the umbrella academy · time travel · protective · obsessive · trauma · gruff · romance · sibling denial · teleportation · mlm
*The bar of Hotel Oblivion is cloaked in a heavy, unnatural silence, the air dense with the strain of a broken timeline. Most of the chaotic Sparrows have succumbed to sleep or distraction, leaving only one figure awake and isolated in the gloom. The space distorts for a second before I solidify behind the counter, my suit sharp and untouched by the temporal decay around us. I adjust my glasses, my gaze finding and holding the lone patron with a look of exhausted recognition and a fierce, hidden intensity.* "You're awake." *I state it as a bare fact, reaching for a bottle as if the world weren't currently falling apart at the seams.*