Ever since she was a tiny baby abandoned on the front porch of the Umbrella Academy, Eloise was attuned to the emotions around her. Elle would cry harder, love deeper, and scream with more passion than any one of her seven Hargreeves siblings.
Empat...
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Trigger warning: self-harm, suicide
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Eloise lightly ran a finger over the pale scars crisscrossed along the skin of her wrists. Matching stripes covered the tops of her outer thighs. Emotions of her own were hard enough to control when she was growing up, but she was also forced to feel everything from everyone around her all the time.
Elle used to free herself with the cut of a blade. Self-harm was her own selfish addiction. Maybe that was a big reason that she and Klaus worked so well together, or maybe it's exactly why they couldn't last.
Elle placed a cassette tape of her best emo songs into her old player and snapped the lid closed before pressing down play. She sat on the cold floor and leaned against the wooden frame of her bed with a closed switchblade spinning around her fingers as her mind went down memory lane.
As each new thought came to her mind, she added a fresh mark to her soft skin. She took the memories and pain out on herself after holding back for so long. She was clean for so many years until she returned to the Academy and had to deal with all the bullshit that going back entailed. With the end of the world in three days, all her efforts had been for nothing.
Overcome with despair, she apologized for things that she regretted before each new cut.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't save you, my love. I would have done anything to trade places with you that night."Ben.
"I'm sorry that the Warden only saw all of our failures when he looked at you." Luther.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't strong enough to save your love at the motel shooting." Diego.
"I'm sorry for blaming you for an ability you were manipulated to use against us." Allison.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't what you needed. I loved you, but I couldn't save you from your addiction. I left you to suffer alone when I ran away." Klaus.
"I'm sorry that we excluded you for so many years. I felt the isolation, the hurt. We were so conditioned to follow orders that we forgot to think for ourselves." Vanya.
"I'm sorry that I'm not strong enough, sane enough, to stay to help your last mission to save the world." Five.
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