Smile For The Camera ~ Dabi x Hawks💙🧡

Love Me

POV KEIGO

In my dream, Touya and I ran away, hand in hand, as if we were in a fairytale. My burnt lover could never be pretty enough to be your traditional prince, and with all my emotional baggage and lack of showers recently, I don't make the cut either. But I guess it's always been like this. Keigo and Touya were dead— they were replaced by Hawks and Dabi, who were failing to keep up with the harshness of reality. And while Hawks and Dabi are placeholders, Keigo and Touya are real. A little rough around the edges, but real– in a very non-traditional, villains-on-the-run kind of way.

And when I wake up, it's in Touya's arms with an ache in my ass. I remember last night, and at first it terrifies me. If I wasn't drunk, there's no way I would've allowed that to happen. But it did, and I can't say I regret it. Touya implemented good memories where there used to be bad ones, and for that I owe him all my love.

"So where to now, birdie?" Touya asks, brushing my hair out of my face. I hum against his warm chest, flying my feathers around us. Little by little, my feathers have been returning. I've earned back about ¼ of my feathers— not nearly enough to properly defend myself, but enough to make me feel a little better. And the burns on my back are recovering quicker, too. I can't even feel them anymore.

"A tall building," I say, humming my words. "I wanna sit on the top of the world. A super pretty view."

"You're crazy," Touya teases. I stick my tongue out at him, grabbing his hand to enter twine our fingers together. Touya huffs, helping me up. We walk outside, seeing it's still dark. Seems like we slept through the whole day, but I'm not complaining. The quarter moon shines brilliantly on this town but doesn't give us enough light to really see. Not that we're missing much. It isn't all too bad, but the thought that we don't have the choice of running around in the daylight makes me a little sick. Even without Endeavor's targets on our backs, Dabi is still a wanted criminal, and I'm still a runaway hero. It makes me feel trapped... I mean, is this really how I'm living now? Is it worth it?

No, fuck all that. Of course it is! I'm laying in Touya's lap on the top of a building higher than 20 stories. I smell like alcohol and sweat, and Touya loves me anyway.

"What're you thinking about, Kei?" Touya asks, brushing my hair out of my eyes. I feel the wind hit my face, and it's like prickly ice. Touya must've felt it, too, because he helps me sit up on his lap, letting my feet dangle off the edge. I lay my head back on his chest, looking up at the sky, and he wraps his arms around me to protect me from the cold.

"I don't know," I reply softly. "I mean, don't you think it's kinda crazy?"

"What?" Touya says. "Sitting so casually 70 meters high, or actually running away together?"

"I mean your dad," I clarify, though I'm not sure where this is all coming from. "I... For so long, you knew both sides of him. The hero side and... and the side that's trying to kill us. It would drive me insane to not have someone understand my pain."

Touya shrugs. "It was pretty awful when I was a kid," Touya admits, "but even then, I had Nat and Fu. I'm not bitter because I'm alone. I'm bitter because what he did– what he's doing isn't right. My morals are a little tainted, so if I have to murder and steal and endanger myself to put an end to these fucking heroes, so be it."

I shift a bit, feeling a little hurt. "Heroes? Heroes as in... all of them?"

"Yeah," Touya says, like I'm questioning the obvious. "That's our goal, Keigo. Get rid of the heroes. We don't know how many of them are infected with Enji's plague. They could be going home and beating their spouses and their kids. They could be bribing people, hurting people, raping people... You know what that's like, don't you? You and I know first hand. We can't let any of those lying bastards stay on the streets."