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Chapter 11

(19 Weeks or 4 3/4 Months Pregnant)

"Hotaru dear are you sure your eating enough?"

Dabi turned away from the display of various meats to look at the old woman as she finished placing the last of the groceries inside the bag. "I have some fresh beef stew upstairs; it wouldn't take me but a moment to get some of it for you."

Dabi smiled underneath her shirt and shook her head. "No thank you, I've got leftover curry waiting for me at home."

"Such a nice meal curry, perfect for sharing with your family," the woman hummed looking down to where the baby rested underneath Dabi's coat before her eyes flicked back up. "You know my grandson loves curry, perhaps I could introduce you sometime."

Dabi coughed trying to disguise the bark laughter that escaped her, if only the old woman knew who she was really talking to then setting the villain up with her grandson would be the furthest thing from her mind.

"I wouldn't want to impose, with the baby right now all my time is spent working or making sure they're healthy."

The woman frowned deeply and clicked her tongue in disapproval. "Shame on that man for leaving you alone, a sweet young girl like you should be relaxing instead of having to work all the time."

"I'm not really the relaxing type ma'am," Dabi said giving the woman one last bow and collecting her things from the counter. "Have a wonderful night."

The old woman, however, wanted the last word it seems. "If you're into girls I have a granddaughter too."

Dabi felt herself flush with embarrassment as the people on the streets turned and looked at her. Pretending not to hear the woman Dabi quickly moved away from the butcher shop and headed down the path to her favourite bakery intent on getting some delicious strawberry daifuku before they closed.

The cremation user was so caught up in her thoughts of delicious strawberries that she didn't notice someone come up behind her until a gun was pressed firmly into her back.

"Don't move." The voice hissed quickly steering Dabi towards the opening of a side street between the shops.

Thinking this was just a simple robbery Dabi complied not wanting to risk getting shot by a nervous mugger. "Listen if you want my wallet -"

"Shut up," the man said pulling his hat up slightly so that Dabi could see the face below. "Remember me?"

Dabi looked at the face below the hat and tried to place the face beneath it, but nothing came to mind. "Can't say I do."

Hari's face hardened and he gripped the gun he was holding tighter tempted to shot the arrogant woman right now. "I'm sure you remember Overhaul though."

Dabi felt her blood freeze and knew she was in trouble. Here she was unable to use her quirk because of the risk it carried and one of Overhaul's old flunkies wanted to have a chat with her, and she doubted very much that it would be a friendly one.

"Looks like you do," Hari spoke putting one of his arms around Dabi's waist well the one holding the gun unknowingly hovered over Dabi's pregnant belly. "Here's what going to happen, you and I are going to go somewhere nice and private to talk. Understand."

Dabi gulped and tried not to let her nervousness show. "And if I don't?"

"Then I'm going to kill you," Hari said pulling his hat down again to try and hide his face from a couple out for some late-night shopping "The choice is yours."

Dabi tried to bluff. "If you want to spend the rest of your short, miserable life running from the League go right ahead."

Hari laughed and looked at Dabi with cold dark grey eyes. "How stupid do you think I am Dabi. I've been watching you for weeks and I know you're on your own."

Weeks? Dabi's mind screamed having never once in the past few weeks noticed someone was following her. After all these years of working for Giran, taking the bloodiest jobs and dealing with the most depraved people her instincts should have told her when someone was watching her like they always had.

Reality slowly starting to set in as they walked Dabi couldn't help but feel that this was the undeniable proof she had been searching for in whether or not to keep her baby. It was a bitter pill to swallow but Dabi knew that in her years of being a villain, working for Giran and even more recently the League she had made a lot of enemies.

What was stopping one of them from simply coming back and using her child as a way of getting back at Dabi herself for what she had done to them in the past.

Taking a shaky breath Dabi decided to deal with one crisis at a time. "Alright, I'll go with you."

"Smart move," Hari said pulling his hostage towards the deserted lot he had parked in. "I have a van close by."

Dabi walked silently letting Hari lead her and tried to think of a way out of this mess. Sure, she had a hidden spring-loaded knife from Himiko on her arm, but the groceries she was holding made using it impossible. In the few seconds of time, it would take her to drop the groceries and activate the release then the man could get off a couple of shots and kill her son.

Gritting her teeth, a plan starting to form in the cremation users head.

Walking with a newfound determination Dabi waited for her chance and eventually, it paid off when they reached the van and Hari opened the sliding door ordering her inside. Putting her groceries down carefully Dabi started climbing in using her hand pressing on the metal floor to activate the spring releasing the blade. Even after being out of the game for so long muscle memory took over as Dabi spun around and aimed the knife at the man's throat.

Only to have grey hair in the shape of arrows burst out from underneath his hat knocking the knife away and stabbing her in the shoulder and hand. After that everything seemed to slow down as Dabi watched helplessly as the gun was aimed for her temple and could do nothing to stop the darkness that followed next.

~*Two Weeks Later*~

Giran pounded on the door of Dabi's apartment chomping on his unlit cigar. "Open up brat it's me."

Listening carefully the information broker noted that no noise came from behind the door, no curse of vengeance from the other side for whoever had woken Dabi up, no lock undoing itself.

Just deafening silence.

Grabbing the spare key from his pocket and his gun Giran slowly opened the door and was immediately hit with the smell of something rotting. Fearing the worst, Giran slammed the door open the rest of the way weapon at the ready for whatever he found. Thankfully there was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary in the main room, moving towards the bathroom and balcony Giran also saw that they were also completely normal.

Now heading into the small kitchen Giran found the source of the smell coming from a pot that had been left on the stovetop to rot.

Starting to get worried now Giran tried to think back. Folken had called him last week and said Dabi had missed her session, but he had just waved it off saying that she had run into some 'old friends' and was probably hiding out in her apartment. Then the therapist had called not an hour ago and said that Dabi had missed another and he was becoming even more concerned. Dabi, the therapist claimed would always break into his apartment and leave him a box of sweets as an apology when she couldn't make their weekly meetings to let him know she was alive.

But in these last two weeks Folken had found nothing upon arriving home and reached out to Giran again with a greater urgency.

Heading towards Dabi's desk Giran picked up the calendar and saw that the date hadn't been changed in a little over two weeks and knew something had definatly happened. Pulling out his phone he punched in a number and didn't have to wait long for an answer.

"Hello."

"Get Himiko and Kurogiri and warp to Dabi's apartment now," Giran ordered opening up the top drawer and of the desk to get to the mechanism inside.

"What?"

"Now Tomura!" Giran roared pushing the button and hearing the sweet sound of the secret panel opening up, moving the desk the broker felt his heart clench at the small plastic case that lay there.

Inside the case was five USB drives each for a different member of the Todoroki family, minus Endeavor. Giran had never asked about the ones for Dabi's family knowing that whatever the woman had to say to her family was none of his business. The last drive was for the principal of U.A., because for some reason Dabi trusted the sadist and had practically begged the broker to send it to him if anything ever happened to her before she could kill Endeavor.

There was also one of Dabi's external hard drives inside the container containing who knows what information that could hurt the Hero Commission. Dabi had hard drives like this set up all over the country, each for a different news station, blogger or journalist that contained proof of the commission's shady dealings.

Dabi's little side project contained every piece of solid evidence, from bribes to straight out assassinations that she could dig up that could severely cripple the organization several times over upon release. It was Dabi's way of making sure that another Endeavor never again made its way to the top one of the top positions of power within the country well also flipping off the whole hero community in one strike.

The broker had to wonder if the Hero Commission knew more about the situation in Todoroki household then most and how it benefited them to keep the flame hero's abuse quiet.

Grabbing the case Giran slipped it into his pocket just as the warp gate opened in the centre of the room and three people stepped through it.

"This better be … oh god," Shigaraki gagged holding his sleeve in front of his nose. "What's that smell?"

Kurogiri moved and opened the balcony door unable to stand the rotting aroma also well Himiko looked around for Dabi fear written clearly across her face.

"Dabi?" the girl called out opening the bathroom door not finding her sister inside before looking back at Giran. "Where is she? Where's Dabi?"

Giran shook his head. "I don't know, have you heard from her?"

"Wait this is where you put her up," Tomura said looking around the apartment surprised by how normal it was, there was even a bag with what looked like yarn next to the bed. "I thought you said Dabi was helping you clean house, not playing it."

"This is serious Tomura." Giran hissed eyes narrowing as the man sat on Dabi's bed.

"Why because she wandered off on you this time," the decay user smirked grabbing the pillows on the bed and decaying them without a second thought. "Relax Dabi's like an overgrown cat, she'll come back when she gets bored with whatever mouse has her attention."

"She's pregnant you moron!" Giran yelled trying not to think of all the horrible things that could be happening to Dabi, or her baby.

"What?!" Shigaraki yelped jumping up from the bed like he was on fire. The young leader of the League of Villains looked shocked and disgusted for a moment before it quickly morphed into anger and his eyes hardened. "You knew, that's why you took Dabi away."

"We all knew Tomura." Himiko sniffled bending down so that she could pull out the dark purple blanket Dabi had started to knit for the baby hugging it tightly.

"But who the hell would she … oh fuck … it's his baby isn't it?" Shigaraki growled hands starting to scratch at his neck hissing the hero's name with the same hate that he normally saved for All Might. "Hawks."

Kurogiri shook his head. "If the heroes had gotten Dabi then they would most assuredly announce it."

"Then who has her?" Shigaraki snarled looking at Giran.

"I don't know," the man said feeling the weight of the case in his pocket increase tenfold. "But I'm going to use every contact and favour I have to look for her. I would suggest that you start doing the same and tear through every person you can come across until you find something."

As much as Shigaraki hated being given orders, unless they were from Sensei, he had to agree that Dabi needed to be found as quickly as possible. The only concern they had right now was figuring out whether the kidnapper had killed Dabi quickly or was keeping her alive somewhere.

"And when we find them?" Himiko asked looking determined.

Giran looked solemnly at the villains. "We make them pay."

~*Notes*~

Dabi has officially been kidnapped and the cats out of the bag for Shigaraki knowing about the baby. Anyone got any thoughts on what our favourite decay user will be like if he finds Dabi or comes across Hawks well looking for her?