Icarus and the Sun ────────
( sparrow!ben hargreeves x fem!reader )
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a/n :: reader is technically jennifer and is referred to as jennifer by the umbrella academy but not by the sparrows; although reader is jennifer, she is NOT jennifers look alike and readers appearance is up to the readers themselves interpretation. I also do not own any of these characters!
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warnings :: takes place around the time of season 3, slight fluff, slight angst, reader has powers, reader is NOT a sparrow but she does fight along side them, i cant write fight scenes.
word count :: 1579
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prologue - chapter 1 - chapter 2
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“Dad, who the hell are these assholes?”
You can hear the six intruders mumble out shit. You hear the muffled sound of a male's voice say Ben’s name.
“Is that really you?” asked another one of the unidentified men. Why are they so shocked to see him you questioned?
You can hear clearly this time, another man yells out. “And who are the weirdos on the balcony?” You snicker a bit, Marcus looks at you standing in the doorway and glares. You look away.
Reginald's voice echos out, “They are the sparrows,” You see the ones on the balcony straighten out. Knowing Ben so well, you know he did as well, “My children.” Reginald finished. The house rumbles slightly. The lights flicker but not from your doing.
You hear the voice of a prepubescent teenager ask, "I'm sorry. What do you mean, your children?” You can hear him step closer, "That's not possible, old man.”
The rest of the sparrows step down from the balcony, standing on the lower floor with Ben, while Reginald speaks, “Of course it is! I think I'd know, wouldn't I?”
You step out of the doorway. Leaning on the railing of the balcony, out of sight from the intruders. You notice a scrawny man with long and and a ridiculous cowboy hot point towards Ben, “Everyone else can see Ben, Right?” he questions.
“Cute hat, sundance,” Ben says sarcastically. You quietly giggle.
Reginald interrupts the weird hippie look-alike, “They call themselves the Umbrella Academy,” You can see your boyfriend glare at the cowboy. “A group of scheming, prefidious malcontents, who accosted in the fall of 1963 when I was away on business in Dallas. Be warned, they claim to be my spawn.”
You watch as the tall girl with long dark hair and a cape steps closer to Reginald, “Claim?” she asks, “Look, Five, what the hell is going on.” She turns to the teenager.
The child looks at the sparrows in front of him, “I don't know yet, but it's very concerning.”
Marcus points towards Reginald while staring down the big guy in the middle, “Is he telling the truth.”
The shorter pale one, responds, “Not the part about us being perfidious.”
The hippie interrupts, “No, we're amateur-fidious, at best.”
The pale one starts back up again, “But we are his children. This is our house.”
The big one stutters out, “yeah, yeah. We, uh… we grew up here.”
Alphonso starts mocking him and his stutter, everyone laughs, even you.
“I kind of think we would have noticed you.” Sloane stated
The big one switches up, “Hi. I'm Luther.”
That made you cringe, Sloane's face contorted into an awkward glance and nod.
The cloaked woman started back up again, “Okay, none of you belong here.”
“Oh! Well then.” Fei started sarcastically, “I guess we’ll just pack our bags and move out.”
Christopher garbled out a joke about the ‘Umbrella Academy’,
“You slay me, Chris,” laughed Ben.
The next moment Grace walked through the door holding a plate of cookies. “I wasn't expecting company, this was the best I could do on shor- short- short- notice” she glitched out.
The man with medium length hair stepped closer to her, “Mom?”
“Mom? She's a robot, you perv.” Jayme said.
The same man looked at her, "It's not a robot.”
While the big one chimed in, “Hey, don't you call him that.”
Ben stepped closer, “Or what?”
The big one replied, “Come closer and find out.”
The short pale one stepped out. “Luther! Guys, chill!”
“You think I'm afraid?” Ben asked?
An argument broke out. Voice over lapping each other. Each member threatened each other. You make eye contact with Jayme, she smirks at you. She spit out her acid right on the man with a bobs face.
Marcus broke the argument, “Enough,” He yelled, “I don't know which circus you escaped from or how you got past our security, but were done here.”
Jayme blows the batman wanna-be a kiss then turns to wink at you.
“You have 30 seconds to get out of our house,” Marcus continued before getting cut off by the woman in a cape.
“And if we don't?" She questioned.
Marcus stepped closer, “Then we'll have to settle this the old-fashioned way.”
The shortest one spoke out, “Look, we just fought a literal army. Okay? This doesn't need to get ugly. Let's all just calm down, and let's talk.”
The nerves in the room seemed to drop until the long haired man started whispering to Ben, “Psst. Ben-er-ino. You look so much better alive than you do dead.” He laughed, “Am i right?Except that haircut.” he started walking closer towards Ben.
“What the hell did you just say?” Ben raised his voice.
“Come on, come on. Stop with all the hostility, Mr. Grumpy Pants.” The hatted man said while getting closer towards Ben. Your knuckles were turning white with how hard you were gripping the banister of the stairwell. You're pretty sure you burnt a hand print into it. “Wow, Nice scar. Muy macho.”
“Shut your mouth!” Yelled Ben.
The weird one opened his arms wide, “You shut your mouth and just hug your brother-” He was interrupted with a clean right hook from Ben. sending him flying across the room.
Dramatic much? You thought.
The man you assume is Luther spoke up, “Hey! What the hell? You didn't have to do that!”
“Oh, I'm pretty sure I did!” Ben yelled.
You can see the look on Sloane's face, it was filled with panic. As was yours.
Alphonso spoke in, “That's right! He did.”
Another argument broke out, voices yelling. Marcus pushed Luther back. Which resulted in Luther trying to swing at Marcus. Marcus ducked and kicked him right in the stomach, sending Luther flying back into his weird ass brother.
More fighting broke out. Marcus versus Luther. A pathetic fight between Christopher and the man with too many knives. Which led to Chris electrocuting him. Ben was fighting the child. Which didn't seem much like a fair fight to you. Considering Ben is close to 6ft and that child is 5 foot something.
It wasn't surprising when Ben got the upper hand. But what was surprising was Five being able to teleport out of Ben choke-hold.
“Youre alive, that's … great. Or possibly horrible.” Five stumbled back. “Im not really sure yet.”
Ben's face contorted in confusion, “Is that some kind of weird smack-talk?”
Five replied, "It's more of an existential problem, really, Ben."
“Awesome. Well here's your next problem.” Ben ejected a tentacle out of his chest. But the kid teleported out of the way and onto the balcony.
Five saw you near the end of the railing, stunting him for a minute before you turned and ran off. He turned back to Ben.
“You know, even though you're a total asshat now…” Five started. Ben sent out two tentacles towards him but he teleported behind him, grabbed Ben by his shoulders and punched him in the face.
As you were running down the hall you could hear some yelling, “Whos your daddy,”
Coming up to a junction in the stairway you were met with Jayme. “I thought Ben told you to stay inside?”
“Since when have I ever listened to Ben?” you questioned.
Interrupting your conversation, Five and the caped women teleported right in the middle of you.
“Go for Jennifer, ill handle this one” Five said to the girl.
A fight broke out between you and the caped woman, you could see through the corner of your eye Jayme causing Five to make out with air…
God this family is so weird
The woman got a good hit on you, you hit the floor. You heard her over you.
“I heard a rumor-” she started.
The lights grew brighter. Your hands became hotter, the pressure inside your skull was building. In a burst of light you sent her down the flight of stairs in front of you both. She was on the floor groaning in pain, you stalked down the steps.
“Jennifer…” you heard her grunt out.
Your hands were burning, they were glowing with a golden light. The lights around you went haywire with the flickering.
“My name,” You breathed in, lifting your hand up, your hand shining like the sun. your eyes glowed golden. “Isnt Jennifer!” You yelled out. Bending down to strike her in the chest until the short kid kicked you in the head.
The lights shattered.
You saw them run off. Rolling over you looked at jayme laying on the top of the stairs.
“What. the. fuck.” You questions
“Me too,” sighed Jayme, “Me too..”
You could hear the faint cawing of Feis crows from down the hall. Using that as a wake-up call to get off your ass.
Once you've finally stabilized yourself, you look over and see everyone minus Marcus surrounding the short pale one from earlier.
A large blast shoots out sending everyone flying back, even you.
You hear the sound of glass breaking, and the grunts and groans of everyone who got hit.
As you're standing back up you can hear Marcus’s voice ring out, “It's over. Go. Now. Don't come back.”
You watched them limp out, passing you on the way to the front door. You can feel eyes burning into the back of your head. You turn to look at where it's coming from but you're only met with the angry eyes of Ben Hargreeves.
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a/n pt.2 :: i am incapable of writing long chapters and fight scenes apparently. also two chapters in 1 day is crazy for me. anyway thank you for reading.
