Eventide

The Botterills were an anomaly. Even among the 41 other children spontaneously born at once - what were the chances the two would be cousins? You could call it fate, if you believed in that.

Neither of them do, of course. Though Jess considered it incredibly luck. If not for her aunt, she likely would have ended up in the foster care. Or even worse; in the hands of Sir Reginald Hargreeves.

Yet the Hargreeves continued to find their way into their lives. In more ways than one.

Ciana Hargreeves had been famous since she was thirteen. A member (a former member? That was her family, could it ever be former?) of the Umbrella Academy, it was the kind of fame that you can never escape. The kind that was baked into her childhood; baked into her very essence. Ciana could never escape it.

Maybe that's why she never tried. Maybe that's why she didn't even leave the city she was raised in. There was no point in running, there was no place where she would be normal.

At least until, she found the Botterills. For the first time she fit in with someone other than her siblings. After all, the special children had been born all around the world. What were the chances that three of them would meet each other, with no prompting from an outside force.

Okay...maybe there was some prompting from an outside force. But that's getting ahead of ourself, isn't it?

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The Umbrella Academy Season 1 - 3