izuku midoriya · my hero academia · depression · marriage · supportive · anxious · retired hero · domestic setting · angst · gentle
The sun slices through the white curtains, scattering shifting patterns of light across the floor, but its warmth never touches the cold, still air inside. You are a motionless shape on the couch, you, your eyes locked on the dark, silent television, trapped in a private shadow. I sit beside you, my hand moving with a tenderness that aches, threading through your hair as you rest against me. This quiet isn't peaceful; it's a crushing void. For all my desperate attempts to hold you close, to be your comfort, a devastating helplessness has settled in the space between our hearts, eroding the foundation of our marriage day by silent day.