PART THREE
When an angel falls, how loud is her cry?
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The first years of your life felt like living surrounded by a great abyss.
A yawning, all-encompassing black thing that sucked anything that dared come close. Over time, you'd grown accustomed to your little island in the middle, floating through your days alone and content.
Eventually, others came.
A boy with eyes the color of hyacinths, a stuffed fox already molded to your embrace, a chipped elephant worn to the bone. Others filled the space with light and laughter and hope until you forgot what it felt like to float by alone.
The people with white coats and no faces forbid you to step close to the ledge, for you would surely fall and land somewhere
they couldn't find you. They wrapped a blindfold around your eyes, fed you food that made your bones groan, and never let you out of their sight. You believed every story they told you, swallowing the scary words like pills.
Why would they lie?
They said they wanted to protect you. Keep you safe. Whenever they made you bleed or locked you away in your room for disobeying, they always said it was because they loved you. The world had to wait until you were perfect before it could meet you.
'Others will get jealous and try to take your beauty,' they said while securing shackles around your ankles. You nodded, ignoring the bite of cold metal.
'Others will throw you off the cliff the second you leave us,' they said through a small crack in the door. You nodded, ignoring the way your body shivered uncontrollably.
'We can play a game instead,' they said as their knives cut the feathers out of your face so you could look more normal.
'You need us,' they said while standing over your convulsing body before turning on the horrid collar clamped around your neck like a noose. You nodded, gritting your teeth as the taste of copper stained your tongue and little lightning bolts carved scars into your neck.
'I need you?' you asked as their shadow pooled on the ground like dark mold feeding on your frail frame.
'I need you,' you whispered when every ache in your body meshed into one dull throb.
'I need you,' you whispered as their hands tightened the blindfold until your skull felt like it would crack.
'I need you,' you said when you realized their coldness had disappeared, even if the light never came. 'I need you,' you said when you saw it made them smile. 'I need you,' you begged when they finally suggested letting you cross the chasm and see the world. I need you, I need you, I need you. I don't know how to live without you.
But then the day came; they said it was time, that you were ready and perfect.
So you left. You stepped over the abyss, clutching your elephant and fox, the memory of hyacinths heavy in your mind. And when you finally let yourself see the world... it was marvelous. It was warm, and kind, and so so big.
A boy, wings dipped in crimson and not much older, welcomed you into a castle. He gave smiles willingly, the gold in his eyes somehow familiar. As if he'd waded into the murkiest part of your brain and toyed with some old, buried tissue. As if you'd seen him before.
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𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬 || S. Todoroki x Reader
FanfictionAll her life, Y/n has been told what to do. It was easy. Only having to do what was expected of her, the objective of her life carved into her her bones, without entertainment of pointless dreams. But when she's forced to enroll at UA, things change...
