The Siren's Song [ The Umbrella Academy ]

Chapter Four

*Five's POV*

After coming home from finding Dolores, I go straight to my room and slump down on my bed. I roll up my sleeve and find materials to stitch my fresh wound back up with.

I look up when I hear a faint knock on the door, and Andromeda slips in, a slightly troubled look on her face.

"Oh my god, what on earth happened?" She asks, and I sigh. She sits next to me on my bed and takes a look at my wound. "I'll be right back." Her green eyes meet my blue ones, and she hurries away. Do I tell her that I went to fetch Dolores? Would she be mad? It's just nice to have someone comforting around. I tell myself. Why would she even be mad? Does she even like me in the same way I like her? I shake my head, I was overthinking something that didn't even matter.

"What are these teenage hormones doing to me?" I mutter to myself, and Andromeda returns. She pulls off my shirt, and I cover my chest with my other arm, embarrassed to be seen without my shirt. She cleans up my wound, and I wince in pain as she starts stitching it up.

"Why are you always injuring yourself?" She murmurs, shaking her head.

"Why are you always the one fixing me up?" I ask, tilting my head up in pain. She looks up at me and smirks, but doesn't say anything. "Seriously. Why do you care about me?" She looks stumped with this question, and pauses.

"I- I don't know?" She mumbles and I laugh, I've obviously made her nervous. "There." She doesn't make eyecontact as she puts on a Thomas The Tank Engine bandaid. I wipe the sweat from my forehead and lay down onto my bed.

"You seemed really mad before, what's wrong?" She asks, standing up. I shrug, why was I mad again... oh yeah... Dolores. I was mad that I was caught again, and barely escaped, and Dolores was hurt.

"I've forgotten already." I smile a lopsided grin at her, and she smiles back. Whenever I'm with Andromeda, Dolores completely leaves my mind.

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*Andromeda's POV*

I sit in silence with Five for a while, and then suddenly, he sits up.

"Feel like going on a mission?" He says bracingly, and I nod, confused. He throws the overly large bag over his shoulder and opens his window.

"Why are we going out the window?" I ask uncertainly, but climb out after him nevertheless.

"Because this way would involve the least amount of talking," Five sighs, and catches sight of Klaus digging through a bin below, "or so I thought..." I jump down after Five.

"What are you doing?" I ask Klaus, and he grins at me, ignoring my question.

"Five, need some more company today?" He asks, holding a flask up to his mouth. "I could uh... clear up my schedule."

"I have enough company, thank you. And it looks like you've got your hands full." Five nods at me.

"Oh this? I can do this anytime I want!" Klaus waves his hand, and proceeds to fall back into the garbage. I cover my mouth to stop myself laughing. "I've just misplaced something!" We hear from the bin. He re-emerges holding a donut. "Found it! Thank god."

"I'm done funding your drug habit." Five sighs, and walks away. I follow him, jogging to keep up. Five grabs my hand and spacial jumps us into a van. We can still hear Klaus' yelling as we drive away.

"What are we doing?" I ask, taking a glance at the duffel bag inbetween us.

"Watching." Five simply replies.