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• Strawberries and Lemonade by EdwardBear

  Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Aug 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Number Five | The Boy & Lila Pitts
  • Number Five | The Boy/Lila Pitts
  • Lila Pitts
  • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Mentioned Diego Hargreeves
  • Mentioned The Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy
  • Talking
  • Lots of it
  • THEY NEED TO
  • also a lot of streams of consciousness
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • Protective Number Five | The Boy
  • Number Five | The Boy has PTSD
  • Five talks to Delores in his head
  • Extramarital Affairs
  • im sorry
  • but i want them to at least have a proper conversation about it
  • a bit of angst maybe?
  • but they need to act like the adults they are
  • and i mean
  • the five we know wouldnt do that
  • also i shipped five x lila but i would have preferred so much if it stayed fanon
  • somewhat canon compliant
  • no beta we die like ben
  • tags will be updated as I go

  Summary

  'A new train departs once more. The metal clanging of the wheels on the rails. Again. And again. One spin after the other. One ride after the other.'
  'He had gotten out of the situation once in the past, he could do it again... right?'

  -- as in

  I really wanted to take the whole Five/Lila thing and try to make it make sense. I like the ship, but what was done made very little sense to me, especially how the greenhouse scene and aftermath was dealt with. So yeah, this is a fix-it out of spite.

  Language:

  English

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