Stuck • the umbrella academy

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Flashbacks are in italics

Eliza inspected her room with disdain, it was quite different than it was or rather will be in 10 years. Pictures of her and her siblings lined the walls. The first one that caught her eye was the 7 of them wearing their masks and bright smiles to match, standing in front of the bank they had just saved.

As soon as Allison made one of the robbers shoot the other, it was put in motion. Luther dropped down from the ceiling smashing one of their heads into the counter before throwing him from which he came. Diego ran in from around the corner shouting, "guns are for sissies, real men throw knives" with that he threw 3 knives, stabbing one of them in the chest, the last robber stood up on the counter. "Be careful up there", Luther started. " wouldn't want you to get hurt", Allison smirked. "Get back you freaks", he yelled. Eliza turned yo smoke and clouded his head, giving him vivid hallucinations. That gave five time to jump in and replace his gun with a stapler. Once Eliza returned to her normal form and the guy cleared his thoughts, five jumped behind him, causing him to spin around and fire what he thought was his gun. " shit that's one badass stapler you got there", he smirked, smashing the stapler into his forehead

She smiled fondly at the memory, moving down to the next picture on the wall, it was a small polaroid picture of five laughing about something.

Eliza had turned to smoke and slowly floated up the stairs into the basement. It was one of the few moments in the day when they had free time as she arrived five jumped into the basement as well.
"I think there's something going on between Allison and Luther", she started. "going on how?", five questioned. Eliza faltered for a second "you know, wink wink", she chuckled. " don't say wink when you wink that's weird", five deadpanned. "Your such a party pooper", she slapped his shoulder. They stayed up there for almost an hour, talking about anything and everything. When suddenly five had busted out in laughter about something else had said. She enjoyed seeing him so carefree and not so distressed, so at that moment she snapped a photo with her camera.

As she looked at the rest of the pictures she suddenly remembered what happened, just before they traveled back

"Eliza", five shouted over the music, she turned to him, concerned. "If we die today I have to tell you something" he continued. Eliza motioned for him to hurry up. "I don't know how to say this", he hesitated. Instead of talking he grabbed her shoulders and smashed his lips against hers before pulling away just as quick

Quickly she ran across the hall to fives room. By now everyone had retreated to their own area. Softly she knocked as the door creaked open. Five sat on his bed with headphones connected to an iPod. She tapped his shoulder catching him off guard. He looked fidgety. " we never really got the chance to talk about what happened before we came back",she spoke, trailing off with her words. Fives eyes widened. "Oh, didn't really think we'd have to talk about it, considering we were probably gonna die and all that" he mumbled. "If you don't like me, I get it. Let's just forget about it", he started to say. But Eliza interrupted him " five listen", she smiled as he looked up at her. She pressed a ginger peck to his lips before leaving the room.