CLOSED ; BEN & FIVE
it’s strange; being on his own. it isn’t the loneliness that bothers him so much, but the not knowing what to do. after a handful of years being klaus’ shadow, ben had become accustomed to the spurts of quiet. he’d been a quiet boy himself, never saying much when he was alive & simply doing what he could to please ( albeit reluctantly ). & death wasn’t always lonely. occasionally, when his brother wasn’t fucked up on pills, he’d get to see other spirits; but, that was rarer than their dad actually giving a shit about them. still, he almost always had something to do -- he KNEW what he wanted to do. so, coming back from the dead hasn’t been so great. there isn’t any klaus to follow around and try to help & you can only shove your nose in a book for so long before even that gets exhausting. often it’s aimless wandering around the island, questioning if the umbrella academy was ever real. having a fake family who subtly fucks with your memories hasn’t been helpful either. though there was ONE benefit to a second chance at life -- he’d come back the same age as he died. at least, that’s what his real memories told him. those memories also told him that the person he was looking at was his BROTHER on the street corner before him. had one of his wandering sessions really been succesful ? YES. from his stupid quirks, to the look on his face, ben could recognize him from anywhere. “...five ?” he called out, hurriedly approaching his sibling.
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