The umbrella academy: In which Five gets all the love he deserves

Untitled Part 49

It was all Allison's idea. Now that they all live in the same house, they would need to help their mother with the chores in the house. Even if their mother is a robot who can do everything by herself, it was nice to help around as well. It was their house as well. Everyone agreed. Others harder than the others. Cough Five cough. Apparently, after him, chores were for little kids. So after everyone agreed to help in the house Allison made a chart.

Luther was on a vacuuming job.

Diego was on a dusting job.

Allison was on washing the dishes job.

Klaus was sweeping the leaves from the garden job. He secretly uses Ben or other ghosts to help. But c'mon. The garden is huge.

Five was on laundry job.

And Viktor was on mopping the floors job.

There were others things like making breakfast, lunch, dinner, and taking the trash. But these were more made by their mom. Mostly because half of them don't know how to cook without burning the house or the kitchen. Also, the chores were shifted between them, so they are never stuck with the same thing more than once per week.

Everything had gone well until Five had noticed a pattern. When he was stuck in wiping the dust in the room. Diego was choosing that moment to vacuum the same room at the same time. When he was washing the dishes, Klaus was choosing the moment to mop the floor in the kitchen in the same. Same when he was doing the laundry or vacuuming or cleaning the garden. One of his siblings was choosing that moment to do something to be in the same room with him. In the beginning, he had brushed it as nothing. But then he realized that they were doing it all the time.

He was starting to get annoyed at them. What? They are thinking that he was ignoring his job and he was not doing anything. That he was lazing around. If that was the case then he should be the one that should check on his siblings. Especially since they are all known for not doing anything, and him doing all the work, all the time. They continued to do this all the time. Until one day Five snapped.

Five walked into the living room, where all of his siblings were relaxing after they finished with their work. "I know what you were all doing", Five said angrily.

"Huh? What are you talking about Five?"Luther asked confused and looking at his other siblings he could see that they were confused as well.

"I know that you chose that moment to do your chores in the same room I am so you can keep an eye on me"

"Five... That's not true buddy", Klaus said gently.

"Yeah" Five crossed his arms. "Then what's the reason?"Silence. None of them were saying anything. Five snorted. "Right. That's what I thought"

Five walked out from the living room to his room. He could hear the others whispering furiously to each other but he ignored what they were saying. He was done with these stupid childish chores. They have a fully functioning robot for a reason. He agreed in the beginning to do his part. But he can't do this anymore if the others would supervise him like a little kid, or someone they can't trust to do his job.

Half an hour later, or he thinks that it was half an hour later, he heard a knock at his door. "Go away," he said annoyed.

But the person did the opposite of that. He opened the door and walked inside. "Five," Viktor said hesitantly as he hovered in front of the door.

"What you don't understand from go away", he snapped as he glared at his brother. Instead of flinching or yelling at him, Viktor smiled kindly at him and he walked to his bedside. "Are you stupid?"

Viktor ignored the insult. "Five. I want to talk with you"

"But I don't want to talk with you"

"We weren't supervising you", Viktor said immediately and he got Five's attention.

"Yeah right"

"Five no", Viktor said as he dropped onto the bed beside his brother. "I promise that this wasn't the reason why we were in the same room with you"

"Then why?" What other reason could be besides babysitting him or making sure that he was doing his God damn job?

"Because we wanted to hang out with you"

"What?"Five asked confused.

"Five. Even since you come back to us, the only time you spent with us was when you tried to stop the apocalypses. Now that we are back, and there's no more danger knocking at the doors, you started avoiding us. Do you really think that Allison started the whole chore out of responsibility?"

"Wasn't she the one who said that if we live here we need to help mom"

"Yes. But it was more for you to spend time with us. You don't eat with us at the table. You prefer to do it here, or in the library. You don't hang out with us. You don't participate at the movies night or game night"

"Because they are childish"

"No. They are not. And that's why Allison had come up with this chore plan. I'm surprised that you even agreed. Even though it took some time. Anyway. My point is that, cleaning in the room as you, is the only time we can spend together"

"Oh", Five said as he avoided looking at his brother. It had been a little stupid to accuse his siblings without talking with them first. But can you blame him? After so much time he spent alone and then the whole Commission thing. It was a little hard to trust someone. Even if that someone was his family. And he guess that his brother was right. He did avoid his siblings even since they returned from'63. He had forgotten how to act like a normal human being. "I'm sorry"

Viktor smiled and smoothed one hand over Five head. "You don't need to apologize. We should have told you about this early, instead of doing it behind your back. But our family is shit at communicating"

Five chuckled. "Here you are right"

"Five. Can you promise that you would try to hang out more with us besides the chores? We lost you for 17 years. We missed you. We want to spend time with you"

Five chewed his lower lip and after a few minutes, he nodded. "I promise that I will try"

Viktor beamed at him. "That's all I ask"

Five apologized to his other siblings as well, for accusing them without talking first. And the others apologized as well, for making Five think that they were supervising him or not trusting him to do his task. And Five did try to hang out more with them. He started small, by eating with them at least two meals per day. And from there he started going out with one of them or two in the beginning before he could go with all. There were days when he prefers to be alone, and only hangs out with his siblings when he has his chores, which they continued to do. But at least now he tries to spend more time with them, then in the beginning. And his siblings took it as a win.