•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 183: ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE IS BACK???

Somehow, the three of us eventually fell asleep like that.

Three grown boys sharing a single bed was never going to be comfortable but it wasn't unpleasant.

In fact it was the first time in a while that I felt so... warm.

Both boys were always so...

"...warm..." I mumble.

"What's warm?" a robotic voice makes me jump out of my skin.

I bolt upright, the haze of sleep immediately washing away like I'd been doused in ice water.

"Hawks?!" I gasp, catching my breath.

Then, my mind shot to the two boys who had been sleeping beside me.

'If Hawks saw this I'm so dead-!'

I pause.

They weren't there.

Looking around the room, they weren't anywhere.

"Bakugou is signing his release forms, he'll be back soon. As for Todoroki, well..." yes, that's right, he made the robotic voice read out ellipses that he typed into his phone.

"You'll see. Now come along."

I nod, slipping out of the bed.

We head for the door and I just about think I'm in the clear.

"Oh and," Hawks turned to look back at me, "I won't ask why you were in Todoroki's hospital bed, don't worry."

I flinch.

'Oh I'm so screwed...'

I follow quietly behind him, only offering a small greeting when we meet up with Best Jeanist outside my hospital room.

Together, we make our way down the hall into the ward with the private rooms.

As we round a corner, Hawks stops before me and I follow suit. We were outside of a room, the doors still shut.

I glance over at the plate.

'Todoroki?'

This couldn't be Shoto, he was already well enough to be shifted into the shared room so...

'This is Endeavor's room...'

Before I can ask the plucked chicken hero before me why we were just standing outside the number 1 hero's room, I hear muffled voices from inside the room.

I leaned against the wall, a woman's voice coming into focus.

"Shoto is our family's hero...!" it was an older woman, and she had to be family to visit his ward like this, not to mention call Shoto by his first name.

She sounded too old to be his sister so...

'His mother...'

The last I heard, he had only just begun visiting her in her hospital room, so for her to be here now must mean her condition had improved enough. I felt strangely happy for Shoto.

I hear a soft cough before said boy speaks, his voice gravely.

"Before coming here, I talked to Mom, I thought you couldn't fight anymore. I thought I had no choice but to do it myself." 

My  chest twisted.

'That's right, Dabi was Shoto's older brother. He had to fight his own brother...'

"But that doesn't seem to be the case," he says and I pause, leaning closer to the wall.

"Once you're done crying, stand up. We'll all go stop Toya together." Shoto was... speaking to Endeavor?