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1. sugar pills (maybe they don't work at all) by Spencer (ForestDivinity)

   Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   20 Feb 2021

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Klaus Hargreeves & Everyone
   • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy) & Everyone
   • Klaus Hargreeves
   • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
   • Ben Hargreeves
   • Vanya Hargreeves
   • Allison Hargreeves
   • Luther Hargreeves
   • Diego Hargreeves
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Canonical Child Abuse
   • Underage Drug Use
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Drug Addiction
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Family Bonding
   • Alternate Universe
   • Number Five | The Boy-centric
   • Klaus Hargreeves-centric

   Summary

   Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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   In another universe, Five Hargreeves ends up as many things - timetraveller, assassin, saviour of the universe (damnation of the universe), eternally overworked adult, and eternal child - but that's another life.

   In this universe, he's a little bit more afraid (of himself? Of his powers? Of Reginald Hargreeves?) and a little more prone to seeking comfort from his family. What he can't get from his Father, he'll find somewhere else. And so instead of running into an apocalypse, Five Hargreeves runs into Four's room and steals what's left of a baggie of weed. It is large in his own small hands, his fingers shake as he pries the plastic open.

   It spirals into a life of addiction he can't control, one counted in the bottoms of bottles and the sound of his brother laughing (crying) by his side.

   Maybe it's not the easiest life but it's the one he's living.

   Somehow, he still manages to stop the Apocalypse along the way (he never even knows it).

   Language:

   English

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