On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual only in the fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first began. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible. He got seven. And a half.

Number 5.5, The Girl was The Boy's twin. They were, for all intents and purposes, one person. Known by her brother as Quinn, Number 5.5 was the team's psychic, able to read the minds of anyone that she could see, or anyone that Number 5 could see. But when Number 5 disappears, The Girl freezes. Her body shows no signs of ageing or decaying, as if she has simply stopped. But when her brother returns from the future with warnings of an impending apocalypse, Quinn wakes up. And she remembers everything.

Disclaimer- hopefully this goes without saying, but I don't own anything except for my ideas

NOTES: Quinn calls Five "Finn" because it's a mix of Five and Twin, but she's the only one to do so, whereas everyone calls her Quinn

(For anyone interested, Quinn's faceclaim is Malina Weissman as Violet Baudelaire)

Hear No Evil

Prologue

"Come on, Finn," The Girl whispered, "don't do this."

The Boy smirked at his twin. "What's the big deal, Quinn? I'll only be gone a minute."

"You're not funny," she told him bluntly.

"I know that I can do it," he insisted. "And we can test out your powers too."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean…" his eyes widened in excitement, turning his expression almost manic, and Quinn knew that whatever he was going to say was something that he'd been thinking about for a long time. "What if you can project your thoughts when we're in different times?"

The Girl's eyes widened too, but in shock unlike her brother's excitement. "Seriously, Finn? I can barely manage when you're a room away, let alone a decade."

And, unfortunately, Quinn was right. While she could reach him from a distance, it always required severe panic—which was how they'd discovered that power in the first place—and she still struggled to use it at all.

"Maybe this is what you need to unlock it fully," he argued, and Quinn didn't need to read his mind to know that he wouldn't be dropping it, no matter what she said.

She loved her brother, more than anything in the world, but he was also the most stubborn person she had ever met, and she had long since learned when to argue and when to just accept the inevitable.

"Fine," she sighed. "But when this goes wrong, you're buying me all the milkshakes I want."

"And that's different from usual how?" he teased, remembering the countless Oreo milkshakes he'd bought for her over the years.

His younger sister beamed at him. "You didn't say no."

"I never say no to you," he pointed out. "And nothing will go wrong."

"Famous last words…" she said softly, wringing her hands nervously.

"Come here, Quinnie," he told her, making sure to keep his voice gentle as he pulled her into a tight hug. "I'll be back before you know it."

Quinn hugged him back just as tightly, burrowing her face in the shoulder of his blazer, identical to her own, as she tried not to cry.

"You'd better be," she said.

"I will," he promised, pulling away to wipe away the tears that had started to fall down her cheeks.

"I love you, Finn."

"I love you too, Quinn."

And, with one last cocky grin, The Boy disappeared in a flash of blue light, leaving The Girl completely alone as the world went dark.

Thanks for reading! I really hope you enjoyed this prologue! I'm beyond excited to finally share this fic with the world! And, if you want to hear more about her, feel free to visit me on tumblr Randomestfandoms-ocs (/tagged/quinn-hargreeves for everything I've made for her)