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( RUN BOY RUN )
14 YEARS AGO
Laurel's head snapped up as the sound of a dinner bell was heard. Her,along with everyone else walked downstairs to the long dining table that had food on 9 plates.
They all sat behind their chairs,shoulders held high as Reginald walked in behind his chair. He looked at all of them.
"Sit."
They complied and began eating the food in peace with Five across from Laurel.
Allison and Luther kept sending "looks" as Five and Laurel liked to call it,Vanya minded her business silently,Diego was carving something into the table,Klaus was rolling a joint and Laurel gestured her head upstairs when he looked up telling him to meet her upstairs after dinner as she pointed to the joint,Ben was reading a book,and Five made eye contact with Laurel warily before stabbing his knife into the table seemingly gaining a new strength then when he looked at her.
"Number Five?" Reginald asked as everyone went silent. "I have a question."
"Knowledge is an admirable goal,but you know the rules. No talking during mealtimes,your interrupting Herr Carlson."
"I want to time travel."
Laurel bit the inside of her cheek. Five had talked to her about wanting to practice time travel desperately. He was already starting to get good at space jumps but time travel was a completely different thing from place to place. Even she knew that.
"No."
"But I'm ready. I've been practicing my spatial jumps,just like you said."
Five stood from the table and jumped from his seat to the side of Reginalds chair. "See!?"
"A spatial jump is trivial when compared with the unknowns of time travel. One is like sliding along the ice,the other is akin to ascending blindly into the depths of the freezing water and reappearing as an acorn."
"Well,I don't get it."
"Hence the reason your not ready."
Laurel took a loud sip of her drink watching the scene in front of her.
Five looked at her and she raised her eyebrows in question.
She wasn't going to tell him what to do,even when he wanted her to. It just wasn't her nature. Whatever he did was in his hands and she wasn't going to put her ass on the line to save him from something he caused.
"I'm not afraid."
"Fear isn't the issue. The effects it might have on your body,even on your mind are far to unpredictable. Now,I forbid you to talk about this anymore."
