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Five has so many questions to ask God, he’s not really sure where to begin.
He expected their death to be a nothingness, the absence of self after being unpicked from the fabric of time and space. His mind finally quieting after years of thrashing and fighting like a fish caught in a net. Discovering whether going quietly into that gentle night was not a surrender but a dissolving. In the Greek myths their father used to make them memorise, sometimes people turned into stars. He’s often wondered what kind of constellation he would be. Five little white hot coals burning in the sky, Quintus pueri. Boy, the fifth.
Klaus is God's favourite, so of course all eight of them end up in the afterlife once the Cleanse resets the world.
Cast adrift in heaven, Five is finally allowed to grieve, to contemplate the weight of the lifetimes he has lived and the things he has done. They have saved the world – but at what cost? Wandering through different versions of heaven, he plays chess and fights with God, reconciles with his family, and attempts to build a home for himself.
(An imagining of a possible future post-S4, mostly gen).