Whisper in Time - Five x fem!reader

07

𝐈 𝐀𝐖𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 my body laid across Five, my head dangling off of the center console.

Everyone was slowly waking up from the crash we just endured, scanning ourselves for broken bones and other shit.

I turned back to Five, seeing his eyelashes flutter and his eyes slowly open.

"Hey, you okay?" I asked, sitting back up in his lap.

"Are you? You had no seatbelt." he furrowed his eyebrows, scanning my body for any visible cuts and other things.

"Yeah, you held onto me until the last second. I'm okay." I smiled, lowering his arm from my other one.

"Yoo-hoo, lovebirds? Can you guys stop eye-fucking each other for two seconds? They got the girl." Diego groaned from beside us.

"I hope you go through the windshield next time." I spat, opening Five's door and slowly lowering myself to the ground.

Everyone followed me, slowly getting out.

We gathered around, looking at the damage and talking about Jennifer.

"Leave it to this clown car of a family to botch a simple search and rescue." Ben walked from the gate he was leaning on.

"For a second there, we had her." Luther defended.

"Who were those weirdos with the fanny packs?" Viktor asked what we were all thinking.

"Was it me, or did they smell like wet sheep?" Lila walked closer into the street.

"Goats, I thought. Maybe llamas." Luther added with a slight nod.

"Are we gonna name the whole petting-zoo or actually worry about the problem we have now?" I gestured to the totaled car.

"Why did they call you Nancy?" Diego asked Lila, me turning to watch her gaze meet Five's.

"There names are Gene and Jean. They run an underground organization called the Keepers." Five spoke, looking around.

"Sex cult?"

"I think that's offense. I think they prefer 'erotic sect'." I shrugged, recalling I heard that somewhere.

"No, it's not a sex cult—"

"Oh, I'm right?" I stuck out my lips, proud of my remembrance.

"Once you get to the top, it's always a sex cult." Diego ignored my comment.

"Yeah. The man's got a point." the blonde sibling agreed.

"They're an extremist group who believe they have memories from an alternate timeline."

"Yeah, and some of their memories are pretty much bang on." Lila side-eyed Diego.

"Yeah. They're calling this phenomenon the 'Umbrella Effect.'"

"I'm offended." I mumbled quietly.

"How is this even possible?" Viktor quizzed.

"Well, you know, we're still working on that." Lila nodded.

"What do they want with Jennifer?" my brother muttered.

There was beat of silence and awkward shuffling.

"Great. You don't know that either." he said obviously.

We stood in silence momentarily after Allison walked to the trunk by Klaus.

"I'm hungry." I admitted.

"I think I'll take it up a notch, shall we?" I heard Klaus yell, getting up from his seat in the trunk and walking closer to us. "I mean, dysfunction is, after all, what we do best in this family. We got daddy issues! Daddy issues!" he assed Viktor.

"Chaos junkie." he pointed out Five.

"I don't know, I like you. You, uh, own a bakery!" he shouted at me.

"Mommy issues! More daddy issues!" he squinted at Diego and Luther.

"Obnoxious asshole issues!" he called out to Ben.

"Then you! You seem kind of weirdly self-actualized as far as I can tell." he finished to Lila.

"At least we're safe." I hummed to her lowly.

"Anyway, I'm just so done living, cowering in your little bubble of superiority." he hunched over towards Allison.

"So this is the thanks I get for taking care of you for the past five years?"

"I think you've got that back-to-front, sweetheart." he retorted, stepping closer.

"Oh!"

"Who took care of you since Ray walked out? None of these guys gave a shit. Who took care of your little Claire while you bombed every shitty audition in town?"

"So you think that I like having a grown man living in my basement, covering my entire house in bubble wrap? You think I like picking your sorry ass up off the ground every time you hit rock-bottom?"

"Bottom? Moi?" he responded hoarsely. "There's not bottom here, missy. No bottom at all. I'm the goddamn Mariana Trench! Wait 'til you see."

"Fine. Jump off the deep end."

"I will."

"That is so clearly what you wanna do. Have fun, and see if I give a shit!" she spat.

"Thank you. Truly, thank you. Finally, a grain of honesty. It feels good. Feels refreshing. You wanted the old Klaus. You got him!" he finished, quickly walking away.

"Klaus, come on!" Luther called.

"Don't go!" I threw my arms up.

"Look out, Klaus!" we chimed as he narrowly dodged traffic.

"You know what? Actually, while we're here, does anybody else have some shit that they wanna get off their chest? Because now's the time." she yelled, my gaze shooting to Luther.

I feel like we brushed off what happened a few years back with her and him. I didn't know the half of it, only hearing bits and pieces of the family's murmurs, but I knew it wasn't acceptable.

"No? No takers? Good. 'Cause I'm done being the bad guy in this family." she walked off.

"Now that the show's over, what are we going to do about Jennifer? We need to find her." Ben spoke hoarsely.

"We're not going anywhere in this piece of shit." Five thought out loud.

"He said I was the best one, so... just saying." Lila smiled softly.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." I mumbled bitterly.

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hope u like this. i'm giving Y/N so many lines this book b/c i feel like she barely spoke last one lol