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"𝐈 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐓 𝐀 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍"

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"𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓?" Luther yelled as Five paced around the alleyway while Y/n stood leaning against a wall with her arms crossed on her chest and Klaus still helplessly laying on the ground.

"Now nothing, Luther. All right? Make your peace with God." Five answered with his hands in the air.

"What? What about Allison and Vanya?"

"Screw them both. They should have been here." Five leaned on the wall with his hands but stood back up and continued marching around.

But Y/n stood up and walked up to Five thinking of keeping him cool. "Hey! Calm down, okay? You-"

"No, Y/n! We just had the easiest way of saving the world but our siblings just ruined it!" Five yelled back to her as she just stood there waiting for him to finish lashing out. Five walked away from Y/n as she rolled her eyes and scoffed at his behavior.

"What about Diego? He's quite a responsible young man, no?" Klaus groaned trying to be useful.

Five just kicked a box near the dumpster and grunted as Y/n just continued to watch his lash-outs.

"Something must've happened to him." Luther said with his chin on his hand.

"Screw Diego, all right? Screw everybody! We were better of in the apocalypse, actually, I was!" Five, of course, didn't mean it. But still. It was mean.

"Five! Snap out of it, you idiot!" Y/n came to him and tried to bring him to the right state of mind since she had enough of him.

"No, Y/n! Okay? It's every sibling for himself now! How about that? And you could have left me, left all of us, but it didn't work out! Did it?" Five mocked her and she was done.

She touched his shoulder to access his power and teleported them inside Elliot's home to the bedroom in a split second.

Five looked around the room, confused as to why she did this. But Y/n wanted to make things right once and for all. So she took a deep breath and turned around at him.

"Now you listen to me." She put her hands on his shoulders. "I'm sorry, for what I did? Okay? I lied to you at a time where lying shouldn't have even been an option. But I was desperate. So when The Handler offered me that, I...I just couldn't say no." She put her head down trying not to break down with tears.

The whole time, Five just looked at her with a stern look. Then he took her hands off his shoulders and glared at her as she also looked up. "You could have said no. You were just being selfish."

Tears started to form in the girl's eyes as she tried to compose herself. "I'm sorry, okay? Please, Five, I-I can't live with me like this. I regret what I did, I-I know I said I didn't...but I do. I really do." Her voice quivered with every word.

Five stared at her thinking what he wanted to say. Of course, he wanted to be with her, he still loved her to the moon and back. But it seemed like he wasn't the bad guy in their life story after all. She was.

The boy didn't know how to answer her. He was absolutely heartbroken by her reckless and egotistical decisions. But he wanted to find out one thing that would be crucial for their relationship as friends, siblings, and lovers.

"Listen, can I just ask you one simple question and can you answer me completely honestly this time?"

Y/n looked up as her salty tears ran down her cheeks. She didn't say anything back but nodded since she would have probably sobbed with words if she answered.

"Did you ever had a plan on how to kill me? I mean, while you were supposed to complete the assignment, did you have some sort of idea."

Y/n shook her head the moment Five asked the question. "No. No, I never had any plan. I thought that I would create in on the way somehow, but I got lost with saving the world and...you..."

As Y/n was ranting with her hands near her face and not looking at him, Five came in closer not breaking his gaze of her eyes. He realized and actually saw what had Y/n been going through all these years and how messed up she actually was. How he messed her up.

Y/n stopped talking and looked up from the ground at Five since her face was in his hands, thinking if they were thinking of the same thing.

They were both wrong. Five crushed their lives in seconds when they were only 13-years-old, but this action was not the right thing to do for Y/n. But it should have been expected from her knowing the circumstances.

But then instantly they pressed each other's lips with no hesitation, finally both happy that they were completely honest and truthful with one another. Five touched Y/n's cheeks with his fingers and wiped away the tears as her breath trembled. Y/n put her hands on his shoulders and pulled apart from the kiss after a couple of seconds as she sniffled.

"D-do you forgive me?"

But Five just smiled and chuckled at her. "I can't stay mad at you. We both know that."

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"𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓, 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘. 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒...𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐙𝐘." Y/n uncomfortably replied to Five as he was walking around that same room and she was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I know, but we have no other choice. It's our last option, and, of course, the most insane one." Five looked down and scratched his head not glancing up at Y/n.

"Well, if we have no other choice, then this is our last hope. If that fails, then..." Y/n tried to pick the correct words not wanting to think of the complete end. "...it's over." She heavily sighed and looked down.

Five stopped pacing around and finally looked at the girl. He came to her and bent down to her level as he held her hands in his on her lap with her looking up at him. "Don't think about what would happen if this backfired. Think about how free we will feel when this is over."

Y/n slightly smiled and nodded gratefully that the end to this would actually be a happy one. "Thanks. But there is one more question to this "plan" that I have." She used her fingers to show the word "plan".

Five stood up and put his hands in his pockets. "And what is that?"

"Is it safe?"

Five looked away from the girl and sighed. He knew it wasn't but safety wasn't really the first priority at this point. "Not entirely." He started pacing around the room once again. "You see, we might experience some paradox psychosis."

Y/n remembered from the early days of the commission training about how they were taught that information as part of the program."Oh, shit. Of course, when you are close to the other version of yourself in the same timeline, there are those seven stages. Right?"

"Correct. But we have to risk it. Are you in?" Five looked deep into her eyes across the room and she looked at him with a smile.

She knew that this daring decision was not coming with any guarantees, but there was really no other thing that they could do to bound this whole chaos from ever continuing.

"I don't really have a choice here, do I?"

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𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐔𝐏 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇 because of all of the problems with saving the world from the fridge rattling and the two kids walking around.

"Five? Y/n?" He pulled the covers off him and stood up to walk to the kitchen all sleepy still, where Y/n and Five were drinking water from the gallons from the fridge.

"Guys, you..." Luther walked inside and saw them acting all strange. He squinted his eyes at them. "...are you two okay?"

Five and Y/n glanced at him before putting the water inside the fridge and continuing with their work ignoring Luther's presence.

"We're gonna need to stay hydrated." Five sighed as he closed the fridge with water dripping down his face as Y/n put in her water.

"Hydrated?" Luther still inspected them closely.

Y/n poured in some baby powder into her shirt, around the skirt, and into the sleeves before giving it to Five as he poured it into his shorts and uniform as well.

"What's with the baby powder?"

"It'll help with the itching." Y/n answered for Five as she fixed her clothes.

"What itching? There's itching?" But Luther eventually realized something was going on and connected maybe some dots. "You two do have a plan." Five shook his body wanting for the baby powder to get to work and jumped as Y/n tied her hair in a ponytail.

"Well, it's a desperation move..." Five and Y/n picked up their jacket's from the table and the two walked to the living room past Luther. "...since our brain-dead siblings are incapable of meeting a simple deadline, we got no choice." Five ranted about them once again knowing there really was no use of that but want to do it still.

Luther seemed to kind of get what was happening but not quite."No choice about what?"

"We have to find ourselves." Y/n filled in the gap as Five took out his watch from his pocket and opened it.

"Yeah, we just arrived in Dallas 15 minutes ago."

"Should I be worried about you?" Luther asked a little bit concerned.

"Luther, if you recall, we were sent to 1963 on a job by the commission to make sure the president was assassinated." Y/n explained as she stretched her arms and Five stretched his torso.

Finally, something connected in Luther's head. "Oh! So, wait, your old selves are out there."

"Precisely." Five turned his head to warm and stretch the muscles there as Y/n stretched her legs.

"What, just walking around Dallas?"

Five walked closer to Luther as Y/n stood back. "Walking around Dallas with a briefcase that can get us home."

Luther's eyes went wide and he put his hands together. "Oh, my god. Guys, you are geniuses."

"However, there are two significant problems with this plan." Five started explaining and walked closer to Y/n, nodding his head saying "Go ahead" so she took the role of elaborating the first reason as Five walked around.

"Problem number one: we are trained assassins, arguably the most dangerous assassin's in the space-time continuum. And if we know ourselves, we are not going to react kindly to bumping into ourselves."

Five came back and stood next to Y/n. "Problem number two, and this is the real fly in the ointment here: you're not supposed to exist in close proximity to yourself in the same timeline. The side effects can be disastrous."

"Side effects? What sort of side effects?" Luther asked all confused again.

Five looked at Y/n as if he was asking "Do you want to explain this or should I?". But she just exhaled sharply and turned away walking closer to Luther pointing at the man since she didn't want to use her energy for him, it wasn't worth it. So she walked over to him. "Do your thing."

Five started pacing around the living room once again. "Well, according to Commission Handbook Chapter 27, subsection 3b, the seven stages of paradox psychosis are..." Five stopped pacing around and stood still showing with his fingers the numbers. "stage one: denial, two: itching, three: extreme thirst and urination, four: excessive gas, five: acute paranoia, six: uncontrolled perspiration, and seven: homicidal rage."

Luther listened to everything very closely the whole time. "Homicidal rage?" While Y/n just simply stood there.

"Yeah." The girl said as she walked closer to Five who started pacing around the room again.

"Jeez, I don't know. This maybe isn't such a good idea." Luther thought out loud.

"It's a Hail Mary. But what choice do we got, Luther?" Y/n stopped in the middle of the living room and spread her hands out in the air.

"I don't know, you two already seem a bit squirrely if I'm being honest." Luther put his chin on his hand and leaned on the doorframe.

But then Five came running to him as if something was very important and so Y/n followed him. "We're gonna need you to help us get through this one, all right? We...we need a spotter." Five took Luther and turned him around to face him with Y/n on the boy's side.

"A spotter?" Luther squinted his eyes at him.

"Yeah."

"What is that? Like, a wingman?"

Y/n stepped in since Five looked like he was losing his mind by the second. "I think what he means is that in case the paradox psychosis gets too severe, we need, or should I say he needs, you to help stay on task, all right?" She pointed at him.

Five was a little bit annoyed that Y/n was acting like she wasn't going to be hit by paradox psychosis the way he would be, but he ignored it. "Y/n's right. So, whatever happens, whatever we say, we need to get that briefcase. Okay?"

"Okay." Luther nodded his head trying to put everything the kids said to him.

"Okay." Five replied and the pair started walking away but Luther just stood in his place on the threshold like an idiot.

Y/n turned around and rolled her eyes. "Luther, come on."

Luther snapped back into reality and followed them right after. "Right."

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"𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐌, 𝐌𝐀𝐘 𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐊?" Five looked at Y/n suspiciously as he asked sarcastically with the three of them who were walking down the road to the restaurant where the older versions of them were at.

The kids were walking a little bit in front of Luther as he stayed in the back.

"Oh, I just know that my older self will be a little bit more...talkable and...more agreeing that your's." She put her hand on her chest and smiled.

Five just looked away and scoffed unbelievably. "Believe me, she won't."

"I think I know myself better than you." Y/n didn't even look at Five just looked straight ahead with a proud look. So they both continued to do that which was not looking at one another. Just like their argument at the elevator.

"Sometimes I know you better. For example, now."

"Women are calmer than men."

"That's debatable."

"My older self is actually someone you can have a normal conversation with."

"My older self is someone you can trust."

"That's questionable."

"Well, you just wait and see. Both of our old selves are not someone they are going to be calm and nice."

"Separate the plural from the singular, Five."

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐉𝐈𝐆 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓 as patrons chattered while the three of them walked inside it. Luther started looking around trying to see who might look like the old Y/n and Five. But the ones who he was searching for already found them.

Y/n saw her older self sitting at the bar with Five's older self and nodded to herself thinking how they are going to talk to them.

You see, the old versions of them are currently divorced. So if one of them found out that they got back together, that would be something interesting for the old versions of them and that could cause some problems.

"Well, there we are." Five fixed his jacket and looked at their older selves. The trio leaned in when they were standing behind a wall.

"Yeah and there's the briefcase." Y/n said as their eyes went down at the briefcase that was in between Five's legs.

Luther leaned back in and turned around at the kids. "Why don't we just grab the briefcase and run?"

The kids leaned back in also and Five looked at Luther. "Luther, we would never let that happen."

"He's right. We're trained to guard these briefcases with our lives." Y/n agreed and looked at her older self.

Five nodded and glanced at the girl. "Yeah, and plus, it's the inherent paradox where this gets tricky. We're endangering our existence just by being in the room with ourselves."

"Huh-What do you mean?" Luther looked around the room.

"Luther, try to keep up. If the old us don't travel back to 2019 like we're supposed to, the whole thing unravels itself. We cease to exist." Y/n tried to explain to Luther as Five was scratching his body and sweating like crazy. "You got us?"

Luther tried to understand what the two explained to him, but he just hesitantly nodded his head after a couple of seconds, not understanding a single thing the girl just elaborated. "I get you two."

"So our best chance is to talk with them, to reason with them. They'll understand. We know ourselves better than, uh...better than we know ourselves." Five scratched the back of his neck.

Then Luther spotted that action and pointed at the boy. "You just itched your neck. That's stage two of paradox psychosis."

"No, I didn't. I didn't itch my neck." Five tried to deny it but without any luck.

"Denial is stage one." Y/n grinned and crossed her arms on her chest.

Five glared at her and leaned in. "I am fine, okay? Let's stay on task, shall we?" He pointed around the room motioning that they had to go.

Y/n saw that Five was trying to go, so she also headed with him. But Luther put his hand out and stopped the kids from taking another step.

"Wait!"

The two turned their heads at him as Five asked him all frustrated and paranoid.

"What?"

Luther took the hands off of them and pointed at himself. "Maybe I should go first."

"Why?" Five huffed under his breath.

"Well, you'll freak him out." Luther reasoned. "Bumping into their own tiny doppelganger? They will lose their shit. Just let me break the ice."

Y/n nodded and agreed to Luther's idea. "Sounds good by me." She turned to her left and looked at Five.

Five hesitantly looked around and also agreed. "Okay."

"Okay." Luther walked away from the kids as he exhaled slowly. He stood across the bar looking at the old versions of his siblings for the first time. Then he walked over to them and spoke up.

Meanwhile, the two kids were watching everything closely and carefully. Y/n smiled and nodded her head at her older self's reaction towards Luther.

"Huh, that's how I would react." But then she looked at Five and saw that he was all sweaty and shaking. "Damn, you okay?"

Five looked at her and nodded looking straight back at Luther and himself. "Yeah, I'm fine."

Then they saw that Luther looked at them and signaled for them to come out of their hiding spot and make their grand appearance.

Old Five's eyes went wide as little plates when he saw his younger version. Meanwhile, Old Y/n's jaw almost hit the floor.

Young Y/n smiled at her older version of herself. The two kids stood there all proud and trying to think of how to start this thing.

"Hey there, strangers."

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