Escaping Reality || Five Hargreeves ||

Chapter 10

ALICE'S P.O.V

"So.....You were a hit man?" Luther said, handing Five a glass of water.

"Yes," Five said, taking the mug and holding it in his hands.

"But you had a code right? You didn't just kill anybody" Luther said, sitting down and looking at Five. Five glanced down at his feet, probably feeling guilty at the things that he'd done.

"No code, we took out anyone who messed with the timeline" Luther looked at him in disbelief.

"What about innocent people?" Five glanced back at Luther, maybe after all these years—he still has a naive way of thinking because of reginald.

"It was the only way I could get back here," Five said.

'He had no choice....'

I thought, glancing at Five's face as a trace of guilt can be heard as he said that.

"Jesus Luther, grow up. We're not kids anymore. There's no such thing as good guys or bad guys, there's just people. Going on with their daily lives, but when the world ends all those are gonna people die. Including our family" Five said Luther just stared at him processing everything he just said.

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Me and Five went back to the academy when Five saw bloody footprints coming from the bathroom. He was about to go to Klaus' room and ask him about it but I just grabbed his shoulder, knowing where this is gonna go.

"Um, how about I go talk to him?" I said, hoping that he would say yes so that I could deal with this peacefully.

Thankfully, he nodded.

"Okay I'll wait out here" I went up to Klaus' room and knocked on the door.

"Hey Klaus you okay?" I said coming into the room as I heard a faint yes from him.

"Oh hey Alice and Wonderland! yeah I'm fine I just had a long night" he said laughing it off. Alice sighed this was a situation she knew all too well. "No Klaus you're not.....Dave's gone isn't he?" tears came running down Klaus' face at the mention of his dead lover's name.

"I'm sorry Klaus, he was really special to you huh?" I said as I glanced at Klaus, sitting beside him on the bed as I rubbed his arm comfortingly.

"Yes he was," Klaus said, fiddling with the dog tag on his neck as tears slipped out of his eyes.

"Sometimes....people we've come to love disappear or leave us, and we can't change that" I said, putting a hand on Klaus' shoulder. I knew the feeling that Klaus felt right now, it was the same feeling I felt when I lost my little brother all those years ago.

How I wished I had Five's power, maybe I could have saved him. But I have to accept the fact that he is gone, and he's never coming back.

"Thank you for the comfort, I just need some peace right now" I nodded and got out of the room and closed the door behind me.

Now came in the hard part, which was explaining to Five that Klaus broke the briefcase. Which he wasn't too pleased with after hearing what I said.

"Okay don't freak out, Klaus accidentally broke the briefcase" Five's eyes went wide

"WHAT!!?" he yelled.

"I just said don't freak out!-" I tried to reason.

He paced around for a couple of minutes then went to his room, I followed shortly after. I knew he was about to go and make his equations so I just sat on his bed and watched him scribble equations nervously.

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"Uh Five" I said, noticing something off about his solution.

"Yeah? What is it" Five said, continuing his equation as he scribbled numbers and symbols hastily.

"I think that's supposed to be -2 you forgot to make it negative instead of positive" I pointed at the wrong solution.

Five looked at the equation that he did and realized it was wrong. "Where did you learn that? Thanks by the way" he said, smirking at me.

I blushed a bit at the smirk he showed, but quickly composed myself.

"Believe it or not I actually went to a science school. Which totally wrecked my sleep schedule but at least I somewhat got something out of it" I said, recalling the huge piles of assignments and projects—and don't forget those nightmarish research papers we have to worry about each year.

Luther then came into the room all of a sudden, well it was maybe sort of sudden for Five but not me.

"What is all this" he said while looking at the multiple equations around the walls.

"A possibility map of who's death could stop the apocalypse" Five said leaping down from the bed he stood on a while ago.

"So who are these bad guys? Terrorists?" Luther aske, gesturing to the names written on the wall.

"I believe one of them is just a gardener," Five said, writing the names down.

I know where this is going so I moved Delores from Luther so he doesn't threaten Five. "Well you can't stop me" As I was about to move Delores Luther swiftly took her as I was still holding her. So I had a death grip on Delores, I was at the edge of the window scared that I might fall and my shaking hands weren't helping.

Five saw this and pointed the gun at Luther, threatening to shoot him if he didn't put us down—well more like Dolores down since he still couldn't see me.

"Put. Them. Down." I heard above the room as he tried not to fall down and gripped Dolore's waist tighter.

A couple of minutes later I was pulled back up by Five as he offered me his hand to grab on.

"You okay?" he said putting a hand on my head checking if I had any injuries. "Y-yeah, yeah I'm okay" I said, my voice was a little shaky from the near death experience.

"Who are you talking to?" Luther asked, Five just glared at him and stood up.

"Fine then, I guess I have another plan," Five said.