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Heartbeat - Deaf! Piers Nivans x Reader

"I can feel your heartbeat."

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Authors Note: Dialogue will be written in American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss. You will notice it bolded when it is written. There are no grammar errors. Thank you, and enjoy.

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I only remember the slightest pieces of what it was like in the military, before my accident. I believed I was a complete goner. It was not within my expectations to wake up in a hospital bed, hanging onto the edge of life. But still, I was alive. I was unable to hear the world buzzing about before me. Let alone, seeing my complexion the same as it was prior to the... mutation, came as a big shock to me. 

Everything sounded how I last heard it. 

...Like my world was underwater.

Day 1. The doctors are evidently surprised at how quick of a recovery I am managing. The only thing I want to do is finish PT and get the hell out of here. If I stay one more minute with a nurse hounding beside me, I swear I will have an outburst.

Despite all this, I asked the doctors finally: "When will my hearing return."  

They seemed confused initially. 

Did they not understand me?

And then day 2 said it all. This was the day I was diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss. After multiple failed tests, it was believed overexposure to sound, before the accident, damaged my cochlea. So why would I not upset? Anyone in my position would be on the floor crying. Maybe it was the fact I was just happy to be alive? Maybe it was because it seemed life was passing by, regardlessly?

The doctors told me I had a choice: To receive treatment and surgeries, that have the potential to restore my hearing... or to learn American Sign Language.

There was no guarantee that even with surgery and treatment my hearing would be restored. I would still have to learn how to speak again. I would have to learn how to function in a world where sound passes over my head, had I was to receive the cochlear implant.

The idea itself was enough to make my head spin. I didn't have a comfortable life outside of the BSA. The BSA was always my home, the place I could rely on. I didn't have the funds to afford surgeries and even more therapy. Even with my military pension it still wouldn't be enough. It was decided from then on:

I would learn American Sign Language.

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"Thinking what you?" Looking towards the beautiful girl before me, her inviting (e/c) bore into my own. With a grin, I waved her off jokingly. It was enough to make her smile. I never fail to notice how much her cheeky smile warms my heart. I motion for her to look at me.

"Nothing, why?"

(F/N) (L/N) had to be the only girl in this town that understood me.

"Only curious. You know me." She signed, her lithe hands moving gracefully. I have always been infatuated with her petite hands. With a nod, I moved my face into the crevice of her neck.

(F/N) (L/N), a hearing girl. Out of the many people in Raccoon City, she was the only one willing to learn my language; to understand me.