BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

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No more than a few minutes ago, Five had been waiting in Dallas, Texas in 1963 to make sure Kennedy died. The fact that he was in the future/past wasn't actually that strange for him. Because his job. The fact that he was now physically a teenager again, however, really was strange. And annoying.

Mostly annoying.

He grabbed a newspaper--it was 2021 somehow??--and a coffee to take a seat where he could unobtrusively observe people. The fact that he was basically a kid in an ill-fitting suit and sitting near a glittery sign that proclaimed this the pick up spot for Fandom High was just a side-note.

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But that meant open and honest communication and that shit didn't fly in the Umbrella Academy! Misunderstandings abound!

Five sighed like it pained him. "You are very clearly not from around here. And, if it's not time travel---" He paused and stared at her. "Huh. Something else. Alternate timeline?"

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Well, that sounded like Belle's future relationship!

"I am most assuredly not from around here," Belle agreed. "But then I'm not entirely certain where here is. There was a portal that I was told would take me to a school in a safe realm." Her father was, eventually, going to get such an earful about this.

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Wasn't it weird how that worked?

"Realm?" Oh god, this was even weirder than he expected.

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"Yes, realm. One without an ongoing ogre war. At least that seems to be true." Yes, there were ogres at home. Deal with it, Five.

Belle sighed. "I would rather have stayed. Or gone to a neighboring kingdom if absolutely necessary. This seems excessive."

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"Ogre war," Five repeated, nodding and looking very much like he was humoring her.

Just ignoring the fact that the head of the board was a goldfish where he was from. Yeah.

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"Yes, ogre war," Belle repeated, perhaps over enunciating a wee bit out of annoyance. "Which it seems is not happening here so at least my father was correct on that point."

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"Yeah, no ogres here," he replied dryly. "That's a new one. Unless you're on drugs maybe."

He'd read all about Klaus in Vanya's book, after all.

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"But you have people from different times?" How was that more believable than fairytale monsters, Five? How.

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Science? Or just some arbitrary skepticism.

"Yes." He sighed and teleported a little to the side to dump his coffee cup in the garbage. Because he was a little shit like that. "We do."

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Belle took a step back. "You can do magic!" Because of course that was magic. How else could it be explained?

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"That's not magic." It was kinda magic. "It's just moving through space and time."

Which was kinda magic.

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"How?" Belle asked. Obviously it was magic. There wasn't any other explanation that would make sense! Not that magic made that much sense.

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"Because magic isn't real. There's a logical explanation out there for these abilities. Almost all of my siblings can do things like this. Some less useful than others."

And then there was Vanya.

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"How am I here if magic isn't real?" Belle asked. "And who says magic isn't a logical explanation? Magic explains plenty of things!"

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"You moved between timelines," Five said like that was perfectly logical. "Easy."

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"I did not," Belle said firmly. "I came through a magic portal. From a bean. I was there."

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"A what?" BELLE, WHY DID YOU HURT HIM THIS WAY?

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Five, you brought this on yourself.

"A portal," Belle repeated slowly. "From a magic bean."

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Five looked furious at that level of sheer bullshit, opening and closing his mouth without any words coming out. Then did a series of teleports to go steal himself a strong drink from one of the airport bars.

Somewhere in the distance was a, "HEY!" before he reappeared in the lounge with a glass of whisky.

"No," he settled on.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

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Were you doing more magic now just to be difficult, Five?

"I'm sorry," said Belle who was not sorry in the slightest. "But yes."

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MAYBE HE WAS.

"I refuse to buy into magic beans."

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Such an absurd attitude from what was clearly a young sorceror.

"They exist. Whether or not you believe in them won't change that.

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"Or there's a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation." Like the Commission's briefcases.

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"Magic is a perfectly reasonable explanation," Belle pointed out. "Additionally, it's the correct explanation."

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He was going to end up drunk on the shuttle! His liver couldn't handle it at this age! He was a lightweight!

All bad things would be Belle's fault!

"Okay, then explain how the magic works," Five said, totally using finger quotes on the word. Like a douchebag.