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1. we weren't born to follow orders (or were we?) by max_writezz

   Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Other
   • Work in Progress

   08 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Number Two | Ben Hargreeves/Original Character(s)
   • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
   • Diego Hargreeves
   • Klaus Hargreeves
   • Allison Hargreeves
   • Luther Hargreeves
   • Reginald Hargreeves
   • Lila Pitts
   • Dr. Pogo (Umbrella Academy)
   • Eudora Patch
   • Grace Hargreeves
   • The Handler (Umbrella Academy)
   • Number Two | Ben Hargreeves
   • Nonbinary Character
   • Umbrella Academy - Freeform
   • Five needs a hug
   • cute but also wtf
   • someone punch reginald in the face please

   Summary

   Ash Hargreeves was the sibling everyone forgot -sometimes literally.

   Number Eight had a power no one dared to understand: memory manipulation. Useful. Terrifying. Dangerous. Reginald Hargreeves thought they could be controlled. He thought wrong.

   When Ash is dragged back into the Academy after Reginald's death, they're forced to confront a broken family, the buried trauma they swore they'd never dig up, and-most impossibly-the ghost of the boy they never stopped loving.

   Ben Hargreeves is dead.
   Ash never got to say it.

   The apocalypse is coming.

   And Ash might be the reason why.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,575

   Chapters:

   9/?

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