"No, I don't want to."
Truthfully, he didn't expect (Y/N) to want to meet with Tomura. Before today, she hadn't told Touya much about the night that they all arrived in her clinic room to be greeted by the stench of old blood and antiseptics. He knew she had been infuriated with him, so much so that she'd flown into a rage, though he'd never seen any evidence of it. The others told him about her and her potential for damage and chaos, but he couldn't see past the version of her that sat before him in that moment, with her hair up in a messy bun at the top of her head and her freckles peppered across her warm cheeks as she pouted at him.
Surely, no one would've thought different. He just thought she was so cute. Not an unkind bone existed in her body, at least not permanently. The ones that had yelled at him to leave had been transient, he was sure.
"(Y/N)," Touya sighed before he reached out for her. She was so dramatic, body language positively flamboyant as she retracted her hand back closer to her like a measuring tape smacking back into its holder, her arms folding over her chest. Her (H/C) brows furrowed together as she opted to find a new spot to stare at on the bedroom wall. If it had been anyone else... the thoughts often sat in that back of his brain, but he knew they were useless. There was no one else like her, not for him.
(E/C) gaze flickered over to the warmth of his chalcedony eyes, the way his lids drooped ever so slightly with fatigue. His wordless sleepiness was enough to make her let out a low growl of frustration. "You just... you don't understand."
She wasn't done- of that much, he was certain. If there was anything she ever said that she felt someone didn't understand, she'd be quick to explain herself until they did. Such was the nature of her benign chattiness and odd willingness to overshare. "Touya, do you remember that night when you got hit with the acid quirk?" (Y/N) nearly winced at the thought. She didn't like to think about that night, how worried she'd been, how she genuinely thought she might lose him. At that point, she wasn't even sure exactly what he was to her, but she knew she couldn't let him down.
The wall seemed to creak slightly under his weight when he leaned into it. "Yeah. I try not to think about it, makes my legs feel fuckin' awful." He looked down at his feet, wiggling his toes a bit within the material of his socks. The scars on his calves, which were already there to begin with, were now even more mottled and gnarled than they had been before.
"I thought you were going to die." She coughed a bit, trying to expel the discomfort that pooled in her chest. Thoughts of him had been swirling about in her brain far before that night, but it wasn't until then that she realized that she would've risked life, limb, and whatever else to save that desperate boy that was all but melting on her clinic floor.
His dark brows twitched. "You did?"
His question made a twinge of frustration shoot through her system. Of course she did. "Yeah. And I hadn't... I hadn't really figured out what I felt, but I just knew that I felt obligated to take care of you for some weird reason, and so I did, but one kinda hopes that they never have to nurse their person back from the brink more than once, you know?"
Touya simply nodded. Nursing someone wasn't something he could relate to, but the concept of not wanting to have to be in charge of someone more than once made sense to him.
"And I was so mad at you after what happened. I felt so fucking betrayed and awful and..." She continued to talk about the way he'd made her feel, and all it did was pull at the very pit of his belly. It was clear to see that he usually didn't care for how others felt, but she was an exception, and she was to be taken care of. He knew why he did it, and deep down, because it had purpose, he wasn't sorry for what he'd done, but he was sorry for the way it made her feel. "I was ready to cut you out and never see you again, or at least I thought I was, and then all of you showed up in my clinic."
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peril; dabi x reader
Fanfiction"fear of present danger doesn't exist if the present danger is you." dabi x reader. ♡ ex-pro hero bypass is disillusioned with the hero world and helps the way she knows best, at least until blue flame swallows her in. 18+, thank you.
