I Need You (Five Hargreeves x Reader) Number Five

Chapter 84

"Here's the real question... How do you know your birth mother is in Pennsylvania?", Five asked turning around to face Klaus as Klaus walked closer to them. 

"Well, because I was on the ass end of a two-week bender, and I can't tell you the exact date because we were boofing Xanax and the whole business, but Amy Winehouse was at the top of the charts. So that puts us somewhere, where? In the mid to late aughts? I helped myself into Dad's office, looking for the key to his safe 'cause he had Pogo lock up all the steal-ables. But instead, I found a treasure trove of our family history told in expired check stubs... I was too messed up to, uh, do anything about it,too scared to look her up. But always in the back of my mind. I wondered why she sold me off for three grand. I mean, come on, she couldn't have held out for five? Six?", Klaus explained his journey. 

"Hey... Don't be so sad please. Maybe... it was a lot of currency, like... you know, back in the day", Y/n said making Klaus give her a sad smile. 

"Always the angel... Thank you for saying that... But still... Whatever it is. It's less", he said. 

"You see anything about my mother?", Five asked as Y/n placed her hand on his as he looked at her with a straight face but she knew very well he was masking up some sadness in there. 

"No. Sorry", Klaus replied. "Why now?", Five asked. "Well, duh. Dad disowns us. Grace isn't Grace. Ben's... gone. Now just felt like a good a time as any to find out who I could've been if I didn't grow up in this stupid family", Klaus said. 

"Well, can you really call what we had a family?", Five asked. "No. It's more like a-", Klaus was trying to find a proper way to put it. 

"Institute for Snarky Delinquents", Five said making Y/n and Klaus laugh a bit. "And not a good one at that", Five chuckled. 

"But what is family? What is it? It's like some kind of giant... ball of twine that can never be untangled", Klaus said. 

"A giant ball of obligation I've been pushing uphill my entire life", Five said. 

"More like a giant ball of psychological traumas stemming from robotic fathers... Ironically", Y/n added. 

"And the older you get, the bigger it gets. And the more you try and untangle it...", Klaus was cut off. 

"And the older you get, the more dysfunctional you get. A giant ball of twine we have trying to hold together", Y/n mumbled. 

"You watch it roll down the hill...", Five added as all three of them kept explaining their own definitions and inputs about the Ball of Twine analogies.

"And what's the point?", the three ended it up in unison making Klaus sigh. 

"Hey, I'm glad you both came along. You're... a... g-good brother. And Y/n... You are an amazing sister... No, sister-in-law... Shit! Not like I think of you as an outsider or something. I am saying that so it doesn't sound very scandalous that you and Five are married and having a baby", Klaus rambled on making Y/n shake her head.