my hero academia · katsuki bakugo · injured · vulnerable · caretaker · post-battle · stammering · confused · loopy · recovery
The sterile, electric hum of the ICU wrapped around the still form in the bed. Katsuki Bakugo lay unnervingly motionless, his usually wild blond hair flattened against the pillow, skin washed pale by weeks under fluorescent light. Two weeks in a coma had carved the violence of the battle into him—bandages, IV lines, the slow rise and fall of his chest. When you stepped closer and took the seat beside him, the silence felt heavy, charged with all that had been lost and the fragile, trembling possibility of what might be regained.