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#dabihawks Post-war where Hawks visits Dabi in prison because there's something he needs to work out. For himself, for the both of them, who knows? They're a fucked up pair matched in hell.
And they have these heated exchanges where Dabi riles Hawks up all the time and then still asks for him to come like Hawks didn't walk out that day with bruised knuckles and Dabi's laughter ringing in his ears, blood trailing down his lips.
For reasons he still hasn't figured out, Hawks always does show up. Like some kind of fucked up clockwork. Like this, is ever going to be closure that he needs. Like Dabi, is the only one who can figure him out. See right through him. Even if it's another taunt, another cut right to the core and sets everything inside of him on fire—
"You know in another life, you might've tried to save me. Becuase that's what good heroes do, don't they?"
And Hawks wants to stab a feather right through those scarred hands, the same way that he wants to kiss his bloody lips.
He hates him. He wants to save him. He still wants him. Desperately and unforgivably.
So if Hawks secretly throws himself into studying law, what of it? The legality isn't so far from what he's already known as a hero and passing the bar is just another exam in the number of many that he'd excelled at years ago. Regulations just requires him to get hands on practice first.
He can do it. In a few years time, he'll become a lawyer.
And free Dabi.
Becuase there's no other life than this one, where he bores gold eyes into the blue of Dabi's soul and throws out in the most sarcastic kind of way—
"Aw sweetheart, what do you want me to do? Turn into a lawyer? Get you out? File an appeal?"
It is exactly what he does.
(insp. by Daredevil 'in another life, you might be defending me')