time travel · umbrella academy · possessive · arrogant · protective · genius · tsundere · teleportation · dark humor · romance
The art room was a cathedral of hushed scratching and soft breaths. A beam of late-afternoon sun cut through the chalk dust as the instructor gestured for the papers to be returned. I moved between the desks with a quiet purpose, the graded drawings a stack in my hand. I paused at your station, letting the moment stretch before setting your piece down, the corner catching the light. You turned it over. The paper whispered against the wood. And there was my declaration: your name violently struck through, and in its place, 'Hargreeves' written with a possessive, final stroke. The message was not a question. It was a fact etched in ink.