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

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"Kaminari".

"Denki".

"Denki dear wake! It's time to have your meds".

"Denki my sweet child wake up" says a motherly voice, gently shaking his shoulder.

Denki groans and opens his honey golden eyes and stares at the white ceiling and says softly, "Oh. Wow I am in heaven".

Then, he hears a soft chuckle and the familiar voice of Recovery girl saying, "How do you manage to crack a joke even after scaring the daylights of everyone yesterday still it amazes me".

Denki gets up from the bed and stares with bleary eyes and whispers, "Recovery-san".

Recovery girl  uses the medical thermometer to check his temperature and smiles at the machine screen showing the flashing digits and says, "Your fever has gone down. But you might still have a stuffy nose.

Denki sniffs and he did have a stuffy nose. He grabs a tissue from the side table and sneezes into it.

Denki then stands up on his two feet and stretches himself and hears a nice popping sound coming from his body. He looks back at Recovery girl who had her back turned to him as she was busy writing something down on a notepad.

Denki contemplates.

Then after much thought he gathers up the courage to speak to Recovery girl.

"Recovery-san, I had the strangest dream. It's somewhat related to my healing quirk. Can I tell you all about it. When I am well enough?" says Denki softly.

Recovery girl slowly turns around and stares in surprise at the golden haired boy and says unsure of herself if she was the right person to hear it or not maybe she should just send the boy to Principal Nezu as Nezu had met the user of that quirk,

"Why not. I was not expecting to hear about it from you this soon. Tell me dear how many serious people on the verge of dying did you heal on the second day of your internship?.

Denki blinks at Recovery girl's odd question and he quietly says, "three. It would have been four only if I-".

Denki's voice wavers with sadness but he continues his speaking while trying to keep his voice firm, "One patient was so critical that my powers did not work the way I wanted to. He kept on bleeding and bleeding till my white gloved  hands became stained with blood but the head doctor did not give up and tried till the very end to save the patient's life while I-i stood there helpless with blood dripping from my both gloved hands and slipping down on my scrubs".

Denki's breath hitched and he wipes his eyes as he feels tears pricking at the corner. Denki hastily wipes his face and sniffles.

Recovery girl understood what the boy was trying to say and softly said empathetically, "That's what the medical field is all about. You have to keep trying and keep on moving forward and not stop. I know how you must have felt my sweet child. I can't offer you my comfort my child as my line of work has made me an apathetic person as I could not grief for my colleague death when they died one by one I just had to brave through it with a strong heart and here I am . Here take this medicine and water and this pill is for the evening to have before or after dinner".

Denki takes the pill and swallows it down with water in one single gulp and makes a  bleh sound at the after taste of the medicine in his mouth.

And goes to the attached washroom to wash up and returns back to see  Recovery girl motioning him to sit down on the small sofa.

"Have some strawberry oatmeal. You will need it for the day. If you're planning to attend your regular classes today" says Recovery girl in her motherly tone.