i remember, i remember everything.

chapter 18

"Ben." Klaus says with a smile. Luther takes a closer step to look at him.

"Is that really you?"

"And who are those weirdos on the balcony?" Diego yells.

"They are the Sparrows. My children." Dad says as the room starts to rumble. Okay, what the hell?

"I'm sorry. What do you mean, your children? That's not possible, old man." Five says as the Sparrows come downstairs.

"Of course it is! I think I'd know, wouldn't I?"

"Everybody else can see Ben, right?" Klaus asks as he points at the Sparrow Ben.

"Cute hat, Sundance." Klaus touches his hat as he smiles.

"They call themselves the Umbrella Academy. A group of scheming, perfidious malcontents who accosted me in the fall of 1963 when I was away on business in Dallas. Be warned, they claim to be my spawn." Dad says as Allison walks towards him.

"Claim? Look, Five, Eight, what the hell is going on?"

"I don't know, but it's concerning." I reply.

"Is he telling the truth?" One of the main guys ask.

"Not the part about us being perfidious." Vanya replies.

"No, we're amateur-fidious, at best." Klaus says.

"But we are his children. This is our house." Vanya says.

"Yeah, yeah. We, uh... we grew up here." Luther adds.

"Yeah, we grew up here." A guy with a messed up face mocks as everyone snickers.

"I kind of think we would have noticed you." A girl with dirty blonde hair says as Luther smiles.

"Hi, I'm Luther." He sticks out his arm as I look at the floating cube.

"Okay. None of you belong here." Allison says.

"Oh! Well, then. I guess we'll just pack our bags and move out." A girl says as the cube starts speaking gibberish, the Sparrow's laughing.

"You slay me, Chris." Ben says as Mom walks into the room.

"I wasn't expecting company." Mom says as she holds a plate of cookies.

"This is the best I could do on short- short... short notice." Mom says, her voice glitching as Diego steps towards her.

"Mom."

"Mom? She's a robot, you perv." A girl says.

"It's not a robot."

"Hey, don't you call him that." Luther says.

"Or what?" Ben asks.

"Come closer and find out."

"Luther! Guys, chill." Vanya says as they argue.

"You got 30 seconds to get out of our house." A guy says.

"And if we don't?" Allison asks.

"Then we'll have to settle this the old-fashioned way."

"Look, we just fought a literal army. Okay? This doesn't need to get ugly. Let's all just calm down, and let's talk." Vanya says.

"Psst. Ben-er-ino. You look so much better alive than you do dead. Am I right? Except that haircut." Klaus says as I touch the bridge of my nose. That Ben doesn't know he's dead, you idiot.

"What the hell did you just say?" Ben spats.

"Come on, come on. Stop with all the hostility, Mr. Grumpy Pants." Klaus walks up to Ben.