Title: Somebody that I Used to Know
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Summary:
! SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2!
'Y-you know me?' she asked feeling a bit silly since of course, he knew her. He said her name, didn't he?
Vanya barely managed to let out a surprised gasp before she felt the man's lips against her own in a bruising kiss that threw her off more than anything that happened since she got hit by Sissy's car all those months before.
'I'm your brother.'
Vanya finally allowed her eyes to close and some of the exhaustion she was fighting back all night to take her away. She was just too damn tired and after everything that happened to her, the adrenaline, the survival instinct inside her must have run out. It was all so confusing and so frustrating. Who were those men? Why did they try to ambush her? Kill her? Were they connected to her past? And just what the hell had happened to her to make someone want to kill her? She was so afraid when the man fired the shot and then…and then there was this pressure inside her and the noises around her became too much and well…something exploded inside her and apparently caused some blue light to throw everyone away.
All of these questions and all of these events were circling inside her mind while she tried to get away as far as possible from the place and hide. Her heart was beating so loudly she thought the men would hear it too and find her again, but they didn't.
She let out a soft sigh. She wanted to rest so badly. Her eyes were heavy, and she felt so tired. She wanted to be back on the farm with Sissy and Harlan. She wanted to be in her comfy bed and not here in this cornfield wondering what the hell was happening and who the hell she was.
She felt a headache coming her way with the lack of sleep, the stress from last night and sitting here and-
When she heard the sound of moving corn, she instantly knew someone was coming.
Her eyes flew open and she held in her breath watching whoever was there approaching. Should she run? Did she have time? Whoever was coming would surely hear her if she started to run. Also, she hadn't heard the men since the blue light threw them away so maybe this was someone else.
A few corns stalks moved, and she somewhat relaxed as the man who was coming her way had very dark hair and wore a suit looking completely different than the milkmen or whoever they were with weirdly white hair. Somehow his appearance calmed her a bit.
His eyes immediately caught her once he was close, and Vanya was a bit thrown off by the almost relieved and glad smile this stranger shot her way.
He walked toward her, and she as well found herself moving closer to him even if still sitting in the corn feeling growing relief that someone was here with her even if a stranger.
'Hi Vanya,' he said, his smile growing as they now could see each other faces closely.
She blinked confused her heart speeding up just like it did yesterday with another man who showed up at the farm and knew her. He knew her. This man knew her as well. He knew her!
Thrill rushed through her melting the last bits of fear away with the new realization everything inside her vibrating with expectations of what would happen next and if she would finally know who she was and what was happening and where she came from-
'Y-you know me?' she asked feeling a bit silly since of course, he knew her. He said her name, didn't he?
Then before she could ask anything else or wait for the man to answer, his hand reached out, but instead of helping her up like she would expect him to, it appeared at the back of her neck startling her and yet keeping her frozen in place.
Vanya barely managed to let out a surprised gasp before she felt the man's lips against her own in a bruising kiss that threw her off more than anything that happened since she got hit by Sissy's car all those months before.
The kiss was a bit brutal and harsh, but not unpleasant or unwelcoming. She didn't know how, but the kiss felt like pure energy moving from him to her by the contact. It was almost like the energy vibrated inside her from the kiss.
His lips moved against hers in a very firm way guiding her and showing her what to do while tilting her head ever so slightly by the hold he had on the back of her neck to make it deeper which was when she found herself kissing him back.
She knew she kissed people before. She didn't remember, but Vanya somehow knew how to move her lips and what a kiss was and how should it feel, yet even her mind that lack the memories of her previous life, she could tell that no one had ever kissed her like this before. The kiss made her burn all the way from her lips to every corner of her body sending a sensation from her lower belly she hadn't felt since the accident unless she was alone with her thoughts in her bedroom.
When he ended the kiss it felt all too soon even if she had a feel quite some time had passed.
She was left shocked as his lips pulled away along with his whole body missing the contact almost like she lost a piece of herself looking at the stranger with wide eyes and opened mouth.
Vanya didn't even realize she had tangled her hand into the fabric of his suit until she saw and felt him cover her hand and pull it away from him looking down at her with an unreadable expression on his face.
The man, however, recovered instantly and gave her a quick look with the most shit-eating smirk she ever saw which made her heart dangerously skip a beat before he completely threw her off even more than he did with the kiss or knowing who she was, 'I'm your brother.'
Wait-what?!
'Come on, we need to go,' he told her already turning around and walking away leaving her confused and a bit panic because what the hell was that ?
'Hey, uh, wait up,' she called and quickly jumped to her feet following the man and his ridiculously long and quick steps footsteps.
He didn't stop, but occasionally he turned around to look at her maybe to check if she was keeping up with him or if she was still walking.
'Those men…they tried to kill me,' she started to ramble about the last night hoping that man could offer her some explanation to what the hell had happened.
'Hm, so they found that's not good,' he said not sounding all that bothered which made her want to pout before he paused and she was shocked to realize they stood at the very place she unleashed the blue light.
'Woah,' she mumbled absently eyeing the large crater she made in the cornfield. She did this. She caused this. It was scary, yes, but also a bit thrilling in a way she never felt before. It made her feel oddly good about it the worries inside her stomach melting a bit.
'Good to see you still have your powers,' he said with a hint of praise in his voice before he turned toward and offered another smirk and a wink.
She opened her mouth not sure what to say or how to react to his calm behavior toward the situation.
'Come on, I will buy you breakfast, let's catch up,' he said and started to walk again not in the slightest looking alarm.
She rushed after him not to lose him wondering if she shouldn't be more suspicious and distrusting of this stranger who claimed to be her brother, who apparently kissed her like that.
'Wait,' Vanya called out as she followed him, 'What's your name?'
The man, Five (she still wasn't sure if he wasn't pulling her leg with the name), drove her car to a nearby diner and ordered them coffee and something to eat.
'I'm not hungry,' she tried to protest eyeing the omelet and bacon with some distaste.
The man let out an annoyed sound before he said, 'You have been up all night running from a trio of assassins while unleashing your powers, you need coffee and since you're a lightweight you need some food with it.'
She looked over at him at that feeling like she should be offended with how he acted, 'Do you like telling people what to do so much or do you just think you know me so well?'
He smirked at her again, and she was starting to get almost familiar with the way it looked when he did, 'Both.'
His hand pushed the plate and mug closer to her before he ordered her again in a voice which left no space for argument, 'Eat.'
It simply felt too bizarre to Vanya. All of it. The men who were after her wanted her dead. Her brother kissed her and told her about her past which sounded more like a sci-fi novel than an actual life and well he looked at her like she was the one who didn't make sense to him, and he needed to solve her.
Still, she couldn't help but watch him as well trying to memorize his face and maybe trigger something from her past life. The kiss…felt good but also new. She couldn't be sure, but she didn't think that they did that a lot, but the conversation. The light teasing and his seemingly jerklike behavior felt almost familiar and in a way calming some of her nerves and the tension she felt before.
He took a sip of his coffee without looking at her before he said, 'Take a picture it will last longer.'
She felt blood rush to her cheeks and embarrassment settle into her stomach as she quickly looked away, 'Sorry.'
She wondered if she often felt around him like a schoolgirl caught staring at a crush before she tried to compose herself a bit and added, 'I'm just trying to see if I won't start a memory by looking at you.'
Five was quiet for a moment thinking about something with a very specific look, that made Vanya curious about what was on his mind before he said, 'Unlikely, since the last time you saw me I had a pre-teenager face and wore school uniform shorts with long socks. Only once I ended up here my body decided to catch up to your age.'
She blinked at that and looked over at him again. She couldn't remember how he looked as a kid, but she supposed he must have had a nice face since now he was, well for the lack of a better word, handsome.
'So uh, adopted by an eccentric billionaire along with six other lucky gifted kids, what else?' she said trying to calm herself and her sudden feelings while wolfing down the breakfast as now she actually developed an appetite.
Five nodded seemingly relief that they returned to the topic, 'Well, we were raised by him somewhat. In the 2019 we tried to avoid the apocalypse by jumping into a vortex and ended up being scattered throughout the timeline in Dallas, Texas,' he said and turned to look at her.
She blinked taking it all in for a moment trying to make sense of what he just said putting the fork and knife down and turning properly toward him.
'W-what do you mean the apocalypse?' she asked wondering if she shouldn't lower her voice feeling the fear from last night return to her even if she was now out in daylight and next to someone who knew her. It just sounded so ominous.
He took in a deep breath before he said, 'I mean, the end of the world as we know it.'
She blinked still confused or maybe in denial she couldn't make out a singular feeling at the moment, 'Yeah, but how?'
Five blinked at her then carefully looking into her face his eyes were very focused like he was trying to read her like a book, reveal all her secrets she didn't even know she had in the first place.
'You really don't remember anything,' he said seemingly accepting that she wasn't lying to him and looked strangely torn between relief and worry.
'No,' she told him even if she knew it was pointless, 'Nothing before…a month ago?'
'Well,' he leaned closer to her a bit which somehow compelled her to lean closer to him as well. Why did she trust him so much? Could it really be she remembered him subconsciously? That she trusted him and felt safe with him even if she didn't know him? The doctor, who took care of her said her memories could still be there just locked inside her mind, 'what do you remember?' he asked his voice a bit softer now.
Vanya looked away a bit remembering the first moments of her new life after she lost her memories. The light, the car, the terrible ringing in her head which was threatening to make her ears bleed it seemed and this dull pain inside her she couldn't explain before it was gone.
'I landed in this back alley, got hit by a car, of the woman I work for now,' she said and looked at him again. She was a bit surprised his eyes were still on her seemingly not moving an inch studying her and making her want to look away or blush again, 'Uh, there was ringing in my head. It was crazy. I had no idea how I got there or where I came from. No memories, just…just my name,' she said and looked at the cup of coffee in front of her. A shiver ran down her spine as she recalled those first moments after she woke up all alone and scared not knowing anyone, not recognizing anyone. It wasn't until she befriended Sissy and Harlan that it got better, but at the beginning, she felt like crying over the loss of people she didn't even know. Five apparently being one of those people.
He allowed her to have a moment of quiet to gather her thoughts for which she was grateful since she tried to make sense of it all and accept it. She saw what happened last night and in her dreams. She believed she had powers, and even if she didn't remember the man sitting next to her something deep down in her gut trusted him completely. Maybe even if her mind couldn't her heart did recognize him. So she had to believe everything he told her was true.
'What caused the apocalypse?' she asked finally after a moment recognizing somehow that it was an important piece of information even if she didn't know why she thought so.
The man-Five watched her for a second too long before he said, 'Asteroid impact.'
She wasn't sure, but something inside her told her that it wasn't right.
'Big boom,' he continued to say but shifted his eyes away from her and reached for his coffee instead, 'ends everything. It's like the one that got the dinosaurs but way worse.'
She couldn't help but feel that he wasn't being completely honest with her just like she knew she could trust him. But why? What could he be hiding? He didn't seem to have a problem talking about the murders from the cornfield or their childhood. Why was this different?
The memory of her dream from last night crossed her mind. The other man, Luther, was there in the halo of the blue light, but he looked in pain, and she couldn't help but feel terrified that it had something to do with her.
'And the bad news is it followed us here,' continued Five all of the sudden causing her to frown feeling the uneasiness in her stomach return and slowly spiral into a full-on panic, 'What do you mean it followed us?'
Five sighed, 'Eight days from now the world ends in a nuclear doomsday. Different disease but the same result,' he said something haunting in his eyes as he looked at her which made her want to reach out and touch him before she fully realized what he said.
'B-but that can't be right,' she argued in denial. Eight days from now? An apocalypse that will kill everyone? That was just…hard to accept or believe even if she could feel he wasn't lying.
His eyes looked dead serious as he said, 'I saw it with my own eyes.'
Vanya's stomach sank upon hearing that. The realization hitting her harder than Sissy's car-
Sissy!
'You were there,' he added and looked at his coffee again as he continued, 'we all were.'
She turned around noticing a payphone in the back, 'Shit, I-I need to make a phone call.'
She jumped out of the seat before Five's hand could reach her as she noticed he tried to. She had to call Sissy. Last night was insane, and she knew taking the car was a mistake, but she needed to clear her head from the dreams and what happened earlier and just…shit. She took Sissy's car. Her car that she needed to drive her son around. Damn it, she was so selfish and stupid-
Sissy picked up on the fourth ring. It was good to hear her voice. Somehow after the gloomy and terrifying thoughts of the apocalypse, it felt good to hear about her and Harlan and know there was still some normal left in her life. Something which wasn't as crazy and complicated as Five and what he told her.
Her friend was in the middle of telling her something when all of the sudden Five's hand reached out and ended the call.
She shot him an upset look, 'What the hell?'
'We don't have time for this,' he told her ignoring her annoyance and looking around.
Vanya was shocked at his behavior, 'That's my friend you just hung up on,' she snapped at him almost hysterical. She just found out about the apocalypse, he couldn't expect her to be rational and calm when the world was about to end apparently again.
Five apparently wasn't in the mood for her meltdowns and hysteria since he grabbed her arms and pulled her closer forcing her to look up at him, his eyes burning with heat and urgency, 'Listen to me.'
She closed her mouth some of the anger slipping away thrown off by how close they were his face almost inches away from hers. If he leaned a bit closer or she stood up on her toes their faces would touch again. Her heart speeded up for a completely different reason, and she once again wondered just what the hell was going on between them that caused her instantly to feel like this just by being close to him.
His eyes moved over her face and lost some of the heat before he lowered his voice, 'Those people from the field are coming after us,' his breath warmed her face as if she needed another reason to feel hot, 'They're never gonna stop.' So it did bother him even if he didn't show it at first maybe it was for her benefit that she lost the moment she started to freak out about the call.
'Do you understand me?' his voice softened a bit again his eyes looking almost apologetic even though his grip on her arms was firm showing her he wouldn't just let her ran away but needed her to accept it on her own.
She replied to him with a brief nodded not trusting to speak at that moment wondering if he was affected by all of this as much as she was the whole apocalypse and whatever the hell was between them.
'We're in this together.' The word caused something inside her chest to warm up again but not in a hot burning way anymore.
He took a deep breath and let it out before he continued, 'We have to find the others and figure out how to stop doomsday. Whoever this person is they can't be more important than the end of the world.'
Something in his eyes told her this was a motto he had to repeat to himself very often since it was almost like he believed it. Almost.
She couldn't accept that. She knew he was right, rationally, but she just couldn't accept that she would throw away the people she cared for even for the end of the world. Still, at the moment, she was still confused and needed more information to be able to make a decision, not to mention of those men knew she was coming from the farm and were only after her and her siblings, Sissy and Harlan were better off without her around. At least for now.
Vanya licked her lips and gave him another nod.
Five's eyes ran over her face one more time probably trying to figure out if he could believe her before he finally accepted that he could and let go of her stepping away and releasing her from his presence, 'We need to leave.'
She hung up the phone she had been holding throughout his whole speech and followed him outside wondering if she used to do so often just as blindly as she did now.
As they got to the car she hoped that Sissy and Harlan would forgive her.
After what felt like hours running around town from some apartment above the alley they all appeared to a night club, Five finally drove her to some secret boxing match in one of the old factories.
He put his arm around her shoulders like she was his decoration or something as he led her through the crowd of men with heavy drinks and occasionally women in dressed which made it clear they were on a job.
'Stick with me. Don't go anywhere,' he warned her as leaned his head closer to her.
She raised her brows, 'You know, I had been here a month before you showed up and survived just fine. I think I can handle myself pretty well.'
Five's smirk reappeared, 'You live on a farm against what exactly do you need to handle yourself? Chickens or cows?'
She shoved him, and he let her walk alone but stayed close enough to shot a nasty glare at anyone who looked her oddly.
Luther and his just as tall as him opponent appeared, and Vanya got a bit distracted as she felt Five step behind her instead of next to her.
Despite the eye roll and some mild annoyance, she had to admit at least to herself she felt better knowing he was there, close to her.
After the match started and Luther clearly gave the guy a free pass to make a show she called out to Five, 'Is it even fair if he has super strength?'
She expected him to call out his reply due to how loud the crowd around them was in their cheers, but instead, she found herself startled as she felt his breath against her ear and his voice softly replying to it. The sensation alone sparked something inside her body and caught her so, off guard, she didn't even catch his reply. But would rather die than admit it as she forced her eyes to stay on Luther and watch his match.
'You okay?' she heard him asked a moment later probably feeling or seeing how tense she was.
She gave him a quick nod wondering why didn't she just tell him to back off if he was making her so nervous and uncomfortable only to remind herself that it wasn't necessarily uncomfortable and nervousness what she felt around him.
Ignoring the match, she stole another glance at him and wondered just how bizarre it was that she felt like this about him without remembering their past and spending less than a day with him. Did they really have such a connection? She felt like maybe they could have. The way he spoke with her, teased her and yet was oddly nice in his own way when he seemed to be quite a jerk otherwise told her that he had to care for her. At least enough to go look for her, enough to find her, enough to keep her away from men who tried to kill her.
He caught her staring at him as his eyes moved down toward her some amusement behind them for a moment before they turned to something else.
Again, she wondered if he would kiss her feeling something like a spark run through her body before she could stop it.
However, when his hand touched her elbow he gentled pushed her to turn back at the ring, 'Focus on Luther for now. I will get you a picture later.'
She rolled her eyes and shook her head feeling her cheek warming up again. She would have stepped away from him, but as his hand didn't leave her arm, she couldn't.
Vanya would try to stay focus on Luther as he clearly was letting the other guy beat the shit out of him, but found Five's hand on her elbow just too distracting.
After they managed to get Luther somehow to bed, Vanya wanted to stay and keep an eye on him feeling like it was the right thing to do, and what siblings did for one another. Apparently not in this family or maybe it was due to one of the members of it being a total jackass.
As Five felt no such obligations and after he tossed their brother on the bed made his way to the door.
'But we should stay,' she argued following him out of the room and softly closing the door behind her so she wouldn't wake their defeated brother up.
'He has a single bed, and he's out cold. We wouldn't be of any use to him and only give ourselves bad backs in the morning,' he replied already almost at the bottom of the stairs not stopping or slowing down for her.
He was so annoying sometimes.
Vanya wondered what she used to think about the man whenever he acted like that. Probably something along the lines of asshole. She knew him for a day, and he already managed to successfully get on her nerves at times with his comments and that shit-eating smirk of his.
'Get in the back,' he said as she tried to open the front passenger's door.
Before she could reply, he shut it and blocked it with his body, 'You will have more room there.'
'That's ridiculous. You're like three times taller than me,' she tried to argue, but he already rushed her to the back and opened the door for her. She knew he wasn't being chevalier.
'You don't have to be such a control freak,' she told him as she started to get inside, 'Barking orders left and right.'
He paused on his way to close the door looking down at her that pesky smirk spread across his handsome face, 'Oh, believe me, Vanya, you haven't even seen me bark orders or being in control yet.'
He closed the door on her allowing her to let out a gasp and momentarily freak out while her heart did another skip her cheeks burning from the implication.
That ASSHOLE!
He came to sit down next to her brushing his hair a bit and pulling the tie from his neck off and then his suit jacket.
'Put this on,' he said in a bit of a softer voice, 'It gets cold at night.'
She had half the mind to tell him to shove it up the ass, but ultimately got convinced by his light tone which almost made it sound like a request and not another order.
When she took it their fingers brushed for a moment causing the tiniest spark to run through her once again leaving her helpless to the goosebumps that no doubt appeared on the back of the neck.
Five let his hand fall away first and closed his eyes leaving her wondering if he even felt something in the first place. Probably not.
She pressed herself against the backseat sliding a bit lower to be more comfortable enough even though she doubted she would be sleeping like this. Still, she felt incredibly tired and all the events of the past few days were proving to be quite exhausting.
Five crossed his arms without opening his eyes mumbling something like good night so she did the same.
With no sleep for more than twenty-four hours, Vanya found herself drifting away immediately. As she did, she would have sworn she heard Five say something along the line of I missed you.
Just like the day after she met Luther, Vanya found herself dreaming about the bright blue light, only this time it seemed to be sucking the life out of a young boy.
I decided you're the only person I can trust
I missed you, and I just don't want to lose my brother after I got him back
Vanya!
She woke up again with images she didn't remember flowing inside her mind not sure which ones could be memories and which ones were just dreams her mind made up.
Unlike the night before she didn't gasp in pain and felt the need to get out feeling her tongue-tied and her lungs not receiving enough air with her mind in chaos.
No, this time she woke up to the feeling of warmth surrounding her as her back lied against something much more comfortable than the cushion of the backseat. Not to mention she felt something incredibly soft rub light as feathers circles against her collar bone under her shirt making it almost too tempting to keep her eyes closed and continue sleeping.
She blinked trying to glance around. She was still on the backseat, but instead of the side she remembered falling sleep on, she was moved closer to the window.
Her back was pressed against someone's raising and falling chest and her legs trapped between a pair of much longer ones that needed to bend to fit into the backseat.
There was still a suit jacket thrown over her stomach like a blanket, and a hand was holding her close sneaking into her shirt through an open button she didn't remember undoing last night while it rubbed the light circles she felt before.
Five
Even without the memories of yesterday returning to her slowly awakening mind, Vanya just knew it was Five who was holding her like this. It was strange, but even if she was somewhat sure they never kissed until yesterday, she was just as sure that this, sleeping close to one another, being familiar with the soft sounds of each other breathing and heartbeats in small spaces where they had to touch and press close enough to fit was something they definitely did before.
She knew he was awake, and she was almost certain, he knew she was as well.
Very carefully she tried to turn her head toward him to face him.
He looked a bit tired, his eye not fully opened even if awake and his hair ruffled like he just woke up yet neither of those things made him look any less attractive.
Ridiculous
It was ridiculous how this man managed to cause her to feel like this since the first moment. Was she just being overwhelmed? Over the course of the month with no memories she sometimes felt conflicted or something toward Sissy, not knowing if it was just gratitude from the woman being so kind to her, but this, this with Five seemed on a completely different level as it made her shiver all over and burn whenever he got too close. No, she wasn't just overwhelmed by the first handsome man who showed interest in her, this was something else.
It was real.
That much she knew.
Blinking instead of a proper good morning she asked him looking at his green eyes that now seemed to have bluer inside them, 'What kind of siblings are we?'
The corner of his lips made a quick pull into that smirk which was both frustrating and thrilling before he said very slowly and quietly being considered of the early morning that was outside given how little light there was, 'A very complicated kind.'
This time, she took the lead in kissing him although he didn't seem half as surprised or shocked as she was when he did it yesterday. The kiss was slow almost delicate and carried certain laziness probably due to the early morning hours and the fact that they just woke up. This kiss was different than yesterday one that felt almost bruising and violent like he was trying to hit and run with it before she would fight him back or before something would happen. This one felt like they had all the time in the world to carefully explore one another mouths and angles in gentle moves as if they were dancing to a very slow song. A kiss like this could easily put her to sleep, but not because it was boring (it was anything but), but because it made her feel more relaxed and calmer than she had since the car accident and maybe even before it. She couldn't explain it but felt ridiculously content and happy as Five's hand found her cheek tilting her head again but not as firmly as last time to deepen the kiss. It was almost out of place how tender he was with her now given how she got to know him as a control freak who liked giving orders and a bit of an asshole. Well, more than a bit.
When she shifted her back against him to turn around properly, she felt something growing against her side which directly sparked the feeling from before inside her lower belly.
'Uh,' she broke the kiss, 'it's fine?'
'I didn't say it wasn't,' he replied not looking too bothered by his physical reaction which made her feel silly about even acknowledging it in the first place.
With a sigh, he pressed his forehead against hers in a gesture more affectionate and caring than anything Vanya remembered to experienced so far. It felt like they just had woken up somewhere else, sharing a bed on a Sunday morning with nothing to do but enjoy themselves in peace, and not on a backseat of her employer's car with a ticking clock on trying to avoid the doomsday.
Still, the sun started to slowly and mercilessly raise and reveal the world around them behind the glass windows of the car which they could no longer hide them inside away from their problems and the things that needed to be done.
'I need to make a phone call,' Five said after a while, and she felt a sudden awkwardness about their positions and situation.
'I will go check on Luther.'
He rolled his eyes and tried to tell her not to bother returning to his normal self, but she already got out of his lap and the car rushing toward the building her mind running over what happened and what it meant in the same chaos of thoughts as before.
She was starting to think nothing was simple when dealing with Five.
Her mind was racing as she walked down the stairs out of Luther's apartment a few minutes after she just came.
She wanted to know the truth. She knew Five was hiding something about the apocalypse and now she knew what it was. It was her. She caused it. She was the bomb that destroyed the world, and now she was here and the world was about to end in seven days again. It felt like an awful coincidence.
By the last step out of Luther's place, Vanya had to stop and grab a hold of the nearest wall. She caused it. All those people. She killed them. She destroyed them. Her stomach flipped and not in a good way.
Was she really a monster? After she lost her memories she often wondered what kind of person she was. Sissy always said she had to be a sweetheart as she was so good and kind to Harlan, but that didn't mean anything. Just because she was a good person now didn't mean she was a good person back then.
She rushed out of the building, Five already waiting for her nodding at the hole Luther punched through the wall, 'I can see that went well.'
She continued to walk ignoring him feeling her worries and fear pushed aside with frustration over him coming into her perfectly calm and normal life and wrecking it apart with the truth well not quite because he lied about the most important fact of all of this.
She felt pissed.
'Ready to go?' he asked oblivious to her ager which upset her even more as she realized how much of a jerk he was already giving her orders like he knew her. That was the thing. He knew her. Past tense. She wasn't that person anymore. She didn't even know that person. Here she was Vanya, who worked as a nanny on a farm living a happy and peaceful life not some monster who caused the end of days.
'I'm going back to the farm,' she said already making up her mind and hurrying up to the car.
Of course, Five followed her his footsteps quicker now to catch her, 'What? I told you. We have to stick together, Vanya.'
Again with that word. Together. They weren't together. She only met two of her siblings, and one had his own issues while the other tried to control her by leaving out important facts about her life.
She turned around and shot him a look, 'Oh, why? So I don't end the world again?'
He watched her shocked for maybe a second before he pressed his jaw tightly revealing his anger, 'That stupid-'
She rolled her eyes feeling her frustration turn into anger as she yanked the car door open harder than she normally would have, 'Were you even gonna tell me?'
He took a step closer, his presence throwing her off a bit as she recalled the kiss from a few minutes ago but did her best to control herself and her feelings to stand her ground. Just because he had some effect on her didn't mean she would submit to him the way she saw Sissy do so many times to her husband. No! No way, she would let him control her life and drive her around wherever he pleased when he didn't even have the decency, to be honest with her.
'You know what in my defense no, alright? And can you blame me?' he asked or more like snapped at her with an arrogant look on his face that she wanted to so desperately wipe out, 'When you get angry shit blows up.'
'Great,' she said sarcastically and nodded getting into the car, 'are there any other secrets you fail to mention?'
She should just leave. Obviously, he didn't trust her and only wanted her around to keep an eye on her. Whatever was between them wouldn't change that if there even was something between them and this wasn't just some mind game to keep her in place.
'A buttload, Vanya!' his voice was so sharp and loud it was almost a shout, 'but I don't have the luxury of sharing them-'
He was cut off as he realized she closed the door at his face and started the car.
He must have realized she was ready to leave, but before she could, however, he knocked on her window. A part of her really wanted to floor it and leave him there without a second chance for being such a jerk and what he did.
But once again another pesky part inside her gut or heart or whatever told her to give him a moment and roll the window down to hear him out. Stupid feelings.
Once she did, Five looked like he wanted to say something else but instead return to his serious and jackass self-important voice, 'The clock is ticking on doomsday.'
She turned away from him looking in front of herself rather than at him.
A moment passed, and she heard him took in a deep breath probably realizing he wouldn't get anywhere with her, 'J-just tell me that when I call you, you'll be ready.'
His voice was soft again, and when Vanya dared to glance at him, she found that there was something incredibly vulnerable in his eyes, which made Vanya almost give in.
But at the same time, she couldn't help but felt it was another ploy of his to try and control the situation and her. If she wasn't so upset with him now perhaps she would have been happy that somewhere deep inside her, she felt recognition of his behavior from before she lost her memories like she always knew he could be manipulative and controlling, and still cared for him knowing he cared for her, but at that moment it was just too much. She didn't know him. Not really, and he didn't know her, this her, and right now Five, the apocalypse, murderers, and powers were simply too much for her to handle.
'I can't help you, Five,' she said knowing she was hurting him and feeling a stabbing pain inside her chest as well as she watched his face fall a bit, 'I don't even know who I am.'
The person who caused the apocalypse or the nanny from the farm.
'You're our sister!' he called out loud as if to prove it to her, 'And a member of the Umbrella Academy. Like it or not. That's who you are.'
She looked at him again wanting to believe him. Wanting to believe that she was someone good back then as well, someone worth it, but knowing what she did she couldn't. And not even he could help her right now to sort it all out.
'No, that's who I was,' she said stubbornly not even sure she believed her own words before she said the first thing that came to her mind, 'New timeline, new me.'
Five shot her a disbelieving look, but she didn't waste time with him anymore and drove off not having enough courage to stay any longer fearing he might actually convince her somehow to stay and be somehow she couldn't remember how anymore.
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A.N: I had a lot of feelings about S02, and I couldn't help but want to express some of them in this fic. So I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for all the support and reading. Have a nice day, and I hope everyone is okay and safe.