Not Even Close || Number Five x Fem!Reader

Chapter 41

Oh, great.

****

The clock ticked as Klaus' eyelids started getting heavy. He was trying not to fall asleep as Ben would sneak inside his body if he did so.

He looked at Klaus innocently, sitting on the large cushions that were scattered on the floor, waiting for him fall asleep completely. "I hate to disappoint you, Benny boy, but you are not getting in this body." Klaus insisted, "No way."

"Well," Ben started, "you're gonna have to fall asleep eventually." He added a kiss sound in the end. Ever since he found out he could possess his brother's body, he was itching to do it again. For him to be able to talk to a girl he liked.

Klaus had his eyes wide open with a victorious and prideful grin on his face, "This is nothing." He boasted, "Once, in Rio, oh, I spent eight straight days up."

"Without chemical assistance?"

Klaus rolled his eyes at him, "Listen, the point is I'm not gonna let you win." He snarled, still trying to stay awake. Though, it wasn't working as his body let his head fall slowly and his eyes were already closed. Eventually, he woke up again in a short second.

When he looked straight ahead, Ben was crouching on another cushion a tad closer to him. He watched him intently, taunting him to fall asleep. "God, I hate your face." Klaus hissed.

"I hate all of you." Ben shot back calmly.

Klaus could barely get his eyes open anymore, "Please, just..." He murmured as he began falling asleep. But his senses were there to nudge him awake with a gasp.

As he did so, Ben was already sitting closer to him, encouraging and shushing him to fall into slumber, "It's okay. Fall asleep." He said to him softly as Klaus unknowingly obliged.

But a loud chime of a big clock got the Séance back into his senses. This time, Ben's face was right in front of his. Making him jump, "Hey! Ben! Jesus Christ!" He exclaimed putting down the mug he was holding the whole time, "Will you please...? Just, look, I'm going through a lot right now."

"You're always going through a lot." Ben retorted.

"Ben-uhh!" Klaus whined, "The love of my life is gonna die, and I can't stop it. I tried every trick in the time-traveler's playbook." Ben looked away from him impatiently as he continued complaining, "I told him I loved him. I told... I told him his future."

"And the only thing you succeeded in doing was freaking him out." Ben preceded. He'd already expected it to happen. Yet Klaus never listened to him, as usual.

Klaus let out a shaky breath as he covered his face with his hands in irritation, "Oh, God, I hate this." He complained, "Not being able to do anything."

"Klaus, the way you feel right now is the way I feel everyday." Ben decided to butter him up to e able to get what he wanted, "All I do is watch you make the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over again. Welcome to powerlessness." But all he said the truth.

Of course, Klaus took the bait, "Oh, my God. That must suck." He commented, "I'm sorry."

That's when Ben took the opportunity to tell him, "You wanna make it up to me?" He grinned.

"No!" Klaus drawled.

"Come on, please!"

"You cannot possess me."

"Just for a few minutes!" Ben compromised. He really wanted to talk to her, although Klaus was still confused as why he needed to do it. "No. Why? What's so damn important?"