The Devil Wears Pink (Ben Hargreeves) [discontinued]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - AGAIN

wednesday 8:15 A.M.
AGAIN

"hold the phone" klaus waves his hand
he thumps the bar counter with his hand while he shook his head "we all died fighting this thing in the first time around remember?"

"klaus, shockingly, has a point" diego agrees, much to lilith's surprise

"what gives us a win this time?" the lights start to flicker above the bar counter. the hargreeves siblings all looked up, very confused. suddenly, a blue flash with blue lightening before five fell and crashed into the counter

"what the actual shit!" lilith yells out, completely shocked. klaus stumbles back into the bench and fell on to it

"je-jesus!" allison jumps back, shielding her face "you guys, am i still high, or do you see him, too?" klaus asks as he stands up

"five, where have you been?" luther questions. five rolls off of the counter and onto the ground the siblings all run to his aid, lilith being the first to grab his arm to help him

"easy there, trooper!" lilith says as allison helps him as well "are you alright?" she asks worriedly

the two girls quickly help him stand up, "who did this?" luther asks

"irrelevant" five groans and grabs the cup of coffee out of allison's hand. he walked away with a limp as he slurped the coffee

the rest of them just stared at him. he sighs realizing that he has to explain the situation to them now "the apocalypse is in three days. the only chance we have to save our world is, well, us" lilith lets out a breath and shakes her head "we're dead" she mutters

"the umbrella academy" luther states proudly
"yup so dead" klaus whispers to her

"yeah, but with me, obviously. so, if you all don't get your sideshow acts together and get over yourselves, we're screwed. who cares if dad messed us up? are we going to let that define us? no. and to give us a fighting chance to see next week, i've come back with a lead" five holds up a folded piece of paper in his hand

"i know who's responsible for the apocalypse." allison holds out her hand and five gives her the paper

"this is who we have to stop." five gives her the paper. the remainder of the siblings crowd around her, curious to see the contents

the paper was for hazel and cha-cha stating "REASSIGNMENT: PROTECT HAROLD JENKINS"

"harold... jenkins?" allison reads aloud. lilith stares at the paper before looking at five "uhmm...whomst?" she asks, confused as are the rest of the siblings

"who the hell is harold jenkins?" diego looks at five who had just finished drinking the coffee.

"i don't know..." five chucks the empty cup of coffee behind him "yet. but i do know that he's responsible for the apocalypse. so we have to find him. and we have to do it now."

"how is he connected to what's gonna happen?" luther asks."i don't know." five  admits

"wait, so you just know his name?" diego takes a step forward "that's it?" "that's enough" five said