definitely maybe i will live to love || Five x Reader/OC ||

my love is your love, now and forever

You're the One

You drive the van that brings your family home. Diego, Pogo, and Mom rode with Patch, partly for room and partly because Pogo and Mom and Patch are like a trio of besties now and Diego just tagged along to be with his girlfriend.

Five tried to get into the driver's seat of the van before you dragged him back with a resolute, "Nope!"

It earned you a bewildered glare and a, "My driving is fine, Eight."

He didn't appreciate it when you just laughed in his face and got into the driver's seat yourself.

So, Five glowers in the passenger's seat. He changes the radio station too many times, which pisses off Klaus and Luther because of his lack of disregard for listening to a good song all the way through. Five retorts that they don't know the first thing about a good song. This offends Luther and Klaus a lot, and the three of them loudly argue for fifteen minutes. Of course, the argument derails from what it means to have good taste in music two minutes in, and you quickly lose track of where the hell they're going with everything. But, used to your siblings' pointless bickering, you easily tune them out and tap your fingers to the song that doesn't get changed halfway through because Five's too distracted with insulting Luther and Klaus.

Then Vanya pipes up that Allison is getting pissed off at all of them because she wants to nap. You glance in the rearview mirror and see that Allison's expression silently asks them, Do you really want to keep this up and find out where it leads?

All three apologize and settle down. Five's fingers itch to change a song that doesn't suit his tastes perfectly, but he leaves it be. He makes the mistake of glancing at you because you smirk back and exaggeratedly mouth, "Fifty-nine years old!"

Fifty-nine years old and still arguing with his brothers like he's fifteen. You love him so much.

Five narrows his eyes at you. He fights to keep a smile off his face and fails, so he turns straight in his seat and stares ahead, pretending to be above it all.

The silence in the van is short-lived.

"I spy with my little eye," Klaus says, his head pressed against the window, "something puce."

A little over an hour later, the van pulls up to the curb of doors of the Umbrella Academy. You're sure to not give Five fuel to tease you by accidentally parking on the curb because you're unused to driving a van, so you take extra precaution.

You hop out of the van with the rest of your family. But while they step onto the sidewalk that's next to the mansion, you glimpse the other side of the street. A sole person in a ballcap unsubtly takes pictures of you and your family.

Oh. Ha. That's great. You can see the headlines now: UMBRELLA ACADEMY REUNITES? And beneath that: Washed-up child heroes speculated to be behind strange incidents in city after Reginald Hargreeves' death.

"So you saw them, too," Patch sighs to you as you both walk up the stairs. "All the old fans are going to crawl out of the cracks. Enjoy that."

"As if you weren't one of those fans," you smirk.

Patch rolls her eyes. "Past tense," she deadpans. "No thanks to getting to know you all so personally."

One time, Patch confided in you that her bedroom had been sprinkled with Umbrella Academy memorabilia when she was a girl. A phase, she called it, and Luther was the cutest but you were her favorite. Then, Never tell Diego. You agreed. If Diego found out that Patch used to have a little teenage girl crush on Number One and not him, as well as that he hadn't even been her favorite, he would never emotionally recover.