Acorns and Butterflies

Part 7

Five tackled him and teleported.

They landed back in the hotel room.

"Fuck you!" Five cried. "Fuck you, you little bastard!"

Five was crying. He was sobbing!

"I'm so sorry!" Ben cried. "I'm sorry I'm a little bastard!"

Ben wished he wasn't such a cry baby.

Five would let me be daddy Ben if I wasn't a cry baby! Ben thought. But I can't be a daddy like Klaus because I'm always crying!

"I'll do better!" Ben promised, desperately. "I'll stop being mean to Klaus! I'll stop being such an asshole, I swear! Please forgive me!"

"What the FUCK is going on?!" Five shouted.

But it wasn't the Five that had tackled Ben. That Five still had his arms around Ben and he had hidden his face against Ben's chest.

Ben looked up and noticed the OTHER Five was standing on the hotel's bed, glaring at them.

Five... the one in the polo shirt, teleported to the other side of the room and shouted, "I'm sorry, sir! I'm a bad Number Two! Please forgive me! You have to demote me post haste!"

"What?!" the Five on the bed said. "What do you mean, demote you?"

"Please demote me!" the Five in the polo shirt begged. "I miss being Number Five! I don't want to be Number Two anymore! I'm bad at my job!"

"Oh my god!" Ben said. "Five! You're not bad at your job!"

"I obviously am!" Five said, covering his face with his hands.

"Calm the fuck down!" the Five on the bed said, sternly, crossing his arms together. "I fucking demote you, alright? From now on you are Number SIX."

"Huh?" the other Five said. "Six?"

"Yes!" Five barked. "Ben! I'm promoting you to Number Five! You must take care of your younger brother, Number Six!"

"Oh my god!" Ben said. "Thank you! Thank you, sir!"

"Thank you!" Five Junior said, eagerly. "I'll be a good Number Six!"

Then the bathroom door banged open and Diego stood there wearing nothing but his boxer briefs. His hair was dripping wet and he looked panicked.

"I'll be Number Three!" Diego shouted. "For real! I'll be a good Number Three! I promise! For real this time I swear to GOD!"

"What?" Ben said. "Wait... who got promoted to Number Two?"

"Fuck it!" the Five on the bed said. "From now on Vanya is Number Two!"

"Whoa!" the Five in the polo shirt said. "Awesome!"

"Fuck it!" Diego said. "She can be Number Two if you want her to be!"

"What the FUCK have you boys been DOING?!" the Five in the white button up shirt screamed, looking more pissed off then Ben had ever seen him.

He jumped off the bed, grabbed a pillow... then he threw it against the wall.

It sort of... gently fell down to the floor.

"Fuck!" Five said. "You fucking babies! You're driving me crazy!"

"I'm so sorry!" Ben and the other Five said at the same time.

"Whoa," Diego said. "Uh... where's the fire?"

"FUCK!" Five Senior shouted. "Where are your siblings, Junior?!"