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Chapter Eleven: The Apocalypse Is Coming
Luther was sitting silently on the too small dirty orange chair that the motel provided in the room. The chair had wobbled under his weight when he first sat on it, he had stayed still since, hesitant to move for fear of it collapsing underneath him. The motel smelled of stale cigarettes, beer and the Febreze that was sprayed to try to mask the bad odor, it was an unpleasant combination of smells that was making his head hurt. He tried to ignore the throbs in his skull, instead he tried to focus his attention on Five, who was on the bed, cuddled up to the mannequin he called "Dolores", as if the mannequin was a real person.
Five's body was so tiny compared to Luther's, when he had carried him out of the library all he felt was skin and bones, his brother needed to eat more of those gross sandwiches he loved so much so he could gain a bit of weight, he was too skinny.
It was quite the shock to see his brother in the back corner of the library drunk off his ass, the various looks he got from the other people in the library as he tried to get his brother to respond to his presence said he was unfit human being even though he had nothing to do with what Five got himself into. He had planned on taking his brother back to the manor but decided against it considering those crazies were still after him, so instead he brought them to a cheap motel.
Luther briefly thought to take Five to Diego's place to, but he hadn't seen Diego since he left to interrogate the lady cop friend he had and look for Klaus, who was probably in some crack house getting high. He even thought about taking Five to Vanya's house but for one thing he didn't know where she lived, for another thing he knew she wasn't home because Allison had told him she was going to ask Vanya out to lunch. So, the next best thing was to rent a motel room to wait until Five slept off his drunkenness, which was taking far longer than Luther thought it would take.
He's been in the chair waiting for Five to wake up for hours now, doing nothing but staring at his brother like a creep, looking for any sign that he was waking up. His thoughts swirled around Five's words before he threw up and passed out The apocalypse is coming. The only good thing was that he got the names of the two psychopaths that got all gun happy in the manor, Hazel and Cha-Cha.
A shifting body from the bed caught his attention, his eyes snapped to his brother's form from where they had wandered to the window.
"Shit, what happened?" Five groaned out into the darkness, Luther didn't see a point in turning on more than the one lamp light located next to the bed. It wasn't a very good lamp though, it only lighted the small end table that it sat on and not much else.
"Your stupid ass thought it was a brilliant idea to get drunk in a public library." Luther flatly answered, he was still upset over the looks he got from the other people. His image and projection of himself meant a lot to him, so he was offended by those looks, he could understand them though, had he seen a child drunk in a public area he would have judged the parental unit as well.
"Oh yeah." Five giggled to himself, he sat up on the bed, his mouth tasted like stale beer, it was disgusting, one of the first things he needed was a toothbrush, a good 3 tubes of toothpaste, and a gallon of mouth wash.
"It's not funny Five." Luther growled out, Five may look like a child but he wasn't, all of his siblings weren't so why they tended to act like children in serious situations is beyond him.
"Whatever." Five got up from the bed and went straight to the bathroom in hopes of finding something, anything to make the nasty taste in his mouth go away. Well he was in there he used the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. Walking out of the bathroom, he rolled his eyes at Luther who was pacing in front of the big window, he's always had a stick up his ass, looks like that hasn't changed a bit.
"You said something about the apocalypse before you passed out, what did you mean by that?" Luther paused in his pacing to ask, he was planning to give Five more time to wake up, but he's already been waiting long enough, he was growing impatient, he needed answers before he went insane.
"Did I?" Five wasn't in the mood for Luther's "leader" voice, it didn't work when they were kids, it sure as hell wasn't going to work now.
"Enough games Five, what did you mean by that?" Luther knew Five's asshole ways were going to come slamming back the second he woke up.
"The apocalypse is coming, what more is there to say then that Luther? The world is ending and there's not a damn thing I can do to stop it!" He was screaming by the end of his sentence. He felt like a failure, he's tried all he could think of to stop the world ending but it was near impossible when he didn't know what ends it to begin with.
"When is it supposed to happen?" Luther whispered, he had hoped Five would tell him that he was just drunk rambling, he didn't actually think Five would tell him the world was really ending.
"In a few days." Five couldn't believe that he has such little time left to figure it all out, so far he's failed, he doesn't know if he could take any more failure on his end.
"Why didn't you say something sooner?" Luther scolded him, he crossed his arms over his extremely large chest giving Five a disappointed look that resembled that of their father's, Five didn't think he'd ever have to see that look again considering their father was dead, jokes on him he guesses.
"I did, I told Diego and Vanya. I showed them the prosthetic eye that I had that was the only clue I found in the future to who causes the end of the world. Diego came with me to the company that manufactured it, but it was a dead end. At least it was when I went with him, but I decided to go back without Diego, the building exploded before I could get anything though. I didn't bother them with anything else because they already have enough on their plates without this adding to it, plus I thought I could handle it on my own." Five thinks that's the most he's ever said to Luther in one sitting. He's never been close with him, when they were children Five tended to steer away from everyone but Vanya. He didn't want Luther blaming Diego and Vanya though, he knows they've been caught up with their own stuff, things he'd rather them focus their attention on which was being whatever kind of family they could be with Luna before the apocalypse takes that chance away from them.
"Why didn't they say anything!" Luther yelled out, he couldn't believe that three people knew what was coming and instead of saying something to everyone they choose to keep it to themselves, but what more could he expect, this is what his siblings did, they were always making stupid decisions, not thinking before acting.
"It wasn't their fault, they were taking their cues from me and I didn't want to say anything else to anyone, like I said, I thought I could handle it on my own." Five wasn't in the mood to listen to how Luther wouldn't have made the same mistakes, listen to how he knows best and blah blah blah, it's always the same lectures from him that basically summed up to that Luther is always right and their always wrong.
"If one of you guys would have said something WE ALL could have banded together to try to stop this DAYS ago." Luther snapped, his siblings were entirely to irresponsible for his tastes.
"For the record, you guys already tried that, it didn't work. You all died regardless. I found all of you dead, I found my only clue as to who causes the apocalypse in your hand, indicating that you guys fought whoever it was together, and you guys loss together." Five didn't mention how he didn't find Ben, Vanya, and Luna...saying he didn't find Ben didn't need to be said that was fairly obvious why but for Vanya and Luna, Five didn't want to hear Luther say anything negative about their sister and why she wasn't there around the others.
"And the guys who came to the manor, Hazel and Cha-Cha, who are they?" Luther didn't know what to think let alone say about them all dying trying to fight whoever it was that's trying to end the world. So, he decided to ask his other question instead, maybe the answer will be far simpler.
"They work for my former employer, a woman known as The Handler. She sent them here to stop me." Five told him, so far he's been lucky to avoid Hazel and Cha-Cha, they were some of the best The Commission had to offer.
"Former employer? Enough with the half-truths Five!" He was getting irritated that Five answered a question, but it just led to more questions.
"It's an organization known as The Commission, their tasked with making sure what's meant to happen in the timeline actually happens. They have people like me, Hazel, and Cha-Cha to make sure of it by skipping throughout time, killing who needs to be killed so the timeline stays the way it's meant to. The Handler is the head of the organization, she's like the CEO basically, she tells people where to go and who to kill," Five explained the best he could, "They didn't realize it when they recruited me but I was just binding my time, waiting for the perfect moment to come back, so I could stop the apocalypse from ever happening. I broke my contract when I left, so now their after me to kill me so the apocalypse can still happen."
Luther opened his mouth to ask more questions but snapped it shut when he heard sirens outside the motel door. They were loud and seemed to rattle the entire room. He could hear the screech of car tires, doors slamming open, and paramedics ordering each other around. Curious on what all the commotion was, he peeked out the window, pulling it's blinds and curtain to the side to be able to see outside.
At first all he could see was paramedics and a woman covered in blood talking to one of them, she was crying, wiping her hands down on her pants repeatedly. He was going to close the blinds and mind his own business on whatever seemed to be happening when he caught sight of Klaus hurriedly walking next to a moving gurney with a body on it. Luther didn't think twice about rushing out the door when he caught sight of the body, he recognized who was on the gurney.
"Diego!" He ran to the ambulance that the paramedics were loading his brother into, Five's footsteps followed him. He was stopped before reaching his brother by a huge cop that was shaking his head at him in a disapproving manner, preventing him and Five from getting any closer.
"That's my brother!" He screamed in the cops face, if he didn't let Luther through he was going to push him aside without a care of the consequences that resulted from it.
"It's alright officer, their family of the victim." The woman who was covered in blood who had been crying mere minutes ago walked over to them to tell the cop who nodded his head and walked away without a word. The ambulance was closing the double doors, driving off with Diego and Klaus by the time they were able to get through the cops.
"What happened?" Five snarled from his place next to Luther, he didn't mean for it to come out like that, but Diego looked half dead in that bed and Klaus looked banged up to. What was going on? Whose fault was this?
"You're Diego's other brothers I take it?" The woman asked them, she was still trying in vain to wipe the dry blood from her hands, Five knew the feeling. Eudora had taken a guess when telling the officer that they were Diego's family, the worry on their faces wouldn't come from anybody but family but she wanted clarification, just in case.
She's never met any of Diego's family, but she remembered him saying he has two sisters and four brothers, one of which was dead, and another who was just "gone" whatever that meant. Looking at the little boy she guessed his brother wasn't "gone" anymore, clearly something supernatural went on for him to be back.
"Yes, we are, what happened?" Luther took the lead; with Five's attitude and impatience the woman would sooner kick them both in the balls then tell them what the fuck happened.
"Your other brother Klaus was being kept here against his will by the criminals who went to your guys manor. Me and Diego went in to get him, Diego tried to warn me that there was two of them, and something wasn't right, but the woman shot him in his side before I could process what he was saying. They took off, we have officers looking for them right now, but the ambulance took both your brothers to the hospital. I'm going there now if you guys want a ride?" Eudora offered, she felt guilty, she felt that it was her fault Diego was bleeding out on the way to the hospital right now. She should have listened to him that there was another person, she should have checked their surroundings better. She made a huge mistake, one that almost cost Diego his life, how could she possibly hope to make up for that.
"Yeah, yeah please...thank you." She walked them over to a police car gesturing for them to get in, Luther pushed Five to the back seat when he tried to take the passenger side. There's no way he was fitting in the small space of the backseat. Inside the car on their way to the hospital they were all quiet until Five opened his mouth to talk.
"We need to call Vanya." He stated from his place in the backseat, it was uncomfortable to say the least, he kept shifting like he had ants in his uniform shorts, trying to find a spot that was half decent.
If any one of them needed to be there with Diego it was Vanya and their daughter.
"Vanya?" Eudora questioned from her place in the driver's seat, her hands were shaking on the wheel, her mind kept replaying Diego falling to his knees, his eyes rolling back in his head, she couldn't get that image out of her head.
"Our sis-his girlfr-Luna's mom. Luna's his daughter." Five didn't know how to explain who Vanya was without it sounding odd. He couldn't say their sister because that would make her Diego's sister, he couldn't say Diego's girlfriend because he wasn't sure about that one yet, so he figured saying Luna's mom would have to suffice.
"Oh...yeah...of course." Eudora answered back, she's not sure why she made it seem like that news surprised her, she knew about his daughter and his new girlfriend already, but even knowing it didn't mean Eudora could see it. She didn't think Diego sat around pining after her or being celibate, but she could admit to herself that some part of her always thought Diego wasn't happy without her, she also thought he would always be there if she ever decided to give him another chance, she didn't think he would ever allow himself to open up to another person after she left him.
"Who are you again?" Five rudely questioned, he doesn't recall getting a name from her, or an explanation on who she was to Diego to be with him. Luther normally would tell Five not to be rude like he always did when his siblings lost their manners, but he wanted to know the answer to that himself. They jumped in her car without a care in the world because they were worried but maybe they should have asked who the fuck she was before they did that.
"I'm sorry, my head is spinning right now, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Eudora, I'm a detective, your brother came to me to see what I knew about those criminals in your guy's manor." She didn't know how much explanation she should give them about who she was, if she should explain more back story on hers and Diego's history, if that history was even relevant in any way, she wondered if Diego told them anything about her at all. Luckily, she didn't have to think much on it seeing as they were pulling into the hospital.
Getting out of the car, Luther reached into his back pocket to pull out his phone to hand to Five.
"I don't have Vanya's number so call Allison, she's hopefully still with Vanya and you can tell her to get down here. I would do it but you're closer to her then I am." This kind of news would be better handled by Five telling their sister what was going on, him and Vanya have never and more than likely will never meet on the same page, he loved his sister, but they had zero connection as siblings.
Five nodded his head, scrolling through Luther's phone looking for Allison's name as they walked into the busy hospital, he was dreading this phone call, but it had to be done, it was best if the news came from him and not Luther.
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