"Five can you stop for a second? What did he tell you?" Asked Y/n running after him outside the building. Five groaned trying to find patience, he was annoyed at his father and for the first time in his entire life he was trying to not let out the feeling on someone that didn't deserve it.
"Nothing useful, nothing!" He shouted at her, yeah maybe his self control was lacking in that area. Y/n grabbed his elbow and turned him around.
"Don't you dear shout at me, I'm fine with sarcasm and without being thanked for the small things I do, but I do not deserve to be shout at." Her index pressed in the middle of his torso, her voice stead but not screaming.
The two looked at each other, breathing raged, eyes firing at each other. "Tell me what he told you." She insisted, he couldn't go around doing shit alone, he spent the last what? Three days trying to gather all his siblings and now he was going around dealing it by himself?
"Tell me Five, why the hell did you gather your family if at the end you decide to do everything alone?" She asked her voice growing calmer but her eyes still stead, she was not going to go soft on him this time, she had let him treat her and Elliott like a nobodies, and maybe the man was fine with it but she surely was not.
"I made this mess, I am going to make it better, none of them turned out to be useful, not even you." He growled, something bugging him in the back of his mind, something was making him act more rudely then usual because he had never called her or Elliott useless before, and she hoped he had never done so to his siblings.
"Now you listen to me... I don't care what guilt trip you signed up for but you better get your shit straight, I don't care how smart you think you are, if you are going to work alone you are just gonna make it worse." Her finger poking his torso every now and then to keep it clear that she was giving him a scolding, even if he was twice her age she really felt like he was actually half of it. "You know who works alone? Villains, villains work alone, even Batman went out of his way to get a Robin so he wouldn't be alone. Haven't you already gone 45 years by yourself? Wasn't that enough?" She asked now her eyes showing sadness at the realization of how much he must have been traumatized at surviving the end of the world alone, he had probably seen is siblings dead just like he said about the doomsday.
Five breath evened out the more she poked and talked, words filling his head up, she sounded like a worried mother for his stupid son and he didn't like that because other than thinking that, he also thought she was right, he held her finger with his hand lowering it under the sad stare of the woman, and looked back at her with a calmer one.
"I have to do this thing alone, I have no other option." He tried reasoning with her but Y/n just shook her head.
"You're wrong, there is always an option, if we wait-"
"There's not enough time."
"If we wait a little, something else might come up, maybe if we do nothing then nothing happens..." She pushed her idea on him, because that's what she had learned of him, he was smart, he could think everything through but he was stuck in his mind, closed in his own box, so it was necessary to push towards him.
"I'm going, Y/n, you can't stop me." He said, eyes furrowing at hearing her being so dedicated at holding him back, she was never one to get in between their plans, she was just a side helper most of the time, a silent tease for the rest.
Y/n scoffed taking her eyes away from him, she slipped her finger out of his grasp, hand falling by her side in disbelief. "You are right, I can't." She said looking back at him she stepped backwards and turned around to leave him there. She had tried convincing him, but she couldn't make him do what she wanted.
Five almost stepped forward to stop her, maybe he wanted her to convince him to not go, to not do what the Handler told him was necessary for him to gain a briefcase, but he hadn't he was frozen in his place and like he could have inserted his need in her head she turned around before opening the door of her car.
"I'll see you at Elliots then?" He didn't want to go, killing was never personal for him... but that didn't mean he liked to do it, he felt adrenaline yes but... the blood the bodies, he was going to see them every time he'd lock eyes with her, he knew that. Five couldn't reply, his throat was stuck, maybe is unconscious still wanted her to just pull him out of his stubbornness.
"Alright..." She mumbled to herself under the persistent eyes of the guy that didn't even reply out of courtesy, her mouth pressed on a thin line and she opened the car door, sitting herself inside. One last hopeful glance flew up towards Five, his hand twitched, he's eyes playing tricks on him, because for a second he had seen blood on the car sit and her head fallen backwards with her throat sipping red. The car started, he rose back to reality and she left him, made a 'U' turn in front of the building and headed back to Elliot's, her gaze still on him through the small mirror hanging from the ceiling. She could only hope that his plan could be the final act that managed to bring them back home.
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Y/n entered Elliot's shop after a ride back to her mom's house, she had packed a set of clothes in her trunk and finally said goodbye to her mother, hopping that she would be back after domesday all intact.
She inserted the keys on the front door, she opened it, the usual bell sound echoing in the place, she could hear gibbering voices coming from upstairs. When she looked up she was greated with a Diego leaning on the railing looking at something on the floor.
"No... this is the work of a psychopath." This was Luther's voice, as she had figured the two were there because they did not have a house to go back to like Vanya and Allison.
"What's the work of a psychopath?" Asked Y/n looking up at Diego, he had just muttered 'Öga for Öga' and the girl didn't even know what language he was speaking.
"Uh..." Luther was at loss of words, Y/n just narrowed her eyes at him in confusion for the dragging of the sound coming out of his mouth. She looked down spotting the big letters drawn on the floor with blood, she stepped backwards, on of her shoes leaving it print on the floor. She was quick to take her shoes off, panic slowly creeping in her, that was the blood of someone, she run up the stairs, loads of questions ready.
"No wait." Luther stopped her before she could fully reach the floor, Diego behind him still thinking about the name, was that even a name? "E...Elliott is sleeping on the sofa with his mouth wide open, you don't want to see that."
"You think I haven't already seen him like that? Get out of the way Luther, who's blood is that?" She asked pointing down at the letters on the floor, he gasped not knowing how to deliver, so Diego did it for him.
"Who ever wrote that on the floor killed Elliott." Said Diego. Y/n panicked even more, she squeezed herself in the small space between Luther end the wall and covered her mouth at the sight of Elliott's stranded on the dentist chair of his father, a blanket over him but some stuff sticking out on the area of his head.
"Oh, Lord..." She said, sound muffled through her hand, a sob broke out of her throat. She had to turn around, she couldn't look at him like that. The two at seeing her in distress started to frantically find this lady Öga Foröga. They left her beside the body, stupid fucking move, and dived in the telephone directory to search for the woman.
Y/n had no ears to listen to them, her own thoughts running wild, her memories with the man and now he was dead beside her, she was tempted to see the state he was in but she had figured that if the culprit pushed himself to use Elliott's blood to leave a message then his body was not left in a nice state.
A woosh ranged into the woman's ears and almost silent steps walked up the stairs. Five noticed Y/n leaning on the rail, on of her hand covering her face like she was holding herself from puking out her last meal. He then noticed the covered body.
"Y/n?" He asked not receiving a reply so he uncovered the unidentified body and sweared. "Damn..." Five walked around to hide the briefcase before laying a hand on Y/n's shoulder startling her out of her mind. She swatted his hand in panic and apologized trying to not look at Elliott's direction. It didn't turn out to be hard because Five in front of her was covered in blood too, it just seemed like it wasn't his.
"What did you do?" She asked now feeling another knot in her stomach, a wild thought crossed her mind, she just buried it deep in her mind drawers. There was no reason for Five to kill Elliott, she was just getting paranoid, for the first time actually.
"No time, and this time I'm for real." He said grasping her wrist, pulling her with him to the two macho's calling the wrong person. "Hey. It's Öga For Öga, idiots. Swedish for 'An eye for an eye.' It means the Swedes killed Elliott." Five took his blazer of and his over shirt too. Y/n just looked at the three of them, her mind having a hard time staying in their reality.
"Uh, you have some blood on you." Luther pointed out after finally looking at his brother. That snapped Y/n back to reality.
"A lot of blood, actually." Diego added, Five just glared at them, he took the woman's wrist and dragged her in the bathroom with him, on the other hand another white shirt, taken from who knows were.
"Five, what did you do?"