Hello people, I'm back with chapter 5! It's been a while, I know. I'm still not going to have a regular update schedule, because I know I'm not going to be able to manage it. Between school, family, and other things, this is going to be updated pretty sporadically. I'd also like to thank Chariot Goat for some ideas for future events in this story. They really helped me out in planning what to do next! For this chapter, you might want to have some tissues. There is going to be lots of sad moments and crying. I know, I'm a mean bitch for doing bad stuff to these poor boys! Without further ado, here's chapter 5!

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Izuku POV

Uaithne and I were walking down the street towards the apartment. All of these worst-case scenarios started whirling around in my head, jumping from one thing to the next; each getting worse each time. Uaithne, sensing my distress, puts a hand on my shoulder in comfort.

"Dude, she raised you. It's not like she's gonna just kick you to the curb. Besides, I might be feeling the same way as you are right now. It's nerve wracking to finally meet her for the first time, after fifteen years…"

The way he looked at me told me everything I needed to know. He was curling and uncurling his fists, his eyes were teary, and he was shaking slightly. It seemed like he was as close to crying as I was. I hadn't even considered the fact that he could be feeling this way, I thought he'd be excited to meet his mother!

As soon as we reached the apartment, we stopped outside of the door, both hesitant to go inside and face her. We faced each other and looked each other in the eye. Uaithne nodded as if to say, 'I'm ready, let's do this.' I reciprocated by turning and unlocking the door, slowly stepping inside with him right behind me.

"Uh, M-mom? I'm home! I-uh, there's something I need to tell you, and someone you need to meet!"

We hear her footsteps walking hurriedly towards the door.

"Oh, come inside! Did you fina-" She tried to say something, but the words got caught in her throat as she looked at the person her son was talking about. Her eyes widened in confusion and shock.

Oh, the dam broke. Tears started streaming down my face and I couldn't stop myself from letting out a sob.

"H-hi…" Uaithne smiled awkwardly and waved. His smile looked forced.

"I-I'll go make some tea. Why don't you two go sit down?" she murmured, the shock wearing off somewhat. When she hears this, it's definitely going to come back full force.

I lead Uaithne over to the couch and we sat down. After about a minute or two, the sound of footsteps started to come toward the living room. She comes in hesitantly, and sat down in the chair opposite to us. She looked at me as if searching my face for some semblance of an answer.

"Izuku, what's this about? Why does he look exactly like you?"

"I-I'm a changeling…" I'm trying to keep myself from breaking down on the spot, "I'm not your biological son…"

Her eyes widened even more if that's even possible, "Have you always known? Why did you never think to tell me?"

"I'm sorry, I was scared you would d-disown me o-or kick me out, or just not accept me…" I let out another sob, "I was scared you would h-hate me!"

The barrier on my emotions finally crumbles as I break down, and I feel some of my power leak out; dulling my senses. I couldn't see my mother coming over to hug me, nor could I feel Uaithne try to comfort me by rubbing my back. I just grabbed onto my mother, and cried.

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Uaithne POV

OK, I have absolutely no idea what to do in this situation. Izuku is inconsolable, and the lady, my biological mother, is trying to calm him down. I did the best thing I could think of and started rubbing his back.

"Oh, Izuku… You know I'd never do that to you… You're my son, biologically or not."

Soon enough, mom (can I even call her that right now?), was crying with him. Oh geez, I really wasn't hoping that our meeting would go down like this.

Izuku was bawling. Hard. He was not going to calm down anytime soon.

…

It turns out I was right. This went on for an hour. AN HOUR. I just sat there awkwardly trying to comfort these two for an hour straight, and I'm just mentally exhausted by this point. They sit up and just NOW remember I'm here.

"Look, I'm happy you two got your little thing resolved, but I have been sitting here awkwardly trying to comfort you two for a long ass time."

That seemed to get them back to the dragon in the room, because they both scrambled to their feet.

"Did you actually forget I was here?!"

"Oh yeah, I still need to introduce you to him!" Izuku said, embarrassed about this whole thing, "Mom, this is Uaithne. Your biological son."

Mom was sheepish as she looked at me, and finally introduced herself, "I'm Inko Midoriya. It's nice to finally meet you."

"Even though you never knew I existed in the first place, but nice to meet you too!"

Izuku just facepalmed at our exchange.

So we took some time to explain why exactly I'm here, and that I had no place to go. She looked absolutely horrified at my story, but I'm still not sure exactly why this was so bad. I mean, it wasn't even bad!

Mom went to set up the guest room almost immediately, while Izuku walked into the laundry room.

"Wait, holy shit I get my own room?!"

"Of course, did you not have one while in the fae realm?"

"No, I just slept on Fiadh's couch most of the time."

"Oh you poor boy…" Mom looked at me in pity.

"Just what is so bad about my life prior to this?!"

Izuku shouted from the laundry room, "Everything!" As soon as he said it, he emerged from the laundry room with some spare clothing, "Here, take these. You look like you just came from a renaissance fair!"

He gave me a t-shirt that had kanji I couldn't read on it, and some soft looking pants. These clothes are strange to me, but I did as I was told. As soon as I was done changing, I went to help set up the guest- no, my new room.

The walls were bare, but that could (and definitely would) be changed later. Izuku and mom are currently trying to make the bed. I step in with a look that says 'let me help.'

Taking hold of the end of the sheets, I spread them out with the finesse of a professional housekeeper; Smoothing out the wrinkles and folds, making sure the sides were even on each side with extreme accuracy, fluffing the pillows quickly and until they were the best they could be. Mom and Izuku were staring at me like I grew a third head.

"How you managed to do that perfectly, better than the two of us together, I don't know. Can you teach me how you did that?" Izuku gaped in awe, and Inko was nodding her head profusely.

"Skáthach just hit me until I got it right, and are you saying you don't know how to do this?"

Nothing but pure horror was being shown on their faces.

"Seriously, please just someone explain why it's so horrible!"

"No one should ever hit a child! That's what's wrong with it!" Inko looked like she was about to go and find my old master, and murder him slowly and painfully.

"Why not? I was a servant!"

"You shouldn't have been a servant in the first place!"

"It should've been me!"

That shout was enough for Mom to almost give herself whiplash from how fast she moved. We both looked at Izuku with very wide eyes. Our silence was enough of an indicator for him to continue.

"If I hadn't been swapped with him in the first place, he wouldn't have been a servant, he wouldn't have been beaten, and none of this would have ever happened!"

Mom looked like she was about to start crying again. "You did nothing wrong, don't you ever blame yourself for this!"

I march up to Izuku, tears in my eyes, and slap him. He's slack-jawed, shocked by the suddenness of it all. I go in for a hug, and he starts sputtering in surprise.

"She's right. Don't blame yourself for something you couldn't control. Besides, even though we've only known each other for a day, you seem like a cool person. Without this, we never would've met, and I probably wouldn't have any friends."

As fate would have it, he started crying again. I didn't even think that was possible after crying for an hour straight. He latched onto me this time though, I'm not gonna complain. After all, we're brothers now.

Inko moved in to join in on our hug and whispered, "You're both my sons, and nothing can change that."

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That's a wrap! I hope you enjoyed chapter 5! I'm sorry this took so long to come out, I've had pretty bad writer's block.