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

Chapter Nine

[Name] woke up, a little breathless as she shook off the hazy feeling of sleep. She just had a nightmare of getting stuck in the apocalypse, seeing everybody's corpse surrounding her, their ghosts taunting her for being the only one left alive. That she can't save them nor can she go back to her family ever again.

She again shook her head, slapping herself a little as she looked out the window, seeing that it's still dark out. The girl then stood up, looking at her phone that she had charged and saw that it was 5 am – and knowing that she wouldn't be able to sleep anymore, went to the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth. Once she was done, decided to go to the kitchen to get herself food.

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"Good morning dear," was Grace's greeting, clearly programmed to wake up early.

"Good morning, mom," [Name] greeted back, already showered and seemingly ready to leave.

"Are you going somewhere, sweetie?"

"Ah yes, I'm planning on checking something out today, just let the others know I'll be okay."

"Have you already eaten breakfast?"

"Yes mom, I cooked myself some bacon, didn't really want to wake you up."

"Oh you shouldn't have, sweetie, but alas, do be careful," she answered as she started cooking a meal for the rest of the siblings.

[Name] bade Grace farewell, opening the door and soundlessly closing it behind her to make sure nobody would wake up. She checked her phone again, seeing that it's already 8 am as she looked left and right before crossing the street.

She was feeling curious and wanted to know how far behind this universe is when it comes to possible research about time travel and parallel dimensions. She had thought of looking it up on her phone, but unfortunately, google is still not a thing in this world and thus she needed to check about it from the library. Of course, she has no idea if they're advanced enough that the theory about time travel already is a thing in this universe, but given that it does exist thanks to the Commission, she would like to hope there is something.

The girl didn't know how she navigated through the streets, only that she knew, as she walked through lane after lane trying to find the library Five had gone to the first time.

She then thought that maybe good ol' daddy Reggie had a possible research about this, given that he apparently knew of the apocalypse occuring, so decided that she'd ask Pogo about it after she's done with this mini mission.

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After checking out the library and finding nothing that's helpful enough, she decided to finally go back home and check on the guys that may be worried about where she'd gone. She did forget to tell Grace where she was going.

She looked up ahead as she crossed the street, when she met the gaze of an old man who was frozen still, mouth open in shock. The girl furrowed her brows in curiosity but still kept a small smile in place as she reached him, about to pass the man when he stopped her in her tracks.

"Are you.. are you Athena's daughter?" Which left her absolutely flabbergasted. That was her mother's name alright.

"Athena.." and proceeded to disclose her mother's maiden last name which made her shock that much more apparent.

"Oh you are! Where is she? I've missed that girl! Haven't seen her in decades. I thought something bad had happened to her.."

But she was skeptical of him given how impossible it was for him to know her mother. She lives in the other universe, for Pete's sake! "I think you might be mistaken, mister." Perhaps the man was talking about a parallel counterpart of her in this universe.