Fire & Ice- Dabi FanFiction

Part 4: The price we pay

          He lays on the mattress in the filthy apartment building. It was a huge abandoned building that no one ever renovated. Of course, he's injured so you bring him to a grimy old building where the air alone could kill him. You back up on the wall hyperventilating.

"Shit, shit, shit. What the fuck! What the hell am I going to do!"

You sit there screaming and sobbing, looking at the mutilated body of your best friend. You shakily get up and pull out all the bandages you had stocked up. You walk over to him avoiding looking at his face. You couldn't handle looking at it, he was literally missing his jaw. You take a deep breath and wrap up his face making sure to try and put his tongue back in what was left of his mouth. You wrap up his arms and torso, his legs weren't so bad and most of his chest was intact. You back up looking at the crudely wrapped Touya wheezing out softly.

"I'm, I'm gonna try to get some supplies ok. I'll be back ok, I promise."

You lean down kissing his cheek before leaving to go find help.

          You go to the underground looking for a black market doctor. After a while, you come across one who seemed safe enough to approach. The doctor looks up at you dully, letting out a sigh.

"You can stitch that up yourself you know."

"What?"

He looks at you confused and leans back in his chair. That's when you remember your face was hit with a beam. You open your eye which was still burning due to the blood. Other than that you could see out of it just fine.

"Oh uh, I'm not here for this. I've got a friend who was badly hurt in a fire. Can you please help him, he lost his jaw."

"Sever burn victim, prosthetic jaw. I don't know kid I doubt you can afford it."

"Whatever I can do I'll do it, please just safe his life."

He rubs his chin looking you up and down for a moment before speaking.

"You can work for me, I could use a little helper."

"Deal."  

He shrugs his shoulders giving you an evil grin. He gets up following you to the apartment building where you took Touya.

          You pace back and forth doing your best to ignore Touya's muffled screams. Tears pour out of your eyes as you try to patch up your eye. You slide down the wall across from the room sobbing. Half an hour later the doctor walks out of the room. You shoot up from the floor looking at him worriedly.

"He'll live. I grew back what I could but he's too far gone from my quirk to help him fully recover."

You nearly fall apart at his words as happiness floods your body.

"You start work tomorrow, if you don't show he won't live."

"Understood."

He nods and walks down the hall disappearing into the darkness.

          You open the door slowly staring at him on the bed. He was covered in bandages making him look like a mummy. You smile softly walking over to him, placing your hand on his head. You curl up on the bed next to him crying yourself to sleep.

3 weeks later...

          Touya stirs softly in the middle of the night. He hasn't moved this much since the doctor came by. You snap your head up rushing over to him. He opens his eyes slowly looking at you. Tears stream down your face as you lean over him.

"Hey Touya, I wasn't sure if you would wake back up."

He starts to move but you hold him down.

"Don't move, I'm barely keeping you alive right now so please just stay still."

He nods slightly and goes still looking up at the ceiling. He moves his hand over slightly and grabs yours holding it weakly. You put your head on the bed next to him and sob softly.     

          You wake up as night falls queuing you its time to go to work. You stretch out yawing, staring up at the decrepit ceiling. You sit up checking Touya I.V. before getting some food. You clean your hands and check his wounds noticing the burnt skin is starting to peel away from the rest. You purse your lips trying to think what you could do to fix it. The doctor said in some cases you have to glue, stitch, tape, or stable skin together to ensure it would heal. You look around and manage to find a stapler in one of the other rooms. You come back shakily holding the stapler tightly. You walk over to him tears streaming down your face.

"Hey Touya, your wounds aren't sticking together very well. So um, I'm going to try something ok? It will probably hurt so try to bear with it."

You soak the stapler and stables in rubbing alcohol before drying them and starting to remove the bandages. You stuff all your emotions down as you start to staple his skin together. About half an hour later you finish up, shaking as you dress his wounds with new bandages. 

"I've got to go to work ok, I'll try to come back a little earlier today. Since you're healing pretty well, I don't think I'll need anything else from him. I can just steal the rest of the stuff from hospitals."

You smile at him and kiss his forehead before heading out. 

          You walk into the underground, avoiding the pools of who knows what on the ground. The underground was located directly beneath Kamino Ward. Funny that the underground isn't in Neonraito. It isn't patrolled by heroes at all and seems to be a safer place to set up an underground city for criminals. Either way, you were pretty safe even if heroes ever came snooping around. As you continue down the tunnel to the main subway station you notice something off. Someone was definitely following you. You hold your knife close as you continue down the red-lit tunnel. You take a left at the end of the tunnel and run straight into someone. You bounce off falling to the ground. The cold concrete floor soaks into your palms as you look up at the blacked-out figure looming above you. A deep evil chuckle escapes the stranger before everything goes black.