Palingenesis- All Might x Reader

Chapter Eleven

Toshinori Yagi spent several weeks trying to find out what happened to Y/n. He knew the JHC was responsible for her sudden disappearance, but they wouldn't say what really happened to the woman. "All Might, is everything alright?" Toshinori blinked hard a few times and shook off his thoughts. "Sorry, what was that?" 

"I asked if you were alright. You've been really distant lately and have been spacy." Toshinori sighed as he pushed the paperwork aside and focused fully on his coworker. "I'm sorry Aizawa. A friend of mine suddenly went silent and I haven't been able to contact her." Aizawa hummed as he pulled up a chair. "I assume this woman is the mother of the infant you've been carrying around lately?" Toshinori internally cringed as his lies were starting to catch up to him. "I- uh...She was the original caretaker of Tenko. She needed me to take him so she could do her job. She was keeping in touch, but I haven't heard from her in several weeks." 

Aizawa's tired eyes narrowed on Toshinori. "Cut the bullshit, Yagi." Toshinori visibly flinched at Aizawa's tone. "I can't help you if you won't tell the truth or allow me to help you." The blonde sighed and rocked the carrier at his feet. "I will try my best to explain everything." 

"Y/n L/n was working for the JHC doing Mercenary work. She took on a contract so she could get out from under their thumb and she succeeded. The last time I heard from her, she was going to talk to them and finalize the contract. I haven't heard from her since, and she was supposed to call me after so I could pick her up." Aizawa's mood gradually darkened as Toshinori fell quiet. "It sounds like they revoked her contract. If they revoked it, she could be on another assignment or she could be getting held up." Toshinori's face twisted as he scowled. "What can I do?" "Get a lawyer and confront the JHC. That's about all you can do." Aizawa stood up and went to leave, but he stopped at the door. 

"And Yagi, don't let her slip through the cracks. Good luck." 

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Y/n stayed in her cell and only left for mealtime and bathing. She refused to speak to anyone and fell into a rhythm. Morning chow, sleep, an hour out, lunch, an hour outside, then back to her cell to sleep till dinner. 

"Fresh meat!" Y/n didn't bother to pay attention to the other inmates poking fun at her. She quickly finished her tray and got up. She dumped her trash and turned around to put it into the bin. Suddenly, the collar of her shirt was snatched back, and forced to turn on her heel. "I don't appreciate getting ignored. Whaddya say we do with Fresh meat?" The two goonies behind the girl sizing Y/n up shrank back. "H-hey boss, we shouldn't fuck with this one..." Y/n recognized the shivering delinquent as one of her previous cellmates before she got in with the JHC. 

"Who the fuck are you to tell me what we should and shouldn't do?!" Y/n felt a twinge in her lips as the other woman's hold on her shirt was dropped. She stood up and brushed herself off, just in time for the other woman to take a swing at her. 

Y/n blocked the hit with the metal tray she had in her hand. grinning when the woman yelped in pain and staggered back. Y/n dropped the tray and grabbed the woman's dark hair and yanked her head up to look at her. "Your buddy wasn't kidding around. I might be a quiet bitch, but I am not gonna take your or anyone else's shit." With that, Y/n yanked the woman's head up and smashed her face into the cinderblock wall. She picked up the discarded tray and dropped it into the bin before she slunk off to her cell. 

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Toshinori heeded Aizawa's advice and called up his lawyer. They now stood in the visiting center of Tartarus, waiting for when they had Y/n set up in a visitor's room. When they were able to be brought into the back to see her, Toshinori hesitated. He wasn't sure if she would still be the same woman he met. "Mr. Yagi, we don't get much time with her, so let's hurry it up." Toshinori snapped back with a nod as he followed the lawyer. 

"Who the fuck wants to see me? Last time I checked, I don't have anyone who wants to be associated with me." The two watched Y/n's exchange with one of the officers and walked in as the officer walked out. Y/n's expression was that of utter disbelief. "What- How'd you find me?" Toshinori chuckled as he took a seat. "A friend of mine gave me some advice. I was going to visit last week, but I heard you got yourself put in the hole." The lawyer cleared his throat and jutted out a hand for Y/n to shake. 

"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss L/n. I was contacted by Mr. Yagi on your behalf. He told me you had a contract with JHC and they revoked it after you completed your end of the contract?" Y/n nodded as she took the manilla folder from the man. She read through the papers in shock. "Toshinori, are you trying to get me out of here?" The man in question nodded. "You never called or texted me. At first, I thought you blew me off, but I found out that they broke the contract and you were wrongly imprisoned." Y/n smiled softly. "Thank you. I appreciate it." 

"So what can we do?" the lawyer smiled slyly. "Since you gave Toshinori a copy of that contract, the JHC can't say that there never was one. Not to mention, after reading the entirety of the contract, I found out that they were never going to give you freedom. Their plan was to get you to do the job and then send you away. Your saving grace is that the contract was in fact real, so all involved in breaking the contract will be punished." Y/n nodded as the lawyer continued. 

"What we can do is open a suit against the JHC, and get some publicity for it. The media will eat it up and the JHC can't sweep it under the rug by paying people off." Y/n exchanged a look with Toshinori and she nodded. "Let's do it." 

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