In The Future | Five Hargreeves

37 | A mother's grieve

She was completely numb the whole time even when they went back to the hotel. Five couldn't believe what he just learned and also felt numb like her, he had no idea what to feel and what to think because he can't get mad at her due to her reasons why she time traveled.

They all gathered at the bar while Five poured his family a drink, "So this Kugelblitz, it's...?" Viktor asked "The end of everything. Every rock, every star, every atom sucked into a radiant black hole." Five answered, "Randomly collapsing matter every moment in time across all existence till nothing's left." Lila added.

"Hate to say I told you so, but..." Five said and raised the full bottle of alcohol before drinking.

"You love to say I told you so." Viktor raised his glass before drinking.

Lila looked at Y/N who was quiet the whole time, "You know, it's impressive. Whoever knocked off your mums hated you all enough to end the entire universe while I was friends with Y/N's son." she said causing the girl to look at her.

"Hey, don't go there." Five warned, pointing at Lila.

"Wait, what?" Viktor frowned and looked at the girl who only lowered her head.

"Care to explain?" Luther asked while looking at her.

They all expected an answer from her but no words left her mouth causing Lila to sigh, "I'll explain it." she volunteered making them look at her except Five who roll his eyes.

"Five's the founder of the Commission and Y/N is her future wife that only time traveled here to shag him." Lila explained causing everyone to frown.

"What? What do you mean?" Allison finally asked "In short, she doesn't belong in this timeline." Lila answered and looked at the girl whose face remained emotionless.

"How?" Luther asked in confusion

"Quit this conversation, all right? We have bigger things to deal with right now." Five sighed

"Isn't that big enough? Shouldn't you two talk it out instead of... drinking?" Allison suggested while crossing her arms.

"I'm confused." Luther suddenly said

Y/N sighed and walked outside the hotel and Lila raised her eyebrows at Five who immediately followed her at a fast pace. Luckily, she was a bit slow at walking because of her short legs making him catch her and held her shoulder in the back before facing her.

"I'm visiting my children. You can come if you want to." she only said in a hoarse voice before going outside, holding the car keys.

She got inside the car, holding the steering wheel in both of her hands and taking a deep breath. She was about to leave until the door opened revealing Five who sat beside her.

"I want to meet my children, so if you don't mind..." Five stopped her when she was about to object.

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The couple arrived at the said cemetery as she easily spotted her children's grave beside together. Her eyes dilated, holding her knees as she kneeled on the grass and couldn't contain her tears from falling.

At this moment, she felt like she was just going to end her life as well. She lost the three most important people in her life. Her only family.

Her tears seem to blur her eyes but she had no motivation to do so. She lowered her head and never felt so weak before no words can explain how a mother can feel when she lost her children.

Until she felt a hand pat on her shoulder causing her to weep more than she expected. She slowly stood up and faced Five whose face was tear-stained like he had been restraining himself from crying but failed miserably while his hands stuffed into his pockets.

"I'm sorry..." she said hoarsely and lowered her head, feeling like Five now despised her for all the lies that she told him.

"For the lies, for disobeying you, for– Just for everything." she sniffed and tucked her hair behind her ear because of the wind.

She expected him to scream at her, and demand questions about her for lying ever since the day they met, maybe even go violent. But that was not the case. Instead, he wrapped his arms around her making her frown from confusion.

"Shhh... I understand. You don't have to be sorry." he whispered and kissed her forehead while stroking her hair softly.

She shook her head, "No... I-I lied to you from the start. You should hate me. You... You should break up with me." she sobbed and faced him, holding his hand while secretly taking her husband's wedding ring from his finger without noticing.

"Look at me." he said softly and held her face, "You're here because of your children. Not for me, okay?"

She slowly nodded, finding it extremely confusing why Five didn't do what she expected him to do. His actions were rather unusual and knew Five would never react like this.

Five looked at the children's grave, seeing his last name written making him a bit happy that they had children together.

"Lana and Adie... After all these years, we've finally met." Five sighed and crouched down to hold the tomb.

Y/N kneeled beside him, gazing at his face which she couldn't identify what he was feeling. "Who thought of the name?" Five asked and looked at her "Us. From a fish bowl filled with names. We couldn't choose." she answered, remembering how beautiful that core memory was.

Five smiled from the thought, imagining what that day looks like. It must have been filled with laughter.

"What are they like?" he asked

Before she could answer, she grabbed something from her purse and gave him a small photograph of the four of them. Adie and Lana sitting on a stool with a slight smiles on their faces while Five and Y/N in their middle-aged selves were standing in the back, smiling like proud parents.

Five widened his eyes when he saw Adie's face. They look exactly alike except for the eyes and the skin which he got from Y/N. Lana on the other hand, got her hair from her mother and her eyes from her father which created two beautiful children together.

But Five swore he saw this man before. That man in the sixties resembled him yet he didn't want to make assumptions.

"He's the amore guy you despised." Y/N suddenly said while nodding when she noticed he became tense.

Five looked at the girl, "So all this time I've been jealous to my own son?" he muttered to himself.

The two suddenly jolted up causing them to get confused, seeing a massive blue wave scan them while it ate the people at the cemetery including a dog and a cat.

"That's a Kugel wave." Five whispered as the two stood up.

Y/N looked at her children's grave for the last time before she spoke, "We need to get back to the hotel."