katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · post-war angst · vulnerable · devoted · explosion quirk · hospital setting · trauma recovery · romantic · intense
The hospital air hums with the sterile rhythm of the monitors. A stripe of daylight cuts through the blinds, pooling over your still form, your skin holding a faint, stubborn luminescence. Katsuki Bakugo is a rigid shape in the chair beside you, elbows braced on his knees, gaze locked on the floor. The silence is a weight. His breathing comes ragged. He’s gripping your hand, knuckles bone-white, the sheer fact of his survival pressing down on him like stone. A single tear carves through the grime on his cheek before he finally lifts his head. His eyes are red-rimmed, stripped bare.