The New Number || F. Hargreeves

xii. The Rumor Was Heard

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As the morning light came into the bedroom where two boys rested, "Good morning." one spoke, causing the other to look into his eyes.

"Last night was amazing..." The other teased climbing out of bed grabbing his crutch.

"I'd be careful if they ask about them." gesturing at the boy's neck covered in hickeys from the night before.

"Shit, Five." Ambrose looked into the mirror who sighed looking at Five who got out of the bed giving the other his clothes, "I could beat your ass if you weren't injured."

"Says the one who dug his nails into my back." The boys just kept flirting and bickering like a married couple but the two boys heard a bell, "Breakfast time."

The boys suddenly looked at Delores causing both to turn into different shades of red, "She heard and saw everything, Delores isn't gonna let me hear the end of this." Five and Ambrose spatial jumped into the kitchen where Grace gave them their breakfast and the two ate only to see a hangover Luther and a giddy Klaus.

"Oh? It looks like Luther isn't the only one who had fun last night." Ambrose begins regretting not covering up his hickeys but Five looked away drinking his coffee as Klaus begins asking about who Ambrose spent the night with not really assuming it was the injured Five until Grace answered for the boy.

"Ambrose was last with Five; they were awfully loud." She smiled innocently.

"Mom!" Ambrose nearly choked on his eggs along with Five who nearly turned into another shade of red as Klaus cheered, leaving Luther to simply hate his life with the raging hangover he had.

After a while Klaus stopped bothering the boys to care for Luther, "Here you go, that'll fix ya."

Luther sighed, "Can we get started."

"Anyone seen any of the others? Diego? Allison? No?" Klaus asked.

"Diego is sitting in a prison cell currently and Allison is going after Vanya." Ambrose said the others nodded, "All right, then, this is the closest thing to a quorum..." Klaus begins banging a spatula on the table causing Luther to flinch from his headache, "... that we're gonna get. Now, listening up. There's no easy way to say this, so I'm just gonna spit it out."

Ben appeared Ambrose nodded his head at him before saying, "This is a bad idea."

"Yeah."

"Klaus..."

"Look, I conjured dad last night."

"I fucking called it." Luther and Five begin to finally listen to their brother which had seemed like a long shot but it was what they needed at least for things to make sense.

"I thought you said you haven't been able to conjure anyone in years," Luther said.

"Ah, yes, I know, but I'm sober. Ta-da! I got clean yesterday, to talk to someone special, and then ended up having this... conversation with dear old daddy himself." Ben sighed, Luther asked about aspirin but Ambrose believed him, "Hey wait a minute I'm serious. Ambrose, you believe me right?"

"Yeah, I believe you don't worry." Five looked at Ambrose and sighed.

Klaus gained some sort of confidence after Ambrose believed him but of course, Ambrose always believed Klaus when he said things and he wished that more would listen to him but they didn't, "Okay, Fine. I'll play. What did the old man have to say?"

"Well, he gave me the usual lecture about my appearance and my failures in life, comparing me to how Ambrose could do much better. Yada Yada Yada. No surprise there but I love ya Ambrose no bad blood here. Even the afterlife couldn't soften a hardass like dad, right? But he did mention something about his murder, or lack thereof, because..."