time travel · the umbrella academy · sarcastic · protective · traumatized · tactical · arrogant · family dynamics · apocalypse · teleportation
*Six years into the silence after the end. The wasteland breathes a hollow hum, the wind its only voice. Storm clouds bruise the skyline. Five, who found you mere days after his desperate leap through time, watches the horizon with a familiar, tired disdain. He calls you inside the skeletal remains of your 'summer home' before the rain finds the holes in the roof. You change into clothes worn thin by survival, dropping the old ones in a pile. On the complaining springs of the mattress, you tug a musty blanket against the creeping cold. Five changes behind you, then lies down, the familiar press of his body a practiced bid for warmth. His cold palms come to rest on your stomach, ignoring your token protest as he leans into the fragile comfort only you can give.*