Spiraling back to You

Chapter 1 - Lost Memories

A/N I wrote this fic like a year ago or something and completely forgot about it sooooo better later than never lol

"A quirk accident?"

Katsuki had been out on patrol while it happened. He knew Izuku had been called in to assist with the villain takedown, and the agency had assured Katsuki that his help wasn't needed. That he should focus on his own route and make sure no one used this opportunity to wreck heaving somewhere else. It was a common strategy. Cause a big commotion with someone with a strong tanky quirk to draw in the heroes and have the others execute their actual plan somewhere entirely different. Nothing ended up happening on his route, though.

Which was a good thing, really, but it meant Katsuki had missed out on all the action and someone else had to fill him in on whatever went down. Most of the time that person would be Deku, but they were being held up in the hospital. Apparently he got hit with the villain's quirk while apprehending them.

"Yeah, he was punched right in the gut!" Kaminari exclaimed, punching the air as if he was the one who did it. The idiot didn't work at the same agency as Katsuki, but he'd been active during the take down, so their agencies had to file collective paperwork. "Looked really painful. You should go check up on him."

"I'm sure the nerd is fine," Katsuki huffed, turning to his computer screen so he could file his own patrol report. "Stupid ass gets fucked up more often than not, so a dumb punch ain't gonna take him out. What's the quirk do anyway?"

"Dunno," Kaminari shrugged. "It didn't have any immediate effects so maybe it's a mental one?"

Katsuki hummed, ticking some of the prefilled boxes on the online form while he listened to dunce face ramble on about what kind of quirk it could be, even if his deductions made no fucking sense at all.

"You really aren't gonna check up on him? At all?" Denki asked after a bit. "Dude, he's your fiancé. If it was Hitoshi, I'd-"

"I get it!" Katsuki snapped, glaring at the electric blonde. "If he isn't cleared by the end of my shift, I'll go check up on him, okay? I'm sure it's nothing serious anyway. They would've called me if the idiot was dying. Besides, he should know better than to get hurt by now. Seriously, he ends up in the hospital almost once a week! Is it so much to ask for that he uses that big fucking head and fucking think before leaping head first into any damn-"

Katsuki was cut short by the ringing of his phone, making him groan and snap even more.

"What the hell do you want?!"

"Ah, a pleasure as always, Dynamight," the woman on the other side answered. He recognized her voice immediately.

"Dr Isha," Katsuki stated, making Denki's eyes widen. Isha was Izuku's doctor, or, well, not really. She was a doctor specialized in trauma and a first responder to quirk accidents, which meant she dealt with a lot of heroes. And since Deku ended up at their city's hospital so often... Let's just say she could probably recite his phone number from memory with the amount of times she had to call Katsuki to inform him his fiancé had done something stupid again. "How is Deku?"

"So you've heard about the accident," she said.

"I know he got hit with a quirk," Katsuki sighed. "So tell me, how bad is it?"

"I think you might want to come in and see for yourself," she told him, which was never a good sign. Shit, that nerd got hurt pretty badly then.

"I'll be right there," Katsuki said, putting the phone down again and glaring at Denki. "Not a fucking word."

"I didn't say anything," he said, holding up his hands as if Katsuki was going to shoot him. "Am I gonna need to tell people you're leaving early or-"

"Do whatever," Katsuki snapped as he marched out of his office. It didn't take long to get to the hospital from the agency, which was probably not a coincidence. Heroes tended to settle around critical infrastructure. Better protection and all that. The fact that the front desk lady knew why he was there before he even had to open his mouth was a whole other thing.