𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛

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I grab Vanya's book on Five's assigned desk and open up the page I had left off on. Naturally, my legs go up onto the table, moving an empty mug over slightly. Now writing something like this is bold. To say the least.

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I once again pulled the string out from Five's wound and cut it with some scissors I just made.
"Do you only have Billy The Cho-Choo band-aids? That's hilarious." I say laughing and turning around to go grab one from the box.
"You work with what you have. And you said you won't make any other ones." He adds. I feel his eyes land on me.
"Of course not. I'll only make them if it's necessary." I take out the white pieces and stick them onto his arm. For good measure, I kiss the injured area and stand up from my kneeling position, brushing off my grey bell-bottom jeans. As well as putting my pink sunglasses over my face again before making a cigarette and lighting it, some ash sadly falls on my pink top.

After Five puts on his button-down (and he insists I help him), vest, and coat, we finally go out through the window.
I see Klaus rummaging through the dumpster as he yells something about his dad and priced artifact box.
"I'd ask what you're up to Klaus but then it occurred to me. I don't care." Five dates his response to Klaus's yelling.
"Other ways out of the house buddy."
"Well this one involved the least talking with all you idiots... or so I thought."
"Do I count as one of those or-?" I ask before he interrupts me.
"If you did you wouldn't be tagging along."
"Hey so, you need any more company today? I could clear my schedule."
"Looks like you got your hands full." Five says, both his hands holding onto his backpack strands.
"This? No, no I can do this whenever. I'm just-" he's able to make out before collapsing into the dumpster. He pulls out a bagel and begins eating it and the sigh is so gross it makes me wanna take my second shower of the day.
"Anastasia is fine funding your drug habit." Five responds.
"Maybe I just wanna hang out with my brother and his girlfriend!" Klaus yells towards us but Five begins walking and ignores him so I follow along as well. But wave to Klaus before me, Five and Dolores hop into the van.

Five stares at the outside of the building before eyeing a doctor who began walking inside. The same doctor we had "talked" to and threatened. Five opened Dolores's bag and pulled out a bottle of vodka and handed it to me.
"No Dolores, I'm not drunk, I'm working." Five says and my eyes dart from him to the mannequin.
"Agreed Dolores he's drunk. Listen to your woman, Five."
"She's not my woman."
"Don't let him talk to you like that Dolores." I retort before we quiet again.
"Yes, it's about the eye thing. This is the place it was made. Or... will be made. We just have to wait."

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"Five." I nudge his arm slightly, "Five." He continues to zone out and I simply sigh before I grab him by the shoulders.
"Five!" Suddenly he jolts back to reality with a terrified look on him as he stares into my eyes. And suddenly he pulls me in an embrace and his arms are wrapped around my torso. I hug him back and wrap my arms around his neck and we stay there for a few moments as our breathing synchronizes and his heartbeat slows down to a normal pace.
But just then we hear a knock on the car window and Five pulls away from me abruptly. I find myself missing his touch just a little.

"Five!" Luther is yelling as he knocks on the window and Five opens it up for him. The giant tries to fit himself into the front of the car but fails miserably and somehow contorts himself into a back bending position.
"You shouldn't be- How did you find us?" Five asks again before Luther perks up on the us and looks back at me as I'm kneeling in between the two front seats, slightly behind Dolores's bag.
"Um." He says before we all turn around and Klaus is seen in the back dancing with Dolores.
"Hey a little privacy we're hitting it off here in the back." Klaus says before he gets something thrown at him by Five that barely misses me.
"Get out of here! You can't be here! We're in the middle of something!" Five says before Klaus immediately gives a response of "yeah you and...Anastasia was it? Are having a stakeout with the most romantic tension I've ever seen! I could cut the air with a butter knife!" He says and both me and Five simply stand there staring at him.
"But... any luck finding the one eyed man?" He adds and we all decide to ignore his earlier comment as he sits next to me and I lean more on Five's side.
"No." Five responds in a whisper like if he says it any louder it'll become official that we can't find this guy.
"What's he talking about?" Luther asks before I add, "I don't really think it matters anymore Luther."
"What'd you want Luther?" Five asks, clearly irritated.
"So, Grace may have had something to do with dad's death. So I need you to come back to the academy... without any... company." He says and his eyes dart to me for a moment before he looks back at Five.
"Excuse me? I'm not gonna let anyone talk to me like that! You think you're shit? I will fig-" I'm able to get in before Five puts his hands on my shoulder and squeezes it tightly. Okay, I'm taking the hint, I'm backing up. I give an exhausted sigh before finally saying what I should've been saying. "Luther, you don't know what is truly important right now."
Klaus then says something ridiculous about waxing his ass with chocolate pudding and it actually gets a laugh out of me before Luther questions why he's here. They start a small argument before Five (sadly) kicks Klaus out of the car.

"What the hell are you up to?" Luther asks.
"You wouldn't understand what we're doing."
"Try me, last time I checked I'm still the leader of this family." And what he said was so funny to me I actually let out a short laugh.
"Last I checked, she and I are both 28 years older than you."
"You know what your problem is?"
"Really hoping you'll tell me."
"You think you're better than us. You always have. Even when we were kids. Now that you've found someone you see as an equal you're keeping her around and clinging to her like a dog." Is Luther referring to me right now?
"But the truth is you're just as messed up as the rest of us. We're all you have. And you know it." Correction that I should also be counted in that 'we' but I don't say anything.
"I don't think I'm better than you, Number One. I know I am. I've done unimaginable things, things you couldn't even comprehend."
"Right."
"Just to get back here and save you all."
Just then we see Klaus run out of a corner drug store and into the road where he hits himself off a car and falls to the ground as all the shit he stole falls with him.
"Bet you're starting to wonder if that was the smartest decision." I say and Five looks over at me and shoots me a smile that I understood him.

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"You know there's only six days left." I say while I rest both my arms on the top of the van's from chairs.
"I know neither of you have to tell me."
I'm assuming Delores says something about how stupid this is and his response is "Yeah, you got a better idea." He scoffs lightly, "yeah okay then."
We see Lance, or whatever, leaves his car with a duffle bag before another car pulls up and he places the bag into the car. The license plate number is 598 GPD. That might be useful later. He stashes a folder into his jacket and the car drives away.

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Author's note-

Hey sillies! I said I'd be back! I started writing this chapter and then stopped so I just started it back up again. I'm gonna cut some dialogue off from now on to hurry this story up. I'm honestly just like super excited to continue writing.

As always the queens outfit,

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QOTC:
Five sees Stacy as an equal?

A: I'm aware that Five doesn't think anyone is his equal in the show but I wanted to make it a point that the reason he even lets her around as much as she is because she's powerful... and maybe he knows something she doesn't...