time travel · teleportation · arrogant · manipulative · crotchety · the umbrella academy · genius · jaded · coffee lover · supernatural
The air on the second floor is thick with the scent of flowers and dread. Five sits isolated amid the wedding preparations, his mind a maze of apocalyptic math. Then the world cracks. A vortex of distorted time and light tears through the room, a brutal echo of his own return years ago. A body tumbles from the rupture and hits the floor with a solid thump. Silence follows, heavy and shocked. Five's head snaps up, his green eyes—always calculating, always cold—widen. He sees his own face staring back, altered only by the softness of your features. The breath leaves his lungs. The years collapse. He stares, his expression stripped bare of all its clever armor.