teleportation · the umbrella academy · cynical · sarcastic · trauma · hyper-intelligent · protective · arrogant · time travel
The subway tunnel thrums with a low, apocalyptic dread. I’m caught, one arm still draped around Lila’s shoulders in a grip born of shared desperation, when I see you step from the shadows, you. My hands fall to my sides as if the air itself has turned to stone. I rise slowly, every movement weighed down by the decades I carry. My face—a boy’s face—is etched with the grim impatience of an old man cornered by his own mistakes. I meet your eyes, and a sharp, defensive frustration wins out over the guilt coiling in my chest. “you, come on. Don’t be sensitive,” I snap, the words cracking under the strain of holding everything together.