(y/n) - your name

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"(Y/n)! Come on!"

"Wake up!"

"Crazy wake up!"

"Kid come on!"

"She's bleeding!"

"Someone get the glass out of her!"

"Get a cloth! Something!"

"My love, please wake up. I'm begging."

I groan out in pain as I slowly regain consciousness, my head absolutely killing me right now. "That's it! Easy sweetheart!" I slowly open my eyes but my vision was blurry but I could tell Five was in front of me. "Easy, you're ok. You're going to be ok." I grimace from the pain in my head, touching it to feel something wet and I reach my hand down to see blood.

"Fuck..." I mumble, looking up to see Klaus and Viktor trying to fix me up. "What happened...?"

"A car rammed into your side of the van. You hit your head really bad." My love explains to me, picking out the glass from my clothes to chuck it away.

"OW!" I shriek when I feel something get pulled from my arm and I see Klaus pulling glass out.

"Thank god it wasn't in your head. We would've stitched you up." He smiles wryly at me while Viktor cleaned my head up. My boyfriend wiped the blood that was dripping down my face, pushing my hair back to clean up the wound on my forehead while his brother cleaned up the one on the back of my head.

"Why am I so damaged compared to you lot? You all look fine." I scoff, wincing as the boys patch me up with Klaus' medic equipment he has in his brown satchel of his that he carries around everywhere.

"Cause you're still human. We're fine since we have the marigold." Five says softly, pressing a soft kiss on my forehead while putting on a hello kitty bandaid on my forehead.

"Ok, the bleeding stopped. Just seems like a normal cut. Should we gauze it?" Viktor asks and Klaus nods quickly spouting about the different types of infections and whatnot and I honestly just stopped listening. I hiss softly as Klaus puts the gauze on my head, making me wear a beanie after to keep it safe and I huff since I hated wearing beanies. It irritates my helix piercings "Ok we're all done." Viktor says softly holding up fingers in front of my face. "How many am I holding up?"

"What why?"

"To see if you have a concussion or not."

"Well it's blurry-"

"-she has one!" Klaus cuts me off and I shush him.

"I'm not wearing my glasses. That's why it's blurry. Where are they?" I look at Five who grimaced, taking them out from behind him to see my lens cracked. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? THESE DAMN THINGS COST HALF A GRAND!"

"Baby, we were in a car crash. Some things are gonna be broken. I can get you new ones."

"But I liked these ones..." I pout, holding my broken glasses. I've worn them for almost half a decade.

"Good thing I got back ups." I blink at my boyfriend in surprise when he pulls out a new black case and opens it up to find a new set of glasses. "You complained your old ones kept falling down your nose so I got new ones for you." He puts on the new glasses on me and I love them! I jump on my love to hug him tightly and he squeezes me gently.

"With my new prescription?" I ask as I pull back to look at him, noticing the vision a bit more clearer and zoomed. I had gone to the optometrist for a checkup and my power went up a little bit I didn't have the time to get new glasses then and there.

"Yes baby-"

"-I love you! Thank you so much!" I gasp, hugging him so tightly that we fall over onto the floor together but he laughs softly. "They must have cost so much! With the new lens technology and the new frames!"

"It's no problem, you know that." He pecks my lips. "How about we get up off the floor, sweets. We need to make sure you're all ok after the crash."

"Oh! Right." Five helps me up to stand and j was a bit shaky but alright. Some places like my side was sore but nothing I couldn't handle.

"Love you too, sweetheart." I blush as he whispers in my ear, kissing my cheek. "You feel alright?" He looks over me, gently pressing spots on my limbs to see if I had pain but I shake my head.

"I'm ok. Thank you." I tell him, Viktor and Klaus. "Thanks Diego!" I yell out as well when I turn to look at him to see him quickly turn away as if trying to hide his concern for me.

"What for!?" He sputters, playing with his knives but I know he knows what for.

"Ok can someone tell me which assholes rammed into us!?" I exclaim, waiting for an explanation and the other siblings agree too.

"Yeah! Who were those weirdos with the fanny packs?" Viktor asks and I blink at him confusion.

"Who?" I ask.

"Some man and woman came and took Jennifer after they rammed our van." Luther explains.

"They took Jennifer!? Why would they take Jennifer?" I mumble and he shrugs, standing at the curb with his thumbs out to hitch a ride.

"Was it me, or did they smell like wet sheep?" Lila grumbles and I look at her weirdly.

"Diego, what's wrong with your wife?" He glares at me once I said that and I raise my hands in defence, everyone trying to guess what the animal smell actually was until Diego shuts everyone up.

"Who cares! And why did they call you Nancy!?" He points at his wife who glances at Five and I look at both of them, my eyes narrowed.

"What the fuck have you two been hiding!?" I snap, stepping away from my boyfriend and he grimaces knowing I was pissed at him now. "I knew there was something up with you two!"

He sighs in defeat. "Their names are Gene and Jean. They run an underground organisation called the Keepers."

"These guys are related to your mission?" I ask, remembering how he mentioned he was infiltrating a group for his missions and he nods.

"Sex cult!?" Diego asks.

"No, not a sex cult-"

"-no, once you get to the top, it's always a sex cult." Diego cuts Five off and Luther agrees with him.

I pelt a snowballs at the brothers in annoyance. "What is with this family and sex cults!?" I exclaim, looking at Klaus and he whistles as he looks away.

"They're an extremist group who believe they have memories from an alternate timeline." Five explains.

"Yeah, and some of their memories are bang on." Lila continues and my boyfriend agrees.

"They're calling this phenomenon the 'Umbrella Effect'"

"Fucking great! So, what's the deadline for the next apocalypse that we cause? Again?" I clap my hands sarcastically, already done with this shit. "Cause having a phenomenon named after the academy is so spot on! Since all the shit we cause!"

"How is this even possible?" Viktor asks.

"Well, you know, we're still working on that." Lila answers.

"Maybe it has something to do with your powers." I turn to Five, saying loudly enough to put him on the spot and he looks upset when I did that. "Your evolved powers that takes us to a train station where we can go to different timelines! Or maybe the fact that Allison created this fucking timeline with the machine back in season 3 because she wanted her family back and trusted the backstabbing liar that is dear old Reggie! That's probably why these nutjobs are getting memories from an alternate timeline cause this one was never supposed to exist! It was modified from your original timeline as the dysfunctional superhero family with family baggage and power abuse!" I scream out, hissing as my head pounds.

"(Y/n), please take it easy." Five says softly as he quickly walks over to hold my head gently, rubbing my back. He moves me to sit down on a bench to ease the pain in my head.

"What do they want with Jennifer?" Ben asks and my boyfriend shrugs. "Great. You don't know that either." He hisses.

"Your powers take you to a train station?" Lila asks in confusion as she asks my sweet assassin. "To different timelines?" He shrugs and I look over to see Klaus and Allison fighting about how he didn't want the Marigold and blames her for wanting to waste his three years of being sober and all his hard work down the drain.

"Oh! Ok wow! You know what? Maybe you should take it down a notch!" She scoffs.

"No, I think I'll take it up a notch, shall we!?" Klaus exclaims as he stands up and this is the first time I've ever seen him furious. "I mean just as Crazy said, dysfunction is, after all, what we do best in this family!" He starts pointing at each of us, mocking every single Hargreeves.

"We got daddy issues! Daddy issues!"

"Chaos junkie!" I stifle my laugh when he mocks Five with that.

"Mommy issues!" Oop Diego.

"More daddy issues!"

"Obnoxious asshole issues!" Oh he went after Ben too!

"Then you!" He points at Lila. "You seem kind of weirdly self-actualised, as far as I can tell."

I blink at him when he points at me now. "Crazy I'm sorry but daddy issues! Self-existential and self-esteem existential crisis issues and just Parentified Daughter Issues!" I gasp in shock from his words even though he was right.

Well damn...

"Anyway, I'm just so done living, cowering in your little bubble of superiority!" He yells at Allison and the siblings and I glance at the two back and forth as they fight.

"So this is the thanks I get for taking care of you for the past 6 years!?"

"Oh I think you've got that back-to-front sweetheart! Who took care of you since Ray walked out!?"

"Holy shit no way!" I burst out laughing and my boyfriend quickly covers my mouth as Allison and Klaus continue fighting.

"You wanted the old Klaus. You got him!" He sneers before he storms off across the road, easily missing oncoming cars and trucks cause he got his powers back so he can't die anymore.

"You know what!? Actually, while we're here, does anybody else have some shit they wanna get off their chest!?" Allison yells at us. "Because now's the time!"

Yes fucking hell I do!

I elbow Five and he lets my mouth go. "Don't you shut me up! She needs to hear this cause after everything she put us through just to get back to her second husband only for him to leave her!?" I cackle, smacking my knee. "Oh this is gold! Allison, you're the problem clearly! Your first husband left you, now your second husband left you, and you're right back where you started in the beginning! A sad single mom with a sad acting career! You pulled us through the mud for your shitstorm of life! You made that deal with Reggie just to end your miserable all over again! Because you wanted that perfect fairytale ending you never fucking deserved! Karma is a bitch but she's fucking right! You ruined us! You ruined our chance of living in this timeline!" I scream at her, both Five and Diego holding me back to not claw at their sister.

She scoffs. "I'm not the bad guy-"

"-you fucking obviously are!" I scream at her, shoving her back. "Narcissistic. Egotistical. Predatorial. Self-centred. Bitch!" I push her back with every word. "You're selfish! You don't care! About any of us! You should've just stayed in Dallas and left us alone!"

"You want me gone!? Fine! I'll leave you all alone!"

"Should've stayed that way! None of us should've met up! We should've just kept on living like you have the last 6 years! Separates and in no contact!" I yell as she walks away.

I suddenly feel someone pull me away and I look up to see Five leading me somewhere quiet for me to calm down. We sit down together on the curb away from the family for a few minutes, letting me try to breathe out my anger. He pulls my head to rest against his shoulder as he hugs me tightly.

"I want to go home..."

"I know, sweetheart. We will soon ok. I'll stop looking into the Jennifer and Sy case. We can go home. We'll go home. I just... need to continue my Keeper's investigation..."

"But that's connect to Jean and Gene and now Jennifer. You're still going to be looking into that case-"

"-Just the keepers. I promise. Just the organisation. Nothing else. Nothing connected to the Marigold, nothing connected to Jennifer. As soon as I give the vehicle details to the agency, they can take care of the rest and take down the organisation from the inside out by arresting the leaders. And I'm done. I promise. We can go back to our lives..." Five promises me, pressing kisses against my head.

"Five... Are you... happy...?" I sniffle, doubt clouding my thoughts.

He quickly pulls back to look at me, a worried frown on his face as he caresses my cheek. "Of course I am. I've been more happier with you than I could remember. What's wrong (y/n)? What's worrying you?"

I shake my head, not wanting him to know that I was listening to his conversation with Diego. "I know you wanted to be a dad... I'm sorry I can't give that to you..."

"We have plenty of time to figure out our lives. We just started." He pulls me back into a tight hug and I nestle against his chest, burying my head against him as I grip his back. "I love you so much (y/n)."

"I love you too, Five." He pulls back and tilts my chin to kiss me softly and I couldn't help but smile as I kiss him back. It was such a sweet and loving kiss, his fingers gently brushing down my cheeks to softly caress my neck.

"Ok break it up you two!" I grumble as Ben interrupts us and I glare at him after I pull away from my boyfriend. "Now that the show's over, what are we going to do about Jennifer? We need to find her."

"Only, you're we're not going anywhere in this piece of shit." Five nods at the van that was absolutely ruined, the windows were all shattered and broken, the side we got hit had all it's door torn off and there were just dents and massive scratches.

"Well shit..."

The van is pretty bad. I don't think its even safe to be in it!?

"Is there a nearby mechanic or something?" I ask, taking my phone to search it up and my love searches with me, finding one not too far off. He takes the phone to call them for a pick up since I still get nervous about making doctors appointments without my mum. He tells them where we are and that we all need to be picked up along with the van to be towed and fixed.

"Yes. Thank you."

"So?" I ask him as he hands my phone back to me.

"Someone will be here in 10 minutes." had tells me and I huff, not wanting to be out in the cold anymore. "Ok, up we go." he holds my hands to pull me up, taking me back to the van as he carefully wipes away the debris and glass from the seats to let me sit in the van. He climbs up after me, settling next to me and opening up his coat to try and cover me, to keep me warm as I nestle against his chest until we get saved. He leans his chin ontop of my head, his hand rubbing my back while the other pulled me close to his chest.

"I need a run on a Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country, '80, '81." Five lists off Jean and Gene's car in absolutely crazy detail and I just stare at him with wide eyes in shock. The family were currently at the mechanics with the van being fixed, just sitting and waiting around while he had called the agency to search the car. It's been more than an hour already that the sun was finally out high enough for it to be sunny and not cold anymore like it was in the morning.

Holy shit, does he have a photographic memory!?

Or is he like crazy into cars?

I can lowkey actually see him be into modifying classic cars that he's into and go to car meets or something.

Oh! Maybe even racing!

Oooh I would love to see him 'tokyo drifting'.

"Brown, simulated woodgrain sides, New Mexico plates."

Ok hold the fuck up.

How does he know this!?

Did he just magically glance at the car for a split second before we got tossed and turned like a salad in the van?

Was he even conscious when they took Jennifer!? Cause I sure wasn't!

"Look for matches with an owner first name Gene. That is Golf-Echo-November-Echo. Or Jean. That's Juliet-Echo-Alpha-November." I wait for Five to finish talking with the people at the agency but I get worried when I see him frown, his brows narrowed and almost glaring at the phone before he grits his teeth to avoid pissing off people at work. "That is unacceptable. I can't-" he purses his lips, holding back his insults but calms down when he glances at me and realises I was waiting patiently for him. "Understood. Yes. I will see to it." he sighs as he ends the call and comes to settle down next to me with the rest of his siblings sitting around us.

"What happened?" I ask and he sighs in frustration.

"The agency... they will look into a match for Gene and Jean and their car, but won't ambush their organisation without a proper location."

"And...?"

"They asked me to get more information on them first."

I sigh and drop my head in my hands in defeat. "Guess we're still doing this..."

"(y/n), I'm sorry-"

"-I know... it's ok. It's your job..."

"I promise to make it up to you after all this." Five says as he pulls me to his side, pressing a kiss on my temple and I lean into his affection.

"All those people back in New Grumpson. They were wearing Hargreeves-branded military gear." Luther says, as if speculating something about his dad and why.

"Luther, the entire goddamn place was a Hargreeves town." lLlison scoffs.

"Yeah, it's like it was designed to keep Jennifer hostage." Ben pipes up.

"What the hell did we miss?" I whisper to my love as we listen in with the siblings lowkey giving us a recap of what happened when we were timeline hopping on public transport.

"What's so important about her anyway?" Lila asks the golden question that was itching my brain too.

"Isn't it obvious? She's one of us. Well most of us." Allison says and I flip her off.

"No. No way." Ben shakes his head as if he doesn't like that idea.

"I mean, that would make sense." Five pipes up. "Why else would dad build a Truman Show around her?"

"Oh that was a good one." I mutter to him and he chuckles.

"Thank you, sweets."

"I haven't actually seen that movie yet." I whisper.

This actually makes my love shocked as he leans back to blink at me. "Ok, as soon as we get home, we're watching the film together."

"When did you even watch the movie in the first place?" I ask him, pinching his arm gently.

"It was for a report in university. Just about the whole concept of ethics and humanity. That sort of thing."

"Didn't peg you to be a humanitarian." I tease. "With the whole ex-commissioner, assassin skills sort of thing."

"It was a bludge elective I had to do. Wasn't a fan of the class."

"I can imagine." I chuckle softly. "Did you ace it though?"

"Highest markets out of the entire class."

"That's my boyfriend!" I cheer quietly and he laughs softly.

We listen back into the conversation between the siblings again. "The guy played us, alright!" Ben scoffs. "Nothing Jennifer said jibed with Sy's story."

"Well, they're both gone now, so that leaves us with two shitty options." Viktor says. "We either go after the Keepers, or, worse, talk to dad." each and every single one of us groan in annoyance or sardonically chuckle at the idea. Even me even though I wasn't related to him at all.

Well not me, me, but the other me was.

"Think we need to split up. Me and Lila will follow up with the keepers. The rest of you go talk to dad." Five suddenly says.

"Oh hell no!" Me and Diego both immediately say, making our partners stop when they got up to walk away. "I'm going with you." we glance at each other and shrug, going to our partners who glanced at each other too. I stare down my boyfriend who frowns with with worry instead while I had my arms crossed in annoyance.

I get it that they both ex-commisioners but they don't have to do everything together..

"(y/n), no. It's too dangerous-"

"-you trained me..." I pat the handgun I still had tucked away.

"It's for your protection, yes, but it's still too dangerous for you. This is a different kind of field that I haven't trained you for."

I frown at his words but I understood where he was coming from. "Fine..." he was right. I'm not an assassin or a trained agent. It's better if I stay out of the way to make sure I don't cause mistakes.

"I'll tell you everything when I get back home to you." I nod, briefly picking up Ben and Viktor arguing in the background how one wants to split off to go find Jennifer while the other says its better to stick together as a group. Ben finally walks away after complaining about all of us.

"And then there were seven." Lila pipes up... while holding a pipe in her hand.

What is this day?

We wait for an hour or more until the van was fixed-as humanly possible-and we all clambered back in. This time, me and Five were sitting in the middle row since he wanted to sleep, feeling tired and there was space with one less person. You know, with Ben legit just gone off into the woods.

"We're actually leaving him!?" I gasp when Diego drives off back home and i look out the window as we leave the mechanics.

"Squid boy wants to split up and do his own thing, then so be it." knife boy speaks up.

Wow. Ok.

I settle back against the seat, nestled next to Five as he gets comfortable and rests his head back against the seat. He looks really tired and I wasn't surprised that he was. Him being just sick from the marigold, this 26 hour road trip, his powers and the trainline to different timelines, being shot at in creepy daddy's town, being in a car crash within only a few hours was crazy.

He peeks at eye open and smiles at me since he caught me red-handed staring up at him. He just looked lovely while he peacefully rested. I blush as he pulls me closer, draping my legs over his lap and nestles his head against my neck. He sighs out blissfully, dozing off instantly as he hugs me tightly and I comb my fingers through his hair. I brush my thing against his cheek and down his jaw, chuckling at how his skin was prickling with a much needed shave. I lean back and rest my head back against the seat, resting my head against his as I slowly doze off too.

I was in and out of sleep for a bit, struggling to actually properly rest form how janky the van was and the voices being too loud.

"I saw you. You were in the cafe with... with him." I hear Diego speak.

"With who?" Lila asks after.

No way! Is he actually going to tell Lila he knows about the supposed affair!?

"Don't play dumb! The little Greek guy with the moustache." Lila laughs after a few seconds and her husband sighs. "Is that funny to you?"

"Yeah, trust me! This is absolutely hilarious!"

"Our kids are gonna grow up in a broken home, and you're laughing." I frown at how hurt Diego sounded.

"Diego, the... the little guy, the little greek guy, is Five."

Now this is what got me to open my eyes immediately, a deep frown on my face when I piece together the information.

I know Five and Lila were on the keepers investigation together but... to be at a cafe together too...? The guy she was seeing was actually my boyfriend. And... he lied to me about his investigation...? Why would he lie to me...? He vaguely tells me about his investigations sure, but to leave that part out where we was working with Lila all together? Like that's no damning evidence or confidential piece of information he has to keep under lock and key... He could've just told me...

Why didn't he...?

"Yeah. We've been undercover investigating the Keepers."

How long were they working together on this?

"You've been lying!?" Diego says quickly. "He's been lying to (y/n)!? And you're working undercover with the CIA!?"

"See. This is why I didn't tell you. Because I knew you'd have some bizarre reaction."

"I'm not having a bizarre reaction!"

"You're acting like I had an affair."

"It's worse!"

Diego, how is this worse then an actual affair!?

I feel Five stir and I quickly close my eyes to go back to sleep, feeling him move gently and wrap his arms around me more to hold me close to him. He pulls my head to rest on his shoulder, tucking his chin ontop of my head but I was too focused on hearing how miserable Lila and Diego sounded to be in their marriage. It hurts to hear that one of my favourite couples in the show were struggling to be happy together.

"I'm just trapped in this unending suburban hellscape!"

"I mean, that's good to know. That the life we built is so bad." I open my eyes, frowning at how heartbroken Diego was.

"That's not what I meant."

"You think I like delivering packages day in and day out? Busting my ass? Oh, trust me. I mean I'd rather be out there cracking skulls, but, I mean, somebody's gotta show up for this marriage, because... it sure as hell aint you."

Stop.

It's mum and dad all over again... mum cheating, dads anger issues, our house being sold and the divorce and the financial issues-

-I tear up, trying to hold back my sniffles, hiding my face against Five's chest and gripping his coat tightly. I couldn't help the few tears that slipped.

Five and I... won't be like that... Will we...? Like Diego and Lila, like mum and dad...

Please...

"Sweets, time to wake up. Come on (y/n)." I open my eyes blearily, rubbing them in exhaustion as I wake up to see we were parked outside a building. I blink at Five as he slowly pulls me out of the van, holding me up while Diego talked to Viktor about his Wanda. "Hey, you ok?" My boyfriend holds my jaw to face him and his thumbs brush my cheeks. "Were you crying in your sleep?" He frowns deeply with worry, rubbing my chest since he knew I get chest pains if I had been crying.

"Was I?" I lie, rubbing off the tear streaks on my cheeks and his lips purse.

I don't know if he believed me or not...

He kisses my forehead and holds my hand to take us into the supposed Keepers HQ courtesy of Jean and Gene. We walk up the steps and technically break and enter the apartment, walking past the office foyer and further into the apartment of like a lavish living room. All four of us look at each other and we split up to look for stuff.

"Jean and Gene didn't give us much to go on." Diego says a couple minutes in of us searching the place.

"It's too... clean..." I mumble and he points at me in agreement.

"Exactly."

"Stay focused for once, darling." Lila sighs. She searches through the cupboards and groans. "Al the files are gone."

Five looks in the desk drawers too and sighs. "Yeah, certainly looks that way."

"Do you think they tried to throw it away?" I ask and Diego claps my back.

"Now you're thinking recon!" He mumbles something about dinks being twiddled and heads into the back of the apartment.

I wait until he leaves and I walk over to Five quickly, grabbing his sleeve to pull him into  another room. "Sweetheart, what's wrong?" He asks softly, closing the door behind us for me and he knew something was up. "I know something is troubling you." He brushes his thumb on my cheek.

I didn't know how to start this, or if I should just blurt it out-should I even tell him I know-we always said communication is important-ok fuck it-

"-I was awake... listening into the conversation between you and Diego... and between Diego and Lila..." different emotions flicked through my loves eyes; worry, sadness, frustration. But one that really kicks me in the gut is the flash of regret.

"I know... you and Lila were on the mission together... I just... don't understand why you didn't tell me. I know you can't talk much about specific details but to hear it from her telling her own husband-who thought she was cheating on-was you at a cafe? You... why didn't you clear things up with your brother... or with me...?"

"(Y/n)-" I step back when he tries to reach out for me and he looks even more heartbroken.

"You've been... lying to me more often than you promised you wouldn't. I get it, NDA with the CIA and all but this? With you and Lila and Diego being in the dark and you not telling me you had your mission with Lila. I don't mind you spending time with your sister-in-law it's just... why do you have to hide it? That's what's bugging me."

Five looks so sad when he holds my cheeks, brushing his thumbs against the skin as he presses a kiss on my forehead. "I'm so sorry... you're right. I should've told you. I didn't know myself until I saw Lila separately at the mission location myself. She was doing her own investigation outside of mine. But you're right... I should've told you this."

"Five... there's just... doubt urking me in the back of my mind..."

"Doubt about what, baby? I truly am so sorry."

"Are you happy?" I ask him and he looks at me with worry. "Are you truly happy? With me-"

"-of course I am! I am. I'm happy with you-you're my happiness (y/n)."

"I know I can't give you certain things you've dreamed of-and I don't want to end up fighting like Lila and Diego and my parents-"

"-I promise you we won't end up like that, like them." I lean into Fives palm, his thumb stroking my cheek. "I swear. After this whole fiasco blows over, we can go back to our lives. To be honest, I think it's time for me to get a break from the CIA. I just want to be with you." He whispers, pecking my nose and then my lips. "(Y/n) I promise." I look at him and nod, hugging him tightly after and he holds me just as tight.

I hope he doesn't break anymore promises...

I sigh when I hear Diego yelling out for me and I pull away from my boyfriend who grumbles, equally upset that he ruined our little moment. I look at Five and brush his hair back gently before I leave him and head to his brother who was calling for me. I head to the back of the apartment, turning around to see Five taking books and shaking them about for any hidden clues with Lila talking to him. 

I sigh and find Diego standing in front of a dumpster. "What are you doing?" I ask and he grins at me.

"Looking for close Crazy."

"That's Klaus nickname for me."

"Yeah well, it works." I roll my eyes and I see Diego suddenly look serious as he grips the edge of the dumpster. "Kid, just..." he sighs, reaching over to pet my head. "Are you ok?" I look at him in confusion and I see the worry in his eyes.

"What do you mean-"

"-I mean... is Five treating you well? Are you... happy with him...?"

"Of course I am Diego. Why do you ask-"

"-I don't want him hurting you." Diego turns to me, holding my shoulders and chuckling dryly. "There's one thing us Hargreeves men are experts at. Hurting the ones we love the most. It's like we can never keep them close and let them slip past our fingers. I don't want that happening to you and Five. Especially when me and Lila-" he grimaces, shaking his head. "Nevermind." 

"I know..." I sigh out and he looks at me in confusion. "About Lila and Five's little mission and the cafe and him being the twiggy Greek." 

Diego grumbles in annoyance under his breath before speaking up. "(y/n), I'm serious when I say you can come to me ok. If that asshole hurts you anyway, you come to me. Hell, Luther or Klaus even. Ok." I hold back my tears and nod before he pulls me into a hug. "You're my own kid too. I have to make sure you're ok."

"Thought I was your sister."

"Don't make it weird kid. You're with my ass of a brother." knife boy chuckles and pulls back, banging the dumpster. "You wanna dive in?"

"Oh hell no!" I retch, stepping back. "That's nasty!" 

Diego shrugs. "Suit yourself." he pulls himself up in headfirst into the garbage in the dumpster. "Damn, it smells like ass."

"What did you expect!" I scoff and he chucks a piece of rubbish at me and I screech as I dodge it. He comes back out after a few minutes after finding zilch. "Now what?" Diego thinks it over and it looks like he had an idea, holding my jaw and tilting my head up with his to look at a vent above us and I smack his hand away in disgust and using my sleeve to wipe my face. But I saw what he was seeing too. There was something in the vents.

"You think you can grab it if you stand on the edge of the dumpster?" he asks me and I give him a pointed look.

"And how am I supposed to jump up on it?"

"I'll lift you up and keep you steady."

"Jeez ok fine." Diego stands behind me and holds my waist tightly before easily lifting me up so I was standing on the edge of the dumpster. "Oh shit!" I wobble and he holds my legs tightly.

"Easy! I don't wanna die if Five finds out I accidentally dropped you." he hold some steady and I reach up to move the vent grate, black bags falling into the dumpster. "Bingo!" he helps me back down and pulls the bags onto the floor to rip them open. We look through the papers and files to find something interest and I open a file that talked about something called the Cleanse.

"Look at this!" I pass it to him as he reads it over. "Whatever this cleanse is, it's our Apocalypse in this timeline." Diego helps me up on my feet and we head back into the living room to show our partners. I jump when I hear the sudden whoosh associated to time jumping and see Five and Lila fall onto a couch, me giving my boyfriend a pointed look and he points at Lila and I realised that she made him do it.

How immersed is Diego while reading that file to not hear the loud whoosh!?

I smack his arm and he turns around to see his wife and his brother sitting down on a couch. "The hell are you doing?"

"Did you find anything, love?" Lila replies to her husband.

"Oh, I found something. Something's that gonna blow this case wide open." I facepalm at his obliviousness.

"Our apocalypse for this timeline is called the Cleanse. Nifty." I say sarcastically, Five walking up to me to hold my waist, reaching over to take the file to read over it. "Jennifer is related." I grumble. My love reads out the document since I was the only one who couldn't read Italian.

"Umbrella Academy? That's impossible. There was no Umbrella Academy in 2006."  

"Not in this timeline." Diego says.

"It must be one of Gene and Jean's artifacts."

"Keep reading." Diego stares at his brother and he continues to read out loud.

"October 14th 2006." Five mutters, him blinking in surprise."

"Wait, what's so special about October 14th, 2006."

"The day, Ben died..." I explain softly, reading over the document.

"Our Ben." Diego sighs.

"That's a coincidence." my boyfriend sighs out while Diego goes on. hisspiel about Jennifer and Ben being connected.

"Five... why does it say 2 Umbrella Academy casualties?" I whisper to him as I point at the document. "I understand Ben would be one... but who's the other?" he furrows his brow, flipping through the page if anything explains it. "Is... Jennifer...?" I look at him with wide eyes. "Was Allison right? Is she a Hargreeves?"

"If she is... she has powers too." Five mutters with concern. "Explains why Dad would be locking her away in a town full of guards."

"So this report... was this from your original timeline...? About that day... Ben..."

"If it's an artifact like the others from different timelines... maybe."

"We need to go tell the others." Diego says, quickly taking the report and heading out of the building.

"We don't have the van, remember love!?" Lila gasps and that makes him pause.

"I swear to god yall still stuck in the early ages. I'll call an uber if anyone knows the address of-wait, where did the others go?" I ask, realising Luther, Allison and Viktor were not here.

"They went to see dad. I have the address." Five explains and he tells me the address as I book us an uber.

I gasp when I Five holds my hand tightly and pulls me with him into the mansion quickly with the guards trying to stop us.

"We need to talk about Ben!" Diego exclaims, the four uf us walking into the living room and I stop short seeing Reggies wife.

"No bloody way. I finally get to see the reason Reggie has put everyone in this room through pain and grief." I hiss, glaring down at the woman. "Nice to finally meet you Abigail. Finally alive now huh. Reggie actually succeeded to bring you back to life after the torment he put his kids through." I scoff, ignoring the way she frowns at my words.

"And who might you be, spouting nonsense at my wife-"

"-of course you don't know me!" I laugh dryly. "What a convenient way for you to escape your transgressions!" Five quickly pulls me back before I could try to hurt his father-well try to-for everything he put us through!

"What have you done?" Abigail turns to Reggie who sputters saying that none of this was due to his actions.

"No, it's because of you!" I hiss at Abigail. "It started with you!"

"(y/n)!" Five says gently to grab my attention, shaking his head as he holds my face to keep my attention on him. I huff but take a breath to calm down before he leads me to sit down. I drop down in annoyance next to Viktor, my arms crossed as the brothers explain what they have found in Jean and Gene's apartment and the report they passed to the siblings to read. "From what I can tell, this document is from our original timeline. It explains how Ben died. It refers to it as the 'Jennifer Incident'." the Hargreeves quickly turn to me and I sigh out.

"Throughout the seasons, not once did we get anything explained about this incident. I knew about a 'Jennifer's Incident' bit that's it. The show never explicitly explains anything. Just a name for the day Ben died."

"We already know how Ben died." Luther says.

"Ok then. Tell us." Five says and I look at him in confusion.

"Well, it was a tragic accident. Ben, our Ben, died because we failed as a team. Nobody was responsible, and..."

"And what?" my love urges his brother to go on and it clicks.

They don't know.

They never knew.

That's why the show never explained anything!

Luther looks confused and Abigail and I glare down Reggie.

"Allison, how did Ben die?" my boyfriend asks his siblings one by one and they end up saying the same thing over and over again, like a broken record spewing the same words on a script.

"Ok, can any one of you remember how Ben actually died?" Five asks his family and they all looked lost and dumbfounded.

"I... I wasn't there." Viktor says.

"Well, neither was I, but the rest of you were. You'd think you'd remember something about the death of your beloved brother, but you don't." my sweet assassin explains, glaring at his father.

"What did you do to them." I hiss at Reggie and he looks flabbergasted.

"Isn't it obvious?" my love smirks. "Someones been playing putty with your hippocampus."

"You messed with their memories!?" I sneer, Viktor quickly standing up to hold my arm and keep me back.

"As fascinating as this may be, I assure you I haven't the foggiest notion of what this is about." Reggie exclaims. "You are speculating about the actions of a completely different version of myself from a completely different timeline. That said, it does sound like something I might do."

"Of course!" I hiss softly. This entire thing was giving me a headache. I ease up when I feel Five gently squeeze my waist, his thumb rubbing soothing circles against my lower back and I turn around to lay my head on his shoulder.

"There may or may not have been a certain clandestine project with a certain clandestine intelligence agency."

"Human experiments on the mind." my boyfriend scoffs, turning to look at his father. "I should have known."

"Psychological warfare was all the rage in the '60s, but it was only a brief contract. Immensely lucrative." Reggie continues to explain. 

"So you can erase memories?" Luther asks his father.

"With the human mind, anything is possible, young man."

"If you can erase them, you can restore them." I pipe up, crossing my arms.

"With the proper technology."

"Which you obviously fucking have." I sneer. "And I know the machine is gonna be here somewhere in this mansion. Don't lie to me!"

"All right, old man, you're gonna put 'em back, each and every memory to do with Ben's death. Because if you erased the Jennifer incident, that means there was something important enough that you'd take the time to get rid of it." Five orders but he father sputters.

"I will do no such thing! We need to track down the girl before it's too late!"

"Reggie, please."

"Darling, this is messy work. It could take hours, days."

"Whatever chain of events has been set in motion is ultimately your handiwork. Whatever timeline it happened in, help them. Please." I raise a brow seeing Reggie so whipped for his wife and begrudgingly agree.

"That's something I never thought I would see." I whisper to my love and he nods as he brushes his thumb against my hip, holding me to his side and I smirk at him. "I see where you get it from." he glances down at me with a raised brow. "Your mannequin obsession, the way youre whipped fo ryour partner." I tease softly and he rolls his eyes with a smile.

"Apple doesn't fall far from the adoptive tree,." he mutters, leaning down to press a kiss on my forehead as we follow everyone to wherever Reggie hid the so-called memory erasing machine. We waited around for about an hour or two for him to start up the machine again and calibrate it to return memories before getting the three amigoes to get on the chairs.

"I hope this doesn't fry their brains even more. It looks like a death machine." I nervoulsy bite my thumb watching Reggie strapping Allison, Luther and Diego in. I turn to look up at Five and he nods in agreement, seeing the nervous look on his face. He was just as worried about them as I was, his grip tightening on my waist by his side. Viktor asks if he could join to get the memories too, Reggie strapping him in before he asks Lila, Five and I but we decline.

"Yeah, I think I'm going to spectate." Lila says

"Ditto. No offense, but I'm not letting you near my gray matter." my love says and I nod.

"Agreed. I'm not letting you mess with my head again." Reggie dismisses us and goes to the swithboard to start things off. Lila goes to Diego to strap him in, putting the mouthguard in his mouth to shut him after after what she told him cause now he was thrashing against the seat.

What did she say to him!?

Weird how some of the old releases of the season sneak peaks didn't even relate in the actual show. Missed them old theories below lol

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YO DID YALL SEE THE LEAKS OF THE UNDERGROUND ABANDONED TRAIN STATION AND THE GIANT SOCCER STADIUM?????

We been known that the first ep would be at a train station cause of season three ending with Ben in a train.

BUT WHATS WITH THE SOCCER STADIUM???? Do you think one of the family members got a career in sports or something?? Maybe Luther. I wouldn't be surprised. But if that's the case did he find Sloane or is he grieving through illegal sporting activities for the loss of her like he did in season two with the illegal boxing matches??

ALSO RITU AND DAVID WERE TOGETHER FIRST FOR FILMING SO DOES THAT MEAN WE MIGHT LEGIT SEE A GLIMPSE INTO LILA AND DIEGOS LIFE IF THEY WERE NORMAL????? Like how's they would live their life together without their powers. Cause Lila is preggos. How funny would it be if Diego was stuck having an office job to financially support his family and unborn kid lol. He would be miserable.