Five POV

'What can I get you two to drink?', the blonde waitress asked, taking our order. I'd taken Dolores out to dinner, at a diner down the street from Griddy's.

'Coke.', I answered, surprised to hear Dolores answer the same in unison. She looked up at me from her menu, smiling. I raised my eyebrows in answer.

'Two Cokes, alright. And what can I get you to eat?'

'I actually need a couple more minutes to decide, if that's alr-', Dolores spoke, and I cut her off, closing her menu and folding it up, handing it back to the waitress.

'We'll have two of the specials, please.' Dolores' mouth hung open at me, bewildered as she laughed breathily. 'Just trust me.'

'Alright. I'll get that right out to ya.' And the waitress walked away, carrying her pad and paper along with our two menus.

'What did you even order, you confident little turd?'

'Something good. You aren't a vegetarian, are you?'

'Well if I was, I guess I'd be straight out of luck.'

She knew how to give it back to me. Her sarcasm, her confidence, she was incredible. And as she sat in front of me, the lights from the diner ceiling wrapping around her messy brown curls, I realized, for a brief moment, that I would kill for this girl. She was a match for my intelligence, though she'd lived through far less than me. I wasn't one to fall easily. I trusted no one, cared for few. But Dolores. I'd known her for a day and I was already completely determined that she would be mine. What had she done to me?

'So I have an odd question...', she said, lowering her tone and squinting her eyes a bit.

'Shoot.'

'You said you and all of your siblings were born on the same day.'

'Right?'

'So that makes you all the exact same age.'

'Theoretically.'

'And if that's so, then why do you look so much ... you know ... younger than them?'

I knew this was coming at some point. I ran a hand through my hair. How exactly was I to explain this without her getting completely lost?

'That's one heck of a story. Very complicated.'

The waitress brought our cokes out, and I nodded in thanks.

'I think I can keep up.', she said in this adorable voice, leaning over her drink and taking a sip while holding the straw between two fingers.

'I know you can.' I sighed, clearing my throat to begin.

'I should begin by explaining all of my sibling's powers. It'll help make things easier to understand.'

'Oooh! I'm ready. Go ahead.', she said with such exuberance, that I couldn't help but grin at her and shake my head.

'Okay. Number one, that's Luther. Super strength.'

'That one! How on earth did he get so big? Is it steroids? Protein shakes? He's bigger than any bulked up wrestler I've ever seen.'

'Ha. Our dad sent him on a mission, he nearly died, and to save his life, he injected him with a serum to genetically modify his body. It saved him, but he looks like that now.'

'Interesting. What type of mission?'

'I'm not sure. I wasn't there.'

'Why not?'

'I'm getting to that part.'

'Okay, okay, I'll stop interrupting. Sorry. Continue.', she said, smiling cheekily.

'And then our dad shipped him off to the moon for no good reason for four years of his life under the false pretense that he needed him to protect the earth from harm. But really, he just couldn't stand the sight of him.'

Dolores nearly choked on her coke.

'That's terrible.', she said, trying to remain her composure and hold in laughs. It was indeed laughably inhumane.

'Then there's number two. Diego. He can throw knives and other weapons with inhuman accuracy. As I'm sure you've noticed, he's an absolute treat.', I said sarcastically.

'Oh, yes, he seems like a real ball of rainbows.', she answered, returning my sarcasm.

'Number three. Allison-'

'HOW in the world are you so calm about having Allison Hargreeves as your sister? She's a freaking star! She's got talent. She's beautiful.', she interrupted, nearly shooting coke out of her mouth in excitement.

'Gracious, Dory, you're so energetic.', I said, smiling at the ground and shaking my head.

She blushed at the nickname. I called her that purely because I wanted to see her cheeks turn that bright shade of red again,

'Dory?'

'Is that alright with you?'

She giggled and blushed harder. 'That's actually perfect. I love it.'

'Well then, Dory, Allison is number three. She has absurd influence on people. She can get absolutely anything she wants as long as she starts a phrase with the term 'I heard a rumor'. It's freaky as heck.'

'Man, that sounds amazing. You could use that for anything.'

'It could be. But it'd be a burden to keep yourself from using it selfishly. Which I'm not sure Allison has done.', I said, pursing my lips.

'Ah. There's the catch.'

'Number four, Klaus.'

'He's my favorite so far.'

I rolled my eyes at her.

'Yeah. He's a character. He can commune with the dead. When he's sober, at least.'

'He cracks me up. He just seems so, I don't know. Wonderfully outlandish.'

'Oh, you've got no idea. The kid's been a drug addict for most of his adult life, he's time traveled and fought in the Vietnam war, he started a cult.'

'Wait, time traveled?'

'That brings us to number five. That's me, of course. Earlier you saw my spatial jumping ability. But it's not all I can do.'

She raised an eyebrow at me. 'Oh, do tell.', she said as she began blowing bubbles in her coke through the straw.

'I can also jump through time. But our dad would never let me do it, and I was a rebellious little young teenager chomping at the bit. So I went against his will, escaped the manor and started jumping bit by bit, and then, just like he said would happen, something went wrong.'

'What happened?'

I swallowed.

The waitress brought our food, two plates of burgers and fries. Dolores was so pleased.

'You're not going to believe me, but this is like my favorite food. It's like you read my mind. Do you have that power too?'

'No, and I'm glad I don't. Then I'd be forced to have to hear everything inside Klaus' hell pit called a brain.'

'Very good point.'

She picked up a fry, dipping it in ketchup and putting it in her mouth. When she swallowed, she spoke.

'Continue. What went wrong?'

'So I got stuck. It was seventeen years into the future, and the world had ended. I was stuck in the apocalypse.'

Her face went pale white.

'What do you mean?'

'Everything. Burned up. Utterly destroyed. All life on earth gone. And I was stuck there. I tried to get back but I couldn't. So I stayed there, by myself, the only person on earth. For 45 years. And I grew old. My only company was a half of a mannequin whom I named Dolores.'

She didn't know what to say.

'That's why all my siblings looked surprised when I introduced you, if you noticed that at all.'

She nodded slowly, still trying to process what I'd told her.

'After 45 years of being alone, a woman appeared to me. Offered me a task. She was from an organization, one that keeps themselves hidden from society. The Temps Commission. They're responsible for protecting time and space. Super complicated. You follow?'

She nodded once, her face twisting deeper into confusion.

'In return for five years of service, the Commission would allow me to return to my correct place in time. Back to my family. I agreed. I wanted to get back to them. So for a time, I worked as a hit man. I took out anyone they asked me to. Anybody who might interfere with the timeline. Innocent, guilty, anyone. I killed and killed, until I couldn't even feel it anymore.'

'You've killed people before?'

'Countless amounts, Dory. Does that change your opinion of me?'

She was quiet for a moment as she took a bite of her burger.

'It should. But it doesn't.'

'Good. Well, not good. But it works.'

'So after a time, I was done with them. I broke my contract. I opened a portal and transported myself back in time. But I had the equations off. When I got back, I was in my thirteen year old body again.'

'No freaking way.'

'I promise. It was absolutely terrible.'

She laughed slightly, her mind still engulfed trying to understand.

'I can't imagine.'

'Then, as any intelligent person would, I set to work trying to find what exactly caused this apocalypse. I didn't know what caused it, only that it happened eight days from the day I arrived back.'

'Did you ever find what caused it?'

'In the end, yes. It was Vanya. Turns out, our dad had kept her powers hidden from all of us and from her for her entire life. She's the most powerful of us all. She blew up the moon, that's what ended it all.'

'Holy crap, quiet little Vanya? Vanya with the 1920's violin?'

'Yeah, we were shocked too.'

'And how did you fix this whole situation?'

'Well, it's complicated. At the moment before the moon impacted the earth, I time jumped with all of us. And we all ended up in 1960s Dallas, Texas.'

'What the heck?'

'Different story, for a different time. You need to process all this before I even try to explain what happened there.'

'This is a lot to take in.'

'I know, I apologize.'

'So you're actually 62?'

'My consciousness is 62. Physically, I'm eighteen like you.'

'Man, I really shouldn't be dating someone so old. This is near pedophilia.', she said, sarcastically, joking.

'Shut up, don't even. Wait, did you just say dating?'

'I once heard a quote from a wise man. He said, 'why waste time when you already know what you want?'

Yes, she was the one for me. Dory was mine. I knew it.

'I like this arrangement.'

'As do I.'

We sat there for a moment in silence, simply just looking at each other as we ate our food. She was so truly beautiful. A real goddess.

'Klaus will be thrilled.'

'Oh, you've got no idea.'

My phone started to buzz in my pocket. I ignored it. Whoever was trying to call me could wait.

But after a minute, it called again, and again.

'I should probably take this.', I said to Dolores, holding my phone up.

'Go ahead, no worries.'

It was Vanya. I answered it.

'Vanya? What do you need?'

'Five. We need you to get back here as soon as possible. Something's happened. Something terrible.'