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His heart never felt this full, this good, like it’s about to burst through his chest that acts like a cage. Sure he stared into his darling’s exquisite eyes before but something in those pictures of his taken by this creep was different, with a different feel to it. The sound of sirens as they creeped closer pulled hawks out of his daze, he quickly got up to his feet and pulled a couple of Polaroids and pictures of shouto off the walls and stashed them in his jacket, booting the old creep who’s passed out close to death one last time before opening the door of the humble house to welcome the police in. Reporters flashing their camera on him and shoving their mics up his face swooning and questioning how was he able to track this villain with no criminal record and background.
But hawks didn’t beat up a villain like they thought he did. He beat up an old man resident in a spacious and nice house peacefully and meekly with perverted secrets deep within.
And those secrets were pictures taken of his beautiful darling.
Pictures of him just simply being gorgeous. While some of the other pictures were outright delightful.
Hawks stretches his wings and flaps them taking him off the ground, making sure his gloved hands sat on top of the pictures so they don’t fall off, people below him are still calling out for him but hawks doesn’t want to take any pictures, normally he would smile and pose whenever he catches villains but he knows that if he did that now he will look like a merciless psychopath who just beat up a resident not even a villain half to death and smile, he knows how that’ll make him look, he’ll face backlash from the public about using extensive force, only one hero was able to survive this and now is the number one hero who everyone adores. But he can't say that he’ll be fine. But its all worth it, at least shouto’s pictures are with him and not with that old creep. That alone is going to make all this worth it.
As soon as he stepped his foot inside his apartment’s marble floor he detached a couple of his feather’s so they can pull all the curtains shut blocking any eyes from prying. Hawks pulls the stack of paper out carefully places them on the clean and tidy white sheets of his bed, laying them down and spreading them far apart. Now hawks can gaze upon every single picture of his lover that he couldn’t have the chance to back there. He left some pictures so that when the police capture the guy rather than needing hawks to explain and give up the collection he managed to steal they’ll figure out why that creeper needs to get arrested. after all, sexualizing and obsessing over minors has some serious consequence in the hero world ever since the beginning of hero age, lots of young people used to throw themselves at the heroes after being saved by them and some heroes took advantage of that, some even made it their goal to save young and pretty people just to get something out of it, slowly the law applied to everyone both normal citizens and heroes. And everyone Obeid after knowing that the punishment will be for both sides, so there won't be anyone playing victim since instances of people having a relationship with a hero used for vengeance and bring them down was common back then, so if a hero dates a minor they will be punished, and the minor themselves with be charged with a fine as punishment with being involved in the first place. But everyone knows the system has flaws, they allow bugs to crawl in and get what they please.
And those are rich people. That was why an epoch where hot and rich teenagers were so loved and popularised by many, but that didn’t go as well since most rich people held class and respect. Slowly that kind of train wreck died down much to the hero commission’s relief. But when the media started theorizing after that one paparazzi picture of hawks and shouto and found out hawks was dating someone in high school the commission contacted him, bombarding him with questions as all he did was laugh and dodge it. It was fun while it lasted because right now his apartment’s door is banging with force.
"Hawks! Open the door!" Yelled a crafted and demanding voice of a man which is most likely an agent of the hero commission.
"Nope~" replied hawks with playfulness in his tone and in his hands Polaroids taken of shouto without the younger boy’s knowledge of them existing. He looks gorgeous in navy blue, always has, his hair a mess from the wind as he stands on the roof of a building with what seems like two of his friends. That picture was probably taken when the pretty boy brought in his friends to intern with him with endeavor. Apparently, this creep was stalking shouto even on his three weeks intern vacation with endeavor! How didn’t that big mass of a man not notice someone creeping on his son?
“HAWKS! You have to tell us why you did that?!” Yelled the man into the keyhole of the door, he’s probably referring to that creep he beat up to death. But there’s not an ounce of guilt that hawks feels when remembering how he slammed the old guy’s double chin on the door, and when he kicked the guy in the gut but all the fat just slowed the impact of it and he had to do it again. Hawks laughs at that memory, of course, typical old men who only dress up when leaving their house to put up a front so no one knows about what truly goes on in their messed up head.
"What is there to tell?" Says hawks nonchalantly, flipping the Polaroid with another and gazing at it admiringly. Shouto just looking delicious as always, in his grey school uniform looking posh and tidy, in his hands a big briefcase most likely holding his hero clothes and support items, looks like he was going inside a gym kind of building, alas it was where the provisional license remedial course was held.
"Because of you now endeavor’s son is being thrown under the bus!" Says the agent banging on the door one last time. But that confused him, startled he spoke without thinking.
"What?" He said and the man’s reply came simple and instructful.
"Open the news on the TV hawks." He said sighing loudly and for some reason, hawks got the impression that the man was facepalming right now. Getting up and placing all the polaroids and pictures on the coffee table in his living room he grabbed the controller and hauled up in the air pointing it at the TV screen as it popped to life.
A video of that creep’s room bathed in the night’s pale glow was displayed on the screen, and if you look closer the walls of the room from the ceiling to the floor was covered with multiple pictures and angles of shouto, the cameraman moves closer and takes in every detail of the pictures taken, some were of shouto in his hero outfit and some he was in either school uniform or casual clothes, there’s one that was framed and placed in the middle of the wall and it was the one where hawks found it to be delightful, but he couldn’t dare take it. And it was the one where half of shouto’s clothes were burned to crisps and his milky white skin open to the eyes of the people, that was probably when endeavor had to face off his obsessor ending, shouto was wearing his uniform and of course that pieces of cloth weren’t fireproof. Hawks hates that he had to leave without that piece but he knows that if the police saw that one picture out of all they will defiantly get the guy behind bars.
"Ok, that's all good news where is shouto being thrown under the bus?" Asks hawks when he doesn’t see what the agent told him.
"You know… you can raise the volume!" He says sounding irritated, hawks only rolls his eyes at that guy’s tone and his fingers press on the plus sign on the controller.
"-ay it right now…I don’t feel guilty for the guy!" Says one of the hosts sitting on a round table with two other people with her. "I know that the boy is pretty and attractive I admit that… but going that far in obsessing is just ugly! And the boy is a minor like what?!" She says sounding disgusted and surprised, the other two with her nod their head in agreement. "I agree but honestly I’m not surprised! I expected that as soon as the boy got debuted and I’m just disappointed that people actually did fall to that level!" Said one of the other hostess looking straight into the camera. "Honestly I couldn’t agree more with you guys but we got off track here our question was did hawks do that because he was dating todoroki shouto?" She said, and hawks found himself enticed on the story further, he never bats an eye to those kinds of shows about gossip and theories about heroes and their lives. But this one was very impressive, the hostess that asked the question got straight to the point, and that quiet sinister pride buried deep in his chest bloomed and he just wanted to go up there to them and tell them, yes…he is dating todoroki shouto and no one is allowed to obsess over the pretty boy except for him.
"I'm not sure honestly…hawks might’ve done that just because todoroki shouto is endeavor’s son. We all can see how close hawks and endeavor got right after nearly dying right? I'm pretty sure that hawks just wanted to protect the kid because the boy is still young and new about this world." Said one and only male hosts, he didn’t look that old probably in his late 20’s. But the way the guy tried to diverge the situation boiled something hot in hawks. "Yes, you might be right…but! That doesn’t mean we have to disregard the idea until we’re proven wrong by those two right? Plus hawks literally beat that guy close to death what could that mean other than his love for the boy?" Said the hostess with her feminine eyes dreamy and droopy from the thought of a handsome man doing what it takes for their handsome boy and lover, and that's exactly what hawks wants their relationship to appear to others, perfect, passionate, and everlasting. not an adult hero dating a minor because he knows there will be people who will drag him down for that.
"Ok slow down there… is it not concerning though? I mean it's delightful and stuff but…it feels a little bit obsess-" starts the man but gets cut off by the two women beside him whining and jibbering loudly and annoyingly trying to shut him up, all of them start laughing and choose to end the conversation about him and shouto there and move on to talk about Mt.Lady and Kamui woods and how there were rumors about them still going around.
Hawks just stands there wondering if it’s time for the world to know that shouto belongs to him. But thinking back to the way shouto reacted that one time when they almost got exposed the younger boy wanted to break things off with him, and for some reason, there’s in his chest a small hope.
A small hope that shouto will finally let the world know about them.
And then everyone who obsesses over him will get the message and leave the obsessing of the pretty boy all for hawks.