Escaping Reality || Five Hargreeves ||

Chapter 2.3

"So this is the guy you were talking about?"

"Yes Mr Ruby"

Autumn said as she glanced at Alice who was standing beside her wearing a black jacket along with some trousers and a white turtle neck from Autumn's closet. The rest were from some of the people that went to Autumn's apartment and left their clothes.

"What's your name, boy?"

"Al....Alastor sir, Alastor Jonquil"

'A pretty good name, nice going Alice'

Alice thought, as Ruby seemed to buy it and nodded.

"Alright you're hired, no sleeping with the girls working here though."

Alice choked on her own spit for a moment, before recovering and saying a quick thank you to her new boss.

"You start at 7:00 pm tonight"

Alice nodded as she and Autumn walked out of the club, relieved that Ruby bought it. As they walked out, a certain half gorilla walked in from the back door and saw Autumn walk off with someone familiar.

"Who was that?"

"Some guy named Alastor that I hired to work here, I think it's Autumn's 10th boyfriend or something. She better not just ask me to hire him so that they can be all lovey dovey during work hours"

Ruby said as he stood up from his seat and put out his cigar and walked past Luther who can't seem to shake off the thought that this Alastor guy seemed really familiar to him.

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"Are you ready to go Alice?"

Autumn called out as she knocked on the bathroom door. Meanwhile Alice had a somewhat hard time finding some things to bind her chest. Buttoning up her shirt, she looked at herself one final time in the mirror and sighed.

She'll have to talk to Luther, maybe talk some sense into him before Five gets here. Maybe she could talk him into helping Five and not be a total spoiled child.

She'll just have to roll with all of this for another couple of weeks and then help Five with the second apocalypse.

'If I can even survive for another couple of weeks. I hope I do before Five gets here—just gonna have to talk some sense into Luther and if he doesn't listen then.......I honestly don't know what to do..'

Alice thought as she sighed and grabbed her coat from the sink.

"Yeah, I'm ready let's go—"

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'I so wanna beat the shit out of these people'

Alice thought as her eye twitched in annoyance from all of these customers she was serving alcohol and drinks to. She was currently told to work behind the bar, the drinks weren't all that hard to make as the other bartender she was with taught her the basics.

"Hey pretty boy! Another cocktail over here!"

One of the customers said as they glanced at her and admired the girl on the stage dancing eroticly. Alice sighed, and went ahead and placed all of their drinks on a circular tray as she went up to their table.

She decided to swallow up the annoyance she felt and just serve these assholes for another couple of hours.

"Uh, how much for her?"

The guy asked Alice as she placed their drink on the table. Alice rolled her eyes, and internally groaned.

"Sir, I don't—"

"Name your price! And I'll double it"

One of the guys interjected as they too were interested in the pretty girl on the stage. Then dickhead over here got annoyed and argued that he asked first—and it went all downhill from there as Alice stood in front of two dickheads arguing as they were pretty much close to punching each other's faces off.

Alice was about to leave and go back to her post when the other guy decided to do the first hit. But then, the guy dodged it and Alice was unfortunate enough to get hit instead when she was just about to leave.

Alice held her now broken nose as the two idiots just ignored her and continued fighting.

'That's it-'

Alice grabbed the two beer bottles on the tray and smashed it over at the guy's heads. They stumbled a bit and lost balance from the impact as the people around them now tried to pull them apart before things got more heated.

"The girls here are not some fucking products that you can buy assholes"

Alice said as she glared at them, she was annoyed that they thought that the girls here were some properties they could just own and buy with their money.

"Well they're working here aren't they? It's their job to entertain us!"

"You little—"

Alice was about to give this guy another hit in the head before she was pulled off by someone.

"That's enough Alastor"

Alice looked up to see Luther who seemed to already know that it was Alice. He escorted the troublesome customers out and pulled Alice aside to talk for a bit.

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"I thought all of you were dead"

Luther said as they were now in an alleyway behind the club.

"Yeah, well, newsflash Luther, I'm alive—you disappointed about it or something?"

Alice said sarcastically as she placed a napkin on her bleeding nose and leaned on the wall beside her.

"No, no—it's just.....look I'm sorry I smashed a vase over your head okay? It's just, I got stranded here for a long time and haven't seen the rest. It's been a year, Alice"

"For me it's been at least two days, I've been staying with Autumn. She saved me when I got myself into a bit of trouble when I first got here."

Alice mumbled out through the napkin as she felt the bleeding starting to stop.

"Your siblings are—"

Alice internally groaned as she still can't say spoilers out loud. She hoped Luther's ape mind got what she tried to say but to her dismay he only gave her a confused look.

"Okay, look if your gonna work for Mr. Ruby—you gotta learn how to fight at least."

"Are you saying that you're willing to teach me?"

Alice raised a brow at Luther, wondering if he was serious or not. Luther gave a somewhat offended look at Alice as if he thought that Alice thought he couldn't teach—he watched Pogo do it when they were kids, so how hard could it be?

"Of course I am, plus your kind of dragged into all of our problems now so it's better if you know how to fight since you stick around Five a lot"

Alice gave Luther a glare as she covered the red tint dusted on her face with a napkin and sighed.

"Fine, whenever your ready 'teacher'"

"I feel like I'm pogo when you call me that"

"Oh please monkey boy, you two may share the same DNA but not the same mind. Just come get me when your ready to teach me"

Alice said as she patted Luther on the shoulder and went back inside the