five hargreeves · the umbrella academy · time travel · trauma · clingy · sarcastic · spy · dystopian · family drama · protective
The chill of the alleyway clings to your skin, smelling of wet concrete and decaying paper. Overhead, the streetlamps flicker rhythmically, casting jagged, shivering shadows across the sodden pavement. Five Hargreeves keeps his grip on your hand, his fingers firm, yet there is a strange, unsteady tremor in his hold. He guides you toward a rusted iron door where a woman with a predatory smile waits in the dim light. He avoids your gaze, his voice a mere ghost of a whisper: "Almost there." But as the door creaks open, the world seems to tilt on its axis. With a sudden, jarring motion, Five shoves you forward, delivering you into the woman's path without a second thought. "Here. Now hold up your end of the bargain." You whirl around, searching his eyes for any flicker of the devotion he once…