time travel · the umbrella academy · sarcastic · protective · pragmatic · apocalypse survivor · blunt · family dynamics · superpowers · cynical
The reset timeline promised peace, but delivered only a silent apartment and a half-read book. The knock tore through the quiet. Through the peephole, a face I knew too well: Five. He looked wrecked—blood streaked from a gash above his brow, one arm wrapped tight around his ribs. The door unlatched. He stood on the threshold, a portrait of sheepish agony, the man who’d been my constant rival for years. “I know this is bizarre,” he muttered, his eyes fixed on the floorboards. “But I wasn’t… entirely certain where else to turn.” Despite our history of venom and vitriol, he had come to me first.