Not Even Close || Number Five x Fem!Reader

Chapter 100

Y/N refused to turn around even when she felt Five standing behind her. "What?" She asked, busy replacing a twig with a carrot using her new apportation abilities.

"Looks like you're getting used to that," Five pointed on the carrot she's holding.

"I meant to get celery, but this works too." Y/N nodded as she fed the carrot to the alpaca in front of her before letting it go along with its herd. "Is that all?" She questioned the boy.

He could feel that she was ready to end the talk right then and there, but he had to know more about what she's in possession of. Figuring it out might give him the possibility to avoid taking a risky trip to his time machine.

"No, actually." He shook his head, "I wanna talk to you about myosotis. What do you know about it?" Asked Five, walking up next to her to make her look at him.

"I know that it's an itching cold case that makes my palm tingle," Y/N replied. Eventually, she turned to him, revealing the apathy in her eyes. "I heard the same speech as you did, Five. And apparently, I'm the only one hot enough to handle it," she remarked. A tinge of sarcasm making itself known in the latter.

"That doesn't mean I know how to control it though; let alone activate it." she added.

"Well, let's say you did activate it. Abigail said it's far from being malicious -- you might have been using it right now to tame the llamas." Five suggested.

"They're alpacas," Y/N corrected compulsively. "Either way, Reginald said I won't have the time to hone them. Heck, I don't even know what it'll do to us."

It was only a matter of time before she realized she was starting to lose control on shooting his ideas down. "Don't you have somewhere to be?" She interjected.

Just as she did so, Lila popped into their conversation, "Hey," she turned to Number Five, "you ready to go to Hogwarts?"

Lila heard the girl scoff. She caught her Y/N looking at the two of them, having a hard time concealing her shifty eyes. Lila felt that she had just interrupted something, "Or is this a bad time?"

With the feeling that the myosotis can still be of use despite running short on time, Five decided to tell Lila that their trip was off. "Well, we're--"

"We're done." But Y/N decided otherwise. As much as she disliked Lila for ditching Diego too frequently and the idea of travelling through timelines as amateurs, a part of her was not denying that changing the past had much more predictable outcomes rather than using a power she didn't know how to use.

Despite its risks, it was unnecessary for Five to decide to call it off, per his thoughts. Not to mention, she has warned him once; and he went for the pros anyway.

With that, she backed away as she welcomed the return her apathy. "Don't worry, I'll be out of your way," she said, "you guys have a safe trip." She watched her step while she walked off with her eyes wandering about, distracting herself by appreciating nature around her.

When she disappeared from their sight, Lila diverted her attention back to Five who still kept an eye on Y/N. "So, shall we aboard the time choo-choo?"

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Klaus slumped back on the pile of pillows with heavy eyelids. His hair was tousled and his clothes were wrinkled after an appointment for a ghost named Richie and a lady in which Richie claimed to have a rear as large as a Georgia peach.

They were the clients that caused the humidity and the smell of sex all over his cell. But the bitterness in his new exploited labor merely faded after getting his hands on a wad of cash.