Beyond The Clock || Number Five x Raven (fem reader)

"So I found a way home." Five said while dressing himself again in the bathroom. Raven had just walked out to change too.

"what? How?" luther asked, getting himself ready.

"All the details are irrelevant, but... I made a deal to get back to our timeline."

"What about doomsday?" Diego asked while putting on his jacket.

"Won't happen." "And the 2019 apocalypse?" Diego asked again.

"Everything will be back to normal. All right? Now, no more questions." Raven chimed in, still adjusting her top.

"Thank you." Five said while looking annoyed at his brothers. "We gotta go. We have to find the others, right? Luther you get Allison."

"Okay." Luther answered.

"Diego, Klaus. Raven and I will get Vanya. Now, we meet back in te arrival alley in 77 minutes." Five grabbed 3 watched from the table and handed one to Luther, one to Diego and one for himself. "Here. I've synchronized these watches."

"Okay, let's do this." Luther said while putting on the watch.

Five and Raven already turned around to leave until Diego spoke up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. You show up together with Raven, drenched in blood and expect us to believe everything's gonna go back to normal if we go home now?"

Five got frustrated, Raven could feel it, so gently grabbed his hand. "Elliott just got killed because of us." Five sneered.

"What about dad?" Diego asked him. "What about JFK?"

"Diego, we have a chance to go home and make things right. We have to take it." Raven said. She walked closer to Diego. "Please, hermano."

Diego sighed. "I have to say goodbye to Lila."

"Lila doesn't give a shit about you, Diego!" Five yelled. "She never did. She's one of them. She's a member of the Commssion."

"No way." Diego shook his head. "Not possible."

"She was just using you to get to me."

Diego gulped and looked to Raven. "Is this true? Did you know?"

Raven quickly shook her head. "No, no, I didn't know. I'm so sorry, Diego."

You're the Oswald of this story, my friend. The goddmaned patsy." Five turned on his heel to walk away.

"You don't know what you're talk-" Diego began screaming, but Five blinked in front of him. "If you don't do this, I'll kill you myself. Got it?"

Raven pulled Five by the back of his collar, away from Diego. "Wow, okay. Nobody is killing anyone. We're going." She held her hand on Five's shoulder. "Okay, blink us out of here, now." And so Five did.

Luther sighed heavily and placed his hand on Diego's shoulder. "Women. Am I right?"

~*~

The car hummed softly as it glided along the empty road, the sound of the tires on the asphalt the only accompaniment to the stillness inside. Five kept his eyes firmly on the road, his expression set in its usual stoic determination. His hands gripped the wheel, steady but not tense, the veins along his knuckles faintly visible under the pale glow of the dashboard lights.

Raven sat beside him, shifting in her seat and fiddling absentmindedly with the rings on her fingers. Every so often, she glanced over at him, her gaze lingering for a moment before quickly turning back to her lap.

He looked so focused, the faint lines of concentration etched into his face, his sharp jaw illuminated by the dim light of the setting sun outside. She found herself tracing the curve of his profile with her eyes, taking in the intensity that seemed to radiate from him effortlessly.