look alive, sunshine | umbrella academy [ 2 ]

09 | TREACHEROUS TRIO !

"william shatner, amazing." klaus laughed out as he finished his bowl of ice cream.

it wasn't long before reginald had fallen asleep after a few scoops of ice cream and a couple episodes of tj hooker.

"oblivion," reginald groaned out during his deep sleep before the remote fell out of his hand.

"oblivion?" klaus repeated, placing his bowl on the coffee table while staring at him.

"he still talks in his sleep," matilda stated the obvious in a surprised manner as she, too, gawked at the old man. "what do you think that means?"

klaus chuckled in response, leaning towards reginald. "who knows what kinda dreams he even has?"

"see, you're not so terrible when you're asleep." reginald lightly snored in response.

"klaus." he flinched away and turned towards the direction of the voice to see evie by the door.

"what are you doing?" their face screwed up with confusion.

"nothing...in particular." he casually leaned against the couch.

evie gave him a look of suspicion as they swerved towards the couch, her eyes falling on the empty bowls with white glistening off of it. "did you guys have ice cream?"

klaus hummed with a nod. "oh, hey. so, i was wondering - couldn't you just...suffocate your enemies to death? or burn them?" he added the statement with a concerning amount of ecstasy.

"no, that's too easy. and it would be controversial." she repeatedly clicked her tongue while taking the bowls from the table, setting them on top of the cupboard it went into. they faced him again.

they walked toward the couch and patted his thigh to get him to move to get enough room for her to sit. "genuinely, can you tell me how you got here? i'm not here to get anything to hold against you, i'm just a very curious person."

"in the house?" his pointer finger pointed at the ground, evie shook her head.

"no, i have a pretty solid answer for that, given how bad you smell." matilda let out a laugh.

"i mean in this time - because i've seen you in books from the 60s, i forget which ones, and you look the same." klaus reigned flattery.

"we traveled through time via a time briefcase," klaus answered as if it were something most people did.

evie froze with confusion.

"do you, by chance, know the small cult destiny's children?" they slowly asked, almost hesitant. "because you have the same name as their leader."

"i am the leader - not a cult," he denied before completely marveling. "that's still a thing?"

"yes."

"are you a part of it?" he playfully squinted his eyes at her.

they drew in a sharp breath. "ooh, no. a controversial cult would not be good for my or the sparrow academy's image."

"but would you join it if you weren't a sparrow?"

"no, i'm agnostic, i don't really care for it."

klaus gasped and his index finger darted between himself and matilda. "us too!"

then, he began to tell them about time traveling to the 1960 only to find that a nuclear war would've ended the world three years later, one caused by viktor, as was the one they avoid upon unintentionally traveling to the 60s. it was all confusing to take in for evie.

"matilda, can i know more about you?" she asked, sounding awfully like a journalist.

klaus hesitated with his glance towards the ghost who shook her head, evie glancing at her as well.