Painless beginnings, Painful endings. || s1-s4 the umbrella academy

The Funeral

I walk into the doors of my childhood home, as soon as I walk in, I see Diego, Allison and Vanya talking at the bottom of the stairs that lead to the bedrooms.
(Viktor will be Vanya until the 3rd season, I'm sorry <3)

"Jax.. hey" Allison said, a small smile on her face and side hugged me lightly. "Hey Allison" I mumbled, and hugged her back.

After that, I walked upstairs and saw Klaus rummaging through Reginalds stuff, in his office.

"Klaus?" I mumbled and he ducked under the desk, almost hitting his head until he realised it was me. "Jax? Oh my god, you look the same! Just .. a bit taller" he smiled and hugged me, aggressively swaying me around.

"Yep- I guess so-" I grumbled, my ribs being crushed by klaus' bear hug. "Out of rehab?" I look at klaus' wrist as we pulled away.

"oh this? N- no, that's.. old stuff.." he said, and hid it with his jacket sleeve. "Okay.. well, I'm going to go and look around the house, as if anything's changed" I mumble and walk out, waving Klaus goodbye.

I walk into the last room down the hall, my room. As I open the door, the same paint colour on the walls, everything's in place, not a spec of dust to be seen. My bed was made aswell. God I missed this room.

I saw a photo on my nightstand, it was of all of us. Klaus, Luther and Allison at the top, Ben, Vanya and Diego in the middle, and me and five down the bottom. We were all making a silly faces, I smiled lightly at that. Not gonna lie, I missed five. I told him to be careful when he jumped, he didn't listen and kept pushing dad and eventually ran off.

It's been 17 years, and oh how lonely were those years.

We used to make fun of Luther and Allison for being all lovey dovey during training or meal times, it was so funny to see their faces, we sometimes made fun of Diego's stuttering, but after Ben died.. we barely laughed, smiled, anything. Before I knew it, I was sitting on the bed, holding the photo in hand, a tear made its way down my face.

I miss Five, I miss Ben, I missed how happy we were when we were kids. Especially Klaus. Him and Ben were the closest.. and when Ben died, Klaus just seemed to loose his spark.

When five left, it felt like a peice of me had been torn away from me, no longer intact, I was always frowning or yelling at someone. I spent most of my days in my room, reading, sleeping or crying.

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I heard a song play softly throughout the house. 'I think we're alone now' softly played throughout the house, and I sat up in bed and crossed my legs and softly hummed along.

Then there was a blue light outside, it crackled and hissed, and there were necklaces, rings, bracelets, anything metal flying at my wall. Eventually a ring flew and smacked me on the nose. I got up, and jogged down the hall and slid down the railing of the stairs, and I was the last one outside. Being the second shortest, I had to tip toe to look over people's shoulders to see what was happening. Suddenly there was a thud and a groan.

A boy stood up, Five. My eyes slightly widened, and Klaus said, "does anyone see little number five or is that just me?" And I look at Klaus, "no Klaus, your not the only one."

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My clothes felt more baggier and loose than before, but I didn't care. Five blinked around, grabbing bread, peanut butter, and marshmallows from the cupboard.

"Haven't missed that." Luther muttered and I look down, and realise, my hands are way smaller than they were. When I put my head down, my hair fell down my shoulders. I had shorter hair than this, no?

"Woah Jax what happened to you?" Diego said and walked to me. "I have no idea." I mumbled, twisting my hair.

"It's been 17 years, five."

"It's been alot longer than that." Five muttered. "Where have you been?" Klaus muttered, flicking the skirt flaps around.

"The future, it's shit by the way." He took a bite of his sandwich. "Nice skirt." He mumbled, mouthful of sandwich.

"How did you get back?" Allison asked, leaning to the side a bit.

"I projected my consciousness
backwards into a suspended quantum
state version of myself that exists
in every possible instance of time." Five muttered, mouthful of sandwich still. "that makes no sense." Diego zoned out at the floor.

"It would if you were smarter." Five deadpanned. I couldn't help but snicker, and five looked my way, and smiled softly as Diego abruptly got up, but he was blocked by Luthers arm.

"Like to see nothing's changed." Five muttered. "Guess I missed the funeral too?" He quickly said after.

"How do you know about that?" Luther asked, "what part of the future do you not understand?" Me and five said, and walked away without another word.

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I was in fives room, while he rummaged around the house, sandwich in hand. He had the same photo I had on his bedside table. Unlike mine, his room was untouched, nothing had been thrown around from that whirlpool thing.

"Yes Jax? Did you need something?" Five mumbled from behind me, I spun around. "Oh, uh, no sorry, I was just looking around." Five nodded and hummed. "Yep, okay." He said, walking to his closet and opening it. Only to be met with little suits and shorts. "Shit." He muttered, I smiled a bit.

It felt nice, normal having five back, my heart didn't hurt as much anymore.

"I missed you.. ya know?" I mumbled, sitting on his bed, lying back.

He hummed, and grabbed a uniform from the closet. "I missed you too Jax." He hoarsely whispered, before standing over me.

"You gonna watch me change or what?" He mumbled, a small smile on his face. "What- no.." I mumbled and stood up. Before I could walk away, he hugged me.

I froze for a second, but hugged him back, and smiled slightly.

He pulled away and so did I, he slowly un tied his tie, and shooed me out of the room, I closed his door behind me and walked to my room. I lied down on my bed and closed my eyes, slowly drifting off to sleep.

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Second chapter done! :D have fun reading !! <3