𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐆𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐖? [𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬]

𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢

QUINCEY AND FIVE stand in the meritech prosthetics building. "Uh, can I help you?" A man in a lab coat asks the two. "We need to know who this belongs to" Five tells the man, holding the eye up for him to see.

"Where did you get that?" He asks the teens "why do you care?" Quincey backfires "we found it, in a playground actually. Must have just" Five clicks his tongue "popped out"

"We want to return it to its rightful owner" Quincey explains "oh, what thoughtful young children" the receptionist says. "Yeah. Look up the name for me, will ya?" Five asks "uh, I'm sorry, but patients records are strictly confidential. That means I can't tell you"

"Yeah, I know what it means" Five rolls his eyes "but I'll tell you what I can do. I will take the eye off your hands and return it to the owner. I'm sure he or she will be grateful, so if I could just-"
"Yeah your not touching this eye." Five cuts him off

"Now you listen here, young man-" he is cut off by Five lunging forward and grabbing him by the collar of his lab coat. "No! You listen to me asshole. We've come a long way for this, through some shit your pea brain couldn't even comprehend, so just give us the information we need and we'll be on our merry way."

"And if you call him 'young man' one more time, he'll put your head through that wall, just over there" Quincey added with an innocent smile. "Oh dear" the receptionist grabs the phone "call security" the man muffles out.

Five pushes him back and grabs Quincey's hand, they walk to the elevator and go back down.

***

"Okay, we better jump back to the academy. We don't want to accidentally run into your past self. Also Vanya will come looking for us soon" Five tells her, looking around to make sure past Quincey isn't anywhere near. "Yeah, lets go" The two jump back to fives room.

"We need someone who will do what we say and not ask to many questions" Five explains to her "Klaus" she's quick to reply "perfect! I'll go find him, tell him to wear something professional. And then we'll go back to the lab" Five tells her the plan

"okay, I'll wait here until you get back" she smiles at him

Five walks out of his room, to find Klaus. Quincey looks at the clutter on Five's desk and shelves. None of the surfaces have a single speck of dust on them, she guesses that Grace cleaned all the kids rooms, while they were gone.

Her focus moved from the shelves to Five dragging Klaus into his room and shoving him into the closet. "Hey Quince Vanya's here, get under the bed, my plan will work better that way" Quincey has gotten use to Fives sudden plans over the years, and has learnt to just go with it. So she crawls under the bed.

"Five?" The sound of Vanya's footsteps coming up the stairs, sound into the room. "Oh, thank god. I was worried sick about you" Vanya sighs "sorry I left without saying goodbye" Five turns away from the window he was looking out.

"No, look, I'm the one that should be sorry. Yeah, I was dismissive and I- I guess I didn't know how to process what you were saying and I still can't, to be honest"
"Maybe you were right to be dismissive. Maybe it wasn't real after all. It felt real. Well.. like you said, the old man did say time travel could contaminate the mind" Five moves a toy train back and forth while he's talking.

"Then Maybe I'm not the right person for you to be talking to. Look I used to see someone. A therapist. I could give you her information" Vanya suggests to her brother "thanks, but... I think I'm just gonna get some rest, it's been a long g time since I've had a good sleep"
"Okay" and with that Vanya leaves the room.

Quincey rolls out from under the bed just as Klaus comes crashing out of the closet. "That's so... touching, all that stuff about family and dad and time. Wow!" Klaus stumbles over the items that are now all over the floor

"will you shut up? She'll hear you!"
"I'm moist"

"Ew" Quincey comments "I thought I told you to put on something professional" Five gestures to Klaus' outfit "what? This is my nicest outfit"

"We'll raid the old mans closet" Five sighs "whatever, as long as I get paid" Klaus and Quincey follow him out of the room and into the hallway "when the job is done" Quincey smiles at klaus, but she knows fully well that five isn't going to pay him.

"Okay but just so we're clear on the finer details, I just have to go into this place and pretend to be both of your dear old dad, correct?" Klaus asks "yeah, something like that" Five sarcastically smiles "what's our cover story?"
"Yeah five! We need a cover story" Quincey agrees with Klaus

"Quincey, not you too. What are you talking about?"
"See even your girlfriend agreed with me. I mean was I really young when I had you? Like, young and...terribly misguided" Klaus says dramatically "sure" five deadpanned.

"Your mother, that slut!" Klaus spits "whoever she was, we met at..."
"The disco!" Quincey expresses "excellent work! Oh my god, the sex was amazingggg"
"What a disturbing glimpse into that thing you call a brain" Five starts walking down the stairs. "Fives got a point there, Klaus"

"Don't make me put you two in time out"

AUTHORS NOTE
So that's another chapter finished. I woke up this morning to this story having over 200 reads, when it had like 30 yesterday.
Anyways thank you so much for reading my story, all the votes have really helped! Have a great day/night

- Ziggy