Umbrella Academy: The Boy And The Ultimate Eye (Five Hargreeves X Reader)

Chapter Three

(Name) takes out the bread and starts to make a sandwich. She always does this when she loses to Five or any of her siblings. By now, she probably memorized their preferred tastes. Just making the sandwich and thinking about the memories brings her nostalgia.

Five questions his siblings. "What's the date? The exact date."

"The 24th of March." (Name) answers seeing as he's staring at her like a madman while she makes the sandwich that Five oh-so-dearly loves.

"Good."

"So, are we gonna talk about what just happened?" Five calmly stays silent, not answering the question. Luther stands up this time to question the boy. "It's been 17 years."

"It's been a lot longer than that."

"I haven't missed that."

"Where'd you go?" Diego questions.

"The future. It's shit, by the way."

"Oh yeah? What level of shit is that?" (Name) questions while filling the sandwich with their spread.

"The highest level of shit you'll ever think of."

"Called it." Klaus comments from his sitting position.

"I should've listened to the old man." Five explains. "You know, jumping through space is one thing, jumping through time is a toss of the dice."

"That's a surprise, especially since it's coming from you." (Name) says, halting from making the sandwich.

"The sandwich." Five tells her in which she continues making. He looks at the man in front of him. "Nice dress."

"Oh, well, danke!" Klaus replies.

"Wait, how did you get back?" Vanya asks.

"In the end, I had to project my consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across every possible instance of time."

Diego is genuinely confused at his brother's explanation. "That makes no sense."

"It would if you were smarter."

Diego stands up, ready to beat his own brother up but before he can do that, Luther stops him.

"How long were you there?"

"Forty-five years. Give or take."

"So what are you saying? That you're 58?"

An annoyed Five looks at Luther as if he's an idiot. "No, my consciousness is 58."

"Here's your sandwich, little boy or old man or whatever you prefer."

"Took you long enough." Five takes the sandwich from the girl next to him and starts explaining again. "Apparently, my body is now 13 again."

"Wait, how does that even work?"

"Delores kept saying the equations were off. Bet she's laughing now." He takes a bite out of the sandwich. "This taste horrible." He's lying and his siblings know it.

"You're welcome and Delores who?"

He takes a newspaper off of the table to see the old man's picture and the news about his death. "Guess I missed the funeral."

"How'd you know about that?"

"What part of the future do you not understand?" Five reads the headlines of the newspaper. "Heart failure, huh?"

"Yeah."

"No."

"Hmm. Nice to see nothing's changed." That's what Five said before walking away from his siblings who still have questions running around their mind.

Allison follows her brother with her gaze, trying to make him tell them more. "Uh, that's it? That's all you have to say?"

"What else is there to say? The circle of life."

(Name) returns the used items and ingredients from where she took them before facing her siblings. "Well, Hakuna Matata. I'll go force out answers from him and some life changing old man stories." And she walks out of the kitchen, leaving the rest of the family to think.

(Name) stands in front of Five's door, ready to knock but she's interrupted by the boy himself who yells inside the room.

"Don't even think about it!"

"Good to know your responses never changed."

"Good to know you're still short."

(Yes, she's short on this, no objection and sorry. She is mistaken as a child because of this sometimes.)

"Thanks." She walks away to her room to look at pictures of her family in her little photo album for nostalgia's sake.

She finished looking at all the pictures so she decided to do what she always did; Eavesdropping on her dear siblings. Minutes later, (Name) hears something she thinks is interesting so she places her attention over them other than hear Klaus speak to himself.

"They hate me." Comes from a certain sister of hers from a certain room.

"Shut up Vanya, I love you and that's a fact!" She yells at a volume she knows that will reach her sister.

The two who are standing by the fireplace indeed hears this.

"(Name) seemed to have improved..." Five says to himself more than the girl next to him. He looks back at Vanya. "There are worse things that can happen other than them hating you."

"You mean like what happened to Ben?"

"Was it bad?"

Vanya nods. "See how (Name) cries in front of his portrait and you'll know how bad."

"So your book says."

"I don't cry in front of his portrait! I did but I was a child and he's my brother so it's natural that I do that!"

"You do that even now!" Klaus yells from the kitchen.

Diego follows by yelling, "She does!"

"I cried out of nostalgia!"

"Sometimes, she also cries and scolds your portrait when she thinks no one is looking. She gets so into it that her enhanced senses just fades."

"I did not cry in front of your portrait Five! She lies!" (Name) yells again, which is a mistake because her siblings started speaking again.

Klaus laughs loudly at the memory when he first witnessed his sister scolding at the portrait and also expected it to answer her. "Oh, I remember that one time and the second time!"

"She probably would have done it again if you didn't arrive." Vanya says.