PAUSE! ? FIVE HARGREEVES ?

CHAPTER EIGHT ? THE CHOKE UP

Our plan was to trick them to getting a fake brief case. We know that Hazel and Cha-Cha would do anything for it back since it was the only way they could get back. 

It was the perfect trick. 

"What?" Luther asked. "The killing. I mean, I was- I was good at my work, and I- I took pride in it. But it never gave me pleasure." Five told us. 

Both Luther and Five sat in the front of the car, so I had to peak from the back. Five sighed. "I think it was all those years alone. Solitude can do funny things to the mind." He laughed a little. 

Luther and Five stared into space as they sat in comfortable silence. 

"Yeah, well, you were gone for such a long time. I only spent four years on the moon, but that was more than enough." Luther said. "It's the being alone that breaks you." I said. "Just sitting there, nothing to do, no one to talk to, no one to love" I said, sharing my own experience. Luther turned around and gave me a reassuring smile.

"You think they'll buy it?" Luther asked. "Well, what we do know is that they're desperate." Five said, staring at the road, waiting to see their car. "It's like a cop losing their gun. If the Commission finds out, they'll be in deep shit." I said. 

You may ask, why do you know so much about The Commission even if you have never been there? Well, Five told me a lot so that I knew the same as he did.

"Oh, not to mention the fact that they'll be stuck here until they get it back." Five added on for me. "Well, I should hold onto it." Luther said. "Hm?" I asked, confused. "In case they make a move on you." Luther answered. "Okay, Luther, but be careful." Five told Luther. "I mean, I've... I've lived a long life, but... you're still a young man. You got your whole life ahead of you." Five said.

For some reason, this all reminded me of Dad's giving pep talk's to their young son's. 

"Don't waste it."

Out from a far, I saw a old black car approaching. "Guys, look! There!" I yelled. Both Five and Luther turned and also examined the car. "Here we go." I said. 

"If this all goes sideways, do me a favor and tell Delores I'm sorry." Five told us, earning both me and Luther to roll our eyes. We all stepped out and waited for their car to pull up on the side of the road. 

"Stay with me, okay?" Five told me. "Fine." I rolled my eyes yet again. 

I kept getting this tingly feeling that either Five doesn't trust me or is scared to loose me. 

Five grabbed my hand and starting walking towards Hazel and Cha-Cha, seeing that we were all were all approaching to the middle. 

This was the first time I saw them up close. I could still see the tear in Cha-Cha's blazer that I cut into when we were at the store shoot-out. They were sending death glares at me. 

"The masks really necessary?" I said wittily. They sighed and threw the masks on either side of the road. "So where is it, child?" They spat at me. "Wow, that's how you're gonna start." Five said, stepping in the conversation too. 

"You know, we can get right back in our car and call it a day. You won't even make it halfway there." Hazel said sarcastically. "Maybe." I also said sarcastically. 

"But as I'm sure you found out in your previous foray, my brother is not your average giant." I said, looking at Luther, making them look too. "She's right." Hazel whispered to his partner. "You dropped a chandelier on him, got right back up." Hazel continued.

"By the time you took him out, he'd smash your precious briefcase to a pulp." Five said with a sarcastic smile plastered on his face. "Probably us too, right?" Cha-Cha said, rethinking their words.