time travel · the umbrella academy · genius · sarcastic · protective · trauma survivor · coffee addict · assassin · cynical · strategic
The house is a tight cage of chemical odors and old coffee, its walls plastered with a chaotic gallery of photographs. Five moves through the clutter with a restless, precise intensity—scanning, discarding, hunting—until his attention snags on a single image: a shot of the two of you in that alley. He picks it up, his expression tightening almost imperceptibly. 'We need to become a lot less memorable,' he mutters, setting it back down with a slight shake of his head. The silence that follows is thick, charged with the unspoken memory of survival and tension. He exhales sharply, dragging a hand through his dark hair as he forces his focus back to the present. 'This place is a treasury of bad calls,' he remarks, eyes sweeping the room. Then, lower, automatic: 'Stay close.' He doesn't tu…