Failure {(grown up) Katsuki X Reader}

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Nightmare hadn't come back. Wether he thought you'd given up or he was done with you he didn't come back. You had run through every escape option you had which was basically nil at this point. Your final decision was to dislocate your thumb and hope you could slip from the ropes. The angle of your arm made it hard to do so.

Just pulling at you hand wasn't enough to dislocate your thumb. So with a deep breath you jerked your arm as hard as you could and with jolt of pain your hand slipped through. You bit down on your gag as you rode out the pain. Taking deep breaths you used what part of your hand that you could to remove the gag. Taking a full deep breath wrenched your other hand free with a grunt. Tears stung your eyes as you tried to breath through the pain. Now for the hard part.

Using the usable finger on one hand you grabbed your thumb and jerked it back into place. It was wild jolt of pain but it began to dull quickly. Taking a breath you reset your other thumb. You didn't know how much time you had before nightmare decided to come back so you had to do this quick.

Leaning forward you reached down and untied the knots binding your legs. As you stood to take a step you stumbled. Your legs were numb and felt like jelly. You'd sat for to long unable to move. You flexed your legs forcing the blood to flow and regained some feeling.

Then with wobbly step after wobbly step made your way to the door. You twisted the door knob and unsurprisingly it was locked. You looked around the room and could find nothing to force the door open. You took another look at the door and realized the hinges were simple and had you had something small enough you could knock the pins out.

You whipped around to the chair. You made your way back to it and began turning it over. You could see at the bottom nails holding the back of the chair on. Hoping Nightnare didn't have cameras hidden somewhere, you brought the chair up and slammed it down. The back broke off along with a couple of legs.

You wrenched a nail out of the chair and took a broken leg. You placed the nail onto one of the pins in the door hinge and used the chair leg as a hammer. You began to hammer at the nail and much to slowly the pin moved upwards. This was taking to long already. Though it was your only option so you kept going. Then you heard a buzzing sound and small click from behind you.

Heart pounding you whipped around pointing the broken end of the leg forward. The blank empty wall began to move. It slid almost by magic straight backwards away from you. You didn't move as it kept gliding backwards. Then figures stepped to your side of the wall. Former class 1A began to appear one after the other. Their faces lit up as soon as the saw your disgruntled figure.

-Katsuki-

Katsuki stepped around the wall as it opened wider and by the gods there you were. Beaten and bruised holding a chair leg for dear life. His heart was pounding as he approached you. Though he saw the recognition in your eyes you didn't drop the chair leg it's splintered end pointed, at him.

"Y/n-"

"Don't. I'm not doing this again. I know it's fake nightmare you can cut it out!" Fake? What did you mean by that. Whatever nightmare had done he twisted you to fear anything that you saw.

"Y/n it's me. I don't know what he's done but it's me." Doubt flashed across your features but you stood strong.

"Tell me something only the real Katsuki would know." He was pissed at whatever Nightnare had done that twisted your mind to fear anything and everything.

"On our first date I nearly killed the ice cream guy just to get you some ice cream." Hope flared on your face but you didn't budge.

"That's too easy anyone could know that." Katsuki thought and for a moment couldn't think of anything. Then he remembered something only the two of you would know as it was the last day you'd spoken to each other before he'd left.

"The day I said I was leaving was the last day I said I loved you. And you said you wished you never had." Your labored breathing began to calm. Tears brimmed your eyes as you dropped the table leg. You lunged at him wrapping your arms around him and let everything go. Your body shook violently as you sobbed. He buried his face in your hair hiding his own few tears of relief. You smelled of dirt grime and a little blood, but it was you.

You jerked back as if realizing something. "My quirk." A wave of grief flashed across your bruised an hollow face. "It's gone."

"What?" Katsuki pulled back looking at you from an arms length.

"Nightmare, he had the quirk removing drug." No tears this time only empty grief of losing your quirk.