Hatori Nozomu was in way over his head.

He was tech support! He had only ever been tech support. He was the guy you called when the Wi-Fi went out or a disk was jammed or a printer stopped or when the whole network went down because someone was downloading weird porn on company time. This was just…way out of his area of expertise!

But he had to try. The alternative was…not good.

"Engineering his here, Hatori-sama." Said an Awakened that Hatori could not remember the name of. Hatori looked up from his desk. He had turned the security room into his base of operations. The power was back on, the backup generator was going and power had been cut off to the blown out part of the division. Suzuki had told him to take over, that he trusted Hatori's judgement, and…well that was flattering…

But Hatori didn't exactly tryst his own judgement.

"Send them in…please." Said Hatori. He had sent for engineering first. Engineering and building because they needed to get this place back in…not even order. They needed to get this place back to being structurally sound. He assumed that where he was sitting right now was safe, it was untouched aside from some soda that had spilled, but what did he know. He wasn't engineering or building.

He was tech support…he shouldn't have even been there.

"As you wish, Hatori-sama." Said the Awakened. He bowed and then scurried out of the room. Hatori sat up a little straighter and fixed is sweater. He had some kind of stains son the front…probably from dinner the other day…and his hair was a mess…but it wasn't like anyone else looked much better. He knew that he looked like crap…but to be fair nobody had told him that he was going to be…what even was he? Someone highly ranked enough to be able to just…call people in…and have stuff looked at…

He was Hatori-sama.

Usually he was just Hatori, or Hatoria-san, but never sama. He had never been sama to anyone ever in his life…but he was sama now. Suzuki had put him in charge….and that wasn't weird for him. He delegated sometimes, usually Fukuda, and sometimes Mob, took over for him for short periods of time. When he got overwhelmed, well he called it busy, but Hatori knew him. He didn't deal with pressure….no, not pressure….he ran Claw after all. He didn't deal with this sort of thing…when things went wrong in his personal life…

And things had gone VERY wrong….but Hatori….he didn't know how to fix it….one thing at a time. He had to fix one thing at a time.

"Good day, Hatori-sama, I'm Tsuda from engineering….and you're going to want to stay seated." Said Tsuda. Hatoru stayed seated. He knew that it was bad, he may have needed glasses but he could still see…so there was really no way to shock him at this point. How bad it could it be? There was a hole in the side of the building! It was bad and…and Hatori…well he didn't know exactly what to do to fix it…

But that was what engineering was for.

"Go ahead." Said Hatori. He turned to fully face Tsuda and then folded his hands in front of himself like Ikari Gendo. He was a powerful man now and that was what powerful men did, they sat like this, and looked at people over the top of their glasses….he kept that up for a little bit before folding his hands normally. Being a powerful man didn't suit him.

Also he may have looked less ridiculous doing that if he had been wearing a suit…or literally anything other than a stained sweater and ripped jeans.

"This building in uninhabitable. I'm not even comfortable right now…I'm sorry but that's the truth of the matter. The entire structure needs to be repaired. The foundations themselves have been damaged….not to mention the frame of the building. This place should have been evacuated hours ago! Not…not to raise my voice to you…or to tell you how to do your job, Hatori-sama." Said Tsuda. Hatori…well actually he wanted someone to tell him how to do his job. He wanted a lot of people to come in, push him out of this chair, and start doing this job for him…because he had no clue…

But he had to have a clue.

People were depending on him, a lot of people, including Suzuki. He had a lot going on right now. One of his kids was responsible for this, the other one was missing, and the guy that he was in love with had lied to him and betrayed him. He was going through a lot and unless they wanted to deal with a second explosion, or just a very pissed off Suzuki Hatori was going to have to be the man in charge…the second in command…

Because the other two seconds in command were either passed out or missing.

"Right. We'll do that then. I'll…tell everyone to leave and then you and your guys just…fix it." Said Hatori

"Sir…there is the matter of the cost. Fixing the building…the cost will be…astronomical." Said Tsuda

"Um….do whatever you have to do." Said Hatori. He wasn't accounting. He wasn't in accounting or finance and….and Suzuki liked numbers. Yeah! He would just…look at the whole thing like a big math problem…when he stopped being freaked out. He loved math! If math were a woman then he would have wined and dined it and then…well now he was going to weird places….he didn't want to think about Suzuki doing that with anyone let alone the anthropomorphic representation of math….

Right. Work time.

"Do you mean we have a blank check?" asked Tsuda

"Yeah, blank check. Go nuts. Get this place back to how it was before." Said Hatori. Mob did this a lot…Mob was Suzuki's kid….but Suzuki…well he wouldn't mind. Not that badly. Fukuda had betrayed him after all…or at least lied to him and taken his son to another country and hid there for months and months. Yeah, Suzuki would be more pissed about than however much 'astronomical' came out to…

Probably some big number with a lot of zeros.

"Very well, Hatori-sama. We'll just need the original plans and all of these people cleared out and we'll get right to work." Said Tsuda. Hatori did a fist pump….which he maybe shouldn't have done. He had been about to start cursing and cheering. Finally, something that he could do! And from his phone, too. Claw building plans…he didn't have the clearance….but he didn't need clearance. E could easily get through...that….and that...and there. The original plans for this division…he had no idea what he was looking at….

It wasn't his job to know what he was looking at.

It was his job to know who knew what they were looking at. This went to engineering. This went to engineering and building. They would know what to do for it…and they did. Tsuda bowed to him and left…actually bowed…and called him sama. He had never been called sama before. San, sometimes, but never sama. He even still got CHAN of all things sometimes…he was twenty one and he was still called chan…like he was a kid…

He wasn't a kid anymore. He was a man. He was the man in charge.

He….should not have been happy about this. Well not happy, this was a pretty shitty day actually, but he just…that was something…new. People talking to him like he wasn't just some kid. He hadn't been a kid for years. He was a man and…well it was nice to be treated like one for once….not that he was going to sit in the room and bask in the joy of being treated like a grown man for the first time in his life.

Nope.

As nice as it would have been Hatori had to get the fuck out of there….and he had to make sure that everyone else knew to get the fuck out of there too. Structurally unsound…that didn't sound good at all. in fact it sounded un-good….ok, no, he was not funny. He was not funny and he needed more time to work on his humor…like another…however long people lived. He got up from his chair and pulled out his phone….and…there. Now everyone knew to get outside and…

What then?

He walked and thought. This was…not good. The Divisions were the biggest of all the Claw bases. Even the HQs couldn't house this many people…also this was one of the few remaining places that could make Awakened….and train them. There was Australia…it wasn't done yet…but that was where the Awakened would go….

The living ones.

There, outside, were dead Awakened laid out covered in sheets….they needed to be buried. Hatori could make that happen….there. Another message, he didn't want to call them orders, and now they would be buried after they were identified. They had to bury those guys before Mob woke up. She….would not take it well if she knew that she killed people….again. The Eighth Division…this had been like the Eighth Division….and seventeen people had been killed there. Mob…she was just a kid. Sure she could be kind of…a force of extreme destruction ala Akira….but she was just a kid and she could not handle this….hell…he could barely handle this…

He walked faster.

He did not want to look at that. Seeing people dead…he had seen dead people before. He went through mission reports when he got bored…and he had seen the pictures….and he had seen the aftermath of executions too….but in real life….in real life it was different. Even covered in sheets…he could see blood…and he could smell smoke. There…there was no fire…he could smell smoke. He took off his glasses. It was easier with his glasses off. The world…it was blurry. It was green and blurry. He loved…he loved the world right now. He couldn't see it…he couldn't see anything…he could see….he stopped. He stopped and just…he had to breathe. He had to breathe and….and he just…the air hurt. It went into his lungs and it hurt and….and he rubbed his eyes. He rubbed his eyes…they hurt. It hurt. Everything hurt…it was hot and…and everything was too hot! It was too hot and dark and…and bright and…and he to…he had to make his bed…..he had to put his laundry away….he had to clean his room….dad said no more games until he cleaned his room….but dad was….mom was….

He couldn't breathe.

He got down onto his knees. He was on his knees and…and it was too hot. He was too hot. He heard his glasses fall…he didn't want them. He didn't want or need them. They were…he hated them right now. He hated everything right now. He wanted…it was too hot….it was too hot and it hurt to breathe and…and he…everything went dark. Everything was dark and…and he looked up. He could see…white. He could see white and…and his glasses flew up to his face…

And poked him in the eye.

"S-Sorry! You just seemed….sort of…I just thought that maybe the world was too big," said Serizawa. Hatori took his glasses from the air and put them on. There was an umbrella above him…the one that Serizawa was always carrying. Serizawa was…better now. He was better now and…and he was the one who was comforting Hatori and…and he didn't need this. He wasn't a kid and…he wiped his eyes. He knocked his glasses off…sort of…as he wiped his eyes and…now they were smashed back onto his face.

Shibata.

"It's ok, Hatori, we're here. It's bad, I know. Just don't look. How about we all go and look for Sho in the woods? How's that sound?" asked Shibata. He was talking to Hatori like he was Mob or Sho…one of the kids. He wasn't a kid anymore. He…he stood up. He put his glasses back on and stood up.

"Shimazaki too….we don't know where he went. Well I mean that…that he went to see Minegishi…and they're alive! She's alive too….I mean Miss Suzuki and not Minegishi….because they're a 'they' and not a 'she' even though…um…I don't know how it works and….and…" said Serizawa. He was still holding his umbrella over Hatori. Hatori pushed it over so he was covering himself from the sun and the world. Serizawa needed it more than he did.

He had a lot more going on than Hatori did.

Now there was a guy with problems…not that he meant to be an asshole….but Serizawa really did have legitimate problems. Hatori…sometimes he just got a little…like that. That's all. He just thought about his parents sometimes and that happened…so he wasn't going to think about them. He wasn't a kid and…and he didn't need people hovering over him like he was a kid.

Even if those people were his friends.

"Guys, I'm fine." Said Hatori even though that umbrella looked…inviting. It would have been better if there had been some way for him to close it. To close it and hide in it and…and it was way too bright out. It was bright out and hot out…he needed to take off his sweater…that was all.

"Are you sure? If you need something, anything, just ask me." Said Shibata. He looked tired…that would have made sense. He had been working….and it was work…for the whole plane ride. He had been keeping Serizawa calm and that was work…and he didn't need Shibata…not when Serizawa needed him. He still seemed freaked out….he was clinging to his umbrella and looked down at his crocs…and…yeah.

Hatori had to be the adult here….even though he was the youngest.

"I'm sure. Anyway you guys just….try and find Sho. Actually try and find Fukuda too….but don't go inside. It's not structurally sound. I've got stuff to do so…I'll see you guys later." Said Hatori. Ok, he was better now. He was outside and…and he walked away. He took off his sweater as he walked and tied it around his waist. Still too hot. He kept walking. He felt…he knew where he was walking. He felt Suzuki's aura and…and he was still inside…and Hatori…he wanted…

He just wanted Suzuki to be safe, that was all.

He just…wanted to get him and Mob out of there. They had used the loading dock as a makeshift sickbay since the old sick bay wasn't big enough. A lot of people had been hurt…and a lot of people died…and Mob…even if she was out of it they needed to move her. They needed to bring her to a house or a hotel or…something. Something that was in a place that wasn't here….and….Hatori looked up some places as he walked. They could stay…it might not be safe to take her all the way back to Tokyo…or Osaka…or…he had to move somewhere….for Mob. He had to move Mob somewhere and…

Suzuki.

It would be best to ask Suzuki. That was why he had to…to see Suzuki…even though he was in a room in a building that could collapse at any moment. Hatori went inside, he walked against the crowds, and he found Suzuki sitting at Mob's bedside like it was a vigil or something. Mob was…her eyes were moving behind her eyes…she was asleep. She was asleep and she could wake up at any time…and he needed to move her before he woke up….

He really needed to ask her dad before…well before he moved her to some other place…his name wasn't Fukuda, after all…

"What do you need?" asked Suzuki. He turned and looked at Hatori...and his eyes were….that was not a good look for him. When his pupil shrank like that. Nothing good ever came from Suzuki looking at someone like that. That was the same look that Sho got when he was up to something….and…well it wasn't always a good thing when the wheels in Suzuki's head turned….not that he was ever going to do anything to Mob.

He loved Mob. He was her dad and dads…well dads loved their kids.

"To…to move. I mean all of us. Engineering came and they said that this building could come down over our heads. They said that it wasn't structurally sound." Said Hatori as he came up to Suzuki's side. He was sitting on a folding chair…Hatori felt weird standing. There was a bed but it had blood on it…and he didn't want to sit on a bloody bed…or even cot. He didn't want to stand though…not if he was the only one standing….

But he stood.

"I know that it isn't structurally sound. I'm holding it up with my powers. Do you have anything else to tell me?" asked Suzuki. He was back to staring at Mob. There, her eyes moved again, and her fingers twitched. She smiled a little…she might have been having a good dream. Good. She deserved all the good dreams that she could get.

Especially after what she had been through.

"I….think that we should get Mob out of here…so she doesn't see what she did. I mean when she wakes up-" said Hatori

"She woke up…briefly….and then fell back asleep. She's tired…and fragile. She needs her rest." Said Suzuki

"Yeah but….they lined up the dead outside…and there's a hole in the building…and she doesn't need to know that she did it...not to tell you how to raise your kid but…yeah. Mob is…fragile…like you said." Said Hatori. He braced himself….Suzuki's aura reached out to his…but it didn't hurt. Suzuki was staring at him…and the wheels in his head were turning…but it didn't look like they were turning in a bad way.

"I….agree with you….move her. Move us...yes. Find a place for us to go…and find a place for the Awakened and the Scars and…and we'll get everything sorted out when….when I can think." Said Suzuki

"I'm sending a lot of people to Australia…but that's too far I think. Is Tokyo ok….or Osaka?" asked Hatori

"No, not Osaka…never Osaka….but Tokyo is fine. Have us moved there and send for our things…and find Tadashi…" said Suzuki. He called Fukuda by his first name….that made sense. Suzuki liked him…maybe even loved him…and it must have been hard. His lifelong best friend/crush/maybe love of his life betraying him….

"On it….and Sho too?" asked Hatori. Suzuki…didn't like Sho all that much. Maybe because Sho was everything about himself that he hated, mostly the out of control-ness and gay thoughts, and there was his traumatic birth….but he must have cared that Sho was missing….right?

Right?

"He's still missing?" asked Suzuki. Hatori blinked. That….well he didn't like Sho….and stuff…and also Mob had done all of this…and he didn't know why he cared. Suzuki was Suzuki and the rest of them loved Sho so it cancelled out…right?

"Yeah. I mean they're still digging people out of the rubble but…" said Hatori. There was a…cold? Warm? Weird feeling…inside? Suzuki's aura passed right over him…and expanded outwards…expanded so far outwards that for a moment all Hatori could see was red….and then it was over.

"He's alive…I can sense him….and Tadashi is alive too. I sensed him earlier…but not now…just…do what needs to be done and leave me." Said Suzuki

"Will do, boss." Said Hatori. He turned around…and was stopped. Suzuki's aura….his powers….grabbed him and turned him around. Hatori…he had thought that Suzuki liked him! Now he was stuck and Suzuki was standing up and coming at him and-

-and was hugging him.

He was being hugged and…and it was nice. Warm. He felt so…so…this was…he hugged Suzuki back. Suzuki was a lot bigger than he was…he had never noticed…well he had noticed but he hadn't ever been this close to him. This close…well there was Halloween but he couldn't remember Halloween that well…and…and he liked…this. He felt like a kid again…but in a good way like…like maybe things were ok or…he just…he hadn't been hugged by his dad in a while…but A DAD in a while…and all dads were good at hugs even though he was Suzuki Touichirou….

It was over way too fast.

"Hatori…thank you. For…being competent. Thank you for that." Said Suzuki as he let Hatori go. Hatori felt himself get pushed away….right. Hugging time was over. Time to work and….manage this crisis…and other stuff. Other stuff that he could do….other stuff that he knew that he could do…that he had to do…that Suzuki trusted him to do….

Suzuki trusted him.

"You're welcome….Suzuki." said Hatori. He wanted to hug him again….but he didn't. He had to figure out what…what came next. He had to find Sho…and Shimazaki….and Minegishi had been concussed pretty badly when he got here….he had to round up the others and find a place for them to live and…and he had to find Fukuda even though he didn't want to…he had no idea where to look….but he could find him if he had to…

He wasn't in over his head. He knew exactly what he had to do…and how to do it…so that was what he was going to do. What he had to do.