Voodoo Doll [BNHA]

Chapter Eighteen

After dropping Mr. Duck off at the vet, they continued trekking through the city in the direction of The Endeavor Hero Agency. Endeavor was grumpier than ever thinking the entire ordeal with the duck had ruined his image. He sensed something nearby and noticed Doll tense as well, she'd sensed it too. He smirked, now was as good a time as any for the students to learn.

Hawks found himself in Endeavor's neck of the woods. He stood atop a skyrise building overlooking the city. A villain was gathering glass from various skyrise buildings below and spouting some nonsense, about hades and demise. He sighed, he was hoping not to get involved he didn't want to chance running into Doll, not while he was being monitored. He couldn't afford the Paranormal Liberation Front finding out about her and how close she was to him. If they knew, they could use her against him. He couldn't put her in that kind of a position.

Lately he'd been distant, he'd been trying not to react to her cutesy text messages and was treating her more like an obsessed fan to not draw any attention to her. It nearly killed him when he responded to her cutesy messages with aloof distant messages, she'd picked up on it and thought he was feeling upset about something but she'd stopped contacting him as much. He hoped he hadn't hurt her feelings and that she'd understand once he was able to explain to her. Once he was sure he wasn't being monitored again he'd make time to apologize to her and treat her to their third date.

"Such bad timing." He sighed as he realized he'd have to jump into action.

As he prepared to leap off the building, he spotted Doll and Endeavor racing to the scene. His heart fluttered in his chest as he saw Doll managing to keep up with her mentor even though her quirk wasn't suited for speed, it was a test to how much she trained to make herself useful. She used a concealed grappling hook device to propel herself up to the rooftops. She sprinted across the rooftops leaping fearlessly from building to building.

He grew worried as he spotted a plethora of men lying in wait for her atop one of the roofs near where the main villain causing the stir was located. His worry started to dwindle away and he smiled as he saw her take out twenty men at once using her quirk and a concealed blade to sever the tendons in her knees causing them all to fall in agony. She barely paused and managed to take out another five with pure hand to hand combat skills. She was amazing.

His gaze was drawn away from her for a moment, Endeavor was about to run right into a trap. Hawks leapt into action sending a slew of feathers after Endeavor and taking to the sky to assist. His feathers picked up on a concerning voice saying "I know what will stop her". Doll was in trouble. He sent more feathers to assist Endeavor and changed his course diving for Doll as a man wearing a white coat snuck up behind her. Some of the villains appeared to be recovered but lying unconscious atop the roof and a terrifying thought crossed Hawks mind. He had a healing quirk!

"Doll!" He yelled before he could stop himself as the man touched her neck.

Doll brought her elbow back into the man's gut with enough force his ribs cracked but he'd managed to use his quirk on her. She felt her insides begin to burn. Her entire body seized up as she was wracked with agony. She swiped at the man with her knife slashing him deep across the chest and stumbled away from him as blood spilled from her lips. Hawks panicked; she was too close to the edge of the roof. One of the injured men shoved her roughly and she tumbled off the roof, plummeting toward the ground.

"DOLL!" He couldn't stop himself from crying out to her, even if it revealed her relationship to him to his enemies. He dove after her moving faster than he'd ever moved before. He caught her in his arms before she could hit the ground and held her tightly against him. He dropped safely to the ground next to Endeavor, sending more feathers to round up the villains atop the roof.