For Vanya

There's a meteor coming for Darrow, and there's nothing Five can do to stop it.

When the news first started spreading, Five had been skeptical. Strange shit happens in Darrow, and as far as he's been able to tell so far, much of it doesn't amount to much. Sometimes there are monsters, sometimes there are small town cults, but life generally gets back to some semblance of normal quickly.

But when the chatter becomes more than just chatter, and when he can't seem to figure out any way to stop it-- if he'd know what caused it before it was maybe there would have been a chance-- Five's left basically helpless.

He doesn't like it one bit.

But with no briefcase and no way to be sure that trying to time travel on his own won't just strand him in Darrow's 1963, Five finds himself turning to despair. And bourbon. They keep the house pretty decently stocked most of the time, so at least he doesn't have to go out for it. He's four drinks in before he figures, who cares if he gets stuck and has to spend another couple of decades alone? At least he'll have time to figure out how to keep his family safe again. At least this time, he can save them from the apocalypse.

Five sets his drink down on a table in the Hargreeves library, holds out both fists and he's surrounded by a blue glow. He tries to concentrate, but his head is fuzzy, the room is spinning and he's tired. The blue glow is gone as quickly as it appeared, and then there's just Five: drunk, useless and unable to protect his family. Again.

For Luther

Living with his brothers and sisters again, Five has to admit, it's been an adjustment. He's got used to Klaus's comings and goings, living with him for a few months before this, but the rest of them add a new dimension to things.

It's not bad, just an adjustment. But they're making the place their own. Five's biggest contribution so far has been the house's growing library. Each one of them has added their own books to the collection, but Five's added the most books by far. Quantum physics books, dimensional theory and the odd biography, mostly. Today, he's shelving a book on paradoxes-- theoretical and very wrong, of course-- when he finds something he thinks Vanya's added. Music theory's never been his thing, but he doesn't have anything else to do with his afternoon.

He tucks the book under his arm and decides to head to the kitchen for a cup of coffee, but when he walks into the hallway, there's someone there he doesn't expect. At least, not today.

"Oh. It's you," Five says, looking up at his brother with a mildly surprised expression, "You know, between you and Diego, my money was on him showing up first."