Life's lie || Umbrella academy

Chapter 8: I heard a rumor

"Where are you?" Zariah walked down the stairs, but stopped as she heard Jake whisper-yell into the phone. "That was a stupid thing to do." There was a silence for a few seconds as he was listening to the response Zariah couldn't hear. "Yeah, I think she got it. Problem is: she built a wall around our house, so now we can't leave." "Yeah, I get her there in time." "Don't worry, we're going to destroy them. They're going to pay for what they did, for what they are. I got to go." He hung up after that. Taking a deep breath, he turned around and came face to face with Zariah.
"What- who- why?" Was all that came out of her mouth.
"Just let me explain." He raised his hands as if trying to calm a wild animal.
"You used me!" Zariah almost yelled at him.
"No, no, no. Just let me explain." He pleaded.
"I heard you on the phone. Who were you talking to? Who are you really? I should've trusted Klaus." she took a few steps back up the stairs.
"Alright, my name is Kevin Hunter and I-"
"Wait, I've heard that name before. Aren't you that guy who killed his dead? You got free a few weeks ago." A smirk appeared on his face.
"Jup, that's me." He confirmed with jazz-hands.
"I'm leaving." She tried to walk past him, but he wrapped an arm around her waist.
"No, you aren't. Think about it. You are nothing without me. You wouldn't have known about your powers without me. Hell, you would still be on those pills your father gave you!" He started yelling. Zariah's eyes turned a mud brown.
"Don't. You. Dare." Her voice got dangerously low. All kinds of rock were now flying in circles around her.
"It's true and you know it!"
"SHUT UP!" The rock that were circling her flew towards the man, piercing right through him and leaving holes in his body. He looked down in shock as she looked the same way at him. The brown left her eyes and she fell to her knees. The rocks fell down to the ground. Jake fell to the ground a second later, laying flat on his back. Blood was spilling out of his mouth and wounds, coloring the ground crimson red. "What did I do?" She questioned herself with eyes as wide as plates. Her right hand slipped over her mouth while the other touched the, now dead, man. A loud roar was heard and there was light shining through the windows again. Her wall had fallen down.

~ inside the Hargreeves mansion ~

Pogo looked up from his book as the phone rang. He stood up slowly and walked over to it to pick it up.
"Hargreeves."
"Pogo? I need you to get ready."
"What is the matter, miss Allison?" Pogo questioned although he had already his suspicions.
"It's Zariah. She knows about her powers and how to use them, more or less at least. She also knows about us knowing."
"I will get to it immediately. Drive save, miss Allison." Pogo hung up the phone and made his way over to the kitchen, where he knew the remaining siblings were.

"Jesus. Who do I gotta kill to get a decent cup of coffee?" Five complained after taking a sip from the coffee he had stolen from Luther.
"Can we get started?" A hungover Luther asked his brothers.
"Anyone seen any of the others? Diego? Allison? Zariah? No?" Klaus questioned. "All right, then, this is the closest thing to a quorum that we're gonna get. There's no easy way to say this, so I'm just gonna spit it out."
"This is a bad idea." Ben sighed and looked at the only brother that could actually see and hear him.
"Yeah. I conjured Dad last night." Number one and five looked at eachother.
"You said you haven't been able to conjure anyone in years." Luther commented.
"Ah, yes, I know, but I'm sober. Ta-da!" Klaus was getting really happy about it. "I got clean yesterday, to talk to someone special, and then ended up having this conversation with dear old Daddy himself." Klaus explained as Ben sighed again.
"Has anyone got some aspirin?" Luther dismissed him.
"Top shelf, next to the crackers." Five responded to Luther's question.
"This is serious, guys, all right? This really happened, I swear." It was now Luther to be the one sighing.
"Okay, fine. I'll play. What did the old man have to say?"
"Well besides the usual lecture and yada yada yada, he told me to watch out, but I didn't get for who. Oh and he mentioned something about his murder, or lack thereof, because-"
"Wait for it." Ben cut in as he raised his finger.
"He killed himself."
"I don't have time for your games, Klaus."
"Master Klaus is correct." Pogo cut in, coming walking in behind Five. "Regretfully I helped master Hargreeves enact his plan."
"What?" Luther questioned in disbelieve.
"So did Grace and your sister in some way. It was a difficult choice for the both of us. More difficult than you could ever know. Although you cannot hold mis Zariah accountable for her actions, for we had drugged her beforehand so she would forget." Pogo stepped forward. "But there are more pressing moments right now. How I would like to enlighten you about your father's passing, we need to get ready."
"For what?" Five questioned. Even Ben was sitting at the edge of his seat.
"Zariah is coming and she knows."
"Shit." Klaus and Ben mumbled at the same time, although the rest could only hear Klaus.
"This was one of the reasons your father had to die. He had to get the team back together. Even if he had to die for it."
"Sick bastard." Five scoffed.
"Why didn't you tell us about Dad's death?" Luther questioned Pogo.
"It was his dying wish."
"We've been lied to by the only person in the house we trusted." Luther was getting angry and walked out. Five rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands.
"So, where is Zariah a we speak?" Five asked the ape.
"I do not know, but I do expect her to come here today to get some answers." Pogo told the boy.
"I got to think." Five said to no one in particular before spacial jumping away. Ben sat back and sighed.