In The Future | Five Hargreeves

23 | Long time no see

They reached the house as she turned on the lights, figuring that Elliott was now asleep, "Who's next? Seems like your conversation with Luther didn't end well." she suddenly asked and the boy looked at her, "Do you know where Allison lives?" he asked.

"I don't know. All I know is that she's married." she shrugged and went inside the room to get ready for bed.

After getting ready, she went outside while holding her pillow only to see Five putting a blanket on the couch, wearing Elliott's spare pajamas.

She walked toward him, "Mind if you sleep with me?"

The boy only looked at her making it awkward all of a sudden, "Please?" she pleaded "I miss sleeping next to you."

"We wouldn't fit on the couch." he sighed

"Who said we're sleeping on the couch?" she asked and grab his blanket on the sofa before going to her room.

Five followed her and took his time to look around her room, seeing different things like jewelries on her vanity and a pretty dress hanging.

Before she lay on the bed, she opened her vanity drawer, grabbed a box, and gave it to him. "What's this?" he frowned "Open it so you can see, idiot." she replied as he opened it revealing a simple silver watch.

"Figured your favorite word is 'time' besides 'shit' so I got you one." she said and put her hands on her back and saw his eyes dilated, rubbing the watch using his thumb.

"You don't have to." he only said, blinking his eyes.

"Oh, hush. I bought it for you for your birthday when I was in Paris. I will not accept no as an answer." she exclaimed

"Belated Happy Birthday, love." she whispered before pecking his lips.

He felt his stomach produce millions of butterflies including his heart which felt warm all of a sudden. All his life, he had never received a gift besides The Handler but it didn't feel genuine. He looked up and saw the girl he loved smiling at him while admiring the gift.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"That watch can be on your wrist tomorrow. I'm tired." she yawned and walked her way to the bed, turning the lights off.

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She woke up earlier than he expected. He rubbed his eyes to adjust to the light and immediately smell the scent of coffee causing him to get up and went outside seeing Elliot eating cereal and Y/N drinking coffee while reading the newspaper.

"Good morning, sleepy head." she greeted while reading, about to take a sip of her coffee but Five grabbed it.

He looked at the photographs of his family, "Elliott, did you develop these photos yourself?" he asked.

"Of course. Can't exactly drop that stuff off at the neighborhood Fotomat. Government has eyes everywhere." he answered while eating his cereal.

"I didn't see a dark room." Five said "Yeah, I converted the hallway closet." Elliott explained while Five scribbled something on a film that he was holding.

"Can you develop this?" he requested and gave him the footage.

"Huh. 'Frankel Footage'. Friend of yours?" Elliott asked while examining the small box, "Cousins on my robot mother's side. Can you do it or not?" Five replied sarcastically.