Claws Out (Marvel x MHA fanfiction)

Chapter 28 - Feral Tendencies

Midnight had been the one to find the girl. Apparently, she had found Y/n's discarded blazer in the hallway and went to look for her to return it— only to stumble upon the girl panicking to the point of total body exhaustion, especially as she accidentally went feral.

So Midnight, being the motherly angel that she is, had taken her goddaughter straight to Recovery Girl. Truthfully, Y/n didn't remember too much from after she woke up in the nurse's office two hours later. It was dark, her family was worried about her, and All Might was there to explain what had happened. That was about it.

The drive home was quiet, with Mic playing her favorite of his extensive CD collection softly from the radio. Hitoshi had let his sister rest her head on his shoulder and held her hand the whole way home. Then, Y/n went straight to bed.

Y/n didn't go to school the next day. Or the day after that. She didn't do much but lay in her bed and stare endlessly at the ceiling. The glow-in-the-dark stars Hitoshi had stuck on the ceiling didn't seem as magical now, now that the threat of everything she had getting taken away seemed so much more real.

Her phone was scattered somewhere on her nightstand, definitely dead. The girl didn't even want to think about how her friends were probably blowing up her message box with their worries and questions. She had already gotten a taste of it when 22 came to visit.

He had gotten worried when she hadn't responded to any of his messages and called Aizawa, upon hearing what happened, 22 came straight to her. When he entered her bedroom, 23 couldn't help the tears that instantly started falling.

22 looked so... mundane. A pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a chain necklace with a small red feathery charm on the end of it, a black cap— he just looked so normal. And it broke the girl's heart that there was such a prominent risk of all of it being taken away.

She didn't say anything except, He's still after me. But that was all it took for 22 to understand why she was so distraught. He had laid down next to her and just held her while she cried, he even shed some tears of his own.

For a moment, it felt like they were kids again. For one terrifyingly truthful moment, 23 had liked that it felt like they were kids again. As horrible as it sounds, there was a small part of her that wanted it to be like that again.

That only made her cry more.

When she had no more tears left in her, 22 and 23 just sat in their mutual silence. The girl was grateful that they never needed to fill the silence with meaningless conversation to have a heart-to-heart. Their synchronized heartbeats had a million conversations all on their own, why muddy that with words?

When 22 eventually had to leave, her family replaced the hollowness his lack of presence left behind. They finally dragged her from her room and coaxed her into the shower after getting some food in her system.

It was a long two days, to say the least.

Y/n was in such a depressive spiral over what the number one hero had told her and Midoriya that she— for the first time since leaving the lab— felt truly scared. She had overcome so much, but truthfully Y/n wasn't sure she could go through another meeting with the doctor.

She had felt the warm and glowing light of freedom on her face one too many times to ever consider a universe in which she was dragged back into the cold and sobering darkness of forced solitude.

After two days of silent moping and indescribable fear, her parents had convinced her to finish the week at school. They had also signed her up for a double session with Dr. Kobayashi. Aizawa had told his daughter that maybe it was finally time to start talking about what she learned during her internship— Y/n was too tired to argue anything else.