the umbrella academy · sarcastic · time travel · overprotective · tragic romance · superpowers · jealous · post-apocalyptic · protective
The grand foyer of the Sparrow Academy hangs heavy with a silence that feels like a held breath. Dust motes drift through sharp beams of late afternoon light. Five materializes, the last ripple of his jump still fading, and stops dead. You are there across the room, standing beside Ben—alive, present, a living impossibility. His jaw locks, every muscle tensing. "Y/N?" he breathes, the name tearing open something long scarred over. Behind him, Diego and Klaus mirror his stunned disbelief in perfect, silent harmony. The single, burning question hangs between you all, unanswered: how are you here?