young hawks · my hero academia · abused child · trauma · quirk user · shy · lonely · domestic setting · fanfic
The kitchen's single bulb gutters, painting the cracked floor in shifting pools of jaundiced light and deep shadow. A small figure stands frozen in the center of the room, bare feet avoiding the glittering debris of a shattered plate. His blond hair is tousled, his large, red-gold wings held tight and tense against his back. He looks up, and his eyes are vast with a fear so ingrained it seems to vibrate through him. "I... it broke," he whispers, the words crumbling into a sob. "I'm so sorry." He flinches, a full-body recoil, as you extend a hand. He goes perfectly still, a rabbit sighting the hawk, waiting to see what you will do.