To Be Haunted

by Fille de Tsuki

Killing a spider doesn't destroy all its webs, and the Handler's death didn't disarm all her machinations. Now it seems the Hargreeves siblings' alternate future timeline misadventures have come back to bite them. Alternative title: "Two Can Play at Timeline Shenanigans (But They Probably Shouldn't)". (Sequel to "On the Naming of Things")

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Chapter One

Prologue

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Really, Vanya reflected, she should have known better than to hope things would continue going well for them all. They were the Umbrella Academy; of course their lives were doomed to forever be interrupted by absurd life-and-death situations.

At least this time, apparently Vanya herself wasn't the reason they couldn't have nice things. And there weren't any apocalypses on the horizon, which made for a pleasant change. Though she wasn't about to take any bets on that lasting long.

But as soon as she glanced over at Five - who she figured would understand best what they were really in for - all those silver linings evaporated like mist. He looked like he was about to throw up, kill someone, faint, or commit some unholy combination of the three.

Yeah, this was going to suck.

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