The Emerald Prince

Chapter 101: Dumb blonds

Part 1/2 of angsty aftermath.
Enjoy?

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It was a strange deja vu, finding Izuku sitting on the side of a hospital bed grinning at them like absolutely nothing was wrong with the situation.
They couldn't move at all, just stared at Izuku's neck.
There were mottled purple and red hand prints wrapping around it ear to ear, blistered hand prints.

Even worse despite grinning, Izuku didn't speak, he signed.
E-n-j-i is going to jail! Isn't it great! I know the injury looks bad but I can get R-G to heal it up anytime, I just want to make sure the photographs hit the press first so any support he still has evapourates. Then I'll be talking again!

And with that...Shoto burst into tears, falling to kneel at Izuku's bedside and burying his head into the side of the mattress.
"Izuku you fucking idiot!" Yelled Hitoshi, eyes also stinging with barely held back tears.
The greenette flinched at the shout, which knocked all four teens down a peg.
To their complete and utter shock, it was Kaminari who walked forward, speaking softly like none of them had ever heard and saying exactly what in hindsight, Izuku probably wanted to hear.

"Hagakure and Ojiro are both okay, made it a bit of a memorable first date but they're fine." He began as he climbed onto the other teen's bed with a small smile, but keeping a careful distance between them.
"Aizawa was patrolling, and he's in a car only an hour away. Endeavour is in jail awaiting trial, and photographers to document the evidence are on their way. He's become public enemy number one, and I'm afraid this has kinda weakened faith in heroes, but I think that faith is long overdue being questioned, so don't worry about it, not like you could have talked him out of it..."
He settled on the bed, topic shifting to more meaningless class banter of the afternoon that Izuku'd missed.

Shoto had stopped crying after a few minutes, and finally spoke up whilst Hitoshi and Katsuki wracked their brains for ideas of what to say or do without being idiots.
"I'm sorry..." whispered the bicoloured teen, gazing up at the greenette, eyes filled with shame.
Izuku looked at him, lowering a hand down to run it through Hiniyuki's hair in reassurance and raising an eyebrow.
"You're being an idiot." Translated Hitoshi, finally breaking into the scene, "how exactly is your father's existence your fault?"
The greenette nodded slightly in approval then winced at the action, opening his arms in invitation, and Shoto tentatively crawled into them. Curling up on the bed between Izuku's legs like an overgrown five year old, his head on the shorter teen's chest listening to his heart beat like it was the most precious sound in the world. Izuku bit his lip, clearly feeling guilty as he wrapped his arms around the bicoloured teen.

"Did you really have to let him choke you until you passed out?" Asked Katsuki, proud of how well he kept his voice level, and of how many things he'd wanted to say/scream that he kept in his head.
Izuku snorted.
This way he definitely gets attempted murder instead of assault. No matter who he bribes.
Hitoshi didn't know enough about law to be sure, but he guessed it made enough sense for him not to over analyse, he caught Izuku sharing a strange look with Kaminari, but gave up trying to decipher it in favour of sitting down. Since Aizawa hadn't been there, the four had sprinted all the way to the hospital.

"HOLY SHIT!"
They all jumped and turned to the door where the rest of the class stood. It was Ashido who'd yelled.
"Ashido please don't shout!" Hissed Kirishima, as the teens broke into the room, thankfully drowning out Izuku's whimper at the unexpected yell.
As they approached, Shinsou was almost 100% certain Bakugou and Hiniyuki growled.
"Are you okay?"
"Dumb question."
"How are you feeling?"
"Was it really Endeavour?"
"What the hell happened?"

Izuku smiled and gave the purple haired teen a pleading look.
He understood so spoke to his dumb classmates.
"Izuku can't talk due to the injury so can only communicate through sign. He wants you to know that he isn't in much pain and he can get RG to heal the injury easily once the police photographers arrive and document it. He only let Endeavour get as far as he did, in order for the charge to be attempted murder instead of assault." Then at their looks, "He's fine."