Apnea

Insanity

"Dabi." Her voice barely audible strained out his name, but he still caught it. Everything that her brain had locked away came back. The pain, the fear, the guilt. But one emotion ran wild over all the rest, anger.

Dabi had kidnapped her, saved her when she didn't want to be saved. She just wanted to let go. Why did he save her, when all she could hear now was the yelling, the screaming. Her inner demons want out, ripping her apart from the inside. How was she even able to hear anything else when every voice told her to die, give up, you failure, tearing her apart. In two, they pulled her apart, tearing her seams. Ripping away at her sanity. Her laughter echoed through the small room, bouncing maniacally off the walls, reaching back to her ears. She wanted something but what was it? What did she need? Freedom? No, it wasn't freedom, she had never felt so free in her life. She wanted someone to suffer. Feel the same pain she was, feel the agony, make them scream. Hear another voice besides the ones inside. She needed to know that real screams existed, that real pain existed. Sharp, she needed something sharp. Or crushing, something blunt. Something to cause hurt. The hurt that she felt.

Dabi flinched back, her laughter sounding like a broken record, scratchy and damaged. The look in her eyes had changed. As she locked eyes with him, instinct told him to run, she was dangerous even for him. She was a threat. Getting up, he made a break for the door. He was just able to reach for the door handle when something blocked him. He tried again, but it was like an invisible wall had appeared, blocking the door. As he looked back, his eyes widened in fear. Kikami had got up off the bed, blood dripping down her arm, the IV needle in her hand ripped from its cord.

She had her eyes fixed on him, anticipating the release she would feel as she made him bleed. She sealed off the sides adjacent to the door, creating a box with one opening around him. Taking a step, then another. A smile growing on her face as she gradually made her way towards him. All those years ago, she had been wrong. The look of fear was much better than numbness or pity. The voices finally agreed with her, accepting her rationale. Now all her focus was on pain but causing it. She dashed towards Dabi.

He couldn't move, Kikami looked at him in a way many had looked at him before, but now, her eyes burned with desire. When she lunged unexpectedly towards him, a blue flame shot out of his hand, incinerating the bed and all other objects in the room. But after he stopped, she stood there unharmed. Her grin grew wider.

"Kikami, stop this." His voice, for the first time in years, shook, betraying his fear. He tried to move to the side but found his way blocked by another invisible barrier.

Seeing the blue flames approaching her, Kikami quickly made a box around her out of the air. She felt nothing, the pain her body was going through was nothing compared to her want for release, her burning hatred, need for revenge on all the people who pitied her, who said sorry, who wanted to help her. She wasn't helpless, she wasn't weak. She was better, she was more. After the flames died, she released the prism in which she sealed herself. Her smile grew wider, another step was taken. She wanted blood.

As she lunged for him again, a black portal swallowed Dabi up, transporting him somewhere else.

She let out a guttural scream, "NO!"

The scream could be heard through the floor and up into the bar, where Dabi now sat on the floor. He was shaken but tried to cover it up with a cough. Kurogiri was thankfully the only person in the bar at the time.

"She is out of control Dabi, what exactly have you brought here?"

Kurogiri was shaken as well. Her eyes weren't human anymore.

"I-" Dabi paused and took a shaky breath, "I don't know."