What is he hiding?

The Truth

"Shit! That was so stupid! Of course they're going to find out now! You just clipped yourself away! Ugh!" Five cursed at himself, he tried to stay calm but he ended up having to grab his wrist again. It wasnt until after he stained his uniform sleeve that he noticed he was bleeding.

"My lucky day," Five said sarcastically looking for some kind of first aid kit. He knew he was fucked and there was no way out of it. If he went back in time he might go back too far and he couldn't risk that. It was only a matter of time before they found him and his secret.

"Five!" He could hear his siblings calling his name over and over again getting closer, louder until one of them were in the basement. Klaus. Not much to worry about, still a roadblock.

"I never liked it down here," Klaus pouted before walking around in search of Five. Five was of course hiding. It was probably one of the worst hiding spots. It was good, you couldn't see him, but the pipe was burning hot and if he didn't wear long sleeves he might've been bleeding. It was so it almost burned his clothes. It was kind of in plain sight but still he was hidden. Every now and then a drop of water would fall on his making it hard to gag at the smell and the thought of how dirty it was. "Five?"

Five froze in his spot Klaus practically inches away from Five. One wrong move and he was caught if he wasn't already. Closing his eyes shut hoping from to leave was the best course of action. He couldn't clip away with the current state of his mind otherwise he'd clip away without a second thought.

"I guess he's not down here," Klaus frowned getting closer to Five. "Maybe I should get a little bit of my magic plant,"

Klaus smiled getting closer and closer to Five. Without looking Klaus reached his hand down and grabbed a bag of what Five thought was mold and quickly putting it back not seeing Five, crawled up next to the steaming pipe. Klaus grabe something out of his pocket just out of Five's view.

"Klaus. We're trying tk find Five, not get high." Vanya said. Klaus jumped dropping the mysterious item to the floor. Vanya raised an eyebrow giving a heavy sigh. She wrapped an arm around Klaus walking him out the basement. Five knew he should wait a minute before getting out. Five got out from behind the pipe hissing as he grabbed his shoulder. The pipe easily burned his clothes down to his skin. In was one nasty blister.

"Looks nasty," Diego said arm against the closest wall. Five stared at him like a deer in head lights. "Look Five. Just tell us what's going on. At least let me bandage you up," Diego said wavering his hand towards Five's shoulder. Five squinked. "I won't ask any questions, or tell the others anything I see,"

It was a convincing deal, but he knew his siblings. They wouldn't believe that what they saw was nothing. "You can bandage it. No questions. Two more things. One, You tell them, just not the truth, saw I don't know, I burned my hand really bad. Two, don't make any requests, and you'll know why,"

Diego nodded. He leaded Five to his room grabbing a first aid kit. Five handed Diego something which he didn't realize what it was until it was in his hand. "Five... You didn't-" Diego said eyes widening as he roughly pulled up Five's sleeve quickly unwrapping the bandages along Five's arm. Five let out a loud his but Diego was too shocked to see the red, white, brownish black lines up and down his wrist. Diego inhaled sharply before letting go. He looked away, almost conflicted. Not a word was spoken between the two.

Five silently took of he jacket and shirt revealing bandages on almost his entire upper body. Diego turned back aeound to face him staring at him then down at his high socks. Five sighed taking his shoes and socks showing almost the same result, only there wasn't any bandages. Diego sent the knife down on the nightstand before tending to Five's wounds. The part that worried Diego the most was how skinny he was. He didn't know if he was so malnourished because he was suicidal or because of the apocalypse, or a but of both. He settled on a bit of both. Luckily none of them were too deep of infected.

"I know you said no questions or requests,"

"Diego younknow questions and requests I meant."

"Yeah, but can I bandage your thighs? You're socks won't hide the bandages and-"

"It's fine, just if you have thinner wrap go with that. If the ask what happened say I burned my legs and my hand was cut because I thought your knife was a marker," Diego nodded before looking it the kit. Five was probably the luckiest, and unluckiest person ever. There was barely enough bandages to cover his thighs with the thin wrap.

***
"What happened?" Allison asked

"He burnt his legs and cut his hand,"

"How'd he burn his leg?" Vanya asked. He knew he was going to get burried in a pile of questions on Five.

"Pipes in the basement,"

"I didn't see him," Klaus stated putting a hand on his chin as if in deep thought,

"You went for your 'Magical Plant' and not Five," Diego said glaring at Klaus as he coward away with a shy smile.

"Did you find lur if was, ya know?"

"I did, we're all good. Those were the only injuries," Diego fibbed getting relieved sighs from Luther and Allison. He felt so bad, but he had to keep his word. Five was depending on him. He couldn't turn his back on him, not now, not ever.

"Good thing you told us the truth,"