MEDICINE ➭ 𝐓𝐔𝐀 ~ 𝙲𝚄𝚁𝚁𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙻𝚈 𝙴𝙳𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶

iii. time to kill

CHAPTER THREE; TIME TO KILL

(Run boy run, part three 1/2)

KLAUS AND ELARA were found in a McDonalds, Elara's stare was sharper than Diego Hargreeve's knives and Klaus was practically murdering his burger. The silence between the duo couldn't be broken until..

"If you're done murdering your poor burger where will I drop you off?" Elara broke the silence in to shards.
Klaus was a bit hesitant to answer her question, "I thought you could just drop me off anywhere, just not my house. Things are going a little coo-coo you know?"

"Anywhere, really? I don't think that's the most responsible thing to do but, what the hell, I'm not your babysitter."
"Scary lady just made a huge mistake," Klaus's deceased brother, Ben whispered loudly to Klaus. "Oh shut up."
Klaus was very aware his brother was right but, there was a feeling at the bottom of his stomach that he couldn't ignore. It could've been the burger, he thought—But it was something more...Regret. A mix of pain and guilt. The feeling could almost knock him sober if he let it. "No. Not a good idea," he blurted out. "Anywhere isn't a good idea."

Elara had a surprised look on her face, Five was dumb enough to leave his brother with the worst babysitter in the world—(when she was seventeen, she was babysitting a toddler who's mother was supposed to get assassinated and accidentally put their house on fire.)
She was definitely not the best babysitter but, she could be a hell as good bodyguard. She knew that Five's family meant the world to him, although she wasn't really sure why he loves them so much nay, how the old man could even feel things like that. She felt sorry for him, so let this be a favor from her.

She wiped the surprised look off her face and replaced it with an efficient one, "that's what I thought so. The safest place for you to be in is obviously, your house weather you like it or not." See? Told you I'd make up for burning that kid's house down—she thought to herself.

"God, what happened to 'what the hell I'm not your babysitter?' My house is off-limits! You know all the family drama bullshit. Pretty please, Ellie? Your house! That's the safest place next to mine!" 

Ellie? Nobody had called her that for years, she motioned a crunch with her right hand and suddenly, Klaus's entire arm was twisted on the wrong side. "Swear you won't call me that ever again, or else this escalates and knocks you out and I'm gonna have to deliver you to your house."

Klaus grunts, "Jesus christ! how about El? Is that okay? Just stop what you're doing right now! I'm never gonna call you that ever again." Elara stopped and gave him an approving look, "good, Hargreeves. Now let's go, we've got plenty of time to kill."

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THE DUO had arrived at El's apartment again. Klaus already made himself at home—he was stylishly smoking a cigarette while he sat on El's amazingly comfortable armchair as he pretended to be Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. El, on the other hand, was also flicking a cigarette while she looked at past mission reports and employee records, she was trying to figure out who'd be in this time trying to hunt down Five, Klaus or the other Hargreeves's. As she was looking down the employee records, she found that the same people who hunted her down when she was thirteen, were assigned on a mission the previous night.

"Holy shit," she exclaimed under her breath. "What did you find something out? It better be useful this time!"

El shuffled to her refrigerator and grabbed a newspaper that was propped on top of it. The headline said;

POSSIBLE HOMICIDE IN
GRIDDY'S DOUGHNUTS

She showcased the paper to Klaus and took a deep breath before she explained her whole point. "I don't know if you know this but, last night there was a big accident in Griddy's and sometimes I work autopsies for the police so, I went there and there was something really strange about it, I felt like I knew the guys with guns. Well, That's because I did! Same guys that hunted me down when I was thirteen."

"So, your point is...?"

"Five! Commies want Five! And probably your siblings." El exclaimed, this time she sounded less professional but more friendly. "Holy shit, you called them commies! I knew that's what you'd call them!"

"Seriously?" El rolled her eyes. Klaus giggled until it almost formed a grin on her face, "you're smiling! Are you the only one that calls them that? Does Five know?"
"He doesn't, forget I ever said that," her face was as red as an apple. "I think it's hilarious!" A proper smile formed on her face, Klaus couldn't deny, she was adorable.

For a minute, they were caught smiling at each other like idiots. El shook it off and said, "I still have a lot of commie work to do, you can play some dvd's and joint's in my room if you want to get higher than you probably already are."

She gets back into the zone and Klaus finds her room right away. El sighs as she got back to looking into the fossils of paperwork, it was the first time she felt something like that in her life. She cleared her throat as she hoped for her feelings to disappear, although she knew that it wouldn't.

''what the hell are you doing?'' she laughed to herself, Klaus came back from her room with a joint in his hand saying, ''is it okay if I crash here tonight?'' El's heart almost stopped, a guy in her house? ''um..I'll think about it?'' she blurted out. ''no we should go, you definitely aren't gonna get laid today brother.''

''Shut up, Ben.''