"Well, it looks like the trail has gone cold... No point in wasting our time for any more clues." Teo dismissively muttered, rolling his eyes while he leaned back and stared at the road, tapping his foot impatiently. The man seemingly heeds not his words and carries on with his now personal task of finding a missing person.

The sun had vanished, casting their surroundings in a darkly glow. 

"What do you make of a pro-hero kidnapping a civilian? I say it's interesting news, could cause an uproar but it would certainly be entertaining. Don't you agree?" smirked teo after putting his thoughts to rest to witness the old man counter with unforgettable words he could use to probe the man's anger later on.

"Entertaining for people like you." Cameron kept it simple and flashed him a smug smile, "unlike you, some people don't want their peace to be ruined. Couldn't agree with ya there." He finished.

"Aren't you friendly Mr Cameron, I was just trying to share my opinion and it seems like it pricked you in the wrong way." shot back teo, annoyed with the man's sudden hurtful jabs.

"Haha, is that so? Okay then, why don't you just shut up and sit quietly, won't be my fault for crashing into a tree and killing ya." chuckled he and took a sharp turn, prompting the young rookie to slam himself unto the door, grumbling and glaring at his partner while he recoiled.

"You sure you can be so reckless? Old man, you got a bad temper. It's pissing me off." spat teo with a grim frown, furrowed eyebrows, and pursing his lips, displeased with being told off to behave like a dog pet.

"You certainly look to be the cause of it."

"Me? Look who's talking, you started it." 

"And I'm finishing it." The car came to a swift halt, Cameron stepped out of the vehicle shortly after making the statement. Forcing the young man to groan and do the same scowling, closely following behind his senior and glaring childishly. "You should perhaps get ahold of your anger, you are gonna get us killed, or kidnapped. We are allowing ourselves to be easy targets, you do know why we are here, right? To find the missing person and not to get lost."

Teo tried his hand at taunting the old man whilst they trek amongst the howling wind and ghostly trees, sneaking a quick peek at the phantom third person behind him, slightly astonished to find his partner navigating without a proper source of light, "You took me out here to kill me, am I right?" Although his voice indicated no sense of dread, he sure couldn't starve off his nervousness. 

"Kid, would a famous detective risk his reputation and career for a pity crime?" retorted him, moving his face over his shoulder to spy an agitated boy picking up his pace. 

"Well... when you put it that way, I guess not. But who knows what goes through your mind? For all I know, you could be leading me straight into a trap." fearfully narrated teo and stared with wide eyes. At last, the mature of the two put a stop to their conversation, and said, "Suit yourself, got no time to convince you."

The two went on their uncertain roads with different notions, teo tensely searched the area and in a distance, to his surprise, found a dully-illuminated house isolated and far away from the public eyes, he called out to his elder handpicking mysterious objects rooted in the mud, shouting, "Mr Cameron, there's a house over here!" 

"And you are sure you are not seeing things?" 

"Then why don't get your old ass over here and see." 

Cameron walked over grumpy and stomping, leaning in towards the destination, he observed it, "oh." He spoke, "guess you do have proper eyes." He grinned at the male turning his body towards him, a sinister gleam glowing on the man's face.

"Haha, come on kid." With light leaden steps, he made his way over to the lonely house, teo eyeing him
with disdain gripped his fist and licked the insides of his mouth, he retorted, "hey, you do know this could be a trap old man, with old age, I suppose brain power comes down too." Smugly said, he eagerly awaited a battle of hefty words.

"Yeah kid, guess you've got some brains. Young ones these days still do stupid things despite having good intelligence, they lack experience."

Teo grimaced, not having concocted a good remark to throw at his partner, "well, sure. Still though-" Cameron put up his hand, gazing up at the windows, one of them being broken chunks and bits of glass slivers spewed around the mud, "hey kid get up there." He suddenly demanded.

Teo widely opened his mouth, "huh?! You do know I don't have a quirk? Right? Plus we can't just enter an unknown property without a search warrant!" He revealed his wrist, the facade he put up crumbling and overtaking his arrogant confidence. He continued.

"Why don't you get up there?"

"Kid, how could you ask an old man to climb up there and not break his back or something in case he falls." Cameron folded his arms, staring at the boy.

"What the hell?! If you can't, then even I can't! You have a quirk and I don't!"

"Well, aren't you brave kid."

He sighed, opening his arms and placing them on his lips looking up at the place to better find a remedy, he then turned around side-eyeing the tall trees obscuring the house, it had to be the promising choice.

"Okay kid, climb this tree."

Katsuki remained unmoving in his seat red eyes glued to the woman he nearly lost, let her escape, let himself underestimate her. That only meant he had to improve himself, whatever he thought he was doing seemingly did not seem enough. He couldn't let her do this again, to herself or him.

She peacefully slept on the hospital bed, unlike the most times he's been beside her while she dreamed, she didn't stir nor did she grimace when he wrapped his arms around her waist.

Now, she's compliant. Submissive without an option.

She had to let him take care of her, and he would. Only if she would care to think that perhaps giving him another chance was necessary.

"Good morning Mr Bakugo." The doctor's voice resounded throughout the room whilst he crept forward and shut the door behind him. "According to your request, we have decided to let her be taken home and given treatment there as per your plea." He informed with a stiff and monotone voice, leading him to believe that money surely could talk.  

"I must warn you if any complications do occur. It would be wise to bring her back and let us take care of her." The man subtly glared at the blonde, peering down disapprovingly, "tomorrow she can be discharged." He notified throwing one last glare and walking out of the room.

"You know... On the day you escaped, I was thinking of binding you to me forever. That will happen, I will make sure of it, it's what you and I want." He picked up his hand and gently rested them on her cheek, stroking it as his tired eyes took in her frail appearance.

"I'll take you home tomorrow."

••••

"Kid! What the hell are you doing?! I told you to get up there, not just cling to that branch for dear life!" Scolded Cameron from below teo who instantly glared down and shouted.

"Oh yeah! Let me fall to my death too while I'm at it, old man how the hell are you even gonna catch me, huh?! You'll break your back first!"

"Kids these days are so rebellious, just get the job done rookie, that's an order!"

"Well too bad!! I'm not gonna take orders while I'm in a life-or-death situation!"

"You are too dramatic rookie..."

The man sighed, walking up to the tree and peering up, "get down then If you can't do it, no use wasting time here. Looks like we'll have to get a search warrant and miss finding crucial evidence."

"You serious?"

"Yeah, I'm serious! I could have paid for your hospital bills if you did fall, it's tragic you missed that opportunity."

AN: I'M DONE WITH ALL WEDDINGS! NO MORE WEDDINGS FOR ME PLEASE, I HAVE TO WRITE!
On a more serious note, I have returned from my sleep-deprived and exhausted slumber, preparing for marriage is really tiresome I must say, my sister and cousin sister got married so I was busy for almost two or three months. Anyhow, I'm back and ready for business and preparing myself!
Hope you enjoyed this chapter
Huge apologies for such a short chapter and long hiatus!