The Emerald Witch || Five hargreeves [On Hold/ Slow updates]

Chapter 2

Word Count: 2568 words

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Everyone gathered into the kitchen as Five placed a chopping board on the table. As everyone was sitting at the table, Vivian stood next to Klaus, who was sitting on the table.

"What's the date? The exact date?" He asks, grabbing the bread from the cabinet, "The 24th, " Vanya answered, "Of what?"

"Of March." Vivian answered, looking anywhere else but Five.

Five paused what he was doing to look at Vivian not fazed about how I'm still young, "Good." He says, going back to what he was doing.

"So, are we not going to talk about what just happened?" Luther questioned.

Five ignored Luther. It's great. The first thing he wants to do as soon as he gets back home is eat a sandwich. Klaus looked at Vivian with an 'Is he okay' look before looking back at Five, making his snack.

"It's been 17 years." Luther finally mentions standing up as he wants to get more information out of Five about where he disappeared to."It's been a lot longer than that." He was acting weird like he did something or seen something he never should've or seen at all. He ignores Luther and spatial jumps to the cabinet, grabbing the marshmallows. "Haven't missed that." Luther comments.

"Where did you go?" Diego says Coldly while staring at the ground.

"The future. It's shit by the way." Vivian turned to look up at him when she heard his answer, "called it!" Klaus calls out with his finger up. He did it. She knows he did, "He met the handler." She thought to myself. "I should've listened to the old man." He replies as he goes to grab the peanut butter that's in the fridge,"You know jumping through space is one thing, jumping through time is a toss of the dice." He replied.

"Nice dress." He told Klaus, who looked at him smiling, "Oh, well, danke!"

"How did you get back?" Vanya asked softly.

"In the end, I had to project my consciousness forward into a suspend a quantum state version of myself that existed across every possible instance of time." He was talking in a science and math language that only Vivian and him knew and discussed when we're kids.

"That makes no sense."

"Well, it would if you were smarter Dumbass." Vivian told Diego, smiling at him, Diego looked like he wanted to kill and tried to pounce at Vivian but Luther stopped him.

"How come you're nodding like you understand what he's talking about?" Diego questioned me. Vivian scoffed at him, "Because unlike you, I actually understand what he's saying dumbass." Vivian replied, rolling her eyes at him.

"How long were you there?" Luther asks, looking at him.

"Forty-five years give or take." Five replied while everyone looked at him in shock while Vivian just looked at him, knowing he was telling the truth.

"So what are you saying? Are you 60?" Luther asks, still trying to process what Five just said.

"No." Five replied, looking up at Luther, "My consciousness is 60. Apparently, my body is now 17 again." Five replies finished making his sandwich.

"Wait, how does that even work?" Vanya asked, closing her eyes and nodding her head in confusion.

Five turned to look at Vivian, "Delores kept saying the equations were off. Eh." He replied as he took a bite out of his sandwich, "Bet she's laughing now." He chuckled lightly as he saw Vivian's expression change to jealousy.

"Delores." Vivian asked, knowing she wasn't going to get any answers from Five.

"Hmm." Five replied as he picked up the newspapers that were on the table, "Guess I missed the funeral."