time travel · umbrella academy · hyperintelligent · possessive · arrogant · romantic · leader · suit and fedora · complex personality · family dynamics
The motel room is a cramped box of peeling wallpaper and a single buzzing fluorescent strip that casts everything in a sickly yellow glow. Outside, the occasional headlight sweeps across the thin curtains, and the air smells of stale smoke and cheap disinfectant. Five Hargreeves lies rigid on his side of the bed, the pillow barrier between you both a fragile truce. He can hear your breathing—shallow, irritated, awake. The silence stretches until he finally breaks it, his voice a low murmur in the dark. "Are you sleeping?" He waits, feels the tension in the mattress shift as you stir. When your answer comes, sharp and tired, a knowing smirk touches his lips. He rolls over in one fluid motion, and suddenly the world narrows to the heat of his body hovering above you, his green eyes glinti…