A/n - it's been a wild ride, folks! This was my first attempt at writing fan fiction, started almost exactly a year ago, and I hope you had as much fun reading it as I did writing it! I'm sad to see this story end, but I want all of you to know how much your comments and feedback have meant to me. I read every single comment, and I hope that this story made your world a little brighter just like your comments did for me :) Much love to all of you!
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As soon as I stepped out of my car, I saw him. Dabi was waiting by the stairs they'd put out beside my private jet; his bag resting on the ground next to him.
He lifted his sunglasses when he saw me, his blue eyes twinkling in the sunlight. "Took you long enough," he grinned as I walked toward him.
"Agreed."
"Come here, you."
My arms went around his neck as he kissed me, and he lifted me up, setting me on the bottom step of the staircase leading to the plane.
"Damn, I missed that," he said, finally. "I really get you for a whole month?"
"Yep. I want to check in with Katsuki every day though."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. He made me promise that you'd do that."
"He did?" my mouth dropped open in shock. "You guys... talk?"
"You didn't know that? No one gets to talk to you if it isn't through that bastard."
"Oh," I had to chuckle. "Well, I'm going to tell you upfront that if I miss him too much I'm going to fly him out there."
"You make the rules, little one," he said.
"Damn right I do."
"Um, excuse me, miss y/n?" one of the flight attendants asked. "Are there other bags that need to be loaded?"
"No, I just brought the one," I said, handing my bag to him.
"Same," Dabi said. "Didn't think we'd need a lot of clothes on this trip."
"We definitely don't." I brushed my fingers down his arm, awed by the softness of the new skin.
"You can't stop touching me, can you?" he grinned, and my fingers went to his face, feeling the smooth surface of his cheek and chin.
"I'm just admiring my work." But then I caught a glimpse of the patch of scars on his chest, just under the neckline of his shirt. "Why didn't you let me heal all of it?"
"These remind me of who I was," he said touching the spot on his chest for just a second. Then he moved his hand so that it was pressed against my heart instead. "And now you remind me of who I am."
"Holy shit, you're cheesy as fuck," a voice said behind us.
Both of us turned our heads toward the top of the stairs where we saw Hawks poking his head out the cabin door of the plane.
"I've heard love does crazy things to people," Hawks laughed, "But who knew it would turn Dabi into a total sap?"
"Hawks, what the hell? You are not on my passenger list."
"A whole private jet for two people? Come on, kid, there's room, I can fit. I know you normally like how I fit --"
"I'm going to stop you right there," Dabi shook his head. "You can literally fly yourself wherever you want to go. You don't have to hitch a ride with us."
"Who do I have to decay around here to get this plane to take off?" Tomura muttered, smacking my ass as he walked directly past us and up the stairs into the plane without as much as a glance behind him.
"He's coming, too?" Dabi deadpanned.
"I wasn't sure if he would," I admitted sheepishly, "since I didn't think a beach would really be his thing but... sorry. It was the only way I could figure out to keep up with his healing schedule while I was away."
"You could just let him go back to being the crusty bastard he always has been."
"I could."
Together we climbed the stairs to the plane. "I don't even care," Dabi said, "I'm ready to do nothing other than be with you for the next four weeks."
"Sounds like plan. All right, guys," I said as the cabin door closed behind me. "Who wants to join the mile high club first?"
"I do!" a voice piped up from behind the plane's mini-fridge, a voice I was not expecting to hear.
"Mina? You're here, too?"
"The lady is my honored guest," Compress proudly announced, pulling her into his lap.
"Oh, hey," I said to him, finally seeing an unmasked Compress chilling in one of the large leather seats. "I didn't even see you there... "
"You still keep that one marble I gave you?"
I reached into my pocket, taking out the small blue marble he'd given me over a year ago.
"Good," he nodded.
"Enough about marbles," Tomura rolled his eyes.
"Don't be rude," I said to him. "You're still my guests here, don't forget that."
"Whatever," Tomura said back. "If it wasn't for me getting that prototype out that day, you wouldn't have any of this. Pink girl, what kind of booze does she have in there?"
Mina held up two bottles. "It's a party!" she declared.
While she started making drinks, Dabi and I sat down in two of the seats near the front of the plane.
"Good thing we'll have your whole house to spread out in," Dabi whispered.
"I added a new hot tub since the last time you were there."
"Oh really?"
"Yes, really," I nodded. "We can get in right when we get there. I can't wait to feel that new skin of yours all damp and warm against mine."
"I like the way you think," Dabi said. "Don't tell the others and maybe we can avoid having any more unexpected visitors."
"I promise that we'll spend a lot of time alone, just the two of us."
"I'm holding you to it."
I closed my eyes and sighed, daydreaming about the next couple weeks. "We can take long walks on the beach, swim in the pool, learn how to scuba dive, whatever you want."
"No," Dabi said.
"No?"
"We can do all of those things, if you are still up for it, I guess."
"Why wouldn't I be up for it?"
Hawks leaned over the seat and butted into the conversation. "He means that you're going to be too tired for all of that after we take turns fucking you stupid."
Dabi swatted him away and then leaned in close. "He's not totally wrong, though... Want to get a head start on that?" he asked, his eyes gesturing back toward the plane's bedroom.
"Hell yes."
While everyone was involved in getting Mina to make their drinks, we snuck back there and opened the door to the bedroom, both of us freezing when we realized that the bed was already occupied.
"Denki." I tried to make my voice as threatening as possible. "What the hell?"
Toga propped herself up on her elbows and waved, while Kaminari picked up his head from between her thighs and looked behind him at us, a lopsided grin on his face.
"Oh, hey, guys!" Denki shouted at us.
"Jesus," Dabi muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose in exasperation.
"Hey?" I asked incredulously. "'Hey'? That's what you're saying to me, when you're on my plane, in my bedroom, in my bed? Why are you here? Start talking now."
"Sorry, y/n, we should have locked the door," Toga giggled.
"Toga," I said, waiving my hand dismissively, "you're fine. You can stay. I was talking to him."
"She told me you were going to your beach house, and, well, Toga and I weren't going to be left out. We're in love, what can I say? Maybe I can finally give you some pointers, y/n, since I'm an expert in love now and all, and your love life is all kinds of fucked up, even though no one seems to care."
"I'll pass on the advice, Denki," I said as I closed the door behind me. "And you're washing these sheets when we get there!"
"Yes, ma'am!" I heard him shout, Toga giggling right along with him.
"Want to take out some of that aggression in the bathroom then?" Dabi whispered, his hot breath tickling my ear.
"Immediately."
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It was months, and many vacations and press tours and factory visits and television appearances, later.
Katsuki stood on our hotel room balcony, the lights of the city twinkling in the night sky. He turned to look when he heard the click of my heels and whistled when he saw me walking out to join him.
"Fucking hell," he said, running a hand through his hair. "I have to keep my hands to myself all night with you wearing that?"
"Who said you had to keep your hands to yourself?" I asked as I approached. I stopped right in front of him, smoothing down the sleeves of his tux.
"Absolutely no one."
He watched me as I adjusted his tie and shirt unnecessarily, red eyes following my hands until they moved up to stare back into mine. "Just when I think you couldn't get any sexier, you prove me wrong," he said lowly. "Do you know what you do to me?"
I let my hand wander further down the front of his body, gently hovering over the spot where I felt a growing bulge in his pants.
"I have a pretty good idea."
"We need to go," he murmured, "or else I'm going to end up ripping off that dress and fucking you right here."
"Then we'd be late," I pouted, "and I wouldn't get to give my award speech."
"Which award are you getting again? Is this the peace prize one?"
"No, that was last week. This is for my work with children's hospitals."
He smirked, tilting my chin up with his finger. "I can't keep track of my little millionaire."
"Billionaire," I corrected him.
Together we watched the cars and people shuffling around below us.
"Do you remember our first date?" I asked him.
"When I realized that you weren't wearing any underwear about five minutes after I got there?"
"That would be the one," I laughed. "If we can even count that. I'm pretty sure all we did was make out and then you went home."
"You made me go home. Or we could count that night you fell asleep studying in my room."
"I wasn't studying. I was daydreaming about you the whole time. You know, I slept in your bed that night, and you didn't even touch me. Where did that self-control go?" I teased him.
"It went out the fucking window as soon as I realized how horny you are all the time. Come on," he said, taking my hand and walking back into the hotel room. "Let's go. The limo is probably already waiting downstairs."
"Wait," I said, pulling him back out onto the balcony. "Stay for another second. I want to just exist in this moment with you, even if it's only for another minute."
"Whatever you want."
I stared out into the city with him by my side, thinking about the people scurrying about, each with their own lives, their own jobs, their own hopes and dreams. I'd been one of those people, a name no one knew, a girl without a family, without a purpose.
"Is this," I gestured out at the city, "anywhere close to what you envisioned for yourself? for where you'd be one day?"
Katsuki moved to stand behind me, wrapping both of his arms securely around my shoulders.
"Do you mean did I envision myself spending my life with a beautiful woman I love who wants to save the world? Fuck, y/n, this is better than what I envisioned."
I smiled and tried to force back the happy tears that threatened to ruin my make up.
"But, really, y/n, who gives a fuck with where we thought we'd be? This is where we are, and I'm along for the ride, baby. Wherever that ride goes."
"All I ever wanted, Katsuki, was just to be needed. To be important and do something meaningful for others. I never thought my life would end up like this."
"You got your wish," he said, kissing the top of my head. "I need you. Too many people need you, really."
The city was at our feet. Endless possibilities. Endless opportunities. I let my hands wrap around his, unwilling to let this moment end.
"You ready for what's next?" I asked him.
"With you? Always."
****That's the end! Thanks for coming along on this crazy ride!