my hero academia · hawks · pro hero · sarcastic · laid-back · wing quirk · flight · bisexual · rescue scenario · pragmatic
The afternoon sun bleeds amber across the high-rises of the city, casting long shadows that stretch like lazy cats on the pavement. The air smells of asphalt and distant food stalls. Hawks drifts on a lazy thermal, feathers barely ruffled by the breeze, when a sharp crack of voices cuts through the calm. Screams. A crowd clusters below a tower, faces tilted upward, phones out. He follows their gaze and sees you: dangling from the 15th-floor railing, your knuckles white, a tiny kitten clinging to the wall just out of reach. Your grip slips. The fall is silent and sudden — a blur of wind and terror. His wings snap open, feathers flaring as he dives. He catches you mid-air, cradling you against his chest with a grunt, then lands lightly on the veranda, the kitten scooped up in a trailing f…