An Hour Glass Of Memories

Winter

It was winter again. It was snowing outside and he was curled up under his quilt.

It was too cold for him to be anywhere else so he was trying to keep warm somehow. Emphasis on trying,

Dabi had his head pressed into the pillow and blanket covering his entire body. It wouldn't have normally reached but he curled into a ball this time. His knees were tucked into his chest so he was a little less tall.

He felt cold and his whole body was shivering but he was better then being outside of his blanket which was much worse.

The only two reasons he couldn't use his quirk to quickly warm him was one, because he might heat up too fast and get himself sick with a quirk-related fever again, and two, because he couldn't hold it up for long without getting exhausted quickly.

He was also already still sick from last week when he had gotten a stomach bug and not been able to eat for a few days. The cold didn't make it any better either, in fact it just made his nose run and everything feel ten times more likely to finish him off.

Suddenly there was a knock on his door and a voice spoke up from the other side,
"Hey Dabi? Sorry to bother you but could you help us light the fire?" Shigaraki asked not daring to open his door.

Dabi let out a small groan sitting up and unwrapping from his cocoon.
"Yeah, just gimme a second..." he said rubbing his eyes letting them adjust to the light.

He heard Shigaraki's footsteps leave from the door to back into the main room. Dabi got up shivering and pulled on another thick hoodie.

He stepped out and into the hallway going into the main room and crouching down in front of the fireplace. It took him a few tries to ease his hands up to the temperature he needed without hurting himself and did get a couple small burns on his hands, but managed to do it successfully and without hurting anyone else.

He lit the fire and stood up rubbing his hand and starting to walk back to his room tiredly.

Compress noticed the man walking away slower then normal and spoke up,
"Dabi why don't I take a look at those burns?" He asked and the other turned round.

He processed the question for a moment and nodded in response going down and sitting on a chair next to him.
"No no, we can go to your room I know you don't like being around people while I do this." He said the last part so only Dabi could hear so he didn't embarrass him.

Dabi stood up leading the way to his room and sitting down on his bed. Compress pulled up a chair and took a look at the others hand.

He had a few pinky coloured burns on the palm of his hand and quite a few on the back of his fingers. Compress took out some of the burn cream Dabi used from his drawer and applied it to Dabi's hand,

Dabi normally would have felt the coolness on his skin comforting but it just made him shiver when he applied it now. It was already cold and he wasn't expecting the cream to be even colder then the weather itself.

He shivered wrapping his free arm around his waist and looked down at his hand.
"Are you cold kid?" Compress asked and Dabi looked up at him.
"Yeah a little." he said looking back down.

He felt something being draped over his shoulders and looked round to see what it was.

He noticed the material almost immediately as it was one of his favourites. It was the others blanket that he had. He looked up at Compress who had immediately gone back to treating his burns with no second thought.

Dabi had a confused expression that Compress noticed when he checked on him.
"Are you sure? I'm fine you know." He said offering to give his blanket back. The other smiled a little shaking his head,
"Its fine you use it for now." He said letting go of Dabis arm. "I've done to best I could with them, try keep them clean."