Her Touch ~Tomura Shigaraki x OC AU~

Chapter 1: So Damn Cold

Illika

I...

Feel so cold.

So, so cold.

I've never felt this cold before. I'm shivering, my teeth chattering. Trembling almost uncontrollably. No. It is uncontrollable. I can't stop. No matter how hard I try.

And I feel so, so numb. At least, I think I feel numb. Can you feel numb and cold all at once? Because I do. I think. My legs and right arm are all heavy, fading in and out of focus to my consciousness. One minute, I am aware of them, and the next, it feels as if I've slipped away from them.

But my left arm...

I can't feel that at all. It is completely numb, even to the coldness swooping through me. I can't feel it. Not my fingers. Not my hand. Not anything. It is all just...nothing. It has simply only slipped away, just out of grasp.

I sigh, coughing, my body jolting. My eyes are squeezed closed, nothing but a void of blackness meeting my consciousness. I dare not open them. The last time I did that, a sharp light met me, causing me to wince and sending a skull-crushing pulse throughout me. It had left me crippled, though, I suppose I was already doing that. Paralyzed and frozen in this strange painful numbness.

How many times have I faded in and out of consciousness? How often have I gone from here to there and back again? How many times?

I can't even remember. How many days have I been here, anyway? One? Two? A week? I don't know. Time has blurred and conjoined into one single stretch.

My heart beats, my pulse drumming in my ears.

I feel so sleepy. So, so sleepy. I'm so tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of screaming. Tired of trying. I'm just tired. Exhausted, really. What I want - what I really want - is to just...

To just be done.

**Ello lovelies! Well, the first official chapter is here! It wasn't much. It was just a little look into Illika's head. She doesn't seem to be doing too good, huh? Wonder what'll happen to her... Guess you'll have to stay tuned to find out! I do have some fun stuff planned for this final book, but we'll have to see if the characters want to play nice and follow the script. Guess we'll find that out along the way. Anywho, thank you all so, so much for all the love and support! Y'all are coolio! Wuv yous!! <3**

-Noel Ross