*𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥*
Landon drove back home and parked on his driveway as he stayed in the car for a moment. He looked around and saw no one as he took a breath and got out of the car as walked in the house, unlocking the door. "Hun?" Valerie called from the kitchen.
"Yep. It's me." Landon reassured her as he walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, what are you doing here so early? I don't think the interview was that fast." Valerie said as she leaned against the counter.
"Yeah,um I felt-eyes on me." He told her and she grew worried.
"What do you mean?"
"I felt that someone was watching me, and I didn't feel safe. So, I just prefer to not- go out much today. Me or any of you. Just for safety." He told her and she nodded.
"Yeah, just in case." She agreed. "Well, the kids are in their rooms playing." She informed him.
"Okay good. How about we just spend time with them today, together? Since you're not working." Valerie smiled at him. "That sounds like a good idea."
"And just for the safety reasons we close the blinds a bit."
"Oh yes. For sure." She said as they chuckled. When they closed their curtains, they walked upstairs to the kids' rooms.
|~✽~|
Lilith and Five spent the rest of their time trying to find the others, but nothing yet. Lilith hasn't sensed them anywhere which stressed her out a bit. Only Diego as they were telling the desk lady that they were visiting.
"Nothing! Can't really mark out these photos." Five grumbled as he paced.
"Aren't we at least lucky that we're in the same place just a tad year or two apart?" She told him as she was sitting on the couch, playing with her orb. She sensed his glare as she simply ignored it. "Glaring at me won't work."
"God why do you have to be so sarcastic in the worst times?" Five mumbled and she turned to glare at him, as she threw the orb at his ass. He jumped and turned to her, mad. Lilith just glared back as she made another orb appear in her hand, "You want to test me, old man?"
"Not sure, lady. You'll have to try and find me first, unless..." He walked towards her, making her get up, "Your powers can even sense that I'm near." He said in a snark matter.
She glared at him as he glared back, "Wow." Elliot said, watching them at the doorway, "You guys really are siblings."
"We're married." They told him, not even turning to him.
"Really? Well, that kind of makes more sense, but--how?"
"We were alone, he proposed. I said yes. Had sex again and then we put our rings. Not much to be said, really." Lilith shrugged as she sat back down, settling on the couch.
Five looked down at her, his face softening bit, "Oh I think there's more to that story." He sat on the table in front of her, "We had a kid. But due to our living situations, we couldn't take care of him." He said sadly as she looked at him, somberly.
It was one of the most painful experiences of their lives and the worst night they've ever experienced. And the couple had some harsh nights.
"You guys had a kid?" Elliot asked, getting a chair as he pulled it and sat near them, watching them like a little kid waiting for his bedtime story.
The couple turned to each other and smirked a bit, "Yeah. A boy. His name was Damian." Lilith told Elliot. "He was five, when we lost him." She mumbled as Five held her hand.
"You don't need to get into detail. Must have been a great little guy and lucky to have parents like you two." Elliot told them with a small smile as Lilith smiled back at him and sniffled.
"Thanks Elliot." She told him and he nodded as he got up and went into the kitchen as Lilith and Five stayed quiet.
"I'm sorry about what I said. I'm just,stressed. I gotta control it. And I know it's not an excuse."" Five said as he kissed her hand and got up.
"I know, you get stressed easily." She commented as she watched him. "And we haven't gotten a break. I mean just last week we tried to stop the first apocalypse and now we're on a search party for our siblings in Dallas and we don't have any info since we all arrived in different years." She shrugged and Five simply glared tiredly at her. "Sorry, not helping." Lilith mumbled.
"Screw it. Let's go to a bar." Five said and Lilith got up, "Finally! You have a good idea!" She said happily, making him turn to her as she quickly hid her excitement. He then chuckled, "Darling, as much as I know you love the 60's bars, or 60's in general" he held her hand, "You're not getting drunk. And I will be there for you to not cause trouble." He said, kissing her hand as he kept his eyes on her with a smirk.
She rolled her eyes, "Fine. But I will tip." She told him, shrugging and he nodded as they left Elliot's, holding hands.
(~~⋆~~)
It was a bit dark as Lilith and Five were at the front watching the show, which was women dancing. Lilith kind of enjoyed it as she looked around at the place and smiled, the 60's. She love it. A woman came up to them and told them there were no minors allowed. Lilith was about to say something but Five beat her to it.
"Hey, what time you getting out of work?" He asked her with a smirk as she scoffed and walked away, as Five turned his attention back to the show as if nothing happened. Lilith simply slapped his arm and turned back to the show, Five turning his attention to her.
"Come on, you know I didn't mean it."
"Then why'd you still ask?"
"Oh, come on. It got her away from us."
"Wow, my little asshole witty husband." She responded with a sarcastic smile.
"And my loving wife." Five said with his usual smirk.
"Hmm." She kept her smile and he repeated.
"She's too young for you." They heard someone say, making them turn a bit as they were faced with Luther, who was hunched down between them. "Oh, hi Luther." Lilith smiled at him and he was confused on her change of demeanor. "Aren't you happily married?" He asked, turning to Five.
"Not for long." She said, taking a shot. Five simply smirked sarcastically as he turned to Luther, "Nice to see you too, Luther."
"What do you guys want?"
"For you to stop hovering like an ambitious stripper and sit down with us." Five sassed, causing Lilith to chuckle, "Oh never mind. Yes, we are happily married." She added, after his comment holding her other shot as Five held his as they clinked their glasses and drank. Luther just looked at them confused as he pulled a chair and sat in between them.
"How long have you been here?" Five asked Luther.
"A year, thanks to you." He muttered as Lilith turned to him, guilty.
"Well, you needed a year to cool off." She muttered, both of them hearing her as Luther simply glared, Five simply smirking at me.
"I'm sorry, Luther. I know that couldn't have been easy."
"I thought everybody was dead."
She looked between Luther and Five. There was a small commotion, making Luther get up. "I gotta go."
"Luther, wait." Five told him as he grabbed his arm, "Look, we get it, okay? We know what it's like to be stuck in time..."
"Thinking this is how you're gonna live out the rest of your life..." Lilith added, looking up at Luther. "On the run and not knowing if you're ever gonna see the people you love again, " She added as she inhaled making Five turned to her, a little solemn expression on his face. She breathed out, "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." Five told him as they looked up at him, with pleading expressions. "We have no idea how to stop it." Five admitted.
Luther simply looked at the couple with a nonchalant expression, "I don't give a shit." He told the, as he walked away. 'Damn you Luther.' Lilith thought.
|~✽~|
Landon, Valerie and the kids stayed at home the whole day because the couple weren't trusting the outside world today. Landon enjoyed staying home though as they simply made a cake and watched some movies. And of course, he displayed the safe part of his powers for his kids as Valerie simply watched. It was dark out, so Landon and Valerie simply put the younger kids to sleep.
"Dada," Aurora called out as Landon was getting a book. He turned to her and sat next to her on the bed, "What's wrong little missy?" He asked.
"I wanna story."
"That's why I was getting the books." He told her holding the book up as she grabbed it, "No, no." She giggled, "Your stories."
"Ohhh. You want to hear more about the academy?" He asked and she nodded. He smiled down at her and was about to say something before someone else spoke up. "We all do." Landon turned and saw Valerie carrying Atticus with Derek next to her, all smiling at him. Landon smiled back, "Well come on, then." Valerie carried Atticus and placed him next to Aurora as Derek sat on the other side of Aurora. Valerie sat next to her husband as she placed her hand on his shoulder, all of them giving him attention.
"Okay, I'll tell you about when auntie Lily saved us all from getting grounded. Now auntie Lilith had the idea to play hide and seek tag. But the part that she added was we were allowed to use our powers. And she knew Vanya didn't want to count so Lilith simply told auntie Vanya to stick with her or me throughout the game. Everyone agreed so the rest of us were allowed to tag people however we wanted with our powers. So, you already know our powers so of course it was chaotic. And then it was Lilith's turn to count." Everyone hissed at that part, making him chuckle. "Yep, she threw small orbs at us, and we got caught, cause we broke a few vases, ruined a few paintings, and scratched a few stuff. And then our dad saw this and called us all down."
"Was he pissed?" Derek asked, only for Valerie to hit him with a pillow, making Landon and the twins laugh.
"Don't say that in front of the twins." Valerie warned.
"Fine. Sorry, but was he?" Derek asked and Landon nodded.
"Yep. He was ranting on how we ruined stuff worth tons of money. But then Lilith intervened and reminded him about the training that we were supposed to be doing. He stayed quiet and when he asked about the laughter, she simply put her hands behind her back as she looked at him and asked, "What laughter?"
The kids gasped, "She rased his memry?" Atticus asked. Landon simply shook his head, "She mostly played with his memory, making him think he heard laughter."
"Wow. I wish I had powers." Derek said with a little frown.
"Us too." The twins added, causing their parents to laugh, softly.
"There's a lot to handle if you have powers, you three."
"Yep. We have to keep our powers to ourselves to not start a riot. And we have to control ourselves and our emotions because sometimes our powers are activated by our emotions. Happiness, sadness, anger, fear." Landon told them as they started to think about it. He turned to Valerie and she nodded, "Alright you two. You need to sleep because it's a pain if you guys don't get your hours of sleep." He told them and they groaned.
"Nope. No whining." Valerie said as she kissed Aurora's head, and she held Atticus's hand. "You two need your sleep. You might not want to, but you need it. You two are really cranky if you don't get your hours of sleep." She said as the twins stayed silent. Landon kissed Atticus's head as he and Valerie left the room, Derek behind them.
Landon turned to Aurora, "Sleep tight, little missy."
"Dada?" She asked as he looked at her, "Will we ever meet auntie Lilith? And uncle five?" She asked. He gave her a small smile, "Let's hope." He simply told her and she nodded. He kissed her head as he left her room and walked into the living room where Derek was.
Landon sat next to him, and then Valerie came out and sat in between us, "Well I'm glad it's getting easier putting those two to sleep." Landon simply nodded.
"Oh yeah."
"I've never been happier." Derek said. Valerie simply hugged Derek as Landon put his arm around them, and they stayed quiet as they watched a movie. "Dad?"
Landon turned, "Yeah?"
Derek turned to him, "Do you ever miss your siblings?" Landon looked back at him and nodded.
"I miss them, yeah. But hey, you guys are my family now." He reassured him and Valerie, mostly. Derek nodded, "It's just, it must be hard to be separated." He added causing Landon to nod. "It is." Derek turned back to the movie and left Landon with his thoughts. Maybe it's time to move on from his siblings, Landon was and is happy with the family he has and made. If he does meet his siblings though, he hopes it's not this soon. Landon misses them, dearly but he needs some moments with his family, more moments with them.