Woman of the Night. (Hawks x reader)

18: Realisation and darkness

Y/N POV

We burst through the final set of doors. Both heavily panting, catching our breath, a few other people were with us, the police primarily. 

My chest was bursting open and my skin was on fire. I couldn't believe how many people were in the building. My binding cloth had been running out, which hasn't happened in a long time. 

'Damn, these people took the protection of these kids very seriously. Must have some useful quirks...'

I looked over at Hawks who had a game-smile on his face. His wings were getting smaller and smaller and his feathers swirling all around us.

Suddenly something shot through my whole being as I saw his dedicated and serious, yet soft and grinning face. His eyes piercing through the room and the situation... just like a Hawk would look at its pray, knowing that it's doomed. 

....

A realization finally fit me. 

He was there throughout. 

He helped me out in so many ways, and even though he pretends to be a flirt and acts a certain way around others, I saw another side of him too.

'What the hell...' I exhaled, still looking at him in this moment of momentary silence and these seconds of peace. 

'Am I? No... but then...'

"You alright?" I heard him speak "What are you looking at?" One of his eyebrows playfully rose up as his eyes sparkled in the rush of a fight. 

They were looking at me with soft and kindness. I was his equal and both of us knew it.

"You" I whispered under my breath as I turned back to the room with a full-blown blush beneath my mask. 

"This is the first time I ever heard you mumble." Thankfully he didn't hear me. "It's cute." my blush and heartbeat quickened.

"Are you sure he is here?" Hawks turned to me from a few steps away.

"Yeah I am sure" 

The room was very dark with something beeping in the far corner. As we walked in I saw in the corner of the room, a few dozen meters away from us, a shaking figure of a kid. 

"Stay back." I raised my hand, motioning people around me to stop. They all obeyed. 

I slowly approached the kid. He was in a horrible condition, much worse than what his brother looked like. The cuts and bruises all over his body. He only had shorts on him, so all the injuries were clearly seen. One of his hands was severely bruised and probably broke. His back.. was the most damaged one. Slashes and scars. But worst of all, his wings. They were plucked out almost to the bone. There was dried up blood on them. His whole being broke my heart and tears rose to my face.

"Hey kid" my voice shook and slightly broke. He turns to me and at first scoots even further into the corner as I approach closer while getting onto his level. I see him clutching a black toy.

"Hey" I repeat and he finally looks at me properly into my eyes, which were only getting more and more watery. His eyes were red and I am not sure if it was from crying of beating or both. His face, just like his body, was in slashes and bruises. I reached out to him, but he was scared of me.

"Hey, it's alright." I whisper slowly "I am Noch. Your brother, Koda, told us where to find you and that I am your favourite hero."

"No-Noch?" He whimpered as he slightly opened himself to me. "Is-is Koda alright?"

"Yes, he is safe and is waiting for you." I reached out my hand again but he was still hesitant as he scanned my face and focused on the lower half. 

'Do masks scare him?'

I slowly reached my hands up to my mask and pulled it down. I didn't care who saw. 

"Do you remember me?" I smiled at him and this time his eyes almost lit. They were no longer dull and he reached out his little hand to me. Slowly as if unsure...

"Don't you touch him!" I felt a sharp pain in my side spreading through the whole body, thanks to overworking my quirk. 

'If I use it any more, my body could go into over sensory shock.' 

The kick was so hard that it sent me flying into the wall, which thankfully wasn't too far away.

"NOCH!" I heard Hawks yell out and then trembling all around me.

"You walk into my house pretty boy" the husky woman spoke and through the blurred vision I saw her facing Hawks, some light was coming from the wall that she broke to get in. "If you think I am giving up this kid as easily as the other, think again." 

I looked over to the little kid who was staring at me in shock and concern. The cealing broke in the straight line and formed a wall of rubble separating me and the rest. The last thing I saw was Hawks powerless expression as he was pulled away by an officer.

"It's going to be alright, kid" I gave him a smile as I made an attempt to stand up.

"Not so quickly." I heard the same woman speak before a boulder crushed into my led. I could feel, almost every bone-crushing under its weight. I let out a heart-stopping yell. She got close to me, as I lay on the floor, unable to move because of the rock in the bottom part of my leg. The kid was next to me, with his little hands stretched to me and tears running through his face. 

She reached out to the kid.

"You are not getting your hands on him" I grumbled through my teeth and activated the quirk, which made her arms, fall limb. 

I could only activate parts of the quirk and hope that Hawks and the rest would get through the rubble wall in time to save the kid. The woman chuckled as she was powerless to do anything with the kid.

I heard some rubble being pushed to the side. 

'Must have been someone with a useful quirk, thank god.' 

This distracted her and I managed to twist my body to look at my foot. I had just enough binding cloth to wrap it around the boulder and then the column nearby to move it off my leg. The kid helped me as he also pushed the boulder up, probably didn't do that much but I managed to get my blood and somewhat differed foot from underneath it.

My groan, as I balanced on the other foot, attracted her attention. She was still not able to move her hands.

"Hmm, look at that." She stared down at my already beat up state. "You, heroes, never give up, do you?"

"Don't you touch them!" I heard someone yell. 

Probably Hawks

I couldn't tell anymore

My hearing was getting distorted, and the bussing was only getting louder and louder.

My vision was darkening too

Everything happened so quickly that I had barely the time to process it. The woman smashed her whole body into the building and it trembled. I saw something red flashing but rocks from the ceiling slammed into the feathers and smashed them against the floor. I heard laughter and someone yell out "If I can't have him, no one will..."

I remember grabbing the kid and diving behind a huge boulder, before shielding him from the collapsing ceiling... 

Then everything goes black...