Not Even Close || Number Five x Fem!Reader

Chapter 97

"Get down!"

Jennifer pulled Ben away to duck from all the shots. Glass case displays were shattered, one by one, destroying the majority of the Thibideaus' hard-searched artifacts.

Jennifer led him to the hole she'd been barking up wide open. The rush of adrenaline took over her as she enlarged the hole in just one elbow hit so they could get through. Still, Ben's coat got caught by its ridged edges.

"Hurry up!" Hustled Jennifer. They could hear the gunshots stop with a last bang! Eventually, Ben got himself through and themselves out.

While Thibideaus let out a sigh as they had to take their two soldiers down themselves. "Shame," Jean huffed. "They were real good workers too."

"Yeah, but shooting them would have ruined everything." Gene reasoned as they watched Jennifer and Ben disappear. "We did what we had to do."

"We sure did, kitty cat." Jean nodded. But now that they have found Jennifer and this boy that was far more than ordinary, she didn't think it this was the time to sit and perfect their studies regarding their timeline phenomenon. No, this called for execution.

"Might be time for a Chikkadoo."

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"...and it's mostly redacted."

"Oh, great. So we can't read it or see it."

Allison took the document from Diego to get a good look of it herself. She understood nothing when Diego explained the whole thing, considering that he basically just read excerpts.

Number Five contributed to the discussion for the rest to better understand it. "From what I can tell, this document is from our original timeline." He elaborated, "It explains how Ben died. It refers to it as the 'Jennifer Incident'."

However, it wasn't really news to Luther along with the others. "We already know how Ben died." He said.

"Okay, then. Tell us." Five conceded.

"Well, it was a tragic accident." Luther started as far as he could remember. "Ben, our Ben died, because we failed as a team. Nobody was responsible, and..."

"And what?" Five presumed. He found it interesting that his brother suddenly paused his vague explanation.

Luther trailed himself out of the zone. Confused, the way he remembered it did not feel right at all. It was as though he missed something; and retracing his memories was futile as his mind would go blank.

Nobody was responsible, yet we're all responsible, was all Y/N could hear from Luther's mind.

"Allison, how did Ben die?"

It was unusual when Allison simply repeated what's on Luther's mind. "It was a tragic accident," she said. "Ben died because we failed as a team."

It didn't take long for Diego and Luther to catch on. They began to recite the whole statement in unison, in which it slowly led them to an epiphany.

"Nobody was responsible, yet we're all responsible. Ben Hargreeves represented the best of us. Ben was the Umbrella Academy."

"Okay, can any of you remember how Ben actually died?" Questioned Five.

Y/N observed the scene by the mantelpiece ever so quietly. She herself couldn't recall what happened that day, but admittedly, the majority of her partial memory loss was her own fault. She never had any of these statements spoonfed to her. That said, amidst the dead air, she took a quick trip down to her memory lane.

"Anything?" Five looked around the room to merely see the four of them trying their hardest to recollect their memories.

Viktor couldn't really relate to them, "I wasn't there." He informed.