The Space Between Us (S1) || Five Hargreeves x Reader

☕️ Chapter Fourteen ☕️

"So, when's it suppose to happen?" Luther asks. "This...apocalypse?"

Five and I peacefully slept through the night and it's now morning. Luther wanted to know more about the apocalypse that's coming. So, that's being explained to him right now.

"I can't give you the exact hour, but...from what I could gather, we only have four days left." Five answers.

"Why didn't either of you say something sooner?" Luther further asks.

"Since when have you ever sat down and listened to what any of us have to say or suggest? Never. You only do what you think is best." I reply, leaving him to glare at me. That's all I get from him. That or a stupid lecture.

Five shakes his head slightly. "It wouldn't have mattered anyway..."

"Of course it would!" Luther exclaims quietly. "We could've banded together and helped you try to stop this thing."

"For the record, you already tried...all of you did." Five replies.

"What do you mean?" Luther asks.

"What do you think he means, dumbass?" I retort. "I swear! You have the IQ of a monkey." He looks at me with wide eyes. Yeah. I know his 'little' secret. It's the reason why I said monkey.

Five is a little hesitant before answering. "I found all of you...your bodies." I comfortingly put a hand on his shoulder.

Luther goes wide-eyed again. "We all die?"

"Horribly from what I could tell." Five adds. "You were all together, trying to stop whoever it is that ends the world."

Luther was staring off at something before he narrows his eyes at Five. "How do you know that?"

Five pulls the eyeball out of his pocket and unwraps it. "This was clutched in your dead hand when I found you." He throws the eye to Luther, who catches it. "You must've ripped it out of their head right before you went down."

"Who's head?" Luther asks.

"Like I said, I don't know." Five answers.

Luther looks at me. "Can't you just look into the future?"

"Surprisingly, Dad never really worked on doing that with me." I reply. "But, I would practice it by myself. I can only look about an hour ahead. I'd need at least two or three years just to practice looking a week ahead. We definitely don't have that kind of time, though."

"Then..." Luther looks at the back of the eye. "There's a serial number on the back. Maybe we could-"

"We already tried that." I interrupt. "It was a dead end. The dead end being a prosthetics lab exploding."

Five chuckles. "It's just a hunk of glass." Luther hands the eye back to him.

Suddenly, Diego burst through the door. "You pieces of shit!"

Luther stands protectively in front of us, as Diego gets closer. "Do you two have any idea what you just did?!" Luther picks him up before he can get any closer to us.

"Let me-" Diego tries wrestling out of Luther's grasp. "Get your ape hands off of me!"

'I already knew, because I've been in his head, but what Diego just said confirms that Luther's half-monkey.' I mentally note. 'I'm sure it was something Dad did to him.'

I cautiously put my hand out in front of me. "Diego, if he puts you down right now, I will stick you to your spot."

Luther sends a short nod in my direction. "Good suggestion, but I'll just do this for as long as it takes for him to calm down."