Timeless

Saltwater On Ivory

Bright sunlight shined through the large windows of the parlor hitting Five straight in the face. Five slowly opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings confused for a moment. He was sitting on the ground leaning up against the parlor couch. Looking around he saw popcorn and DVD cases on the floor and a TV on the bar. He tried to get up but he realized that his left arm wasn't budging. Looking at it he saw that you were laying on the couch asleep, your arms wrapped around his left arm. The two of you must've fallen asleep watching movies last night. As much as he wanted to stay he knew that he needed to figure out the mystery of how to stop the apocalypse. Slowly and carefully he removed his left arm from your grasp. Once he had it back he tried pushing himself up to stand but when he tried he felt a strong soreness in his right arm. Taking a look at it he sees a tear in his jacket sleeve and a cut in his arm. Forcing himself through the soreness he gets up and goes to the upstairs bathroom to grab the first aid kit. Going to his room he takes his jacket and dress shirt off and starts to clean and sew up the cut. When he finishes sew up the cut, he places a Billy the Choo-Choo bandaid over it and puts on a new academy uniform. Grabbing the bag that he used to carry Dolores back to the house yesterday he opened it up on his bed. Turning to his desk chair he sees imaginary you standing there with your arms crossed.

"You're leaving her again?" Imaginary you comments

"The apocalypse is still going to happen." Five replies "Now I'm putting you in the bag since you're coming with me."

"Don't put me in the bag, go wake and take the real (Y/N)," you reply

"Not happening. Too dangerous." Five replies grabbing the mannequin from the chair

"Randomly leaving is not a good expression of love no matter how good the intentions are," you reply

He places Dolores in the bag and starts to zipper it up.

"Don't you dare zipper this bag up on me I'm not done arguing with you." Imaginary you exclaims

Five does not listen and zips up the bag. Putting the bag on his back he opens the window by his bedroom and steps out onto the fire escape. Walking down it he can hear his brother Klaus exclaim,

"I'm trying to find whatever...priceless crap was in that priceless box so that Pogo will get off my ass!"

As Five climbs down the ladder of the fire escape, he looks at his brother in the dumpster in the alley by the house.

"I'd ask what you're up to, Klaus, but then it occurred to me... I don't care." Five comments

"You know there are easier ways out of the house, buddy?" Klaus replies

"This one involved the least amount of talking. Or so I thought." Five states annoyed

"(Y/N) won't be happy about this" Ben says to Klaus "Him leaving without saying anything again."

"Oh yeah, you're right." Klaus replies before turning to Five "(Y/N) won't be happy about this!"

Five looks down at the ground ashamed that he was leaving her without even a goodbye, again. It was safest for her if she didn't know where he was because then if he was ambushed by Hazel and Cha Cha nothing bad would happen to her.

"I know, I know. If you see her and she asks tell her I'm sorry." Five replies, remorse in his voice

"Will do, but uh hey...do you need any more company today? I could, uh... clear my schedule." Klaus says leading over the edge of the dumpster

"Looks like you've got your hands full." Five says looking at him

"Oh, this? No, no. I can do this whenever. I'm just- I just misplaced something. That's all." Klaus explains before reaching down into the dumpster and grabbing a half-eaten bagel "Found it! Thank God! Delicious."