The Red String | S. Todoroki x reader

Chapter 27

I see them.

The people who once lived. They're all watching me from a distance on the other side of the room... it's super unnerving.

The noises nearby are muffled... such as Todoroki's voice. I turn my attention to him, though it's not him it's more of his energy. It appears overwhelming, dark and swirling like a hurricane in the outline of his body. Like a ticking bomb waiting to blow up.

The memories from that night flood my head, what my mum said to me about his power... and my new one. That i was the one who had to prevent the bomb from destroying him and everything around him.

"Mum?" i call out in need of her assistance.
"I'm here" her voice echos around me and i stand up, ripping the tubes and cords off of me as i leave the hospital room.

I have to find her.

"Mum help me" i whimper.
I follow her voice down the hall, my bare feet hitting the cold hard floors.

There are multiple people trying to stop me - I cant see them only the outlines of them - but i manage to move through them with ease.

I stumble down the flights of stairs. There seems to be an alarm going off now... but i can't really tell.

"I'm here, angel" her voice rings in my ear again.

There's the door out of the hospital...

I wander over, steps wobbly and weak. I can see a figure through the glass door and push through all of the security who are trying to hold me back effortlessly.

"Here, y/n" I spot her across the road... she looks different. Something about her is sinister.
I shrug and walk out onto the path, in front of the road.
"Y/N WHAT THE FUCK?! STOP" i can barely make out someone's shouts behind me.
I step out onto the road just i snap out of the trance. The world returned to its usual colours but sounds were still slightly muffled. There were no more the figures of people who once lived surrounding me.

A loud horn vibrates through the air.

I look to my right, a car.. headed right at me. About to hit me.
Just as the vehicle is close enough for me to see the drivers face clear as day, i'm yanked backwards by both arms.
We land on the ground, the concrete grazing the backs of my legs and my elbows.

I'm still not with it, the world is spinning.

"Holy shit." Bakugo breathes heavily as i lay against him. I cant move i feel paralysed.

"DONT JUST STAND THERE LIKE AN IDIOT, KIRI!" he yells "GET SOMEONE"

I'm not sure how long it had been when the nurses wheeled a bed outside, picking me up and laying me down on it. I felt tension around my ankles and wrists before all 5 of my senses disappeared completely.

*****

I finally came back around once again.

I blink multiple times while my eyes adjust to the light. I could hear and the world had stopped spinning.
I go to sit up but notice restrainments around my wrists and ankles, holding me to the bed. I begin to struggle attempting to pull them off through brute force, but i'm weak.
I begin to panic and hyperventilate.

"Hey! hey, hey, hey" a hand is placed on my shoulder and i jolt away, looking at them "calm down it's just me, champ"
"Dad? dad why am i-" i start to struggle again.
"Y/n, take a deep breath.
Inhale." he inhaled with me.
"hold.
exhale" we breath out and i relax.

"What's happening?" i ask, my head pounding from a headache.
"You don't remember?" he asks, his eyebrows raised "I suppose you are considered delusional right now"
"D.. delusional?"
He stays silent before elaborating "You were seeing things. Hallucinations."

"...am i going crazy?" i whisper worriedly.

He shakes his head "of course not, champ, you're just unwell"
"that's what you called mum" i murmur.
"I mean physically" he smiles probably in an attempt to be convincing.

I feel my eyes prick and shut them, trying not to cry.
When i open them, he's watching me, a sadness behind his eyes.
He gets up and leaves the room without saying anything.
I hear distant voices from the hallway.

"It's inhumane!" I hear my dad say loudly and sternly.
"I'm sorry, we can't remove them. She's high risk for suicide"

Suicide.

"My daughter is not. She is sick! Not suicidal."
"The fact that this sickness is causing her to act like that is exactly why we need the restraints!" The person who i'm assuming is a doctor answers in a frustrated tone.
"At least just one of her wrists.. please"

A few minutes later my dad comes back in with a doctor. He undoes one of the wrists restrains silently and then leaves, shutting the door behind him.

"Thanks dad" i say lightly.
"All good" he wraps his arms around me "now i can finally give you a hug"
I missed him so much. It hadn't even been that long since i last saw him.
When he lets go i notice a red string wrapped around his pinkie finger but there's not string leading from it... it kinda just looks like a ring.
Try and examine it closely but he's moving too much.
"There's no string" I let out my thoughts out loud.
"what? string?" he looks like he's seen a ghost "red string of fate?"

I nod slightly, still confused. As soon as i blink, it's gone.
I rest my head back on my pillow.
"I think i have mums quirk"
"You don't say" he chuckles in disbelief, letting out a nervous breath "since when have you known this"
"I haven't... I had a dream about her from before this weird shit happened" I shut my eyes.
"You saw her? How is she?" he asks desperately, kneeling down by the bed.

"Do you think what possessed me today possessed her back then?" I ask, not listening to my dad.
"If i'm honest, i don't think so... she wasn't happy. She had years of guilt and pain built up"

I turn my head to look at him "i didn't ask how she was i was too.."
"shocked?" he asks in an understanding tone.
"I guess"

"So you think that the quirk activating has caused this?"
"maybe..."

"oh and, the reason there's no string is because we're no longer on the same plane. Our souls are still connected though, that's why it hasn't disappeared"
I nod. Interesting.