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Unnumbered Future Selves
(The Umbrella Academy Fanfiction)
Grace Hargreeves was humming under her breath while she prepared the breakfast for the children she loved with all her robotic heart. There was a throat clear behind her, and she turned with a smile on her face.
"Hello sir" she greeted the children's father as he approached her.
"There is something I need to talk to you about. After the children have had their breakfast, come into my office. Make sure none of them follow you" he ordered her. Grace took in the information, stored it in her inner calendar, between dusting the house and helping Allison was some homework.
"Yes sir" she said and Reginald left, to return to his room to await the signal for breakfast.
Both were unaware that there was a ghostly presence watching them. Younger Ben frowned and disappeared.
After breakfast, One went back to his room to finish a model plane, two went to the training room to throw some knives, three went back to her room to do some homework before mom would come and help her, Four went to go sit outside in the sun and six followed his parents to Reginald's office. One of the pros to haunting his sibling.
Sure, Ben knew that he would get weaker the further away from Klaus he would get but through some experimentation on both brother's parts they discovered that as long as Klaus stayed on the property, Ben has free range around the house.
Which includes spying on their father.
The young ghost watched as his father looked up and down the corridor seven times before he closed the door and locked it twice. Grace was sitting on a chair across from his desk but Ben watched shocked as his father sat on the chair next to her instead of his seat.
He took her hands, and she smiled at him.
"What I'm about to tell you may either delight you or scare you. This is actually one of the moments I wished I hadn't given you emotions. But you had to love the children" he started muttering.
"I understand. I will do my best to not show emotion until you have finished" promised Grace. Ben watched. He didn't know Grace was programmed with emotions. All for them.
Did their father actually care about them?
"Your children's future selves are here in the past. Their currently sleeping in Pogo's room" said Reginald. He kept talking but Ben couldn't listen.
The future versions of his siblings. His brothers and sisters had a future?
He missed a lot of what his father was saying but he tried to tune in when Grace gasped and a hand went to her mouth.
Whether it was in delight or shock, Ben couldn't tell.
"May I see them?" she asked.
"Not yet. As I said, they are still asleep. But you can prepared a dinner for everyone if you wish. Once Pogo tells me that their awake, then I will alert the children" said Reginald.
"Yes" said Grace, standing and wiping down her skirt, "that is probably best."
Ben frowned. Why not tell them right now? It didn't make sense. Ben wasn't sure if he could tell Klaus or if it was best to leave it till they all found out.
...
Number One frowned. His father was acting weird. All the children had noticed that he was watching them all throughout breakfast. He seemed to almost be comparing them to something else.
He looked out his bedroom window to see Klaus talking to the thin air again. Or a ghost - although Luther could never be sure if Klaus was lying or being truthful.
...
Luther was the first one to wake up. Pogo was sitting at the small desk - probably told to keep an eye on them.
"Good Morning, Mr Luther" he said and he handed Luther an energy bar.
Luther unwrapped it and asked: "any of the others woke up yet?"
Pogo shook his head.
"Not yet, although Mr Klaus seemed to be muttering an hour ago and Allison shifted a few minutes. I'll say she'll be the next one to wake up."
Luther nodded and slowly shifted so that Diego was no longer lying on him. Diego shifted a little and got more comfortable on the floor. Luther turned and looked around at the bed. Vanya seemed to have moved from her original position and was cuddling into Five - who hadn't move at all.
The large man got up from the floor and approached Five.
"He's fine, sir. Just exhausted. I'm sure he'll wake up before dinner tonight" said Pogo.
"Dinner?" asked Luther.
"Yes. Your father has instructed Grace to prepared a dinner for the lot of us after the children get told about you" said Pogo. Luther nodded and sat back down on the floor to wait for his siblings to wake up.
... Out in the courtyard, Klaus nearly crapped himself.
"You really need to give a guy some warning" he yelled at his dead brother, who sat down beside him.
"Why, it's not like I can wear a cat bell" he said, "anyway, I was just listening in on one of Dad's conversations. What do you think of time travel?"
"Wait, wait" said Klaus, "what do you mean you listened in on one of Dad's conversations. And Ben, what's with the random question?"
"Just answer my question" said Ben, "or I won't tell you what Dad said."
"Fine, I don't know. I mean, meeting my future self would be weird. I mean, future Luther would be terrifying."
"Well, according to Dad. Your future selves, as well as Allisons, Diegos, Vanya and Luther are here" said Ben.
Klaus stared at Ben, shocked and open mouthed. Before laughing. In stress.
"Dad's actually going to see how much of a disappointment we'll become. Brilliant" he said before standing up, and going back into the house to see if he could get some chocolate off mom.