Hawks was more exhausted than anything when he made his way back home. He had slept the previous night, after the exam, at Endeavor’s. He was on edge the whole time. His raging crush on Endeavor hadn’t helped him in the slightest.
In the beginning, the daughter, Fuyumi, was still at the house. Her presence made it somewhat bearable. She was really nice and they talked for a while. She also mentioned the smell of a pregnant omega and Hawks was really wondering, how fucking good other omegas noses were. He had showered before the exam!
Enji sat next to the two omegas, arms crossed before his chest. He mustered the winged hero. He still couldn’t get behind him some times. Fuyumi asked her father, how Shoto was doing. Enji scoffed a little and told her what had happened during the fight. He mentioned Momo and Fuyumi squealed a little bit. She wondered if her brother got an omega girlfriend.
The dinner was full of chit-chat between the two omegas. Enji was happy, that his daughter seemed to be in a really good mood, otherwise he was a bit annoyed by the constant bickering of Hawks.
Then Fuyumi left, she lived with her mother a few blocks over, in a house that Enji had bought them. Now he was alone with the frisky omega and he was annoyed quickly. Hawks chirped some nonsense about his intern, Tsukuyomi, and how good he was.
Eventually, Hawks asked about Enji’s wife and his other children, this was when the mood became sour. Hawks realized that too late however. “My wife and I are separated and the bond is long broken.” Enji growled. “And Natsuo is at university, we don’t talk much.”
Hawks wings were hanging down, the tone in Enji’s voice was clear, he didn’t want to talk about it. The omega winced a little. The stench off a pissed of alpha was overwhelming. After that, the number one hero showed him his room and retreated to his own.
The bird hero scolded himself for asking questions like that. He was just so interested in Enji’s relationship … He his raging crush made him ask such things. He was so nervous around the alpha, he felt like a dumb teenager.
The night was horror because of his wandering thoughts, and the next morning was rather cold. Hawks said goodbye and left after breakfast.
He arrived later this afternoon at his house or rather his current residence where he stayed with Dabi. He opened the door and he heard him in the kitchen. It smelled burned. Sighing, he walked into the room. “I am back” he announced himself.
Hawks mustered Dabi, the villain was dressed in an oversized blue shirt – it was at least three sizes too big for him – and grey sweatpants, his hair was white for the most part, the black was almost completely gone. He was cooking something for himself.
“What took you so long? Where were you? The exam was yesterday!” Dabi snarled at him.
Hawks sighed internally. Dabi had horrible mood swings the entire pregnancy. “I stayed at Endeavor’s because it was rather late. Sorry.” He apologized.
“What?!” Suddenly the pan with the burned noodles came flying his way. “Why the fuck are you staying at his place?! Now that you mention it, you stink like him!” he bared his teeth.
If he could, Hawks was sure he would jump at him, but his huge belly was in the way of these activities. “Calm down, Dabi! Think about your pup!” He tried to calm the other omega down.
Dabi snarled for a moment but then he sighed. “I don’t have food now! This is all your fault!” He clenched his jaw.
“I’ll make you something. Just sit down” Hawks picked up the pan and cleaned the room before he started to make new ramen for Dabi. While cooking he watched Dabi from time to time. The other omega was rubbing his belly, he looked tired.
“Is something up?” Hawks asked.
The villain stayed quiet for a good long while. His voice was shaking when he talked again. “Shigaraki called me. When I didn’t pick up he sent some messages. He wants to know where the fuck I am.”
Hawks clenched his hand tighter around the handle of the pan. Shigaraki called from time to time or sent text messages. Dabi usually avoided talking to him. “Did he write something else?”
“Yeah, actually … he said he is sorry” Dabi scoffed. Keigo raised his eyebrows. “He wrote, that he didn’t mean to do ‘it’.” Dabi’s voice was strained. He had to hold back immensely.
Keigo was done cooking und put the ramen on a plate, he gave it to Dabi. He sat next to him on a chair.
“I asked him, if that chick is still with him and he said yes.”
Keigo’s eyes widened. “Really?! Do you know where they are?”
“No, he didn’t give his location. Only if I agree to meet up with him …” Dabi slurped his ramen. “But I won’t meet up with him, not in this state …”
“Then you should give me your phone, I could pretend to be you and arrange a meeting.”
“Don’t be stupid! Shigaraki is a prime alpha! He would cash you in without effort. And even your oh so great Endeavor is just a puppet in his hands.”
“But we need to try something, and Darleen is still on the run.”
“Just no! You don’t know to what Shigaraki is capable!” With that Dabi stood up and waddled out of the room.
Keigo stared after him. He knew the other omega was right, but they had to do something.
He cleaned the dishes again and went to shower. After that he entered Dabi’s room. The omega was lying on his side, rubbing over his huge belly.
Keigo lay next to him and he spread his wings around Dabi. Carefully his hand joined the villain’s on his belly. “Everything will be okay. I’ll show you.”
Dabi clenched his jaw, he wanted to believe Hawks, but after the things he had seen … “Liar” he murmured. He turned around and faced Hawks. The pro hero started humming to calm Dabi down. The other omega was tired. He nuzzled his face in the crook of Hawks’ neck. He closed his eyes and drifted off.
“How can I help you, young Midoriya?” All Might asked his successor.
“Well, I need help and some more answers about prime alphas. I still can’t wrap my head around some things.”
Over the last months they had talked about prime alphas quite a lot. He told him that he needed to be focused in battles, that it was dangerous to have so much power. And Izuku understood that. But there was a topic he usually avoided.
They sat in the break room and All Might made tea for them. When the tea was ready, he sat down opposite of Izuku. “So, what do you want to know?”
Izuku sighed and scratched his head with his right hand. He bit his lower lip, his jaw clenching and unclenching multiple times. All Might tilted his head a little. His successor had changed so much since the day they met and then there were occasions, where he hadn’t changed at all. “Is it about young Bakugo?” All Might guessed.
Deku looked up to him. He sighed again. “Yes … but not just about him. I … I don’t know how to say it.” He covered his chin with the palm of his hand. “I thought about it for a while now. And no matter the scenario’s I am going through, it all ends terrible” he mumbled.
“What scenarios?” All Might asked.
“For Kacchan and me … and by extension Eijiro. And even further extension Ochako and Mina. You know that we had a … pack before we were bitten and for a while everything was fine. But then that happened and you know we ‘broke up’ for good.”
“Yes, of course. You made the right decision there.”
“I know … For a while I thought everything will be okay. Maybe when we’re older, wiser … When I have better control … But then yesterday … I snapped and controlled Mirio. And even though he tried to downplay it, I saw how it affected him. So … my question is … Am I even capable of having a relationship? I mean, what kind of relationship would that even be? No matter my future partner’s second gender the power dynamic is fucked up.”
All Might looked very serious. He took a deep breath and he thought about his answer very carefully. “Being a prime alpha is very challenging” he started “especially if you consider your condition as a feral. This makes it like ten times harder.”
“I thought so …”
“I don’t know of any prime alpha that had a family. I met a few while I was abroad in America but they all chose to not have one. Your concerns about power dynamics are justified. To make it clear, if you get into a relationship, there is only one power dynamic. You can, and should, of course choose to never ever rely on commands, but in your state it might happen involuntarily.”
Izuku nodded. “That’s what I thought … Is that the reason you chose to have no family of your own?”
“It was one of many reasons” All Might confirmed. “But not alone. You see, my goal was it to become the Symbol of Peace, and I witnessed the distress of my mentor when she had to give up her own family, to keep them save. The things she sacrificed … I decided that I didn’t want to put my future family through something like this.” He exhaled deeply.
“So you never, ever had someone?” Izuku asked.
“No, this is not true. When I was younger, there was a female alpha … We had an interesting dynamic, to say the least. She was on the high rise in America and she was my senior, basically” All Might’s gaze softened for a moment, as he thought of her.
“Wait, you were in a relationship with another alpha?” Izuku’s eyes widened.
“Yes. Her name was Zenko. She was also born in Japan but moved at a very young age to America. She had a very competitive nature. She made everything into a competition. I tried not to stoop on her level but she was just so … charismatic. It felt like there was nothing she couldn’t do.” A small smile appeared on his face.
“It was strange but after a while, we tried to have a functional relationship. We supported each other and unlike other alphas I had met up until this point, she wasn’t very territorial and aggressive in those regards. A relationship between two alphas is very rare but not impossible. It takes a lot more work and effort to manage it, more than any alpha and omega relationship, but you can do it if the level of trust is high enough.”
Izuku soaked everything in like a sponge, through his entire career, All Might never revealed his relationship status. “But it didn’t end well, right?”
“No, it didn’t. During that time, I didn’t know about my status as a prime. It showed much later. We were fighting a villain, and he had her pinned down and was about to kill her. Something in my mind just flipped. Without thinking, I alpha commanded him. The villain was shivering in fear … but so did Zenko. In all the years I knew her, she was never afraid of me, but after I commanded him, things changed. She … I don’t know, she was always frisky and nervous around me. She seemed scared that I could command her too.”
“I promised her, multiple times, that I would never, ever do that! That she doesn’t need to be afraid of me … but she didn’t trust me with that. Every time I got agitated for some external reason, she would get upset. The fear was irrational, after this first time I didn’t use the commands again. I tried to ask her, why she was so afraid. She just flipped out and she told me, that she was terrified I could make her do things she didn’t want. She always thought we were equals in terms of powers. While I had much more physical strengths, due to my quirk, she got more psychic strength, so we were equal in this regard. But with my new prime powers … She told me that I could make her do things if I got angry enough. She couldn’t bear my presence any longer. It eventually got so bad, that we broke up. I never saw her again.”
“I never blamed her or anything. I always blamed these powers. More than once I wished not to be a prime alpha. Maybe she would have stayed? Who knows …” he blinked a few times.
Izuku looked at his mentor with an equally pained expression. “I … I am sorry to hear that, All Might” he murmured.
He exhaled. “It is what it is. I don’t say you can never be in a relationship, but be warned that it is an even heavier piece of work than any normal relationship. If your partner … or partners don’t trust you enough, then it will eventually fail. And it will most likely be worse than any normal relationship struggle.”
Deku pursed his lips, he thought about that for a long while. All Might watched him. “This gave me a lot to think about …” he started. He clenched his jaw. “You know … back when we were pups, I always fantasized about us getting married one day. I thought he would be the alpha and I the omega. Well … this went not as planned …” he grimaced.
“Life is usually not as you plan it as pups. But I never thought you were this close to young Bakugo.”
“We were super close before he got his quirk. We did everything together. When our families went on vacation together, we would usually share a room, or a bed.” Deku smiled somberly. He exhaled deeply. “Anyway, thank you for the talk. I should head back now.”
“No problem, young Midoriya, anytime.” All Might said, he offered him a smile. Deku returned it, then he left and went back to his own room. This was a lot to digest.
