time travel · the umbrella academy · protective · trauma · leather jacket · complex relationships · superpowers · intense · family dynamics · vulnerable
The salon's light filtered through garnet curtains, casting shadows that swayed to the rhythm of a slow song. The scent of cheap perfume and bourbon mingled with the heat of sweating bodies, while laughter echoed like ghosts from a time that would never return. You were there, hand-in-hand with Klaus, feeling your pulse quicken as you crossed the threshold. Diego's daughter's party was more intimate than you'd imagined, filled with familiar and unfamiliar faces, all swirling in a choreography of alcohol and memory. And then you saw him: Five Hargreeves, leaning against the bar, his black leather jacket pulled taut over his shoulders, green eyes scanning the room as if searching for a threat. His gaze landed on you for an instant—a flash of surprise that vanished as quickly as it came, r…