"It's been like eight months already."

Izuku nodded without looking at his childhood friend. He continued typing on the computer.

"Can't you type that report faster?" he snapped looking impatient already.

"It's been ten minutes already. I have four paragraphs done. Can you shut up while I do this?" Izuku asked with his eyes staying glued to the computer screen, "I type faster than you and that's why I'm doing it right now instead of you."

The green haired hero could hear his friend's hands popping with anger. It took everything in his power not reach over and slap the shit out of him. Quite frankly, he was tired of Kacchan moping around and starting fights with people. He damaged a bathroom stall, a desk and put a hole in the parking lot. It was getting tiresome already.

He wasn't the only one who missed Ochako and wanted her to come back.

"I'm getting sick-

Izuku started his last paragraph. Endeavor hated how long his reports were but he never wanted to leave anything out just in case it came in handy one day. The poor freckled teenager was only human after all.

"Of this place-

I need to pick up drinking or something.

"And the bullshit-

Almost done!

Izuku hit send only eight seconds before Katsuki held out his hand and the electronic device exploded. He fell backwards onto the floor in shock. Sidekicks came running into the report room to see a red face Katsuki and a white faced Izuku. No one moved for several moments seeing the looks on the two younger heroes' faces when Endeavor stormed in.

"What the hell is going on in here?!" the flame hero bellowed.

Izuku kind of curled against the desk behind him that wasn't on fire.

"I SAID WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"

"I'm taking a leave."

Katsuki walked away from his friend who looked more upset that was taking a leave than the fact he almost burned his face off.

Ground Zero was almost a mile away when Izuku pulled up beside of him.

"HEY!" Izuku yelled.

He threw the car in park and shut it off.

"You can't just blow shit up just because you feel like it!"

Katsuki whipped around. His red eyes were filled with tears and he looked angry.

"I can and I will! I can't deal with this!"

"Which part? You haven't spoken up much during the whole time she was gone!"

"I loved her so much Izuku! What part of that is hard to understand?! What's worse is how is she going to be after all this?" he yelled with his voice wavering.

Izuku opened his mouth but no words came out.

"How do we know it wasn't all for show? What if she was going to become a villain? What if they did kidnap her and brainwashed her? What if she isn't ok after all this? What if she has that weird shit where she fell in love with her captor? What if she decides she doesn't want to be a hero and drops to civilian status?"

Any and all of those things could come true.

"I honestly... can't say what would happen."

"That's fucking helpful!"

"You act like I would know anything about this! How would I know?! The only thing I can tell you is that you have to trust in her to make the right choices!"

The two heroes stood there staring at each other. It was a long time coming he would finally explode and making a big scene. It would just be easier if he talked to one of them earlier or a therapist. Izuku had lost sleep too over the whole ordeal. He lost sleep, drank more coffee and energy drinks during the day just to stay awake.

Not to mention they stayed up half the night looking for leads on Ochako's whereabouts whenever they could.

"How can I?"

Izuku made a face.

"What do you mean?" he asked looking confused.

"She liked you! She makes bad choices!"

The One for All user sighed and rubbed his temples.

"I was never a bad choice Kacchan."

"Oh really?" Katsuki said stepping forward, "I saw the way she looked at you- pined after you but you paid her no mind! You ignored everything and still dragged her along!"

The freckled hero's jaw dropped open.

"I was just friends with her!"

"She liked you!" the blonde yelled, "How can you just keep ignoring her and treating her like that-

"BECAUSE YOU LIKED HER!" Izuku yelled, "I COULD SEE HOW YOU LOOKED AT HER!"

Bakugou fell silent.

"All I ever wanted was for us to be friends again! I want Ochako in my life as my friend- like a sister! Nothing more and nothing less! I wouldn't have ever been a bad choice! I just never wanted to put her in more danger by telling her everything!"

Izuku walked back to his car and opened the driver door.

"Fuck you Bakugou!"

He slammed the car door and sped off leaving his best friend/ co worker behind.

X

X

The awkward silence that fell between Ochako and Tomura was loud. They had been quiet and away from each other. Both had slept on and off. Even eating food in silence. Ochako's brain had been in overdrive thinking about all the things Overhaul had done to her and what he could've done to her when she was passed out several times.

All she could think what was in that IV line when she woke up and threw it through that glass observation window. It could've been more drugs to pump her up... She had no idea what was going through his mind and she couldn't read the psycho as many times as she tried. There was something eerie about him.

If anything...

She felt disgusting.

Someone injected her with drugs. Someone who could've molested her and god only knows what else. She hated herself more and now she wondered how much those chemicals influenced her feelings for Tomura Shigaraki. Apparently that hadn't been Overhaul's intention and it's possible he had hoped she would be more into him that her original target she had been tracking when she was caught.

I can't believe all this. I honestly thought being in this room and having Overhaul use his quirk on me was the worse it could get and now... The possibility that my choices in here could have been made for me against my will in my own body. I don't know anymore. Is my body addicted to it? Will I have to detox?

Can I even be a hero now? Or will I be treated differently? Will... can I return to my old life? What will I do with myself?

She looked upward to see Tomura was dozing away against the wall. She could hear him snoring lightly and it made her smile. In that single action, her heart fluttered and her stomach felt funny. She put her face in her hands trying to think if it was her feelings or influenced by the drugs coursing through her veins.

Does it matter anymore? The question really is if... if I want to keep going. Do I?

She looked down into her lap, letting her hands drop to her side.

I spilled my secrets... worries to him. I trust him that much. I don't trust Overhaul. That means I still had my own rational brain working. Overhaul was under the assumption I would still have negative feelings for Tomura. So the drug doesn't influence my thinking... I wonder how far it works? Into my quirk? My DNA?

Ochako glanced back up at the sleeping villain.

I would've never liked him or even understand him if we weren't in here. Maybe it was meant to be... I mean I was following him for a while...

She bit her lip thinking.

It could've happened anywhere.

She cracked her fingers.

I don't think I would be able to change him... but I did in some way. I wonder if I'm the only one he has connected with like this. At first it was just like a fling- a way to cope. I allowed my feelings to overtake me all the way. I won't be able to do that out there. We promised each other we would find a way.

She stared sadly at his sleeping form.

I wanna find a way. I don't want this to be the end. To be it. To second guess myself all the way and the whole time.

She got on her hands and knees. Ochako started crawling over to him slowly.

I love him.

She went in between his legs and he hadn't woke up yet. She pressed against him, startling him out of his sleep and she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Ochako?"

"My decisions are my own and I want to be with you. I love you."

Tomura felt his heart stop for a moment.

"What? You thought it was-

"It's not after I thought about it. I want you still... only if you still want me, that is."

He nodded.

"I still want you. I love you Ochako."

She pulled away to look at him. He brushed her brown hair from her face.

God she's beautiful.

"I think the drugs only affected my ability to think a lot better. I don't think it affected my emotion part of my brain."

"Since it's been some time from it... Do you feel any different?" Ochako asked.

He pressed his lips together in a thin line.

"Honestly... I think it did make a difference in how I reacted to my feelings to you. I would've never acted on it otherwise. Also, we've been stuck in this room forever and that might've played a bigger part in it."

Ochako smiled and nodded.

"It's ok though. He might've tried to use you to kill me but he gave me the chance to feel... to touch another person. I havent been able to do that since I was a kid. It was really isolating for me and now I kind of wished my quirk was gone."

"Don't say that."

"It's true. Because after this I can't touch you like I want. Run my fingers through your hair , touch your lips or even comfort you properly along with all the more sexual things too."

She blushed darkly while she laughed.

"Your quirk is lucky though," Tomura said.

She frowned, "How so?"

"You can touch things."

she smiled, closing her eyes.

"Not so much. My quirk had been evolving some. I managed to get over the fact I vomit when I use it though."

"That sounds gross."

"It was..."

Ochako leaned back and picked up one of Tomura's hands.

"Being able to decay things isn't so bad. It leads you to be more careful and I know that sucks. We can be careful together."

He nodded. She leaned in hugged him.

"Eights days left."