ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴇɪɢʜᴛᴇᴇɴ ᴏꜰ ᴅɪᴠᴏʀᴄᴇ
'ɪɴᴀɴɴᴀ ᴍᴇᴇᴛ ɪɴᴀɴɴᴀ'

"Shit" All but Inanna said, realising that they had in fact screwed something up when they travelled from 1963 to 2019. Their dead brother, Ben, standing alive in front of them, along with their supposed to be dead father.

"Ben" Klaus said his brothers name quickly, shocked to see him just as much as the others.

Luther left Inanna's side and walked towards Ben, "Is that really you?" Luther asked, Ben looked at him irritated.

"And who are the weirdos on the balcony?" Diego shouted pointing one of his knives at them.

"They are the Sparrows" Reginald spoke up. "My children".

Inanna unbuttoned her coat, pulling the collar away from her neck as she itched it again. Five watched her, noticing how she had itched her neck twice — not seeing the third — while wearing a coat she had constantly wore over the passed week, and never once had he heard her complained about any scratchiness from the material. Five's brows furrowed, but he thought nothing more of it.

"I'm sorry" Five spoke turning to Reginald. "What do you mean, your children? That's not possible, old man" Five said as the Sparrows came down the stairs to stand with Ben.

"Of course it is! I think I'd know, wouldn't I?" Reginald argued.

"Everybody else can see Ben, right?" Klaus asked pointing to Ben.

Inanna looked at the Sparrows, finding seven sets of eyes already staring at her like she was some strange museum artefact that was found after years of being lost. That's when Inanna saw herself — Off to the left next to a dark hair girl in trousers, and Ben, was an older, slightly taller, Inanna, wearing the Sparrow uniform, her red hair pulled up into a ponytail.

Inanna took a few steps forwards, her eyes never leaving the girl who looked like an identical copy of herself in her thirties.

"Five" Inanna whispered his name. Inanna thought she was going crazy, that she was just seeing things after the tiring day she had experienced.

"I see her" Five had frozen, understanding why he had seen Inanna itch her neck twice.

"Who?" Diego asked, he stood next to Five trying to follow his line of sight.

"Is this some sort of messed up game? If so it's shit" Sparrow 'Inanna' said as she walked towards the front of the Sparrows, her arms crossed over her chest.

"It's like a tiny mirror to our past" Another Sparrow said. Inanna scoffed at the comment as she turned to Reginald.

"The fuck is this bullshit?" Inanna raised her voice, her words only confusing the Umbrellas.

"Bullshit?" Sparrow 'Inanna' scoffed "Hey, kid, you wanna keep running your mouth" 'Inanna' shouted taking another step towards Inanna.

"Hey" Inanna turned back to 'Inanna' pointing her. "Shut it".

"What is happening?" Luther mumbled under his breath as Five pulled Inanna back towards him.

"They call themselves the Umbrella Academy" Reginald spoke up. "A group of scheming, perfidious malcontents who accosted me in the fall of 1963 when I was away on business in Dallas. Be warned, they claim to be my spawn".

"Claim?" Allison repeated walking towards him. "Look, Five, what the hell is going on? And who the hell is the girl?" Allison asked.

"I don't know yet, but... the red head is Inanna, which is concerning" Five muttered.

"Two Inanna's?" Klaus muttered.

"One too many Inanna's" Luther mumbled.

"Anna" The red headed Sparrow corrected "I haven't been called Inanna since I was a kid. How the hell did you know that anyways, you freak?".

"Because he knows you. Or rather another version of you" Reginald Hargreeves spoke up, gesturing between the two Inanna's. "Inanna Hope, meet my daughter, Inanna Hargreeves".

Inanna shook her head and Five wrapped his arms around her, pulling her back into his chest — the last thing Five wanted was Inanna to start a fight — as she glared over their shoulders at Reginald. "You adopted me? What kind of psychopath would do that?" Inanna shouted.

Anna looked over at her siblings, receiving a confused shrug from her sister, Jayme, next to her who didn't know what was happening.

"One who saw great potential in your eyes. Great potential which was being held back by her husband" Reginald gestured to Five who was physically holding her back.

"Husband" Inanna, or Anna, as she had corrected Five, fake gagged. "You married your brother?".

"We're not related" Five and Inanna shouted, both of them becoming increasingly more annoyed with the amount of people who thought that. The laughs from the Sparrows, made Inanna believe that they didn't believe her and Five.

"My parents" Inanna whispered. She didn't know how Reginald had adopted her, but she knew that the Handler had had Lila's parents murdered just to get her hands on the young girl, Inanna hoped it wasn't the same for her parents. "What the hell did you do to my parents?" Inanna strained under Five's hold. "What the hell did you do to them?" Inanna's voice cracked, still sore from Lila's attack.

"Your parents were well paid-".

"They would never take money-".

Reginald shook his head. "Two young adults, little love between them, working two jobs each just to provide for the only thing that was keeping them together? Im sorry, Inanna, but you were an easy purchase".

Inanna couldn't respond and she believed that if Five wasn't holding her she would have killed Reginald with his monocle.

"She doesn't have powers" Diego said "We told you that. Why did you need her?" Diego shouted.

Five stroked Inanna's arm, his eyes set on the briefcase which still sat on the wooden table, Five's touch was supposed to calm her, but instead, all it did was make Inanna grow more agitated.

"I already told you. I saw great potential, potential I am yet to see in my Anna" Reginald told Diego earning a quiet 'Thanks Dad' from Anna as she looked away from him with saddened eyes.

"Five" Inanna muttered his name under her breath as she lifted her head up, her red hair falling over her face. "I swear to God, if you don't let go of me right now, I'm going to tear your arm off, beat you with it and then use it to kill your dad".

Five leaned his head against hers, his grip never loosening. "You have paradox psychosis" Five whispered. "I saw you scratch your neck twice, that's the second-".

"I didn't" Inanna muttered, already feeling the burn against her skin. "I'm fine" Inanna lied.

Luther stepped over to Five and Inanna, giving the Sparrows a small smile before he crouched down to their height. The couples hushed whispered had caught a few odd stares. "What is happening?" Luther asked. "Like right now?" Luther pointed at the floor.

"Inanna has paradox psychosis" Five said quietly.

"I don't" Inanna said. "I swear I don't".

"Stage one" Luther whispered. "You have paradox psychosis" Luther pointed at Inanna as his whispers became slightly louder.

"All I have is the urge to murder you" Inanna looked up, her face inches from Luther's, her eyes squinted.

"Homicidal-".

"No" Luther interrupted Five as he straightened back up, afraid that Inanna would bite him or kick him again "That's just your wife" Luther whispered.

"We are his children" Vanya said, pulling the attention of the Sparrows away from Five and Inanna as Luther stepped back into his spot in front of his siblings. "This is our house".

"Yeah, yeah. We, uh... we grew up here" Luther said.

"'Oh, yeah. Yeah, we grew up here'" Alphonso mocked Luther, making his siblings laugh.

"I kind of think we would have noticed you" Sloane said.

Luther's expression changed with a shake of his head, like he was in some sort of trance. Luther smiled "Hi. I'm Luther" Luther extended his hand to Sloane, which she ignored by averting her gaze — unable to hide the smallest of smiles that grew on her lips.

"Okay. None of you belong here" Allison said.

"Oh, well then. I guess we'll just pack our bags and move out" Fei responded, lacing her hands together in front of herself.

"You're not gonna murder anyone, are you?" Five asked Inanna, his voice barely above a whisper. "Because that will makes things a lot harder for you and I getting out of here". Inanna nodded, which wasn't the exact response Five was looking for but he took it anyways.

Five let go of Inanna and his hand slid down her arm to catch her hand as she turned to look at the Sparrows. The cube began 'talking' and the Sparrows turned to it, chuckling at what it said.

"What's so funny?" Inanna itched underneath her jaw, watching as Anna scratched the back of her neck, laughing at whatever the cube said.

"You slay me, Chris" Ben said.

"I wasn't expecting company" A woman dressed in 60s clothing entered the room with a plate of cookies. Diego stepped in front of his siblings, slipping his knife back to where he had taken it from moments before. "This is the best I could do on short- short..." The woman's eye twitched and her voice became robotic. Grace. "Short notice" Grace smiled holding up the plate.

"Mom" Diego mumbled softly.

"Mom? She's a robot, you perv" Jayme said.

"She's not a robot" Diego said turning his head to look at the Sparrow.

"Hey, don't you call him that" Luther said.

"Or what?" Ben asked.

"Why don't you come closer and find out?" Luther said and Ben took a step closer, standing next to Marcus in front of the Sparrows.

"Think I'm afraid?" Ben retorted.

"Luther! Guys, chill!" Vanya shouted, extending her arm to her brother.

"Stand down, Ben" Marcus ordered.

Inanna took one of Diego's knives out from the back off his jacket and slipped it into her coat pocket while Five was distracted by the back and forth argument that was going on between the Umbrellas and the Sparrows.

"Enough!" Marcus shouted taking a step towards Luther. "I don't know what circus you escaped from or how you got past our security, but we're done here. You got 30 seconds to get out of our house".

"And if we don't?" Allison asked as Jayme spat a dark green venom at Diego, nodding her head as it settled into his skin.

"Then we'll have to settle this the old-fashioned way" Marcus responded.

"Look, we just fought a literal army" Vanya said trying to find a way to settle things without having to fight again. "Okay? This doesn't need to get ugly. Let's all just calm down, and let's talk".

"Psst. Ben-er-ino" Klaus drew out the nickname. "You look so much better alive than you do dead. Am I right?" Klaus chuckled. "Except that haircut".

"What the hell did you just say?" Ben asked.

"Come on, come on" Klaus waved his hands as he walked over to Ben, Five dropped Inanna's hand and moved into the spot Klaus had just been stood. "Stop with all the hostility, Mr Grumpy Pants... Oh wow. Nice scar" Klaus said staring at the scar on Ben's cheek. "Muy macho".

"Shut your mouth!" Ben shouted.

"You shut your mouth-" Klaus said opening his arm out to his side "- and just hug your brother-".

Ben punched Klaus across his face, sending Klaus stumbling turning on his heel as he lost his balance. Luther moved out of the way and Klaus crashed into Inanna.

His forehead smacked against Inanna's, knocking her with him as he grabbed her shoulders. Inanna's eyes watered and she screwed them shut, feeling as if her brain was being thrown around in her skull and Klaus completely lost his footing and pushing them both into the square coffee table.

Inanna fell backwards as her knees hit the table, and her head hit the hard surface with Klaus landing on top of her. Klaus mumbled a quiet 'Sorry' which was completely ignored by Inanna as she shoved her hands against his shoulders, pushing him off her.

Inanna pulled the knife out of her pocket as she stood up, leaving Klaus to dramatically roll over the table, while Diego looked for which one of his knives she had taken, his hands patting at his jacket.

"I'm so done with your shit" Inanna said pointing the knife at Ben as Luther shouted "What the hell you didn't have to do that?" to Ben.

"I'm pretty sure he did" Alphonso said to Luther.

"Why don't you come say that to my face?" Ben suggested to Inanna as Luther got closer to Marcus as he went to argue with Alphonso. Inanna raised her brows and Ben nodded, his arms extended to his sides. "Come on, show me what you've got".

"Don't pick on the kid" Anna said to Ben. "Even though I do wanna see you two go at it" Ben looked over his shoulder, laughing at the thought of it with Anna. "Leave her to me" Anna's glare caught Inanna's.

"Get back" Marcus shouted as he shoved Luther.

Luther swung his arm, aiming to punch Marcus in the face but Marcus ducked avoiding the punch. Marcus straightened his back and booted Luther in his chest.

Diego grabbed Inanna by the back of her coat, yanking her towards him just as Luther flew across the room, taking Klaus with him. Luther and Klaus groaned, landing in front of the fire place.

"I want that back, in perfect condition" Diego said to Inanna, nodding his head to his knife. He let go of her coat, shoving her towards Anna as the Sparrows spread out, their eyes set on the Umbrellas.

Inanna rolled her shoulders back, her shirt feeling even more uncomfortable with it bunched up underneath her coat and her eyes followed Five as he tapped Ben on his shoulder after blinking behind him.

Anna smiled at Inanna. "You got flees or something, kid?" Anna asked.

Inanna slipped the knife into her coat pocket. "Call me kid one more time and I'll use the knife" Inanna said.

"Don't make this easy on me, where's the fun in that?" Anna shrugged with a slight tilt of her head. "Come on, hit me" Anna said.

"Hit me" Inanna retorted. Inanna didn't give her the chance to respond as she balled her fist up and punched Anna crossed her face, knocking her head to the side.

Anna smiled, wiping the small cut on her lip as she looked at Inanna. "I like you" Anna punched Inanna back, hitting her in almost the exact same place.

"Of course you do" Inanna muttered, she punched Anna in the face again, "You're me, just physically older look-" Anna caught Inanna's foot as Inanna went to kick her in her stomach.

Anna shoved Inanna back by her foot, knocking her into one of the pillars that held up the balcony. "How the fuck does that even work?" Anna asked.

Inanna ducked Anna's punch, and Anna's fist collided with the solid pillar. Inanna heard the pop of her knuckles, but paid no mind to it as she ducked underneath her arm and elbowed Anna in her side.

"Time travel" Inanna said. "Your dad met me a couple days ago in the 1960s, clearly liked me more than I thought, and he adopted you in 1989".

"Why?" Inanna stopped at Anna's question, forgetting to dodge Anna's kick as she was stunned by the question.

Inanna staggered backwards into the window, her eyes wide with her hands on her stomach where she had been kicked. "Were you just mentally absent for the entire conversation that led up to this moment?" Inanna asked.

"I'm just trying to work out what is so special about you, that's all" Anna said.

Anna grabbed Inanna by her coat, pulling her off the window with a shake of her head, as soon as Inanna was away from the glass — which Anna didn't want to get the blame for if it was broken — she let go of Inanna's coat, grabbing her arm and twisting it behind her back as she spun around her.

Inanna tried to wiggle her arm out of Anna's grip. "You and I are the same".

"Just because we look alike, that don't mean shit-" Inanna elbowed Anna in her side again, loosening Anna's hold on her.

Inanna turned out of Anna's hold pulling her arm behind her back as she twisted behind her. Inanna gripped the back of Anna's blazer, holding her by the collar.

Anna kicked her leg up, pushing her foot against the pillar when Inanna tried to slam her into it, Anna kicked her leg, the force making herself and Inanna loose their balance.

Inanna stumbled backwards, her hands never loosing their grip on Anna as they both fell backwards into a cushioned wooden chair. The chair legs snapped under their weight with a loud crack and the chair dropped to the floor with a thud.

Inanna wrapped her legs around Anna's waist, she let go of her uniform and hooked her arm around her throat.

"It does mean shit. That itch, I know you feel it" Inanna muttered pulling her arm tighter against Anna's throat as she struggled. "That's just the beginning of it".

"I don't know what you're talking about" Anna lied, her voice strained.

"Cut the bullshit. If anything, you and I should be on the same side, Anna".

Anna turned her head and bit Inanna's forearm. Inanna screamed, more from shock than pain as Anna's teeth dug into her skin and Inanna slammed her heel into Anna's stomach in retaliation.

Anna rolled off of Inanna as she let her go and Inanna pulled herself up onto her knees, her fingers grazing over one of the four chair legs while Anna rubbed her stomach.

Anna's smirked faded as she watched Inanna phase. Inanna pushed back the painful feeling, her anger towards the red head growing stronger as her blue glare burned into Anna's cheek.

"What- what's happen-" Inanna smacked the chair leg across Anna's cheek and Anna's concerned question was interrupted.

Anna put her hand on her cheek, blinking once and then twice as her skin stung. Inanna was waiting for a reaction and anything but Anna's smirk reappearing on her lips was expected.

"Now this is gonna be fun" Anna chuckled.

Anna swiped another chair leg off the floor and repeated Inanna's action. Inanna had the time to move, but she was momentarily stunned by how similar she and Anna were — Even if they were the same person they hadn't lived the same lives.

Inanna wiped her thumb across the thin cut on her cheek, feeling a trickle of blood run down her skin. Inanna turned her head slowly to Anna and a tight lipped smile spread across her lips.

"This house is big right?" Inanna asked.

"Shouldn't you know? Don't you live here?" Anna asked, she stood up slowly testing to see if Inanna would make a move first.

"It's a long story, and the short story..." Inanna stood up following Anna's lead. "Well that's an even longer story".

"Makes sense" Anna gave Inanna a short nod before she took off in a sprint, slipping passed Luther and Marcus as they fought by the enterance.

Inanna followed after, her shoulder bumping into Luther which threw off his punch. "Sorry" Inanna shouted over her shoulder, her eyes never leaving Anna as she ran to the stairs and she tightened her grip on chair leg in her hand.

Inanna came to a sudden stop, her eyes widening as she watched Five tumble down the stairs and land by Anna's feet.

Inanna's heart sunk, the realisation dawning on her that while she had been busy 'fighting' Anna, Five and his family were fighting for their lives, scattered across the Sparrows home.

Anna smirked looking over her shoulder at Inanna. The chair leg fell out of Inanna's hand and clattered to the floor as she slipped her hand into her coat pocket to retrieve Diego's knife, but instead of finding the weapon, Inanna's pocket was empty.

Noticing Inanna's confusion, Anna's smirk turned into a smile and she held up Diego's knife in her hand, wiggling it next to her head proudly.

Anna turned back to Five and flipped the knife in her hand, pointing the blade down at him.

"Five!" Inanna shouted his name, her voice cracking. Five lifted his head slowly with a groan, hearing Inanna's panicked voice quietly in his ears as they rung.

Inanna ran across to the stairs, paying no attention to the knife as she jumped onto Anna's back and wrapped her arms tightly around her throat and hooked her legs around her waist.

Anna grazed her own cheek accidentally with the knife as she tried to pull Inanna's arms off her, but Inanna only tightened her arms, squeezing her neck tighter.

"I thought we were having fun" Anna muttered.

Inanna didn't respond only tightening her grip more. The knife fell from Anna's fingers as her chokes turned into gasps and her hands fought to pull Inanna off her.

Five quickly stood up, ignoring the spin that made him wobble, and his gaze flickered between Inanna and the woman who looked like his wife.

Inanna's eyes found Five's concerned green ones, being pulled from her detached daze by his voice and Anna fell to her knees as Inanna got off her back and took a few steps back from her.

Anna grasped at her throat with her hands, her eyes closing, she gasped heavily for air.

"I-" Inanna looked between Five and Anna.

"We need to go" Five nodded his head to the room Inanna had ran out of with Anna. Inside Inanna could see Luther loosing his fight with Marcus while a couple of the Sparrows stood around.

Five grabbed Inanna's shoulder and blinked both of them to the second floor as Jayme ran down the stairs to Anna.

Five caught Inanna's arms and her back hit the wall, knocking against one of the many paintings. "You could have killed her" Five said, looking over his shoulder for Jayme who he believed was still upstairs, preparing to attack him or Inanna with a hallucination.

Inanna shook her head as she pulled her arms out of his loose grip. "She was going to kill you".

"She wasn't- she wouldn't—".

Allison ran down the hallway, shouting her brothers name. "We gotta go, guys. No time for chit chat, save it for later" Allison shouted, Fei following behind her.

No words were shared between Inanna and Five as they ran ahead of Allison. Inanna was becoming slowly irritated with Five — with the paradox psychosis playing into her emotions. Inanna knew Five couldn't talk now, but she hoped that once they were safely out of the Academy they could finally talk about everything Five had avoided at the farm.

"Luther, we're leaving! Come on!" Five jumped over his brothers back, interrupting the conversation he was having with Sloane in the hallway. Both of them were slightly bloody and bruised from the fights they had just escaped.

"No time for chit chat" Inanna pushed her hand on Luther's head as she followed Five and jumped over Luther's back.

"Just a second-".

Allison grabbed Luther's arm giving him no time to disagree when she shouted "We gotta go! We gotta go!". Luther stood up being led away from Sloane by Allison.

The four of them hurried down the hallway, only stopping briefly to look back at Fei who was still on their trail, the sound of crows catching their attention as Fei manifested them from her body.

"Seriously?" Luther asked, watching the birds as they flew towards them.

"Move, move, move, move!" Allison shouted, shoving Luther in the direction that Inanna and Five had already began running.

Five slowed down, his eyes wide as Inanna slowed down a head of him, realising that Five was no longer next to her. "The briefcase" Five shouted.

Five blinked out of the hallway, ignoring Allison and Inanna when they called for him. "I hate that he can do that!" Luther shouted.

"I don't know where I'm going" Inanna shouted, panicked that she was left leading them through their house.

"Keep going straight on" Allison shouted, waving her hand above her head.

Inanna kept running and when they reached the end of the hallway which led out into a crossroad of hallways, Allison and Luther slammed the door shut behind them.

Inanna untucked her shirt, taking the moment to scratch her side and her neck as Allison and Luther caught their breath with their backs pressed against the wooden door.

"Paradox psychosis?" Luther asked.

"No, you gave me flees" Inanna muttered.

"Funny" Luther mumbled giving Inanna a fake smile.

Allison went to ask what paradox psychosis was but the loud pounding and scratching at the door behind them as the crows tore apart the door, interrupted her.

"What do we do?" Allison asked alarmed by how fast the crows had destroyed the door.

"Haul ass".

hi! how is everyone?

viktor will be referred to as 'vanya'
only in this chapter and in the
next chapter!