the thought of peace and prosperity (in this economy???)
Helena was relaxing.
Why was she relaxing when she had a literal apocalypse to stop???
Because her siblings were forcing her to relax. Even five the most neurotic workaholic she has ever known was telling HER to relax. Like who does he think he is to be telling---
“Calm down, I can hear you thinking from here” Ben remarked amused
“Me calm down” Helena explained frustrated
“Yes you, you’ve been burning a hole into that book for the last two minutes” Allison answered not looking up from painting Klaus's nails.
“Yeah chill girl” Klause responded amused
Helena groaned, “I don’t do relaxing, I got things to do papers too finish writing”
Luther cut her off, “and a childhood too live”
Helena deadpanned, “We live with a sadistic maniac who gets off on torturing all of you and turning you into child soldiers and in order not too take care of us tamed a chimp and made a robot woman whom we call mom”
Luthor winced, “sort of a childhood”
Diego responded to the rant with, “Hey don’t diss mom”
Helena looked at him, “But you agree?”
Diego sighed, “Yes I agree now stop whining over relaxing you weirdo”
Before Helena could protest even more Vanya came up too her with a shy smile on her face, “Wanna duet”
Helena who was w e a k for Vanya’s baby seal eyes agreed
Helena sighed more quieter, “Yeah why not”
So for the hour she was with Vanya they both were practicing their instruments and trying different songs with each and Helena felt herself untense just a little bit. The events of what happened weeks ago were still fresh in her mind and Fate showed how Ben managed too live. As relieved as Helena was she still couldn’t stop thinking of the what ifs?
Like what if she didn’t come back in time?
What if she didn’t manage to easy up the mission a little?
As relieved as she was, that was more nightmare material that was added along too her dying gruesomely the first time as well as the other lovely tidbits from her past life.
Helena did not want to bury her brother or even think about burying anybody that she considered her family so she was planning. Did her planning get a little too overboard maybe but the thing was she didn’t want anybody she loved like her own dying at all.
Dying sucked and she would know
All that peaceful bs was a lie well too her it was anyway
She left her world begging and screaming and she never wanted her brothers and sisters to feel that way so she was going to make sure it never happened.
Her siblings noticed her insane focus on her work and how she wasn’t bothering with her art or even doing silly little pranks so they decided to ambush her into relaxing. Helena thought they had training so she was already awake (and exhausted) for her classes when her siblings barged in her room fully intended to make her take a break.
Helean argued of course but they just took her laptop and gave her a book that they KNEW she wanted for a while but was too lazy to get and they all parked their butts in her room laying there making sure that she was relaxing.
Helena in the moment couldn’t help but smile as she finally got the song that she was playing with Vanya and thought to herself, “Ok relaxing wasn’t that bad”
After playing with Vanya, Helena sat down and Allison came over to her with a hairbrush in hand.
“Nooooooo” Helena whined
Allison grinned, “Come one your hair is a birds nest right now”
“I like it that way, its free let it be free” Helena shot back
Allison arched an eyebrow, “How long has it been since you brushed it”
Helena blinked silently for a second, “a week”
Allison gasped, “HELENA”
Helena defended herself knowing it wasn’t going to get her out of getting her hair styled, “ I was busy”
Allison berated her, “Yeah running a brush takes five minutes”
“Girl with my hair might as well be an hour”
“If you put oil in it like I tell you too it won’t take that long”
“Ugh that’s too much work”
Helena slowly backed away while Allison yelled, “Get her”
She tried to run out of her room but Luther easily caught her pulling her in a bear hug while she squirmed screaming, “You’ll never take me aliiiiive!!!!”
Allison advanced too her, “I think I just did”
Then she barked orders too her already bemused siblings, “Vanya get me the hair kit, Five I need 3 different colors of nail polish, Luthor hold her and Ben start cleaning up this room a little”
Klause slowly raised his hand, “What do I do”
Allison turned a keen eye at him and stated, “You’re going to help me”
Allison then exclaimed, “MOVE IT”
One thing the Umbrella Academy learned was never to make Allison in bossy mode ™ and well that’s what she was in.
Helena groaned loudly
Allison whipped her head too her and smiled with a syrupy voice, “How long has it been since you ate an actual meal that's not coffee and small little candy that you stashed in here”
All her siblings looked at her with narrowed eyes
Helena gulped and thought, “Guess i’m going to be spoon fed now “
(She didn’t mind though)
After an hour Helena felt like a new girl, her hair was french braided after Allison took it off the bun that she hid the knots and her face felt so clear with sparkly purple nail polish on nails. The resounding lecture that she got for not taking care of herself would be something that she’d never forget for a while.
Death and Fate were cheering on the lecture with gigantic smiles on their faces because they did not want their charge to become burnt out and she deserved love darn it.
Dearest Reggiekins wasn’t home because he had to go to some meeting or something sketchy that Helena was going to find out about later. Right now she was sitting alone in her room because her siblings left to do their own things.
Helena was sitting criss-cross on her bed with her door locked (even if she knew Five could just teleport but she got wards to alert her) in order to practice her magic.
What she realized about her magic was that it was way easier for her to do than in her other life without a wand at all. Her magic reminded her of Wanda Maximoff’s from marvel. Wanda’s was red but Helena was a mix of blue purple and black that reminded her of the galaxy.
Death warned her that while her magic may be easy to use it can still tire her a lot because of her age. She had to get used to practicing it for a long period of time and she couldn’t overuse it because well then that’s just magical exhaustion and that sucked because it felt like she was having the flu. It was coughing, runny nose fever etc etc.
It went away after a weak of course but Helena made sure it never happened again
When she felt tired she stopped because it was not worth going through that again and the smothering.
Ugh the smother from her siblings never ended.
They sneaked into her room to make sure that she had enough food or was she resting or this or that. Nope Helena was not used to being fussed over so she simply tried not to exert too much.
She did basic magic exercises like make her light brighter or conjure different objects.
Death managed to somehow send over a spell book from some distant universe then Helna did not want to know where he got it from and she tried the different spells from there.
One she was working on now was a healing spell for cuts.
“sana vulnus”
Which in latin was literally, “heal the cut” to her amusement
Helena had a tiny cut on her arm and focused the magic on her hand and whispered the words.
This was her tenth attempt and while it was an easy spell she was trying to do it to a smaller degree. And to her relief it worked!
Her magic hovered over the wound and it knit itself back together.
It tingled a little bit but Helena was too ecstatic to really care because she did it!!!
Ig doing magic on smaller areas was getting easier; she could advance on doing larger spells and deal with less magical exhaustion. She was reminded of the “mission” to save be’s life last time and remembered how exhausted she was after. The apparition took like half her energy and doing a silencio literally made her want to sleep.
I mean at 12 almost 13 that was really impressive.
Fate had also told her that Ben was supposed to actually go to the land of the dead when they were 16 but Helena being there made destiny put it at 12 which was soooo messed up now that Helena thought about it. But it gave her more time to make sure that five didn’t go time jumping and Ben was alive and hopefully stayed that way.
Helena put Grey’s Anatomy on with a a kitkat in her hand exhausted
She’ll do more planning tomorrow on how to keep up with her magic. Figure out a plan to finish high school at least by 16 because college by 16 seemed to geniusy to her. And of course the big mambo jumbo finishes off Reggi dearest by 18 or hopefully earlier and absolutely RUIN his reputation.
Helean grinned savagely, she’ll make it happen she made it this far
Death looked at Helena and then at his wife, “I feel like we made a great choice”
Fate squealed, “I know right I love her so much”
Death laughed,”You love her because she plans just like you”
Fate rolled her eys, “Duh why wouldn’t eye she has the same bloodlust for caring about her family and she’ll get it done”
Death then smiled sneaky
Fate looked at him concerned, “What did you”
Death shrugged his shoulders, “You’ll find out later”
Fate furrowed her eyebrows, “Wait what are planning on doing”
Death put his hands up, “Nothing absolutely nothing” while slowly walking away
Fate yelled, “THANATOS GET BACK HERE”
Death ran away like a teen laughing, “don’t use my greek name”
Fate chased him saying, “I’ll say any name I like”
Death already had something running through his head that he was going to make happen.
Down on Earth Helena was peacefully asleep not knowing what was going too happen in the coming years. Well things that she never planned on happening in a million years.
The three hollows that were tucked in the far back of her closet that were warded extensively by death and fates magic to be unseen, unknown and hidden to the world flashed ominously.
There definitely was going to be a lot happeing and Helena was gong tot be cursing Death for a long long time. In happiness or in anger?
We’ll see
“Good luck mistress” the ancient word of time spoke laughing at her brothers mischief
“You’ll definitely need it”
somebody help me
nonononononononononononono
this wasn't meant to happen oh god someone save me
there is no one
die
die
die
die
I didn't mean it
did you?
there's no help coming so keep beggin like you made the others beg
imsorryimsorryimsorryimsorryIMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRY
SOMEBODY HELP ME