power lines / five hargreeves x gn!reader

Barnhouse Showdown

They reappeared behind a pile of hay, with a good enough view of the entrance. They stayed as silent as possible as Diego talked to Lila. And then, the moment. They saw the Handler approach and instantly dove towards her, using reality to assist them in twisting the gun from her grasp. They pointed it at her and she pulled her hands up in surrender. The group stared in shock at the two. Mostly in confusion as to where Y/n had come from.

Lila quickly recovered from the surprise, glaring at the Handler, "It's true, isn't it? What Five said."

The Handler shot a small glare at Five, and then glanced over at where Y/n was still pointing the gun.

"Answer me! Is it true?" She shouted, eyes watering with tears.

The Handler opened her mouth, "Well-"

She was quickly interrupted by a flurry of bullets firing into her. She fell to the floor, eyes still wide with shock as a steady stream of blood quickly began to flow out. Everyone stood in shocked silence for a moment. Axel stood there, gun in his hand.

Lila began to run.

"The case!" Luther shouted, going after her- though he was quickly stopped by Diego. Lila turned around to glance at him as she vanished with the briefcase.

Everyone was very quiet for a moment. Axel and Y/n stared at each other.

Y/n slowly, very slowly, moved and dropped the gun to the ground. They lifted their hands up, "Equals."

Axel looked around at the group in silence for a moment. After a few painstakingly silent moments, he dropped his gun to the floor. "Lika." he said, and left the barn.

Luther glared down at Diego, "I almost had her, why the hell did you stop me?"

"Because I love her." He muttered back with a grin. Luther got up, a frown on his face.

"Who the hell was that guy?" Klaus asked, gesturing in confusion.

"Vanya! Help!" Cried a voice from below. Sissy.

"Harlan." Viktor gasped, darting away. Y/n ran after them, the others following behind.

As Viktor pushed through the energy sphere, Y/n grabbed onto him by the arm and went in too, unharmed. The pair of them sat in front of him.

Y/n gave him a small smile, "Here to help, hi."

Viktor glanced at them with a nod before turning back to him, putting their hands over his, "Harlan. Harlan. Whatever it is I gave you, I can take it back, okay? We just- we need to stop this." After a moment, Harlan nodded again.

Y/n put their hands on Viktor's shoulders, giving him a nod and closing their eyes in an intense focus as Viktor readied his powers, before tightly gripping Harlan's knees. As Viktor worked on taking back the power, Y/n frowned harder. They focused hard on reality, on using it to become one with Viktor and Harlan and their powers. And then, they used it to take from Harlan, to identify the power like antibodies might identify a virus and eliminate the strain, eliminate all of it, and to return it to Viktor where it belonged. It was hard, and they could feel it draining themself but it seemed to be working. They could feel the threads of reality thriving on this, feel the power of it working alongside Viktor's abilities. And if they opened their eyes, they would see faint distortion flickering on Harlan as the powers were removed. It felt like an infinitely long time of this, but eventually Y/n could feel as if there was no more left to take from Harlan, as if there were absolutely zero traces left of the magic within. And they felt as if, in a minute, reality would start taking from Viktor too.

And this time, the shockwave came from Viktor as the energy sphere vanished and all returned to normal. Y/n opened their eyes, stumbling back as they tried to catch their balance on the floor of the barn. It was over. Everyone was silent for a while. Viktor smiled in relief at Harlan, trying to catch their breath.