AETHER ~ UMBRELLA ACADEMY

1.04

Man on the Moon

“Number Five and Inferno, where are they?” The woman yelled at the two siblings after hours and hours of relentless torture, Lillith had managed to try and tune out the searing pain she was going through.

 Hearing Ben down her ear every other second giving vital checks had driven her mad, so she had to disable him for possibly the first time that she could remember. 

The woman didn't cope too well with any traumatic incidents so she wouldn't really remember if she had to, seeing as she blocks them out and pretends like they don't exist.

Pink dog chose to torture Klaus whereas the blue bear chose to torture Lillith, and the woman didn't know which one she’d prefer, both were more psychotic than her– which was saying something.

Klaus was choking in response to the answer. “Don't. . . stop. . . I’m almost there,” he grunted.

Yes, this is what Lillith had to deal with, in addition to her own torturing and the fact that her brother and a girl she’d recently grown to care about were being hunted by two assassins. Normal Monday for her. 

The two assassins complained about the man, moving away from the two chairs.

“There’s nothing like a little strangling to get the blood flowing, am I right?” He groaned before chuckling.

The man stood up and hit Klaus round the back of the head, kicking Lillith who was laughing slightly, “What’s so funny assholes.

“Well, for one. . . you spent the last ten hours beating us senselessly and you've learned absolutely nothing.”

Lillith then chose to lie, praying they'd let at least Klaus go, “I mean, it’s not like anybody tells us shit. We’re the disposable ones, they wouldn't even care if you sent us dead in a cardboard box– not giving you ideas by the way, it was just an analogy.”

“You assholes kidnapped the wrong two,” Klaus added on laughing again, causing the man to hit the two again. “Ow! I’m sorry, okay?”

“Please make him stop talking.”

“Let’s waterboard the girl, maybe it’d get him to start talking,” the woman decided, yet Lillith didn't even squirm. 

They placed the cloth over her face, pouring water over it yet the girl just sighed in relief, “Oh thank god, ten hours without water, it was killing me. Thank you, kind souls.”

Klaus and Lillith watched as the two adults walked over to the bathroom and they just burst into laughter refusing to stop laughing no matter how much they tried. It was highly difficult to say they found it absolutely hilarious. 

Lillith was so overwhelmed by the situation. New people. New environment. And so many spirits around her. So, so many. She was struggling to try and keep calm when the air around her was so disturbed by the mass amount of people. 

But her brother was suffering more.

“Withdrawal, huh?” She tried to joke but he just groaned.

“I don't need someone else trying to tell me that.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”