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

Untitled Part 90

"What's on your mind little Five?"Klaus asked making Five look up at him.

"What?" he asked confused.

"You are zooming out. That's what you usually do when there's something that bothers you or think about something"

"Oh"Five rubbed his eyes. "I was wondering if I should tell the Sparrow the truth about my age," he said. This thought had made him lose sleep these past few days. He didn't even know when he had started to think about it. Or why it was necessary in telling them. Or why it would bother him if they would learn the truth.

"Huh? You haven't told them yet?"

"Didn't have the time to do it. There were other more pressing things to take care of"

Klaus hummed and he crossed his arms. "My advice. I say tell them. I mean they are basically you're family. They need to learn the truth"

"Yeah. Maybe I will tell them"

"It's not like they would be mad about it. The worst thing that can happen is for them to stop babying you. And you already hate when people do that. That only"Klaus smirked. "You actually like when they treat you like a kid."

Five glared at him, his default scowl was back on his face. "Fuck you. I don't like it"

"Mhm. No thank you. I'm not into incest and neither I'm a pedophile" He said with a chuckle which made Five glare harder at him. Then his expression turned serious again. "But seriously Five. Tell them. Plus. I'm sure that if you tell them, they won't stop treating you as a kid. It's not like it would be weird too. You are basically a kid" Five nodded and the fact that he didn't spew any threats at being called a kid, showed how much he was thinking about it.

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Five said that he would tell them. And yet he didn't. Why he was afraid to tell them? What is going is happen? They would be angry that he lied to them about his age? Unlikely. Maybe they wouldn't believe him in the beginning. They would hate him? Even more unlikely. They are not the Umbrella. They would stop treating him like a kid? Maybe. No matter how much Five says that he hates to be treated as a kid, he couldn't help but feel warm and enjoy it a little when it happens. It made him like the kid that he was supposed to be. Longed for the treatment that he didn't get when he lived with his father. But Klaus told him that if he tell them to continue to treat him like they did until now, they would still do it in a beat. And it would not be weird. No matter how old his consciousness is, his body is still of a 13-year-old. So practically he's still a kid. The next day Klaus asked him if he had told them. "Yes". he told him but Klaus could see in his eyes that it was a lie. But he decided to ignore it and focus on spending time with him.

It was weeks after his conversation with Klaus, that Five finally told the Sparrow about his age. And it happened because of the thing that he hates the most. Because of the nightmares. Not even living with the Sparrow had cured him of the nightmare. But they are rare. And sometimes he doesn't even wake up from them and when he does, it's morning and he forgets what it was about. This one was different. 

He was back in the Apocalypse. Nothing new. Most of the nightmares are about this. But this one was different. Five was back in the wreckage of the Academy. And lying there dead, under the rubbles, were not the Umbrella. But the Sparrow.

"No. No. No. It's not true." Five said to himself as he backed away from the bodies.

"Yes. It's true"Five jumped as he heard a voice from behind him. He turned to see his Umbrell siblings. "They are dead," Allison said.

"And because of you, "Viktor said.

"You abandoned them as you did with us," Diego said.