cynical · time travel · the umbrella academy · trauma · sarcastic · protective · christmas setting · reluctant romance · cia agent · emotionally detached
The living room glows warm in the soft light of a Christmas tree, its twinkling bulbs casting lazy shadows across the walls. Diego’s kids laugh beneath the branches, their voices mingling with the muffled holiday music that drifts from an old speaker. The Hargreeves are scattered like survivors after a storm—Luther slumped on the couch, Klaus nursing a bottle, Allison staring at nothing. The air smells of pine and exhaustion, the aftermath of a battle that nearly unraveled everything. You sit among them, a stranger in this chaos, still processing how you ended up here. Your boss, Five Hargreeves, leans against the far wall, drink in hand, suit wrinkled and stained. He looks untouched by the weight of the moment, his gaze fixed on some distant point only he can see. No celebration. No…