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Chapter 2

"What the hell was that?" Shigaraki grumbled as he rubbed his now red cheek.

Giran sighed and lit up a cigarette looking at the League of Villains young leader. "She hasn't told you I take it, honestly that girl."

Spinner nudged Himiko in the arm. "See I told you I wasn't crazy."

"Told me what." The decay user hissed unhappy that Dabi was once again keeping something from him. It was like her early secret meetings with that so-called hero Hawks, except this time there wasn't anything Shigaraki could make use of.

"Look, after you destroyed the Meta Army, I took over some of their business ventures same as when you put Overhaul out of commission," Giran explained taking a long drag of his cigarette looking at the metal hand that served as a permanent reminder of that pompous bastard Yotsubashi. "Unfortunately, the encounter also made me realize that I can't trust my people as much as I thought I could so I made Dabi a deal."

Shigaraki's face turned a vivid shade of red, perfectly camouflaging where Dabi had just slapped him "Are you seriously fucking poaching one of my best fighters to help you run your shitty business because you're too afraid of your own people!"

"Hey it's not like you aren't getting anything out of this arrangement," Giran assured a little offended by the accusation. "I just need her for like a year -"

"A YEAR!"

"– tops to help me weed out the worst from the bad and most of what I'm paying her is getting funnelled right back to you brats."

"How much are we talking exactly?" Spinner asked suspiciously not feeling all that thrilled that the only person here besides himself with some common sense was leaving.

"Aside from money I'm paying her Dabi gets first pick of the people to recruit for the League, whether they become permeant members or not is up to you lot," Giran explained noticing how Shigaraki's eyes lit up at the mention of new members.

Say what you would about their relationship but Giran knew that when it came to picking members Dabi's opinion mattered more then Shigaraki let on. "And if I can get it for you pretty much anything your little blackened hearts could want is on the table. Including the best prosthetics, I can get my hands on for Compress since we now share a common need for them."

"So Dabi's not dying?" Twice said ignoring everything the broker had just said and asked the question that had been worrying him since he walked in on Himiko and Spinner.

"Dying?"

Giran just gave a deep laugh and shook his head. "No Jin she's not dying."

"Then why's she been working us like her own freaking army of toy soldiers?!" Spinner complained not noticing when Himiko used his outburst to sneak away after Dabi.

"You idiot," Giran said looking at the swordsmen surprised that these brats weren't able to see what Dabi was doing. Not that it should shock him though given how twisted each of them had grown up to be. "That girls the leader of your little squad and wants to make sure that none of you die before she has a chance to come back."

Taking another drag of the cigarette Giran thought back to when he first met Dabi in that alleyway standing over the burning corpse of her first kill blue eyes hollow and dead as she kicked it over and over again. "See when I found her the girl was dead, sure Dabi may have walked and talked and made one hell of a resource for me but make no mistake she wasn't really alive till she met all of you, even Shigaraki here who annoys her most of the time."

"It's creepy when you talk like that," Shigaraki shuddered looking uncomfortable at the thought of Dabi actually liking him, it was at times like this that he missed Kurogiri. "You're not actually her dad you know."

Giran snorted at the thought of being a father, much less one to Dabi. "Me, naw I'm more like her uncle, the one who knows what skeletons are in his precious niece's closet."

"So, you know Dabi's name?" the League's leader asked looking more interested now hoping that maybe he could pry some information out of the broker since Dabi was locked up tighter than Sensei's cell in Tartarus.

"Sure, its Dabi," Giran smirked. "Helped her pick it out myself."

"Not that one," Shigaraki huffed looking irritated. "I mean her real name."

Giran thought about the name Dabi used to go by and gave Shigaraki a stern look. "Kid that is her name, the one you want has a lot of baggage attached to it that I don't think you're ready for."

Looking like he wanted to argue Giran just threw his cigarette down and crushed it beneath his shoe just like he was doing with this conversation. "Now I brought a bounty of food that needs to be cooked so who's the best chef we got in this joint?"

Twice raised one hand. "Normally that would be Dab- hey where did Himiko go?"

Dabi took a slow sip of water as she tried to calm down after what had just happened. Usually, she would just go into the woods with the axe Twice had found their first day here and chop down a bunch of wood for her to burn later when it got cold but that wasn't the best idea anymore.

Putting her hand on her abdomen Dabi tried to push away the memories that had been keeping her up these last couple of weeks and tried to figure out what she should do next.

"Now this is interesting,"

Dabi wiped around to see who exactly had followed her to this small back room that she had claimed as her own personal hiding place when she felt her hand instinctually catch on fire. Seeing the bright blue flames that had previously been held against her abdomen Dabi immediately used the remainder of her water to douse them before they had a chance to spread any further and hurting what she was trying so hard to protect.

Mr. Compress stood their signature mask off for once showing those brown eyes of his as they sparkled mischievously. "Truly, a few things are starting to make sense."

"Don't know what you're talking about," Dabi said trying to shrug off what had just happened.

"Now, now please don't insult me by lying," the magician said wiggling his finger at Dabi like she was a small misbehaving child. "I wondered what Giran brought that sent you into such a panic on his last visit but now I think I know what it was. So, tell me how far along are you Dabi?"

"I don't know -"

"Tatsuo," Mr. Compress said sternly shocking Dabi completely to the core with the use of her birth name. "I won't ask again when it's so obvious that your -"

"Pregnant."

The pair turned and now saw that Himiko had found them and was staring at Dabi in shock.

"I … I …" Dabi stammered feeling the wall she had built up over the numerous years crack a little as she looked into Himiko's excited eyes and knew she couldn't lie anymore, no matter how much she may have wanted to. "Listen you can't tell anyone. I can't … no one can know do you understand me."

"But Dabi," Himiko whined looking at the older woman excitedly clapping her hands as she bounced from one foot to another. "Your gonna be a mom."

Compress noticed Dabi's breathing speed up as terror flickered across her face and quickly grabbed a stool for her to sit on before she could faint.

"This has to do with your father doesn't it?" Mr. Compress asked concerned for the woman.

Dabi looked at up towards the magician giving the compression user his first look into the girl's fragile emotional state. Whatever Endeavor had done to his daughter now placed him on the same list that held Overhaul's name.

"How long have you known?"

"Since High End," Mr. Compress answered. "It wasn't hard to piece together after that."

"High End, what does Dabi's attack on Endeavor have to do with …. oh," Himiko said finally piecing everything they were saying together. "Endeavors your dad."

"No," Dabi yelled slamming one hand on the table causing the pair to wince at the sound. "He's a sperm donor, he ruined my life, he killed …."

"Endeavor's how you got your scars isn't he," Mr. Compress interrupted afraid that Dabi's anger could lead her to do exactly what she was trying to avoid when she threw water on herself just moments ago. "My my I knew he wasn't the best of men but hurting his own child, even that's low."

"It wasn't just the scars was it?" Himiko said solemnly feeling like Dabi was still keeping something hidden from them. "You lost something else to, didn't you?"

Dabi's head started to pound as the voices from the past started to fill her mind.

'Prototype'

'What did you really think that I could actually love a girl like you?'

'Weakling'

'Stop acting like your father Tatsuo!'

'FAILURE!'

Dabi finally felt the wall she had built up start to crumble a little beneath the cruel words that haunted her allowing a few tears to escape. "He was so mad and just kept yelling, telling me that if I couldn't protect … if I couldn't protect Shouto then I was more of a disappointment then he thought I was,"

Grabbed her hair Dabi tried to hide the tears behind her hands not wanting to show any weakness again like she had that day. "I snapped and I … my quirk just … "

'I'm sorry but the damage was to great, there is most likely no chance of you ever being able to conceive again.'

Himiko quickly moved foreword pushing Mr. Compress away and pulling Dabi into a hug like Big Sis Magne used to give them after they had nightmare following Kamino Ward. To his credit, the magician said nothing about being shoved and instead just stood letting anger he hadn't felt since waking up after Overhaul had taken his arm and killed Magne begin to start to grow inside his heart again.

"It's ok you don't have to say anymore," Himiko assured the older woman running her hands through Dabi's hair. "We understand."

"I don't want to leave I swear, but this baby," Dabi wept placing her hand over the spot where her baby rested safe and unaware of the monsters that lay waiting for it in the outside world. "I have to protect them, no matter what even if I die."

Knowing that there was nothing they could say that could make Dabi feel better the pair just stood like silent guardians over their comrade letting her cry some of the tears that she had no doubt been holding inside for who knows how many years.

The truly frightening thing was that they both realized at this moment was how much Dabi, a woman whose heart ran as cold as her flames did hot, wanted to stay with their small family. It wasn't that Dabi hadn't shown how dedicated she had been to them numerous times, but rather than stay with them the cremation user preferred to wander free bringing back treats and information whenever she returned.

But this small innocent life growing inside her changed everything, they marked the temporary end, or perhaps even a permanent end, of Dabi's career as a villain. Not to mention the revenge that Dabi desired against her own father might never come to pass because already the baby was taking up a bigger and bigger space in Dabi's heart with each passing day.

Himiko and Mr. Compress shared a silent look of understanding between them each knowing that if it came down to it and Dabi decided to leave the League in favour of protecting her child then the two would, with heavy hearts allow her to leave in peace. Instead, they would carry on in Dabi's place and exact her hell forged vengeance for her presenting Endeavors severed head to her on a silver platter because they knew that if the roles were reversed Dabi would do no less for them.

Notes

Second chapter and I hope I lived up to everyone's expectations for the direction this story is currently taking. More about Dabi's passed will be revealed later on but I would appreciate it if you want to tell me about what you think happened between her and Endeavor.

I would also like to say to anyone who has read the latest chapter of BNHA that I know what happened to Shigaraki and wrote this before I read that. Next chapter we're gonna have some more League bonding moments hopefully and maybe a slight time skip.

As for Dabi's name being Tatsuo I'm not gonna lie, I looked up like a ton of names and felt this one suited her the best so I hope you like it.

Tatsuo – Japanese for Female Dragon. I've been told that Tatsuko is actually the correct way of translating this but then I realized that Endeavor giving his daughter a more masculine sounding name also sounded right.