| Letters |

𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘

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ꕺ WE ONLY SEE EACHOTHER AT WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS ꕺ

"Don't fucking test me right now."
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FIVE WAS LEANED against his wardrobe. His face held a bored expression as he greeted me.

"It's good to see you again Estelle." He spoke plainly, not moving an inch. He sounded the same as he did in his letters. Rude.

"It's definitely not nice to see you." I simply rolled my eyes and sat on his windowsill, glaring daggers at the boy in front of me.

"You sent me a letter?" I sighed, my eyes gluing themselves to the floor.
"Well yeah, I thought you'd like that little nod to our childhood." He spoke back. His voice was like nails on a blackboard. Irritating.

Silence filled the air before I realised the man... boy in front of me was still 17. I will hold this above his head forever.

"I'm assuming you got the equations to get back wrong?" He nodded, a seemingly solemn expression overcoming his face, "Serves you right for leaving me here, cunt." His eyes widened at the vulgar language leaving my lips.

When we were kids I refused to swear, I thought the words would get me into trouble with my parents so I didn't dare speak nor write cuss words.

"Don't act so surprised. I've grown up, you've grown up." I paused, my purple eyes locking on his green ones, "Why are you back?" He sighed before pushing himself off of his wardrobe and sitting on his bed, placing his head into his hands.

"There's an apocalypse coming. I need your help to stop it, you're one of the only people I trust out of my family, even if you're an outsider to them... please, just trust me." He spoke, eyes looking up at me. They softened when they reached mine. They always did.

I felt the anger bubble.

"Okay... so the first thing you do when you come back isn't to come and say hi, or even a 'I'm back' it is, 'there's an apocalypse coming and you're the only person that has a decent brain and strong powers so I need your help because my family is full of pea brained idiots.'" I sneered, lowering my head before looking up again and shooting daggers at the boy.

"Don't fucking test me right now." My hands shook as I spoke. "You've been gone for god knows how long. I've been worrying day and night, I always wondered if you were gonna come back. Now I'm 30, and you're who knows how old and you're asking me for my help?!?"

"Estelle, calm down for a second. Maybe if you could get it into your fucking head that we have 8 days to save the world, maybe we wouldn't be having this argument right now." Five tried to reason, his voice raised and his scowl clear for the whole universe to see.

"Okay, and? Do I look like I give a flying fuck about the end of the world? And also, Five Hargreeves, if you hadn't of left in the first place then we wouldn't be having this argument! My life was fine before you left, but then you left and my life went down the gutter." My breathing got heavier, my face growing pale as I yelled at the boy.

"Estelle... I'm sorry for leaving but my father- he angered me. He told me I wasn't ready to time travel. But I did it, and it was worse than I ever imagined. Everytime I turned a corner in that place I heard him say to me 'I told you so'. Now that I've seen what's to come, I need your help to stop it. Please, just... come with me." He pleaded, the look in his eyes unfamiliar.

"I'm sorry that happened to you Five, but I know for a fact you don't need my sympathy. You hate sympathy, and I do too. Please don't pity me for feeling the way I felt when you left. I hate the look you're giving me right now." His eyes hardened again, his normal stern exterior coming in.

"I just want to know why you're angry... you knew I'd come back eventually. We talked about this in the letters." Five asked, not knowing what was about to come.

"You wanna know why I'm angry?" I chuckled lowly before speaking again, seething rage filling my being.

"I'm angry because you promised me you'd take me with you. We were supposed to be together. You were supposed to be the freedom I had from my shitty life. You were my escape, Five. And when you left, you took my freedom with you. Now I'm a sad 30 year old woman trapped in a 17 year olds body who does fuck all because she's stuck in the same place because she doesn't know where to go."

I stalked up to the boy and held him in the air with my powers so we were the same height. I brought my face close to his and carried on. "If you think I give a shit about the world ending, you're sorely mistaken. It's your fault that you left, so this is your mess to clean up, not mine. Go find some other sad sack to help you because I'm not gonna fall for it. Find me when you have a decent reason for me to help you, because a simple 'sorry I left' isn't gonna fucking cut it, okay? Okay." I dropped him swiftly and lowered myself from the window to the alley floor carefully, making a swift exit.

I walked across the street and made my way to my house before opening the door. I slumped down as soon as I was in the safety of my own home, tears welling up in my eyes.

First Five comes back and now he's telling me the end is near like some sort of crazy person.

What a fucking life.