The Umbrella Academy (Five Hargreeves x OC)

We Only See Each Other At Weddings and Funerals

Russia 1989

A girl was sitting by the poolside. In a yellow swimsuit and a purple swim cap. She looked to her left to see a boy looking at her. They smiled. A larger woman came in between them to drink water from the fountain in between the two benches and when she left the boy went to sit next to her. They both looked at each other and the boy leaned in for a kiss when the girl stopped him. She laughed but quickly turned to see an angry swimming instructor wave her finger and shake her head. They both turned their heads to look back in the direction of the pool. The girl quickly kissed the boy's cheek and ran to jump in the water. The swimming instructor from before blew her whistle. But the girl never came up for air. The swimming instructor returned to teaching when one woman pointed out blood in the water. The girl in the yellow suit jumped up crying and all the women fled in fear. Except for this time the girl was pregnant.

The girl lay on the ground while all the other women surrounded her helping her give birth. She screamed in pain until finally giving in the child was born.

"On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible."

Reginald Hargreeves was walking through the dimly lit hall of an old apartment. Inside the apartment at the end of the hall was the same girl from the pool holding her bundled-up baby.

"Extraordinary," He said, reaching a finger towards the child "How much do you want for it?"

He Got Eight Of Them

Hargreeves along with 8 strollers and women marched down the streets of the city towards the academy. As they slowed to a stop. He turned around, over looking all eight strollers. Almost smiling at the sight.

TODAY

A young woman walks up to a stool in the middle of a dimly lit stage. Placing her violin on the stool, she carefully opens up the case, taking out the instrument and begins to play a soft melody.

MEET THE FAMILY 

LOCATION: The Moon NAME: Luther Hargeeves ALIAS: Number One/Space-Boy POWER: Super Strength

LOCATION: Apartment Building NAME: Diego Hargreeves ALIAS: Number Two/ The Kraken POWER: Ability to Redirect Objects

LOCATION: Red Carpet Premiere NAME: Allison Hargeeves ALIAS: Number Three/The Rumor POWER: Mind Control

LOCATION: Rehab Center NAME: Klaus Hargreeves ALIAS: Number Four/The Seance POWER: Commune With The Dead

LOCATION: The Umbrella Academy NAME: Robyn Hargreeves ALIAS: Number Eight/The Unpredictable POWER: Telekinesis, Reality Distorting, Illusion Creation

LOCATION: Icarus Theater NAME: Vanya Hargreeves ALIAS: Number Seven POWER: None

Vanya, the young woman who was playing the violin, stops and stares into the space. Almost silently astonished. She places her violin back in the case making her way out of the theater. Stopping in front of a TV which has the words 'Reginald Hargreeves Dead'. She looks at it astonished and almost in disbelief

"Dad." She says finally. The soft rain hitting her face.

The next morning Vanya woke up earlier than normal to take a taxi to her old home. As the cab drove, and the drops of rain raced down the window she pondered all the old memories. The house itself was astonishing. In the center of the city, it had looked small from the outside but was giant on the inside. All the pieces of art Reginald had collected from his travels, placed every so nicely. The portraits that lined the halls of seven out of the eight kids, and as they went on Five disappeared, and Ben had passed. Over the fire place a painting of Five sat. Robyn, Vanya's sister had painted it one day during their art studies. Reginald thought it was the perfect tribute to number Five. So their it sat. In the courtyard was a sculpture of Ben. The sibling they had lost at a young age during a mission. The kids never did tell Vanya what happened during that mission. They had kept that to themselves.