ROSES AND FLAMES - Five Hargreeves

𝟯𝟰. "why does he look the same?"

Time travel, it always fascinated Josie Parker to know it's real, and how she also knew someone who was able to do spatial jumps and come out of thin air. Josie Parker felt complete the moment she was back in a house she was once in, sighing and looking around, everyone around her for the first time.

Lunging towards five and hugging him, josie kissed his cheek as they were both so happy to be here, letting go. "Oh five, you beautiful bastard." She sighed, looking at him. It was the day after the supposed apocalypse, and yet everything was still in tact.

They were back to 2019.

"Okay, I need a drink." Josie said, feeling complete for once, going to the living room, furrowing her eyebrows when she saw a painting above the mantle, but it wasn't five. "Wait, guys! Isn't that your dead brother?" Hearing what josie asked, Diego walked to be beside her, furrowing their eyebrows.

"I knew you'd show up eventually." Her eyes widened at the sound of Reginald's voice, seeing him rise from his chair, everyone turning to their left. "Why does he look the same?" Josie whispered towards fives ear, making him also see that.

"You're alive." Whispered Luther, their father looking exactly the same from when they last saw him. "Of course, why wouldn't I be?"

"Okay, this isn't adding up, last time I checked he was dead." Josie mumbled, scratching her head and trying to figure out why he looked the same, five trying to not make that her hyperfixation. "Home, this isn't your home." Reginald spoke, confusing josie even more.

"What are you talking about? This is the umbrella academy." Allison observed, Josie missing fives painting on the mantle, wondering why it was their brother Ben instead.

"This, is the sparrow academy." Josie turned just like  everyone else when they saw five people and a cube standing on the balcony, all dressed in uniform. What surprised her the most was their dead— now un-dead brother Ben, standing before them.

"Holy shit." Josie said, grabbing fives hand, both realizing the timeline has been changed somehow. "And who are the weirdos on the balcony?!" Diego yelled, staring them all down.

"They are the sparrows, my children."

Running her hands down her face, josie wondered if this was a dream and maybe she died at one point, pinching her arm. She didn't like this feeling, something completely off and nobody else was seeing it.

Wishing someone would slap her in the face, Josie was feeling a little uneasy, wondering if the stitches opened back up. Beginning to watch the siblings argue against the sparrows, Josie turned when she saw Reginald still standing there, walking over to him.

"Ah, you're still with them?" He asked, both watching the arguments.  "If i remember correctly, you're supposed to be dead, this is the umbrellas house and that picture was of the little guy. So what changed?" She asked, flinching at Ben punching Klaus and watching him fall backwards.

"I'm afraid I don't need to answer that young girl, you and that boy are probably the smartest out of that bunch, I'm sure you can figure it out all on your own." Offended by statement, Josie could not figure it out by herself, screaming when she saw Klaus and Luther flying towards her.

Feeling the urge to cry, Josie was lucky to only have half her body underneath Luther, and on top of Klaus, groaning.  "I was hoping this is how I would die." Josie sarcastically cried out. crawling her way out as she heard Luther apologize, not wanting to indulge in this fight.

It didn't take long for all the siblings to fight one another, Josie wondering how they were able to do this, literally fighting an hour ago. Leaning against the wall between three of the sparrows, none of them thought to attack her, one of then offering her to eat something.