In The Future | Five Hargreeves

36 | So long, farewell

They reached the hotel and Five gathered everyone in the bar, Y/N noticed Allison drinking and did not show any interest in the topic when Klaus laid a book on the table and started flipping the pages.

"These are our mothers." Five shared while showing different women on each page until it reached to a photograph of an Amish woman as Klaus pointed his finger at it, "That one's mine."

"They're all dead." Five continued, "They all died on the exact same day, October 1st, 1989."

"That's our birthday." Viktor said "Not anymore, it isn't." Five corrected, "They all died before we were born."

"That's dumb. If we weren't born, how can we exist?" Diego asked

"Exactly."

"What are you saying?" Viktor asked

"I'm saying, when we jumped here, we created a time paradox. All right? Not just any paradox. This is the grandfather paradox." Five explained.

"What the hell is a grandfather paradox?" Klaus questioned.

Five looked at Y/N who was skimming the book, seeing their birth mothers. The girl looked at him back as he nodded, getting an idea of what the grandfather paradox meant.

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Everyone was rather stunned mixed with confusion when Five and Y/N explained what the meaning behind the grandfather paradox. She grab a glass of water and drink it, hydrated from their questions and explanation.

"I'm so confused." Diego said while playing with his knife.

"Shocking." Allison whispered

"Well, someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn't exist. But clearly, we do exist, and the universe can't handle it, which is a problem." Viktor said

"Big problem." Five sighed before drinking his coffee, wincing from the disgusting taste since he was used to Y/N's.

"Yah!" Stanley kicked the air

"Stanley!" Diego called, "Now is not the time to be doing karate, okay?!"

"Mom said I need to practice." Stanley replied with sass.

"Yeah, well, she's not wrong. You're very bad."

"Well, I saved your pathetic ass."

"Okay, hold on. So we caused a paradox. What does that mean?" Allison asked "It's hard to say. It's all been theoretical until now, but things started to disappear." Y/N now answered "What things?" Viktor asked, "Right now? Uh, lobsters?" she answered.

"And a shit ton of cows!" Klaus exclaimed and got up from the ground.

"We have a feeling this is just the beginning." Five added.

"A feeling? Aren't you two retired?" Allison asked "We want nothing more." Five replied as Allison walked up to them, "You know, you can't drag us through hell because you two have an itch only an apocalypse can scratch and then expect us to deal with the fallout. You're not the boss, especially not you." she exclaimed and pointed at the girl.

Y/N scoffed in disbelief, "Who do you expect to deal with the fallout? We were just trying to protect this family." she hissed.