"Hey. Why are you protecting this guy, huh? It's like Peabody all over again." Luther says, looking towards Viktor.

"Harlan is nothing like Leonard." Viktor responds.

"Well, he's clearly gotsome kinda hold over you." Allison answers. "Stop covering for him."

"Covering what? What's going on?" I ask, looking at my siblings as they fight over the old man.

"He didn't mean to hurt anyone." Viktor responds.

"Really? You mean, when he did this?" Luther says, pointing to the cut on our brothers face.

"Ow!" Stan whispers from beside Diego and Lila.

"Wait, Harlan did that?" Diego questions, wanting to protect our brother. "That's it, I'm gonna end him."

"Look, I know how it looks,but Harlan didn't ask for this." Viktor tries to reason with us. "If we hadn't gone back to 1963,if I hadn't have saved him--"

"He killed Jayme and Alphonso, not you." Allison answers, trying to take the guilt of off Viktor's shoulder.

"Wiat. Jayme and Alphonso are dead?" Marah asks, causing all of us to turn towards Marah.

"They attacked us, he was just protecting me." Viktor tries to reason. I look at Marah to see her eyes start to glow and her hands slightly heat up.

"So it's okay to kill my siblings who are just trying to protect our city, but when a man child kills someone, it's suddenly okay?" Marah asks appalled with my siblings thoughts. "That's fucked up."

Marah jumps down from the counter and walks away, pushing past me as she does so. "Marah. Marah stop.." I yell, but get held back by my siblings as she walks away.

"Give her time, Five. She just lost two of her siblings." Klaus says calmly, removing his hand from my arm.

"He's the reason we're in this mess,and he's our only way out of it." Luther says.

I turn back around and go back to the spot I was in before Marah left. "Luther's right. If we're gonna have an iota of a chanceof getting out of this alive, we need access to the Kugelblitz."

"There's only five of them left.We can just overpower them." Viktor answers. I blink towards him, ready to threaten him for wanting to put Harlan's life above Marah's.

"You so much as touch Marah, I will kill you myself." I threaten, blinking back to my spot and grabbing a drink now that Marah's not here, I need something to calm me down.

"What, and risk losingsome of us in the process?" Diego comments.

"Harlan is insignificant." I answer.

"You told me oncethat no one is insignificant." Viktor says, reminding me of what I said in Texas. "They'll kill him."

"Uh, so?" Lila asks. "We are talking about one personversus saving billions of lives here. I mean, is this reallya debate for you people?"

"Hey, Little Britain? You don't get a vote." Viktor retorts, mad that what Lila's saying is right.

"Lila lives in this universe too." I respond.

"Besides, she's family now. Kinda, sorta." Klaus answers.

"Mm. Thanks, kitten." Lila responds.

"I don't give a shit about the Sparrows," Allison answers. "but I'm not gonna letscary-ass Grandpa finish you off."

"Five days ago, he was just a little kid." Viktor explains. "And what? Now I'm supposed to justdecide whether he lives or dies?"

"Viktor, we're downto ethical triage here, all right?" I answer, looking around the lobby to see Marah walking back towards our group. 

"We can't save everyone." Marah states, walking towards me as she talks with my siblings. I wrap my hands around her waist, pulling her into my chest. "The kindest cut wins."

"You always wanted to be on the team." Luther starts. "This is what it is. Saving the worldmeans making the hard calls."

"I hate this." Viktor says softly.

"Yeah, I know." I respond, leaning my chin on Marah's shoulder.

"I'll go get him." Allison says.

"Wait, no." Viktor starts, stopping Allison from leaving. "Let me do it. He trusts me. I can convince him to come quietly."

Viktor leaves to go grab Harlan, with the rest of us leaving to go get ready to meet with the Sparrow's.

"You okay?" I walk with Marah back up to her room so that we can relax before heading back to the Sparrow's.

"Yeah, It was just a surprise." Marah responds softly. "I never got along with any of those siblings, I never felt like I belonged. And, maybe that's because I didn't. But I still grew up with them, ya know. They were still my siblings for a while. I guess it just hurt to know that you guys didn't care to tell me that two of my siblings were dead."

"In my defense, I didn't know either." I answer. We make our way back to Marah's room, sitting on her bed, I pull her closer to just hold her before we leave.

"Do you think we'll ever get our happy ending?" Marah asks quietly, removing her head from my chest and looking up at me.

"I think happy endings don't exist for people like me." I answer, rubbing my thumb over her cheekbone.

"Everyone deserves a happy ending, Five." Marah comments, moving into my hand a little more.

"I've done too many bad things. The universe would never reward me with something as good as a happy ending." I respond, slowly pulling her closer to me, leaning her back against my front.

"Well, I guess it's a good thing the universe is ending." Marah says, smiling at her comment. "Now you can get you're happy ending."

I smile down at her, moving closer to her, our lips inches apart to the point where I'd just have to move my head a little to the left for them to be touching. "I suppose you're right." I whisper.

I look into her eyes, seeing them glowing with a new emotion, one I haven't seen in a while. I glance back to her lips as I turn my head slightly, our lips connecting in a slow kiss, then slowly speeding up but keeping the same amount of passion.

I pull away first, I smile seeing the blush coating her cheeks. "We need to go grab Harlan and meet the Sparrow's." 

She nods her head, standing up from the bed, I grab her hand as we blink back to the lobby, where we're supposed to meet everyone. Not seeing anyone around, me and Marah walk to the bar to see Viktor and Klaus waiting for everyone, though they're the only one's there.

"Hey. It's time." I say softly, knowing this is a challenge for him. "Where's Harlan?"

"He's gone." Viktor lies to me.

"You let him go, didn't you?" I answer, calling him out on his bullshit.

"Harlan's deathis not gonna stop the Kugelblitz." Viktor tries to reason with me. "It's just gonna be anothertragedy on a tragedy, and we can find another... I will find another way."

"Well, congratulations, Viktor." I answer, chuckling. "You managed to destroy everything. Again."

I scoff and shake my head, ready to walk away before I turn around again, having more to say. "I really thoughtyou were smarter than that."