Five's Pov
I knock as I quickly enter Y/n's, stumbling over a stray shirt on the floor. Her room is a organized mess, clothes on the floor, paper, notebooks, and pens forming a mountain on the table, and books triple stacked on the limited shelves but they each seems to have a section in the place. They seem to have a home. Y/n herself is on her bed, her eyes closed with earphones, the blanket wrapped around the thin t-shirt she is wearing. I take a few steps closer, jumping over the mess, and tap on her shoulder. Her eyes jerk open in surprise to be replaced by realization to be replaced by nervousness.
"What's the music?" I ask as she pulls the string away from her ears.
"4th of July." She says. "The music, I mean. By Aidan Gallagher."
"Huh. Haven't heard of him before." I mutter. She fights with her hands, scratching the already-red skin and I pull her hands apart from each other, an attempt to save the skin that still remains. She flinches at the touch and move slightly away, leaving my hands hanging in the air.
"Sorry." She says quietly. "Umm... so what are you here for?"
"Still gotta save the world, don't we?" I say, nodding my head towards the door. "Dad meant for us to save the world together, fine, that's what we'll do."
"Yeah, but I think he meant a group larger than a member of two." She sits up, swinging her legs down the bed. "Why me?" she asks. I stare at her.
"It's either you or high-as-the-sky Klaus right now. Even a sober maniac is beter than a one that's not." I say. "I fear it's you because of common sense. C'mon. We gotta go." I turn around to see Y/n frowning and sitting still. I scowl at her. "C'mon." I pull her off and exit the room only to bump into Diego who quickly runs into his room.
"And where have you been?" I ask, peering through the crack in his door.
"Jail."
"Jai-"
"Long story. Where's Luther?" He asks, exiting the room with somehow even more knives in his vest. How many of those does he-? Focus.
"Haven't seen him since breakfast." I answer.
"Yeah. Two days until the world end and he picks a great time to drop off the grid." Y/n adds. Diego's face twists into an expression of concern.
"Shit. Allison is in danger."
A/N
I'm so sorry for the delay and the length of this chapter! I don't know how to explain why it was so late except that it just...felt too busy? My publishing might be a little off schedule from now on...
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