Questions | Five Hargreeves • The Umbrella Academy •

Ch. 3

Five and Amura conducted a strategy on how they'll kill the two gardeners.

The woman used her Clairvoyance with the help of the photographs the Commission gave her to search for the couple's whereabouts.

And so they decided to pursue at midnight, wherein the city is asleep.

But while they wait for midnight to come, Five went to a café near their hotel, drinking some coffee he ordered earlier.

While making formulations in his notes, thinking so deeply.

And that's when he thought of Amura. 'The woman can see the future, why didn't I just asked for the answers', is what he thought.

The woman already know so much about him, it feels like he was already exposed. It was quite a surprise that she haven't killed him yet.

And this quite earned his trust a bit more.

'But what if she was actually planning to sabotage me?' Five thought, contradicting himself.

But he remembered her sad eyes once again, when she was talking about Five's arrival at the apocalypse.

'Why would she even feel sad about me being stuck in the apocalypse?' He thought while he drank his coffee.

"You didn't even invited me over for some coffee." Speaking of the devil.

"You have your power to look for me, so I didn't even bothered." Five answered while she sat in front of him.

"Excuse me... A cup of coffee with creamer and sugar, thank you." She told the waitress who immediately obliged.

"Creamer? Sugar?" Five raised an eyebrow at her.

"I like my coffee like I like my men, sweet." She answered quite bluntly.

"I doubt you even had one to begin with." Five let out an airy chuckle while he drank his coffee once again.

"Yeah and you make out with a mannequin." Amura spat back.

But the two realized that there was no point, as the both of them don't even have friends to be so proud of themselves.

"I was thinking, why can't you just look into the future and see what my formula is." Five asked, leaning his back on his chair.

The waitress arrived and gave Amura her coffee, along with the creamer and sugar.

"First, like I told you... I don't have a photographic memory and second, I can only do a five second glimpse, longer than that may cause me severe headaches." Amura told him as if it was the most obvious fact while she stir the spoon to her coffee.

"Well then, how come you found me today?" Five raised his eyebrow at her.

She was shocked at his question and can't help but avoid his gaze.

She couldn't lie to him, as she wanted to gain his trust. But what she said last night made things kind of awkward.

And so, she was forced to tell him...

The ground should swallow her whole after this,"...I have an exception with my photographic memory..." This made Five lean forward.

And 'accidentally' observed her again, being fascinated with the emotions she shows... Only to him.

The way she awkwardly scratch her nape and look away shyly, with a small tint of pink on her cheeks that might not be visible.

"So..." This made Five snap out of his thoughts and listen to her again.

"I already memorized your face." Amura confessed which made Five blink at her in a weird manner.

Amura cleared her throat to clear the weird and awkward atmosphere, "But that doesn't mean I can memorize the formula on your future notes... So I'm sorry but it's impossible."

Five let go of the topic and just leaned back again with a sigh.

"I did remember you saying that Delores was probably laughing at you for making the wrong equation." Amura shrugged, but the small embarrassment was still present.

That sight she saw from her power didn't helped at all.

He don't know which part of the equation was wrong.

"Well, whatever she say." Five just shrugged and continued his work.

While Amura can't help but feel like being in a déjà vu whenever she's with Five.

As she seldom watch his sights from her Clairvoyance.

It was quite embarrassing for her to know the man even before meeting him in the first place.

It's also embarrassing that she don't even remember Five's sibling's faces.

"You're staring Ramos." Five sipped his last drop of coffee.

Amura shook her head and sipped hers.

"Five... I want to know yo-more about your siblings, about your family... It might help me look into the future a bit more." She said after placing her drink down.

Five contemplated whether to fully trust her with these information.

But she already know everything.

About Delores, his experience with his family, his experience at the apocalypse... Heck even the ones he will be doing.

And yet she didn't do anything.

"Answer me this first..." Five finally decided while he look at her anticipating face.

"When I got stuck in the apocalypse... Alone and suffering... Why didn't you saved me? Why now that I'm already old and going insane?" Five can't help but be in pain when he realized this.

That she was watching him suffer a miserable life all throughout his 45 years in the apocalypse, alone and talking to a mannequin when she could've saved him earlier.

"I'm sorry... I really am." Amura wanted to cry just from his question alone.

Remembering the times whenever she saw Five's sightings of him being sad, even crying and can't help but be sad too.

"I was powerless back then... And the only thing I can do is cry with you while you cry, be sad when you're sad... I wanted to help you. But I was just a child, Five." She looked at him with glossy eyes.

And that's when Five decided to fully trust her, "Yeah... I'm sorry about that. I was being petty. I could've save myself as a child too, if I can... but I was powerless as well..." He smiled sadly and looked at his empty cup.

"Thank you. By the way. For crying my tears when I already can't." Five said genuinely, but his gaze was still in his cup.

And when he looked at Amura.

She's weeping. Her tears are streaming down her face.

"You don't need to hold your emotions with me. I know that it's a protocol to be an emotionless robot in our missions but when we're not doing our job. Just be yourself." Five smiled and patted her head while she continued to sob, looking down so that no one can see her be vulnerable.