[ID: A drawing in the Paranatural au of TUA. Patch is sitting on a desk while Beaman rests his head on the desk beside her. Both of them are grumpy, and both of them are about twelve. Patch is saying "That Activity Club... They're up to something". End ID.]
Patch! (and Beaman). In this au, for those of you who know the comic, she's something similar to Suzy (i thought giving her journalism club would be a more constructive hobby than being a cop).
Her motivation for investigating the club is that last year, her best friend Diego abruptly stopped speaking to or hanging out with her and her friend group, at the same time that he joined the Activity Club. (Name not final, it might end up being the Umbrella Club or the Academy Club, but for now i dont have the creative energy to change the name from what it its in paranatural).
Diego, meanwhile, obviously isnt allowed to share that the activity club can see ghosts, but also doesn't want to hang out with his old friends because ~he could put them in danger~, because of course he's like this.
Patch first asks Viktor to spy on the club for her, who is the first newbie after Diego. Viktor is sympathetic but refuses because he doesn't want to get involved, but tries to reassure her that he's fine.
Lila "transfers" a few weeks after Viktor joins. She can already see ghosts (and is familiar with the commission), so she's already on track to join the club. When Patch asks *her* to spy on them, she says yes and immediately tells Patch about all the terrible things they're doing to Diego in there.
Five times Diego and Eudora almost kissed, and one time they did.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’ve been wanting to write this fic for so long, and today is the day. I’ve never done a 5+1 before, but I had a lot of fun writing this!
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Title: Wish I Knew You [Chapter 1/6]
Summary: Five times Diego and Eudora almost kissed, and one time they did.
(Read on AO3 + FFN)
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“You’re gonna get kicked out if you keep showing up late to class.”
Diego didn’t exactly know when or how he decided to become a police officer.
He told himself it was to help people. It wasn’t exactly a lie, but there was more to it. There’s always more to it. He needed to get into school if he wanted to get out of his so-called home, and since he wasn’t exactly new to fighting crime, the police academy accepted him.
Maybe the reason he wanted to get in so bad was because playing superhero was the only thing he knew how to do well.
“It’s not my fault the stupid bus driver hates my guts,” Diego said, placing his backpack on his desk and putting his book in it.
A piece of paper was shoved into his hands. Diego scanned it before realising it was the notes he’d missed from the beggining of the lecture. “You’re welcome, by the way.”
He smiled. “Thanks, Dora.”
“Don’t call me that.”
Eudora Patch was unlike anyone Diego had ever met. Then again, Diego hadn’t met that many people. Eudora was top of the class at everything, getting straight A’s at every test, acing every exercise, and somehow, she was his friend.
“Sure,” he said, not bothered enough to shake the smirk off his face. “Though I thought we’d reached first-name basis.”
Eudora rolled her eyes. “Well,” she helped Diego zip his bag closed, her fingers playfully brushing his. “My name isn’t Dora.”
“Right, right.” Their fingers were still touching even after the backpack was fully closed, and the heat of her touch was starting to make its way up Diego’s face. “Eudora.”
It was the most beautiful name he’d ever heard, and his heart skipped like a thousand beats whenever it rolled off his tongue. It wasn’t until recently that she’d let him use it—him, only him, while everyone else called her Patch—and he’d never wanted to use his voice more before. To say it, with a stutter or without. He just wanted to hear her name.
She slipped her hand into his, and Diego stroked the back of it without thinking about it much. In fact, he wasn’t thinking about anything, except for how close the two of them were, of how closer they kept coming—
“Jeez, you two look like newlyweds or something.”
They pulled away in less than a second, Diego reaching for his backpack to look casual and Eudora taking a thousand steps back. Dammit, Rodriguez.
“Eh, maybe for now,” another voice argued. “They usually look like an old married couple.”
They were their friends, and Diego loved them, but Beaman and Rodriguez could be really annoying sometimes.
“We do not.” Eudora crossed her arms. “I was just giving him my notes.”
“Well, did he ask you for them, or did you just take them for him before he even showed up?”
“Fuck off, Rodriguez,” Diego mumbled, clumsily shoving the notes in his pocket and putting on his backpack.
The man patted his back. “Relax, we’re just messing with you.”
“When aren’t we?” Beaman asked and Eudora slapped his arm. “Christ, Patch, that hurts!”
Eudora shrugged. “Oops.”
Diego bit his lip and looked away as he tried not to think of what would have happened if they hadn’t been interrupted before.
Headcanon that Diego chooses his words very carefully. He would study the dictionary every night, practising the words until his tongue and jaw ached, so when Beaman said he and Patch had a contentious relationship he had to ask - “Did she say that? Did she use that word?” because he knows the very real weight words can have.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: The Truth Will Set You Free
Rating: Teen and Up
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
Relationships: Diego Hargreeves & Klaus Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves/Eudora Patch, Klaus Hargreeves & Eudora Patch
Characters: Diego Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Eudora Patch, Chuck Beaman
Additional Tags: Identity Reveal, Fluff and Angst, Working Title: Patch Realizes Some Uncomfortable Truths, Diego is a big softie, Klaus is adorable, Eudora Patch is an angel, Hurt Klaus Hargreeves, Protective Diego Hargreeves
Summary: When Eudora Patch tries to identify the junkie currently in the holding cell of the police station, she ends up calling in Diego for help and soon realizes she doesn't know him quite as well as she thought.
