Reader x Grace/Mom (platonic)
Being one of the 43 kids born wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for most kids, but for you, you were lucky. Your mother refused Hargreeves offer, to her and your father they saw you as a miracle from God. After a car accident your mother wasn’t able to have a child, so when you arrived you were a literal gift from the heavens. Your power, Luck. It doesn’t seem much but you were extremely lucky, with it you could win competitions right up to it saving you from near death experiences. Another side of your power that developed when you got older was that you could control other people’s luck, you could take it away completely making yourself even luckier or you could even give someone a lucky streak. As you got older people gave you the nickname The Clover and your symbol a gold 4 leaf Clover. At 12 your small town in Ireland dedicated a statue in your honor after you managed to save 20 from a fire people thanks to your powers. Unfortunately, that would end up being your downfall, it turns out you messed up the timeline enough to get onto the commission’s books, Hazel and Cha Cha were sent to kill all the people you saved. That same day your life would be changed forever, little did you know when you would come back from school, hell was literally waiting from you. You noticed something off with your home, you could feel it in your bones something was off. Walking to the front door you realized it was till, pushing it open walking into your hallway, your house was eerily quiet, slowly you walked towards your living room almost like your being guided there. Opening the door to the living room you saw a lady, white hair and fancy dress. “you been causing a lot of trouble for us Y/N. You see those people you saved were meant to die but when you saved them you caused major problems in the timeline, I sent 2 of my best people to wipe them out but you Y/N there’s just something about you that I like.” You looked at this woman in confusion “Now I left you a surprise in the kitchen for you, just so that you will remember your place, I’ll be watching you Y/N.” just as she was standing here, she was gone, you walked towards the kitchen your heart beating a mile a minute. Walking to the door, you took a deep breath pushing it open, your heart broke, your entire world destroyed in a blink in an eye, you saw your parents mangled bodies lying on the white tiled floor, a scream left your lips as you ran to them dropping on the floor by them. “Mommy, daddy…” the skin was cold as you touched them, trying your hardest to wake them up, looking up your saw an older man outside. A loud bang filled the area but when the police arrived, they found your parents bodies but you, you were on the ground between them with a bullet wound to your eye.
Almost a month passed and the whole world knew what happened, you ended up in a local mental institution, none of your extended family wanted you in fear that they would be killed giving up all rights for you but at the institution you were well looked after despite not engaging with anyone and you spent all your time alone in silence in your private room. “Y/N you have a visitor.” You didn’t reply but you heard the nurse tell them you haven’t spoken since the ‘incident’. “I am Sir Reginald Hargreeves, Y/N I know what you can do, I can help you with your powers, help you control them.” You turned and looked at him, your left eye was scared weirdly enough it was almost all a pastel green “I knew you were coming…..I saw it.” He gave you a strange look, you took the book you had on you at all times and handed it to him, “See….” He watched the eye change from the whole eye change from a pastel green to normal white eye, He looked at the picture, it was him, the exact outfit, exact situation, the only thing was off was the date of drawing which was about 3 weeks ago, he looked at it in amazement before turning to the nurse. “I want her.”
Now you were outside the famous umbrella academy with Hargreeves by your side, he guided you inside, looking around the vast building you were in awe. “Y/N I want you to meet your new brothers and sisters.” You didn’t approach them, just watching them wearily, you didn’t want anyone else getting hurt, Hargreeves gave you a small push making you stumble towards the group. You gave him a dirty look “that was rude...” you said looking up at him. You were introduced to them one by one, “This is Grace, she will be looking after you and you will address her as Mom.” You could feel your body shake as you looked at her, as she walked towards you, you moved back away from her, looking at her brought back flashes of your mother, her death. Grace looked a lot like your mom, same hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, hell it was almost scary. You could feel everyone’s eyes on you, it was silent until a voice broke through. “it’s because she looks a lot like your mother.” You looked at the voice, No 4, “you can see her.” You asked walking towards him avoiding Grace, he nodded “Them, I can see both of them, it like they're watching over you still.” Klaus was not looking at you but just above you. “Pogo take Y/N to their room. Rest of you it is time for training” Hargreeves ordered.
Over the next few weeks, you were extremely close to Ben and Klaus, you were best friends, you and Diego were close as well, he really grew protective over you after breaking down one day on him from a panic attack. Every nightmare, every panic or fears riddling you he would be straight by your side to fight off any demons bothering you, he adopted the big brother role in your life. You were sat on his bed as you watched him get ready for a mission, they were going to be away for a while as it was in Paris. “I know how you feel about mom, but if your attacks or nightmares happen don’t be afraid to ask mom for help, ok.” You nodded, he sat down beside you pulling you into a hug before leaving for his mission. You went downstairs standing beside Vanya and Pogo watching them leave.
After the incident you developed an ability to see into the future, you don’t really get a choice when it happens, you would get intense pain in your damaged eye, its an icy white most of the time but changes to the pastel green colour when a vision is taking form. You could draw what you were seeing fast, depending on how major the event was the worse or mild the pain was.
You sat up in your bed, the pain increasing in your eye, looking at the time it was 3:00am, you let out a cry feeling a sharp pain, this was worse than any other visions. The fear you were feeling was increasing by the second. Little did you know Grace had heard you and was coming to see the problem. She knew about your past, knowing the reason why you were cold towards her but she didn’t mind, she loved you like she loved the others. As she opened your door she saw you sitting up hunched over in pain, clutching your eye. Grace walked in grabbing your drawing book and your pencils, sitting beside you on the bed, she gave you the book and pencils, she never saw it this bad your nose was bleeding heavily, blood-soaked your PJ top, she watched as your bloody hand drew frantically in the book, there was, a theatre with someone playing the violin, the next page destruction of the city, and lastly in the destruction was blue circle with a boy walking out of it. You saw the end of the world itself, at it almost killed you seeing it. When you were done, Grace held you as you were in a panic attack, your nose had stopped bleeding and slowly your green eye died away. She brought your shaky form into the bathroom, she took the time cleaning your face, neck, and hands from the blood. You were sitting on the toilet shaking as Grace left you for a brief moment to bring you clean PJs, she slowly helped you change, being in a very vulnerable state she didn’t rush you, she knelt down looking at your face, seeing the silent tears running down your face, she wiped them away and pulled you into her arms. Your body tensed for a moment before your arms slowly wrapped around her before you broke down completely in her arms. You cried for the first time in months, you cried from what you saw, you cried about your family abandoning you, you cried for your parents, you felt truly safe in Grace's arms. After what seemed forever, when you had calmed down, Grace brought you back to your bed, tucking you in she was about to leave when you grabbed her hand. “C-can you stay, until I fall asleep.” Grace simply smiled and sat on the edge of the bed, she stroked your face, humming a song to help you sleep. “thank you, mummy.” You whispered before slipping off into a deep sleep with no nightmares to plague your dreams. A mother’s touch was all you needed, and you were lucky to have a second mum now to be there for you.
