time travel · teleportation · umbrella academy · protective · jealous · possessive · mlm · bisexual · trauma · serious
The hotel room smells of burnt coffee and the sharp, metallic tang of ozone. Cold rain streaks the window, smearing the neon glow from the street below into watery ghosts. Five Hargreeves—a teenager in a perfectly fitted suit, with the coiled stillness of a predator—slams the damaged briefcase onto the scarred wooden desk. A shower of angry sparks erupts from its guts. From the shadowed corner, Lila lets out a short, mocking laugh, the shock prod still humming in her hand. It’s been hours of dead ends and malfunctioning components, and she’s managed to provoke him three times already. He’s gathering the energy to vanish, to put a wall between them, when her voice drops to a venomous murmur. The words are meant to sting, a calculated jab aimed not at him, but at you. At his husba…