decending blindly into the depths of the freezing water and reappearing as an acorn"
Five looked at me, I shook my head lightly and mouthed.
"Please no"
"I dont get it" he shrugged.
"Hence the reason you're not ready"
Vanya and Daniel were very worried about Five and whats gonna happen to him.
"Im not afraid"
"Fear isn't the issue. The effects it might have on your body, even on your mind, are far to unpredictable"
"Now, I forbid you to talk about this anymore" Reginald snapped
Five walked out.
"Number Five, you haven't been excused"
I waited for 3 seconds before standing up and ran out.
"Number Eight! Get back here this instance" I shrugged as I opened the door, seeing Five walking away.
"Five!" I yelled but he dissapeared.

Five time traveled along different timelines as he arrived in the same town but everything is destroyed, flames everywhere and no one on sight.
He tried running back to the Academy, but it was destroyed.
"Daniel!"
"Vanya, Ben, Dad!"
"Anyone!"
He started looking around but no luck.
He clutched his hand and a dim blue light emitted but nothing happened.
"Come on!"
"Shit"
He dropped to his knees and felt hopeless.

End of Flashback

"I survived on scraps, canned food, cockroaches, anything I could find" I gave him a sympathetic look.
"You know that rumor that Twinkies have an endless shelf life?"
"Well, its total bullshit" I bitterly laughed, it must have been hard being alone like you're gonna go insane.
"I can't even imagine" Vanya gave a sympathetic look.
"You do whatever it takes to survive, or you die. So we adapted" he said as he glanced at me.
"Whatever the world threw at us, we found a way to overcome it" I got confused with the "we" part, I thought he was alone.
"We?" Vanya asked.
"You got anything stronger" he shrugged.
Vanya poured a glass of whiskey for for Five.
"Want one?" She glanced at me.
"No thank you,"
Five took a sip of his drink.
"You think I'm crazy" Five looked at Vanya.
"No. Its just.....its alot to take in" she spoke stammering in the process.
"Exactly what don't you undtand?" He said in a forceful tone.
"Five" I scolded but he shrugged.
"Why didn't you just time travel back?" Vanya said.
Five scoffs and sighs.
"Gee, wish I'd thought of that." I chuckled
"Time travel is a crapshoot, I went into the ice and never acorn-ed" Vanya glanced at me with a confused look.
"You think I didnt try everything to get back to my family? To Daniel?" He said, my heart fluttered at his words causing my power to sprout a pink rose.
"If you grew old there,you know,in the apocalypse, how come you still look like a kid?" Vanya spoke, she clearly doesn't understand what Five was saying and Five was getting frustrated.
"I told you already. I must have got the equations wrong"
"Clearly" I spoke earning a chuckle from Vanya and a glare from Five.
"I mean, Dad always used to say that...time travel could mess up your mind. Well, maybe that's what's happening?" Vanya tried to grasp what Five was saying but clearly she couldn't.
"This was a mistake. You're too young..." he said as he walked passed Vanya.
"Too naive to understand" He grabbed my wrists as we were about to exit the room Vanya interupted.
"No. Five.....Five wait" he stoped on his tracks.
"I haven't seen you in a long time, both of you. And I dont want to lose you guys again. Thats all" I smiled.
"And you know what, its getting late, and..I have lesson early, and I need to sleep, and Im sure both of you do, too."
She walked to the couch grabbed a blanket and placed it on top of the couch.
"We'll talk in the morning again. Okay? I promise" she spoke.
She ended with a 'night' and I did as well.
Vanya walked in her room and closed the door.
Five pulled out a cloth that had a eye on it.
"Gross, Five is that an eye?" I shot him with a disgusted look.
"Its a prosthetic eye, I found it on Luthers hand while I was still stuck in the apocalypse" He spoke.
"We died didn't we" I said in a low tone, I always had the fear of dying but you know what when the time comes, I'll accept my fate.
"Im not gonna let that happen" he held my hand and a vine sprouted and wrapped itself around both our intertwined fingers.
"You know I missed that" Five spoke
The vine sprouted a Dandelion that quickly disappeared.
"C'mon," he spoke dragging me to the door.
"Where are we going"
"Just follow me Dandelion" he smiled and I rolled my eyes.