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• …..We’re just living it by Crow_Who_Writes

  Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  12 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Derek/Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts
  • Derek (Umbrella Academy)
  • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Grace Hargreeves | Diego Hargreeves and Lila Pitts' Daughter
  • Lila Pitts
  • Diego Hargreeves
  • Klaus Hargreeves
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide Attempts
  • Asexual Number Five | The Boy
  • Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés
  • technically
  • Kinda

  Summary

  A sequel to We Didn’t Choose this Life. You should probably read that before this.

  Six years after his attempt on his life, Five has made a life for himself. He has a job, an apartment, his family. One day Klaus recommends a coffee shop to him and Five finds himself plagued with thoughts of a certain blond barista.

  Beta read by 8610

  Series

  • Part 2 of We didn’t choose this life, we’re just living it.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,066

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  65

• From Delores by Crow_Who_Writes

  Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  06 May 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Dolores/Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Dolores (Umbrella Academy)
  • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Apocalypse
  • First Meetings
  • Young Number Five | The Boy
  • Mentioned The Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy
  • No Beta We Die Like Season 4

  Summary

  After a world destroying event Delores lies destroyed in her department store. That is, until she finds life changing company.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,102

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

  2

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  16

• We didn’t choose this life…. by Crow_Who_Writes

  Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  16 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Number Five | The Boy & The Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy
  • Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts
  • Dolores/Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy)
  • Number Six | Ben Hargreeves
  • Allison Hargreeves
  • Klaus Hargreeves
  • Luther Hargreeves
  • Diego Hargreeves
  • Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves
  • Grace Hargreeves
  • Claire (Umbrella Academy)
  • Dolores (Umbrella Academy)
  • Number Five | The Boy-centric
  • Blood
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Gore
  • Number Five | The Boy Needs A Hug
  • Number Five | The Boy Has Issues
  • Canon Compliant
  • Angst
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Season 4 doesn’t exist
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Self-Harm
  • Self-Hatred
  • Violence
  • Character Death
  • Psychological Horror
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Number Five | The Boy has PTSD
  • Blood and Gore
  • Suicide Attempt
  • No beta we die like season 4’s character development

  Summary

  (Takes place post season 2, no sparrow academy, they stopped the apocalypse)

  The Hargreeves have managed to carry on after everything.

  Well most of them.

  Haunted by the memories of an apocalypse long since passed, the crushing guilt of the killer he’s become, and the grief of a life he could have had Five Hargreeves tries to find a way to live again.

  Series

  • Part 1 of We didn’t choose this life, we’re just living it.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,100

  Chapters:

  3/3

  Comments:

  16

  Kudos:

  82

  Bookmarks:

  12

  Hits:

  926