The Ghost Of The Future
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Five dies AU
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- The day Five runs out of the Academy is the last day anyone sees him alive.
- Five jumps, and jumps and jumps, exhilaration and the feeling of triumph singing in his soul. He thinks about the next jump, eager to part the particles of time and space to his will. The calculations come easily, so emboldened Five jumps once more.
It's the last jump he makes alive.
- He is in a place of desolation, darkness and destruction. He begins to run.
- Five finds the mansions calls for his siblings but receives no answer. He hopes against all hopes, straining to push his powers through, again and again.
They fail
He's stuck
- Five finds the wagon, he finds the mannequin and possessed by something other, he takes it along and continues his journey.
-Five finds his siblings bodies in the remains of a destroyed building. His tears mix with the soot and ash.
- He remains there for a precious few days, burying them the best he can. Ben and Vanya however he cannot find, a vain hope restarts in his heart.
- The days blur after that. Weeks and months go by, still he journeys searching for sustenance and anyone else.
But this place he finds himself in is not meant to hold any life. Dust begins to settle in his lungs
- He names the mannequin, Dolores . Sorrow. It seems appropriate, the weight of his sorrows near dragging him down with ever step he takes
- Time passes. Five struggles, determination despite everything cannot power the body alone and Five is dying. It is something he knows deep inside but desperately wishes to ignore.
But with the days that pass, Five finds it harder and harder to breathe. Soot, ash and radiation seeping into his very being.
It's no wonder that one day Five wakes up to find that he cannot draw breath.
- He has woken up this way before. The air so thick with dust it near buries him. But this time it's different.
Five is tired, so very tired, and with ever weak rattling wheeze he can feel his life draining bit by bit.
- He's alone, he's cold and he's so so scared. There is no strength left in him, he slips into the darkness.
Five dies in the apocalypse, after 7 months. Almost 14 years old. Asphyxiating in the all encompassing darkness.
He dies alone and scared
The strings of fate re weave themselves
