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

☕️ Chapter Twenty One ☕️

 ~ Five's POV ~

I changed out of my pajamas and I'm going to have Klaus and Luther come with me to help find the others. We've all got to be together, if we're going to even attempt to save the world. Unfortunately, we don't have very much time left.

I walk down the hall to Klaus' room, where the door is slightly open. I knock on the door lightly, but enter anyways and find him attempting to knit. "Hey. Get up. We're going."

He stops messing with the needles and looks at me. "Where?"

"To save the world." I answer.

He lays the needles on his chest. "Oh...is that all? Great." Nevertheless, he still sits up to get ready.

I begin pacing back and forth, while he's getting ready. "So, Pogo said Dad killed himself to get us all back together, right?"

"Yeah, so?" He asks, expecting more.

"So..." I drawl. "It got me thinking. I had to jump to the future to figure out when it happened, but Dad, he couldn't time travel. So, how'd the old bastard know to kill himself a week before the end of the world?"

"Well, you know-" He starts.

I stop and point at him. "Don't answer that. That was purely rhetorical. The truth is, our whole lives he's told us that we'd save the world from an impending apocalypse."

He pulls a sock onto his foot. "Yeah, but I always thought he just said that to scare us into doing the dishes. I mean, it did the trick for me."

I nod. "I thought that too, but what if the old man really knew it was going to happen?"

"Knew how?" He asks, sniffing a shirt then turning it, since it was inside-out.

I shake my head. "I have no idea, but the fact remains. His fakata plan worked. We all came home. We're here. We might as well try to save the world, if we can."

"Oh yeah?" He pulls the shirt on. "What, like, the two of us?"

I walk out of his room with him following me. "Well, ideally, no, but...I've got to work with what I got."

"Oh...I see." He remarks.

I turn around with a raised eyebrow. "What?"

He begins to softly wave his hands around. "You'd prefer to have someone else. You know, just off the top of my head, Y/n..?"

"Well, she is powerful and knows how to work her powers like they should be used, but she's not here for the time-being and neither are the other two. So, we're going to go find them." I reply.

"Oh, Five. That's not what I-" I block him out, once I see Diego running at us.

"Where have you been?" I ask, as he runs into his room.

"Jail." He answers, not really surprising me. "Long story. Where's Luther?"

"I haven't seen him since breakfast." I reply.

"Yeah, two days before the world ends and him, along with Allison and Y/n, choose a great time to drop off the grid." Klaus adds.

"About those two." Diego starts as he latches his knife belt on. "Allison and Y/n went to what's his faces' grandma's house. They're in danger."

"Why'd they go?" I ask. "They know that we need to take him down together. We don't know what he's capable of doing."

Diego looks at me, his eyes narrowed. "Y/n insisted. She was very pissed after you got stuck in bed last night."