It’s been so long since he’s passed but every year you do the same routine; pay respects to the boy you knew once upon a time and hope that the pain will ease, but when you stumble across a stranger in the middle of your apartment, you begin to learn that maybe you aren’t the only one forever grieving.
REQUESTED BY: anonymous / “hi congrats on your milestone love ❤️ for the event, could I please request dabi + red roses? thank you ”
SUGGESTED LISTENING: everybody dies & getting older by billie eilish
AUTHOR’S NOTE: had a random burst of motivation so i speed wrote this during the whole night before i had to head to the hospital, hope you enjoy!! / ty to @laichi,@bleedinqhearts,@chimielie, and everyone else who listened to me ramble or beta for this!! i love ya’ll mwah
WORD COUNT:1.9K
WARNINGS:angst (??) and slight fluff, mentions of grief and emotional pain, depictions of injuries (non specific)
PAIRINGS: Dabi/Touya Todoroki x gn!reader
↳STRANGERS TO ALMOST LOVERS (??), SLICE OF LIFE ↲
You’ve always thought that love and loss were beastly things; creatures untamable in their quest to claim everything, but you’ve learned that perhaps just because things are yours for a moment, doesn’t mean one day they won’t be gone.
It started at the ripe age of nine — when the urge for world domination truly takes over — and your best friend was no stranger to the insatiability of youth and its temptations, but you suppose Touya has always been funny like that — always rushing to be first in the grand scheme of winners, and on the night your friendship turned sour, it sunk in.
