Lotus |1| The Umbrella Academy

Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty-Two:

Lotus had her eyes squeezed shut as her and Five landed on a hard surface with a loud thud, her head hitting whatever they were on. The briefcase was squished between them, their wraps wrapped as tightly as they could be around each other.

The first thing Lotus heard was Allison's voice shout, "Jesus!"

She peeled open her eyes and a hand flew to the back of her head where a heavy ache settled in. Five was still on top of her and she shoved him off, he stumbled onto the ground. Lotus sat up and swung her legs over the bar which they had apparently landed on.

"You guys, am I still high or do you see them too?" Klaus asked moving closer to get a better view.

Five grabbed a coffee cup from Allison's hand and took a giant swing from it. His face had dirt smudged across it, hers must of too.

"Five, where have you been?" One sibling demanded, followed by, "Are you alright?"

"Irrelevant." Five snapped, slurping at the coffee loudly.

Lotus groaned, staring at her blood soaked jeans. "Thanks guys, for your concern."

"Shit." Klaus said hunched over, "Someone should help her."

"The world ends in three days. And the only chance to save the world is, well, us." Five sighed, ignoring Klaus' brilliant statement.

Luther took a look around at his family, eyes glossing over Lotus. "The Umbrella Academy."

Five gave his brother a no shit look before nodding, "Yeah, but with me, obviously." He stood up straighter, tossing the empty coffee cup towards the centre of the room. "So if ya'll done get your sideshow acts together and get over yourselves, we're screwed." The boy limped forward, "So what if Dad screwed us up,  are we going to let that define us? No. And to give us a fighting chance to see next week, I've come back with a lead."

Lotus glared at him and he seemed to have sensed her stare as he locked eyes with her, "And Lotus, of course. We've both came back with a lead."

She snorted, "And a knife in their fucking thigh!"

Five's eyes widened briefly with shock before he scanned over his family. "I know who's responsible for the apocalypse. This is who we have to stop." He flipped a piece of paper from his pocket and unrolled it, turning it to show the group.

Allison frowned, "Harold Jenkins?"

"Who the hell is Harold Jenkins?"

"He doesn't know." Lotus said through gritted teeth, "At least not yet."

"But I do know he's responsible for the apocalypse. So we just have to find him, and we have to do it now."

Luther gave his brother a sceptical look, "How is he connected to what's going to happen?"

"I don't know." Five sighed, pressing a hand to his side.

"Wait— so that's all you know? Just his name?"

"That's enough—" The boy began but was cut off by the leader of the family, "They're is probably a dozen Harold Jenkins''"

"Well, we just better start looking then."

Luther nodddd slowly, "I do think this somehow involves the moon—"

Lotus hopped off the bar and stumbled as she gripped her knee, "No one gives a shit about the damn moon!" She yelled limping away, "Now, can somebody lead me to someone who will take this knife out of my thigh!"