Broken [Aizawa x reader]

Chapter 21 - Reality check

"I'll see you tomorrow, Keigo." I said as I prepared to go after he closed and locked the front door of the cafe, I had my bag on my shoulder and a jacket covering me from the cold night air. The seasons were changing from summer to autumn and the days were getting colder.

"You sure you don't want me to drive you home?" He asked me for the nth time this evening but I kept declining each time, assuring him I would be fine. If I only knew...

"Okay, but text me as soon as you get home, got it?" He said finally accepting the fact that I was going to walk back to my apartment, I could be really stubborn sometimes but the truth is that Keigo's been driving me home after work this past weeks ever since that situation of someone following me and I felt like I was burdening him, my apartment complex was on the opposite way of his house and it was already late, the man is tired and he just wants to go home.

"Yeah yeah whatever, you overprotective dad." I said in a joking manner, even though I planned on letting him know when I arrived home. He's like Jiro 2.0, I really appreciate him.

"I'm serious, I've been worried about you since... well you know." It was a sensitive topic, that was a terrifying experience that I don't want to go through again and he knows it, that's why both of us avoid talking about it.

"Yes, I understand. Now go home, Keigo. I promise I'll be fine." I said to him while nudging him towards his car parked on the street in front the cafe, beginning my walk back home with my pepper spray in hand and my bag tightly clutched against my body.

The evening was starting to get more chilly and I just wanted to get home quickly, so I picked up my speed. The streets were fairly dark, barely lit by lamp posts and the moonlight. My rapid footsteps were the only ones heard on the sidewalk. As I passed a dark alley to my right, I saw a shadowy figure from the corner of my eye but just shrugged it off as a homeless person and kept walking.

But my steps were halted when strong arms were wrapped around my figure and a damp cloth placed over my nose and mouth, muffling my panicked screams and invading my nostrils with an unknown drug that made me feel dizzy and sleepy all of a sudden. My hands went flying towards the arm that kept the cloth to my nose and tried scratching and pulling with all the strength I could muster, I could feel a familiar rough, scarred skin against my fingertips but I couldn't see to who it belonged to before the drug took over and I was left unconscious; my body limp and defenseless at the arms of the stranger.

I abruptly woke up and sat up from where I was laying, opening my eyes to see the all too familiar living room lit up by red LED lights. It was like I couldn't escape this place, somehow I always found my way back here willingly or not, and I was tired of it. No matter how much I tried to run away from Dabi and my past, it always caught up to me and didn't let me live my life peacefully. I knew it was also partly my fault for going back on drugs but relapse is also part of the recovery, right?

I didn't know the reason why Dabi had abducted me but I just wanted to get out already. I stood up but was immediately hit with a wave of dizziness that made me sit back down on the couch. Suddenly the bathroom door opened and out came the man I couldn't get rid of, Dabi, only wearing some sweatpants and nothing else. A white towel hanging from his neck catching the stray water drops that fell from his damped hair, he was still very attractive but he doesn't have the same effect on me as he used to.