change of plans || todoroki shouto x reader

chapter thirty-nine

it was a complete and total loss at UA's end. fifteen students were in critical condition. eleven had injuries of varying degrees. twelve got off without a scratch.

and two were missing.

police scoured the beast's forest in search of the girl. testimonies from the students claimed that they never saw [name] in the hands of the villains, so there was a possibility that she was still out there. but todoroki remembered the knowing looks that were exchanged between the two villains as they disappeared, and he just knew that she was with them.

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when [name] came to, she couldn't recognise wherever she was. she was kneeling on all fours on the creaky wooden floors of some run down apartment building, in dark sepia lighting.

"thanks, compress."

"anything for my teammates."

[name] sees a fuzzy yellow blob in her line of sight leave the room as she blinks to make her eyesight less blurry. it is replaced by dabi squatting in front of her fallen figure.

"hey."

she instinctively backs away, dragging her body across the floor. now she was sitting on her ass, her hands balled into fists, supporting her as she pushed her torso up.

"what the hell happened?" she asks. "how long was in that.. whatever that was? where am i?"

dabi stands up, reaching his hand out to her to pull her up from the floor. he gestures towards the small round dining table next to her, and they take a seat.

"dabi, what the fuck is going on?"

he stares at the cup of water he has in front of him, his fingertips tapping on the glass. he looks up at her.

"hm, i don't know how to say this," he answers.

[name] scoffs, "maybe tell me where the hell we are right now?"

"well," he says. "this is just some random apartment the league is making us stay in."

"the league?" the girl repeats.

dabi adds, "oh, and i'm in the league of villains."

[name] stands up abruptly, exclaiming, "you're an actual villain?!"

she walks a few steps back, facing away from him, frustratedly rubbing her hands on her face and running it through her hair. "oh my god, it really was like that. that's why there's been so much villain attacks, that's why my class was always the target," she gasps, "that's why my friends got so hurt."

"no, it's not-"

"you USED me!"

she continues rambling on, about how stupid she was about trusting him this whole time, but dabi interrupts her, grabbing onto her shoulders and making her face him.

"it's not like that, stupid," he says. "i had nothing to do with all those previous attacks.."

"i cut off contact with you right after i came here..

"after that video of stain went around, a buddy of mine hit me up, said there was something i might be interested in. i was, and so i joined.

"i didn't want them to associate you with me, so i changed my phone number and stopped going to the café."

at this point, tears were welling up in [name]'s eyes and pulls out of dabi's grip to wipe them off, turning away from him.

"if you were cutting me off, then why am i here?"