Thread by @hoodie_2_shoes, Thinking about tokoyami hawks endeavor again After the fight, toko carries hawks [...]

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Thinking about tokoyami hawks endeavor again

After the fight, toko carries hawks around but doesn’t know who to turn to before medics arrive. He doesn’t trust any pro to look after him, not after what happened. Then his eyes met Enji’s and Enji rushes to their side despite bleeding in ten different places

Enji’s fury flares up for a moment, thinking there’s no way Hawks could get this badly hurt unless everyone else failed him. Then he sees the clear absence of wings and the tears in Toko’s eyes, and he pulls them into his arms.

Toko has never met Endeavor in person before. He’s hot-headed, loud, barely shows restraint in his televised battles. He’s everything Toko isn’t. But he sees the light shatter in Enji’s eyes, and the dam holding his grief back just crumbles. Toko sobs into his heavy arms freely.

The next time they meet they’re outside Hawks’ ward, Enji in his hospital gown and Toko with some flowers. They sit there awkwardly, listening to Hawks’ shallow breathing, until Enji thanks Toko for saving him. Tells him all about Hawks’ accounts of his training and-

compliments him for coming in just below shouto in the festival. Toko starts talking about how much Hawks looks up to him, and his side of the story about the top two’s hijinks together. Toko has heard all about the rumors flying around, but he had always kept his distance.

In that ward Toko loses sight of the unapproachable number one hero and instead sees the grumpy, unintentionally funny, fiercely protective Endeavor-san in Hawks’ drunken tales; Enji sees a budding hero that Hawks no doubt secretly cherished,

and beyond the irony of being two birds was Hawks’ ideals bearing fruit, now a shining beacon of his own.

“My agency would be happy to have you. It’s what the kid would’ve wanted.”

Toko hesitates.

“Thank you, sir. But I’ll hold on for just a little longer.” He watches his senpai, closed eyes serene beneath the bandages. “There’s still so much he promised to teach me.”

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