Till the World Ends // Five x reader

21 End Of The World

I stood behind Five as he took out the pneumatic tube. On the label it was typed 'Hargreeves Five and Hargreeves (Y/n)'.

   "How the hell did she find us?" I wonder.

I looked at Five and soon saw realisation in his eyes. He reached into his pocket and pulled out wrapped candy's. He opened one, it wasn't a sweet, it was a tracker. "I took these from the Handles office... she's good."
Five dropped it then smashed it with his shoe.
Then Five opened it, it was odd, it wasn't a normal note with instructions, it was a fortune cookie, the the ones you get with Chinese food. He crashed it open and it said, 'TIME MARCHES ON... OR DOES IT? Rain Quail, Rm 12.'
He took my hand and we Blinked.

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We walked through the hall of a motel to door number 12. "Five, (Y/n), I've been waiting for you." We hear the Handler call from inside.
It was actually a nice big room. But there was a lady tied up to a chair, duck tape over her mouth, on top of a table with a full bath behind her, I recognised the woman, she worked at the doughnut shop. The Handler was sitting on the bed.

"You must really like doughnuts." Five comments.

"Help me." The woman's plea was muffled by the tape.

"It's been a while." The Handler says.

"Three days." Five tells her.

"For you, maybe. But for me, it's been a lot longer since I've seen those adorable little shots."

"Well, you've had time to heal." Five looks her over.

"Luckily, for the three of us, time... is the one thing my organisation has an abundance of." She stands up walking towards us.

"Got your message, by the way." He holds out the candy wrapper. "Nice packaging, but so much for Commission protocol."

She chuckles, "There have been... a lot of changes since you left the Commission. You two really did some damage. The briefcases were all but destroyed, to say nothing of the... highly trained personnel you killed. After all, what is an institution if not for—"

"What do you want?" Five interrupted.

"To be happy. To have a simple... unfettered life, to... do the work my superiors require. But... you two being here, well, it complicates all that." She sat down on the couch.

"Billions of people are about to die tonight." I state. "You can change that."

"Tonight, tomorrow. So little difference in the scheme of things. Don't you remember the Commission's raison d'être? What's meant to be is meant to be, or, as I like to say, que será, será." She says eating some Chinese food.

"It's bullshit in any language. Why did you call us here?" Five asks.

"I wanna offer you two a choice. Everyone's going to die tonight, but... unlike the rest of the world, you both have a way out. You can abandon your family and take (Y/n) with you and skip ahead to the apocalypse, take a walk about for a few decades, wondering if I'll come back and offer you a job again, or you can stay here, with your family, and..." She took a bottle of champagne. "Die a horrible death." She laughs. "While you weigh your options, just know your siblings are fighting for their lives without you."

"You brought us here to pull us away." Five realized.

"It's been nice knowing you two, Five, (Y/n)." Five quickly grabbed my hand as she spoke teleporting away.

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Five and I arrived in the Icarus Theatre. I felt Vanya was already uncontrollably strong, but there was more danger on top of that.