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Z p.o.v

 We walked in the motel complex and made our way to room 12 which was labeled with a wooden chicken? We were both outside the door when we heard her.

"I've been waiting for you two," We heard her say.

As we walked in we could see her and the donut lady, from the donut shop that got shot up by her Commissions minions, strapped to a chair in front of the heart shaped hot tub.

"You must really like doughnuts," Five said pointing out the lady.

"Help me," she said for behind the tape in her mouth.

"It's been a while," She said looking just as she did before I burnt was supposedly burnt her to crips.

"Three days" I said in a sarcastic tone knowing damn well its been a lot longer for her.

"For you maybe, but for me its been a lot longer since I've seen those adorable little shorts," She said while she checked Five out, making me see red.

"Well, you've had time to heal," Five said answered back before I could snap at her back. 

"Luckily, for the both of us, time is the one thing my organization has an abundance of," She said as she got up from her position in her bed and walked over to the try of food picking up a plate. 

"Got your message by the way," five also added trying to get to the point of why we are here and not helping our family.

"Nice packaging, but so much for Commission protocol," I pointed out.

"There have been...a lot of changes since you two left the Commission. You really did some damage," She said, the last part mostly directed towards me since I did blow up maybe half the building."

Oops. Don't lie to me next time. 

"The briefcases were all but destroyed, to say nothing of the..highly trained personnel you two killed. After all, what is an institution if not for--" She began her long speech but only to be cut off by Five.

"What do you want?"

"To be happy, to have a simple...unfettered life, to...do the work my superior require. But...your being here, well it complicates all that," She said in between chewing on some weird food now on the couch. 

"Billions of people are going to die tonight!" I remind her as we fucking stand here waisting serious time. 

"You can change that" Five said trying to convince her. 

Long shot but okay. 

"Tonight, tomorrow. So little difference in the scheme of things. Don't you remember the Commissions raison d'etre? 'whats meant to be is meant to be, or as I like to say, que sera, sera," She said sounding so confident in her answer and actually sounding brainwashed and obsessed at this point. 

"That's bullshit in any language," I snapped back at her realizing I am just waisting more time talking to her. We should be with our family. 

"Why did you call us?" Five interrupted before this could get any further.

"I wanna offer you a choice," 

"Everyone is going to die tonight but..."

 Okay great way to start I guess. 

"Unlike the rest of the world, you have a way out. You guys can abandon your family and skip ahead to the apocalypse, take a walk about for a few decades, wondering if ill come back and offer you a job again, or you can stay here, with your family and...die a horrible death," She laughs just thinking it. "While you way your options just know your siblings are fighting for their lives without you," 

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