ROSES AND FLAMES - Five Hargreeves

51. "oh, i have a bullet in me."

Gasping for air, josie woke up with five holding her stomach, furrowing her eyebrows and seeing her shirt lifted up a little. "Oh, I have a bullet in me." She groaned, holding fives hand.

Everyone else had been up, thanking every God when Josie woke up, not being able to lose her too, the girl seeing klaus and Allison sit in the trunk.

"Does it hurt?" Five asked her, Josie shaking her head, pretending it doesn't. "No, no im fine." She sarcastically said, letting his hand stay there.

"How are you feeling kiddo?" Asked Diego, coming over to see her, Josie sighing. "Woozy." She told him, Diego feeling bad for her, opening the driver door for her to come out of.

"I'm sure I can get the wound out." Said Sloane, Josie and Diego looking at each other. "Really? You can heal?" Josie asked, wondering if that was a new power.

"Doesn't hurt to try." Sloane said, wiping Josie's mascara, smudging on her cheeks. "Okay, okay sure." Josie said, getting out of the car, holding her shirt for others to see the bullet was near her stomach.

"Someone needs to hold you down, in case it hurts." Sloane said, Luther and Diego suddenly right beside Josie on both sides in front of the car, needing her to lean. "She'll be okay right?" She saw five ask, Sloane nodding.

"Should we have a safe word? In case you're hurting too much?" Luther asked, delicately holding her arms down. "Roses." Josie said, knowing she always used that on missions in case she didn't wanna go through with something.

Looking at both Diego and Luther, they didn't know if this was going to work, Josie grimacing. "Im sorry if I swear in Punjabi at you two, Lila has taught me some new— holy shit!"

It felt like a knife was doing through her, the bullet slowly coming out as Josie wanted to break free, breathing in and out as if she was giving labour. "It's okay kiddo." Said Diego, Josie rolling her eyes.

"I'm thirty, asshole." She reminded him, Diego looking at Luther, always forgetting that. "Okay! You're all healed!" Sloane said with glee, Luther fixing Josie's hair as the girl stood up, looking down to see there was no hole any more.

"Thank you." Josie said with a gasp, smiling at the brunette, patting Luther's back, only reaching to his back. Josie didn't know how much she missed, walking over to see sister to rest her shoulder on her.

Klaus however seemed done with this family, turning to Viktor and calling out his issues— which happened to be daddy issues.

"Chaos junkie."

"Mommy issues!"

"More daddy issues!"

"Obnoxious asshole issues!"

"Then you three.... well you're actually quite pleasant to have around." He said, pointing to Josie, Lila and Sloane, the three girls being wedded into this family. "I don't think Ben is an asshole." Sloane said, looking over at her brother, the sibling looking at her.

Josie felt bad that they were the last sparrows to stay standing, hoping they'll still close. Josie knew she visited Ben with Sloane in jail, the girl doing everything she could to bail him out but he needed to do the time.

High fiving the two women with no issues against this family, Josie turned around when five looked over at her, a smile on his face.

Klaus had taken off without Josie even realizing, getting in the van and sitting beside Viktor, Sloane coming right beside the two.

"We should get this to a mechanics." Josie pointed out, Viktor agreeing with her. "Yeah, we still need to find Jennifer too." He said.

All getting into the car and needing to get the van to the mechanics already, the radio finally turned on, everyone confused by the singer, Josie quite liking the song, humming to it.

The mechanics was not too far, everyone getting out of the van and witnessing Diego talking about how precious his van is to him. "Hey you okay?" Josie asked Allison, the two girls standing by a pay phone, needing a smoke break.

"How come you hated me before getting to know me?" Allison asked, Josie clearing her throat. "To be fair, I didn't hate you until the third apocalypse. But I don't now, doesn't that change anything? I mean I was there with you when ray walked out." Josie said, Allison's breath hitching at the thought.

"I mean they're my siblings, but you personally, why?" Allison questioned, giving the pen to Josie, the girl not liking watermelon.

"'Cause you were a bitch. You lost Claire, ray and you took it out on us. Luther told me what you did to him too which wasn't cool. Nothing was going your way and you were betraying your siblings. It wasn't cool and I didn't fuck with that." Josie honestly said, knowing Klaus and her were the only honest people in Allison's life.

"You say you hate being the bad guy, but then stop going against this family. They're all we have." As much as Josie didn't want to admit it, the hargreeves family was all she had.

She only had Lila for 10 years, going on missions and barley seeing each other, and being in three doomsday didn't help the situation of the fact she was truly stuck with this family, and maybe that was okay— but she wanted to be okay with Five.

"You should forgive five. I watched you sulk for too long." Allison pointed out, Josie already looking at him. "You think?" She asked, also having these thoughts in her head.

Looking at five be on the phone, Josie left Allison alone, coming over to sit beside Diego and Viktor, sighing. "How's the wound?" Viktor asked, Josie shrugging her shoulders.

"I'm still alive, that's what matters." She said lightly, Diego looking at her with a sad face. Josie squinted her eyes when she felt diego feeling so sad for her, hearing Luther about to say something.

"You know what's strange? All those people back in New Grumpson, they were wearing Hargreeves-branded military gear." He stated, looking at Sloane who agreed.

"Luther, the entire goddamn place was a Hargreeves town." Said Allison, sitting on the other bench. "Yeah, it was like it was designed to keep Jennifer hostage." Ben agreed, Josie looking over at him.

"Who you basically fell in love with." She commented, ben scolding a look at her. "What's so important about her anyways?" Asked Lila, Josie also needing to know, not truly understanding.

"Isn't it obvious? Shes one of us."

"That would make sense. Why else would dad build a Truman show around her?" Asked five, Josie trying her hardest to not comment on the fact he referenced a movie they've seen together, holding back.

"I say we split up." Josie said, standing up, Ben already agreeing, Viktor sighing.