First Father's Day

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You wait until ten a.m. before approaching your dads bedroom door, knowing Dabi at the very least did not take kindly to being awake before then. Cloud follows you there, even though you can't carry him like you usually would as you grip the small present and card you'd made for both of your dads in your hands.
Cautiously you knock on the door. There wasn't any music playing, so they weren't talking about things they deemed inappropriate for you at the very least.

"Dads?"

"You okay, Star?" Dabi calls from inside.

"Can I come in?" You call back.

"Sec, darlin'." He replies.

"'Kay." You agree, waiting quietly outside the door even though Cloud is scratching at the wooden door impatiently.

There's some rustling from inside the room, hushed voices and then the door opens, your more heavily scarred dad opening the door a crack.

"You okay?" He asks, his concern for you pulling at his features.

"Happy fathers day." You say, holding out your card and the wrapped present out for him to take.

He blinks, his mouth opening and closing and then his expression turning a little softer and less concerned as he beckons you in.
You understand why he probably is a little taken aback. You'd never done this for them before, but that was only because you'd never even heard of fathers day before Himiko had told you that she was helping Jin's little girl with her fathers day present for him.
Now you knew about it, you felt bad for not doing anything for the few years you'd been living with them both.

Especially Dabi, he'd taken you on when he was still really young, when he didn't have to at all. He could have easily left you on the streets like everyone else had.

Tomura must have been up for a while already without you noticing, because he's fully dressed, in his usual sweatpants and a black tank top, sipping a coffee and scrolling through his phone.
Dabi sits on the bed and pats the space by their feet, signalling for you to join them.

You do, feeling a bit like a kid during christmas time again, reaching the gifts out towards Dabi again.

"Babe, Star got me a fathers day present." Dabi says, elbowing Tomura playfully as he takes the gifts.

"They're for both of you." You correct right as Tomura rolls his eyes, and he freezes for a split second, his crimson eyes on you.

"For both of us?" Dabi asks. "Aw, I thought I was special."

"You are." You reply instantly. "You saved me, so..."

"Ha! I'm still the favourite!" Dabi exclaims, even though the only competition was the one he himself was creating. "I saved her."

"And who funded, housed, clothed and fed you while you did that?" Tomura asks dryly.

"All for One." Dabi is quick to reply, passing Tomura the card instead of the present to open.

Tomura clicks his tongue with vague annoyance, but puts his phone down on the bed to take the card and then places his coffee on the table closest to him before he begins ripping open the envelope with his thumb, Dabi a lot more inelegant with how he's opening the gift.
Tomura pulls the card free of its confines, looking over all of the inked detailed drawing on the front of it as though he's trying to memorise it all.
It was only a relatively simple drawing of a sun, a moon and a star, even though you'd tried making it a little fancier than just a basic outline of each.

Inside you'd written:

'Dabi and Tomura,

Happy fathers day!
I'm very sorry for not knowing about Fathers Day before. I never had a dad before so I didn't know until Himiko told me, but I hope you can forgive me, because I am very thankful to have both of you as my dads.

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