Edge of the Preserve | Friday Morning

[knife_bender]

It had been night in a theater with chunks of the moon hurling at them when Five decided to take them all time traveling. So when Diego found himself in the woods, in the daylight, with no moon falling, it was a little confusing. Not to mention the fact that it seemed like he was back on the island again.

And looking around he noticed he was five siblings short. "What the hell just happened?!"

[For one!]

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[apocalypsehow]

Five was also looking around, maybe a touch frantically. For him, at least.

"No, no. Not this place again."

[knife_bender]

"Where the hell are they, Five?" Diego asked, looking towards the forest to see maybe if they had gotten separated. "Luther! Klaus!"

[apocalypsehow]

"Shit," Five hissed, clenching his fists and trying to go after them. Then trying again.

And again.

He was starting to look a little sweaty and pale with each attempt.

Looked like someone drained their battery to manage that first one.

[knife_bender]

Diego turned away from the tree line to look at Five. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

[apocalypsehow]

"You want to give this a try?" Five snapped.

[knife_bender]

"Well what the hell happened?" he asked. "We were are all together, how did only you and me get back? Are they somewhere else or--"

Or did they get crushed by the moon, was the end of that question.

[apocalypsehow]

"We did all time travel," Five said, trying to work out the logistics. "This place sucked me in the first time I tried to get back... I think it's done it again. I have to run the numbers."

[knife_bender]

The fact that Five seemed so sure they all made the jump made Diego feel a little better, at least. "So you're saying you lost our family somewhere in space and time."

He was still going to be a bitch about it though.

[apocalypsehow]

Such was familial love! "Would you rather go back to being crushed by moon rocks? Because I can arrange that!"

[knife_bender]

"It doesn't look like you can do much of anything right now." Which was probably uncalled for.

Then his shoulders slumped some, and the instant anger he felt simmered down into something like angry worry. "We just got them back."

[apocalypsehow]

"I can get us back to them," he said, making it a promise of sorts. Because he didn't go through all this shit just to lose them again.

[knife_bender]

"How?" he asked.

[apocalypsehow]

"How do you think?" More time travel!

[knife_bender]

Had time travel gone right even one time? Diego huffed, shaking his head. "So we're fucked."

[apocalypsehow]

Well. The Kennedy assassination worked.

"I spent decades getting back to you collection of morons, do you really think I'll stop trying now?"

[knife_bender]

Diego had to admit Five was stubborn in that way. "Fine. Just--tell me what I have to do."

[apocalypsehow]

"Be ready to go as soon as I work it out. If I get it right, we should get there no later than them." Time travel and all that. "Maybe... talk to Annie."

Look at him being vaguely accepting of his potential in-law!

[knife_bender]

"Yeah she's probably freaking out right now," Diego said. "I called her from the bowling alley and told her I was probably gonna die."

And also kind of proposed to her. Yay?

[apocalypsehow]

"That was dumb." You know. Now that they were alive.

[knife_bender]

"Your...face is dumb." Smooth. "Whatever, I'm going to see Annie, you work on finding our family."

That you lost, Five.

[apocalypsehow]

"Next time don't call with bad news!" Just spring it on her in person instead!