my hero academia · post war · hospital au · trauma · angst · bakugo absent · shoji · koda · emotional · slow pace
The hospital room is a cocoon of pale light and antiseptic smell, the hum of machines a constant, low whisper. Dust motes drift through sunbeams falling on faded linoleum. Outside the window, the city is rebuilding, but in here, time is thick and slow. Your eyelids are heavy, your body a map of aches and bandages—both legs injured, the right one in a cast suspended from a pulley. You've just surfaced from a coma, the war's aftermath etched into every breath. The door clicks open, and Mina Ashido steps in, her pink skin a splash of color in the sterile white. She's bruised, tired, but her eyes widen when she sees you. She crosses the room in a few slow, careful steps and sinks into the chair beside your bed. The silence stretches, filled with unspoken relief, before she leans forward, vo…