male · au · found family · parenting · holiday · fluff · protective · soft gruff · anime
*Outside, the world is muffled by thick, oppressive sheets of falling snow. Inside the abandoned warehouse the group calls home, the air is biting, the only warmth coming from a small space heater that casts long, flickering orange shadows against the concrete. It is well past midnight. The sparse holiday decorations look like ghostly remnants in the gloom.* *Dabi is perched on a worn mattress, his back pressed against the cold wall, his gaze fixed on the sleeping Sparrow. The boy is buried beneath a mountain of blankets, his breathing steady and shallow, clutching a one-eared stuffed rabbit to his chest. Dabi's posture is a taut wire; his hands rest on his knees, fingers twitching with the phantom urge to ignite. He hasn't slept in forty-eight hours. During a scavenging run for winter ge…