Lost in Time ~ Five Hargreeves

Chapter 38

"Oh, by the way, we found a way home," Riley said casually as they and Five searched for clean clothes.

"What? How?" Luther wanted to know.

"All the details are irrelevant, but... I made a deal to get back to our timeline," Five said.

He struggled with his tie until Riley decided to tie it for him.

They shook their head slightly, wondering when Five would finally learn how to tie his tie.

"Wait, what about doomsday?" Diego asked.

"That won't happen," Riley explained.

"And the 2019 apocalypse?"

"Everything will be back to normal," Five replied. "All right? Now, no more questions. We gotta go. We have to find the others, right?"

"Yeah."

"Luther, you get Allison."

"Okay."

"Diego, Klaus. Riley and I'll get Vanya. Now, we meet back in the arrival alley in 77 minutes."

Five explained his plan to the others while Riley grabbed three watches from her pocket.

"Here. I've synchronized these watches."

They gave Diego and Luther one each and kept one for themselves and Five.

"Okay, let's do this."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on," Diego stopped Riley and Five. "You two show up drenched in blood and expect us to believe everything's going back to normal if we go home now?"

"Elliott just got killed because of us," Five reminded his brother.

He paused briefly and pointed to the chair where Elliott's body still was.

"What about Dad? What about JFK?"

"Diego, we have a chance to go home and make things right. We are taking it."

"This and JFK's death is a fixed point in history, we can't change that. I'm sorry."

Diego thought about it for a moment and had to admit that Five and Riley were right.

"I have to say goodbye to Lila."

"Lila doesn't give a shit about you, Diego! She never did. She's one of them. She's a member of the Commission."

"No way. Not possible."

"She and the girl were just using you. You're the Oswald of this story, my friend–"

Five turned and stepped away from the others.

"– The goddamned patsy."

"You don't know what you're talking about..."

"If you don't do this," Five threatened his brother, appearing in front of him. "I'll kill you myself. Got it?"

Diego looked at Riley, who simply shrugged– this time they wouldn't help him.

Five turned, grabbed Riley's hand, and jumped.

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Rhea sat on the chair and watched as the handler put AJ, the Fish into a small, round glass.

"Look at you," she laughed, tapping the glass. "Back at work. And don't worry about that parking spot. It won't go to waste."

"Do we really have to be here?" Lila asked, bored.

"Oh, Lila, darling, no, I need your opinion. These are all so good, I can't decide–"

The handler held up two small posters.