4 + 13 for five hargreeves 🥺
My! Baby! Oh my gosh, thank you.
4. a headcanon to spite canon, specifically
That his siblings worry about him.
It’s not an easy point to come to, right? Because by the time Five comes back, it’s been 17 years since he left and they’re so used to him being gone, have already grieved him, compartmentalised him away, that him showing up out of a rip in the sky the same age as when they last saw him - - it’s not easy to process, right?
And maybe they’re getting there, but then a week goes by and everything changes again, and it’s months, years, depending on who you talk to before they see him again, so when he reappears this time it’s just like - - another day in the revolving door of Five, right?
And okay, so maybe Luther has to remind himself that Five’s survived what he has sometimes, and Diego that Five’s too damn stubborn to let anyone get one over him, and Allison that Five isn’t actually thirteen (he’s not, he’s not, he’s not). And Klaus sees him and sees addiction and nights too close to the end, and Ben thinks he was what broke them first, and Vanya would agree, but these days all she sees is her brother, and are they a family yet?
God, she wants them to be a family.
13. their happiest memory
It’s something small really. Something silly and nothing, but it was the one he’d circle back to again and again in the apocalypse, and all it is is being home alone with his siblings, a movie they all pretended they were old enough to watch on TV, and he can’t even remember what it was – The Exorcist or Poltergeist or something like that, but he remembers them all inching closer together. Remembers being nine-years-old and feeling like there was nothing in the world that felt safer than being with them.
Remembers being 58 or 13 or whatever age he’s supposed to be now, and feeling it still.
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