Eurydice

We Only See Each Other at Weddings And Funerals - 2

The back of Luther's head was shown.

"In five, four three, two...." A man's voice counted down as the scene shifted to a tv recording of a news reporter .

18 Years ago

"This is Jim Hellerman, reporting live for Channel 2 News outside of the Capitol West Bank at Main and Sixth."

The sound of alarms going off was heard as more news crews could be seen behind him along with a white building.

"A group of heavily armed men stormed the bank not three hours ago and took an unknown number of hostages."

The scene changed to a bald man walking through a door, a walkie-talkie held to his ear and a gun in his other hand, as alarms wailed. "Get them behind the counter!" he ordered, gesturing with his gun. Another man, wielding a machine gun, corralled a terrified group behind the counter.

The Hargreeves siblings shared a knowing look, 18 years ago had been they're first mission and it had also been a bank robbery. It was their first but definitely not the last.

"Now you've put me in a position where I gotta do something I don't want to do. Hmm?" He snapped into the walkie-talkie. He was so focused on the scene in front of him that he didn't see the young girl skipping towards him. "Shit!" He swore, turning to find the curly haired, masked girl standing next to him with a smirk on her face.

The children looked between the curly haired girl on the screen and the woman sitting with them. "That's you. Isn't it?" Remus asked. 

"Mhm," Allison hummed, "This was our first mission."

"Hey, get back with the others." He barked.

The girl looked him up and down, lips curled, "I heard a rumor."

"What? What'd you say?" He leaned down.

She smirked. She cupped her hands, leaning towards him as if to whisper, "I heard a rumor," her voice echoed, "That you shot your friend in the foot."

The man's eyes glazed over, in a trance he cocked the gun and aiming at another robber. "Hey dude? What the hell?"but his words were cut off by a scream as he was shot in the foot. 

Rin shot the girl a wide-eyed look, It was terrifying to see what she had been under. She could have made her do anything.

The gun fired wildly, shattering windows and causing the hostages to cry out in terror. The leader looked down at the gun in his hand, bewildered.

The scene changed back to news reporter ducking down at the sound of gunfire, "We just heard shots from inside the bank." SWAT teams and police vehicles formed a barricade around the building. "It's uncertain if any of the hostages were harmed in that."

"Up there!" A man shouted.

The camera moved to the roof of the bank where a blonde boy in a mask was walking.

"And there's some movement on the roof. Possibly law enforcement." People were seen pointing up at the boy when the scene cut back to inside of the bank where a boy dropped down from the roof. He grabbed a robber, slammed his head against the counter, and hurled him across the room, sending him crashing through a window.

Luther leaned back on his chair, a fond look in his eyes as he remembered the days when they had been a team, an actual family. Not a bunch of strangers with the same past.

The scene cut back outside, people screaming as the man flew through the glass window, "Looks like one of the robbers has been thrown from the bank." Jim Hellerman gave the camera a disbelieving look.