The Umbrella Academy Imagines

Diego x Reader

Title: Missed you
Pairing: Diego x Reader
Description: The reader grew up in the academy as number eight. The reader and Diego were inseparable in their childhood, but the relationship deteriorates after time. The reader's love for Diego never left.
No pronouns used!!
Powers: Invisibility.

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Growing up in the academy was hardly ever enjoyable. Constantly training, your body was often aching and your mind racing. Your adoptive father showed no emotion to you or any of your family.

Free time at the academy was scarce. But you always found a way to enjoy yourself with Diego. Using your power of invisibility, you would sneak out at night. You would use your power to cloak Diego too, making yourselves completely invisible to the naked eye.

Your power would enable the two of you to have adventures in the night, and you would always bounce back up when you were caught and punished.

Although you and Diego had an inseparable bond, the relationship was never able to make life at the academy worth it for Diego. As soon as Diego turned seventeen, he left the academy for good. You couldn't blame him.. after everything you guys had been through, you could admit that leaving the academy crossed your mind.

As powerful as you may seem, you still felt incredibly anxious to join the real world. You felt as if you needed purpose. So you decided to stay at the academy along with Luther.

When the fateful day came that Luther was made a monster, you couldn't bare to stay at the academy any longer. Seeing your brother turned into a beast by your father was scarring, so you ran away. Invisible for years.

You decided to completely cut off from the world, and even when the dreams of you and Diego would come at night, it was too much to bear to see your family again. You felt like a coward.

For the years that you have been away and invisible to your entire family, you found refuge in stealing. You wanted to go completely off the grid, no job, no house of your own, nothing registered in your name. You would thrive on stolen items day and night. It started out as petty theft, stealing food, supplies and only necessities.

Petty theft soon turned into grand theft, and grand theft into armed robbery. You began to recruit other thieves to assist you in the larger crimes. You felt unstoppable. Anything you wanted, you could have.

Considering your extreme use of your powers, the media soon began to find out that it was you. The news channels were full to the brim in stories about how the infamous number eight from Umbrella Academy went bad. Reporters often used your childhood superhero name, Cloak, and others decided to take a more dramatic path and call you The Dark Cloak. Your team of thieves were referred to as The Bandits.

Even though you were found out, you were never stopped. How can someone stop something they can't see coming?

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Tonight was the night that you and your team decided to go on a specifically large mission. You were going to burglarize and preform an armed robbery on the large home of a millionaire named Wilson Brown. Your connections had assured you that Wilson had a large vault safe hidden in his home, filled with riches unimaginable.

Getting in the home was the hardest part. There were several levels of security, including three armed guards. Those were taken care of swiftly. Once inside, you abducted the family of the millionaire and set them down in the basement, tied up.

The walls of the basement were quickly lined with explosives, a precaution only to be taken if absolutely necessary.

"Alright Wilson. Where is the safe?" You ask him, looking at the fear in his eyes. "I don't want to ask again."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

You go invisible and begin pacing around him. Not being able to see you makes it all so much more terrifying for him. You speak slyly, "Oh Wilson. You know I can't leave you alive here if I don't get what I want. I don't want to kill you." You punch him in the face. "But I'll do what I have to do."

His forehead is sweating, and his cheekbone bruised. He breathes out, "W-We don't have a safe! I swear! All of our most valuables are kept in the vault at our bank!"

"I swear to god Wilson, I will blow your family to pieces! Don't fuck with me. I was told you have a vault inside your home-"

Suddenly, you hear a banging on the basement door, then it is busted to the ground. You couldn't believe your eyes, it was.. Diego. Although he was wearing a mask, you could recognize those features anywhere. It was him.

You quickly went invisible, hiding in the corner. You didn't want him to know it was you. You wouldn't be able to live with yourself if he saw you like this.

Diego immediately went to disarming and wounding members of your team. Shots are being fired at him and you want to cry. You couldn't believe that you did this, you caused this. The memories of your childhood were flowing back into your brain.

The family of Wilson shriek in terror as they witness Diego kill off the last of your bandits with knives curving through the air. Swiftly, he approaches the family and cuts them free. They family hurriedly thank him for saving them and evacuate the basement.

He glanced around the room and removes his mask. "The Dark Cloak and The Bandits, huh?"
He knew you were there.
He crouches down to pick up one of his knives. "Pretty corny name if you ask me."

"I didn't come up with it," you say sarcastically, while still hidden, "but at least you can say it's a fitting name."

Diego turns to the general direction your voice came from. He looks right through you. "I.. missed you, (y/n). I missed you so much."

You're silent, creeping to the left. You can't handle looking directly into his eyes.

"Why are you doing this, (y/n)? You don't have to do things like this. You have a family that loves you" His voice is shaky.  

"We don't know love. We never lived a life of love," you say, "Dad made sure of that."

"Dad is gone. He- he died last night. I sought you out so I could tell you the news and bring you home myself. You never would have come on your own," he chuckles lightly. "I know that much about you, (y/n)."

You uncloak yourself and appear in front of him. There's tears running down your cheek. "(y/n).. I'm sorry."

"It's okay, don't apologize. I'm sorry too." He puts a hand on your cheek to wipe a tear as you speak. "I'm glad you're here."

You look into each others' eyes for what feels like years.

He suddenly hugs you in a tight embrace. His body is warm. He feels years of longing and lost time slip away. He feels like a real home. He feels like everything you've ever wanted. He kisses your cheek.

"I missed you."

"I missed you too"

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