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Tick, Tick, Tick.
"We should move 2% of the funds..."
Tick, Tick, Tick.
"Stability issues would..."
Tick, Tick, Tick.
"To inspire the jerk..."
Hawks was counting down the minutes to leaving what he classed as the Most Boring Meeting in The World™. Right now he wants to be stretching his wings in the sky. Or eating Fried Chicken and watching Twilight for the 3rd time this week. It's a good movie.
Tick, Tick, Tick...
"Meeting adjourned, come back..."
Hawks was already out of the room pushing past the murderers and freaks of the world with too little care. Muttering a few excuses, he bolted to the roof.
"Yes, Finally!" He breathed a sigh of relief and stretched to the full wingspan of his being. A full 25 feet (7.6 meters).
"Watch it." Feeling the tips of his wings burn, he contracted.
"Sorry Dabs." The reply was a grunt of what could be annoyance. Dabi sat down on the ledge of the building near Hawks. Too near.
A moment of silence...
"So... what ARE you doing up here Hotstuf?" Hawks cheekily broke the silence. Chirping his head off with dumb questions.
A sigh from Dabi, Hawks had won.
"The view is good."
"The stars tonight are pretty. They remind me of this movie that I like."
"Good..." Dabi was egging on Hawks to continue. A little conversation could do the man some good.
"It is about a girl who falls in love with a guy who is a vamp..." Hawks paused. Dab's eyes, were they always this pretty? The moonlight made Dabi look (Handsome, stunning, soft) ...nice.
His turquoise eyes aren't hard looking at the stars on the clear night. Brow isn't furrowed at all. His skin-"
"Birdie. Why did you stop?" Dabi was looking at Hawks now.
Hawks shot back to the present, gulped then spoke up. "Oh, nothing!"
"Chipper, as usual."
"Always for you~."
"Don't you ever get tired?"
"Of what?" Hawks cocked his head to the side.
"The hero sh*t. Acting all the time in front of cameras."
"Who said I was acting?" Hawks sat down next to Dabi. He felt warm.
"No one can be that happy all the time." Dabi's eyes got hard again. He looked as if he would cry. Not like he can though. Dabi started steaming. Clearly, something was annoying him about heroes.
"Chill the fire Hottstuff! I get it, I'm hot but any more I might burn." With that comment, Dabi's eyes went wide. Not the reaction Hawks was expecting. Oh, wait his body-
Hawks panicked for a second. In a moment of thinking, he did something very risky.
He pushed Dabi off the building.
Dabi flailed in the sky cursing if he makes it alive Hawks will become his Fried Chicken.
The wind rushed by Dabi, it was cold. Memories of home curled their filthy rubber hands all over him.
Seconds away from hitting the ground Hawks picked him up and shot like a bullet up in the sky. The people got smaller and smaller. Dabi felt like puking. Maybe he actually would.
"Put me down. Or you're burnt." Dabi was able to keep an even voice. He gripped Hawks' sides as a life raft in the blue sea of the sky. He heard Hawks cooing softly in his ear. Dabi's shoulders relaxed slightly, slightly!
"Look at the stars, Dabs".
Dabi tucked his head away in Hawks' fluffy coat collar.
A sigh. "You looked lost on the ground, up here every one is found."
Dabi peered reluctantly over Hawks shoulder. The stars. The stars looked the same. Same as when he was a kid out in their family courtyard. He begged the god up above, if there was one, to take him away from there. The Stars glowed exactly the same as they once were.
"See Dabs, it's pretty~", Hawks talked to Dabi as if he was a child.
"I guess." Hawks cooed louder at that. What is he? A bird?
The moment by Dabi's stomach making a loud rumble as his throat burned. He pulled roughly on Hawks collar and pointed down. Hawks immediately got the message and tried to go down slowly. Key word - tried.
Hawks gently placed Dabi down, savoring his touch, warmth.
"Well, I say that was a fun exper-"
Dabi puked.