DabiHawks Oneshots

Blood on my Windowsill

tw: blood

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When Rei heard the click of Hawks' front door, she wiped her hands on her apron and walked to greet who she suspected to be the No. 2 hero himself.

What she wasn't prepared for, however, was the vacant-eyed stare that met her, or the blood that trailed behind his drooping wings.

"Hawks, honey, are you ok?" She asked. But the only reply was a distressed click. Rei walked into the living room to see Hawks draped over Dabi's legs. The villain didn't even seem surprised by the liquid that was beginning to pool around his feet.

"Did they do it again?" Dabi whispered into the heroes ear. Hawks just sobbed as he clung to the other's neck. Rei stood in the doorway staring at the pair.

When Hawks has agreed to take her in as a favour for Endeavour, Rei had been shocked by the living conditions of the oversized bird. Takeout every night, an unhealthy amount of fried chicken that for some reason never showed on his abs, and the blankness that defines his apartment.

And of course the older women dedicated herself to helping him, because if she couldn't be an adequate mother for her own children, then maybe she could help this kid.

Because that was what Hawks was. He may be 22, but he hadn't a clue on how to look after himself. It wasn't until last Wednesday he even knew that clothes were reusable, much to Rei's horror.

And the No. 2 didn't seem to have had much of a childhood either, if the flinches were anything to go by. Whenever she raised her hand, voice or even her eyebrows, a wince would replace whatever expression had been plaguing the man's face before.

She had lived in an abusive family long enough to know what it meant, but she never said anything. She wasn't here to pry, just guide and be there to fall back on if needed.

The one thing that surprised her the most though wasn't the blank stares or the hidden talons, it was the scarred boyfriend that snuck in at the odd hours of the night.

Rei wasn't an idiot, she knew who Dabi was. When she had been discharged, her first point was to figure out who the enemy was and if they were a threat to her. If being Endeavours wife had taught her anything, it was knowing danger when it looks you in the face.

So her first reaction wasn't to grab a frying pan and bang it on Dabi's head, because how far would that get her if he set the place on fire.

"What are you doing up at these early hours in the morning." She had asked.

And it seemed Hawks house was full of surprises. Instead of a sneer, or a wall of flame, the villain just stumbled back in, was that shock? Maybe even fear as his eyes landed on her.

And he turned and jumped out the window.

Rei didn't even have the time to blink before a blur of red streaked past her and dove straight out the window after Dabi.

She bit back the scream on her tongue and relaxed. As much as she'd of liked to rush over to the window and check if they were ok, she had learned to trust Hawks and didn't want to restrict his way back in.

When the hero had come back cradling a put-out Dabi in his arms, Rei simply stared. She trusted Hawks, but the villain? She wanted to know, but prying had never been her forté.

"Hawks." She said. "Do you know who that is?"

"Yeah." He answered with such ease Rei wondered if he really did. "He's my boyfriend!"

Rei valued Hawks as a son, and loved him. She truly did. However, she was not aware that any human being, especially one of the top heroes, to be this dense.