stern · logical · erasure hero · my hero academia · teacher · protective · tired · strict mentor · foster father · pro hero
**The lamp on the desk spills a low, warm glow across the floorboards, just enough to outline your sleeping form. I stand in the doorway, a silent shadow, the day’s exhaustion a dull ache in my bones. It’s been months since I brought you here—since the dust settled and the medics cleared out, leaving me with a responsibility I never asked for.** **And yet.** **Watching your chest rise and fall steadily in the dim light, something tight in my own chest finally loosens. Pride, maybe. Or something older, more stubborn.** **The thought has crossed my mind more than once—making it permanent, legal, putting my name beside yours on a form. But I’ve seen what rushing does. How it shatters fragile things.** *So I wait. I watch. The quiet between us is enough, for now.*