This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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After coming back from the hospital, Denki mostly stayed up in his room but later decided to head downstairs into the kitchen to make some hot chocolate and call it a day, as he needed plenty of energy for tomorrow's sports festival.

He enters the kitchen and opens the fridge to grab the milk carton and places it on the kitchen counter. And opened the drawer beneath the counter for getting out the pot so he could pour the milk into it.

That's when Denki's body is thrown like a rag doll on the opposite side of the kitchen wall.

Denki's entire body bursts into pain making Denki grit his teeth when a sudden realisation hits him, he knows who this quirk belongs too.

He tries to move his body but only to find some slight sensation in his left hand then he tries to wiggle his fingers.

When his bloody Uncle stomps their foot onto his left wrist making Denki scream in agony and then his body goes rigid.

Denki could only move his eyeballs in his socket and stare at his sadist Uncle. His Uncle's face changes into a creepy smile and says, "Hello there cutie, it's been so long".

His Uncle's piggy hand moves towards Denki's face.

Denki could feel the panic setting in and he uses his quirk to get out of his Uncle's blood bending quirk.

Denki uses all the strength in his body to make his quirk flicker all the lightning bulbs and tube lights in the house as an SOS signal and hopes Lizzy notices it.

Eventually it works Denki could feel his uncle losing his grip on his quirk for a minute as his Uncle's eyes move to the flickering lights.

Denki takes a deep breath and screams at the top of lungs, "LIZZY! SISTER MARY! HELP ME!".

Suddenly his Uncle realises what Denki was doing and slaps him in the face. Denki could feel blood on his teeth. His Uncle goes back to slap Denki again.

Denki closes his eyes for the slap to come. But no slap hits his face. He opens his eyes to look up and see his Uncle's eyes had gone all dreamy and he stood there in a trance like state with a toothy smile.

Denki gets up as he could feel the traces of the blood bending quirk disappearing away and looks at the door to see nurse Mary huffing lightly alongside Lizzy.

It seems like Nurse Mary has used her lullaby quirk on his Uncle and takes him upstairs to put him to sleep and administrate some meds as well.

Nurse Mary with a serious look nods at Lizzy as she heads upstairs to check up on the patient.

Lizzy runs to Denki with tears in her brown hazel eyes and hugs him and says, "I am so sorry sorry sorry. I know you won't forgive me. I had forgotten to mention that he would be at home for two days then back to the rehab centre again. Sorry I am sorry, Denki I don't deserve your forgiveness".

Lizzy literally starts sobbing into Denki's shirt. Denki uses his good right hand to pat Lizzy on her back and says while trying to keep his voice from quivering, "Liz! Calm down I am okay only my left wrist is injured. Other than that he did not do anything to me".

Denki could not let Lizzy see his other side, when he himself was on the verge of getting a panic attack a few minutes back. Denki finally manages to get Lizzy to calm down.

After the little crying session, Lizzy wraps Denki's left swollen wrist in bandage, after applying a good amount of numbing and healing ointment. Lizzy hands him an ibuprofen pill and asks him to go upstairs to relax with the promise of bringing hot chocolate with a nod Denki heads upstairs and sits on his bed.

As promised Lizzy brings hot chocolate as well as cookies into his room and sits on the study chair. Both sip their hot chocolate and munch on cookies in silence.

After a few minutes Denki decides to go to sleep and lies down on his bed and pretends to sleep by snoring loudly, so Lizzy would go back to her own room instead of worrying about Denki.

Seeing Denki asleep Lizzy gets up from the chair and goes out of his room and his door closes with a soft click.

Denki lies wide awake staring at the glow in the dark stars stickers on the ceiling while the other residents of the house slept peacefully.