THROUGH TIME & SPACE ★ FIVE HARGREEVES X READER

CH. XII

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RUN BOY RUN

"lately, i've been, i've been losing sleep,
dreaming about the things that we could be"

2002

GRACE GENTLY PUT DOWN THE record onto the player in the dining hall, where the family would be having their dinner that night. She placed the needle on the record and it started playing.

During extreme weather conditions, a climber must possess the wisdom to determine when evacuation is inevitable.

She held out a bell in her hands and shook it to call the children to dinner.

A controlled alpine descent begins with the girding of one's loins and the anchoring of the climbing rope to one's enemy.

The sound of about a dozen footsteps came from the lobby's stairs. Soon, in came the flood of children filing into the dining hall and taking their places at their assigned seats. Five and (Y/N) were unusually late to the table. Even if it were just a minute, it was enough for their siblings to raise a suspicious brow at them.

The Dülfersitz rappel is the preferred method of descent when rope is the only available tool, but must be regarded as a last resort.

Finally, like fitting the last piece to a puzzle, their father came striding into the room and stood with his shoulders back as he took a quick glance at his children before commanding for them to sit.

Begin by looping the rope... a screen anchor must be used if the rope is to be successfully retrieved from the face of the mountain.

The shuffle of chairs being pulled out and the sound of movement echoed the halls. All eight children obediently took their seats, but once that was over with, they were all submerged into their own worlds.

Tightly knot the ends of the rope. Once anchored, thread the double rope through the legs, front to back, and around the buttocks.

Both Luther and Allison, sitting across from each other, were looking as if they were in their own bubble, grinning and giggling childishly like they were madly in love. Diego sat next to the boy, using his knife to carve scratches into the side of the dinner table. Klaus sat in front of him, much more focused on rolling a cigarette under the table than eating his food. Beside him was Ben, reading one of Anton Chekhov's books, called 'The Bet'.

It is of utmost importance that the rope be drawn under the gluteal muscles, not through the crevice between the gluteus.

Five didn't even bother to start eating as he was glaring intently at their father, while Vanya, sitting to his right, was staring at him in curiosity. She was the only one who was eating without doing something else at the dinner table. (Y/N) was seated at the end of the table, being the last number to the family, with a silenced Rubik's cube in one hand and her fork in the other.

Proceed by holding the rope diagonally...

WHANG!

(Y/N) didn't look up, but her watched out of the corners of her eyes as Five jammed a knife into the top of the table, leaving it to stick out in the air.