𝐹𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑥 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 : 𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 12: 𝐸𝑢𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑎

1 YEAR LATER , FIVE POV:

I downed the glass of whiskey quickly, gazing all around me. I smiled softly and left the glass on the bar counter.

We had made it. We had recreated the Umbrella Academy successfully. The place was almost like our old house, and pretty close to it.

My siblings were outside talking to the interviewers and the press, but I could hear a soft music coming from the kitchen.

I frowned and got up from my seat, balancing myself after all this alcohol. I limped to the source of the song, glancing a bit at the kitchen, but I stopped at my tracks before opening the door.

Klaus was talking to someone.

I eavesdropped his mumbles, my ear glued to the side of the doorframe.

"You would love this, you know..." He murmured with a soft chuckle." Five has been... not different but darker and sadder and... I can't imagine his pain after he lost you, well... I miss you a lot, but he loved you..."

I felt my eyes sting and blinked the burning sensation away.

"I pity him a bit, he was alone for... such a long time, and the he-he found you! He loved you! And the he lost you too..."

I lost her too...

This hit me hard as I realized the impact her loss had to me. I loved her with all my heart and then she left. She left, not because she wanted to, but because the universe wanted her to...

Beautiful things are kept by their creators and never shared, are they...?

I opened the door to see Klaus sitting cross-legged on the kitchen table, holding a photo in his hand. I looked at him, as we exchanged glances on each other.

"You miss her don't you?" I asked as I approached him and sat across him, sighing a bit.

He nodded and sighed as well. "I found this photo, I guess it was yours?" He said and handed it over to me. I took hold of it gently, as if it was made out of glass.

It was the same photo of her wearing the jewelry, the one I had taken out of her box.

I still kept it.

"You talk to her, huh?" I said, my eyes never leaving the picture in my hand. He nodded and chuckled softly." I try to let it all out, because she was always the only one who cared about what I had to say..." He said as his words stung my heart.

Who knows what my brother has gotten through...

Klaus stood up and left the table walking over to the door.

Then I realized what the tape player was playing all this time. Klaus must've gotten it from the future, in the form of a tape. He loved this song so much he always kept it with him, wherever he went, especially after Vietnam.

"Will you love me

like you loved me

in the January rain?"

Y/N POV (meanwhile):

"You bastard!" I yelled, running towards him with my arms stretched to reach his neck. The guards held me back right before I could reach him.

I didn't care. I didn't care.

"I spent so much time, trying to find him and you! You canceled everything! You asshole!" I said, spitting in front of him, and letting myself go off the guards.

I ran to the other direction, as pain stung my heart in every step I took.

The Commission had found me... again. The head of security adopted me when he found me in that alleyway , during one mission.

And now... now they had hired me to be an assassin again.

I had to kill people to survive this hell... again.

Without Five, without a family, without no one.

The small paper had turned into a ball into my clenched fist. I opened my fist and took it out, trying to see if it was really what I read, and not a nightmare.

I read it again, and tears started wetting my eyes, as I fell on my knees in the corner.

It's him.

It isn't a nightmare.

My heart stopped.

The paper had a photo of him in front of the Umbrella Academy, and there was a single line of text.

"Terminate Five Hargreeves."