Sparrow! Ben x Umbrella! Reader // the only one I'd ever love...
♡ Neither Y/N was a Hargreeves, not at first. Your mother refused to sell you to Reginald and raised you on her own, even as your powers came to light, even as black cars and strange men started stalking you both, even when those men broke into your home and tried to take you, your mother killed trying to protect you. Losing control of your powers, you killed them all and vanished, Y/N L/N thought dead in the destruction.
♡ He loved you and he lost you. In the Sparrows timeline, you'd appeared in his life so suddenly, a lost and far too powerful child looking for help. And while Reginald was no guiding hand, Ben was the comfort you needed and you were his. Ben loved you more then anything in the world but love was not enough to save you...he didn't save you. All he has left are a grave beneath a stone angel, photographs, your pendant, and the memories of a love that didn't last.
♡ But now you're standing here, looking at him like a stranger. A bunch of idiots have invaded his home and an all out brawl broke out, he didn't even see you there at first. Not until you stepped out from behind the big one and the Sparrows just...froze. It was you. Older then you ever had the chance to be, scarred in new places, but still you, they knew you too well to forget your face, your eyes, your voice.
"Y...Y/N?"
♡ You never knew him at all. In the Umbrella timeline, you never went to the academy for help, instead living life on the run for years. It was only after Ben's death that you met Diego, both of you working as super-powered vigilantes, and later becoming an Umbrella. You only knew Ben through photos and stories, Klaus once mentioning off hand that you and Ben would have gotten along.
"What makes you say that?"
"You're just...different and similar to him in all the right ways. Bet you would have argued and annoyed each other but you'd still like each other too, you know...you'd click. Plus, you're his type."
♡ But now he's standing here, a ghost come to life. Older then the teenage boy in the pictures with a scar you'd never seen before, his siblings looking up at him in shock. But he was just looking at you. They all were. His hands were trembling, dark eyes looking down at you, and it's just...so strange.
"Why are is he looking at me like that?"
♡ Ben is loosing his mind and trying to hide it...luckily, the past few years have made him good at that. When the brawl breaks out, it doesn't go unnoticed that the Sparrows are going easy only on you and, more then that, they seem familiar with your powers and skills. And it isn't long before Ben has his tentacles around you, pulling you off of Jayme as you bashed her head into the coffee table over and over again.
"Hey! Get the fu—"
"Y/N, stop it."
The pendant...he was wearing your pendant, the one your mother had worn, taking it with you when you ran. The one you were wearing now, identical to his except for the broken edge his had. A hand rested on his chest, feeling his heart race beneath your fingertips as you looked away from the pendent and up at him.
"Why do you have this? How do you...know me?"
But he never got a chance to answer, you and your siblings clearing out together, looking back at him once as you fled.
♡ You didn't tell the others about it, keeping the questions to yourself. Why is he wearing your pendent? How did he know your name? You've seen the portrait in the house and the millions of posters and shit around The City, you're not in any of them. You're not here...are you? You can't tell the others but you can't stay here, leaving the hotel by yourself. The park. You'll go to the park, the one right beside the library and the coffee shop you loved, at least all of that is still here.
♡ Ben doesn't talk to the others about it. Even as they observe the security camera footage of the fight, even as they all watch as he holds you again for the first time in years, no one says it. No one speaks your name. And he hates it, the way they all act like you were never here, like you never mattered at all. He's standing there wanting to scream your name and remind them that they knew you and missed you and loved you, that he had loved you but...nothing comes out. And Ben storms out of the house the moment he can, suffocating beneath the silence. The park. The one you had loved once upon a time, right next to the crappy bar he likes, he could breath there, at the very least.
♡ In the middle of the night. Y/N is walking through the park and Ben is stumbling out of a bar and into the trees, trying to find his way home. Fate brings them together once again, a stranger and a star crossed lover standing in the darkness together.
You don't feel like a fight.
So you turn away and try to leave, only to be stopped when a cool hand wraps around your wrist.
Sloane Hargreeves // this house, it's all I've ever known in my entire life. And I know there are better places out there and one day I want to see them all.
