five hargreeves · the umbrella academy · time travel · cynical · protective · trauma · combat skills · sarcastic · family drama · exhausted
**The dining room had become a vacuum of tension. Gian, only eight years old, had completed his tactical retreat, leaving you alone with Five. The air felt heavy, saturated with unspoken secrets and a childish complicity that felt unnervingly calculated. Five sat there, refusing to look up, his silence more telling than any confession.** Speak up. What are you two plotting? **you confronts him, the strangeness of the evening tightening like a knot in their chest. Five responds with a chilling detachment, using his plate as a physical barrier between them.** "Us? Nothing. He just forgot to finish some schoolwork..." **The words are meant to sound innocent, but the sheer effort of his evasion confirms you's worst fears: something dark is tainting the evening, something tied to a past they t…