My Brother, My Keeper

FREEZE!!!

Everything burns, her face and neck are the worst, but it feels like every inch of her skin is ablaze with fire. She claws at anything she can lungs clogged with what feels like smoke, some rational part of her brain clocks that these feelings of pure agony don't belong to her that she's safe at home in her bed but that part of her is drowned out by the pain. Tears prick at her eyes as the agony gets worse as now she feels as if she's been dunked in ice every part of her switching on a dime from feeling like she's been tossed into the sun to feeling like she's in the Arctic without a coat she wants the blanket back but she'd just thrashed around so much it fell off the bed and she's in too much pain to grab it.

 She can't even see anything other than an occasional lick of flame or block of ice that isn't truly there. She bites down hard on a scream there's too much terror she's not safe, vaguely she registers distressed mewing nearby, but she can't hear anything other than the pounding thud in her skull she wants it to stop NEEDS it to stop but it won't and there's nothing she can do. Astra feels the wind get knocked out of her and she has to bite her tongue to prevent herself from screaming in pain once more.

Hot metallic liquid floods her taste buds as her cheeks and tongue bleed, the coppery taste and sting pull her back to reality just enough for her vision to come back a bit though the world is still wreathed in a crackling red it's no longer consuming all five of her senses. The tears begin to fall, leaving streaks of warmth, and she realizes that she's freezing despite the intense burning sensation. Goosebumps coat her arms and legs and her feet are numb from the chill, there are several parts of the room with frost like what you find on the inside of a freezer which makes her feel even more confused as she shakily picks her blanket up wrapping it tight around her, her breathing is visible and her toes look blue. The kitten (which she'd named Starburst) hops up into her lap curling up on top of her feet though its head is still up as it mewls loudly.

One of the other cats, the one that had reminded her of Hizashi pokes its head through the cat flap mewing in a seemingly inquisitive way, after more panicked noises from her kitten it backs away running across the apartment she can hear its paws as it runs across the floor and she feels an intense wave of nausea roll over her making her gag and prompting yet more concern from her kitten. She's starting to lose her senses again her vision spotty and she buries her face in the kittens' soft coat to muffle the sound of her sobs as the world fades in and out. She faintly hears paws settle in front of her room before she loses almost all of her senses to the intense heat once more. 

Soft purring is the only thing other than white-hot pain she can register, as things had somehow gotten worse, she wants her dads, this is the first time she's really thought of them as her parents but right now she wants nothing more than her Papa's random tangents and her Dads calm demeanor and quirk because her Dad could make it stop, all this pain is coming from Shoto and her connection to him through her quirk so if he stopped her quirk he'd stop the pain and the relentless thumping. 

On the other side of the apartment, Hizashi is woken up by a hard bite on his leg one of the cats has been nipping at him repeatedly until finally he's woken up. He sits up and rubs his eyes it has been a week and some change since they'd adopted the cats and other than a very rare nip they never bite so this sets off alarm bells in his head. He decides to check out what the cat wants sitting up to shake Shota awake and put his hearing aids in, Shota blinks his eyes open clearing some of the groginess from his head. The entire time he is getting his hearing aids in the cat is pacing in circles in the doorway, though once they're in it's obvious why there's an incredibly distressed mewl coming from Astra's room along with some muffled sobs.

"Hey, Shota we should go check on the lil listener I don't like how worked up the cats are plus I think she's crying." Shota is out of bed in an instant after he hears it to they both follow the cat who sprints down the hallway meeting up with the other full-grown cat who seems to be standing guard outside Astra's room. As it sees the humans approaching both cats go through the cat flap. Hizashi reaches the door at a pace just short of a full sprint opening it slowly so that he doesn't accidentally startle the little listener. However that concern is quickly tossed aside as he takes stock of the situation Astra is sitting with her blankets wrapped around her and the kitten in her lap, her skin has an extremely concerning bluish tint to it and her lips appear to be a pale almost white color.