Lotus |1| The Umbrella Academy

Twenty Eight

Chapter Twenty Eight:

They went separate ways, searching for the rest of his family. Lotus had searched all the rooms on the highest floor and found no one, when she started making her way down the stairs she heard voices float over from the other side of the hall.

"Guys?" She called out, following the voices. Five was standing in Klaus' room, watching his brother.

"Hey, Lotus." Klaus was up in an instant pulling her into a hug, she tensed, not knowing what to do. "I'm so sorry about earlier."

She chuckled, "It's fine, I should've keep myself together."

"No, no. You lost someone, you have a right. Let me tell you, when I got back from the War I curled up on the side walk and balled my eyes out."

"Anyways." Five raised his voice, "How did Dad know about the apocalypse? I had to jump to the future to figure out when it happened, Dad can't time travel. So how'd the crazy old bastard actually know to kill himself a week before the end of the world?"

"So he really did kill himself?" Lotus asked.

Klaus nodded, "Yeah. And just to get us all home again." He turned to Five, "Well, you know—"

His brother raised a hand, "Don't answer. That was purely rhetorical."

"Our whole lives Dad's been telling us that we'd save the world from an impending apocalypse."

"Did he actually?" Lotus raised a brow, both of them nodded.

"Yeah." Klaus said, "But I always thought he just said that to scare us into doing the dishes."

"Me too." Five replied, shoving his hands into his pockets. He was changed into his uniform again and she wondered if he had any normal people clothes.

"What if he really knew it was going to happen?" She chimed in, "I mean, he sounds crazy enough."

"Yah, but knew how?" Five shook his head, everyone turning to look at Klaus.

"Don't know. But the facts remain that his plan worked. We all came home." Klaus sighed, "On the bright side, we found Lotus!"

She snorted, "Yay."

"Anyways, we're all here now. We might as well save the world." Five pursed his lips.

"Oh, really? What, like,  just the three of us?"

Five nodded slowly, "Ideally no, but gotta work with what I've got—" Heavy footsteps cut him off, just as Diego rushed past the door and disappeared into another room. They all filed out, following the other brother. "Where have you been?"

"Jail." Diego panted, "Long story."

"Where's Luther?"

Lotus peeked her head into the room, "Haven't seen him since this morning."

The man shook his head, "Two days until the world ends, he picks a great time to drop off the grid."

"I'm sure we can find him, he can't be far." She told him but he huffed, cutting her off.

"We need to go. Allison's in danger."

Every stared at Diego, their faces blank. "We have to find her, then." Klaus finally spoke up.

Lotus looked around, "Shouldn't we get Luther? I mean, if you're all supposed to fight this together?"

"I think I know where he is." Klaus took of down the hall, nobody followed right away expect for Lotus. She rushed after him, falling into step next to him. He smiled down at her as they took the stairs two at a time, "You're the only one who believes me."