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Chapter Nineteen: A Bit Better

"But you know where it's gonna be, don't you?"

"Would I be any good at what I do if I didn't?"

Five leaned against some boxes behind him, crossing his arms as the Handler approached him. Five sighed. "I need some time to think about it."

"Fine." The Handler watched as Five walked away. "But remember, doomsday's right around the corner, and the way things are going, I'm your only option."

Five stopped in his tracks, looking at the Handler above his shoulder, softly scoffing. "Not yet you aren't."

"Better hurry up or you might not save your little girlfriend."

Five spatial jumped, reappearing in front of her. "Don't. Speak. Of her."

"If you don't think about it quickly you might find her dead again."

Five froze, blinking in confusion, his heartbeat racing. "What?"

"Oh? You didn't know? Your little (Y/n) died. She died when you came with me in the Commission but you just had to go back and rewrite that day, huh?"

Five, his fists clenching and eyebrows furrowing, spatial jumped in front of the Handler. "What happened?"

"Oh, well, one of our employees went rogue. She wanted revenge on a man named Nicholas Russell. So she stole a briefcase, abandoned her mission, looked for her target but killed your beloved."

The Handler smirked down at Five who was speechless and somewhat frozen at this discovery. "Where did you find her body again? The first time you came in the future. When you were just a boy and found her lifeless body?"

"At the Academy... but there was no bullet wound."

"You came back, Five. Your return caused almost losing her life. Good thing you returned again or else... well, she'll probably no longer walking with us."

'I...'

Seeing her former employee speechless, The Handler smirked. She chuckled darkly before walking away with Lila who glanced at Five before following her mother. Five sighed deeply, his head was full of questions and thoughts while his heart aches as his mind showed a picture of how you might have died.

He finally knows who was the person who the employees of the Commission were referring to when he was there.

"I heard that one of his family members died."

He finally understood why his heart ached back at the Commission. You were dead and he didn't know. Although he did save you from being dead by going back, he knew he wasn't able to protect you because he was too far away. Or maybe his return only made things worse for your life.

As Lila followed the Handler out of the building. She began to talk. "Why would you say that?"

"Hmm?"

"To Five. Why did you tell him about the girl, I don't know, dying."

The Handler turned to her, her smirk never leaving her face. "Well, I know Five. He's mostly sure of things but this time, he won't be so sure of his decisions."

"What do you mean?"

"Now that he has knowledge of the girl being followed by death, Five will think about avoiding her for her own safety because he now thinks that he's the reason why she's getting killed or protect her."

"No doubt he'll choose the second option."

"But can he fully protect her? Five can overthink things and most likely, he might choose the first option. And when he does, finish your mission and kill the girl."