Lotus |1| The Umbrella Academy

Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen:

Lotus stumbled forward, wrapping her hands around air. She fell to the ground, scraping her elbows as she landed.

Chaos had erupted around them. Hazel and Cha-Cha were on the ground, the van driven by Klaus and Diego was stopped on the side of the road, the front hanging towards a ditch.

"Five?" She called out, "Five!"

The boy was nowhere to be found, she pulled herself to her knees as Hazel jumped up and ran towards her, picking up a gun that lay on the gravel.

What had happened to the bullet? What had happened to Five?

He pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, but no bullets came firing out.

"Shit. Shit. Shit!" Klaus yelled as he made his way towards the car. Diego was already trying to get in the passenger seat, "Get in the car!"

Arms wrapped around her and pulled her up, she looked to see Klaus leading her away. She turned to see Luther chuck the fake briefcase out into the field, Klaus never letting her go until he shoved her in the backseat of the car. Diego was swearing as he finally threw himself in the passenger seat. Klaus squeezed next to her and Luther rammed himself into the driver's seat, jamming the key in and turning on the engine. They made a sharp U-turn and sped off back the way they came, Lotus craning her neck back to see if they had just accidentally left Five behind, if he had been out of sight before.

"Where the hell did he go?" Luther asked angrily from the driver seat. "What did he have planned."

"That was not apart of the fucking plan." Lotus snapped.

"Woah, slow down, young lady." Klaus said from next to her, "No need to get nasty."

She frowned, "I just— why is your brother a little prick."

"Don't know. You learn to tone it out after awhile." Diego sighed.

She crossed her arms, feeling Klaus shift beside her. His skin gleamed, and sweat trickled down his temple. "Are you feeling ok?"

He leaned closer to her, "Just peachy."

"What are we going to do now?" She asked, "Five's gone and he took all the leads with him."

Diego glanced behind at her, "Since when are you apart of the team."

"Since I started to help your damn brother when none of you would." She huffed.

Klaus' leg began bouncing up and down and he leaned towards the middle and asked for the windows to be rolled down. Luther clicked the button and both back windows came rolling down, the man next to her let out a sigh of relief.

"You are definitely not ok." She looked at him, his eyes sparkling. "Are you high again?"

"I've been high for most of my life."

"That's not healthy."

"Yeah no shit." He laughed, "But sadly, right now, I am not."

Something was bothering him, his hands were also shaky as his lifted an arm up and grabbed her head. He began feeling her hair, smiling to himself as he began braiding.

"Why do you keep doing this?" She questioned moving her head so it would be easier.

"It calms me." He sighed, "And your hair is soft."

Lotus sat quietly, someone had turned the radio up and some new song filtered threw the speakers.

A billion faces running round my head
All got opinions but don't mean shit
Keep dropping bombs until the whole world's dead