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

Chapter Twelve

They reached the academy in a more somber atmosphere that the siblings immediately caught on, also having seen the disheveled appearance of the two.

"What happened?" Allison immediately asked, her motherly side showing.

"We got ambushed," Five decided to answer as they sat in the common room, sitting next to [Name] who had her hands covering her face.

"I thought Michael was gonna die," she added softly, looking up at the rest in a helpless way that tugged at the siblings' heartstrings. Five retold the whole story, including the knowledge of the girl being born at the same day as them.

"Does this mean you're the same age as us? That doesn't make sense," Diego stated with an incredulous expression.

"Yeah, but you know? Time is relative." She simply explained with a shrug.

"Time is relative?" He parroted.

"It basically means, in Einstein's words, that the rate at which time passes depends on your frame of reference," Luther helpfully explained but it seems that Diego still didn't understand.

"What it meant, was that I may have been born during the 1980s, but when we crossed dimensions, I'd assume mom got there when it was around my birth year, 200X. So therefore, that 20 years between 1989 to 200X didn't happen to me so I'm still 18," she added slowly, looking at Diego as a dawning realization came to him, finally nodding in understanding.

"If you were smarter you would've understood that already," Five grumbled, causing [Name] to pinch him in the thigh, raising her eyebrows.

"Wait, doesn't that mean you might have abilities like us, too? Because why would your mom hide you from the Commission?" Vanya raised a great question.

"I mean, it would have already shown when I was a kid if I did have one, no? Given that that's what happened with you lot. Unless being in a parallel dimension hinders my abilities, I think I'm just a normal baby. Maybe the agents are just not allowed to have relationships until their retirement," she added, looking at Five for confirmation.

"Yeah, we aren't really allowed to have any sort of relationship unless it's a partnership between you and your partner, but even then, I never wanted one." He answered with a shrug.

They continued their conversation, figuring out how to deal with both the Commission and the apocalypse on their heels, the girl zoning out as she gazed at the picture of her mother.

"Is that your mom?" A soft voice suddenly asked, [Name] looking up in surprise and seeing Vanya smiling gently at her.

"Oh, uh, yeah," she trailed off, looking at the picture again before gazing up at Vanya. "But I also don't know, you know? Maybe this is some parallel universe version of her that just got tangled into all of this accidentally. But then, there are just so many coincidences that just really lead straight to my mom. I just.. I don't know, you know? I can really only know all of this once I finally get to talk to my mother." She exhaled in frustration, fixing her hair.

"Then how would you talk to her?" Vanya asked in confusion.

The girl shrugged with a tight-lipped smile, "I dunno, I'm still trying to figure out how I even got here in the first place. But I'd like to think that thing Five did in the beginning probably had something to do with it, too."

Vanya hummed in thought, seemingly mulling it over as well, when her eyes widened and looked back at the girl again. "So when all of this is over, and Five figures out how to get you back, you'll be.. gone? Forever?" The last word was almost a breath due to how quiet she'd said that [Name] wouldn't have heard had she not been sitting next to Vanya in the first place. She only answered this with a sad smile and a shrug.