Number 8 ~ FivexOC

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Chapter 4:

Eight was about to jump when Five stopped her.

"What?" She turns quite abruptly, almost sounding mad at him for stopping her.

"There's someone I want to go see before we go home," He says looking quite genuinely... concerned? She slowly nods. Yes, she can read his mind if she wants but she would rather let people keep their thoughts to themselves.

~~~~~

Eight finds herself inside a small, dark apartment with Five already making himself comfortable by the window. She goes to turn the light on but like classic Five, he stops her with glare.

"What's with you and not letting me do anything?!" She basically shouts at him.

"Keep your voice down! She'll be here any minute, sit down," He shushes her while looking out the window

"Where smartass?" She says throwing her arms out to show that there was nowhere to sit.

"Didn't think about that did I?" He says looking over the small apartment. He motions towards the seat in front of him and she gladly takes it while he just stands behind the chair.

The sound of a lock being unlocked caught both of their attention. Eight looked at Five but he just kept his eyes on the door, waiting for the perfect moment to turn the lamp on beside us.

A small figure of someone steps into the house and just as they were about to turn the light on, Five flicks the switch, scaring the person who was still standing at the door.

"Five? Eight?" Vanya says calming herself down noticing who was now sitting and standing in her apartment.

"Wait you know this lunatic?!" Is the first thing that comes out of Five's mouth.

"Ouch Five. Ouch," Vanya runs up to Eight hugging her so tight she almost couldn't breathe.

"I thought I would never see you again! After father se-" Vanya tries to say but is muffled by her face being smashed so hard into Eight's shoulder.

"Not right now Vanya, please?" She stops her from continuing to not make Five anymore suspicious, but it didn't work. Vanya nods and offers coffee to which Eight declines but Five asks for something stronger.

"It's been so long since I last saw either of you," Vanya says while handing Five a glass of brownish liquid which is obviously some type of alcohol.

"Well, I was stuck in the apocalypse. I don't know where she was," Five says quietly looking at the floor.

"Apocalypse?"

"Yes Vanya. An apocalypse. An apocalypse that happens in 10 days," He says finally looking up at Vanya who is now sitting on the edge of her seat.

"So Eight... Where were you?" Vanya asks quite concerned as both of them look at her skeptically.

"If you must know... I was in the apocalypse as well but I was- to finish Vanya's sentence from before- sent by father or Reggie, to go find you and bring you back,"

~ Flashback ~

Five stabs his steak knife into the table catching everyone's attention.

"Number 5?" Hargreaves looks up from his plate full of food to focus his attention on Number 5.

"I have a question," He says holding his hands together near his chin maintaining eye contact with 'father'.

"Knowledge is an admirable goal but you know the rules, no talking during mealtimes," He responds with a neutral tone returning his eyes to his plate. To which Five respond by pushing his untouched plate away from himself with a quick shove of his hand.

"I want to time travel," He states with a demanding tone.

"No!" Reginald retorts throwing is knife and fork down next to his plate.

After a few moments more of the two of them bickering back and forth, 5 makes an irrational mistake. He runs off.

"Number 5!" Reginald shouts for the last time.

"Grace," Reginald instructs Grace to go get someone. She leaves quickly understanding exactly what he means.

~~~~~

Grace found her way down to the basement quickly and made it to a secret room. She opens the door to reveal a girl lying on her back reading a comic book. 

"Hey mom! What's going on?" The girl speaks up noticing Grace's presence in the room.

"You know how we told you Five would do that thing. That very stupid thing? Well, it's happened," She says ending with a loud sigh.

"And he's supposed to be the smart one out them all," Number 8 sits up on her bed and readjusts herself to see Grace better.

"Well, you know what to do. You've trained for this. Go get him tiger!" Grace gives the girl one last hug before a whoosh sound filled the small, dark room. When Grace opens up her eyes again, the girl is gone but she shouldn't be gone for long.

~ End of Flashback ~

"And it's safe to say that I never found you end of story," 8 says trying to end that conversation as quickly as possible.

"Wait- so they knew that I was going to do that whole... time jump thing?" Fives says while practically throwing himself from behind the chair to see if she was kidding or not. 

"Yes. Yes they did," 8 states back to him, turning her attention to the floor. At this point, she is glad that she is the one that could read minds instead of 5. Otherwise he would know she was lying about not finding him.

8 kept her eyes trained on the floor as Five's and Vanya's conversation continued in the background.  Let's hope he doesn't find out about her lies...

***A/N

Yikes guys! I'm extremely sorry about making you wait like a few weeks for this chapter but I was taking some time for school since assesment season was picking up again but I also was taking time to make sure that flashback scene was good. I really am sorry but my school work is dying down so hopefully I can write more like I am intending to. I didn't forget about this book because this unfinished chapter was bugging me out but I didn't know how to finish it until now ten on a monday night. I would write more at school but wattpad's blocked by the school.

noot noot <3