The Boy Savior - Ekko x Reader | DISCONTINUED

Season 2 - Chapter 7

"Scar, are you... are you hurt?" you rushed to kneel beside the huge firelight, who was already gathering himself from the ground. He massaged the back of his head as his puzzled eyes looked back at you. You cupped his face to carefully turn his head from side to side, looking for anything serious you might have caused him.

But apart from a slightly bleeding scratch above his left eyebrow and a possible concussion, he seemed to be fine. You felt the panicked knot inside your stomach ease a little, but now you felt more and more confused with each passing second. This wasn't right...

"I'm okay," Scar mumbled. "But what..." he started as he looked at your hands that were now lying in your lap as if he was already suspecting your answer. "What happened?"

You could only shake your head as more and more people gathered around you and you felt your cheeks burn. You felt like they were not just confused but scared of you and they would have had every right to feel that way...

"I- I don't know..." you now looked at your own trembling hands and clenched your fingers into a fist, trying to hide them in your shame. "I didn't do it on purpose..." you said as you looked at Scar, desperately, hoping that he'd believe you.

"Wait," he shook his head a little as his eyes grew twice their sizes. "You did it?" he asked and you swallowed, as you nodded, unsure.

"Yes, but... I didn't directly do it, I swear! It just happened... I could never hurt you..." you mumbled as you looked away from him in your shame. You heard more and more people asking what happened around you and you felt terrible. This wasn't you. Wasn't supposed to be you... You could never hurt anyone intentionally... Not with your powers at least...

Your confused eyes looked for Scar's again and noticed how the scratch above his left brow was still bleeding slightly.

"You're bleeding..." You started to reach to heal him as a first reflex but halted in your movements as the huge firelight pulled back from your touch instinctively. He noticed what he did and with a twitch of his ears, he frowned in his shame.

He was scared of your touch for a second, but you couldn't really blame him. You were scared of yourself as well, after all...

"Can you stop it?" he then asked after a few seconds of hesitation as he bent his neck and, even though you felt grateful, the bitter feeling couldn't disappear from your chest.

You only nodded as you slowly placed your palm on his forehead. You closed your eyes as you concentrated on healing him and you were only grateful because his wound was small enough. Anything bigger than a scratch would have required you to use more of your powers and you weren't sure you would have been able to gather any thoughts that could have helped you at that moment...

You were just as hopeless as that day when you were on your way to that shimmer warehouse... 

You felt a weak spark of warmness under your fingers as your powers started working but after only a few seconds, Scar hissed up in his pain and pulled back from your touch.

"Ouch," he mumbled as he massaged his forehead and you opened your eyes in your confusion.

"What?" you asked, searching his face with furrowed brows.

"It burned..." the huge firelight looked at you, equally puzzled and you swallowed as you felt all the blood leave your face.

"My healing...," you started as you hugged your hands to yourself in a desperate attempt to hide them once again from all the people gathered around you. "My healing hurt you?"

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Your eyes were pinned onto your hands in the semi-darkness. You were sitting on your bed, the only light source was the trembling light of a small oil lamp on your desk. Outside, the sky was darkening already, but there weren't as many strings of light ignited on the tree as usual.