THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
fragments || five hargreeves x reader

CHAPTER EIGHT: IS THAT LUTHER?

Written By: peachyhxlland

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You, Five, and Diego got out of the car and approached the building. "D.S. Umbrella." Diego sighed. "This is it." Five stopped for a moment causing you and Diego to look at him. You also looked at whatever he was looking for. "You okay?" You asked Five.

Five blinked before clearing his throat. "Yeah, fine." He approached the door before staring at the empty hallway inside from the glass door. "Just..." Five stammered but ended up sighing.

"How long it's been since you've seen the old man?" Diego asked, figuring out what's troubling Five. He crouched down as he gets his tools to unlock the locked glass doors.

"Twenty-five years." Five answered as he leaned against the wall while you just listened but a lot of questions roamed in your mind. 'He should be an old man, right..?'

"That's a trip," Diego responded as he started working on the lock.

"No kidding." Five said. He looked at you who, unknowingly to you, is spacing out but had your eyes stayed Five. Five placed his hands inside his pockets and smiled at you. "You seem to have a lot of questions."

You snapped back to reality and blushed in embarrassment. "Wha— huh? I-I—no. I don't..."

Five softly chuckled. "Go on. You can ask three."

You were about to complain about having limited chances of questions but huffed. "Okay. Shouldn't you be an old man if you said you're alone in whatever place for twenty-five years?"

The boy slowly nodded. "That's because I am an old man. Well, not really that old. I'm 38 years old. I time-traveled back in time to my family but I somehow got stuck in this body."

You softly gasped as you nod, slowly understanding. "Huh. Okay. What about me? Am I an old woman too? It seems like you and I are the only ones looking like a teenager."

"You're in your 30s." Five wanted to tell you how you got stuck on a teen body but decided to tell it after this mission.

Seeing how his answer was simple and was incomplete, you thought he was hiding something but shrugged. "Do I have powers?"

"Yep. You can control anything with your mind and read anyone's thoughts."

Diego froze and looked up to Five with his eyes wide open. "Wait. She can do that?"

Five looked down at Diego and smirked. "Yeah. Why so surprised? Scared?"

"No, I'm not scared. I just didn't know she can do that." Diego scoffed before going back to his work.

Five shook his head before looking back at you. "You probably haven't heard any of our thoughts seeing how you still barely manage to your powers like telekinesis. But, you'll learn again once you remember." He saw how you got silent and unable to respond back so he looked back inside the building before sighing. "You know, when I was stuck out there in the apocalypse, there wasn't a day that went by where I didn't hear his voice in my head."

"What was he saying?" Diego asked until he sighed as he muttered. "Ah, shit."

"I told you so." Five answered, looking down at Diego as his brother scoffed. "Well," Diego started. "Dad's here, he's never met you before, so he can't say 'I told you so'."

"I'm sure he'll find a way." Five looked back at the door as he noticed it was still unlocked so he sighed and spatial jumped inside to unlock the door from there. You softly chuckled while Diego lowered and shook his head. "Right. Gotta remember that."

You, Diego, and Five entered the building as Five turned a lamp open but to your disappointment, the lamp slowly turned off. "Shit." Five muttered.

"Guess the old man wasn't much for home decor." You commented as you saw Five softly punched a pillow from a chair. "Feels more like a front."

"A front for what?" Diego asked.

"I don't know."

"Well, I'll take the left. You lovebirds take the right. Yell if you, uh... get in trouble." Diego took one last glance at you and Five before entering the left room. You looked at Five who was slightly blushing to your surprise. "Lovebirds?" You questioned.

"Don't listen to him." He shook his head before opening the right door and standing aside so you could enter first. You gave him a silent thank you before entering as Five followed behind. Five looked inside a room to find Reginald Hargreeves while you checked the other room. You noticed the door was open and found the room dark.

Five opened the lights showing a room filled with some furniture and three mannequins acting as if it was a family. There were "windows" but it was only wallpapered acting as if it were background outside a house. It bothered you and Five until the lights suddenly turned off. "What are you up to?" Five said softly.

You and Five continued to look at the other rooms. While looking and browsing for anything useful, Five found an envelope. He pulled out what's inside to see an invitation of some sort. Five took it and shoved it inside his pocket. A metallic clattering was suddenly heard causing you to jump while Five turned around to the direction where it came from.

"What the fuck was that?" You whispered.

"I don't know but stay close to me."

Five looked around as you quietly followed from behind. The boy stopped causing you to panic a bit. "Wh-What? What is it?"

You moved closer to find a creature hiding in the shadows looking scared. The creature crawled out from the shadow until you finally realized it was a baby monkey. "Hi." Five softly greeted the monkey.

"Is that Luther? But became younger and turned into a baby monkey?" You asked confusingly causing Five to slightly snicker. Five shook his head. "No, that's not Luther. That's Pogo."

"Why did he kidnapped me, Pogo?"

"Pogo." You softly repeated as you admired the monkey while Five slowly approached him by crouching down and reaching out for the monkey to pet him. "It's alright, little buddy."

"He told me... that you shouldn't wake up not until he dies..."

"Pogo. It's good to see you." Five told the monkey. The young monkey hooted softly as he slowly approached Five too. Baby Pogo looked up to you causing you to gasp and the monkey screeched, hitting, scratching, and wounding Five somewhere in his neck. Five cried out in pain as he touched his wound. "Five!" You yelled. The monkey screamed and got out by jumping out a window, the glass shattering in the process.

You knelt down beside him and grabbed his face, moving it to the side to check his wound. "Diego!" You called out. "Diego!" You looked back at the window where the monkey got out and your eyes turned red. You angrily stood up and were about to run after the monkey but a hand grabbed you back. You looked back to see Five shaking his head and then standing up. "Let him go. Let's go find Diego."

You were about to protest but you shut your mouth and your eyes went back to normal.

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Apparently, Diego was defeated by Reginald Hargreeves himself with a stab in the gut. Lila was treating the unconscious Diego while you took out some white cloth and pour alcohol into it. You pressed the cloth against his wound causing him to wince a bit. You sat back, scared to hurt the boy but he shook his head. "No, no, no, it's fine. I just got surprised."

You gently pressed the cloth again on the wound while Five endured the pain. "So... Pogo's a family friend?" You asked.

"Yep."

"We have two monkeys in the family?"

"Luther isn't actually a monkey until Dad has to save his life so, uh, yeah Luther now has a gorilla body. I guess you could say he's half-monkey."

You paused for a while, blinking in confusion before shrugging and gently wiping the blood away from Five's neck. "I was about to say you have a weird family but I almost forgot that I'm part of the family."

Five softly chuckled. "Yeah, our family's pretty weird." Five, forgetting about the pain he's experiencing, began to stare at you. You noticed him staring causing you to blush a bit before touching your face. "What? Do I have something on my face?"

"Huh? Oh. It's nothing." Five shook his head before thanking you and taking the cloth so he could press the cloth against his wound by himself. 'Just wanted to tell you how much I've missed you.'

You watched as Five walked around the place then you looked around, noticing that Nico and Elliott must've fallen asleep already. 'Good for them for falling asleep. Fuck, I need sleep right now.'

You and Five suddenly heard a scream coming from the other room. It was Diego. You sighed tiredly. "Oh, great. Thanks for announcing you're awake." You mumbled. You approached Lila and Diego on the couch. "Shh. Don't move. This thing is very finicky."

You leaned on the wall as you hear a small sizzling. "Ooh. That's painful to watch."

"What happened?" Diego asked.

"I saved your stupid life," Lila answered as she focused on Diego's wound.

"Were you following me?" Diego asked.

"Uh, hey, how about a little gratitude, knife boy. If it wasn't for me, you'd be dead. That's twice now, by the way."

Diego's eyes widened as he looked down at himself. "Where are my clothes? The hell happened to my clothes?"

"I said, don't move!" Lila exclaimed. But obviously, the man didn't listen so Lila dug the tool she has on her hand on his wound causing Diego to scream in pain again while you winced from seeing what's happening. Diego laid back down, moaning from the pain. "There. That's better."

"Oh. He isn't dead." Five said as he spatial jumped in the room.

"Disappointed?" Lila asked.

"Oh, to see you? Always."

You weren't sure if you wanted to laugh or scold Five. "Five, come on. That's not nice."

"You heard her. You should listen to her quite often." Lila gave a short smile at you before going back to her work then sighing and looking at Five who was still wiping the blood from his wound. "So much hostility in such a tiny package." Lila eyed the scratch on Five's neck. "Did you cut yourself shaving? I could teach you to shave like a big boy. Or maybe you and the weird girl did some things."

Five rolled his eyes at Lila while you blushed and screamed internally, wishing you could kick Lila's head from behind. Five sighed. "No, I just ran into an old family friend."

You sat near Lila as you watched her go back to work on Diego's wound. Lila glanced at you. "It was a surprise that you didn't get a scratch. I guess you can handle yourself pretty well."

"Let's just say I didn't approach things that aren't sure if they are safe not like these two idiots."

Five glared at you before shaking his head and grabbed a cup to drink some coffee. You chuckled a bit while Lila snickered. "You're not so bad after all," Lila said earning a look from Diego who was surprised to hear Lila's words.

"Yeah. You too." You smiled at her.

Lila sighed, glancing at you again. 'Let's hope she hasn't seen you yet.'

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