After All This Time

Chapter Twelve

I ran down the hallway, I took a left, another left and then a right. I finally found bathroom 17 and rushed into it. I then stood behind the door not making a sound. Then about 8 minutes later, I heard a familiar voice pass by the bathroom.

"Ohhh, Eight?! I know you're here somewhere..." Ely thankfully passed the passed the bathroom.

I shut my eyes as a tear ran down my cheek. Thankfully a minute later, the lunch bell rang. I went out from behind the door and leaned up against the sink. Less than a minute later, Five barged through the door.

"Y/N? How long have you been here? The bell just rang and training is halfway across the building."

"Lets just say that training ended early..."

"Ok..." He said suspiciously. We then walked into a stall, he sat on the toilet and I stood in front of him. It was a small stall so we were a little close. Five took out a binder from his shirt.

"What is that?" I asked as I closed our stall and locked it.

"This, is a case managed to the woman who is responsible for apocalyptic matters." But just as he opened it we heard footsteps from the Handler's heels approaching.

"Shit!" We whispered.

"Sit on my lap!"

"What?" I said with furrowed eyebrows.

The Handler opened the door and I immediately sat on him and lifted my legs from the ground.

"So how's your first day going?" She asked.

"Couldn't be better." He said trying to be friendly.

She must have been stalking him in order to know that it was him in the bathroom.

She then walked into the stall next to us, dropped her skirt and started urinating. "Glad to hear it."

 She then started choking, or coughing. Whatever it was, it sounded like a dog gagging. We both looked over and gave her a disgusted look.

"Ah. I burned my rugae. Ever burn your rugae? Ruuugaeee." Five started putting the binder in his shirt trying not to make a sound. "The ridges on the hard palate that help pass food to the esophagus. Anyway, I'm on a liquid diet for two days, hence the marathon of urination. One faulty cog, and nothing works as it should. You know, we value integrity at the office above all else." She got some toilet paper and aggressively start wiping down there. "Trust is essential, and that trust is... built over time. But in the event of a breach, the Commission will act swiftly and without mercy. An efficiency I'm sure you above all people can appreciate, Number Five." She flushed her toilet and pulled up her skirt before walking out of her stall. "I'm feeling peckish. Have you had your lunch?"

She FINALLY stopped talking.

"Not yet."

She turned on the sink to wash her hands, I quickly got off of Five's lap and crawled under the wall into the Handlers old stall.

"Great. How would you and Y/N like to have lunch with me in my office? You could eat solid foods, and I can live vicariously..." She walked back over to Five's stall and peaked through the top. "-through you."