Pop Rocks [Kiribaku]

Chapter 26: Get off!

⚠️ TW Warning ⚠️ blood, panic attacks

All Might POV:

After apprehending the leader of the League and a young, blonde villain Vlad and I made our way back out to the main room. Shigaraki was passed out from Vlad's quirk but the girl was... Acting quite strange. Darting around excitedly as far as her chains would allow her, looking down hallways as we passed, breathing in excited pants. We had to be quiet since there could still be villains around but she whispered to herself a lot, which was slightly irritating. She would make a good hero if she wasn't so twisted. Before my thoughts could go any further she yelped and yanked at the chain I had on her, right as Midnight came around the corner carrying something that looked like week old roadkill. It took me a few moments to realize who it was, and by then he had woken up.

Bakugo POV:

I wasn't on the mattress and I wasn't in the chair. I also wasn't standing in the space between the two, I was in someone's arms. Someone tall and strong, but it was different than Patchwork or Chapstick. I opened my eyes to see three different faces, and Toga's. Needless to say that was cause enough for panic. The one holding me was wearing a red mask and in a burst of strength I shoved myself away from her with a yelp, landing on the floor on my ass and crying out in pain, eyes searching for the only recognizable face. Toga was reaching for me and before any of the other people could react I shoved towards her and she caught my shaking form, and then I realized I was unable to breathe. I squeezed my eyes shut and pressed into her, hiding from whoever the other people were that were surely Dabi's friends here to do worse to me. She didn't say anything, just pushed me away and said something to the three, before I saw three masks fall to the floor and looked up.

"All Might?"

He bent down and put his hands under my armpits, lifting me from the floor like I was a weak little toddler and trying to set me on my feet. Of course I fell right back onto Toga, and at that point the confusion and panic was too much and I blacked out, wondering what the hell was going on.

Next thing I knew there was a LOT of sound. Like, a deafening wall of voices and beeping and buzzing. My body took a long time to react to what my brain was telling it to do but I slowly opened my eyes, to feel a painful pressure sling over me and my vision was completely red, but not from anger or blood.

"Oh my god oh my god oh god" I heard, loud in my ear and my body finally snapped into place, the pressure unwelcome but the voice familiar. I shrinked back, wondering why it was so bright and all the voices stopped talking.

"Dude get off, you're hurting him" someone said, and the red and pressure dissappeared. I finally saw that I was in a hospital bed and the buzzing and beeping was a heart monitor that was going quite too fast, and the fact that there were like ten people in the room, seven of which I didn't recognize. Kaminari, All might and Kirishima were all next to my bed, with hoards of nosy people crowding the bed. I shrunk back again, the delight of seeing Kirishima not sinking in yet. His face turned angry and I flinched, waiting for some kind of pain before I heard him shouting and shoving everyone out besides Kaminari and All might. Once the door was closed he slowly walked back to me. His face wasn't angry any more but it still scared me. What if he thought I was weak for getting taken again? What if he knew what had happened to me and thought I was disgusting? What if-

"Jesus Christ Katsuki" he whispered, voice breaking as he gently took my hand and smiled at me, tears in his eyes.
"Wh- where am i-i? Where's d-dabi?" I asked in a tiny voice, cursing the quiver and weakness in it. Surrey he thought that was pathetic.

"You're in the hospital, Dabi is in prison. What happened?" He whispered, causing the last three weeks to flash through my mind and I whimpered, my legs twitching in a feeble attempt to curl up and I pulled my hand back, pulling the white sheets over my face. I didn't want to think about it, I didn't want to talk about it, I didn't want him here. I didn't want any of them here.

"Go" I whispered.
"What do you mean Katsuki-"
"Please!" I shouted, managing to roll away from them and curl onto my side, wheezing in the pain it caused
"Please go away, please please just leave" I whispered, shivering, before I heard a hurt little sigh and three sets of footsteps and then a door closing. I sighed in relief, putting my hands on my face under the sheets.

I could still feel him on me. Even if what he said was true and he was locked away, I didn't feel any safer. His hands were all over me, all over my body. I shook and rubbed my arms painfully, all the burns and healing cuts so excruciating but the blood that poured from the reopened wounds washed over my skin. It felt good to get his hands off of me. I fell asleep with my arms covered in blood and my own flaking, charred skin.

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...okay.