An Angel

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" It's been a while, sweetheart. You've grown up."

" Papa

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" Papa... you're really..." As she ran over to him, wanting to hug him, wanting to bury her face in his chest and forget all about the world, she phased right through him. " What?" She asked looking back at him.

Subaru looked down at his own hand, clenching and unclenching it. " I see, this isn't a stable form. Seems I've asked too much of you, Yuu-kun," he said looking back at where the siblings were and so did Sora.

Holding onto his brother's hand like a lifeline, Yuu's eye glowed dimly in contrast to Yuusuke's bright ones. "Yuu..."

" Forgive me for tiring you even in that situation. You have my thanks," the man said politely while bowing his head.

" Just... set her free..." Subaru nodded his head before turning back to his daughter, still grappling with what happened.

" Sora, as Yuu-kun said earlier, that thing is nothing but a body, a shell."

" But that's your own body!"

" It no more belonged to me since the moment my soul left it." Her father spoke calmly. " That thing isn't me, dear. It's a monster made of what was left of me."

" But..." Sora's tears streamed down. " I can't accept this... you're in front of me... after all these years, you're in front of me and I can't even hug you! I don't want to believe there is no way to put you back!"

" I'm afraid there isn't. You've got to let go, Sora."

" I can't!" She shook her head, burying her face in her hands. " For all these years, I've been working hard, trying to find a line, any at all, and now you're just telling me to let go! I can't!... there's so many things I wanted to tell you! So many things I wanted to do with you! But you're telling me I've got no chance at that!"

" Sora..."

" I just want everything to go back the way it was, with the three of us!"

" Dear..." he tried to hold into her arms but when his hands phased through her, he closed his eyes and marshaled his thoughts. " Listen here, dear. There was a lot I wanted to do with you too. There were a whole lot of things I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to see you grow up and shine."

Sora lifted her head and looked up at him. " But that's our fate now, and it's what we make of it. Things can't go back, you know that very well. Time only moves on. And so must we."

He looked back at the black creature still fighting against Uraraka and the rest. " This is our present now. Look carefully at it."

Sora raised her eyes at the Nomu and they widened when she saw him attacking Uraraka and Asui brutally, cutting Asui's tongue and hitting Uraraka's head hard on the floor before turning to Pixiebob and kicking her far from him. " Ochaco-chan! Everyone!"

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