Timeless

Here Without You

The sounds of the world slipped into the boiler room and the once drunken Five opened his eyes. They were blurred for a second but when they came into focus he was surprised at what he saw. There you were face to face with him, his arms wrapped around you. He had no clue how the two of you got into this position but he didn't need to find out. He was just happy to have you so close. You always looked so peaceful when you slept. He started looking around at his surroundings but when he looked up he saw Luther standing over him. Startled he exclaimed,

"Jeez Luther, why don't you try to look a little more like a serial killer, huh?"

"Good, you're up. Are you sobered up enough, we need to talk." Luther says

"About what?" Five questions 

"Last night you mentioned the end of the world. When's it supposed to happen? This... apocalypse." Luther states sitting on a chair across from the bed

"Oh, that." Five reponds

Five lets go of you and siowly moves as to not wake you. Sitting up on the bed he looks at Luther. With his hands clapsed Five looks down at the floor for a second before looking back to his brother and quietly explaining,

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

"Why didn't you say something sooner?" Luther questions

"It wouldn't have mattered." Five dismisses

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

"For the record, you already tried."

"What do you mean?" Luther says taken aback

"I found all of you. Your bodies." Five says bluntly

Five didn't want to talk about this. All the horror he had seen during his time in the apocalypse. It had haunted his mind since that day where he saw his family dead, but Luther had to know. There was no way Five could dance around the topic. Luther's eyes go wide as the worst thought pops into his mind. Leaning in, Luther quietly asks,

"We die?"

"Horribly." Five states "But at least you guys went quick, you were all gone by the time I arrived."

"What do you mean at least we went quick?"

Five looks back towards you still sleeping peacefully in the bed. Gently he starts to stroke your hair as he tries to explain,

"She was there too. You were all dead but I found her impaled on some rebar, barely clinging on to life."

"I thought she could phase through things?" Luther comments

"All our powers have limits Luther." Five responds looking at him

Five closes his eyes and the images of your lifeless body pop in his mind. For years he had seen those images. They tortured him, sent him into a panic. They reminded him why he was doing what he was doing but he hated to remember that day. Five could feel his heart rate increasing just through the thought of it, his breathing becoming erratic as he felt the need to run away. He could feel tears come to his eyes but he refused to let them fall in front of his brother.

"Five, what is it?" Luther asked

"I watched her die Luther. She took her last breath and then she was gone. I held her in my arms for so long. I though maybe if I held on tight enough she would come back but she didn't." Five chokes out 

"Five, I'm sorry to hear that. I know what it's like to lose someone you love."

Five's blood boiled at those words. He knew Luther was trying to be sympathetic but he had no clue what Five had been through. Luther couldn't even begin to comprehend the miserable life Five was forced to live. Five's head whips towards his brother and he looks at him with an enraged fire in his eyes.