Chapter Text
"Pl-Please!!! Nobody is coming for me!!! "Klaus howled. With a snort, Cha Cha slit his chest and calf, covered the towel with his face, and poured a plate of cold water.
The water made the towels heavier, the air blocked by the wet towels, the pressure pressed against the swollen bridge of his nose, the suffocating oppression, The sting of excess water falling on the hot, cold skin caused by withdrawal, the blood vessels of the body seem to be eaten by ants, a dull pain between bones.
Additional nausea, dizziness, headaches, and, of course, ghosts that multiply over time speak and scream, and Klaus feels his consciousness.
The piercing electricity flowed from the spine to his fingertips and gave off a pale blue light. Cha Cha and Hazel were pinned on the floor with broken hands and legs, brains leaking out of their guts ghosts.
Ben untied the ropes around his waist and wristband, their body pressed against the floor was torn open by ghosts, his open chest bones and belly exposed, all internal organs were removed, blood permeated their clothes and floors, screaming echoing through the room, and the bodies on the ground glaring in his direction.
Klaus looks at Ben in a panic, 'Will I be like that?' His breathing began to be short, "Klaus breath!! try to stay calm "Ben yelled. 'Not helping Benny' weak air and suffocation made him helpless, his vision blurred by tears, and the light bulb behind exploded before his fall.
"Shit!" Ben carried him to the bed behind him. When he awoke again, he saw Ben's wrinkled face and the other ghost's worried faces, Ben helped him sit up.
"Hello! Klaus, "A blond woman in a black dress suddenly appeared to look at the room and Kicked the dead body on the ground with a frown. Sitting at the end of the bed smiling, taking out a cigarette, and lit it up. Ben protects Klaus behind him with one hand in front of him, watching the woman alertly.
"Oh, what a Lovely bodyguard, The Horror right?. " with a teasing tone.
"Wait you can see him? Who are you? "Klaus bling his eyes and Ben glared at her."I am The Handler, yes I can see him." She points to the dead bodies"We work with an organization called Commission familiar？"He frowned and sighed " I already told you folk I don't know anything!!! Five is not coming!!! NO ONE Is....please just leave me alone. "He sadly looks at his shaving fingers. Ben covered his hand on his shoulder and looked angrily.
"I'm here for you actually, we had our eye on you for quite some time. We want you to join us. " The Handler smiled with her red lips. "Why...What do you want from me if you had an eye on me you should know I'm the weakest, useless, and family disappointed. " Look back at the woman's face.
"Oh...Sweetie you underestimate yourself, Seem Reginald Hargreeves is right about your 'untapped potential', We want to hire you as an assassin but I want to add a condition, I want you to distract Five(parallel space-time) to convince him to stay"
"Huh. How are you...Why would I do that? "Klaus crossed his arms on his chest. Rise his eyes brows.
"Because I am offering you a chance to stay away from here, from the doomsday, you can restart your life, "
" I..don't know...my family...they...."He doesn't care about the world ending but... Maybe his family... Need him? He sighed helplessly.
"They won't bother or care. Sweetie, you should think about yourself, this is about you now" she said with a disdainful tone.
She got him there, indeed, his siblings will never notice and care, they all look at him as a junkie always high as a kite, useless, and lamentable. He looked at Ben.
"Don't-Klaus I know what that look mean, I don't think this is a good idea, What she said is not true... I do care about you" Ben holds his hands and looked at him sincerely. "You died Ben...no offence but if it wasn't my powers, I'd be lying down dead right now." Ben sighed looking away from him, Klaus thinks of it as consented "How long and Do I get payment?"
The Handler looked at him in amazement" In return for five years of service you can enjoy the most advanced benefits, and extra salary during your mission also you can retire to the time and place of your choosing. So, do we have the agreement?" She offers a hand to Klaus who still hesitating.
"OK... I will go with you" Ben look dissatisfied but still helped Klaus put on his coat,
"Aww Benjamin"
"Shut up! still don't think is a good idea"
The Handler opens her briefcase with a brighter smile, and a burst of blue light wraps them.
After more than 30 years of life, For the first time, he was alone. He doesn't see a ghost in here not even Ben, he learned the Commission is outside of the time in different dimensions. It is odd however Klaus thinks he finally found his place and definition. He's enjoying his life.
He was trained how to assassinate, and learned how to shoot, and fight. Indeed is like the old times when he was a kid but the difference is that he is no longer the worst, he is the best of it. Who would have thought he was the best shooter. He realized how good it felt to be recognized, praised, and complimented, and finally understood why his siblings wanted to prove themselves so badly as children.
Soon Klaus was sent on a mission. 'It's gonna be okay. I'm not who I used to be..' Reality tells him God really hates him.
He opens the briefcase, and went to a place he saw bullets flying, the explosion makes his eardrum tinnitus, he saw the man open his mouth like shouting, grenade flew towards his position before he realized he had been pushed on the floor.
"You alright mate? What's your name?" The soldiers help him get up.
"Where and When is it?" Klaus holds the soldier's arm with the shaky hands
"1971, Vietnam" Klaus froze eyes wide he can saw brunches of ghosts and howling again but still no Ben. "Fuck! "
"Klaus"
"Klaus"
"Klaus"
"Kl-Klaus, Klaus, Klaus, Klaus, Klaus.Klaus, Klaus, Klaus, Klaus!!"
"Shut up, shut up shut up shut UP!!" They stopped 3s and screamed and howled louder and louder.
"I. Said. Shut. UP!!" Klaus stared at them his green pupils replaced by blue light, his eyes is bright and waved with a blue light on his fingertips.
An invisible force gathered the ghosts in the front row and flew away, and the ghosts in the back row immediately retreated and closed their mouths.
Klaus took a breath the blue light is gone, he bounces and sat up, put the cigarette in his mouth, hand-hooked his index finger to a male ghost, he lit the cigarette by touching the ghost's body.
Fighting on the battlefield is cruel people die every day which makes ghosts multiply means louder, stressing Klaus out, he hadn't slept for a while because he is afraid that he will be killed if he closes his eyes.
He was acting neuroticism, his whole body is nervous and anxious. It makes things worse. At first, He broke things randomly with his mind. The next day in the morning he was kissing the ceiling when he woke up. It made him panic, and have flashbacks.
He remembered Reginald saying in the mausoleum, "You must become the master of your own life, Number Four or it will become your master of you" He don't want to admit it but the asshole was right.
Klaus tried of being hunted by ghosts, but instead of understanding him, help him people look down on him. (If Ben is still a life he will never understand too) Think he is weak. All he was doing is exspacing it shameful but it works. Maybe-Maybe, he should once face it. Yes, it was painful. Bloody.But worth it. After don’t know how many times trembling, sobbing and stinging pain, lonely night. He finally did it.
Now the table turns.
Klaus looked at the note in his hand.
'Kill Dave Katz'
He received an order after being forced into the army it been ten months.
Klaus has thought about various ways in his mind. When he sees his face he just can't, Dave is sweet, strong, and vulnerable, he doesn't deserve to die. Dave was the one like Ben to calm him down when he still not under the control of his power, He teaches him how to fight, even though he is shivering and being weak, distracted by ghosts. They take care of each other on the battlefield and comforted each other when they were lost, someone. They were both comrades in arms and best friends.
Ten-month absence made the Commission impatient and issued an Ultimatum.
The last disc stressed Klaus out, He knows others will kill Dave in no Marcy, so rather than Dave need to suffer painfully he makes up his mind."It's not like I don't see him again" He looked at the ghosts and smiled, They all nodded immediately.
Ten months into the war, he learned that sacrifice is inevitable, guilt and fear are just signs of weakness. Survival has a price.
"I'm sorry...sorry Dave. " He held a gun and looked at Dave innocently.
"you are frighting me" Dave shakes his head voice shaking"You don't have to do this" begging Klaus helplessly.
"I promise it will be quickly you won't even feel it" Klaus pulls a gun and trace his chest, "see you soon" shot. He caught Dave's falling body, Hot blood covered his hands. From that moment on, he felt that he changed. He took Dave's dog tag, opened his briefcase, and went back to the Commission.
A few months after his first mission he finally meets Five again.
Five was a little dissatisfied. He was told that the superiors asked him to partner with a person. "What those idiots thinking? None of them was as good as mine? He wants me to babysit some idiot?? " He was puzzled.
"Maybe they want to spy on you," Dolores said. "That makes sense" Five nodded.
A pair of combinations must be ground together and understood before they can succeed, especially their assassin partner means is a relationship that entrusts life to each other.
How could he be suspicious of him unreservedly trusting each other? （can you imagine) The point is that he has never gotten along with any living human beings in the past 30 years.
And he has always been a loner, so he doesn't need or want to socialize with people here, what he wants is a way to go home.
He was told that his new partner is the best assassin like him, and now fights the show to teach newcomers a lesson.
He still went to the meeting place as agreed.
"I glad you came, They about to finish," His superiors said.
Five saw a skinny figure in the room, two times knocked him down with a man three times his size. He sat down on the man, his hand pulled out the black curls of his face. And put away the murderous in his eyes with a bright and friendly smile, he helped the men up, spoke a few words, and walked out of the room.
"This is number five, your new partner." The superiors said
Klaus's eyes widened, he raised his 'Hello' tattooed hand, with an uncertain voice "five?" Looking at the old man.
Five looked at the Klaus with a frown. his first reaction, of course, was to doubt his authenticity. 'How come?! he buried him by himself? He can't be Klaus! ' Besides, He had the impression that Klaus was never a fighter he always refused to fight and was always protected by Diego or Ben back trembling.
How did he know if they would find someone to perfunctory him?? To get his trust, But dark curly hair, skinny body, still beautiful green eyes with eyeliners.
"I still have work, you two have fun" after the superiors went. Klaus nodded and took Five back to his apartment.
Packing up the clothes scattered all over the place, "Sorry for the little messy" embarrassed
stuck his tongue out. "Aww. He is cute" Dolores smiled, and Five rolled his eyes.
Five observe his every move,' How could he accept that I am five so easily? Isn't he curious? Is he Klaus?'
Klaus noticed the sight approached Five and stretched his wrist towards him. Five grabbed his hand, studied his umbrella tattoo, and scratched his face in embarrassment, "So you really are Klaus?! " Klaus rolled his eyes made a peanut butter marshmallow sandwich and a cup of coffee pushed it to Five.
Five took a sip and almost spit it out. "who thinks you will kill for a decent of coffee"
"Rude," Klaus said not angry at all.
"How come you are here, What about the others? " Five bits of the sandwich with another sip of coffee.
"I don't care; don't wanna know, sure they are fine" Klaus looked at his nails, black nail polish left over from his nails. "By the way, I was kidnapped and tortured by assassins who work here because they want to know where are you? I mean you from my previous timeline, you" his start remove the nail polish.
"Did no one save you?" Five said with hard to believe tone.
"Nobody did care, not even you" Klaus painted his nails in dark green.
"I'm sorry, I..." Five pursed his lips embarrassedly, "Is fine, I was the past"Klaus opened his arms and put his arms around him," I prefer the old you"
"So? Me in your timeline? So I made it?! my equation?" Five was a little trying to resist, he didn't like physical contact, but Klaus's body temperature made him a little reluctant to let go. So he hugged back "Aww I know you miss me" Klaus laughs."Shut up I...So did I succeed back home" Klaus makes himself closer to Five"If you feel trapped in your thirteen-year-old body, success counts"
Five said in shock "What! ?"