𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 || 𝘍. 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴

𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓

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SEASON ONE: We only see each other at weddings and funerals

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New York, 2019.

Finally, after seventeen years, (almost) all of the Hargreeves children were back at the mansion. Five, who found a wooden chopping board from one of the kitchen cupboards, slammed it on top of the table where Klaus sat cross-legged in a skirt he stole from Allison's old wardrobe.

Luther was in one of the chairs, tapping his fingers nervously, the reason? No one knows why. Diego was standing up right beside him, fiddling with one of his knives. Allison stood in between Klaus and Vanya who was sitting across from Luther, eyes watching every move that Five made.

"What's the date? The exact date." Five asked, walking over to a cupboard to grab a bag of bread, checking the expiration date as he looks for a knife. "The 24th." Vanya replied.

"Of what?" The boy holding the bread asked, a bit annoyed about the lack of information that was given. "March." Vanya finished her sentence, looking back down at her hands that were resting on the table.

"Good." Five calmly replied, assembling his peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich messily, making another one thats a bit neater, giving it to Mika their hands lightly brushing against each other. "Thank you." She whispered softly, looking down at the sandwich.

"So, are we gonna talk about what just happened?" Luther cut the silence asking Five, who remained silent as he cleaned off the peanut butter that was left of the knife.

"Its been 17 years." Luther stood up, his body towering over Five. "Its been a lot longer than that." The smaller boy retorted, annoyed that his meal was interrupted.

As Five blinked to look for something else, Mika stood up to quietly retreat to her room to fetch something, thoughts running through her head messily. She still couldn't grasp the fact that he was home.

"I haven't missed that." Luther whispered, shivers spread down his spine as he witnessed the blink, Diego who decided to speak up asked, "Where'd you go?"

"The future. Its shit, by the way." Five replied, blinking back to the table to make another sandwich. "Called it." Klaus raised a finger, his eyes still red from the drugs he was sniffing a while ago.

"I should've listened to the old man. You know, jumping through space is one thing, jumping through time is a—"

"—a toss of the dice. Yeah, I've heard your conversation with Dad." Mika cut him off, leaning against the door frame after coming back to get something from her room. As she caught Five's attention, she walked over to him a bit too close for his liking.

"You forgot to take this." She whispered to him so that only he could hear what she said, "You promised me that you'd never take this off." Lifting his wrist to clip on a vintage watch, a watch that she gave him for his thirteenth birthday, a month before he jumped through time.

Mika looked over to Klaus as she turned away from Five, "Nice dress." Walking out of his line of sight at a corner in the kitchen, hoping to end up somewhere away from him.

"Wait, how'd you get back?" Vanya asked, her mind finally caught up to the shock that her brother was standing in front of them.

"In the end, I had to project my consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across every possible instance of time."

"That makes no sense." Diego stared at the wall, his mind completely blank from the vomit of words Five threw at them. "Well, it would if you were smarter." The boy, who was now making his third sandwich sassed.

Diego, offended by the response quicky got up about to jump Five, but Luther extended his arm to stop him from doing so. "How long were you there?"

"Twenty-five years. Give or take." Five replied, a bit annoyed with all the questioning he's been receiving. He saw Mika leaving to go somewhere in his peripheral vision, he sighed as she left his sight again.

"So what are you saying? That you're 38?" Luther quietly asked as he sat back down, looking up at his brother. "No, my consciousness is 38. Apparently, my body is 17 again."

"Wait, how does that even work?" Vanya said, her hand scratched the nack of her head as she tried to figure out the whole situation. "Delores kept saying the equations were off. Eh."

"Bet she's laughing now." He shrugged as he turned around, his back facing his siblings. "Delores?" Vanya asked another question again.

"A hallucination of Mika..." Five whispered his reply so quietly that no one heard what he said as they didn't need to know that. "Hmm." Was the sound he let out as he picked up a news paper that was released the morning before he arrived.

'CITY SAYS GOODBYE TO SIR REGINALD HARGREEVES'

Was written as the headline, their father's image just below it. "Guess I missed the funeral."

"How'd you know about that?" Klaus asked, sobering up a bit as the conversation dragged. "What part of the future do you not understand?" Five retorted, just about done woth his siblings from asking questions.

"Heart failure, huh?" Five was answered with a few replies of 'Yes.' and 'No.'

"Nice to see that nothing's changed." Five said as he was now exiting the kitchen, his feet dragging him to look for someone who he needed to have a talk with.

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Five blinked to his room and surprise washed all over his face but was quickly replaced by a neutral face, his facade almost faltered when he found Mika in his room, sitting by the window.

"Hey." Was all Five could say as Mika angrily got up from her seat and stomped over to him. "Hey? Hey?! That was all you could say after vanishing for what? 17 years!" She held back tears as she scolded him, grabbing his shoulders so she wouldn't fall.

"Five.. why? Why would you leave us just like that?" She looked into his eyes, desperately looking for an answer. "I had to do it, okay? You wouldn't understand even if I explain it to you." He grabbed the hands that were holding his shoulders, harshly swatting them away, frustrated that she was pushing him to talk about something he wasn't ready to let her know yet. Five blinked to another corner of the room, Mika sighed and turned around to face him.

"You had to because of what? Of your own selfish desires? Hmm. Typical."

End

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Hello, my dear readers
Oh my, another chapter?
Well, I am certainly feeling
a bit generous today.

Its fun to make characters
fight a lot. I enjoy them letting
loose of their toxic side.

It plays into their character
development, you know?

What do you think
Five will tell Mika
why he had to leave?

Would he tell her the truth?
Or will he avoid it?