For the last year, Angeline Campbell was living in an orphanage with no memory of the last 35 years. The weirdest part? She's still 14. The other weirdest part? She has super powers.
But her life only gets weirder when a 58 year old man in a child'...
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♥︎Chapter Fourteen: The Troubles of Time Travel
☕︎Five slowed as he came to a stop outside one door in particular. His eyes traveled down the hall to his left, noting the blood leading to the room beside him from the bathroom. His head whipped back towards the door to his right at the sound of tired murmuring and groans.
He watched as his brother moved across his room in pained movements. It was probably weird that he was just standing there without Klaus' knowledge, but he was planning on entering at some point. He had to get his timing right, his words that were already forming in his head. He didn't need the state he was in to confirm his suspicions from what Angelina had said just seconds ago.
Like his thoughts had summoned her, the girl sped out of the room he had just left himself. Their conversation/ apology was still fresh in his mind. Well, obviously since it had just happened, but considering how quickly he had tried to forget about their argument, it was slightly out of the ordinary for him.
He had become a pro at pushing aside unnecessary feelings by this point since they only got in the way, but his point was only proven when the slight shadow of regret started to hang over his head. He wasn't used to that feeling and he didn't like it.
So obviously his first thought had been to banish all memory of the event and move on since, after all, it wouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things when the whole population was wiped out. Clearly that hadn't worked.
He had felt guilt for many things in his life. Leaving his family, accepting the Handler's offer, but those were things he knew had been his wrong doings. They were big things that had changed the course of his life, but this was a petty argument. It was guilt for something that if it happened again it wouldn't change anything. It shouldn't have mattered because it didn't.
But just like the strange remorse he felt that had driven him to go apologize, mainly because he didn't want to feel that remorse anymore because it was adamant and unneeded, there was also a despondency he felt.
When he had come back, he had had his plan formed in his head perfectly, no room for errors and full confidence in himself, but when he had run into the anomaly that stuck herself to him and his family like glue he started doubting his own capability in his plan and he did not like that one bit.
He knew they needed something different to help them this time, to stop whatever was impending on them in the following days, and he had hoped it would be him, but he knew he couldn't be that reckless or egotistic in matters of the apocalypse.
Five knew he had to try anything he could if he wanted to save his family, so he took on an annoying irregularity of a girl as some kind of apprentice or unpaid intern. He didn't think much of it, like it would be an easy task to somewhat manipulate the blonde with promises of false claims until she was unneeded, but Five Hargreeves underestimated how little he understood about teamwork.
