Let it Rain (The Umbrella Academy)

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Sike

Gill frantically stroked my hair out of my face. "Come on, Ronny, wake up."

Diego crouch down beside us. "What happened to her."

"Lila."

"Figured." Allison scoffed with a new quickly bruising mark on her face from the heel of Lila's boot.

"Wait, Allison, could you rumor Eight? Wake her up?" Luther suggested then he dropped his arm from around her.

"I don't know. I guess I could try."

"Good, yeah, do that."

Gilligan held his breath and reluctantly nodded. "Yeah, all right, go ahead."

Three leaned down next to me in my peaceful sleep. "I heard a rumor that you woke up." Suddenly I sharply gasped and jolted up, accidentally knocking her on the nose with my head. "Hey! Ow."

I rapidly looked around me, too quick to actually process anything I was seeing. It was like I had just drank six pots of coffee, like I'd never sleep yet I felt exhausted. I stumbled as I tried to stand up then immediately fell back down like a newborn colt using it's legs for the first time.

"Hey, hey, hey. You're okay." Gill brushed my hair out of my wild glazed eyes as he held my head in his other hand. "You've really gotta quit scaring me like that."

I hyperventilated as I tried to take account of everything that had just happened. "W-W-Where's, where's Five? He-he-"

"He's buying us some time. We had to get you outta there. Lila.. she-she, um..."

"She wants to kill me," I finished as I tried to gather my bearings. The soldier nodded and I exhaled. "Heck of a day, huh?"

He leaned his head my aching skull. "That it is."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw two flashes of blue light come from the barn. "There. We need to help him."

"Ron, you're stayin' right here. You're done." I laughed and turned into Five. My laughter turned into a horrid screech as I remembered the cut that had now spread up my neck. "Cameron, there's a reason I said stay put." He held me to him.

"Like A'd listen." I tried to scoff a laugh through my burning throat. "Well, I'm... already Five noo so I'll be back in a jiff... maybe," I said through labored, heavy breaths.

Klaus saw my shaking hands as I twitched from all of the pain shown across my body in the bleeding gash. "Why don't you turn into me first? You know, die real quick, heal up."

I harshly forced out a scoff. "It'd take too long. We don't have half an hour. Heck, seconds are stretching pretty thin. Right now Five is in there by himself with her. I'll die when I die and fingers crossed I'm able to turn into you when I do." I shrugged and popped the pill bottle open again. I got out four more but Gill slapped them from my hand. "Whit th' hecketh, Fish? You 'n I both know whit A'm signing up for 'n personally, A'd like to do it a little more pain free."

"You're going to kill yourself if you take any more of those, which I actually think wouldn't be a bad option right now but you're not in Klaus's body yet."

"Aye, all richt, okay? Juist let go." I held up arms that Gill and Diego were both holding. I lifted an eyebrow at them then they hesitantly nodded and dropped their grasp. I gave them a sly smirk. "Sike." I stepped away, tipped the bottle back taking a random amount of pills, then spatial jumped to the barn in time to see a pan knocking Five in the head and sending him to the ground.

"Five! What the hecketh was that, Li? Who are you, emo Rapunzel?"

She scrunched her nose in a bloodthirsty smile then stepped harder on Five's throat as he squirmed. "Doesn't feel so good, does it?"