Gone (Deku x Shoto)

Chapter 5

(Izuku POV)

We have been here for a week and I have only left the house to go into the garden and sit. Everything is hard to do. Every morning I wake and cry. I don't know if it's grief or my hormones. I don't have a single photo of my mum or Sho. I'm too scared to google Sho in case he finds us.

The sun is shining brightly in the sky but there is a bitter wind on my face as I sit in the garden listening to the birds in the trees. It's calming. My hand is on my stomach as I think of Sho. I daydream of how I was going to tell him about the baby. I know he would be happy. He would have dragged me out to a store to buy something. I smile at the thought. I would have loved that. I'm broken out of my thoughts as my dad sits on the seat next to me with a bag in his hand.

"Son this was your...your mother's idea. She said she wished she had done this when she was pregnant with you," he says as he hands me a new mobile. I look at it confused. My mum wanted me to do what with a mobile?

"She said you should keep a video diary of the pregnancy that way you can show it to your little one when they are older. But with all this, I think it might be good to make it for Shoto so when we are all together again he can watch it and he won't have missed out on all the things you feel are important. It might help you to smile again son." he said as tears rolled down his face silently. Seeing him cry set me off again and I hugged him tightly.

"I think that's a great idea dad." I smiled at him with the first true smile I have had since that day.

I know I have to pull it together for my baby and my dad. I set up the phone. It's a really good one with a great camera and the first thing I do is take a picture of the two of us. It seems like we might be here a while so we might as well make this house a home. My mum always had loads of photos so that was my first task. Fill it with photos. I decided to take my first walk around the small town. There wasn't much there: a food shop, a small library, a school, and a few odd shops. But there was an amazing swing park. As it was a Saturday it was filled with kids running about screaming and laughing. They didn't seem to mind the cold. Their mothers sat on the benches and watched them. I placed my hand on my stomach as I watched them. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw one of the mothers walking over to me. She was pregnant too but much further on than me.

"Hi my name is Abby are you our new neighbor up the road," she said nodding in the direction of my new home.

"Hi yes sorry my name is Iz..Haruki Sato. it's very nice to meet you." I say and bow to her. She smiles back and awkwardly bows back.

"So how far along are you?" she asked and I looked at her with my mouth open. How did she know I am pregnant? She laughs at me.

"It's my quirk I can tell when people are pregnant and even help them to get pregnant. Women and men. It's quite common here actually." she said softly.

"I'm about 10 weeks." I smile.

"Is it you and your partner that moved in then?" she asks and my smile falters.

"No it's me and my dad, my mum was killed recently and my partner was taken from me at the same time so we just needed a fresh start you know," I tell her. She puts her hand on her heart.

"I'm so sorry for your losses. Have you seen the cafe in the village? We meet there every Tuesday at 9.30 after the kids are in school and nursery. You're more than welcome to join us. It's just a group of mum's to be but we have a good old laugh. You'd fit in quite well I think and if there is maybe any questions of what is to come we can all help you most of us already have older kids too." She smiles at me. I have so many questions, ones I wish I had asked my mum about before.

"Yes, that would be nice. Thank you, Abby. I better get back now." I bow again and turn to leave smiling.

I take my time walking back really taking in everything around me. It really is beautiful here. Everywhere you look it's green. I finally got back to the house. My dad is sitting flicking through the tv channels as I come in. I tell him about Abby and her offer. He thinks it's just what I need. So when Tuesday rolls around I head to the cafe.

I stand outside for a moment before I go inside. There is a counter up the back with the till on top and a young girl behind it sitting on a stool. There are a few small square tables around the room. Over in the far left a few of the tables have been shoved together and there sat six ladies of a variety of ages and all pregnant. I see Abby and she waves me over. I nervously make my way over and sit on the empty seat. Everyone introduces themselves. We sit talking about kids and their pregnancies. When they start describing labor I get a cold shiver down my back. Holy crap how are they going to get this baby out of me? The ladies noticed this and asked if I was ok. I asked them many questions after that. About an hour later I started to heat up and took off my jacket. I heard a few gasps as they stared at my wrist. Endeavor's handprint was strikingly visible and still looked quite red.

"Did the Asshole who killed your mum and partner do that to you to Haruki?" I froze. I put my arm under the table. A lump in my throat formed as I spoke.

"Ye...yeah he did," I mumble.

"What was he like, your partner." one of the other ladies asked me I think her name was Kay. I smiled.

"He is the kindest person, he always smells like peppermint. He would do anything to make me happy even watch really bad movies. One time he surprised me after school and took me to my favorite ice cream shop. We had to take two trains to get there. We just made it back to the dorms just before curfew but he said it was worth it just to see me smile. We...we should be graduating next week together. I got all our friends and our teacher to help me plan a party afterward. I was going to propose to him. I got him a ring and everything.....the day I found out I was pregnant was the day it all ended though. I never got to tell him he was going to be a dad." I couldn't hold in the tears any longer and I put my face in my hands. There were lots of chairs scraping then they all hugged me as I cried. After a moment I calmed myself down and thanked them. It felt good telling someone how I felt it was like a small amount of the weight of me.

I walked home with just as many new questions as ones I had answered. Technically my pregnancy should be normal. The other thing I had to look out for was if it got too emotional and they said I will, it can make my quirk act up and in very rare cases can make the mother to be to temporarily have the father's quirk too.