After All This Time

Chapter Forty

We teleported back into the hotel, but not like we normally would. For some reason, the briefcase decided to blink us 5 feet high into the air. Lila, Five and I all fell from the sky and landed on top of a desk in the lobby, and as we landed, it broke into many pieces. I landed in front of the two of them, Five's head landed on my back, and Lila landed on top of Five.

"Shit." Five whispered.

Lila sat up quickly and pushed Five off her, giving him a hateful grunt. Five rolled off of me and onto a chunk of the desk.

"Where have you been?" Viktor asked, walking up to me and helping me up .

"Facing my mortality, Viktor. I don't recommend it." Five stood up, getting his balance.

"What?" Viktor looked at me with his eyes wide.

I shook my head at him with wide eyes, signaling him not to ask too many questions.

"You had the briefcase?" Allison nearly shouted at us, "We've been looking for this!" She ran over to it and looked at it.

"Well, look no further." Five responded, "That's the last one on Earth."

The briefcase was banged up, deformed and slightly smoking, so it was obviously non usable.

"Was the last one." I sighed.

Allison threw it down and walked over to the stairs and sat down on them. Five and I both walked over and stood above the briefcase.

"Yeah, that's toast." Five sighed. "Oh shit. All right."

I looked over at the remainder of our siblings, and I saw Lila hugging Diego.

"Wait." Diego furrowed his brows, "You're happy to see me. What's wrong?"

Lila still had her arms wrapped around his neck, "Turns out there's less time to hold grudges that I had planned. You're off the hook." Lila looked around, "Hey, where Stan?"

Luther pulled Diego to the side with an awkward grin, "Excuse me. One second."

As Diego turned around, I noticed a large cut on the back of his neck, surrounded by dried up blood as Luther was talking to him, but I wanted to know what they were saying so I listened to Diego.

"Hell yes! We kicked some serious ass last night." Diego said with a lowered voice.

"What the hells gotten into this family?" Luther asked.

"I don't know, but its awesome." Diego responded, "Swear to God, I've never seen her do things like she did yesterday. She was brutal. It's fine. You know, just needed to blow off some steam. I helped. She's good."

Diego looked over at me, and I stared at him with furrowed brows, and I tilted my head in confusion why he would influence Allison to do something like that.

"Oh, yeah. Real good." Luther responded sarcastically.

"Hey, Chatty Cathys, quit the chit chat, all right?" Five called over to them. "I'm calling a family meeting here."

I walked to the side of Five over to one of the large blue pillars that were holding up the hotel and leaned on it. Lila tried to walk away, but Diego whispered something to her and pulled her back. I looked around and realized that we didn't have everyone here. Klaus.