I'm Stuck! [The Umbrella Academy : Five Hargreeves X Reader]

Chapter Two

"Might as well say it. There's an apocalypse eight days from now, and I don't know how to stop it."

"But then again, I bet you do, given you apparently saw our 'show'." Added Five in quotations.

She averted her eyes, not knowing what to say that wouldn't fck up the timeline as bad as they did it. She has knowledge about time travel and timelines, at the very least.

"Wait-wait, but how did you get back?" Vanya asked, breaking her silence ever since the two came, directing the question to Five.

"I had to project my consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across every possible instance of time," Five simply said, as if there was nothing wrong with how he phrased it.

"Huh, hearing it spoken kinda sounds gibberish but it does make sense," muttered [Name] in answer.

"What do you mean? It makes no sense at all," retorted Diego with a frown at the small girl.

"Well--" Five was about to say more but was cut off by [Name] wanting to speed things up.

"How long were you there again? I actually don't remember," she asked, trying to recall most of what had happened.

"Twenty-five years, give or take." He answered simply, starting to munch on his sandwich as he paced around the kitchen, averting his gaze from everyone, afraid he'll see them lifeless again.

"So what? You're.. thirty-eight?" Asked Luther in surprise.

"No, my consciousness is thirty-eight, apparently my body is sixteen again." He said with a grimace, gazing down at himself in distaste.

"Trust me, sometimes I feel like I'm seventy trapped in an eighteen year old body due to how easily my energy gets drained." [Name] tried to reassure, thinking of other circumstances she felt this way but didn't feel like oversharing.

"You're eighteen?" Klaus exclaimed in disbelief. "I thought you were twelve or something."

[Name] looked at him in confusion, muttering, "Ouch."

"Yeah, you're just too small and too cute to be an adult," he said, reaching over to pinch her cheeks.

"I mean, I just turned 18 two months ago?" She reasoned, slightly muffled with Klaus smooshing her face.

Five rolled his eyes at their antics as he took the newspaper, checking the headlines. "Guess I missed the funeral huh."

"And how do you know that?" Diego asked with a frown.

"What part of the future do you not understand?" Five snapped, irritated that his brother still never liked to use his brain even after all these years. "Heart failure?"

"Yeah."

"No."

"Nope."

He wasn't surprised at the first two, clicking his tongue as he muttered, "Nice to see nothing's changed." But gazed in shock at the last person who answered, who was the person claiming she knows their future.

"What?" The siblings simultaneously asked, Luther smiling in triumph.

But the girl's eyes went wide, shocked she had just let that slip, and looked to her right with a nervous smile etched on her face.

"I.. uh, well," she stuttered, and upon noticing Pogo enter, sighed in relief. "Mr. Pogo, sir, kindly let them know what actually happened. Please," she added with wide puppy eyes at the ape, begging to be saved from being the bearer of bad news.