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"How did you find me?"

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It's like my words echoed throughout the four walls of the room. And it most likely rung in my ear like a mantra. Just looking at his face brought some kind of comfort, but upon realizing the anomaly of the situation - I became tensed.

I backed up a little, pushing myself away from his looming figure. I hoped it wasn't too obvious..

I waited for his answer anxiously.

"... Do you know Hawks?"

What?

Did he rat me out?

"He's.. actually a close friend of mine.. when I found out you two have been talking, I couldn't help but ask him where you were."

I blinked, that's so... Simple.

Maybe I was being paranoid, and my concern was aimed at the wrong person. A soft sigh leaves my mouth in relief. My muscles relaxed and I sat up properly to look at him in the eye.

"Oh.. I see.." I looked for any signs of deceit, and found nothing in his eyes.
Maybe he wasn't lying after all.

"Well, it's been a while friend." I whispered and I received a soft chuckle from him. "Indeed it is.." he suddenly stood up, shoved his hands in his pockets. He eyed the room for a moment before looking back at me.

"What's with the hotel? You have a date or something?" Dabi questioned me and I immediately frowned - remembering that I'd have to explain everything.

"Well- you know how me and Eugene got caught up in this mess..? Yeah well. It escalated." My fingers rubbed the side of my temples, and I had this stressed grimace on my face.

Dabi's eyebrows raised, geniunely surprised.

"What? What happened?" He kept his eye contact with me, unbreaking as he plopped unto the bed. I bit my lip in remembering all the past events that went down while he was gone.

"It was a few days ago.. I woke up from cold sweat at late night then went right back to sleep because I was so exhausted from our outing. But then it backfired, and Eugene was missing in the morning." I continued,

"We still haven't found him."

It's only silence, for now. When I finally glanced back at Dabi, he had a pitiful look in his eyes. It kind of felt worse, like a salt on the wound.

It all felt so hopeless.

"I know that you're going to say it's impossible- but I have to try.. Eugene is out there somewhere, probably fighting back too. And that's not it!" I sprung up from my seat and rushed to my backpack to grab a map.

"Call me old-school but.. here's all the areas I've explored with Hawks just to find Eugene. Yes I know, yours and my friend Hawks." I rambled with a glimmer of hope in my heart, Dabi didn't say anything - he just let me speak.

And as I do, he has this sweet smile on his face.

I didn't question it, because it does look good on him, and I don't usually see him smile like that so I let it slide. But what was he smiling for?

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Something compelled me to ask a favor, to make him do something.

Guilt was eating me, but I really wanted to ask. And this was another opportunity, a chance to reach Eugene and tell him we were here.

The whole night, Dabi and I danced the night away, he took me out again - but not anything special. Just us and the quiet rooftop. It was enough anyway, I could blow off some steam here if I wanted to.