Can You Not

20

You didnt bother with getting out of your pyjamas, waiting for the cover of night to go to the location that you were told to meet the girl. You felt somewhat safe using your quirk to guide you through the sparce forest.

You smiled to yourself remembering to meet the girl at the large boulder, a place she had taken you to in quick succession before you both walked home from school.

Once at your destination you sat idle on the rock humming and looking around silently. Yes you were a little early but she had said 9pm it was 8 55 you arrived a lot later than you usually would've.

You recapped what you would tell her in your head. Hearing a snap of a branch and seeing a torch lighting someones way.

You stood up to go and greet her but in return was greeted by many torches all flashing in your eyes and surrounding you like a caged in prey.

"Huh?" You questioned trying to figure out what was happening trying to find a familiar face in the people surrounding you, unable to pick anyone out before Talia herself stepped forward.

"I don't get it. Why did you tell on them y/n?" She asked her eyes dark although you couldn't really tell you being distracted by the flashing lights surrounding you.

"What do you mean?" You asked, watching as your 'friend' shared the look of your abusers, disgust.

" You ran to your father and snitched on my friends, he threatened them, telling them they wouldnt see high school if they carried on teasing you."

You couldn't believe it, you couldn't stomach it. Talia not taking your side, not enjoying your company. The look on her face made you feel dizzy processing what she had said.

You looked behind yourself as the middle schoolers closed in. Familiar faces from your class, Bakugou, Okumara, Ryuji and Shoko those that had tormented you through the years that abused you all red faced as they stared at you as if you were a rotting corpse on the side of the road.

Talia didn't even get another word out before they had their hands on you, tugging, pulling your limbs as if they weren't attached. Punching and clawing what they could get their hands on.

You wailed watching as Shoko and Talia giggled at the expense of your body. You dropped to the floor curled up and crying as you get stepped on and kicked, non of the kids using there quirks in order to divert attention.

They degraded you spitting on you and tearing at your hair. It was almost like they wanted to kill you. It was scary what children in this country would get away with.

Talia as if she had orchestrated it all waved her hand and the boys took a step back. She looked at you crawling away to fatigued to use your quirk bleeding and bruised on the ground face swollen.

She pulled you upwards slumping your body against the rock, laughing once again as you missed in pain. She poked your swelling cheek, finding it humourous that even now you didn't fight back or argue or do any of the sort. She understood the power that came with this bullying hobby.

" I told these lot that it would be so funny to make friends with you but they just wouldn't listen." She told you gently pressing her hand against your cheek stroking softly like a mother would do. " But look how easy it was to get you out in the woods at night."

Anger quickly grew in your chest, as you gathered phlegm to spit at her. She gasped wiping her face scrunching it up with anger. The teens behind her laughed finding it funny you fought back.

"Fucking bitch!"

Talia pulled you forward before smashing your body against the cold rock. Your head first to collide with the hard dense object, the rest of your body followed going limp almost immediately after.

The teen laughed at your blacked out state, flashing their torches on your body to get a closer look.

Shoko was the first to scream, watching the blood gush from your head in buckets.  " What the fuck did you do Talia!?" She exclaimed sweating profusely as she tried to breath.

Bakugou vomited quickly swallowing it back as he stared at the lifted skin at the back of your head. Okumara and his evil twin hardly moved watching as Talia placed her hand on your bloodied neck.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" She gasped feeling no pulse from your body. She didn't want to kill you just give you a little scare as not to snitch again.

Just a small push in the right direction and now they were laying with a corpse.

"What do we do?" Shoko trembled, thinking about how she would get out of doing prison.

"Errr." Ryuji, Okumara and Bakugou shared a look between themselves unsure if what to do and still trying to process the situation.

"I'm gonna delete her from my phone and her phone." Talia started, hands trembling as she used your fingerprint to get onto the device she found your contact not before trying to lighten up the situation by mentioning how she was the only person in your contact list.

No one laughed.

She let curiosity get the best of her, opening you and your father's messages, reading the threats and emotional abuse that seemed to be the only conversations you guys had.

It looked like they had an Albi.

"Guys her dad's abusive."

"So." Bakugou asked wondering what that had to do with her dead body.

"So we can make it so that her dad did this." She concluded.

Forging a conversation between the two of you were you cried to her about how your dad was mad about having to go to school to fight for you and was taking you somewhere weird.

"Guys let's get out of here. I've sorted it."

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When she had gotten home, Talia cried, she cried and cried and cried. Thinking about the devilish act she had just commited. She was no murderer, just some teen who keeps getting moved due to their superiority complex one who's mother had threatened her harshly if she were to get kicked out of another school for bullying.

She paced her room. Looking at the 999 number she had dialed. Calming her breathing before calling.

"999. How can I help?"

"My friend, she sent me some weird texts, she told me her dad hits her and sent me a location pin saying that he's going to hurt her and that he's taken her there. It's been hours and I haven't heard from her." She faked concern.

"It's alright we'll get your friend. Can you send the address of this pin?"

"Yes *********** forest **7 **10. Do you want her home address too?"

"That would be amazing thank you."

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The children knew you were dead despite school telling them you were comatose. You were left on the ground to long to survive such a thing, it seemed your dad's money was good for more than intimidation.

It was for the best, hearing about the court case were your father was arrested and sentenced to 10 months in prison for child abuse, he wasn't done for murder this angered Talia.

Smart Talia, manipulative Talia, but she didn't feel the same as before, she felt that she needed to change herself for the better. She knows she can't undo what she did she knows her hands would never be clean but the least she could do was prevent it from happening to others.