@bledlose said: 'brought you coffee.'' marcus is already tucking it into five's hands before the sentence has finished, he stands just inside five's room, still dressed from his morning workout. 'breakfast together in fifteen. you & i are on snack run today, so if you're wanting anything, now's the time to say something.''
he needed a bigger whiteboard — this one was beginning to look closer to a crime scene, or a madman’s scrawlings, with red marker equations from end to end. none of which had been productive in answering his question — about his small, deranged doppelganger that had magically materialized in the academy foyer a day before.
at first, he’s too steeped in his own impatient simmering to look up, to offer more than a muttered, distracted ‘thank you’ — until marcus is physically placing the coffee into his wringing hands. five offers a dry, thin smile; ❝ why don’t you ask fei. she’s the one feeding her birds all the trail mix. ❞ he narrows his eyes over the coffee as he brings it to his lips; ❝ if i come to breakfast, can we talk about what the fuck happened yesterday? ❞
five blinks down from where he’d been perched on his desk, irritability steadily reigned in to just vague displeasure. marcus had that sort of effect, and so did freshly-brewed coffee. ❝ i don’t suppose you’ve given any thought to what we’re going to do about our outstandingly dimwitted knockoffs, have you? ❞ ( give me a fucking break; the umbrella academy? ) well, they were pedestrian copies at best, and spacetime-shattering at worst, so there was that to consider. impatient to move as he was, ultimately, he trusted marcus’ judgement. and unlike their dear ben, he wasn’t so terribly inclined to trip over himself having a pissing contest.
then, it wasn’t exactly their skill that concerned him. five falls into step with his brother, now, gears turning visibly behind his expression. brows furrow down in thought; ❝ … not everything they said was total bullshit, if you were wondering. ❞ he gestures vaguely with his coffee. ❝ — statistically unlikely, and an unprecedented paradoxical anomaly — yes. but not impossible, ❞ he glances up to regard marcus placidly; ❝ and if it’s not impossible, marcus, then we have bigger problems than property damage on our hands. ❞