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End of My World

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy Summary: After almost ending the world/universe three times, Reginald Hargreeves finally inadvertently got what he wanted. Viktor is now terrified of his powers and would quite literally do anything to keep them from coming back. Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt (failed), medical trauma, mentions of sibling death, mentions of substance abuse, addiction recovery, and depression Word Count: Ship(s): Viktor Hargreeves & Everyone

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TRIGGER WARNING: The following fanfiction graphically depicts the after effects of a failed suicide attempt and goes into detail about the reasoning behind the suicide attempt. If these things could trigger you, please continue with caution.

A/N: I had the idea of Viktor absolutely freaking out if his powers were to return to him after the season finale of season 03, especially if everyone else has settled into their lives and is happy now. There also aren't a lot of Viktor angst fics, so I decided that I was going to add my own. This is kind of based off of my experiences with depression, which is why it might not match up with typical experience depicted in content. There's some good hurt/comfort mixed in here, so I hope it turns out good. Stay sissy and bitchy everyone <3

End of My World

An Umbrella Academy Fanfiction

A Viktor Hargreeves-Centric Fanfiction

By Sissytobitch10seconds

"Am I speaking to Klaus Katz?"

"Yes, who is this?" Klaus asked. He couldn't help the smile that fell over his face at hearing that name. In the new timeline, a lot of them had renamed themselves to escape the 'Hargreeves' branding all over The City where they had appeared. Sloane and Ben had chosen Sparrow, Allison was already Chestnut, and Five had gotten to pick a whole name for himself. Luther and Diego had taken the name of the women that they married. Klaus had chosen his mother's name, Herschsberger, until he got married to Dave, who happened to be transported forward like Raymond had for Allison.

"I'm calling from Benika Memorial Hospital. You were listed as Viktor Skripka's emergency contact. Is that right?" the woman on the other end asked.

He felt his stomach drop out from beneath him. He reached out to the form of his napping husband next to him. His heart was beating up in his throat as he felt a shock of anxiety unlike he had in years. Dave jerked awake and gave him a worried look just as Klaus answered, "Yeah. I didn't know that I was his emergency contact but I am his brother."

"I'm sorry to say this, but there's been an accident. Your brother has been admitted to the hospital," the woman said. Her voice did earnestly sound sorry for him, not that his brain was really registering it. Part of him hated her because she was delivering the news of what could be a tragedy to him. He was grounded by the feeling of Dave's hand clutching his arm in reassurance.

"Wh-what kind of accident?" he asked worriedly.

"I'm afraid that I can't disclose medical details over the phone," she said. "But we need you to come to the hospital anyway, there's certain medical questions we have to ask since at the moment Viktor is incapable of answering them himself."

"Alright, of course. I'll be there right away," Klaus said before the other line went dead as the woman hung up. He glanced over at his husband, feeling tears welling up in his eyes.

Dave sat up, immediately more awake now that he could see how distressed his lover was. "Baby, what's going on? Where are you going?"

Klaus slipped off of the bed and began to dig through the piles of clothes around their room from doing laundry the night before. "I have to go to the hospital, one of my brothers apparently had an accident. And he's either not conscious or not coherent enough to answer questions," he said. He pulled on one of Dave's t-shirts, which hung loosely off his frame in a way that he and his husband would have liked to explore had the situation not been what it was.

"Where do you have to go then?" he slipped off of the bed and began to find some relatively presentable clothes for himself. "If it's far then we're going to have to pack."

The ex-superhero shook his head as he tugged on a pair of pants and began to search for two matching shoes. "We don't have to pack anything. It's at Benika Memorial, in town."

"Isn't your brother married? Why would he put you down as his emergency contact?" Dave asked, brows furrowing together in confusion.

Klaus paused for a moment and let his shoulders sag. He pressed his hands over his face for a moment as he tried to push back all the memories of his siblings being hurt (and Ben dying) out of his mind to explain the situation to his husband. "Diego and Lila got married specifically so that they could have easier hospital and custody access, so they wouldn't be calling me. However, I have another brother in The City that you never met. His name is Viktor."

It took a second but the blond nodded in understanding. "Alright, Benika Memorial here we come."

"Thanks for being willing to come with me," Klaus murmured as he pressed a kiss to his husband's cheek. He hadn't told him everything about his past as he was pretty sure that if he did then they wouldn't have even got past the first real date, let alone a year into marriage. Dave did, however, know the majority of the things that had happened, including the fact that he had basically watched one of his brothers die.

"Of course, my love," he murmured as he pressed a kiss to Klaus' forehead. For a moment it felt like they were back in the first timeline, back in Vietnam when they first fell in love with each other. Of course, Dave didn't remember that time but Klaus still looked back on those memories of their moments as if they were his most treasured possessions.

They finished getting ready before they hurried out of their apartment down to where their car was parked along the street. Klaus was eerily quiet as they merged into traffic and went towards the hospital. Memories of Ben, beaten and bloody and whimpering, kept flashing through his mind despite the fact that it had been almost fifteen years to the dot. The dead-raiser leaned his head against the cool glass of the window to try and sooth the anxiety-induced flush in his face. He could feel his palms sweating and he was shaking just a bit like when he went to rehab and had withdrawals. He shuddered when the huge white walls of the hospital came into view, treasuring the moments that they spent in the parking lot outside while looking for a spot. As they walked towards the general admittance doors, Dave reached over so that he was holding his husband's hand in an attempt to reassure him.

They had to wait while other family members that had arrived before him walked up to the receptionist to ask after their loved ones. Klaus picked at the dog tags that still hung from his neck to try and soothe his nerves. He walked up to the desk once it was finally their turn, giving the kind looking man sitting behind the desk a wary smile. "Hi, I'm the family of Viktor Spripka."

"Right," he nodded as he tapped the name into the database on his computer. "Klaus Katz?"

"That's me," he nodded.

"You need to go up to the surgical floor. It's floor three, and then the receptionist up there can direct you to his doctor," he said, pointing towards the stairs and elevator.

Klaus nodded and then nearly dragged his husband in that direction with his desperation to get to his brother. He was still playing with the dogtags as they rode the elevator up to the surgical floor. The second receptionist sent one of the surgical residents to bring them to Viktor's room. Each step that they took added another weight to his chest. He could hear the ghosts of people that had recently passed away so hadn't yet found their way out and hospital staff that were comfortable there. The ghosts had only started reappearing a few weeks ago, but his powers were steadily returning to him. The buzzing of his power in his ears and the anxiety over his brother's condition were making it really hard to pay attention to where the resident was leading them. She turned and then pressed the door open so that they could both walk in.

He felt his heart skip a beat and his stomach sink down into the bottom of his gut when he saw the figure of his brother. Viktor had always been small, even when they were all little kids, but he looked like a child as he laid in the huge hospital bed. He was hooked up to several monitors and had two IVs, one for fluids and the other for blood. He also had a respirator hooked up to his mouth instead of the standard oxygen. He had bandages wrapped around the majority of his arms and around his neck.

"The doctor should be in to discuss his case with you in a moment," the resident explained softly as she let the door slip shut behind her.

Dave glanced at his husband after making sure that the resident doctor had really gone. He was able to grab a chair and place it underneath Klaus just as he began to collapse. Klaus placed one hand over his mouth for just a moment before he reached out and clasped Viktor's hand in his own. "Oh Viktor. What happened to you?"

They waited in silence, Klaus clutching his brother's hands and glancing between his face and his monitors to make sure that he was alive. Dave hovered behind his husband while trying to figure out what he was supposed to do in this kind of a situation.

The door opened as someone knocked on the frame. They both looked up to see someone wearing dark gray scrubs with a white lab coat. Behind her was a woman that looked oddly familiar, not that Klaus was in the right state of mind to place who she was. "Hi, I'm Dr. Lorem. I'm your brother's surgeon. This is Detective Patch, she's going to have to ask you a couple questions."

"Was Viktor involved in a crime?" Klaus asked, his head snapping up to stare at them both.

"That's what we're trying to figure out. I was called to do a wellness check on your brother earlier today and when I showed up," she paused and winced. "This might be a little hard to hear but I do have to disclose this part of the case so you can give me the answers that I need. I found him with his throat and arms covered in deep lacerations," Patch explained.

Dr. Lorem chimed in then, "Before Office Patch has the chance to ask you anything about the case I do want to explain a bit of his situation to you and hopefully assuage some fears. When he came to us he had lost a lot of blood. The EMTs had tried their best to pack the wounds on his neck and arms but his blood pressure was too weak since his heart had barely anything to pump around his body. He did code while our trauma team worked on getting his wounds to actually stop bleeding, but we were able to get him back with minimal drugs and CPR. The laceration on his neck was deep enough that it injured his airway so we had to intubate him. Hopefully in the next couple of days we can wean him off of it. We did have to do surgery to close a couple of the cuts because they were so deep. If you have questions about that then I can introduce you to our venous and plastic specialists who helped assist me in the surgery. We also had to pump his stomach since his body was having a negative reaction to some of the substances that he ingested, which is one of the questions I needed to ask you about. For now, what you really need to take away from this is that your brother is okay. He's struggling and he's got a long road ahead of him, but he is stable and recovering."

Klaus felt his shoulders sag a little bit when the end of the doctor's speech finally sunk in. "He's okay, he's okay," he murmured as he leaned into the touch of his husband. Dave had begun to rub soothing circles in between his shoulders to try and keep his nerves at bay while they took in the information from the doctor. He then turned his head up towards the ceiling, blinking away his tears before he looked back to the two women. "Alright. You had questions for me and I'm Viktor's emergency contact, so I can answer them," he felt a small swell of pride as he realized that his brother had listed him out of all of their siblings to be his next of kin.

"First things first, with the medical questions," Dr. Lorem said. "Does your brother take any medications, or has he been known to abuse substances in the past?"

The recovering addict had to stop himself from laughing inappropriately at the question. "For the majority of his life he was on anti-anxiety mood suppressants that didn't mix well with other substances so he didn't even take any other types of strong medication until he went off of them two years ago. I think he drinks, but he doesn't do hard drugs."

"Does Viktor have any allergies that you know of?" she asked next after noting it on the electronic chart in her hands.

"No, he lucked out on that one," Klaus forced a small smile.

"Is there anything else that you think we should know when it comes to his medical history? Feel free to give me any information that pops into your mind. I'm trained on how to sort through that kind of thing," she chuckled comfortingly.

Klaus went quiet for a bit as he let the sound of the respirator and the beeping of Viktor's heart monitor soothe the nerves bubbling up in his gut. "Uh, he’s about two years into his transition. I know he takes testosterone shots and he got top surgery a year ago. Other than that I don't know anything else about his medical history," he shrugged. "He never got sick or had any major injuries when we were kids. Oh, wait. About two years ago he, uh, got in a couple of fights we never got checked out for. He might have had some concussions and dislocations."

Dr. Lorem's mouth went small for a moment before she nodded in understanding. "As a doctor I'm going to have to gently reprimand you for not bringing your brother to the doctor when you should have. It never hurts to get checked out when you think something might be wrong."

"Right," he nodded. If they had been able to, he would have dragged all his siblings to the infirmary to get checked out every time they so much as stubbed their toes. After watching Ben die in the Jennifer Incident he had always had the impulse to be overprotective over them, but he had held himself back with the self-control he never extended to his addictions.

"I'll leave Detective Patch to ask her questions now. If you need me, let the nurses know and they'll page me," she gave them a kind smile as she got up and left the room.

Klaus took a couple of deep breaths before he ran a hand through his thick curls. Dave gave his shoulder a reassuring squeeze, which helped settle his nerves even further. It was like there were only a few things that were grounding him and every time they receded even a little bit the anxiety would spring viciously back to life.

Detective Patch drew up one of the plastic chairs on the other side of the bed from Klaus and Dave. "So one of your brother's students called the station today to ask for a wellness check because he hadn't shown up to a couple of the meetings that he agreed to. When I got there I found him and had to perform what first aid I knew before the EMTs arrived. I did have to force my way in because I wasn't getting a response and his neighbors were also worried. I have two sets of questions I need to ask you, alright?"

"Okay," Klaus nodded weakly. Having to deal with the ghosts was taking a toll on his mental health because he was sleeping less. The anxiety and worry for his brother was only serving to make him more exhausted, but he knew he had to push himself to help Viktor.

"Let me know if at any point you need to stop. I can always come back or you can come to the police station to finish giving us the information we need," Patch said kindly. She then cleared her throat as she started her questioning, "I noticed that you brother is trans. Did he ever talk about having any coworkers or neighbors that might want to hurt him? Someone close enough to him to know where he lives."

"He's never mentioned anything like that. The school he works at is very progressive and if his coworkers don't like his identity they don't really talk about it," Klaus shook his head. Viktor had only mentioned his school in passing and he was always talking about how much he loved his students or being able to pick what he wanted to play. "He doesn't know anyone that intimately in his orchestra. Not enough for them to break into his home and hurt him."

"Okay," Patch nodded. "Now, I hate to bring this up but the wounds that your brother was brought in with were congruent with that of someone that might have tried to take their own life. Has Viktor ever shown any suicidal tendencies or mentioned anything about not wanting to be around anymore?"

He felt his heart sink into his stomach and a shock of panic rush through him. Viktor had been isolated from them his entire life and then again when they arrived in their new timeline and chose to go their separate ways. He had been so wrapped up in getting to Dave again that he hadn't even thought about how his brother must have felt. "I… I don't know. He's never mentioned anything like that to me but it's not completely out of the question for him to… to have tried to… kill himself." It was like the words were being slowly pulled from him with a string, forcing their way out of his throat and past his lips despite his objections.

"Alright. We'll keep looking into his case but unfortunately if he was attacked there's very little that we can do until he wakes up," the detective explained. "Feel free to call the police department and ask for me if you need to, alright?"

"Of course, Detective Patch," Dave answered for his husband. The officer allowed herself out of the room after giving her work number to the aforementioned man. They were once again left alone in the room with Viktor, so Dave gave his husband a few minutes to process everything that had happened. "My love, don't you think that we should contact your other siblings to tell them what happened? Viktor is their brother too."

"Right, right. You're right," Klaus sighed as he rubbed a hand over his face. He grabbed his phone and flicked to the sibling that had been closest to Viktor before the whole debacle with the end of the universe had gone down.

The phone rang three times before Allison answered. "Hey Klaus! What's up?"

He leaned back in his chair, throwing his arm to where Dave was now sitting in another one of the uncomfortable hospital chairs. Dave clutched his hand and rubbed his thumb over Klaus' knuckles soothingly, which was the only thing that gave the recovering addict the strength to do this. "I have some news," he sighed.

"News? Are you and Dave finally looking in to having a kid?" she nearly squealed.

In the background he could hear Raymond reading to Claire, who had turned into a fanatic reader after her step-father's entrance into her life. His heart ached like a stone in his chest as he realized that the news might ruin her wonderful day. "No. It's not good news, I'm afraid. Viktor- he's in the hospital."

"I didn't think that he was going to have another surgery. They were too expensive or something," Allison replied, sounding a little bit uninterested.

"No. Allison," Klaus nearly whined. What he wouldn't give for a hit of the morphine Viktor was getting through his IV. "He, um, he almost died. One of his students called a wellness check on him and the officer found him bleeding out on the floor. They don't know much about the case other than that."

"Oh," was the only thing that came from his sister for a good three minutes. "Is he… is he…"

He let his eyes fall closed and ignored the tear that streaked down his cheek because of it. This was going to be the hardest thing he had done since he clutched the body of his dying lover in his hands in the middle of a battlefield. "He's not dead. His surgeon said that he's got a long road ahead of him but he's recovering for now."

"Surgeon?" Allison almost shrieked. The light happy voices in the background died down immediately. "He had to have surgery?"

"It's not like this is his first time going under the knife but apparently he did code when he was in the ER," Klaus began to chew at his nails to try and satisfy the urge to go and numb himself with whatever opioids this hospital had stocked.

He could practically see his sister's eyes widening as he spoke. She took in a sharp breath as she whispered, "Oh my God. Our brother was dead, Klaus."

"Not the first time that's happened," he shuddered as he remembered the blood soaked rug in the White Buffalo Suite and Six's (which is what they had taken to calling the Ben from their original universe) ripped up body. His bones and joints ached as he remembered all of the times that he had died during his training as well.

"Yeah, but we're not supposed to be fighting big scary shit anymore. We're just supposed to be living our lives. Viktor's a teacher for God's sake," Allison scoffed. "He probably has the safest job out of all of us."

Klaus bit the edges of his tongue as he tried to restrain himself. He couldn't keep the words back, finally saying, "He might be a teacher but he's still open about being trans at his school because it helps some of his high school age students."

Allison took in a shaky breath before she asked, "You think that this was a hate crime?"

"I don't know. Listen, I have to call and tell the others. I'll keep you updated on his condition if you want," he offered.

"That would be amazing. I'm going to book a flight out there as soon as I can so that I can help out. Do you think that he'd want to see me in the hospital or should I just… message him?" Klaus could almost see her pausing and her posture becoming awkward as she realized. Viktor and Allison hadn't quite made up since the (almost) end of the universe, even if they were back on speaking terms like they had been before his book in their original timeline.

The recovering addict took a moment to think. Dave's hand moved to take his own, grounding him again so that his thoughts were able to clear. "I think that he's going to need all of the support that he can get," he cleared his throat to stop himself from blurting out the other possibility that had caused Viktor's ailment.

"Okay. Keep me updated, please. I want to know everything, even the bad stuff," Allison said, her voice tight with worry.

"I will," he promised. He took a moment when the line went dead before he looked for the next sibling on his list. He wasn't looking forward to this phone call, not that he was looking forward to any of them.

"Diego speaking," the voice on the other end said immediately after the second ring on the phone.

Klaus winced as he could hear Chrysanthemum, Diego's eighteen-month-old, babbling close to the phone. He knew that the little girl most likely wouldn't be able to tell what they were talking about but she would recognize his voice and Viktor's name. "Hey Dee."

"Klaus, what's up?" his brother asked.

"Well, I have some pretty serious news," he glanced back towards the vitals of his injured brother to reassure himself that he wouldn't have to be delivering even worse news.

The other man went quiet for a moment. "You didn't relapse, did you?"

Klaus let out a little scoffing laugh. What he would give to be calling to have to admit that, however shameful it would be, instead of what he was actually calling to say. "No, but I have been thinking about it," Dave gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. "Viktor is in the hospital."

Just as he suspected, the name got a squeal from the little girl. "V! Uncle V!" Her words had gotten a lot clearer in the short amount of time that Klaus had been away from her. Despite himself, he felt a small smile tug itself across his face as he heard the adorable lisp.

"Mija, I need you to go find Mama," Diego said almost immediately. Klaus could hear some shuffling from the other end of the call as Diego passed his daughter off to her mother despite her protests about wanting to be held and be close to her uncles, even if it was through a call. As soon as she was away from the line, he asked, "What do you mean in the hospital?"

He rubbed his brow as he explained basically the same information he had given Allison. "But there's already a detective on the case."

"Shit, I think it was Eudora that got sent on that wellness check," Diego swore when he finally pieced the puzzle Klaus had given him together. The recovering addict felt his eyes widen as he realized that he had been speaking to his savior from another timeline, and that she was alive in this one. He had also forgotten that Diego also worked as an officer, though he was a beat cop right now, in the same precinct that would have been in charge of Viktor's neighborhood. "Don't worry. As much as I want to go and check it out for myself I won't. But I am going to ask if she has any details about Viktor's case when I go into work tomorrow. Is he awake?"

"No. I think he's sedated. They had to intubate him because he had a cut on his throat that hurt his airway or something," Klaus leaned his head so that it was resting on Dave's shoulder. The comfort he got from being in this close proximity to his husband was mixed with the reassurance of seeing his brother's chest rise and fall with each breath.

"Okay. Let me know when a good time to come and visit is. I'm going to tell Lila and figure out how to explain this to Chrys," Diego sighed.

"See you, Dee. I'll keep you updated," Klaus said just as his brother hung up. He took a moment to relax and not have to explain this to anyone else as he messaged Ben. The aforementioned Sparrow loathed talking on the phone and still acted aloof enough that he wasn't sure he should expend what little energy he had left on calling him to explain the situation. He was still their sibling and still deserved to know, however. After a moment of breathing, with Dave pressing kisses to his temple and the top of his head, he dialed Luther's number and then pressed the phone to his ear.

"Sparrow residence, this is Sloane speaking," the chipper voice of his sister-in-law cut through the ringing of the phone when the two lines connected.

He felt some of the tension in his shoulders drain away when he heard Sloane. While he hadn't spent a ton of time with her since they had all settled down in The City, he enjoyed talking with her more than he did his own adoptive sister. She was much kinder and even when she was upset, she always expressed her feelings by stating them out loud instead of having huge blow up fights like Allison did. She was much easier to talk to, probably the easiest person to talk to out of all of their siblings. "Hey Sloane. Is Luther there? I have some family news."

"We were actually in the middle of baking something for a work potluck. I can put you on speaker?" she offered.

"Yeah, that would probably work best," he sighed. He was going to have to tell Sloane as well, as she had gotten pretty close with Viktor as well. She was working in the same elementary school that Viktor worked at bi-weekly. She gave him the cue once she turned the speaker on and then set the phone down between herself and her husband. Klaus took a deep breath as he got ready to explain everything for the fourth time. "Alright. This might be hard to hear, but Viktor is in the hospital."

"Hospital? What happened?" Luther asked immediately.

"He had an accident. His wrists and throat were cut up pretty bad, he coded in the ER and then had to have surgery. He's sleeping right now," Klaus explained.

There was the sound of something dropping on the other end as Luther, predictably, froze while trying to process the information. "Oh my God. Is he going to be okay?" Sloane asked. He knew that she was going to be able to comfort his brother and help him deal with it all.

"The doctor said that he has a long road of recovery ahead but that he should be okay," Klaus nodded despite the fact that they couldn't see him. "I'll keep you guys updated. You're welcome to come and visit if you want, but it's pretty boring. And shocking. He's hooked up to a lot of shit."

"We'll be there to visit as soon as we can. It's going to take us a while to process all of this," Sloane replied. "Thank you for telling us Klaus. Be sure to let us know if anything happens."

He let out a small sigh when the call came to a close. "I will," he murmured as he hung up. The last person that he had to call was the person that he had been putting off since he had started informing the whole family. He rubbed his forehead with one hand after dropping Dave's while he searched for the last number. He dialed it and then pressed it to his ear as he let it ring.

"What do you want?" Five snapped when the call finally connected.

"Aww, is that any way to talk to your favorite brother?" Klaus cooed. It felt natural to slip into this kind of easy sniping back and forth despite the serious situation that they were in.

"You know very well that you are not my favorite brother," Five replied dryly.

"Mm, yes, we both know that's Luther," he clicked his tongue. "But I didn't call you to talk about family matters in that sense, dear brother of mine. I have news about Viktor."

"What about him?" came Five's immediate response. The poor man was constantly paranoid about another apocalypse or one of his siblings being hunted and killed by the Commission.

Klaus winced as he realized that he was delivering precisely the type of information that Five didn't want to ever have to deal with again. He leaned forward in his chair so that he was holding Viktor's hand while he spoke. "There was an accident and now Viktor is in the hospital."

"Which hospital?"

"Five, he's sedated right now. He had to have surgery and lost a lot of blood but he's stable. You don't have to come to the hospital and watch over him while he sleeps," he tried to joke like he had been before, but just couldn't bring himself to force the lightheartedness into his words.

"Which hospital, you asshat?" Five demanded.

He let out a small sigh of reluctance before he answered, "Benika Memorial." The words had barely left his mouth before there was a flash of blue light and Five was standing in the hospital room on the other side of the bed than them. Klaus brought the phone down to his lap and hung up the call. Next to him, Dave jumped and placed a hand over his heart to try and sooth his own panicking nerves.

Five stared down at their brother's tiny form, hooked up to dozens of tubes and other hospital equipment. When he turned his head up so that he was looking back towards his family, his eyes were wide and nearly feral. "What the Hell happened?"

Dave answered for Klaus because his poor husband had been repeating the information over and over again that day. "We don't know. Apparently one of his students called a wellness check on him since he hadn't shown up to his classes or tutoring sessions. The officer found him bleeding out on his floor."

The oldest of the Hargreeves siblings simply hummed while he moved to sit down on one of the uncomfortable hospital chairs. His face was tight and pulled in like he was thinking, but Klaus couldn't figure out what. Even before he had spent forty-odd years in the apocalypse he had been hard to read and understand, so it was basically impossible to do now. The siblings lapsed into silence as they waited near their brother's bedside.

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The next several weeks were difficult for all of them. They came in rotations, visiting their brother every single time they had the opportunity to. Sloane had work all day but always did her grading beside Viktor's bedside as a favor to Luther who had to work for a lot longer. Diego came and visited every so often in between bothering Eudora and the other officers on his case to do more work. Allison had stayed with Klaus and Dave for the time that she was able to, but she had to fly back to LA after the first week. She sent flowers to Viktor's hospital room every couple of days in the hopes that it would reassure him that she did care once he finally woke up. Luther was in and out of the hospital room whenever he could be. Lila had only come by to visit once, but the sight of her uncle wrapped up in so many bandages with so many tubes had been too much for Chrysanthemum. Ben had traveled back from where he had been visiting art exhibits across the world to visit Viktor but hadn't stayed for longer than a couple of days. They all knew that as soon as Viktor woke up he would make a trip back to them. Klaus and Five were sitting vigil more than any of the others were as they were the closest to Viktor and had the most ability to do so. Five had taken time off from his college classes so that he could be there the moment his brother woke up.

It happened exactly twenty two days after he had been admitted to the hospital. Klaus and Sloane had just finished dragging Five away from Viktor's hospital room so that he could change his clothes and have a shower. Sloane forced one of the muffins she had stress baked into his hand along with the coffee that Klaus had gotten him from the cafe across the street. They settled into the uncomfortable hospital chairs as they watched over their family member.

According to the doctor, Viktor was doing much better. He had lost a couple of the tubes hooked up to him as he no longer needed quite as many vitamins since he was able to stomach the feeding tube. They also came to check on him less as he no longer needed quite as much attention. He was still intubated but apparently they were weaning him off of the sedation to see if he would wake up and be able to breathe on his own.

"Ben said that he picked something up for Viktor from his latest showing. He doesn't want everyone else to know but he is thinking about us," Sloane said after a moment of silence.

"Aww, how sweet of him," Klaus cooed.

Their oldest brother, who had basically been comatose for the entire time that he had been sitting in the chair, straightened up as all his muscles went rigid. He placed his coffee next to the muffin wrapper down on the table next to Viktor's hospital bed so that he could grab his aforementioned brother's hand. "Shut up, both of you," Five waved at them with his spare hand.

"What is it?" Sloane asked worriedly as she shifted in her chair as well.

"I thought that I heard a difference in his breathing," he murmured. They all went quiet, watching closely for any kind of difference in their loved one.

Viktor surged up on the bed, his eyes fluttering as he began to fight the intubation tube down his throat. His hand tightened almost painfully around Five's while the panic rushed through his system. He didn't know where he was, which was a huge trigger for him after he had been drugged by the government back in their second timeline. Sloane and Klaus both let out a panicked shriek when the noises in the room suddenly increased. Viktor's heart rate had also jumped substantially so it was closer to the hundreds instead of hovering around seventy beats per minute. Five stood up so that he was hovering over his brother while brushing his free hand across Viktor's face. "Hey, hey, you're in the hospital but we're all here. You're going to be okay. You have to breathe and calm down. The doctors had to intubate you, that's what's in your throat, okay? Just relax."

Sloane had rushed out into the hallway and got the attention of one of the nurses that was already heading towards their room to figure out what was going on. He hurried into the room and then carefully began to remove the intubation tube from Viktor's mouth and throat. Klaus had to physically pull Five away from their brother while the nurse worked on getting him to sit upright instead of just being leaned upwards. The medical professional then ran a quick test on some of Viktor's skills to test his motor functions. The doctor, who had been paged as soon as they realized that Viktor was actually awake, came in and asked him what felt like a million questions and ran a lot of the same tests to make sure everything was functioning perfectly.

The family was standing, bunched up against the wall as they watched over their loved one like he would disappear. As soon as the doctors and nurses had left, they swarmed him. Five was the quietest out of all of them, falling back down into his chair like the three weeks of poorly sleeping had finally hit him all at once.

Sloane moved so that she was sitting on the end of Viktor's hospital bed with one hand on his calf. She couldn't stop the bright smile that fell over her face. "I'm so glad that you're okay. You had us worried there for a bit."

"Little brother!" Klaus crowed as he wrapped his brother up in a hug. "Man, I thought that you were going to pull a me and have to go talk to the chick with the bicycle. Glad that I don't have to deal with your ghost."

Viktor blinked as he slowly reached his arms up and hugged Klaus. "I-I-I don't understand, what happened?"

"You almost died," Klaus supplied. "Well, you kind of did die. According to that nice doctor that was in here a second ago you died when you got to the ER and they had to revive you."

A lot seemed to be happening in the mind of their brother. He blinked at the three siblings as he slowly lowered himself back down onto his bed so his head was against the many pillows behind him. His face flashed with realization before, for the briefest of seconds, guilt covered his features. "How long have I been out?" he asked as he rubbed a hand over the side of his face.

"About three weeks. Your students brought some things for you," Sloane said, motioning to the posters from each of the schools that he taught at.

There was a highly colorful, glitter covered one from the elementary school that he taught at in the mornings every Tuesday and Thursday for the kids interested in early orchestra. Next to it was a smaller one that had quite a few personal get-well messages from the middle school kids he helped tutor every other Monday after school. There was another huge one that was from all of the orchestra students he taught at his high school. The last one was covered in little rainbow flags and 'get well soon' messages from the LGBT club he oversaw. "Love those kids," he said softly as a smile fell across his face. He cleared his throat, rubbing over the bandages that were still there. "Can I have some water, please?"

"Oh, yes, of course," she nodded. She handed him the glass that had been poured for him by the nurse that came to extubate him. "I'm going to go call everyone and tell them that you're awake, okay?"

Before Viktor had the chance to object about not wanting to bother anyone, Five sprang up out of his chair. "That sounds like a wonderful idea. Klaus, why don't you go with her so that she doesn't have to talk to our siblings alone?"

Klaus' brows furrowed together in confusion as he tried to figure out what his brother was trying to get out but chose not to. The last month had been so stressful that they were all acting a little bit weird. "Alright, schwester, let's get a move on," he linked their arms together and walked them out of the hospital room.

Viktor let his head hang back against the pillows and his eyes slip shut in exhaustion. Despite the fact that he had basically been sleeping for the better part of a month, he was still somehow so tired he barely had any energy. He jerked back upright when he felt Five moving closer to his bed next to him. "Viktor."

"Five," he replied, his voice deep and crackling like when he had first started taking his shots.

"Tell me what happened," he replied, raising a brow at his brother.

The smallest of the siblings felt panic begin to rise up to the surface. His face was pointed down towards his bandaged arms while the blood rushed to his cheeks. He didn't feel like he could breath and anxiety was clutching around his abdomen. "I…"

"Viktor," his voice was intense and serious. "You have to tell me."

"I don't have to tell you anything, Five," Viktor snapped. His anxiety was causing him to be aggressive despite knowing in the back of his mind that Five only had his best interests at heart.

"You really want to go there with me?" he growled. "You could tell me or you could tell the entire family when they show up to interrogate you. You know that they will. And, Viktor, if I find out that you've been doing some weird vigilante shit then I'm going to be your end."

He brought his hands up to his face so that his features were hidden away. "Maybe you should just end me," speaking so quietly that he wasn't sure his brother could even hear him talking let alone what the words were.

"Excuse me?" Five asked, going even more rigid than he had been before. He nearly sprang off the bed as he assumed a defensive pose, like Viktor was in any kind of shape to have a fight. "Would you care to repeat that for me?"

"I tried to kill myself, okay, Five?" he nearly shouted as he pulled his hands away from his face and looked to his brother. "I'm not running around like Diego did when he was being a cheap Batman knockoff. I'm a teacher at three different schools and I help the queer kids in my highschool. I have an orchestra that I play in too, so I don't even have time to run after criminals even if I wanted to. I just- I just tried to kill myself. Is that what you wanted to hear?"

With each word that the smaller man spoke, Five's eyes widened with shock. He sunk back down into his chair, clutching his hands in front of him. "What?" he asked after a moment of tense silence.

Viktor pursed his lips and looked away from his brother. "I tried to kill myself," he repeated.

"Why?"

Both of the brothers were left staring at each other for a couple minutes. His heartbeat was still ringing through the room and they could hear murmuring words from the hospital staff and their siblings outside. Viktor blinked a few times as he tried to process that question. To him it was so obvious, he had no idea how the smartest sibling in their family couldn't see it. "M-my powers are coming back," he answered with a small shrug.

Five covered the bottom half of his face with one hand as he waited for his brother to continue. The aforementioned man let his shoulders fall towards each other defensively while he tried to find the words. It was like his mouth was full of sand and cotton every time he tried to force the words past his teeth. "Every time I've had powers in the past I've killed people. When I was a kid dad had to drug me because I kept killing our nannies. And then when I went off my meds I literally ended the world three times. I thought that I finally had a chance to be a part of the family because none of us had powers and even when all of yours started coming back I didn't think that anything would change because we're all pretty close and well bonded now. Even though I still have to be the one to reach out first most of the time. I don’t care because we’re acting like a family and it’s so wonderful. But it's not like I had felt anything yet, either, so nothing bad could happen. But then I was teaching one of my classes and I could feel it, the humming in the background from both the instruments and the kids. Like what Harlan taught me to feel when I took his power back from him. I couldn't…" he stopped as he realized that tears were streaming down his face.

Uncharacteristically, Five lurched from his chair and wrapped his arms around his brother. "Don't- don't you fucking," he took in a sharp breath and stopped talking for a second. Viktor let his arms hesitantly reach up until he was hugging him back with a huge release of emotion. They were both crying as the older of the two continued, "I cannot lose you again, Viktor. I can't."

"But if I stick around I could take away Allison's happiness again. I could ruin everything. Lila and Diego have a kid, Klaus finally has Dave back, Sloane and Luther are so happy, and you're finally retired. I can't be responsible for ruining the lives of the people that I love most or killing anyone else," he shook his head. "Everything would be so much better if I just wasn't here anymore."

"Stop! You can't say that," Five pulled back so that Viktor could see how intense his deep brown eyes were. His lips were pursed and he was using one hand to wipe at the tears still spilling over his lashes and rushing down his cheeks. "The world would not be a better place without you in it. The only reason that you killed people before was because you weren't able to control it. We never actually gave you the training that you needed. Dad turned you into a bomb and then we never managed to disarm. The whole point of taking you back to the past was to teach you how to deal with your powers and then we never did that. The ends of the world weren't your fault, Viktor. We should share the blame too. Please… please don't ever try to do this again."

"Okay," he nodded in agreement. "I'm sorry."

"No, I'm sorry for making you feel like this was the only option that you had," Five shook his head. "This was partially because I threatened you, right? Fuck, how could I have been so stupid! Of course your powers would come back like the rest of ours did and of course you would be afraid of them after never having any other memories other than the end of the world."

"Five," Viktor called out. He was still so exhausted and it was made even worse by the fact that he had spent the better part of the last five minutes crying.

"Sorry," he cleared his throat. "I think this is something that my therapist needs to handle." Five moved over to his seat again. He held his brother's hand as if to make sure that he was really there and awake. They went quiet until Sloane and Klaus came back in.

Soon the other siblings that were living in the city had arrived and piled into his hospital room as well. "Glad to see that you're okay. You're the most tolerable out of the boys," Lila informed him. She was shifting her daughter, who was napping cutely against her shoulder, as she took the seat Sloane had been in moments before.

"Thanks, mi corozone," Diego rolled his eyes sarcastically. "Good to see you awake," he directed towards his brother as he filed in to stand behind Lila.

"Don't you ever scare us like that again," Luther murmured as he wrapped his brother up in a crushing hug. For a moment, Viktor felt panic shoot through him as the memories of the choking hug Luther had given him back in their original timeline forced their way into his mind. He relaxed when the normal, yet still muscular, frame of his brother reminded Viktor that a lot had changed since that fateful day.

"Don't worry, Five has already threatened me about scaring you guys," he chuckled.

The sound of his voice roused the sleeping toddler. She turned her head and then lout an excited squeal. "Uncle V!" she babbled as she tried to lurch from her mother's grip.

"You good to hold her?" Diego asked, taking his daughter from his wife and moving over to his brother.

"I always want to hold my adorable niece," he chuckled, reaching his bandaged arms to take the toddler. Instead of handing her over, Diego sat Chrysanthemum down on his lap.

"Uncle V," she giggled as she placed her hands on his cheek. "What?" she asked as she tugged on the IV on his arm, immediately getting distracted from her original goal.

He glanced over to Lila, who was looking at something on her phone and not paying attention. Out of the whole family, Viktor was the second most trusted with kids (Allison was first since she had raised her own daughter and Sloane was third). "Well, this is something that the doctors had to give me so that I could have vitamins to make me healthy," he explained. "I just needed a little help getting big and strong like you, flower."

The family settled down in the hospital room, much the chagrin of the hospital staff. It had been a long time since they had all been back together like this, despite them all living in the same place. Viktor, Five, and Sloane were normally overwhelmed with school (though Five for a different reason), and Diego and Luther worked odd hours. It was nice to be surrounded by family, even if they were missing two members and it was under less-than-ideal circumstances.

Ben had just arrived back in the city when he got the message that Viktor had woken up, so went immediately to the hospital instead of his apartment. He left his bag just outside the door so that none of his siblings would be able to tell what he had done as he stuck his head in. "Looks like you're stuck with us then," he smirked as he walked over. Viktor had been trying to nap while his siblings argued with each other over a game of War. Chrysanthemum had already tired herself out and was sleeping with her thumb in her mouth, despite having her pacifier attached to her shirt, and cuddled up next to his uncle.

"More like you're stuck with me," he tried to joke, but the startled look he got from Klaus and Five made him clear his throat and sit up a bit more. "I thought you were in Europe."

"I got back recently. Heard you were awake so I thought I'd stop by to see if I need to kick any of these guys out," Ben informed the other man. After he had gone to a lot of therapy and worked through some of his issues, he had become pretty close with a couple of the others. He and Sloane were still the closest since they had grown up together, but he and Viktor bonded over art even if they were into different types.

"Nah, they're behaving themselves pretty well. It's also nice to have them all in one place so I can make sure they're not getting themselves into trouble," he smiled at the other man.

Ben walked over and ruffled the other man's hair. "Without us they'd be completely lost."

Viktor stifled a yawn as he turned his head to the side so that he could try and continue their conversation. The taller man shook his head, "Sleep, man. You've been through a lot. I'm not going anywhere for a while anyway."

The exhausted violinist nodded before he let his eyes flutter shut again and he fell asleep. With Ben there the rest of their family was kept quiet so that he could actually get some rest. Eventually they all had to leave so that they could go back to their jobs or get some rest for the next day.

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Allison was the last of his siblings to arrive. She had caught a plane as soon as she heard that he was awake, which meant that she arrived late that night. As soon as she saw him sitting up in his hospital bed while trying to doze off his medication she rushed over to him. She wrapped her arms tightly around him as if to reassure herself that he was really there as their other siblings had. When she pulled back she gave him one of her dazzling smiles, like how she looked at her daughter and husband. "How are you feeling?"

"Better now that they've given me my nighttime pain meds," he chuckled. He let the smile slip off of his face as guilt swarmed through him. He scowled slightly and said, "My powers are back, Allison."

"So? All of our powers are back," she whispered.

"I don't want to take away your happiness like I did before," he whispered. "I-I tried to… I tried to stop myself but I'm scared that it's going to happen anyway. You were right, you should have left me in the basement."

"No, no, no, no, no, no," she immediately shook her head. She grasped his hands in her own and forced him to look up at her. "I said that because I was hurting so badly inside. At the time it felt like it was true but now that I have Ray and Claire back I can see that it was wrong. It would completely break me if I lost you. Especially after everything that we've been through. Please never try to kill yourself again, okay? I knew that Hargreeves was going to kill someone and it still hurt so bad to lose a sibling, especially after Five disappeared when we were kids and Six died… I just, I can't keep losing people, and you're people."

"Even if my powers go out of control again?" he asked, his eyes flickering to meet hers.

"We're not going to let that happen. And if it does, we'll just fix it again. There are more solutions to problems that haven't happened yet," she chuckled. "And none of those solutions involve you killing yourself, got it?"

Viktor smiled slightly, a true smile. His stomach was still swirling with guilt and worry but he felt decently lighter than he had before. While he hadn't admitted to anyone other than Five, Detective Path, and Allison what had truly happened to him, he knew that they loved him. Based on the way that they all raced to see him while in the hospital he knew that it was true. They were his family and they wanted him to be around, even if he was the bomb that ended the world three times over.

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byesexualsatan · 3 years

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OTPS/SHIP LIST

i feel like you get to know people better when you know what they ship so... here’s a list of my past & current ships ?? im bored, can u tell?

also if u know me, ignore this ty

MILEVEN aka LITERAL KIDS PLS😭

mike wheeler and eleven/jane hopper from stranger things

otp in late 2017

personal hcs: they’re queer/bi.

eleven def uses they/them pronouns

tbh i prefer byler and elmax now

background ships i like: joyce/hopper, jonathan/nancy... steve being bi and robin being the iconic lesbian that she is

DAMONA aka simonte

... simona and dante from the argentinian series simona

LMAO this one is from when i thought i was straight

otp in 2018

uhh bi dante and pan simona bc why not

literally forgot they existed until now

please don’t bully me

i truly thought i was straight

background ships: marisiena, junior/ailín

i was one of THE FOUNDERS of this ship istg... i was THERE when we were deciding the ship name (i voted for simonte but damona won smh)

SIMBAR aka bi awakening

simón and ambar from the disney tv show soy luna

yeah... sorry

otp in mid 2018

they’re gay!!!

bi she/they punk ambar yesyesyes

totally forgot about them but they’re sexc af

so glad they were endgame

background ships: idk but luna is pan

STEVEBUCKY aka stucky aka the end of the line

so... steve rogers (captain america) and bucky barnes (the winter soldier)

otp in late 2018/early 2019?

personal hcs: trans steve, bi bucky

favourite fanfic trope: found family, high school smau

fuck endgame, all my homies hate endgame

background ships i like: thorbruce, scotthope, nat/sharon

im with u til the end of the line, pal :c

PERALTIAGO aka jamy

jake peralta and amy santiago from brooklyn nine nine

started shipping them in 2018/2019 (i have no idea)

personal hcs: bi jake

favourite fanfic trope: casefics, pretend marriage

(THEY’RE FUCKING MARRIED WITH CHILD NOW,,, BUT IN THOSE FICS IT WASN’T REAL YET)

background ships i like: gina and rosa, holt and kevin

PETERMJ aka spideychelle

peter parker (spider-man) and michelle mj jones !!1! from the mcu

otp in 2019

personal hcs: they’re both bi, mj is demisexual too

he/they & she/they solidarity

... trans/demiboy peter and demigirl mj🥺

fav fanfic trope: school trip to stark tower, meeting the parents/avengers, smau

obviously let’s ignore infinity war and endgame

background ships i like: ironstrange, pepperony, shuri/any woman

THORBRUCE aka gammahammer aka gays in space

thor odinson and bruce banner (hulk) from the mcu

started shipping them in 2019

personal hcs: thor also likes women

they both use they/them and neopronouns too

fav fanfic trope: university au, smau, no civil war, no infinity war

this one is from my stan twitter era

background ships: stucky, tony/strange, nat/sharon, scotthope

CARMUEL aka spanish sexiest couple

carla rosón and samuel garcía from élite

otp in late 2019

...they’re bi. bc yes. and he/they samuel.

she/vers carla sounds very sexc to me

i ‘shipped’ them in s1 simply bc they were both very hot and when it became canon in s2 i SCREAMED

deserved so much better.

INEFFABLE HUSBANDS aka i almost forgot about this one, sorry

crowley and aziraphale from good omens

uhh started shipping them in 2019/2020 ?

bi genderfluid crowley, non-binary aziraphale

idk they’re being anyways

fav trope: raising children!! confusing ppl bc crowley is sometimes a snake!!

background ships: uhh anathema & newton ig?

WOLFSTAR aka the one true way (and... puppies, too??)

sirius black and remus lupin from the harry potter saga

otp since 2020 (thank u, @aretheygayvideos)

personal hcs: he/they gay sirius, he/they bi remus

also love nonbinary remus and genderqueer sirius

fav fanfic trope: getting together !!!! FLUFF!!!!

background ships i like: jegulus, regulus/barty jr, dorlene, jily

VILLANEVE aka murdering wlw

villanelle and eve polastri from killing eve

s.s.t in 2020

she/they bisexual villanelle and pansexual eve

fav fanfic trope: flower/coffee shop :)

ty tumblr for spaming my dashboard when s3 came out bc that forced me to watch it to understand all the posts

sandra oh is the love of my life

ANDERPERRY aka this one is for the depressed dark academia folk

neil perry and todd anderson from dead poets society

started shipping them in 2020

personal hcs: nonbinary neil, trans todd, both gay/androsexual

demiboy/nonbinary todd has a special place in my heart

fav fanfic trope: ALIVE!NEIL, roommates

background ships i like: charlie/knox, meeks/pitts

ZUKKA aka my favourite blue/red gays

sokka and zuko from avatar the last airbender < 3

started shipping them in 2020

personal hcs: gay zuko, genderfluid and bisexual sokka

sokka has adhd !! zuko is autistic !

favourite fanfic trope: fake dating

background ships i like: suki/yue*, ty lee/azula/mai, kataang

* please go check out s4pphos’ ig edit of them

CASMUND aka royal pirate gays !!

caspian x and edmund pevensie from the chronicles of narnia

started shipping them in dec. 2020

personal hcs: bi caspian, mlm edmund

love bisexual and nonbinary edmund too bc 👉projecting👈

fav fanfic trope: just. the plot of the movies but gay.

background ships: the dawn treader (ha-ha, get it? bc ship? im so funny)

tbh i don’t REALLY ship them that hard i just hate caspian/susan lmao

(susan is a lesbian)

BELLARKE aka m/f sexual tension™

bellamy blake and clarke griffin from the 100

started shipping them in 2021

personal hcs: she/they/xe bi clarke, he/ze omni bellamy

favourite fanfic trope: single parent bellamy, modern au (college, roommates)

i saw 2 seasons with my mom and then moved so,,, fuck i gotta finish it

EXTRAS

the “i don’t really ship them but if they’re together it’s better”

ty lee and mai

john watson and sherlock holmes

suki and yue

regulus black and james potter

azula and katara

regulus black and barty crouch jr

bugs bunny and daffy duck

emma and mr knightley

carol danvers and maria rambeau

valkyrie and carol danvers

natasha romanoff and sharon carter

sam wilson and bucky barnes !!! (post endgame)

charlie “nuwanda” dalton and knox overstreet

dorcas meadowes and marlene mckinnon

azula, ty lee and mai

klaus hargreeves and dave

paul coates and alec hardy

cassie and maddy

jules and rue

rue and lexi

fleabag and the hot priest

. . . more to add, probably

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the-immortal-dream · 4 years

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Fic Masterlist

So, I've noticed that fic posts usually get lost in the sheer masses of things I reblog and that's why I'm creating this masterlist. I'm going to update this whenever I post a new fic.

JatP

For the love of April (Series) (in progress)

(mpreg, 2/3 of the canon character deaths) What if Alex was pregnant the day of the Orpheum? Eventual Willex.

The Beginning

Plans, Songs and Butterflies (not in that order)

April

The Orpheum

Like Sister like Brother

Love's worth the pain

(ep 9 au, Willex) After the Orpheum, Alex doesn't go back to the garage with Reggie and Luke. He needs to talk to Willie before it's too late.

Supernatural

to not wasting second chances

(15x18/15x19 fix-it, Destiel) If he could have just one more moment with Cas, just enough time to tell him I love you too, Dean would give up everything for that.

Dean Winchester is saved

(15x18/15x19 fix-it, Destiel) Dean hates the fact that it took him twelve years and Cas dying too many times, and one final time. He hates that, had Cas never confessed his feelings, he’d still be happily pretending he’s straight. There was a time when he cared about things like that. A few years ago, Dean would have punched anyone who even dared to suggest he was anything but straight. Now, he can’t bring himself to care, and he wonders why he ever did. Looking perfectly straight isn’t so great anymore when the love of your life is dead and in a place you can never follow him to.

Shadowhunters

Some demons have wings, and angel blood in their veins

(Bamf!Magnus, background malec) The only people who can use seraph blades are nephilim. Somehow, that is one thing every single being in the shadow world agrees on. They disagree on almost everything. Who is more powerful, who should rule, what makes a person evil, should all demon-blooded creatures be killed? There are a thousand different answers to that, depending on who you ask.

But, this one thing everyone agrees on. No downworlder can wield a seraph blade. It simply won’t light up for anyone but the nephilim.

One of the only things in the world shadowhunters and downworlders agree on. And it’s wrong.

Runes don't make a man (Series) (technically in progress, but can be read as three-shot)

(Deruned!Alec, Teacher!Alec, Malec) Alec gets deruned, meets Magnus, says fuck internalised homophobia, marries the man and becomes a history teacher. Years later, Jace and Izzy crash back into his life on their quest to get Clary's memories back. (This also has Hamilton themed titles because I love Hamilton)

It will have been worth it

In New York you can be a new man

Take a break (from your idiot brother)

Criminal Minds

Who I Am (might be a surprise to you)

(Singer!Spencer) Spencer Reid: Genius, agent and profiler.

Penny Taylor: Singer, mysterious and the object of Garcia's newest obsession.

The only problem? Spencer Reid and Penny Taylor are one and the same. And the team is about to find out as a case hits a little too close to home.

Hamilton

In the Eye of the Hurricane (in progress)

(Reincarnation AU, Lin gets elected President without his knowledge) You’d think he’d remember being Alexander the moment he picks up Ron Chernow’s biography. Or when he starts writing Hamilton. Or when he puts on the costume for the first time. Or literally at any point during the year of playing essentially himself. But no. Of course he doesn’t. He remembers while watching the voting results of the 2016 election being counted. And as he watches the white of an independent candidate moving past the line marking the majority, he thinks well, fuck. I guess 200 years of waiting paid off.

Or: Lin-Manuel Miranda is the reincarnation of Alexander Hamilton and realizes that fact embarrassingly late.

Umbrella Academy

Klaus Katz saves the world (Series) (in progress)

(AU, Klave, Modern Dave) Klaus meets Dave at 21 and promptly falls in love. Many happy years and learning to live with and control his powers instead of drowning them out with drugs follow. (Because Dave actually wants to help Klaus when he suggests learning control and quitting the drugs, unlike the asshat known as Sir Reginald)

How David Katz saved a life by falling in love (in progress)

How Klaus Katz saved the world by being a good sibling (planned)

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justatiredghost · 4 years

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I just remembered that, quite some time ago, I wrote a fic about Klaus and Dave getting matching tattoos: ‘Klaus lives Dave’ and ‘Dave loves Klaus.’ They were all giggly and excited, because they’d done this thing that was so permanent, because they were permanent, and they might not be able to get married, but they could do this at least and no one could stop them. And I think the fact that Dave was willing to go through with it with him was huge for him? Like, someone loves him so much, they’d be willing to get something as permanent as a tattoo saying so? Tbh that’s probably better than any ring.

But then I found out that Judaism tends to frown on tattoos and, while some get them anyway for various reasons, I don’t really think it’s my place to make that kind of decision or discuss that topic. So now I want to think of something else Dave could do that’s on equal footing with Klaus’ tattoo, because I just love this idea of them both making these huge statements to each other that they plan on being together forever, especially for Klaus who isn’t used to permanence or anyone caring enough to plan on a future with him in it. So all that to say, if you have any ideas pls let me know!

#Klaus hargreeves #Dave katz #Klave #Klaus x dave #The umbrella academy #I’ve had an incredibly awful week #And now it’s election night and I’m so stressed out #And I’m trying not to think about it all #So I’ll think about these two instead lol #everytbjng is just kinda scary right now

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spookyfbi · 4 years

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Another untitled Klave fic

I’m like 95% certain that Klaus changed the timeline so Dave never met him so even though I don’t want it I still made a fic about it in the hopes that maybe if I write it down it won’t happen in the show. Also some Ben angst because of course

Klaus walked into the Veterans of Foreign Wars bar and glanced at the wall where he knew Dave’s photo was. He’d go see Dave in a minute, but he needed a drink first. Oh god, he needed a drink, or several. Actually, he needed a line of coke, but a drink would suffice for now. He could imagine Ben’s whine… Don’t do it, Klaus… Be strong, Klaus… Oh, Ben. He missed his brother. That emo Ben doppelgänger and his pals had done a number on Klaus and his siblings back at the Academy, and after being unceremoniously thrown out of their former home, Five had told them not to separate, but Alison had wanted to go see Claire (if her daughter was even alive in this timeline) and they all just sort of dispersed to see what this new timeline was all about. Klaus didn’t much care who he was in this timeline, he just needed a little pick-me-up after… everything. So he grabbed a shot glass and filled it with some spirit or other and sent it down the hatch.

Klaus downed a few more shots and then stumbled his way over to Dave. He looked at the photo and… wait. Wait, what? Klaus furrowed his brow as he stared at the photo through the glass. Dave wasn’t in the photo, and for that matter, neither was Klaus. Klaus leaned in to the photo, reaching his hands out to the glass, trying to make sense of what he was seeing. He was vaguely aware of someone approaching and standing next to him.

“Hey…” the man said.

Klaus sighed and waved the man away without taking his eyes from the photo. “Yeah yeah, I know, Vets only. Look, I’m kind of having a moment here, if you don’t mind, so kindly buzz off and leave me alone.” Klaus just felt so tired and he just wanted to see his dead boyfriend’s face without having to deal with some asshole who thought he didn’t belong.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt, I just… I always hoped I’d see you again. So I could thank you.”

Klaus rolled his eyes. Oh god… He grabbed the man’s hand and looked at his palm. No ‘Hello’ or ‘Good bye’. “Oh, thank god.” Not a cult member. He let go of the man’s hand and returned his gaze back to the photo and something nagged at him at the back of his mind that he might have paid attention to if he were more sober.

“Y’know, you were wrong about A Shau Valley, Hill 689. I was never sent there. But you were right about Dune, so thanks for the book recommendation.”

Klaus froze. Slowly he turned to look at this man, and god… those familiar kind blue eyes looked back at him, hidden under more than a few wrinkles.

“It wasn’t published till 1965 though, so that’s kind of interesting, considering you told me about it in 1963.” The elderly Dave that stood before him folded his arms with a playful smirk.

Klaus let out a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding and it came out as a sob, along with the tears that were burning his eyes, and once he started he couldn’t stop. Klaus wept in this Veteran’s bar in front of an elderly Dave who knew him only as a peacenik cult leader who tried and failed to persuade him not to enlist. He wept for Dave and he wept for Ben and he wept for himself and he wept for the cut on his lip that still stung whenever he thought about it, and he tried not to think about it, tried to drown the memory in as much booze as he could manage.

“Hey…” Dave’s smirk vanished and he looked at Klaus with concern. “Hey, what’s wrong?” he placed a hand on Klaus’ arm and god… to feel Dave’s touch again. It was too much and not enough and everything and Klaus drew in a shaky breath but it came out in another sob. Dave moved his hand to Klaus’ back and gestured to a nearby seat. “Come on, why don’t you sit down, I’ll get you a drink.”

Klaus sat down and took a few deep breaths, rubbing his eyes with his palms. Slowly he felt himself calming down, and Dave returned with a large glass of very light beer and Klaus had to smile. He took the beer and cradled it between his hands. “I’m sorry…” he began, looking sheepishly at Dave, who took the seat next to him.

Dave shook his head. “Oh, no. You’re clearly going through something.” Dave let it hang for a moment and then when Klaus didn’t respond, “I know I’m just some stranger you haven’t seen since 1963, but… if you want to talk…”

And he did, god he did. He wanted to talk to Dave… or to Ben… or to anyone who would listen or care how he was feeling. But what could he possibly tell this Dave that wouldn’t sound completely insane? “I lost my brother… earlier today” It was still today, wasn’t it? Or was it yesterday? Or was it more accurate to say 56 years ago?

“I’m so sorry.” Dave said gently. “I know how much it hurts to lose someone.”

Klaus straightened up and looked at Dave. “You do?”

Dave nodded. “My husband, Frank. Complications related to Alzheimers, 3 years ago. He was 74, so it wasn’t exactly unexpected, but… I still miss him every day. But we had 52 happy years together.”

“I’m sorry.” Klaus whispered. He was never good at math when dear old Dad wanted him to be, but he was pretty quick when it was important to him, even when he was high or drunk. Figuring out if he was getting a good deal on the shit he was being sold, figuring out how far he could stretch it when money was a little tight. Klaus found his mind making the calculation before he’d even meant to. 2019 - 3 - 52 = 1964. That closeted 19 year old who couldn’t even admit the real reason he wanted to enlist in the army somehow met a young man named Frank only a year later who he would end up marrying. Dave met a man named Frank in 1964, which meant that Dave and this Frank were together in 1968. Dave was not single in 1968. Dave had a long and happy life with a man named Frank. Klaus didn’t know how to feel.

“It feels good to remember him. To talk about him.” Dave leaned forward and cocked his head. “Would you like to talk about your brother?”

Klaus closed his eyes and nodded. “Ben…” he whispered, then he sniffed. “He was always looking out for me. But he was sorta mean and whiny about it sometimes. Be strong Klaus, don’t give into temptation Klaus, have some eggs and orange juice Klaus, don’t forget to go to your AA meeting Klaus…”

“AA?” Dave looked down at the beer Klaus was holding and gently took it back from him and placed it on a nearby table. He looked back at Klaus with a kind smile.

“Oh, like that one beer would’ve made a difference. I had seven shots of rum just now and a half a bottle of tequila before I got here.”

“Well, it’s never too late to stop.”

“Why bother?” Klaus leaned back in the seat and gazed at Dave and god if this were his Dave who could love him and live the rest of his life with him he might consider it, but… “I’ve failed at everything I’ve ever tried. I’m just sexy trash. I know this and I accept it. Why fight it?” Klaus reached for the beer but Dave slid it further away. “You know it’s free drinks here, I could just get some more myself.” Dave said nothing but just looked at Klaus and Klaus looked back at Dave and he told himself he could get up and get some more booze if he wanted to but something in him held him in his seat. “What do you care anyway, old man?”

“I could ask you the same question. What did you care if some kid from Dallas enlisted in the army and died in the Vietnam war?” Klaus sighed. How could he possibly begin to answer that question? How could he possibly explain it to this Dave? “It’s okay, you don’t have to tell me. I’ve gone this long without an answer.” Dave shifted in his seat. “I don’t think your trash, far from it.”

Klaus pointed at Dave. “But you do think I’m sexy.”

Dave chuckled. “Well I am very gay. And I may be old, but my eyes are still fully functioning. So yeah, I think you’re sexy. And you’re confident and brave in a way that I really wanted to be when I was younger. Y’know, I thought about you, when I saw Frank in a bar in Saigon. He was so handsome and I wanted to go up and talk to him. I was so scared, but I thought of you. I thought of how… completely unapologetic and unashamed you were when my uncle called you a queer. And I thought… I can do it. I can be like that too. I was so nervous. But I thought of you and I felt a little bit braver. And I did it. My hands were shaking the whole time, but I did it. I said hi and I asked if I could buy him a drink and he said yes. And we talked and we danced and… god, I was shaking all over, but… I kissed him. And he kissed me back, and that was it, we were inseparable ever since. You inspired me. You inspired me to talk to Frank and we had a wonderful life together. You may not have saved me from enlisting but you saved me in another way. You saved me from myself. I always wanted to tell you that.”

“Oh, god…” Klaus leaned forward and put his head in his hands. “That’s so wonderful.” He felt like he was going to be sick. “I’m a god damn fucking gay love guru.” A bar in Saigon. Drinks, dancing, talking, a kiss. It was a familiar story, just with a different love interest. Frank, that lucky bastard, whoever he was.

“Hey, are you okay?” Klaus felt Dave’s hand on his back and it was warm… hot, it was too hot and too much because Dave fell in love with a man named Frank in a bar in Saigon in 1964.

Klaus sat back up. “Oh yeah, I’m peaches and cream, baby. I’m…” Klaus forced the words out, “…so happy for you. It’s just, y’know, what’s that story about the Cobbler with no feet?”

“The Cobbler’s children have no shoes?”

“Right.”

Dave seemed to hesitate for a moment. “I don’t mean to burden you while you’re grieving. I wanted you to know what it meant to me to see someone like you when I was younger, but… not if it upsets you. I can go if you’d rather be alone right now.”

“No please don’t go” the words slipped out before Klaus could hold them back because god, he hadn’t been alone in 17 years, and the thought of it frightened him.

Dave nodded.

“Y’know, Ben didn’t think I should talk to you, back in 1963.” Klaus let out a chuckle. “I wish I could see the look on his face right now.”

“What would he say?”

“Oh, I don’t know, he’d probably say I shouldn’t be talking to you right now.”

“Why’s that?”

“Oh…” Klaus shook his head. “It’s… so complicated…” Klaus pointed a finger at Dave “Hey, do me a favour. Promise me you won’t ever time travel. That shit’ll mess you up.”

Dave chuckled. “Sure, next time I’m offered the opportunity to time travel.”

“Yeah…” Klaus looked down. “Ben was a good brother. And I was kind of a shitty brother.” He looked back up at Dave. “In my defence, I had a shitty childhood. When I left home at 17, Ben came with me, and he’s been with me ever since, an annoying angel on my shoulder whining at me about how I was screwing up my life. Until this afternoon…”

“Sounds irritating”

“Oh god, you have no idea! So irritating! But… as much as I hate to admit it, he did talk me out of some of the dumber shit I could have done. He was just looking out for me. And I didn’t really appreciate it. And now he’s gone and I’m…” Klaus swallowed. “I’m scared.” He’d never been this open with anyone before, except for Dave. But this wasn’t his Dave. But it felt so good to pretend, to share his burdens with someone who actually listened and didn’t just see him as a no good junkie. “I’m scared…” he chuckled nervously, avoiding eye contact. “of the dumb shit I’m going to do without him telling me not to.”

“Like what?”

“Oh, y’know, I mean… well us junkies do have a tendency to find ourselves overdosed in some ditch somewhere.”

Dave looked at him for what felt like the longest time and Klaus chuckled to lighten the mood but it didn’t seem to work. “Do you know the assisted living facility just up the road?” Klaus shook his head because why on earth would he? Dave gestured behind Klaus. “It’s that big building with the blue roof, you can’t miss it.”

Klaus looked back and he could see it through the bar window. “Okay…” he said, turning back to Dave.

“I live there. Frank and I moved there when he started… forgetting things.” Dave cleared his throat. “Anyway… if you feel like you’re gonna do something dumb, or if you just want to talk, you come there and see me, okay? I’ll tell the girls who work reception to expect you, they’re really nice.”

Klaus felt his lower lip trembling and he smiled to keep from crying again. He swallowed hard. “Oh… I’ve guilted you into saying that…”

“No, not at all”

“Come on…”

“Look, I’m an old widower with no kids who lives in a nursing home. I don’t get too many visitors. I’d love for you to come talk to me, about anything you like. That is, if you’d ever want to visit a lonely old man in a nursing home.”

Klaus couldn’t hold back his sob this time. “Yeah, I’d like that a lot, actually.”

Dave smiled.

“Hey… this might sound weird, and feel free to say no if you like, but…” Klaus took a deep breath and it was getting easier to see his Dave beneath all those wrinkles. “Can I lean my head on your shoulder?” When Dave didn’t respond immediately, Klaus shook his head. “You can say no, I mean, that was… really forward, I just…”

“Sure” Klaus peered at Dave carefully, and Dave smiled warmly and nodded, holding his arm out in invitation. So Klaus rested his head on Dave’s shoulder, and Dave put his arm around Klaus, and Klaus let the tears come. “I know sometimes it’s nice to be held, when you’re upset.”

“Yeah…” Klaus sobbed through the tears.

#klave #klaus x dave #klaus/dave #dave katz #klaus hargreeves

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not-oscar-wilde · 4 years

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Revived

The apocalypse has been averted, the timeline fixed, and the Hargreeves siblings returned to 2019. Herb decides to do them one more favour and save the life of one Dave Katz.

I wrote a new fic! read it below the cut or on AO3.

The pain in Dave’s chest was unbearable. Klaus was above him and he was speaking, but he couldn’t make out what he was saying. He wanted to comfort him, to stop him from panicking and tell him he loved him, but he couldn’t get the words out. He could only try and keep his eyes open, to keep his eyes on Klaus and try to psychically tell him everything he needed him to know, before the pain won out and everything turned black.

And then he woke up.

Though the room around him smelled sterile, it wasn’t like any hospital or medical tent he had ever been in before. He was lying in a crisp, white bed, with a myriad of wires attached to his body. Some of them he recognised, the IV drips were standard, but the majority were completely alien to him, from those puncturing his skin to those seemingly just stuck to it.

“Good afternoon, Mr Katz,” a smooth, female voice said in an accent that reminded him vaguely of movie stars. But when Dave looked around the room, he was completely alone, accompanied only by strangely flat screens he couldn’t see properly from his position on the bed. “Please remain calm. I have notified our Medical Team that you are awake and someone will be with you shortly.” There was something wrong about that voice, some kind indescribable, minute wrongness that unsettled him.

“Where am I?” he asked.

“You are in the Intensive Care Unit of the Temps Commission Infirmary, Room 9,” the voice said.

The Temps Commission Infirmary? He’d never heard of that hospital, and it definitely didn’t look American or Vietnamese. “The what? What happened? And who are you?”

“The Temps Commission Infirmary, attached to the headquarters of the Temps Commission. You were shot through the chest in A Shau Valley, Vietnam, February 21, 1968. I am VINA, your Virtual Infirmary Nursing Assistant.”

He’d been shot. He remembered it, remembered the pain, remembered the way Klaus had screamed and held him and how he hadn’t managed to say anything before the world had gone dark. What had happened to Klaus? To everyone? “How long have I been here?”

“You have been in the TCICU for three days, six hours, and thirty seven minutes.”

But when he brought his hand up to his chest, there were no dressings, just bare, unmarked skin. If he had been there for six days, if he’d been shot… He should be dead, or at the very least, heavily bandaged. Before he could think too much about that, a door slid open like something out of a sci-fi movie, and a tall, dark skinned woman with a serious face walked in. “Good afternoon, Mr Katz. My name is Doctor Onyeka Nwoye. How are you feeling?” she asked as she approached his bed, examining the screens. If there hadn’t been much stranger things going on, he would have been mildly surprised by a black lady doctor being sent in to treat him. He forgot, sometimes, that not everywhere was like Texas. But he was immensely glad of that fact, particularly if she’d been the one to fix him up.

“I’m good,” he said, and as confusing as it was, that was true. He shouldn’t be feeling good. He’d been shot, and he felt fine. That shouldn’t be happening.

“Any pain?”

“No, ma’am.”

“Good, that’s good. VINA, anything to report?”

“Mr Katz has not experienced any physical complications during the healing process. His body has responded well to the treatment and brain scans indicate that no neurological damage has occurred,” the disembodied voice said. The voice that didn’t belong to a person at all, if Dave had understood correctly. VINA had to be some kind of automaton, a computer that could speak. He didn’t much like that.

Doctor Nwoye nodded, a faint smile tugging at her lips. “A complete success, then. I would like to keep you under supervision for another twenty-four hours, but if I have no concerns at the end of this period, I see no need to keep you here any longer.” With that, she set about detaching the various wires from his body.

“Where is here? I know we’re in some kinda hospital, the… Commission?”

“Yes. We are an organisation dedicated to fixing, monitoring, and eliminating timeline anomalies,” she said, as if that made any kind of sense. “And, in exceptional circumstances, minimising potential disruptions.”

Dave frowned, trying to translate her words into something close to regular English. He knew he wasn’t that stupid, but he sure felt it. “So I’m a- what was it? A timeline anomaly?”

“I am a doctor, not an analyst. I cannot tell you who or what the timeline anomalies are.”

“Were you there, when I got shot?” he asked instead.

Dr Nwoye laughed and shook her head. “Oh Lord, no. I do not have the disposition for time travel, and I think my wife would have my head if I were ever to set foot in the field. I work solely from inside the TCI.”

“Your wife ?” he repeated, his heart leaping. This was a woman with a wife. A woman in a world where she could not only love another woman, but marry her and be able to mention it so casually to a complete stranger?

“Do you have a problem with the fact your life was saved by a lesbian, Mr Katz?” she asked calmly, and his stomach sank.

“No, ma’am! I just… Where I come from, people can’t… I didn’t know there was anywhere you could have that kinda marriage.” Was this the future? The place that Klaus had talked about, had said he couldn’t ever go back to? Had Dave somehow ended up there in his place, leaving Klaus in the middle of a war he’d never even signed up for? But that world was ending. Klaus had told him that. So how was he here? “I was just surprised is all. I’m… you know, the same typa way.”

The slight smile returned to the doctor’s face, and Dave relaxed. “It was 1968 you came from, yes?” So that pretty much confirmed his ‘future’ theory. Dave nodded mutely. “I cannot say I know why your survival matters so much yet your injury could not have been prevented, negating the need to bring you here at all, but I will say I am glad you are more… progressive than some of your contemporaries. It does make my job easier.”

“Doctor Nwoye, you are needed urgently in Room 14,” the disembodied voice said before Dave could formulate an answer, and the doctor sighed.

“I am on my way. Mr Katz, if you need anything, just ask VINA.” And with that, the bizarre door slid open again and Dr Nwoye was striding away.

The room was silent for a few minutes as Dave thought about this whole situation. He’d think it a fever dream, but he wasn’t sure he was creative enough to come up with all of this. “VINA?” he said eventually, feeling more than a little silly speaking to an empty room.

But the disembodied voice responded immediately. “Do you require assistance, Mr Katz?”

“I…What the hell is going on?”

“I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean. Please elaborate or rephrase to receive appropriate support.”

“I got shot . But I don’t even have a scar.”

“You are correct. Do you have any questions about your treatment?”

Dave exhaled shakily and touched his chest again. Even that should have hurt, and though he was incredibly grateful that it didn’t, that fact was in itself unsettling. “What kinda doctor can just make a bullet wound… vanish?”

“Dr Nwoye is an expert in bioregeneration and biotemporal manipulation.”

“Bio… Jeez.” He could guess at what those words meant, but truthfully, he had no idea. It may as well have been another language. Was this the world Klaus had come from? This strange world filled with people and words he didn’t know, where gunshots through the chest were not just survivable but left no mark, where unseen people watched and spoke with you, where a black woman with a wife could be a white man’s doctor. It wasn’t a bad world. It was simply so far from the one he knew.

Some things would always be the same, though: hospitals were boring. Dave was half out of his mind with it, staring up at the ceiling and wishing he had something to do. Talking to VINA was just a little too weird, with her uncannily smooth voice and questionable existence. So he got out of bed, deciding to explore. There were no windows, only artificial lights built into the ceiling. He couldn’t even tell what time of day it was. The room was neither warm nor cold, despite the fact he was wearing only white cotton shorts.

The door that the doctor had come in through didn’t have a handle. Instead, he found a panel of buttons on the wall beside it and pushed one hopefully. With a hydraulic hiss, the door opened and he stepped out into the hallway. “Please remain in your room. If you require assistance, this can be provided. If you are searching for the bathroom, this can be located through the other door within your room.”

It was strange, being scolded by someone - or something - he couldn’t see, and in such a calm manner. But Dave obeyed and stepped back inside the confines of his room. He may as well check out the bathroom if he wasn’t allowed anywhere else.

There were clothes folded up on top of a cabinet next to the shower, accompanied by a ziplock bag of toiletries and a towel. He figured those must be for him. He was about to strip off, out of the plain white shorts he’d been left in, when a wave of self-consciousness overtook him. “VINA?” he said hesitantly.

“Do you need assistance, Mr Katz?”

“I, uh… Are you watching me in here?”

“I am tasked with monitoring all rooms of the Temps Commission Infirmary.”

He’d spent enough time in the military to be comfortable enough getting undressed in front of other men. But in front of a woman? Even if she might be a machine and not a real woman, it still felt wrong, somehow. “Could I get a little privacy?”

“To ensure your safety and the safety of other patients, I am required to observe at all times. Surveillance footage is wiped from my systems after two weeks and is not accessible without appropriate justification from Temps Commission staff.”

That still wasn’t exactly reassuring. Dave couldn’t even see where VINA was watching from, couldn’t work out where to position himself to turn his back. He’d been changed out of his fatigues, so someone had surely seen his naked body here before and there was no guarantee that they were all male, but the irrationality of his desire for modesty didn’t change anything.

She’s seen it all before , he told himself. There must’ve been hundreds of naked people in this hospital. And maybe this is just how things are in the future .

His shoulders dropped under the warmth and the strength of the water. It had been so long since he’d had a really good shower. He wasn’t sure he’d ever had one so good. Perhaps Klaus had had a point, waxing lyrical about the joys of a hot bath.

But then he touched his chest, touched the unblemished skin, and the touch stole the air from his lungs. He could feel it, feel himself being torn apart by the most agonising pain he had ever felt. What was the difference between warm water and hot blood? It all felt the same, running down his skin. Hands shaking, he switched the shower off and sank down to sit on the floor, his knees pulled up to his chest as if they could shield him somehow. He wanted his mom. He wanted Klaus. He wanted to be held and told that it was okay, that he was safe.

Eventually, he slowed his breathing enough to realise he was getting cold, the water having cooled on his naked body. He got shakily to his feet and dried himself off before busying himself with getting redressed. He could do this. It was systematic, routine, a way to feel just a fraction more normal, even if the clothes weren’t quite right either.

It wasn’t that he was ungrateful, but he did feel slightly strange in them. The pants seemed too fitted around the legs and a little too short, with rips across both knees. He supposed even in the future, free clothes couldn’t always be new or in best condition. But he’d be able to fix them up easily enough. He’d never been as well-taught as his sister, but he’d been so eager to copy her in whatever she was doing that his mother had decided it was easier to just teach them both.

He wondered what had happened to Marie. How long ago had it been for her since they’d last seen each other?

“Mr Katz, you have a visitor.” VINA’s voice was still startling, with no clear source and no warning.

“A visitor?” he repeated. Who was here, visiting him? Who even knew he was here?

“Would you like to allow them access to your room?”

Dave looked himself over in the mirror. His hair was still damp and the clothes may be strange, but at least he looked decent. He looked normal. He didn’t look like a man who had just been shot.

But he pushed those feelings down, squared his shoulders and kept his head high as he stepped out of the bathroom and back into the bare room. “Yeah, let ‘em in,” he agreed.

He didn’t know what he’d been expecting, but it wasn’t this. A very short man in a suit and a pair of glasses stepped into the room with an air of someone who didn’t feel quite certain how much space they were able or willing to take up.

“Hi, Mr Katz, right? I’m Herb, I’m, uh, Acting Chair here at the Commission,” the small man said with an awkward wave. “It’s good to see you up and about! And- and the timeline should be safe from any, uh, any attempts at rescue, so that’s a big bonus.”

Dave had resigned himself to the fact that everyone here was crazy. But there was something warm about Herb, something he liked. “Can you explain what’s going on? The doctor, she said something about anomalies?”

“Ah, well, in this case, we’re, uh, preventing a potential anomaly. I’ve seen firsthand what a determined Hargreeves can do, and I figured if we make sure none of them have a reason to go messing up a timeline again, it makes our jobs here easier!”

Dave’s breath caught in his throat. “You know Klaus?”

Herb giggled. “Do I know Klaus? Everyone here knows Klaus, he’s a Hargreeves . But I met him! I mean, I’m basically friends with his brother Diego, so you could say I know him better than most people here.”

Dave could barely hear what Herb was saying. His mind was racing faster than his heart, the use of ‘know’ rather than ‘knew’ enough to sustain him. He was still alive. And even if he was old now, stuck on the slow path through time, Dave knew he would still love him. He would love him until the end of the Earth. That had been a silent promise, as unspeakable as everything that they were, but as real and constant as the sun rising every morning. Forever was too much to vow in a war zone, but the intent had always been there. “Can I see him?”

“Well, that’s the plan!” Herb said brightly. “If you’re willing, we drop you off with him in 2019, there’s no need for any more time travelling shenanigans from the Hargreeveses, and we can all get back to normal!”

Fifty one years had passed. Would Klaus even still love him, after all that time? He almost couldn’t picture Klaus as an old man, not when he was full of so much energy, when he was so childlike sometimes. Was he an old man? Or had he somehow found a way back home before he had the chance to grow old? Back home... “People back home, my family… What happens to them?” he asked.

“Ah. Well, they think you’re dead. And unfortunately, they kind of had to. I’m afraid even if you turn down our offer to join Mr Hargreeves, you can’t go back to 1968. We made sure of that. And ooh, boy, that was a tricky one, but you’re not our first faked death and you sure won’t be our last!” Herb laughed, as if this was normal. As if this was simply how the world worked. And maybe it was. Maybe the world was bigger and stranger than anything Dave had ever seen. Anything but Klaus, of course. He was the maddest, strangest, most beautiful world all of his own.

In his mind, it had been just over a day since he’d seen him. But he missed him as if it had been weeks, months even. Maybe years. Did the ache dull over time? Would Klaus still be missing him as badly as he missed Klaus?

“If you’re, uh, amenable, we’ll drop you off in 2019 as soon as you’re discharged.”

It was a leap of faith into an unknown future, a new world. “I am.”

#also working on a chapter two so stay tuned for that #klave #klaus hargreeves #dave katz #tua #my content #my writing

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zontiky · 3 years

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wip ask game

RULES: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

thank u @malecacidd for tagging me in this sdjkfhsdk im only going to be sharing the stuff in my tua folder because i on principle cant handle doing all of my stacked up folders of different fandoms and this IS my tua blog. so

alt s2 (they are weirdos)

amnesiac klaus roleswap

bad timeline (predisposed to madness)

BAVE GHOST ROOMIE AU aka mutual pining death roommates

bave magic bookshop?

ben fakes his death. that is all

ben fix it

ben ft commission fuckery

ben is alive on accident

ben is unknowable (fading phantoms) (death changes people)

benji sea monster ben pirate jill “Don’t tell me what to do! It’s my curse.”

BIG s2 fix-it (no sparrows)

born to die (timeloop au)

breaking the walls (fantasy ben)

chronic pain five

cooking attempt

corpse bride klave au

croc ben

dave as bloody mary

drink up au

edith finch au

five but better opus 3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/19479124

five goes feral

food ft siblings (or: everyone keeps stealing luther's food)

frappes (or, five drags allison up to go to starbucks, ikea onion style)

horror ben; restoration

it's the apocalypse baby! - rp

kiss with a fist (benji assassins au)

klaus brings dave to 2019 to heal him

klave reincarnation (the sun will rise with my name on your lips) (they dont exactly,,, match up, time-wise. but then they do)

klave; sick days and married life

levitation with a twist or how they thought up this one

loving ben at 2am || ben feels :'(

majestic diamond octopus (want to rewrite tho :/)

ouch??? (or: dave and klaus get that house together. it's not real though. dave tries to tell him. klaus has to go back at some point)

pennycrumbs (you wouldnt steal a dog?? ...unless)

plant pov luther taking care of his plant (ariel suggestion)

proud

real girl dolores

ressurection

s2 ben made me cry (stardust)

ship in a bottle (dead ben?? what) (based on the song. think brain think)

sparrow bens and dreams and things (ben vs ben SHOWDOWN /j)

superheroes (diedora)

traumatized assholes sitting in the snow together (aka idfr what this is hfjsk)

x + 1 with klaus continuously failing to realize how queer his family is

then also my tua drabbles/inc folder because why not lol

hh diedora has my uwus

hoodie

hug fic...? (i dont wanna be sad)

mmmm piano ben

naomi...

shenanigans

time loopssssss

она родилась в октябре

yeah thats all of them! as u can see i have unrelenting ben hargreeves brainrot but like this is kind of a ben stan blog... so its fine hfsjksdk

i will NOT tag 54 people in this post. but i WILL tag @evelinaonline and @is-jus-me >:)

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you know what i could go for?? [late night ramble journey ahead // i did not re-read this so who knows!!]

an in-depth fic about klaus’s ten months in vietnam.. but with ben there. klaus getting pants and a gun shoved at him and ben is just as confused and freaked out. klaus finding out where they are, or ben finding out and telling him. klaus meeting dave and ben is sitting next to him, side eyeing dave because who is this soldier and why did he come all the way from the back of the bus to introduce himself. ben sees it / can tell when klaus shoves the briefcase under their seat right after and ben’s just like ‘are you fucking kidding me??’ and of course klaus would make stupid decisions because of an attractive man with a sweet smile. so he’s exasperated but also concerned because it’s 1968 and people like klaus are treated even worse now than they are in 2019, way worse, and all of these men are probably straight - dave included. and if any of them are gay they’re not gonna say anything let alone act on it. it wouldn’t be worth it. klaus could get himself hurt or killed just for being himself, if he acts too.. well.. himself after that he stays by klaus’s side more than he did in their own time, which is really saying something. offers advice and wisdom like he always has. he warns him about snipers and mines and bullets and in turn klaus warns his squad. ben can’t lie - it feels pretty fucking good to be responsible for saving lives without having to take any. he still wishes klaus would just try the briefcase, he has it, but at some point he stops pushing. because he does think klaus needs to go back and soon but everytime he brings it up klaus gets defensive and angry - he can do what he wants. he has friends here now. he has a family that actually likes him. that actually cares. he’s considered useful and important and he’s on drugs!! he can get high and none of them think any less of him for it. why can’t ben see that maybe this is where he belongs?? maybe the middle of the fucking vietnam war is where he fits?? and it’s not like he has anyone or anything back home. the only thing he could have missed is ben and ben’s with him in 1968 so there’s literally nothing. and ben wants to yell back, he wants to argue that there’s plenty for klaus to go back to, but he’s realizing that klaus.. might be right. and that hurts. and of course pisses ben off but it hurts because nobody should have to travel back in time and fight in a pointless war to find basic respect, especially not klaus. klaus who has been through enough - who deserves good things more than anyone ben knows. so after that conversation he doesn’t bring it up anymore. he looks at it sometimes, and thinks about their siblings, how they just gained their missing brother only to lose another, how are they doing? have they noticed klaus is missing yet? did they see the motel room?? did they know that all of that blood was klaus’s?? (shh patch didn’t die, hazel and cha cha escaped by knocking her out but she lives because i said so. diego shows up and finds her, freaks out at first but is relieved that she’s fine. he manages to get her to wake up and she tells him that klaus was there. he was hurt, very very hurt, but he got away. she doesn’t know where he went, he crawled through the vent, and he’s gone, diego. you need to find him - he needs a hospital. ahem anyway) ben thinks on these things and it never takes him long to get disgusted looking at it because it contains, in a way, their family. and he thinks he knows the answers. he gets to a point where he decides he wouldn’t be upset if they never had to see those jackasses again. his loyalties lie with klaus, after 13 years together there’s no way they wouldnt be. and if doing what’s best for klaus, doing what makes klaus happy, is staying right where they’ve found themselves than he can deal with it. that’s where he ends up anyway but its definitely not a quick or easy point to reach. he’s there for every battle, all the days of marching, watching klaus kill people and knowing how badly it’s affecting his brother and yet he doesn’t stop. he doesn’t pull back without orders, doesn’t put his gun down until he knows his squad is safe. and that fierceness grows as he gets closer to dave. ben doesn’t know what to think of dave at first, probably doesn’t trust him - knowing every man klaus has ever found attractive or had a “relationship” with before - but ben literally watches this - admittedly handsome - soldier boy fall in love with klaus, and klaus with him. ben witnesses the disco. the private conversation - from a distance, he’s doesn’t feel quite right listening in and he can still see them. the way they look at each other. how gently dave approaches every moment with klaus - the hand on his cheek, their first kiss (which he WILL tease klaus about later) when they head back to the hotel that was booked for all the guys for r&r, ben decides to wander saigon instead because he’s pretty sure he knows where things are going to go considering klaus and dave are roommates (oh my god they were roommates) by the time he gets back they’re both passed out (in the same bed. as he expected) from that day forward klaus is happy, genuinely happy in a way ben can’t remember him ever being, and dave has of course gained ben’s full approval (especially when klaus tells dave about the ghosts and dave believes him. even turns to where klaus is pointing at ben and tells ben that he’s happy that klaus has at least one good sibling, that he’s happy to know ben is there. when dave knows ben is there he always greets him. it’s not anything that grand really but it means a lot to ben. and when klaus finally tells him about the time travel, a little later on, dave believes him then too. said it made sense because he always thought there was no way someone as incredible as klaus could’ve come from the same place as he himself - let alone the same time. it never seemed to.. fit) SO ben is a fan. and he stays by both their sides - keeping them alive as best he can - along with a few other ghosts who are coherent, previous members of the 173rd, who pass things on to ben when klaus is too high. they talk, as long as no one but dave is around - dave who adapts pretty easily to klaus holding a whole conversation with someone he can’t see or hear. and ben.. stays ben. the only thing being in the war really changes is the way he views their siblings and he now has one other live person that he can “talk” to. eventually, almost 11 months in, they find out they’re getting sent to the frontlines. even closer to the danger. and klaus has a bad feeling. this is when ben brings up the briefcase again, hesitantly, and before klaus goes off reminds him that they could take dave with them. if he wanted to go. klaus can return to their time, to relative safety, and still have dave. it’s no longer a ‘one or the other’ situation. all they have to do is get dave to say ‘yes’. he says it very quickly of course (if you think i’d let dave die you’re out of your goddamn mind) he can be tough and feral when he needs to be, when pushed if klaus is in danger but he isn’t a killer, he doesn’t want to be a killer, he wants out. but he also wants a life with klaus and while they talked about going back to the states in.. well.. dave’s time and getting a little house and all that - doing that in 2019 sounds much better. especially after the night klaus told him softly about how things were different for lgbtq+ people, how they could hold hands and be as out as they wanted. get married. adopt. all things dave spent his whole life believing he’d never be allowed to have. so they do it - right then. klaus pulls out the briefcase and they gather the few things they wanted to keep and in a bright light they’re gone. (maybe they said something, or goodbye, to each squadmate before leaving. maybe they didnt and it hurt but if they waited around to get through everyone it would be too late to run) AND OH!! they take the ghost soldiers with them / the ghost soldiers find them in 2019, because i’m a slut for klaus having good ghosts, friend ghosts, who - even if they died horribly, are still the same person they were alive. and maybe sometimes they look like their deaths and sometimes they can look normal - ben teaching the soldiers how to be ghosts?? including how to appear as you were; whole, no holes or blood or missing limbs or chunks of head blown off. they’re all grateful and so is klaus. tho listen: he still gets high because i fucking said so - however, at least until the world is saved, he sticks to cigarettes and - for sleeping purposes - pot, dave does as well. because dave isnt a square. maybe he sticks to that path afterwards. maybe not. i for one support everything except 100% sobriety 100% of the time in this instance anyway: later on when klaus can make ben corporeal for any amount of time he wants ben tells their siblings about the real life romantic drama he got to watch close up, from their first meeting all the way to the return to 2019. he also mentions a lot of things about the war, the sights and sounds of senseless murder - something their brother and his boyfriend were forced to take part in - the wounds they had to deal with, heal through. klaus and dave definitely have some scars. the fear. and that’s after telling them about hazel and cha cha and the almost two days they had klaus and nobody noticed. (maybe klaus lets his siblings meet the other soldiers, maybe not. maybe he lets them wander the mansion corporeal to scare the shit out of people. who knows) ben wants to make their siblings feel bad. he wants them to hurt and feel guilty. it’s the very least they deserve he thinks, when it’s all said and done. he hasn’t been able to say anything to them for 13 years and he’s got a lot of things built up - but gotta say, the last year (five-ish days?? starting at ep.1) have really taken the whole goddamn cake. klaus is embarrassed and shocked and actually quite touched that little benny is really going feral for the first time - though he keeps trying to tell him none of it is a big deal. he doesnt like confrontation. dave however is extremely pleased by the whole thing. klaus kept saying he and ben would get along if they ever got to meet and he was right. ben had, with a serious face, dubbed them the klaus hargreeves love & protection squad (bc dave doesnt know what the fuck even a ‘meem’ is yet) and that’s that. they make up a handshake and everything. klaus has never felt so loved.

aaand eventually klaus and dave and ben (because of course he’s invited) do get that little house away from the city - someplace with few to no ghosts. someplace they can make their home. they make sure it has a room they can make up for ben even though he doesnt sleep (he still deserves his own space. a place to get away from them if he wants. somewhere to put his books and such. ben doesnt get emotional about that at all. absolutely not.) and they get pets and klaus gardens and ben reads books about gardening so he can help and dave works (mechanic is always a good time. or bookstore owner!! coffee shop?? listen. those may or may not be my favorite aus) and maybe the siblings get to visit and maybe they mend things and bond or whatever idk THE POINT IS:: Ben is a good brother and i think the idea of him going through vietnam with klaus is interesting and if someone with more ideas/thoughts ever wrote this i would be on that like cheese on broccoli honestly. THE SECOND POINT IS:: Klaus and Dave deserve to be happy and have the life they dreamed about together and if they shared their home with anyone it would be the Bentacles SO… OKAY… that definitely did it’s own thing but i really really genuinely love thinking about what those months would have been like with ben there - what he would have thought or said or done about things yknow?? and how that would have affected klaus/changed things. i didnt give a lot of examples in this because my brain didn’t want to stay on track (as if it ever does) but it’s 1:30 in the morning and im so fucking tired lsdfd;lk if you actually read this.. first of all: im sorry. second of all: thank you. and literally if anyone ever wrote something about this topic (not like.. this post specifically, just the ben in vietnam plot) and nobody important dies i’ll love you and give you a lil smooch on the noggin s m ooch. smooches. you know who likes smooches?? klaus. you know who deserves smooches?? klaus. you know who’s getting smooches?? THAT’S RIGHT. KLAUS. because dave has a degree in giving them and he can’t let that education go to waste amiright??

this post.. may or may not have been brought to you by wine as well..

ope

#ben hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #dave katz #klave #mytuaposts

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spikeywritesfic · 4 years

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i guess i was asking more how do you think season 1 goes differently because of married kliego ... i mean obviously diego’s officially a cop and he’s gonna notice if klaus gets kidnapped again by the commission ... which may not happen given he’s no longer high all the time .... maybe they have a bigger voice in getting vanya out from her cell because they can team up on luther for real... also i mean diego never gets arrested for eudoras death and maybe she never dies... was just wondering how you saw all of that going down !

Hehehe oh thank you, anon.

Well.

Spoilers for the Plus One part of the Museum ‘verse Christmas fic...

So, basically. Throw Season One out...

Essentially, because Klaus stole the book but not the box, because he's not trying to get it for drug money.... He didn't throw the book in the trash.

So Leonard didn't find it.

Instead, Five saw it in the front room and was all "Oh! Dad’s book". Five reads it, and goes, "oh shit! Vanya has powers?? Well, she'll be handy facing this apocalypse!" and like. Helps her wean off her meds slowly and helps training her.

Now, because she's connecting with someone, because Leonard doesn't get to her..... Well. She doesn't have all the bad stuff happen.

Klaus doesn't get kidnapped.

And when Hazel and Cha-Cha etc come for them... The siblings all slightly more united.

They then bring down the commission.

And like. The end of the world just.... Never comes.

Because.... Well... Vanya is happier.

Five gets a body the same age as the rest of them....

And.... Sometimes they wonder if the world actually ended or Five was crazy because.... Yeah. Nothing happens.

That isn’t to say things are smooth sailing for them. There’s a LOT of trauma to work through. But... yeah. Vanya doesn’t get locked up. Klaus doesn’t get kidnapped, so he also doesn’t go back in time. I suppose if we have Klaus at the house when Hazel and Cha-Cha come to face them... well, he’s sober. He’s not hiding away and in the bath. He could probably use his powers to help them fight.

And.... yeah.

Which. I think some people might find disappointing... But it just makes sense to me. :’)

We’d never meet Dave... Eudora wouldn’t die because Klaus wouldn’t be kidnapped...

And uh. Yeah :’) Hopefully that isn’t too lame of a direction to take things....

#kliego #museum 'verse #spikey writes #nonymice #someone wants to speak to me??

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blueberryraindrops · 4 years

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Blueberry’s Ultimate TUA Masterlist

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Fics are organised alphabetically (articles e.g. ‘the’ will not count)

mostly gen and fiego fics

Download links are EPUB files only

authors can feel free to send me a msg if they want their fics’ download link taken down

Links are now unavailable on PC due to a Tumblr link limit (I also had no idea this was a thing, but apparently it is?)

Regular updates can be expected as long as I remain in the fandom

Last Update: 15/10/2020

FANFICTION

☁︎ actions are worth a thousand words by achilleees { E }

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“I think it would be best if we keep up the ruse for a short while longer,” Five said. “For the sake of time-space continuity.”

“Oh, so Klaus was right before, huh?” Diego said. “The fabric of the universe unravels if my hairdresser knows we’re not boning?”

☁︎ Adventures In Childhood [Series] by just_a_sunflower_girl { G / Partially WIP }

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Five really should have guessed that something would go wrong. The universe hated him, it was an abject fact. And right now, Five hated the universe right back.

The commission turns Five into a four year old, hoping it will make him easier to kill.

☁︎ all dressed up and naked by cathect { E }

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The skirt hanging off of it is pleated and pale pink, with two white stripes near the hem— like a cheerleader might wear, Diego thinks wildly— and Five looks almost awed. Diego doesn’t want to assume anything by an expression alone, but he can’t quite help it.

Before he can stop himself, the words are tumbling out. “That would look good on you.”

Or, the one where diego fucks five while he's wearing a skirt.

☁︎ another cog in the murder machine by Ford_Ye_Fiji { T }

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Five finally gets the breakdown he deserves

☁︎ As I Want You to Hear Me by karcheri { E }

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“It’s hard to explain.”

“Try me.”

Five sighs.

“I’m trying to prove that our current timeline has branched off from it’s initial trajectory by such a large margin that it could only have been caused by the existence of unknown variables interrupting the timeline at non-linear points throughout history. I believe that we are living in...let’s call it timeline 2.0.”

“I don’t understand,” Diego says. Nutcase, he thinks. Insanely hot nutcase.

This time Five smirks at him, looking bratty and arrogant and entirely too sharp; “I know you don’t.”

Or: What I like to imagine alternate/Sparrow Academy timeline 2019 Five and Diego are up to

☁︎ Bizarre For You Is Normal For Us by pupeez4eva { G }

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“I think he’s talking to himself again,” Ashley said, leaning forward. “Okay yeah he is — oh my god, is that kid talking to the mannequin?”

Maggie shot a glance behind her. Yes, the boy was talking to the top half of a mannequin.

“I love working here,” Ashley breathed.

Wherein Klaus, Dave, Five and Dolores go on a double date, and people are confused and very concerned.

☁︎ Blink by Lady_Origami { G }

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When Five blinks, sometimes he's back in the world of ash and embers. It's hard to remember how to breathe when that happens. In which Klaus tries to play the role of supportive brother with Ben's help, and Five struggles more than he lets on.

☁︎ Blood like Lemonade by Ford_Ye_Fiji { T }

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Hunting high and low to seek revenge, Brand new moral code, got made reluctant renegade. Leaving empty souls when he avenged, Evil spirits flowed he drank the blood like lemonade.

Five's sordid past comes to light in, quite possibly, the most unpleasant way

☁︎ Bloom by jenpix { E }

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The first thing he noticed was the heat. A sudden, overwhelming heat. It started by his neck, his throat tightening, cutting off oxygen to his brain. The heat spread lower, permeating throughout his chest and abdomen, focusing and growing in his groin. Every inch of his skin was on fire. He couldn’t breathe; he couldn’t think. He needed something- anything- to relieve the ache that had abruptly settled in his bones. Lust utterly consumed him.

“Something’s wrong.” Diego concluded.

☁︎ Call Me Wild Thing by Electra_XT { E }

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“Diego’s been screwing guys who look exactly like you,” Klaus said.

“True,” Five said.

“He acts embarrassed when you encounter him with one of these lookalikes,” Klaus said.

“True,” Five said.

“You want to bang him,” Klaus said.

Five hesitated.

☁︎ Comes And Goes (In Waves) [Series] by hujwernoo { M }

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The apocalypse happens, Five arrives in the rubble, and his entire family is dead.

However, one of them has power over ghosts. And even if being dead seriously sucks sometimes, Klaus is going to be there for his brother.

☁︎ Dead Aren't Good Company, The by RosyPages { G }

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They’d been back in time for less than a month when their father forced Klaus back into the mausoleum.

But maybe this time his family can do the right thing.

☁︎ Details [Series] by VeteranKlaus { T }

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The last time Klaus saw his siblings was at Allison and Patrick's wedding. A lot had changed since then; including the not-so-accidental, irreversible loss of his sight.

There's no time to tell them that, though. Not with the return of their long-presumed-dead brother and the impending apocalypse. Plus, it doesn't matter. He's got Ben as a good seeing-eye ghost.

☁︎ Digging Up The Past by FiveUmbrellaAcademy { E / WIP }

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"You want to roleplay me being raped." Five muses, stirring his margarita. He plucks out the tiny umbrella and leaves it abandoned on the edge of the table.

Diego splutters, before glancing wildly over his shoulders.

Five and Diego are in a busy bar, and Diego had absentmindedly suggested Five looking particularly hot, especially when he's pliant, almost as if he's being -

"What the fuck? Shut up, Five." Diego hisses, eyes darting around. "Anyone can hear you."

Five says nothing.

Or: Unfortunately, the roleplay triggers a memory Five desperately wishes he'd forget.

☁︎ do androids dream of electric sheep? by the_crownless_queen { T }

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Number Four is crying, and Grace was made to care for those children.

In which Grace was created to protect the children of the Academy. Even, as it turns out, from their father.

☁︎ don't waste your time (or time will waste you) by rosewitchx { T }

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He was an old man. He is sixteen. Ben dies next week. How does he know that?

“I think I broke it,” Five stutters, and for the first time in her short life Vanya sees absolute terror in his eyes.

Or, Five travels back again. Something goes wrong.

☁︎ Dulce Periculum (Danger Is Sweet) by Anonymous { E }

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Klaus swallows heavily.

He brings up the hand that says “Goodbye” on the palm up to Five's hair and rakes his fingers through the strands. When Klaus is blessed with a high pitched whine, he knows he's done for.

or: Five wants something stronger than alcohol.

☁︎ Fighting (Pre)Determinism by chibi_tantei { T / WIP }

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They go back in time, determined to rewrite their own family history. Only problem is, only one of them looks the proper age to get near their younger selves.

Or, six months after Five stormed out, determined to time travel, he returns home. His siblings are happy to have him back, but he's acting differently...

(Or, Five goes undercover as himself. Twice the siblings should make saving the world easier, right? Yet somehow, he's only now realizing how many issues his family has to fix.)

☁︎ Five and Dave's Life Changing (Life Saving) Field Trip by neuronary { T }

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The little boy, who Dave could now see was not as little as he’d first thought, shoved a tin mug at him. “Drink this.”

Dave drank. It tasted sickly sweet and slightly citrus-y. “Who are you?”

“Five.” The boy’s scowl deepened at Dave’s confusion. “Klaus’ brother.”

Or, Five saves Dave's life to stop Klaus from moping. From Dave's perspective, a very grouchy, sleep-deprived twelve-year-old kidnaps him and he finds it much more entertaining than he should.

☁︎ Five And Diego Take Ukraine by yawarakai { G }

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It’s definitely her. She's around fifty, and striking – Diego can see where his brother gets his features. Light skin, grey eyes, hair dark and straight, slim. She’s a carbon copy of the boy standing before her.

“Da?” Five’s mother asks warily.

☁︎ Forward Trajectory by karcheri { M }

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“Ha ha,” the cop replies,” How’s your little troupe of nerds today anyways?”

His Professor groans, burying his face in the man’s neck and Nick winces. He should’ve anticipated that answer.

“That bad, huh?”

Or: Every semester students work themselves to the bone to score the highest mark on Professor Five's final project.

☁︎ Ghost Math by pinstripedJackalope { G }

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Number Five needs a new hobby now that the apocalypse is off. He decides to help Klaus--and in turn maybe he'll help himself.

☁︎ game of waiting, a by sky_blue_hightops { G }

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He was always the fastest. He always beat the others up the stairs, down the halls, through time and space. If there's one lesson he's learned, it's that there's always a finish line. A stopping place. Blood bubbles from between his fingers, and suddenly there's no air in his lungs.

Five jumps in front of a bullet. He calls it quick reflexes. Diego calls it stupidity.

☁︎ Gift-Wrapped by punk_rock_yuppie { E }

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Diego discovers Five's secret.

☁︎ god-intoxicated by chrysostomos (nantes) { E }

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Of all the things Diego expected to get dragged into this month, meeting a mythological witch, finding out Five is married, and rescuing him from his unwanted sun god husband were not on the list.

☁︎ handling myself by achilleees { E }

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Five pressed his lips together. “I advise against… touching them with your bare hands,” he said, taking the pills out of his pocket and dropping them into Diego’s gloved palm. “It would be unwise.”

In the light streaming from the Academy windows, Diego could see the sheen of sweat on his skin, trickling down his temple.

“Oh my god,” Diego said, starting to laugh.

☁︎ Happy Accidents by Starrstruck_64 { G }

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You’re making a mess, is what Diego wants to snap back. Instead he hears his mom’s voice clear as day say ‘boys will be boys’ and without thinking he’s moving on autopilot.

Diego can feel his hands clenching rhythmically at his sides before he’s moving forward to take the bowl from Klaus and ripping the apron off in one smooth motion. Discarding the bowl to the side he works on getting the strings untangled and slips the apron over his own clothes.

“Out.”

He has so much work to do. The pancake is beyond salvaging, the kitchen is a mess, and he’s fairly certain the batter is inedible.

Aka: the fic where Diego’s mothering instincts go wild

☁︎ haven't you heard of meditation? by rosesareredvioletsareblue { T }

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"Klaus, you have a piece of glass sticking out of your neck!"

Klaus felt for the glass, wincing as he found it.

"Oh yeah. Fun." It took all of Five's willpower not to throttle him.

☁︎ Hidden Variables Theory, The by siriuspiggyback { T }

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Something has disturbed the space-time continuum, and it's up to Five to figure out what it is.

With a bit of luck, and a lot of alcohol, he might even manage to do it before he snaps and murders his siblings.

☁︎ Honey and Vinegar by JayTRobot { M }

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The Handler sends Five on a mission only he can complete - to seduce a known pedophile for information. Then kill him.

Five doesn't appreciate playing the honeypot.

☁︎ I Want It (I Got It) by Electra_XT { E }

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“Oh, Christ,” Five said, starting to grin. “Diego, no. Don’t tell me you’re actually into being called—”

“Shut up,” Diego muttered.

“It’s not sexy,” Five said. “It’s cliche and corny and macho and self-aggrandizing, and I’m disappointed in you.” He waited a beat. “Daddy.”

☁︎ i'm gonna be here til i'm nothing (but bones in the ground) by iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid { T }

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Someone definitely just punched him in the chest, right? That’s the reason for that feeling? Or that last batch of pills had something seriously off-label mixed into them. Because there’s no way. There’s no fucking way.

He squeezes his eyes shut until dots burst behind his eyelids, but when he opens them, the hallucination doesn’t go away.

“… Five?”

☁︎ I'm The Daddy? by TUA (IAMS) { G / WIP }

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Five spends fifteen years in the apocalypse and two years working for the Temps Commission before breaking his contract and time traveling back to the year 2003; just a year after he originally went missing.

According to his calculations, wiping Reginald's existence from the timeline means the apocalypse never occurs. But of course, this leaves several newly orphaned fourteen year olds in his care.

Let the family bonding and therapy ensue.

☁︎ if the sky comes falling down by synchronicities { T }

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The equations are still wrong.

In 2002, Number Seven wonders why her siblings are acting odd.

(Or, the post-finale “Vanya doesn’t remember the time travel” fic)

☁︎ If You're Different And You Know It (you're not alone) by M3zzaTh3M3z { T }

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Five was different. He’d always known. Different from most people, what with his freakish birth, powers and unconventional upbringing, all that old news. And different from his siblings. He was smarter. His powers were stronger. And he’d never picked a name. All that was old news too. But there was something else that separated him from the rest, something he didn’t know how to put a finger on, how to categorize, analyse, understand. Five didn’t like not understanding. It was probably Klaus that made him first notice something was off.

☁︎ Is the sadness everlasting? (love, I think it is) by ArmedWithMyComputer { T }

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A look into what Klaus' newly discovered ability could mean for the siblings.

Diego could feel his whole body trembling as he faced the ghosts, only able to take shallow breaths as he struggled to process the true horror of what he was seeing.

And then they started howling.

The sound pierced though his stupor and forced him to his knees instantly. It was like nothing Diego had ever experienced before, and he was consumed with the intensity and overwhelmed by a deep chilling fear. It felt as though his mind had been taken over and all he could hear was the shrieks of grief, more intense than any emotion he had ever felt.

☁︎ It Does(n't) Matter by MYSTERYstew { T }

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It’s a familiar feeling, being lifted up by Luther and tossed around like he weighs nothing (to Luther he certainly does), it was a favorite move of Luther’s as a child. Nostalgia is not what Five feels, he’s too busy flailing as Luther throws him over the railing.

or, Five fails a jump

☁︎ Jealousy Sucks by FiveUmbrellaAcademy { E / WIP }

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"God, Diego." Five rubbed his temples, sounding exasperated. "He's our brother."

"I'm your brother, too." Diego blurts out. Fuck, now he's sounding like an insecure, whiny boyfriend. Perfect.

Five just stares back at Diego, his eyebrows burrowing.

At the physical age of seventeen, Five has, in Klaus' words, grown up hot.

☁︎ Just One Minute by willowhisperer { T }

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Five holds up his end of the deal, soaked in blood. The Handler decides to toy with him a little while longer.

Maybe it's revenge, maybe she's riding the high of her shiny new position as head of the Commission.

Really, she just wants to win, once and for all.

☁︎ Kinktober Day 12 - Crossdressing by Multifangirl69 { E }

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The Umbrella Academy Kinktober Fest//Day 12

☁︎ Kitten Socks by sky_blue_hightops { G }

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Klaus's lost his favorite pair of socks (again) (Ben shut up) and finds them in an unexpected place.

☁︎ Lessons 'verse [Series] by Soulykins { T }

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Five was maybe four years old when he figured out that he was pretty much ride or die for his siblings. He was also four when he figured out that in the Umbrella Academy, you could never let Reginald Hargreeves figure out what you loved lest he use it against you. There was safety in aloof indifference, more than could be found anywhere else under their roof.

Five times Five Hargreeves protected his siblings the best ways he could, and the one time he failed.

☁︎ Lethe by shoelaces { T }

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Le·the | A river in Hades whose waters cause drinkers to forget their past.

Or: Five loses his memories instead of Vanya, and it falls to his siblings to raise a superpowered teenager in the 1960s, all whilst preserving their own new lives and preventing yet another apocalypse.

☁︎ Like an abyss by fridayyy { T }

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For the second time, Five has to (gets to?) grow up.

☁︎ Like Oxygen by sevansa { T }

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Klaus's powers may be a bit more extensive than just seeing the dead, he's not sure what to do about that.

The one where Klaus's power is not ghosts, but souls and that makes a hell of a difference.

☁︎ master of my domain by achilleees { E }

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“You’re asking five 13-year-old boys not to jerk off for – it can’t be done,” Luther says. “Now that we’re older, it would be different, but back then –”

“Excuse me, I could do it,” Five says. “I could certainly outlast all of you.”

They all look at each other.

“Oh, no,” says Allison.

☁︎ Meet the Hargreeves Siblings by AmyR { G }

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Klaus is found passed out by a confused Patch and Beaman. When Diego comes to get him, refusing to divulge who the unconcious man was, things get weird. At least the first time. The second time, it was a different person. And then the third. Then the fourth.

Until finally, explanations are demanded.

☁︎ Mellow Rays of a Departing Sun [Series] by Emotionally_Detached (Yeah_Toast) { T }

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He makes it. He time travels and makes it through another apocalypse. He makes it, but his siblings don't.

His siblings don't make it, except he's in his own childhood and they're still here, alive and thirteen and he can fix things.

He will fix things

☁︎ Midmorning Coffees and Therapy Sessions by wereworm { G }

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Local woman working at coffeeshop accidentally adopts a child and gives advice with a focus on getting closer to siblings when she, herself, has a sub-optimal relationship with her sister.

Or the time Five went to get a good cup of coffee and ended up slowly befriending the barista while trying to reconnect with the siblings he hasn't seen since his childhood without the looming threat of the apocalypse anymore.

☁︎ most dangerous place in the world, the [Series] by Princess_Sarcastia { T }

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"Grace is the third model in a series created by and for Sir Reginald. She has access to the knowledge obtained by her predecessors in their time assisting Sir Reginald in his many endeavors.

All three of them were primarily designed as protectors. Do no harm, just as Mr. Asimov said!

But Grace is slightly different."

[priority one: protect the children]

☁︎ Need a Vacation by Electra_XT { E }

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“You ready for a relaxing weekend at the beach?” Diego said.

“Thrilled,” Five said, looking down at the map in his hands. “A relaxing weekend of hunting down a hired killer and pretending I’m dating my brother.”

☁︎ New Life, A by BirdInTheCave { T }

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Allison had convinced Ray to come back to 2019 with her and her family and after a month of being cooped up in the house with the other Hargreeves plus their own unconventional guests, Ray suggests they spend some time alone. He's still struggling to fully comprehend the new world he's stepped into but he's determined that with Allison at his side he can get used to anything. Allison can't find a reason to say no. She should have said no.

Luckily for her, Five will always be there for his family, now that he's back.

☁︎ Next time, hire a nanny by TheArchaeologist { M }

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While the rest of his family go out to Vanya’s concert for the evening, Five, still recovering from the remains of a lingering chest infection, agrees to watch Claire. He is fifty-nine, he can handle a little girl for the night.

Everything goes fine.

Until it very much doesn't.

☁︎ Not my body, not my life (But I am here) by Panonnymous_Bloom { G }

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He wasn't going to explain to Diego why exactly he was following Allison's every move with his eyes because he didn't own anybody any explanations, especially not his simpleton of a brother who seemed to think that every Alpha was going to pounce on Allison at the first sign of any heat.

Allison's decision to spend her heat in the house leads Five to a small realization - and even smaller desire - but he will kill a thousand men before admitting to it.

☁︎ Not with me by ClaraCivry (Kat_Of_Dresden) { T }

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They never asked if any of that blood was his. Five is bleeding, and he is also giving up.

AU to 2X07, with hurt Five because after all that boy has been through...

☁︎ Number Five | And The Things that Make Him Tick [Series] by Kraeyola { T }

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It's only been two weeks for him.

AKA: Five succumbs to two weeks worth of badly cared for (physical and emotional) injuries, and ends up extremely feverish.

☁︎ On My Terms by CivilBores { T }

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“I did what you asked,” he tells her. “Now, the briefcase.”

Her eyebrows raise in mock-surprise, red lips curling up her face in a sadistic smile.

“You didn’t think that was all, did you?” she asks.

AU: The Handler gives Five a slightly different deal.

☁︎ On This Day In History by telm_393 { M }

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Five had a...special relationship with the Handler during his time at the Commission, or maybe he didn’t. After the apocalypse doesn’t happen, he tries to order his memories of the last few years while also actively suppressing them. It goes badly.

His siblings are worried, and genuinely want to help. They are not unsuccessful.

☁︎ Out of My Mind by Electra_XT { E }

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“What happened?” Diego said. He looked down at himself. “Am I hurt?”

What happened? echoed a voice from the back of his head.

☁︎ Outside, For the First Time by Trees_Frogs_andPotentially_Treefrogs { G }

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Grace is torn between her programming to obey the rules set by Mr. Hargreeves, and her duty to the children, and decides that being a person is self determined.

☁︎ Partners, Parents, or None of the Above by DarkFairytale { T }

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Kenny's mom assuming that Diego and Klaus were A) a couple and B) Number Five’s parents was both bemusing and amusing at the time. But that was because it was the only time it had ever happened. Now though? Now they just can't understand why these misunderstandings keep happening.

☁︎ Raising the Bar by Electra_XT { E }

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Five looked ten years older. He was still youthful, early twenties, but he had suddenly and visibly become an adult. Diego had braced himself for… something, but not this. He was dressed heartbreakingly preppy— neatly tailored slacks, a shirt that fit him like it was made for him, and a casual blazer. Diego hadn’t known a blazer could be casual before, but the way Five wore the linen jacket made it seem genuinely effortless.

Of all the ways this new body thing could have gone, Diego didn’t expect him to be hot.

☁︎ rude awakening by Soulykins { T / WIP }

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When Five wakes up, he just knows someone is in the room with him. Of course, even he didn't except to come face to face with the Handler who he'd thought to be very very dead. And he especially didn't expect her to break into his room and watch him sleep while waiting for him to wake up.

It's very fortunate that Diego and Klaus show up to wake him up and take offense to some random lady in the same room as their very uncomfortable, very thirteen-year-old brother.

☁︎ Screaming in the Face of Communication by papayaromantic { T }

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It's not that he doesn't want to pay attention to Five, just that he seriously can't hear what the boy is saying past the wailing of the torn apart woman in front of him.

☁︎ Second First Time by venDi { E }

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Five spent his early years learning about Alpha biology -- and he knows, recognizes the sudden shift in his family's scent, that his heat has sent them all into a very, very early rut.

☁︎ Servus by Anonymous { E }

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"They had been given a chance to start over, all of them, together. At least, that’s what Five intended, when he pulled he and his siblings from imminent death...He had watched his siblings be swept back to their collective childhood, armed with the knowledge of what was to come, and how to prevent it. He, on the other hand, had ended up somewhere entirely different."

Five receives one, final business proposal from the Handler, and her methods of persuasion are far from conventional.

☁︎ Shadow Elixir, The by Phantom_Vidar { E / WIP }

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With the apocalypse averted the Hargreeves attempt to rebuild their lives and transition into something that resembles a fraction of normalcy. A year later and strange visions start appearing to Klaus, of a dark space contaminated by souls bygone and a voice who aches to be free; especially Ben's. The apocalypse has passed but now another disaster awaits— one that Diego and Five might have accidentally walked into.

Alternatively: Diego and Five have sex and coincidentally start the next stage of the end of the world.

☁︎ shaking like I shook before by Anonymous { T }

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Five tries to deal with it alone, until he learns that he doesn’t have to.

☁︎ skirts and sweaters by slightlyworriedhuman { T }

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"I don't want to be a ‘cute little schoolboy’ anymore, alright?” Five snapped. For some reason, the thought of himself as a schoolboy was enough to make his skin prickle. Was it the implication that he was younger than the rest of them, less mature despite his life?

...Yeah, it was definitely that. Absolutely.Five wants a change in wardrobe. His siblings are more than happy to help.

☁︎ small changes by calypso42 { T }

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“I need to ask you something.” He set down the large stack of books he was carrying beside him. Klaus glanced at a few of the titles - Consciousness in the Brain - Memory & the Role of the Hippocampus - Soul vs. Matter: A Comprehensive Look at the Origins of Sentience - and grimaced.

“Are you… having an existential crisis, or something? Because I am possibly the worst person you could go to for that.”

...

When Five goes to Klaus to ask him something about his powers, Klaus doesn’t think much of it. At least, until he realizes that what he thought was simple curiosity was actually deeper than that, leading to a revelation about Five himself.

☁︎ Snacktime. [Series] by HotCocoaaa { G }

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There was a wolf spider, just, chilling on the table that morning when Diego came down for breakfast. A...a really big wolf spider. Just...a real hunk of a thing.

(“You...you just….you just ate a spider.” He murmured.)

It didn't end well.

☁︎ Special punishment by Anonymous { M }

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Five was the only one with a tattoo on his rib

☁︎ sweater weather by KittenAnarchy { G }

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Number Five, a dryer, and his first blink.

☁︎ take shelter by aloneintherain { T }

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AU where the apocalypse doesn’t follow the Hargreeves to the 1960s. Without the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over their heads, the siblings can take the time to be a family again.

Until they find out that the Handler has been blackmailing Five.

☁︎ There are Stones in my Stomach and Worms on my Plate by TheArchaeologist { M }

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If you ever need a crash diet, try the apocalypse. It is fat free, dairy free, lacking in all the vital vitamins and minerals, and totally organic.

After all, look at Five. Weeks after stopping the apocalypse and he still can’t finish a plate of food.

☁︎ there is simply nothing worse than knowing how it ends by Drhair76 { G }

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"What's this?" He said pointing a finger at the bread and peanut butter that was laid across the table top.

Five rolled his eyes and sighed heavily. "What do you think. It's a sandwich."

"Oh?" Klaus reached out a hand to brush the sleeve of his beloved hoodie. "And what's this?"

or, the one where Klaus 'loses' a hoodie, Five gets a hug and Ben is proud.

☁︎ they could care less (as long as someone'll bleed) by Ford_Ye_Fiji { M }

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Number Five is cornered once again by commission agents, but this time with his family.

Diego and Klaus learn something about their littlest-oldest brother.

☁︎ this is a bad town (for such a pretty face) by luciimariiellii { T }

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Five’s gone. (How the Hargreeves cope, and how they reunite.)

☁︎ time on my hands by achilleees { E }

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“If you orgasm, you’ll die,” Five said with a grimace.

Diego’s eyes went wide.

“Bet you wish you’d just been sterilized now,” Five said.

☁︎ Timelines 1-2.1 [Series] by dgalerab { M / Partially WIP }

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As the world ends, Five takes his siblings back into their child bodies on the day he originally left. With the knowledge of how the world ends fresh in their minds, the Hargreeves siblings do what they can to leave clues for their past selves on how to grow up a little less fucked up before returning to the present.

A present where they all have different lives they can't remember, there's a fun new apocalypse on the way, and Reginald Hargreeves remembers the day where all his children suddenly and inexplicably lost their minds and all respect for him at once a little too well.

☁︎ to unexplain the unforgivable by darkviverna { T }

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Ability to see the dead and having a temporal assassin for a brother don’t mix well.

☁︎ Too Much Too Little by 1spideyson { T }

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Five says nothing on the ride back, just gently presses the tips of thin fingers to his eyes and temples like his head is a new instrument he’s learning to play. Like he’s searching for the right notes.

Diego tries not to cast too many worried glances the boy’s way, but when Five crawls into Diego’s bed, shaking and grey, he can’t stop himself from speaking up.

A look at Five and Diego's relationship through a h/c lens.

☁︎ Too Old To Be So Young by KaseyBeth { T }

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Five winced loudly, pushing his head off the floor to see bright red smeared across his chest and stomach; crimson soaked into his shorts, running down his leg. His head fell back against the ground dizzyingly, and he groaned as someone touched the wound, biting his bottom lip as he tried to stay conscious. The end of life, of everything, was in three days; they didn’t have time for this, he didn’t have time for this. A bullet wound, a stupid bullet wound and all that stupid concern and worry, was just going to slow them down. There wasn’t time for mistakes, or hiccups, or rest and recovery. It was the end of the fucking world.

☁︎ trans diego & child five [Series] by iamnotalizard { G }

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eudora and beaman are surprised to find out diego has a kid; they're more surprised when they see what their relationship is like

☁︎ traumaversary by WeWalkADifferentPath { T }

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It follows him like an unscratched itch. Under his skin, over his body, around his energy, like a mosquito that won’t leave him the fuck alone.

April 1st. April 1st. April 1st.

(A character study of Five, with some inevitable family feels, in honour of March 24th).

☁︎ two can be as bad as one by myeyesarenotblue { M }

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“Five, sweet little Five” Klaus says, from where he’s sitting cross-legged on the floor, next to one of the living room’s couches, instead of sitting on it like a normal person. “We love you but what the fuck”

Five growls, like he’s a dog or something. “It should correct itself”

☁︎ Uncle Five PT1 by glitched-coffee { G }

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Allison has to take care of Claire without warning the others but its all fine and dandy until Claire thinks she’s old enough to hear everything about Five. She’s seven.

☁︎ Unexpected Future, An by aseies { T / WIP }

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“I’m sure you’re looking forward to finding a way back to your own time as soon as possible,” Nedzu said. “I want you to know that U.A. will do everything in its power to help you achieve that goal. Time travel is a complicated equation to solve, but I’m sure if we put our heads together we’ll come up with something!”

Five raised a skeptical eyebrow. “And you’re just going to do that out of the goodness of your heart? I’m not even old enough for high school yet.”

“Well, we’re all heroes for a reason, no? What good are we if we can’t help a single child in need?” Nedzu pointed out with a pleasantly neutral smile as he sipped his tea.

OR: Instead of time traveling into the apocalypse, thirteen-year-old Five Hargreeves teleports in the middle of the USJ fight.

He gets a couple of new dads out of it.

☁︎ Vital Signs by aye_of_newt { M }

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Sometimes, it's difficult for Klaus to tell if someone is alive or dead.When Five shows up, covered in blood after killing the Board, Klaus panics.

☁︎ walls kept tumbling down, the by Ingu { T }

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It started small.

There was a nagging ache in his chest, phantom pain from where the bullets had pierced his flesh, in the overwritten timeline that never will be.

(the one where rewinding time doesn't miraculously resolve mortal gunshot wounds)

☁︎ We All Deserve Second Chances (but don't repeat your mistakes) by justarandomword, wolvesandnovas { T }

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Time-travelling gave Ben a second chance at life. He's not about to let Reginald Hargreeves ruin that for him and Klaus.

(a.k.a. Reginald takes Klaus' dog tags and the aftermath.)

☁︎ we didn't choose this life, we're just (kind of) living it [Series] by noodlerdoodler { T / Partially WIP }

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Five couldn’t move, standing by and watching complacently, as his younger brother grabbed him roughly by the front of his sweater. It was like he was watching a play he wasn't apart of, yet that was definitely his small body being tossed over the balcony. No doubt, Luther thought that he would just jump out of the way. He'd always jumped out of the way, sometimes without even meaning to, but now visions of a world on fire flashed through his head as his body plummeted towards the ground. Seemingly, he was tumbling through the air in slow motion and absentmindedly, Five wondered if this was his life flashing before his eyes. All he saw was the desolate world he’d left behind weeks ago.

When Five hit the ground, it was with a sickening cracking noise.

“Oh my god, Luther, what have you done?”

☁︎ with two arms by karcheri { T }

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What it comes down to, really, is that Five had been too eager for results. Once it became clear to him that there was a connection between his powers and his energy level the obvious course of action, as he saw it, was to test this information. The hypothesis was this: higher energy levels = stronger powers and the easiest way to get more energy is to eat more. Pretty simple stuff. Too simple.

or Five times that Five starves himself and one time that he gets called out on it.

☁︎ world of options, a by achilleees { E }

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“So did you ask Five about me?” Klaus asked.

“Was I supposed to do that?” Diego said.

“You are the worst fucking wingman,” Klaus said.

☁︎ year that wasn't, the by achilleees { E }

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Diego turned to Five. “I’ve already, uh, lived today. This has already happened.”

Everyone went still.

“Ooh, that’s a mind-fuck,” said Klaus.

☁︎ you from yesterday by questors (sieges) { T }

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The difference between who his siblings once were and who they are now.

☁︎ You Put Your Head In My Hands by shadowsapiens { M }

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“I need a favor.” Five scrambles to his feet, fluffy dark tail lashing behind him. “Don’t worry, it’s not the apocalypse.”

☁︎ You Shook Me All Night Long by Persephxneeee { M }

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Diego was right, Five thinking too much sometimes.

☁︎ zero to sixty by achilleees { E }

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“Man, have you seen me?” said Diego. “Are you really that surprised?”

Oh, Five thought.

“Seems right,” said Klaus, pleased. “Other than the turtlenecks. Very hard to take you seriously as a Dom in the turtlenecks.”

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