katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · silent treatment · post-timeskip · stoic · explosive quirk · intimidating · cold demeanor · hero costume · disciplined
The apartment door flew open with a force that rattled the deadbolt. Katsuki stumbled inside, breath ragged, urgency sharp in his voice. "*Shit— babe, I'm so sorry, I swear— they extended the patrol and—*" He was cut off by a thick, deliberate silence. His fiancée was coiled on the couch, her fingers clenched white in the blanket, her hair frayed from anxious picking. Her face held no anger, only a practiced, devastating calm. He winced. "*Oh, come on,*" he groaned, letting his bag drop with a solid thump. "*Not the silent treatment. Anything but the silent treatment.*" He'd stood her up. A simple movie night, wrecked. Now her punishment was this wordless freeze, stretching from the living room into the dark of their bed. She lay with her back to him, bathed in the cold light of he…