I think this has gotta be my favorite story so far. it’s sweet and fluffy and all around adorable. Give this person some love for this story! ❤️
— Summer Flurry.
summary. In which you and Five learn about each other over ice cream and then beyond ice cream flavors.
one-sentence synopsis. "Vanilla. How boring." "Please, chocolate's not exactly wild, you know."
content. unhealthy amount of ice cream, unrealistic daily ice cream consumption, non-canon compliant, set sometime during the time five was trapped in the future. fluff, romance.
word count. 2.1k
a/n. WARNING = SWEET STUFF. AT RISK OF DIABETES (you, me, five and reader). wrote this without a specific time during the events of the show in mind. just wanted to light, cutesy fluffy five x reader where they are somewhere far from the apocalypse (and season 4)
You like to ask him questions.
"What are you looking at?"
"What is that … thing you’re wearing?"
"Why does ice cream taste so good?"
Five likes having answers for you.
"The scenery."
"It’s just my school uniform, for the lack of a better term."
"It just does."
You don't always like his answers.
"But there's nothing here but old cars and vandalized buildings."
"What school do you go to? I’ve never seen anyone around here with that uniform."
"That's not a good explanation."
That is the first time you ever met, so Five doesn’t find it in him to entertain you with honest answers.
"Tough, then."
Ideally, you two shouldn't work. You shouldn't meet, shouldn't talk, shouldn't eat ice cream together outside of an old ice cream shop, the seats made of plastic and the heat of the summer sun beating down on them. You shouldn't even know each other.
But you never liked rules and Five is sick of expectations and being alone the summer he meets you, young but not too young, restless yet also too exhausted with life to do anything but sit beside each other with your small cups filled with ice cream.
"I'm Y/N."
"Five."
You don’t question his name. Figures it’s probably a fake name, for a traveler who is making his way through this place.
Many would argue that that was a nice place to stop — appropriate for acquaintances. But formalities make you uncomfortable, and Five doesn't care for them, so you throw the arguments out the window as you scoot in closer towards the shade and look into Five's cup.
"Vanilla. How boring."
Five is ready to burst with obscenities in response to that insult to his favorite flavor, but upon noticing the small grin on your face, he lets himself relax a little. "Please, chocolate's not exactly wild, you know," he finally says, and he likes the way your lips quirked at that.
"Better than vanilla."
And somehow you get into a fight over ice cream flavors, then move onto condiments. Five argues that ice cream is fine as is without the additional sweets, and you only laugh, finding that "a typical answer from a boring guy" because sprinkles are apparently the epitome of "the wild side".
The next day, Five has sprinkles on his ice cream — albeit they are pushed to the side by the time you arrive — and you laugh again before taking the sprinkles and scooping them into his own cup, disregarding sanitary rules and whatnot.
Five hates the way it tastes, but so he sees no more sprinkles in the future.
No more sprinkles, and a lot more of you.
He meets you every day of that summer outside of the ice cream shop. Sometimes, he is there first, sitting at the only table available and slowly eating away at the content of the cup. Other times, you arrive early, leaning against the wall in the shade while trying your best to slow down your eating so you can wait for him, and hope that he will show up before you get to the bottom of your second cup.
You learn a lot about each other during the days of summer.
Your first summer together, you learned the basics.
"How old are you?"
"Technically, I’m twenty six."
"Oh. You’re older than I am."
"Hah, you should respect me more."
"As if that'll ever happen."
The next day, you get a scoop of mint chocolate, and you make him try it. You can't tell whether he likes it or not.
"Do you live nearby?"
"No, but I can get here within the blink of an eye."
"Are you even from this town? How long do you plan on staying here?"
"Just for June and July."
"Then why are you here? It's August."
"Obviously for you."
"… Oh."
The basics are that Five is older but you are better at social skills, that he claims that he is working and you are still a student, that he is both careful and careless and you are neither nor, that he likes vanilla ice cream and you like chocolate ice cream, and a lot of other things. But the simplest fact is the reason you both stick around: that you piqued his interest and that Five thrills you.
Your second summer together, you dig deeper.
Five reveals his soft side as he brings you a gift from the last “job” he was on just before this summer rolls around.
He reveals his darker side by accident when a guy whose biceps are larger than his brain approaches your table and tries to drag you with him, leading to you hearing him yell and go feral for the very first time.
Little by little, parts that aren't very 'basic' but much more meaningful are discovered. You learn about the uniform he wears, and you realize why he never talks about his family.
As you dig deeper, he lets himself relax as well. Your questions become (if possible) increasingly ridiculous, as you know Five will answer them all anyway.
("Do you think polar bears like ice cream?"
Five shoots a glare at you. "No, they like fish," he answered, rolling his eyes.
"Don't they like Coke? I mean, their commercials have polar bears."
"Fish," Five deadpans.
"What about—"
"Do we really have to talk about polar bears?")
That summer, it is harder to keep him from coming to see you than the last. Admittedly, there is already a bond between you, stronger with your new knowledge of each other, your weaknesses and strengths, your secrets and so on.
"I’m going to have to leave."
You don’t look up from your empty cup. You only nod once in understanding.
"Aw, come on," Five says, his voice soft as he leans over to nudge your shoulder. "I’ll be back next summer. We'll have more things to talk about."
You look up, smiling a bit. "You’re coming back for me?" you tease, causing Five to fall back, red and spluttering. "Or the ice cream?"
Five glares. "The ice cream, obviously."
"Maybe I’ll move away before you come back," you continue, a big grin spreading across your face as a sense of dread carries up his neck. But he doesn’t say anything; he only stands up and throws away his cup before storming off. You chuckle as you hurriedly follow. “Just kidding, I have nowhere to move to, you know.”
"Hey! Hey, Five, wait up! How do you even walk so fast with those legs?" You say, panting as you jog up to the boy’s side, whose arms are deep in his pockets and eyebrows furrowed.
For the first time, Five doesn’t offer you anything witty or cheeky in response; but he is waiting for something, and he is not exactly sure what that was. Whatever it is, it makes him feel queasy inside.
"I'll miss you," You finally said, putting a hand on his arm. "Take care, okay?"
That is not what Five is waiting for, but he still smiles weakly. "I'll see you next summer. Don't be late." And then he is gone — true as he said, within the blink of an eye — as you walk the other way, off towards the bus stop, back to your house and — worst of all — without Five.
During the following Fall, you buy anything vanilla-flavored everyday until it makes you sick.
Five has just cleared a job, when he eyes a chocolate bar in the vending machine, and grabs it before he changes his mind, on his way home.
This is your third summer together. It's odd, thinking you’ve only known each other for three seasons, each time separated by a year of not seeing each other. And yet, when he sees you again, he does nothing but enjoy your moments together, enjoy each other. It’s the only time when Five lets go of himself.
This summer, he takes chances.
He grabs your hand without warning.
You lean into him unconsciously.
He brings a stuffed animal to tease you with, but you are nearly in tears when you take and smile brightly to thank him, completely missing the way his eyes dilate in affection while watching the happiness on your face, all because of one simple action of his.
He makes you sing to him for the first time on a lazy evening and he thinks he can fall asleep to just his voice.
And his words mean more than they used to.
("You're cute."
Your cheeks grow warm in an instant, averting your gaze to your leftover, melted ice cream. "Stop that," you mumble.
"Stop what?" He grins, enjoying the way he can easily fluster you with simple words.
"Stop joking around like that. It's not funny," you grumble, trying not to focus on the intensity of his gaze.
"But I'm not joking.")
Still, there's an unspoken, foreboding mood that settles at the beginning of August. You ignore it at first, your ice cream and conversations much better topics to talk about.
But then the day comes when you have a question and Five cannot quite give you an answer.
"When will you be back?"
"… I don't know."
And you want to beg him to answer, beg him to say 'soon' or maybe even 'I'll never leave you.' You want a definite answer more than anything right now, because this is Five, the biggest question of your life. And time is ticking.
Cars pass, time flies, and soon he stands up to throw away his cup. You watch quietly before following. You walk a little, stopping in the parking lot when you work up the courage to grab his hand and whisper, "Come back soon."
His face is so close to yours, and your breathing is uneven. You watch as his eyes dart from your eyes to your lips over and over, and he's leaning in when a truck drives by and the sound startles both of you apart.
He inhales nervously while you give him a weak smile, swallowing the missed chance and pushing the disappointment down your throat. Five leaves with a quiet goodbye, and you watch him go, like you always used to. It's suddenly cold despite the warm breeze.
You grow up, and you ditched your plans to move away. You walk past the ice cream shop everyday, but you never go in.
During the summer, you return though. You order ice cream and sit down in the front, your eyes scanning for a familiar face that never shows up. Day after day, you eat less and less ice cream.
But you never stop showing up.
Three years pass without Five.
It's a mid-June day and you have finished half of your ice cream. You don’t feel like you want to eat anymore, and you get up to throw your cup away when you bump into someone.
"F-Five?" you stammer, your eyes wide with surprise and something more.
Said man doesn't answer. He has grown taller, you noticed. He looks down at your cup, at the chocolate ice cream leftover, and before either of you can say anymore, his lips are on yours.
"You taste like vanilla," are the first words you hear from him in three years, and you’ve never loved hearing a voice this much.
"I–" You can't even speak, can't really think when Five is there, warm from the summer heat but there.
Somewhere between your blabbering and his soft laughter is the explanation behind the vanilla. You, who hate vanilla, ordered it every day after he stopped showing up. Maybe you wanted to remember Five, or maybe you wanted to keep him alive. Or maybe it's all of that and much more.
The answer is lost between kisses and ice cream.
You like to ask questions.
"Why didn't you come back?"
"Did you miss me?"
"Do you love me?"
Five likes to have answers.
"I was busy saving the world."
"What do you think?"
"If I didn't, I wouldn't have come back for you."
Sometimes you don't like his answers.
"What did you save the world from? Why did we need to be saved?"
"I don't know what I think, so why don't you tell me?"
"Do. You. Love. Me."
But Five doesn't care enough to answer anymore, because he's pressing sweet pecks on your lips (each of them saying, "I. Love. You. So. Much."), and that's enough to answer all of the questions.
"Hey, guys, do you think chocolate or vanilla is better?"
There is a chorus of votes for vanilla and chocolate.
Klaus smiles. "I think they're best combined."
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Hey guys so a did a recent post about the diner deli scene and the different variations of five there and i had listed all of the ones i can put a name on (its all a personal opinion my word is not law) and we all know that they have some odd subtle differences between each other though they still may be five they are still from other universes and timelines and not one five is gonna be the same completely. So i decided to list and give them the personalties and such that i can (Again my word is now law please by all means make whatever you want this is just personal opinion and thought)
So here is the list of the fives that i had personally named.
1. Booth five
2. waiter five
3. brisket five
4. Newspaper/good with numbers five
5. Mathematician/journaling/theorist five (There is three cause if i remember correctly there is two fives and i just know one of them is obsessing over numbers and i was wondering what the other one is doing and thats what i got)
6. Anxious antsy/waiting five
7. Drunk five
8. Loose neck tie five
9. chef five
Those are the ones i could put a name too. Some of them i have no clue what to call them but if you have a suggestion or an idea please let me know.
1. Booth five
Booth five is probably a funny laid back guy who is just wanting to chill after having tried and failed so many times to save the world and his family only to have it blow up in his face time and time again. He is mostly unintentionally funny it seems. He wont get why what he said is funny at first but once he does he will probably laugh it off with you or give a playful eyeroll.
2. waiter five
Waiter five looks like he would be that person in the friend group who is always mothering the group. Attentive and caring can be serious when need be but for the most part also pretty laid back and not really a stick in the mud.
3. Brisket five
You cant tell me he wouldn’t be a sweetheart. He looks like he would be making small talk and smiling and cracking a couple jokes here and there and just overall you would be comfortable around him. He is probably one of the fives that the others go to vent or just need something to take their mind off of whatever they got going on. There’s that and let’s not forget he apparently wrecks shit sometimes as confirmed by booth five.
4. Newspaper/good with numbers five
Newspaper five has always newspaper always in hand whether it be old news or new news he has one nearby or in hand. This is also helping him with his good with numbers part. He is just uncannily good with numbers obviously having been shown in the scene where he tells the amount of times they tried to save the world. He is basically that scene from criminal minds where Spencer Reid gets the guess right for how many boats are on lake mead. He knows random info and facts and when engaged in conversation he is a fact and info dumper.
5. mathematician/journalist/theorist five
-mathematician five is somewhere writing in his notebook with equations and numbers all probably trying to find a possibility for any possible safe timeline that isn’t gonna go to shit. He could also just really like numbers.
-Journalist/diary five is always writing in his notebook about his days there at the deli/diner. he can recap anything that has happened from the start of when he arrived there and more then likely has a log of all the fives that have arrived and whether they have stayed or went off to try and save the world and the family again.
- theorist five i believe is a variation of five that had driven himself crazy with possibilities and theories whether it be about the apocalypse and saving his family or it might be over something small and insignificant. sometimes this can spiral and cause outbursts of panic and rage or straight up mental breakdowns. His notebook is filled with possibility after possibility. Theory after theory. Some of the pages are random scribbles and writings and if you sit close to him you can hear him muttering to himself about the writings. His hair is also probably a little greasier than others considering his obsessive behavior with writing theories but he isn’t unclean.
6. anxious ansty/waiting five
Anxious ansty five seems to be on edge a lot. All the trauma he has gone through has finally bled through and has made him anxious or antsy. He can be seen with his hands always fidgeting or chewing on a random object like a pen or the tip of his straw to try and silence the anxious thoughts even for just a minute. He may be seen waiting for his order at the counter but he isn’t always waiting for that he can be seen waiting anxiously for some kinda ball to drop and everything to go to shit. He is probably more than likely a paranoid person.
7. Drunk five
Drunk five is quite self explanatory. It’s a variation of five that is drunk but when you think about it. Why was he called drunk five in the first place? why wasnt he called something else kinda like how newspaper/good with numbers five is or theorist five is? its cause he is more then likely always drunk meaning this variation of five is probably the one filled and consumed by regret and grief and sadness and has given up completely. Not all variations of five are happy or composed and this is one of them. He has done so much, seen so much and has dealt with so much to where he drinks to forget and drinks to have a good time. When you approach him you can get a few different emotions whether it be a sad drunk one day or a cracking jokes and making drunk conversation. He is more then likely the one getting into some form of trouble (as seen with S3 where five makes boozy cereal or does random stupid things) he may not always be sad but deep down we know why he drinks.
8. Loose neck tie five
People may argue and say that this is drunk five but if memory serves me right drunk five was off doing something stupid and this one is just hanging out by the door. Now i don’t quite know what personality to give this one since its just a loose neck tie and doesn’t really correspond with personality other then maybe being tired or exhausted or being disheveled in the first place. He may be a five that is a little less organized and put together. I will leave this one up to y’all.
9. Chef five
Not be confused with brisket five cause yes brisket five i guess technically would be a chef considering he is making food but brisket five is called brisket five for a reason. Chef five is the other five behind the counter. If you look at the picture you can see a five eating a soup meaning there probably isn’t just sandwiches here in the diner/deli. Chef five can always be seen hard at work cooking and probably trying out new recipes or making new ones too.
There we have it folks my personal opinions on the five variations in this weird five verse. I hope yall have fun and if you have ideas and different names for some of them put it in comments and i made add them to a list or something who knows what i might do.
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