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𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧

༛༛ ༛ ༛༺༻༛ ༛ ༛༛
ꕺ THE DAY THAT WASN'T ꕺ

"Let's hope you have compensation to cover the damage that's about to occur on this oh-so wonderful establishment."
༛༛ ༛ ༛༺༻༛ ༛ ༛༛

A WOMAN, I CAN ONLY assume to be 'Dot', hastily made her way into the tube room, Five jumping a second later, indicating for me to jump. Landing a little ways away from Five, I couldn't hear the conversation happening, so when Dot left and the elderly woman at the entrance of the room was on her own, I jumped over, grabbed a stapler and knocked her out.

I heard Five chuckle as he walked past me, grabbing the woman's hands and dragging her behind the desk. "What? What's funny right now?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest as I sat on the desk.

Five grabbed the capsule and opened it, reading the note and handing it to me to read. 'Protect Harold Jenkins'. Odd. Who is he? Why is he important?

Sitting down at the woman's desk, Five grabbed another note before finally replying to my question. "The stapler just reminded me of something."

"Oh."

𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓔𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮,
𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓼 '𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓶𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝓐𝓬𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓶𝔂'. 𝓘𝓽 𝔀𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓼𝓸 𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓵! 𝓘 𝓬𝓪𝓷'𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓯𝓮𝓵𝓽 𝓹𝓾𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓪𝓭 𝓰𝓾𝔂𝓼 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝔂, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓼𝓸... 𝓕𝓾𝓷!

𝓘 𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓻, 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼! 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭'𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓶𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮. 𝓘'𝓶 𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓪 𝓵𝓸𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝔀𝓪𝔂, 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓘 𝓽𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷.

𝓦𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓷 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓪𝔂?
𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀, 𝓘'𝓶 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼!

- 𝓕𝓲𝓿𝓮 :)

I remember now, he and his siblings stopped a bank robbery back in 2002. Five was so excited to tell me about the stapler he used to knock out the criminal. I remember reading that letter with a fond smile on my face. 13 year old me was truly love-struck.

Five had finished the two orders of extraction to Hazel and Cha-Cha, placing both of them into separate capsules, closing them both tightly. Standing, Five threw a capsule my way, thinking I knew where to put it. "That one." Five pointed at one diagonal to his, placing his capsule in the tube he was currently at.

Placing the capsule and sending it off, I sighed. I was so tired. I just wanted do go home.

"You know that's not how we do things here." The Handler's voice rang out from behind us both, making us turn and face her quite quickly. I made my way over to Five, him placing his arm around my waist as he leaned on one of the tube machines. We needed the best way of jumping, and if physical contact like this, inconspicuous and incognito, was the way to do it then I'd gladly let Five hold my waist like this. And to be fair, I was quite cold.