Chapter 27
Uraraka's hands were frigid as though she had just returned from the Tundra, unnaturally. And he knew no amount of friction was going to warm them, "Are you going to help her up or what, man?" A rubbernecker laughed from his safe place within the crowd. She snatched her glove back, pulling herself up and moving away.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Not here." Uraraka hissed, moving out of the center of attention towards the edge of the crowd, and out the back door.
"I guess your dancing was that bad you scared her off." The rubbernecker called, Katsuki shot him the finger before proceeding to follow Uraraka.
He glanced at her, only a shall gathered around her arms, his anger was enough to keep him warm right now he slipped his coat off. Whoever did it was going to get it, they were going to feel more than his full fury than they could ever have considered. She waved his hand to him, "Keep it, I don't feel-"
"Not being able to feel is an extremely bad sign and possible case of hypothermia."
Uraraka rolled his eyes at him, "You know what I meant."
"That doesn't mean you can let your body decay, why didn't you tell us when Eri was fixing Raiz?"
Uraraka shrugged, glancing over her shoulder, "Eri's exhausted, saving Raiz was a huge toll on her and it's going to take her a while to wake up. I heard Deku talking earlier with her foster parents, she hasn't woken up since coming home, they believe it's from quirk-over usage." Uraraka shuffled, "How am I supposed to ask a child to save me?"
Katsuki pulled his jacket around Uraraka, attempting not to let her feel himself shaking, his own anger boiled within his chest threatening to burn him, it was enough to warm him. He felt as though he were gurgling on the words that were forming in his own mouth, as though he didn't understand how he couldn't have noticed or known when it happened, or at the very least prevented it, it was part of both his jobs after all. To keep someone alive. How could he forget to protect her? She wasn't the frail girl that everyone saw, but that didn't mean he could ignore protecting the strong. And he had failed her. The words steamed from his mouth, slithering to the balcony's flooring, "Who did it?"
Uraraka's eyes turned away from him, glancing over the galaxy, the stars that radiated the dreams they once had, "When I was little, I had imagined being able to be an astronaut. Who could imagine the girl that would one day control gravity would be restricted by it herself?"
Her eyes were set on the stars, but he was only looking at her. She was right they couldn't rely on a child to save her. Nor did he want to. "I'll give you my heart."
Red lit her face, but then she was calm with the dexterity that told him she'd be able to take down an army on her own, "Katsuki, you fool, I already have it." She reached her hand against his face brushing his hair out of the way, "You understand the value of everyone's life, but your own." His arm shifted, his hand wrapping around her arm, "You think everyone you love dies, is that the reason you're afraid to love yourself?"
His hand tightened around her wrist, "I'm not saying this because I want to die, but because I want you to live!"
Uraraka smiled at him, "Do you think the desire for someone else to live only exists within yourself? How selfish." She whispered, her eyes rolling back and her arms going limp. Katsuki caught her, the cold winds a crossed his back nothing in comparison to the temperature his blood felt as it had suddenly become. He lowered her to the ground. It wasn't logical that she was still moving with her heart not beating, but-
"Help!" His voice seemed unfamiliar to even himself as he screeched words that he had never prepared for himself to be saying, pleading with anyone to come to him. This was a party full of doctors and hospital staff and yet he knelt there with Uraraka in his arms-her heart ceasing to beat.
A bob of black hair pushed its way through on-lookers, Doctor Gloria's eyes stone cold as she shoved rubberneckers out of the way fighting in a battle of her own, she lowered herself next to them, being the only person that was going to successfully pull Uraraka out of his arms at this moment and already working, "Dammit. I thought I had more time." She hissed her hands moving and prepping the defibrillator.
"You knew?" He hissed.
"Of course I knew-"
"Why didn't you tell-"
"It's not just HIPPA laws, it's kind of hard when someone's constantly demanding you to play God each day!" Doctor Gloria glared at him.
He ran a hand through his hair as Doctor Gloria started the defibrillator knowing that if she didn't manage to fix this problem in a matter of moments she would move to use the defibrillator on him, "I don't-"
"It's not fucking magic Katsuki!" Doctor Gloria snapped, another shock to Uraraka. Uraraka had yet to move.
"Take my-"
"I'm not taking your heart out and even if I wanted to I wouldn't do it here, thanks for your bravery or whatever in your confused state but you would be both dead in a week if I did that darn surgery right here in the middle of this floor."
He glanced over Doctor Gloria, she wasn't wearing a party outfit, but her lab coat likely matted with liquids, she had been experimenting with something again. Likely trying to replace the supplies that she had lost in fixing half of Raiz's body.
Katsuki wrapped his hand around Uraraka's, "Why did you come to this party?"
"I thought it'd be fun." She lied, her eyes burning with a fierce desire not to be distracted.
Another on-looker placed their hand on Doctor Gloria's shoulder, "Look I know they call you Grim Reaper Gloria, but this girl is dead."
"Get off of me, this girl's been dead for a whole two days, if she can be dead for that long then I can make it beat again." Doctor Gloria pushed the man's hand off her shoulder with a fierce swat before continuing her counting. Doctor Gloria paused.
Katsuki glanced towards her, "What are you-"
Uraraka's hand tightened around her own, she coughed, and her eyes sliding back open, without a second thought he pulled her into his arms. Katsuki tightened his grip around Uraraka. It may be science to her, but Doctor Gloria was fucking magic to him.
Doctor Gloria sighed pulling her legs against herself, "Thank god. Girl next time you decide to do that girl me more time."
"I guess Grim Reaper does fit."
"Don't call me that, it's an insult. My first five patients died and on the sixth one after they were declared dead, I flipped out and they woke up." Doctor Gloria glared towards the party of on-lookers each craning their necks to see the latest gossip.
"It doesn't make much sense, but who wouldn't be a badass to have the grim reaper on their side?"
Doctor Gloria let out a faint smile before her eyes darted toward the crowd. Katsuki lit his hand, "Get out of here, this isn't a show and if it was it isn't free." The mass of the party darted, only a few brave souls remained each looking different directions pretending they weren't carefully watching the trio.
Uraraka pulled away from him, her hand reaching for her chest, "It's beating. On its own." She glanced towards Doctor Gloria.
She shrugged looking away, "Guess I'm a miracle worker after all."
Katsuki glanced Doctor Gloria over, the majority of her lab coat was covered in blood, "What were you doing?"
"What does it look like? I was making another heart, but it just kept exploding. I was on my fifth heart when something told me to go to the party. Honestly, I just wanted to make sure that you two went."
Uraraka moved her hair out of the way, "Thank you for saving my life." Her eyes slid towards him, "But I think I just said something that I might die of embarrassment now."
Doctor Gloria let out an echoing of laughter. A small smile graced her lips, "Come on let's get you two home. That heart that has taken care of you for so many years learn to take care of it better. I expect to see you tomorrow for an appointment around two."
Uraraka nodded, glancing towards Katsuki. About an hour and a rough car ride later, they were sitting back in the hospital.
"Look, it's beating just fine on its own. I'm not the one you need to worry about."
Katsuki shook his head clipping the monitor to her finger, "Put the rest on or I'll do it for you."
"Listen, I'm not-"
"Raiz is asleep in the next room with Kirishima and Denki next to him."
Uraraka shook her head, "I can't believe the guy that was always fighting for scores in the top of the class can be so dim."
He suppressed the growl emerging from within his chest, pushing the monitor stickers into her hand, "You don't want-"
"I might." Uraraka lifted her eyebrows, before lowering the equipment, "No wait, don't distract me! You need to listen, you're the target and you need to be more careful!"
He ran a hand through his hair, "It wasn't my heart that wasn't beating an hour ago!"
"Well-"
They both looked up at the sound of the door sliding open where Midoriya stood, "Did something happen?" His eyes glanced down towards the monitor resting in Katsuki's hand, following the wire towards Uraraka, then down towards the blood on Uraraka's clothes.
Uraraka threw her hands up, "It was a wild party that's all"
"That's not all it was, this moron decided that she would be able to hide her non-beating heart from the both of us."
Deku glanced between the two of them, "How?"
"The enemies quirk. You'd think that'd call for more of a panic."
"Uraraka you died?"
Uraraka waved her hands at him, "No, wait, listen, still beating just fine." Uraraka placed the stickers on, the monitor began to take her heart rate.
"Deku, stay with her. I've got something to do. And you, those better be on when I get back."
Uraraka rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out.
Katsuki slid into his car and within fifteen minutes he was at his destination, a half-burnt county jail. He glared it over, locking the doors and stomping up the stairs on a mission. Katsuki slid the door open, moving past the front desk, they each shot him knowing looks knowing where he was going. He slid the last door on the left open, what appeared to be a teenager but was really a monster sat at a desk a crossed the room. She set down whatever she was working on before moving closer to the glass that divided them, gracefully moving a chair and sitting a crossed from him, she appeared calm, but the chaos ragged a war within her eyes, a smile spreading on her lips as the thought of what she had done danced in her mind, "It's about time."