Untimely

- II -

Five didn't know where to start.

His nose felt like dead weight on his face and his feet was just barely touching the edge of the floor.

He stared at the entwined hands of his own and the person that not only caused his near fall, but is now just barely holding on to him.

Ever since he had first landed his eyes on her, he knew she was different.

Aside from the obvious fact that she was the only female of the group and she looked younger than she was supposed to be, she held herself differently from what he assumed to be her brothers.

The girl didn't want a fight, that much he figured. Her body faced a different direction like she wanted to run away instead as her eyes danced between him and the men beside her. A million different emotions shone in them, but he couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.

As soon as the fight broke loose, everyone had already showed off what they could do, just eager to beat someone to a pulp. Everyone, except her apparently.

He took note of the gloves that covered her hands. It wasn't even winter and he could even feel a thin sheet of sweat form way before the fight had occurred.

But even with the garment removed, she still showed nothing but the years worth of training you get when you live in the Academy. He wondered for a moment if she really had powers to begin with and only took her gloves off so she could fight better.

As he looked at her now, with her eyes glazed over and seeming somewhat distracted, he wasn't sure if she was going to hold on to him at all. Expecting the worse, Five prepared himself to warp as soon as she let go.

Thankfully, the girl seemed to be brought back to reality, shaking her head almost as if something was nagging at her. She grabbed him by the collar with her free hand and pulled both of them back into the safety of the hardwood floor 

Five released a breath that he didn't even realize he was holding, and coughed from the lack of oxygen. He sat on the floor confused and just as out of air as she seemed to be. 

"Just go." She refused to meet his gaze, and made no move to continue their engagement. 

An exchange that probably baffled him more than he thought it would.

The girl waved her hand and Five didn't have to be told twice as he blinked away, confident that she wasn't going to be joining the fight anytime soon, and found himself back in the first floor where his siblings struggled to keep up with the current homeowners.

"Guys!" He shouted over the chaos before he dodged an ice shard from a blonde man. He blinked again to the other side of the room, near Vanya who was gripping her head in pain.

Five noticed the air around her bending and the man who was causing it; a tall, dark-skinned twenty something brute.

The ex-hitman figured that he didn't care who he was and grabbed an iron rod from the fireplace nearby. He jumped behind the man and knocked him out cold.

"We need to get out of here!" He yelled again as he helped Vanya stand, still dazed from the onslaught.

"Not until I beat the shit out of this guy first!" Diego had his opponent in a headlock in an almost similar fashion to the one he been on just moments before.

Five exhaled through his nose, frustrated. "For God's sake, when will this end?"

He blinked away with Vanya in his arms, and now stood on a park that he knew just a block away from the Academy. Nobody bothered to notice him, and Five silently hoped it would remain that way,

"Stay here." He said to Vanya, who only nodded, before warping back to the house to get the rest of his siblings.

The place was nearly a wreck by the time he came back. Portraits were on the floor in tears, and cushions strung open with patches of ice frosting and Diego's knives poking out. Even the walls were missing chunks of concrete and wallpaper.

Five grabbed Klaus first after rescuing him from being crushed by Ben's tentacles. His brother gripped his blazer tightly, mumbling words of disbelief. He couldn't make out what he was saying, but he knew Klaus was just shaken at the fact that Ben couldn't recognize him.

He dropped him off by Vanya's side and Klaus proceeded to lay his head on her lap. Vanya responded to the gesture by placing a comforting hand on his.

One by one, the siblings were reunited as Five went back and forth from the house to the park where they sat, defeated and tired. 

Diego was the last to be taken as he was too driven by his need to finish the job. Five had to wrestle him away from the plethora of chaos that ensued around them and just barely managed to get away.

"What the hell now?" Diego tore himself away from Five as soon as they landed in the park.

Five took a moment to catch his breath. He had used his powers too much in a short span of time and he could feel his head spin, the world around him swaying under his feet.

"I don't know" he huffed, "I think our actions or maybe even our presence alone in the 60's changed everything and created a whole new timeline."

"Can't we just use the briefcase and figure it out from where we started?" Luther asked, finally having calmed down enough to unclench his fists.

"We left the case back at the Academy." Vanya replied, still resting on the floor with Klaus.

"Did you see the way Ben looked at me?" Klaus whispered, staring up blankly and twisting a strand of Vanya's hair in his fingers. "He wanted to kill me."

The siblings looked at him, a wistful expression shared among them. Klaus was closer to Ben than any of them ever were. Even in the afterlife, they still had each other as company.

"Let's just find a less open area to talk." Five dusted himself off, "It's not safe here."

"Yeah, the park is like near the front of the Academy. They'll spot us as soon as someone looks out the top window." Allison crossed her arms.

"How about the bowling alley?" Luther suggested quietly.

The siblings looked at each other collectively and nodded in agreement.

"Bowling alley."