#mentions of the finkelsteins and sally

Izuku is recovering in Halloween Town and everyone he has meet has helped him feel at home. However out green haired baby has a question about Demon and he goes to Jack for the answers

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Warnings: Mentions of babies dying, sad Jack, sad Izuku, also somoeone help Mrs. Finkelstein her husband will stay up days on end without her help

Word Count: 1037

Izuku spent his next few days in Halloween Town recovering and sending letters to his mother. Telling her that he was healing up well (according to Dr. Finkelstein) and that all the town residents were making him feel at home. Well, all the ones that he has meet.

Jack would come and talk with Izuku about quirks and Halloween. Izuku loved learning more about the holiday from the Pumpkin King. In return, Izuku told Jack about quirks and heroes. Jack said that his intellectual mind would fit perfectly in Halloween Town.

Sally always cooked food for Izuku. Most of it was first attempts at Japanese cooking but so delicious at the same time. Sally was so kind to him! She even made him a suit like Jack’s! Izuku tried to say that she didn’t have to but the ragdoll monster insisted that she make him some clothes to wear while he stayed in the town.

Dr. Finkelstein wasn’t too good with children but he was good at educating a curious mind in the world of science. Izuku was more than happy to tell the doctor about his quirk analysis books. He was hoping to get his third note book for Christmas. Izuku would also ramble on and on to the permanently seated man about his theories about quirks.

Mrs. Finkelstein was almost never too far from her husband (unless she was in her kitchen). She was really good at making soups and cookies! The soups were normally for her workaholic man. She always put either a sleeping agent or an ingredient for energy in them. Turns out Sally had done the sleeping agent slip with the doctor’s soup too. But, that was more because she was a curious woman who would slip away from home a lot. Her father didn’t like it that she kept leaving but as sense mellowed out after meeting his wife. Mrs. Finkelstein did it more so her husband could get to sleep and rest his brain; Or if he was too tired to wake up when he did go to sleep.

“I love him to the Afterlife and back but he may spend days and nights on end experimenting if I don’t intervene.” Mrs. Finkelstein once said when Izuku asked why. The elderly lady was like a grandmother of sorts. Her spider shaped cookies (with a spell on them to make them move like spiders) were definitely grandma worthy.

And there was that strange creature that was a mix of human, kitty – cat, elf, and something else – Izuku knew it was something but he couldn’t place it. She was the one who brought him here to Halloween Town. He owed her so much and yet the creature was just content to know that he was alive. Her name was Demon and well … she only spoke in broken Japanese – she was like a comfortable presence that he didn’t understand. The pastel monster was very much like a mother in more ways than one. Sometimes she would be like a human mom, like his mom, and help him get dressed; other times she was like a kitty mom, grooming his normally wild green hair.

He had to ask about why she was like that but something stopped him whenever he tried with Demon herself. So he went Jack about it.

“Jack – san, can I ask you something about Demon?”

“Of course my boy! Maybe I can shed some light on your question!” The skeleton answered well patting the chair next to him. Izuku had been staying with the Skellingtons sense waking up and as long as he was careful, the green haired boy could move around the house all he wished.

Izuku made himself comfortable in the seat beside the Pumpkin King before asking,

“Why does Demon – san act like a human mom and a kitty mom?”

“Why does – oh! Yes, her maternal instincts. The very thing that she is driven by.” Jack’s skull shifted into something of that of a sad yet thoughtful look. “That is a very heartbreaking story, my boy. I will tell you if you’d like but be warned it is not very happy even if she is happier now – a – days.” Izuku nods, he wants to know – he needs to understand why Jack is so sad.

“I will not go into details but before Demon came here, she had her own litter.”

“Babies.” Izuku nodded, that made sense but it only made Jack heavily sigh – like reliving a not so good memory.

“Yes, her own kids. Sadly, she had then in late spring just going on to fall. They never made it a month into their new lives.”

Izuku’s eyes widen; her babies didn’t – but that must – The boy slumped down in his seat. Dead, they were dead, never to know life and the joys it can bring. Never to experience the harder points in life. But –

“Wha – what about the Halloween Magic?”

“Her kits were already buried when I found her that Halloween. It would be disrespectful to her late children. I brought her back here to see if the children in town could help her. Even if she did become happier sense arriving here, her own instincts towards children never left. She will become panicked if a child near her is in danger or she will attack the aggressor with little regard to orders from higher ups if she feels that the children will be hurt.”

“That’s what happened with me? She knew I was in danger and came to my rescue.” Jack’s kind smile appeared upon his skull again as he roughed up Izuku’s already messy hair.

“Yes, that very well may be, my boy. Demon won’t speak of that Halloween night, but, I am certain that she saved you because of the motherly instincts that drove her. I am sure your own mother would feel the same.”

Izuku smiled at the Pumpkin King with his beaming sunlight smile. A chuckle came from Jack before the eight foot tall skeleton picked up the human up and took him to the room that Jack and Sally let him use while Izuku stayed in Halloween Town.

“Let’s get you ready for when you head back to Earth!”