Pandora's Gift

Chapter 17

The next day started like the rest or at least that was how it was supposed to go. And it did start out the same with getting up and rushing Hatori to school. And then rushing herself to work right after. She was greeted by the warm smile of the front desk lady who was more than happy to inform her that a locker had been picked out in the women's changing room for her. Which made her happy to know she could finally start wearing civilian clothes to work and changi here at the agency. That would save a lot of unwanted attention during her commutes to and from work. That made her happy, though stepping into the office to be greeted with Bakugou standing there with his arms crossed over his wide chest. Look as irritated and unimpressed as always. Which kind of killed her happy mood as her smiled dead and she found herself looking around the room for Kirishima to lighten her mood back up.

"Where is Kirishima?" She asked bluntly when she didn't see the mountain of sunshine that was a man.

"He's back on evenings while you and I are on morning duty. He will be in around lunch time. Now let's get a move on, we're already late," and with that Bakugou stormed past her making sure to knock his shoulder against hers as he passed her. Of course in her mind she was calling the blonde every curse that crossed her mind. But at least she was smart enough to keep them to herself. Without Kirishima around to be a buffer she knew better than to start a fight with Bakugou.

So Kirishima was back on working the evening shift it seemed which made sense with Bakugou being the morning person he was. So it made sense that Bakugou would work in the morning and Kirishima the afternoon or evening. Still it sucked she was stuck with Hatori at the moment which meant at least for today she was stuck forced on the same schedule as Kirishima since she could only work while the kid was in school till he went home. Hatori would be coming home any day now which was a little bit nice. Sakaki loved the kid but he did make hero work harder and limited her hours. In a sense him being around just reminded her of why she couldn't have a family or kids if she wanted to remain a hero. She would be lying if she didn't admit that made her omega sad and then would drive her hormones all over the place as her body would want a child while her mind reminded her it was not a good idea.

At least the patrol with Bakugou in a way was easier than with Kirishima. No one seemed to want to approach two scowling morons in hero costumes in the street. Made it fast to get around the normal patrol route as they spent the morning walking side by side even though Bakugou would repeatedly tell her not to walk beside him. Eventually though he stopped when he realized that Sakaki was not going to fall back in her steps. Hell she even went out of her way once to speed up her pace ever so slightly as she pulled a step ahead of him which had him explode before she fell back into step with him.

Yet it was when lunch rolled around and they started to head back to the agency that Bakugou noticed she never came with a lunch, nor did she eat while on patrol. Though she did eye up a few food stands on the way back to the agency she still didn't ask to stop. Did she grab food when she went with Kirishima on patrol? He would have to ask the red head when he saw him next. Making it back to the agency Bakugou was heading to the little kitchenette break room they had where he stored his and Kirishima's lunches he had made.

Though he noticed her walking past the break room and heading towards the office which had the blonde pause and turn towards her.

"Oi! Where the hell are you going?" He barked at her which had her pause before she looked back at him.

"To the office to get started on paperwork. I need some days off so I'm gonna work through lunch for the next few days," she said simply before she turned and headed to the office, not watching Bakugou's reaction to her blunt answer. He was aware she needed some time off,  Kirishima had brought it up and reminded Bakugou that he too really should take some time off as well. And yet the scowl on his face was a bit different than his day to day one. No, this one may have actually given away how much he didn't like the idea that she was going to skip eating in lue of getting more work done with what limited time she had.