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[When Ben tried, years later, to recall if there was anything different about the mission they were assigned on the seventh of December, 2006 — any indication that the night would change the Academy, and their family, forever — the only thing Ben could come up with was this: Klaus showed up to the briefing on time and sober.
Sure, he had slouched into breakfast that morning nursing a hangover, missed two-thirds of sparring practice, and doodled all over his decryption exercises. But for the first time since their seventeenth birthday, when the members of the Umbrella Academy were summoned to the briefing room, Klaus tagged along, caustic and clear-eyed.]
Ben lives. This does not stop the Academy from splintering.