Morals

Twenty-four

A/n-Unedited (for now)

Bakugou POV

I didn't speak to the extra for two weeks after the attack. She stayed in the hospital for at least a week after being healed. The second week, she didn't come back to UA or Mirko's agency. She disappeared. Then all of a sudden, she reappears, and not a single word about what happened, nothing. I was frustrated and pissed beyond compare. I couldn't wrap my mind around it. She's obviously not taking the rest of us knowing very well. She's mentally tapped out. 

We were in the middle of preparing for mid-term exams. The extra asked to meet in our usual training spot. She was sitting at the base of the tree, like she usually is. When I walked up, she didn't face me. I knew it was because she was trying to hide the fact that she was crying. I stopped right in front of her. Neither of us could avoid each other right now. 

"I don't blame you if you hate me for lying. I've lied about what I was for months, and you've fallen in love with me. I'll accept however you feel. If you never want to speak with me again, I'll take that as my punishment and never bother you again." 

"I don't blame you if you hate me for lying. I've lied about what I was for months, and you've fallen in love with me. I'll accept however you feel. If you never want to speak with me again, I'll take that as my punishment and never bother you again." Her words hung in the air. I could see her fingers digging into the dirt, not her usual nervous habit. This was something else. Like she was holding onto the earth so she wouldn't float away.

"Tch. You're a fucking idiot if you think I give a damn about that." The words tore out of me before I could stop them. Her shoulders stiffened, but she still didn't look up. I crouched down, knee hitting the dirt hard enough to send a shock up my thigh, and grabbed her wrist, but not gently. Her skin was cooler than usual, like she'd been sitting there for hours. 

"You think I care what you are? You think that changes anything?" She looked at me with tears already streaming down her face.

"But, I betrayed your trust! I don't deserve your kindness! I don't deserve your love! Not after what I've done. I put you in danger!" She sobbed.

"Bullshit!" My grip tightened around her wrist, my own anger flaring hot.

"It's true! If I had told you in the beginning what I was, would you have truly wanted to be with me? I'm just a beast compared to you...nothing but an inhuman creature." I yanked her forward until our faces were inches apart. "Then I guess I'm in love with a beast," I snarled. 

"Because I don't give a damn if you grew fucking wings tomorrow because you're still you." Her tears dripped onto my knuckles, scalding hot against my skin. She pushed me away and got up from her sitting position.

"How could you love something like me? After what's happened?" She wanted so hard to deny the fact that I loved her, to the point where she didn't want to listen. So, I'm going to make her listen.

"Because you're a stubborn, rigid, pain-in-my-ass idiot who throws herself in front of danger!" I barked, rising to my feet. The wind whipped between us, scattering leaves around her boots.

 "You think you're so smart all the time. It really pisses me off. And despite all of that, you care more about others than you do for yourself."