Show Me How You Do the Trick

Five Hargreeves x Reader

Adopted by Reginald Hargreeves, Y/N was one of the forty-three children born with extraordinary abilities.

Years of relentless testing pushed her powers beyond their limits - until one mistake left her trapped in a seventeen-year-old body, suspended between life and death.

Neither fully alive nor truly gone, Y/N exists in the space between worlds.

And the question remains: will she ever return?

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This fanfiction follows The Umbrella Academy timeline.
Updates may be irregular - sometimes weekly, sometimes after a few months. Thank you for your patience.

I do not own The Umbrella Academy or its characters; all rights belong to Netflix.

Both Y/N and Five are portrayed as seventeen years old. I'm personally uncomfortable writing a romantic relationship involving thirteen-year-old characters, even if they are mentally older.

Inspired primarily by the music of The Cure.