THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
fragments || five hargreeves x reader

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: NO, IT'S NOT YOU

Written By: peachyhxlland

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"First off, I wanna say I'm sorry." Five told his siblings who are now sitting down. You were sitting beside Vanya and Allison, Luther was in a farther chair, Klaus was looking for something to drink, and Diego was standing. "I know I really screwed the pooch on this whole going-back-in-time-and-getting-stuck thing. But the real kick in the pants here is we brought the end of the world back here with us."

"Oh, my God, again?" Klaus gasped. "All of you knew? Why am I always the last one to find out about the end of the—" Klaus gasped again in realization "Oh, my God. My cult is gonna be so pissed. Five! I told them we had until 2019."

"Cult? He has a cult?" You asked Allison who just nodded. You nodded in understanding. "No wonder why he looks like that."

"Like what?" Vanya asked.

"Like a cult leader." You shrugged.

"We have until Monday. We have six days." Five said.

"Is it Vanya?" Klaus asked.

"Klaus." Allison scolded.

"What? It's usually Vanya."

Vanya sighed. "Do you have any leads, Five?"

Diego showed the black folder and gave it to Five. "Yeah, we have one." Five answered, taking the folder and giving it to Allison. Allison opened the folder revealing a picture of Reginald Hargreeves with his black umbrella. "Holy shit, is that Dad?"

"Yeah," Diego answered.

Klaus leaned in with Vanya to look at the picture with Allison.

"That's him?" Vanya asked, glancing at you and you gave her a nod.

"Standing on the grassy knoll."

"Diego, (Y/n), and I have been trying to talk to Dad about what exactly this means." Five explained. "So far, we've got nothing."

"Not nothing." Diego intervened. "He's planning to kill Kennedy."

"Maybe." Five defended. "But we don't know who or what sets doomsday in motion. Could be Kennedy, could be something entirely independent. But if we know something changes the timeline, we have to make it right."

"Yeah, but how, if we don't know what's broken?"

'I am.' You sighed as you took Klaus' water bottle filled with alcohol and drink it. Klaus was about to protest but shrugged and patted your head earning a groan from Ben.

"Come on. Do the math." Diego said. 'I suck at math.' You said again mentally, taking another drink. "We know dad's having shady-ass meetings with some shady-ass people." Diego continued on. "We know he's on the grassy knoll in three days to kill the president. So I think we all know what we have to do."

"What is it?" You asked.

"Find Dad."

"Kill Dad."

You furrowed your eyebrows as Five looked at Diego in confusion and disbelief while Diego was glaring at Five. "Okay, if we have to do something, we have to have the same idea here, boys." Even Ben was confused with the two boys and he was just there listening silently. Well, as if anyone could hear him say anything except for Klaus.

"None of us are supposed to be here. right?" Vanya pointed out. "I mean, what if it's us."

"Oh, please count me in as a candidate." You sighed as you gave the bottle back to Klaus. "I wouldn't be surprised if I ever cause an apocalypse."

"No, it's not you." Five said. "You've been thinking yourself as the cause of the apocalypse since 2019 so stop it."

You blinked in surprise. "Holy shit."

"Anyway." Vanya cleared her throat. "Has anyone here done anything to screw up the timeline?"

Klaus sat on a chair, raising his arm up above his head, shaking his head. Diego crossed his arms, thinking about the things he did back few months and days ago. Five thinks of what he did that could have possibly screwed the timeline up. Allison was pouring a drink on her glass as she thought about the things she had done. Luther, who was quiet the whole meeting, finally spoke up. "Diego's been stalking Lee Harvey Oswald."

"And you're working for Jack Ruby," Diego argued back.

"Allison has been very involved in local politics," Klaus confessed.

"Okay, you started a cult," Allison argued back.

"Thank you!" Ben exclaimed in delight as someone finally understood him. Klaus growled and hissed at Allison and Ben.

"I'm... I'm just a... a nanny on a farm." Vanya confessed. "I don't have anything to do with all of that."

"Well, maybe you do, we just don't know it yet."

Everyone then turned to you who was just watching everyone argue. You cocked an eyebrow. "What?"

"Have you done something to mess up the timeline?" Luther asked.

"I literally have the same situation as Vanya and I'm barely out of this house. Even if you ask Nico about it."

"Don't bring me to you and your siblings' problems!" You and the others heard Nico from his room.

"Ooh!" Klaus exclaimed. "Who's Nico? New boyfriend? Oof. That must be sad for Five."

You blinked while Five rolled his eyes at Klaus. "I—what?"

"Anyway!" Five cleared his throat. "(Y/n) remembers but it's all fake memories and not the real ones. She doesn't remember what happened to her in 2019 when Luther hit her and remind me to kick the gorilla to kick him for doing that."

"Luther hit me?" You gasped before snapping your head at Luther. "Is that the reason you were apologizing to me?"

Luther gulped, preparing himself from dying before nodding. He's not ready to die especially at the hands of you or Five. He could almost imagine how he's going to die.

"She remembers having some sort of family dinner." Nico sighed as he came out of his room, finally showing himself to Allison and Klaus. "She said it was a happy and ordinary night."

"Oooh. So that's Nico." Klaus gasped in awe. "Good choice, baby sis."

"He's not—" You tried to explain but just ended up sighing in defeat.

"I recall our lives being in danger not having a peaceful dinner." Diego pointed out.

"Well, I didn't know that." You frowned, crossing your arms. "Maybe because I was unconscious during that time because a monkey hit me."

"Yep." Luther gulped. "I knew she wouldn't forgive me that easily when she find that out."

"Well, if you didn't hit her maybe she doesn't have to experience this." Five argued.

"She was unstable—"

"We all are!" You exclaimed.

Diego whistled sharply. "Listen to yourselves. Everything in our new lives is connected to Kennedy. That can't be a coincidence. Luther works for Ruby, Allison is protesting the government, Dad is on the grassy knoll, Klaus is... doing something weird and pervy but probably related."

"And you purposely chasing and stalking Lee Harvey Oswald." You added.

Diego sighed. "Yeah, sure, that too. See, clearly, we were all sent back here for one special reason: saving John Fitzgerald Kennedy."

"That doesn't seem right." You frowned. "I get it, he's the president, but that's messing up the timeline completely."

"But maybe saving the president prevents this apocalypse." Diego defended.

"No, Diego look, messing up the timeline seems the main reason why there's an apocalypse coming." You told him. "We, being stranded here, is definitely the cause of the apocalypse."

"No. (Y/n), listen..."

You and Diego continue to talk while the rest argued, overlapping. Nico blinked. "I'm surprised why I'm still even here. I'm just a fucking side character what any important thing am I supposed to do?" He muttered to himself as he went back to his room. Five, who was getting irritated with the overlapping arguments, suddenly thought back to the apocalypse he saw the first day he got to Dallas.

Soldiers.

Tanks.

Missiles.

His siblings fighting.

His siblings dying.

"This is bigger than all of us," Diego said.

"Guys, you all die." Five said, his loud voice stopping everyone from talking. "I was there. I saw it. And I wanna forget it, but I can't."

Five have seen the apocalypse, twice. He has seen his siblings died, twice. He couldn't do anything about it so he was determined to go back to save his siblings back in 2019. Until this happened. He can't let his siblings die.

"I saw Russian nukes vaporize the world with all of you in it... in a war that never happened until we brought it here. And Hazel gave his life to save us, so you may need to shut up and just listen to me. I don't know if the things we've experienced here are all connected. I don't know if there's a reason for everything. But Dad will. We need to talk to him before everyone and everything we know is dead."

Luther sighed. "Okay, I'm out."

You and your siblings watched Luther stand up and ready to leave. "Did you even hear me, Luther?" Five asked.

"Yeah. Yeah, I did. I heard a 38-year-old man who still wants his daddy to come and fix everything. Well, you can count me out. It's time we all grew the hell up."

"Luther!" You, Allison, and Vanya called out but Luther ignored you three and walked down the stairs. "Come back," Allison said.

"Where are you going?" Klaus asked.

Diego was following Luther and the monkey man noticed it. "Save it, Diego." Five sighed and spatial jumped, reappearing in front of Luther on the stairs. Luther sighed as Five glared at him. "No one leaves until we figure this out."

Luther stared at him before tossing Five off the stairs. Luckily, Five quickly spatial jumped and reappeared back at the alleyway. "Jeez... when did the monkey learn how to fight dirty?"

He suddenly heard a rock clattering. He looked up to see Lila on the rooftop. "Son of a bitch." Five breathed out. He watched as Lila ran away on the roof and then reappearing suddenly by the streets. Five narrowed his eyes in surprise. He glanced back at the building before running to chase after Lila.

Back at the building, Klaus was eating Jell-O made by Elliott. "You know, I could really go for some tacos right now," Klaus suggested as he scooped some of the Jell-O. "Allison? Tacos?"

"Shouldn't we wait?" Allison asked.

"You know those guys. I mean, it could take forever for them to bro it out. Vanya, (Y/n), tacos?"

"Ooohh it's been a long time I've had tacos." You said excitedly.

"Is there any way that tacos are gonna cause the end of the world?" Vanya asked.

Klaus scoffed and snapping his fingers excitedly as he stood up. "I mean, there's only one way to find out, right?"

"Sure is." Allison agreed.

"Let's go!"

You dragged Vanya out of the couch and followed Klaus with Allison unknowingly that Ben was somberly watching as you all walked away. 'I've missed you all... so much.'

You stopped stepping down the stairs, completely frozen. You looked back at the chairs, looking around. 'I swear someone just spoke.' Ben looked up at you and instantly stood up. "She can hear me. I forgot about that!"

"(Y/n)!" Allison called out from the ground. "You coming?"

"Yeah! Hang on!" You stepped closer to the chairs, looking everywhere. 'It can't be Nico. His voice is way different than the one I just heard.'

"(Y/n)!" Ben called out. '(Y/n), it's me!'

Your eyes widened and quickly turned around. "What the fuck. Who's there?" You raised your hands up as mist-like shapes formed around them and you looked around blindly for the person who was calling you. "Where are you and who are you?"

'It's me! Ben!'

'Ben?' The mist disappeared, letting your guard down. You blinked in confusion. "But... you're dead..."

"(Y/n)?" You turned around to see Vanya. "You okay?"

"Y-Yeah..." You scratched the back of your head as you looked in a specific direction. Unknowingly to you, you were looking at Ben who has a smile on his face. "I can talk to her again." Ben sighed happily. You glanced back again before following Vanya downstairs.

"Ready?" Klaus asked, wrapping an arm around your shoulder.

"For tacos? Always." You answered with a smirk.

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