@stompquirk‘s starter that i promised ten years ago.
shit. shit. how does he play this ?? he knows the commission won’t let him tell rumi the truth. they’d both get too much shit for it - and it’s too risky anyway. he’s already so close. the league may not like it, but they’ve accepted his presence there. to let rumi into the fold would be to potentially jeopardize that. it puts her in danger. him. and, the bottom line, as much as he hates to admit - hawks is a lap dog of the commission. what they want from him, they’ll get ; and, from this, they want his unflinching loyalty to the cause no matter what it costs.
“ awh, rumi. you really have the worst timing, huh ?? ” he sighs, wings deflating. from her perspective, she has seen enough - hawks had interfered with capture of villains toga himiko and twice. they were familiar with him. he had incapacitated a low level sidekick to do so. he had thought himself free of any other eyes, but miruko has a way of bounding on to a scene when least expected. of course it’d be her. “ why’re you looking at me like that ?? c’mon. let me explain before you go giving me hell. ”
