After All This Time

Chapter Thirty-Eight

I had been driving for 3 hours straight, going fast, and after listening to Klaus and Five, and it did not sound good. Klaus asked me if I needed a break from driving, but once I told him no he knew that the way for me to cool off was to leave me alone, as he learned from past experiences. I wasn't paying too much attention because other thoughts and scenarios were getting all caught up in my brain, but from what I did actually listen to, it was a big problem that Klaus was here and his mother was dead before he was born. And that's not good if I had learned anything about messing with the timelines I have been in. We were only about an hour and a half from home at this rate, and they had stopped talking. In the last 15 minutes Klaus had passed out, his head leaning on the seatbelt and his mouth wide open, and Five writing a bunch of equations on his map in the back. He was trying to write and see, but it was dark out so he was squinting his eyes and bringing the paper close to his face. It is an unspoken rule that you're not supposed to turn the lights on in the car when it's dark out, but it had never bothered me because I could see outside at night just as well in the day, so I reached up my arm and flicked on the light for him. I could feel Five's eyes gazing at me, but then it stopped and then I heard him continue to write down things. My mind started wondering about Five and I's fight. I thought about how it went. He was in the heat of finding out another timeline crisis, and I got upset at him for making my nose bleed for the second time that day, and he lashed out at me, but now thinking of it, not on purpose. He would never yell or do anything to hurt me, it was just in the heat of the moment. I am not a forgive and forget person, but I have felt his eyes staring at the back of my head several times in the past couple hours, not in a hateful or annoyed way, but in a guilty way. As weird as it sounds, I can feel it with his energy in the car. I started thinking of more scenarios on what he would say if he apologized and planned out my speech and what I was going to say back, so I was prepared for if he did, or when. I was going to forgive him, of course. But depending on what his apology will be.

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I pulled into the Hotel Obsidian's parking lot in a rush and Five woke up Klaus, we all rushed out of the car, and into the hotel. But I grabbed my gummy worms and put them into my pocket before we did. The three of us ran through the spinning doors and found most of our siblings at the bar or near it.

"Okay, gather round, people." Five announced and we walked to the bar. "Where is- Where's every- Where's Luther?" Five turned around and asked.

Allison responded, "Haven't seen him."

"Who knows?" Diego added.

"Does anyone have an idea where- nevermind he can fend for himself." I began to say.

"Yeah, we got bigger problems to worry about right now." Five said and then plopped Klaus's Mom's journal on the bar.

"Like what?" Allison tipped her glass of alcohol, and said with an attitude.

I looked at my sister's cup, and after that long ass drive, a stupid argument with the man I love, and falling out of a tree, a drink sounded lovely.

Five opened the journal and pointed at a woman, "This." He continued to flip through pages that had pictures of women that looked very similar to us.

"Who are they?" Viktor asked, and I walked behind the bar.

"These are our mothers." Five said, and then flipped the page to a woman with my facial structure, my old H/C hair, and E/C eyes. I leaned over the bar slightly to get a closer look at the woman that randomly gave birth to me, but not for long because Five flipped the page again to Klaus's mother.