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Angel in Hell [Tomura Shigaraki x Reader]

I should have destroyed you.

From the first moment I saw you—too soft, too kind, too good for this world—I should have reached out and ended it. Without hesitation.

You didn't belong here. Not in my world. Not in his world.

But I didn't.

Because something in me knew.

Something in me whispered when I looked at you, when I watched you move through this rotting existence with that defiant light still burning in your eyes.

"Not yet."

***

At first, you ignored me.

Or tried to.

You averted your gaze, kept your voice quiet, pretended not to feel my eyes following you, devouring you.

Like that would change anything.

I saw you everywhere.

Even when you weren't in front of me, I could feel you. Your presence wrapped around my ribs, under my skin, in my fucking head.

It wasn't right. You weren't right.

But I needed to understand why.

***

I should have destroyed you.

That night, when I finally had you cornered, you knew it too.

You froze.

Not because you were weak, no—you weren't weak.

But because you understood.

Understood that there was no escape.

I reached for you. Slowly. A single hand raised, fingers curling like a promise, like a threat.

Four fingers. Enough to end you. Enough to erase you from this world, from my thoughts, from this unbearable, suffocating pull. Oh, how satisfying that would have been!

You swallowed, and my breath hitched at the way your throat moved, at the sound of your heartbeat slamming against your ribs.

I could feel it.

I could feel you.

I could have done it.

But I didn't.

Instead, my fingers traced the barest whisper of your wrist.

You shuddered.

And I knew.

Knew that you felt it too.

***

You ran after that.

Of course, you did.

Like a stupid little thing who didn't understand what I was offering.

But hell has no doors.

And I was always right behind you, watching, waiting, wanting.

Even when you thought you were alone, when you let your guard down and your shoulders relaxed just slightly...

I was there.

Because no one else could have you. No one else could even look at you without consequences.

You were mine.

***

I found you again.

Pinned you to the cold wall of an alleyway, caged you in the dark, left you with nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.