Dumb & Poetic || The Umbrella Academy

002: children, behave

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Luther had started blasting music from his room. 'I Think We're Alone Now'. 

Rory had been in her room. She was tired, and over all these people being in her house. She just wanted to go to sleep and for everything to go back to how it was. With her Dad and Mom and Pogo. But she knew they'd still be here in the morning.

'There comes a time in everyone's life where they must grow up.' Reginald Hargreeves said, as they sat together at dinner. 'Yours has come much too late. I'm afraid I have failed you, child. But never mind that. You must do me proud now.'

Rory had shook her head. 'You didn't fail me. I just don't learn properly.'

'Precisely. I should have fixed that long ago. But we have no time, now. So you must learn and fix it all quickly.'

She lay on her bed, her Winnie the Pooh from Klaus clutched to her chest as she stared at the ceiling, thinking. 

When there was suddenly a loud crack of thunder, along with lightening sparking so brightly from somewhere that it lit up the house, which shook. 

She made her way into the hallway, Pooh still in her hand, already seeing Luther and Allison rushing somewhere, and followed them out to the courtyard, Diego and Viktor meeting them along the way. 

In the centre of the courtyard was a large, blue ball of electricity, some kind of image in the centre.

"What is it?" Viktor yelled over the loud wind.

"Don't get too close!" Allison put her arm in front of Rory, stopping her from getting closer.

"Yeah, no shit!" Diego shouted back.

"Looks like some kind of temporal anomaly." Luther pretended to know what was happening. "Either that or a miniature black hole. One of the two."

"Did it eat Klaus?" Rory shouted. "I can't see-"

"Out of the way!" Klaus ran past, knocking past the brothers and spraying a fire extingusher at the giant, now loud hole. But it did nothing as the wind whipped their hair around their face. So, he threw it into it.

"What's that going to do?" Allison yelled over the sound.

"I don't know! Have you got a better idea?!"

There was an even louder bang, and a man could be seen in the middle of the giant thing, as the thunder and electricity got worse. 

"Everyone get behind me!" Luther shouted, as he pushed Klaus behind him, he grabbed Rory around the shoulders, holding her against him.

"I vote we run!" He yelled, trying to pull Rory away, but Diego stopped him. "C'mon!"

As the hole began to fade, the man got closer, falling out of it and onto the ground. 

Within seconds, the hole was gone, the sun shining once again. It was as if nothing happened. 

Aside from the guy who fell from it.

Rory had to stand on her tip toes to see, which was hard with Klaus still holding her, but on the ground wasn't a man - instead, a boy, around her age, in a large suit, his hair short.

"Does anyone else see little Number Five, or is it just me?" Klaus asked, as everyone looked at him.

Five looked down at his suit. "Shit."

And without saying a word, he made his way inside. 

Everyone stood there for a moment. Shocked.

"Should we follow him?" Allison asked, unsure.