Escaping Reality || Five Hargreeves ||

Chapter 13

I just skipped to the fight scene between Five and the Handler 

3RD PERSON'S P.O.V

Alice and Five just escaped the Handler and traveled back to the academy. Five fell on the table while I fell on top of Five.

"Ow..ugh s-sorry" I groaned, getting off of him.

"Five! You okay? Who did this?" Allison asked but Five just grabbed the coffee in her hand and drank the whole cup, then threw it away.

"The apocalypse is in three days! So if ya'll don't get your sideshow acts together billions of people are gonna die including us! Who cares if dad messed us up, that doesn't define us" Five sighed again, catching his breath and took another sip of coffee. "We have a lead," he said and gave the piece of paper to them.

They opened it and saw 'Harold Jenkins' "Who the hell is Harold Jenkins" Diego asked.

'A crazy fan for starters'

Alice thought, sitting on a chair nearby and holding on to her leg and glancing at it as she realized that it was bleeding.

"Darn I—it" Alice muttered out, she held her leg in pain and applied pressure on it to help with the bleeding.

"Whoa there! That—uh looks pretty serious. Uh, Five yahoo! Your girl here has a bleeding leg!" Klaus shouted.

"Nononono don't call h-" Alice made hand gestures at Klaus, indicating to not call for Five.

But before Alice could explain and react, Five just picked Alice up bridal style suddenly and they went to his room. Alice just let it happen and didn't say a word as she grabbed onto Five's neck for support—her face somewhat littered with a shade of red.

Five gently placed her on the bed and grabbed the med kit.

"You don't have to do this, you're wasting time on me-" Alice protested, claiming that she could do this by herself.

"This is not wasting time, you're hurt, this might have been because you stood in front of the explosion" Five sighed out as he gently took care of her injury.

"There now you stay here once we get back, get some rest" Five petted my head and tirelessly walked out of the room.

'Five was really getting tired of all of this'

Alice thought, her thoughts were cut short though when she felt the weight of her eyelids were slowly getting heavier, then she fell asleep.

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Alice woke up to a loud thud then quickly hopped out of bed and quickly went downstairs. She then saw Luther choking Klaus.

"Shit-" Alice muttered and tried to help Klaus—but it was no use, she wasn't even strong enough to beat him.

Eventually Alice sighed in relief as Luther let go of Klaus who then fell on the ground coughing. Alice went to Klaus' side and asked if he was okay, Klaus gave a thumbs up indicating he was alright. Alice sighed and glanced at Luther, at the moment he reminded her of her dad.

----Flashback---

"Shh, just don't listen to them okay? Here wear these—I bought them just for you"

Alice placed the new pair of headphones she just bought on her younger brother. Bills were starting to go high up these days—and their parents have been fighting about it non-stop.

"Ate..can you please get me some milk?..."

Remy, Alice's younger brother said as he rubbed his eyes a bit—feeling sleepy as he listened to the music that Alice prepared for him.

Hearing the voices outside the room grow louder, Alice hesitated but took a breath and offered Remy a soft smile as she nodded and stood up from the floor.

Quietly closing the door, Alice silently made her way to the kitchen as she tried to ignore her parent's loud voices. Although ignoring them didn't stop the feeling of fear bubbling up inside her as her hands trembled trying to put some milk in the glass.

'CLINK'

"CAN'T YOU BE ANYMORE ANNOYING?!"

Hearing the loud voices suddenly get directed at her, Alice's body went stiff for a moment. She couldn't move for some reason, she couldn't speak as she heard loud footsteps start to approach her.

Then she heard a door creak open, she saw Remy awake—probably trying to find out where Alice went.

And with that her body started to move as she hastily cleaned up the mess on the floor with a rug nearby, not noticing some glass shards getting on her hand.

She just muttered a sorry to her parents as she poured another glass of milk for Remy.

"Ate? Why are you crying?....You're hurt..."

Walking into the room, she didn't even realize she was crying. She just placed the glass of milk down at their bedside table and used her free hand to ruffle Remy's hair.

"Nothing, just yawned and made my eyes sweat"

"Is it because of mom and dad?..."

"It's fine, they'll get over it in the morning. Now drink your milk and go to sleep. You have early school tomorrow."

Once Remy went to sleep, Alice just cried, she was sick and tired of all of this. She didn't wanna go to school trying to cover up scars anymore..

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Alice snapped out of her flashback as Ben lightly tapped on her shoulder.

"You okay, Alice?" Ben asked, looking worriedly at her.

"O-oh yeah I'm fine" Alice said, waving her hand dismissively.

"Your crying, Alice"

Alice touched her cheek and felt a tear that she didn't even notice was falling.

"O-oh, no t-this nothing I'm, also-" Alice was cut off by Luther slamming the door then throwing Klaus against the floor causing him to slide.

"Oh shit"

"Let's go before he meets a furry" Alice sighed out.