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"𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐍"

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"𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐌 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇." Reginald said as Five sat on his right and Y/n on his left at the bar.

"That's because we're the oldest." Five simply replied and Reginald tilted his head in confusion.

Y/n saw that he was a bit baffled by that statement, but she waited for this moment her whole life. "You know, technically, we're older than you are right now." She added and sightly smiled.

The waitress placed some alcohol on the counter in front of them. "Cognac?" Their father asked the pair.

"Just a smidge." Five looked down at the drink and smiled at their dad.

"No, thank you." Y/n didn't even have second thoughts and answered fast.

They both said in unison. Y/n weirdly looked at Five that he was drinking at a time like that, but he already did it in 2019: when the world was ending, he got drunk. So Five ignored her look as Y/n rolled her eyes at that attitude and looked away from him.

Meanwhile, Reginald poured some alcohol for the two of them into their glasses. "The other night you quoted Homer at me. Why?"

"You forced us all to learn it as kids." Five fixed his blazer. "In the original Greek, no less."

The two men took their glasses off the counter. Reginald lifted his glass and so did Five to say "Cheers" without words, but with gestures. They both drank as Y/n watched and decided to get to the point since that didn't really work out at the family supper.

"This world ends in five days if we don't get out of the timeline."

Reginald turned to her. But he wasn't phased by that at all. "Worlds end. Paleozoic, Jurassic, and so on."

"We can do something about this one." Five put down his glass.

"Man's greatest flaw: the illusion of control." Reginald simply answered.

"We need your help. All right? You're our-" Five realized he used the wrong word so he quickly corrected himself. "-my last sane option. Otherwise, I gotta make a deal that I really don't wanna make."

Y/n squinted her eyes in interest and confusion." What was he talking about?"

"What do you know about time travel?" Five asked.

"In theory?"

"In practice."

"I know it's akin to descending blindly into the depths of freezing waters and reappearing-"

"As an acorn." Five and Y/n finished his sentence in unison together. Since that was one of the last things their father said to them before they disappeared, they replayed that whole dining scene in their heads for years so it's no surprise that they know everything he said to them word by word.

"What transpired when you two tried traveling before?" Reginald asked a very difficult question.

Y/n looked down hoping that Five would answer that for her. It was just too painful and Five noticed that. Even though he was mad as hell for her lies, he was still sympathetic with that topic and will always be. So he looked down too to think about it and answered.

"I botched it."

"You?"

"I took her with me by accident. I jumped too far forward bringing her with me."

"Yeah, we got stuck in the future for 45 years in an apocalypse." Y/n added as she softly chuckled, happy that the hard part was gone. "But then we jumped too far backward...except this time we brought our entire family with us."

"Maybe your appetite is disproportionate to the size of your abilities." Reginald tried to help. "Start small. Seconds, not decades."

"Seconds?" Five unbelievably asked.

"Mmm."

Five was shocked by that plain response. "Look, no offense, but we need a bit more time for what we're trying to accomplish."

Y/n was also quite stunned by that transparent response but continued to listen to Reginald and Five.

"So much can change in a matter of seconds. One could overthrow an empire. One could fall in love."

Just when he said that Y/n looked up at Five. They both locked eyes with one another for a split second before Five looked away like nothing happened and Y/n slowly removed her gaze off him.

"Well, Dad hasn't changed one bit..."

"An acorn doesn't become an oak overnight."

"I was really hoping you had more than that." Five sadly said.

"I'm sorry I can't be of more help." Reginald tried to be empathetic towards Five.

"I'm sorry, too. I gave you such a hard time as a kid. I didn't know any better."

"No skin off my teeth, old man."

Five sighed as he drank the last of his drink. The silence was hard to handle, but the three of them were in their own thoughts. Y/n was thinking of how she wanted to do one thing with her father. Five put down his empty glass, stood up, and was about to walk away but Y/n didn't stand up off of her chair.

"Y/n?"

"You go. I'll catch up with you." She waved with her hand to go and he slightly nodded going away.

Y/n wanted to ask Reginald one question since it bugged her for her entire life. Now was the chance to get rid of that burden. So she turned to him and popped the question.

"Can you tell me, if two people use the same power will it make the effect stronger?"

"Why are you interested in that and asking me?" Reginald asked all confused once again.

Y/n thought about it for a second before answering. "Because as a kid, I thought that everything you said was false. Now, I can see that you gave me so much knowledge and I didn't appreciate it, took it for granted."

That was true. Probably none of the kids appreciated the knowledge their father gave to them, but it was hard knowing the conditions they were living with him and how he did everything on purpose with them. But when Y/n left with Five to the future, the wiseness came to her.

Reginald kind of sat there in shock at what she said but replied for her. "As far as I know, it could make it more effective. You can mimic anything, correct?"

"Yes."

"Well, if you tried time traveling with him together, maybe it would make a bigger difference. But it depends on the circumstances and the goal you both have." As Reginald talked, Y/n listened very carefully. "You just have to trust one another."

And as Reginald said that, she realized she wasn't doing anything like that. In fact, quite the opposite. She thought about it for a couple of seconds and how he answered her in a way that she would have guessed he would answer.

"Thank you for your time." She nodded and stood up from the chair. The girl walked over to the elevator where Five was and they both ended up standing there waiting for the elevator. They didn't look at one another, just at the elevator doors, not making any eye contact.

"What did you mean by "you're my last sane option"?" Y/n asked looking at the ground in his direction.

Five stared at the lights above the elevator which showed on which floor was it. "I don't believe that's any of your matter."

"Yes, it is, and don't you dare argue with me." Y/n sighed and tilted her head when something came together in her head. "You're making some desperate move, aren't you?"

"Well, I'm not the only one here who is making desperate moves." Five also sighed as the elevator doors opened. "Aren't I?" Y/n stood there in shock for a split second when Five walked inside it and pressed the buttons. But she quickly followed him trying not to stay behind and continue the confrontation.

"What are you referring to?" She said as the elevator doors closed, still keeping her look at the doors.

"I know that you were planning on trying to kill me while working with The Handler." Five dropped the bomb and Y/n tried to stay calm. Her eyes filled with fear and her body broke out in a cold sweat.

"What I did any desperate woman in my situation would have done."

"You told me you hated killing innocent people for the commission."

"Yes, but you're anything but innocent. I don't regret what I did and I am not obligated to explain anything to you."

The elevator doors opened and Five walked out. "Then I have the same reason by not explaining what I have to do to you."

But Y/n still quickly followed him, when he was walking down the stairs as she was looking at them. "Yes, you do. Whatever you're planning on doing, you know that it's bad."

"You were working for her and you didn't seem to care about that at all." Five somehow stayed cool.

"What did you expect? You ruined my life and I could have moved on."

"Yes, but we agreed on being honest with each other and you completely ignored that."

"Well, what was I supposed to do?"

"I don't know, just tell me the truth?"

"And how would you have reacted if I told you that?"

They both stopped when they were outside of the building. Finally, they turned around and stared at one another thinking what to say. Five knew he would have been pretty mad at her if she was honest with him with that truth, so it would have just made him look like an idiot if he told her that.

But Y/n had enough with him. So she said one last thing before walking away."Yes, I hated killing innocent people, but I can see that that little Assasin heart of yours hasn't left your soul. If you think that what you are doing is correct, then go for it. I won't stop you."

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The girl walked through the doors of Elliot's apartment angry and annoyed as hell. But when she made it to the kitchen, she saw how Diego and Luther were standing near the railings of the first floor with somebody dead in the dentist chair covered on with a blanket.

"Hey, is everything okay?" She asked walking into the living room and looking around to see if there was something else wrong.

The boys turned around and looked at her not knowing how to break the news to her. They both exchanged looks before Luther spoke up.

"Y/n, um..." Luther looked at the body and that caught Y/n's attention so she immediately understood what he was trying to tell.

"What?" Y/n walked closer and also looked, covering her mouth with her hands as she gasped. "Oh, my god! Is that-"

"Elliot? Yeah." Diego finished the sentence for her staring at the ground.

"What happened?" She glanced between the two brothers.

"We came back and saw him like that. But we did find something else." Diego motioned for her to come up to the railing.

She looked at him suspiciously before walking with him. There she saw "öga för öga" written with blood or something like that on the bottom floor.

"öga för öga". What's that supposed to mean?" Y/n read it out loud.

"No, it's öga föröga"." Diego corrected her. "That a name?"

"Yeah, maybe. I'll look her up." Luther chimed in and agreed with Diego.

Meanwhile, Y/n stared at it for a second, trying to connect maybe some dots."Okay, I know this might sound crazy, but what if the swedes had something to do with this? Maybe this means something in Swedish." Y/n suggested but the boys didn't believe her. "They do have been trying to kill us and we did fight back."

But the boys just shook her heads and ignored Y/n as they walked into the kitchen. But she followed them wanting to see what will happen. Luther picked up the phone book from the fridge as he went along the pages with Diego who sat on the table and Y/n standing on the threshold.

"Holy shit, I found her." Luther said. Then Diego walked up to him and Luther showed in the phone book what he found as Y/n scoffed. "Olga Foroga". That must be her."

"Okay, first of all, that's not entirely the same name as-"

"Call the bitch." Diego interrupted Y/n mid-sentence and she rolled her eyes crossing her arms on her chest at how they were both neglecting her presence.

"On it." Luther picked up the phone and dialed her number. "It's ringing." And soon enough, someone answered. "Uh, hello, Olga?"

But while Luther and Diego were talking on the phone, Y/n felt that somebody was behind her. And there was somebody. It was none other than Five.

With blood.

A lot of blood.

Y/n turned around and walked over to him as he was walking around like he was hiding from somebody. "Jesus Christ, what did you do? Took a dip in a pool of blood?"

"Irrelevant, Y/n." Five replied as he walked past her and looked around the apartment on where to hide his briefcase which Y/n had just noticed.

"And where did you get the briefcase from?" She pointed at it.

Five finally found the perfect place so he hid the briefcase in some corner and stood up."It doesn't matter, okay?"

Y/n crossed her arms on her chest again."Actually, it does. You came back soaked in blood and with a briefcase which leads me to the only logical explanation that you probably killed someone for The Handler and she gave you a briefcase for us to travel back home in return. Correct?" She ranted everything quickly.

Five sighed and looked around. "Maybe. Look, it doesn't matter right now!"

He walked past her and into the kitchen where he saw the other two brothers continuing to do what they did before Y/n left them completely unsupervised. "Hey. It's öga för öga, idiots. Swedish for "And eye for an eye"." Five explained as the two brain-dead brothers looked at him. "It means the swedes killed Elliot." Five took off his blazer.

"Oh, wow, look, you should have listened to me!" Y/n laughed walking back inside the kitchen and pointing at the boy.

Diego turned back to the phone. "Wrong number. Have a lovely day." Diego hung up the phone and looked at Luther with an embarrassed look. "We would've gotten there."

"Eventually."

"Yeah."

"Uh, you have some blood on you." Luther pointed out the obvious."

"A lot of blood, actually." Diego said as Five walked past them into the bathroom.

"Five, what did you do?" Luther asked but when he didn't answer, he turned to Y/n. "What did he do?"

"Well..." Y/n walked closer to them. "...he got a deal with The Handler to probably kill someone and she gave him a briefcase that will travel us back home to 2019. So, get ready, my friends."

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"Y/n's right. I found a way home." Five replied as he put on his tie.

"By killing someone?" Luther asked as he and Diego got ready too.

"All the details are irrelevant, but...I made a deal to get back to our timeline." Five fixed his clothes looking at the mirror in the bathroom.

"What about doomsday?" Diego put on his jacket.

"Won't happen."

"And the 2019 apocalypse?"

"Everything will be back to normal. All right? Now, no more questions." He walked past the brothers as Y/n stood near the brother's room. "We gotta go. We have to find the others, right?"

"Yeah."

"Luther, you get Allison." Five took his jacket.

"I'm coming with you, Luther." Y/n protested and walked over to him.

"Wait, why?"

"Because if you go by yourself, god knows what you will do with her so if I go together, the pace will be faster." Y/n explained with a "Don't argue with me" and Luther nodded.

"Y/n's right. She'll come with you while Diego, you get Klaus and I'll get Vanya. Now we meet back in the arrival alley in 77 minutes." Five went to the other table and gave three different watches to the three of them. "Here. I've synchronized these watches."

"All, right. Let's go." Luther agreed as he and Y/n were about to leave.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on." Diego stopped Five and he turned around, so did Luther and Y/n stop in their tracks. "You show up drenched in blood and expect us to believe everything's gonna go back to normal if we go home now?"

"Elliot just got killed because of us." Five pointed to the dentist chair where Elliot still was.

"What about dad? What about JFK?" Diego walked closer to Five, glaring at him as Luther and Y/n watched him.

"Diego, we have a chance to go home and make things right. We are taking it." And as Five said that Diego stood there in silence for a couple of seconds and nodded. Five actually thought that Diego understood the situation, but that was not entirely the case.

"I have to say goodbye to Lila." He turned away and was about to walk away from Five. He managed to take some steps away from him but stopped

Five just looked around annoyed at the reason why Diego wanted to say goodbye to her, especially when she was just a liar."Lila doesn't give a shit about you, Diego!" He stopped in his tracks. "She never did. She's one of them. She's a member of the commission."

"No way. Not possible." Diego shook his head.

"She was just using you to get to Y/n and I. You're the Oswald of this story, my friend." Five started walking away from them with his hands in the air. "The goddamn patsy."

"You don't know what you're talk-"

But Five lost his temper and teleported right in front of him, pointing at him. "If you don't do this, I'll kill you myself. Got it?"

Five didn't even wait for Diego's response, just teleported away once again. Y/n rolled her eyes and scoffed, walking to Luther.

"Okay, let's go. We don't have time for this."

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"You don't know when Allison's gonna get back home?" Y/n asked Luther as they entered her home.

Y/n looked around her cozy home. She imagined in her head how she spent those years stuck in Dallas, what memories she made, and if she was happy.

But Luther shook his head and also looked around. "No, we just have to wait."

"Yeah, no shit, but we don't have all day for this." Y/n turned around at him and put her hands in the air to say that he just stated the obvious.

"Y/n, if we go somewhere to find her and then come back later, she can't come with us." Luther reasoned.

"Oh, come on, if one of us isn't going, none of us are going." Y/n glared at him for a couple of seconds.

"We have to stay here. I'm sure she'll be back soon." Luther looked at the watch in his hands.

"Yeah, but in how much time do we leave?" Y/n asked and looked at her watch as Luther answered for her looking at his watch.

"In about 44 minutes."

"Oh, shit." Y/n walked away from him, her hands on her sides, to the kitchen. "If we want to get there on time, then she needs to come back home now."

"I know. But there isn't really anything we can do right now, except wait." And just as Luther said that the front door opened.

Luther and Y/n exchanged glances and saw Allison how she walked into the kitchen with grocery bags in her hands.

"Luther. Y/n." She put her groceries on the kitchen table.

"Allison." Y/n walked closer to her. They both stared at one another for a couple of seconds as Y/n thought about how to inform her. "Five found us a way home."

"Yeah, and we leave in..." Luther looked at his watch again. "...42 minutes."

"Wh-42 minutes?" Allison couldn't believe what she was hearing as she put down her grocery bags on the chair at the table.

"Yeah, listen, we know it's a lot to process, okay?" Y/n walked around the table to her.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. What about doomsday?"

"Five thinks if we leave right now, everything will go back to normal." Y/n explained trying to stay calm.

A small tear rolled down Allison's cheek as she looked down at her sister. "Are you saying that I could see Claire again? Tonight?"

Y/n's jaw went wide as she tried to think about what to answer to her. "We don't know. We don't know what kind of world we're going back to. We can't guarantee anything."