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"𝐈𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆, 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇!"

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"𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄?" Y/n yelled with her hands slightly in the air. They were standing in front of a strip club full of men and Y/n was not having it. "First of all, it's not even legal for us to go there, and second of all, women don't go there to watch."

"I have a feeling that somebody might be here." Five reasoned and took her hand trying to drag her inside.

"You sure you're just not bored with me?" Y/n crossed her hands on her chest.

"God, no. Of course not." Five reassured her actually thinking that she was serious and put his hands on hers.

But the girl just scoffed. "Relax." She took his hands off her. "I'll go, I'll go." And so the two of them walked inside the club.

When they entered it, men were whistling and cheering for a woman who was dancing on the stage with a feathered tail that looked like it was taken from a peacock.

The pair went to the stage and Five turned the chair motioning Y/n to sit down. She rolled her eyes and did what she was told to. So Five sat down next to her.

"How long are we supposed to be here?" Y/n hated staying in a room full of grown-ass men.

"Not for long. And besides, you have nothing to worry about me not being faithful to you." He grinned referring to the fact that he might be interested in some other woman.

Y/n just scoffed at that. "Yeah, sure, whatever."

They sat around for about another 15 minutes just waiting for somebody to come.Y/n just sat there with her arms crossed on her chest and looking around the club to see someone familiar. But because of so many people being there, it was hard. But eventually, someone came up to the pair.

"You rebounded pretty fast from your divorce, huh?" Luther leaned in between the two kids and said that to Five's ear.

Y/n felt bad that Luther brought that up once again but Five just brushed it off not wanting to make anything awkward. "Nice to see you too, Luther."

"What do you two want?" Luther glanced at Y/n and back at Five.

"Just sit down with us." Y/n smiled sarcastically and he rolled his eyes. Luther took a chair and sat in between the two.

"How long have you been here?" Five asked looking at Luther concerned.

"A year, thanks to you two." Luther stared at Five and back at Y/n.

But she just shrugged. "Hey, I wasn't part of that. But we're sorry, we know it couldn't have been easy."

"I thought everybody was dead." Luther whisper-shouted at Five.

"Some might be, but let's hope that's not the case." Y/n tuned in and Luther turned to her. But Luther saw that some drunk man was messing around with his boss, so he stood up.

"I gotta go."

But Five grabbed his hand. "Luther, wait." Luther looked down at him. "Look, we get it, okay? We know what it's like to be stuck in time..." Five glanced at Y/n as the memories of them being stuck in the apocalypse flooded their minds. "...thinking this is how you're gonna live out the rest of your life.

On the run, and not knowing if you're ever gonna see the people you love again, and to be in an unfamiliar world. But Luther, you're not alone. We have to find the others because the world ends again in ten days. We have no idea how to stop it."

Luther stared at Five for a couple of seconds. "I don't give a shit." He took his hand out of his grip and walked away.

Five looked back at Y/n but she just rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Oh, hell no." She stood up and started walking towards Luther with Five running to her behind her back.

"The hell is wrong with you, Luther?" She ran up to him and stood in front not letting him take the next step and holding his hand. "We just told you that the world's gonna end in ten days."

"Yeah, well, you both are always saying that." Luther tried to walk but Five ran up and helped Y/n stop him again.

"And so far we've been right."

Luther sighed and rolled his eyes. "Look, you two want to go save the world? Knock yourself out. All right? I already got a job."

"Wait, you work in this shithole?" Five asked not believing that he somehow ended up here.

"Yeah. Well, my boss owns the place. I'm his body man."

"What's that? Like a masseuse or something?" Five sarcastically remarked while Y/n slightly chuckled and smiled.

"Okay, you can make fun all you want, but I take good care of Mr. Ruby."

Just as Luther said the last word, Five and Y/n's eyes went wide as little plates. and the girl completely forgot the joke Five made.

"Wait, Ruby?" Y/n asked.

"The Jack Ruby, the gangster that shot Oswald?" Five added.

"Yeah, the one and only." Luther simply replied like it was normal.

"Well, it finally happened. That gorilla DNA has taken over your mind." Five made fun of Luther's dumb choices which Y/n found quite funny.

"Hey, watch it, all right? Jack's a good friend."

"And you're Number One." Y/n got closer to Luther as she almost cut him off. "Numero Uno. Remember?"

"There is no Number One. Not anymore. Not in 1963." Luther looked around the club. "Look, I've been stranded here alone for a year. What did you expect?"

"We get it, all right. You watched Pogo die, the world exploded, and Five marooned our big dumb ass's in time. He's sorry. We're sorry, okay?" Y/n sighed and tears started forming in her eyes.

Five saw that and spoke up not wanting for her to break down. "But we're asking for your help, Luther. The Umbrella Academy needs you."

But Luther just scoffed and shook his head at that mention. "It doesn't need me. It never did."

At that comment, Five and Y/n just stared at him unbelievably. Sure, Luther was a stubborn bastard, but the fact that he would say this when he was so faithful to their Father, is weird. But then again, he found out that he was sent to the moon for nothing so guess that's not really something to think could be unexpected.

Then a waitress, Autumn, came to them. "Luther, honey, Jack's about to lose it on some half-wit. A little help?"

"Ah, shit." Luther sighed.

Five and Y/n turned away from them and sat down on some high chairs next to the bar. But when Luther was about to walk away from them, Y/n signaled for Five to go up to him and stop him. So Five did that.

He stood up from the chair. "Luther, wait." But when he turned around all angry at him, Y/n also stood up and walked to them seeing that Luther will probably lose his shit at this time.

"Listen. You're the genius who said we should jump. Right? You're the one who got us stuck in time. And you're the one who brought Vanya. So if there is a doomsday coming, she's probably the cause. And if I was gonna do something about it, it sure as hell is not going to be with you two."

The whole time Luther was ranting to Five, he was standing there and staring at him. Five did so much for his family and Luther was just pointing out the bad things which were completely unavoidable if they wanted to be alive.

At the same time, Y/n rushed over to the boys to break it off.

"Luther, you can't be serious right now! If Five did nothing, there would only be a pile of ashes left of us on earth!"

"Y/n, he ruined our lives-"

"That's the last thing he did. And you know it." Y/n cut Luther off but he just stared at her for a couple of seconds before walking away.

The whole time while she was talking, Five was looking at her with tears forming in his eyes. After Luther walked away he still kept staring at her.

"What?" Y/n asked.

But Five just took her face by his hands and kissed her by pressing his gentle lips on hers. Y/n was first startled but kissed him back with no hesitation. It was just a gesture of gratefulness. Then Five broke the kiss.

"Thank you for-"

"Don't mention it." She smiled as she touched his wrists while he was still holding her face.

Then they broke the kiss completely, walked away, and sat down at the bar once again. They noticed Luther dragging out the man by his hands.

"Dad should've left him on the moon." Y/n scoffed.

"Yeah, but let's go. We don't have time for this." Five started to stand up but his jacket's cloth started tearing.

While Y/n was also standing up, she spotted it. "You alright?"

Then Five pulled some footage out of his pocket and examined it. Y/n walked closer to him to see what was in his hand.

"What is it?"

"We need to go. Now." Five suddenly took her left hand and started taking her from the bar.

"Wait, what is going on? What is this?" Y/n took her hand out of his grip and they both stopped as they went outside from the club because now they were standing outside and pointed at the box.

"Listen, I time-traveled way to the future and saw this whole thing unravel before coming here. Then Hazel died to get me this footage." Five took out that same box once again.

Y/n took the box from him and looked at it in her hands. "What do you mean "Hazel"?"

"Listen, we really need to go now and find out what this "Frankel Footage" is. If Hazel gave it to me, then it must be important and somehow relevant to the apocalypse." He explained to her as she gave it back to him.

"Okay, let's go."

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"𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐓, 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅?" Five asked as he was looking at the photos that were hung up on the wall once again. Just inspecting his siblings as the thoughts of where could they be crossed his mind.

"Of course. Can't exactly drop that stuff off at the neighborhood Fotomat. Government has eyes everywhere." Elliot replied as he ate the cereal he held behind Five.

Y/n was sitting on one of the tables, practically in the middle of the boys looking back and forth between them. "Didn't see a dark room." She looked around the apartment.

"Yeah, I converted the hallway closet." Elliot pointed behind him. But while he was talking, some squealing feedback was heard from one of the radios in the room so Elliot walked over to them.

While Elliot was fixing them, Five scribbled with a pen over the date that was written on the box and gave it to Elliot which caught Y/n's attention so she hopped off the table and walked over to them. "Can you develop this?" Five gave the box to Elliot.

"Hmm?" Elliot hummed as he kept fixing the radio but looked back at Five and took the box out of his hands. He turned it on the other side and read the name out loud. "Huh. "Frankel footage". Friends of yours?"

"Cousins on my robot mother's side." Five sarcastically smiled but instantly dropped it. "Can you do it or not?"

Y/n slightly chuckled at that since if that really was the case, it would actually make sense knowing their weird family tree.

"Sure I can."

"How long?"

Elliot turned away from them and started walking around the room rambling something meanwhile Five and Y/n followed him from behind. "Well, I mean, I'm running low on acetic acid. Beeker's Cameras is open today, but it's two miles away. I mean, I'd have to take the bus. On the other hand, Gibson's is only ten blocks away, but I gotta cut through the park, and there's this overbreed of pigeons-"

"Elliot." Y/n interrupted him and crossed her arms on her chest.

"It's like five, maybe six hours."

But Five and Y/n's attention was caught by a man saying something over the radio. "Attention all units, we have a code 3-15 at the Hollbrook Sanitarium."

"The hell is a code 3-15?" Five asked Elliot.

"Mmm, fugitives on the run."

The kids exchanged glances and instantly understood who it might be. They both walked closer to the radio and leaned in to listen to it closer and Five turned the volume up.

"25 patients still at large. Many are considered armed and dangerous."

"Oh, Diego." Five and Y/n whispered in unison.

"Oh, who's Diego?" Elliot also leaned in.

Five thought about the response for a couple of seconds. "Imagine Batman, then aim lower." He showed with his hands how he lowered his hand. Y/n chuckled at that answer.

The radio chatter continued but they didn't listen to it anymore. So Five took Y/n's hand and they started walking away. "You get started on that film. We'll be back as soon as we can."

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"𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎, 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘?" Diego haltingly answered the woman next to him.

"Then why are you doing this?" The woman asked him.

Meanwhile, the two kids teleported behind them in the backseat. Since Five only heard what Lila said, he tuned in.

"Because he is an idiot." Five replied. Y/n was on the left side while Five was on the right.

The woman jumped out of surprise while Diego remained calm as day.

"Who the hell are you?" The woman, Lila, asked as she looked outside of the car to see how they got inside so quietly.

"Hi, we're his loving siblings." Y/n waved her hand and wiggled her fingers smiling sarcastically.

"Who left me to rot in the nuthouse." Diego reasoned but didn't look at them in the backseat.

"To protect you from yourself." Five said through gritted teeth.

"That's quite sweet." Lila nodded her head in agreement.

Diego scoffed and looked at Lila and the pair. " Okay, the three of you, out."

Five leaned in closer to Diego. "Lose the crazy lady and come with us." But just as Five said that Diego turned away knowing that he was referring to the apocalypse to which he denied giving any help to stop it. "We have important business."

"I am not going anywhere with you two." Diego shook his head looking forward through the dashboard.

Five leaned back in annoyance but Y/n wasn't having Diego's attitude. Then she noticed a policeman walking down the street. "Okay, fine."

She put her head out through the window and smiled. "Officer!"

But Diego instantly leaned over the seats and pulled Y/n back in. "Hey! What are you doing?" His face was now just a couple of inches away from hers.

"I hear there's a reward out for you two." She answered as they both glared at one another deep into each other's eyes. Meanwhile, Five just smiled and chuckled at Y/n's behavior.

"She's bluffing." Lila shook her head.

But the two of them stared at each other for the next 3 seconds. "She's not. Fine. I'll go with you two."

"What about me?" Lila smirked and tilted her head as the three siblings looked at her.

"And I'm bringing the crazy lady."

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐔𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐒 of Elliot's apartment. Five was in the lead, behind him was Y/n, then Lila. Diego was obviously the last since he was almost coming here against his own will.

But as soon as they reached the second floor, Elliot came out of the kitchen with his gun pointing at them. "Where did you get that film? "The Frankel Footage". The truth this time."

"You know this lunatic?" Diego asked not looking back at the others but tilting his head.

Five and Y/n sighed at that. "New acquaintance." Five answered.

"He's harmless." Y/n added.

"Are you sure about that?" Lila glanced at the pair and back at Elliot.

"Are you or are you not an enemy of the people?" Elliot shouted still pointing his gun at them.

Y/n, Diego, and Five waited for a couple of seconds to respond before all replying at the same time while Lila just looked at them confused.

"Well, that's debatable on different forms."

"Such an open-ended question, yeah."

"Really depends on the people."

"You move one more muscle, I will blow your brains out."

Diego looked at the kids. "You two want to take this or should I?"

"No, we got him." Five said as he and Y/n teleported separately by themselves. Five pointed Elliot's gun at the top and Y/n snatched it from his hands taking the bullets out.

Elliot gasped at how the two kids handled everything so easily while Lila spluttered. "What the hell just happened?"

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