I walked over and opened his door. When I closed it behind me, I made sure to lock it and pulled the curtains on the window down. I walked over to him and carefully undid one of his restraints. I then stood at the end of his bed and I could feel my heart racing in my chest.

I threw the ice pack in my hand and it slapped him in the face. His head whipped in my direction and once he saw me he pulled at the restraints. He was shocked to see that his one hand came undone and he quickly undid the other ones. Once they were all undone he dove for me and shoved me against the wall with his hands around my throat.

I closed my eyes at the pain and I took us to the floor. I tried to stay on top of him, but it didn't matter, because he was stronger than me. His hands started squeezing my throat, and I felt tears roll down my face.

"Bakugo. When did you first love me?" I asked him and he flinched.

His grip lightened a bit, but he didn't let go. He sat on top of me for a couple of seconds, before squeezing my throat again.

"When . . . do you remember when I fell out of that tree, when we were kids?" I said, and laughed a little. "And you had to carry me back to my house? Because I twisted my ankle? I was so happy, because you were carrying me like a princess." I laughed.

Banging came from the door, and I saw out of the corner of my eye that Aizawa was at the door. He started shouting and calling for security. Bakugo's grip got harder on my neck and I started having a hard time breathing.

"Without a second thought you carried me back home and my mom wasn't there." I continued with the story. A loud crash was heard and Aizawa came through the room's window. I put my hand up and he didn't try advancing on us.

"So you had to be the one to help me, even though you didn't know what you were doing. You did everything you could to help me, and you took care of me."

I put my hand on the side of his face, and blinked my tears away until they fell.

"That was the first time I fell in love with you." I said, and Bakugo's hands stopped squeezing. His pupils were growing and shrinking really fast, and I watched his pale eyes become bright again.

He let go of me, and back himself against the wall. I turned over onto my stomach and started coughing, until I had enough air in my lungs.

"When I first saw you." He said, and I looked at him. He was staring down at his hands. "The first time I saw you, I had never seen anything so perfect. We were just kids, but I thought . . . . . that if I didn't have you for the rest of my life, I thought it would kill me." Tears started falling from his face. "And when I finally had you, when we first started dating. I felt so peaceful!"

"Bakugo." I whispered and crawled to him. I went to reach for him, and he smacked my hand away hard.

"And now you're saying you love me?" He yelled. "After what I've done to you." He said and looked at my throat. "How could you say you love me?"

"Because I've always loved you." I said. "Never once, have I ever doubted my love for you. Not when you would yell all the time, or even when you tried to kill me." We were all quiet, and he still didn't look at me. Bakugo closed his eyes and his head hit the wall, it looked like he was still fighting whatever was making him want to kill me.

"I thought about you." He told me. "The whole time I was with those villains. I thought about, that if I was going to die. I was going to leave you all alone. I thought I was never going to see you again." I put my hands on his cheeks and he gripped my shirt.

"Don't." Mr. Aizawa said quietly, and I looked up to see him keeping the security guards back.

"They told me, that they were going to make me destroy everything I loved." He cried, and suddenly pulled me into his chest and hugged me. "And I was so scared, because you're all I've ever loved."

I wrapped my arms around him and sat down in his lap. He cried into my shoulder and I did the same. I had my Bakugo back.

"Can we go home now?" I asked Mr. Aizawa. I turned my head as best as I could with my neck keeping me from turning it all the way.

"I think so." He answered and Bakugo held me close to him as he started rocking his body. We continued to hold each other as Mr. Aizawa walked away to go do whatever paperwork was needed to get Bakugo to go home.

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I started opening my eyes, as I felt a hand rubbing on my cheek. Once I was able to open them enough I saw Bakugo laying next to me. I jumped, as I wasn't expecting him neck to me in my bed.

"I didn't mean to wake you." He told me, and continued to rub my cheek. I laid my head back down on my pillow and looked at him.

"Couldn't sleep?" I asked him, my voice was really raspy. I sat up and reached over Bakugo to grab my glass of water.

"No." He said, and I could tell by the look on his face something was bothering him.

"What's wrong?" I asked him and set my water back down, but I didn't lay down. He didn't say anything as he reached up and gently placed his hand on my throat. His fingers were so soft and gentle. His thumb rubbed over my sore neck, and bruises.

"How can you trust me now?" He asked me, and he sat up. "I mean I could just-." He started to say, and I didn't flinch as he gently wrapped his hand around my throat, but he didn't squeeze. I could tell by the look on his face, he was hurt.

He held his hand there, and after a few moments I reached up and grabbed his wrist and moved his hand up until he was cupping my face. I nuzzled my face into his hand, and tears fell from his eyes.

"How could you not flinch?" He asked me. He held the side of my face and pushed me to lay on the bed. He got on top of me and pinned me down roughly, but I still wasn't scared. "How can you not react?"

"I am reacting." I said.

"But you're not reacting properly!" He yelled at me. "You should be scared! You should be fighting me!"

"I am scared." I whispered to him and held his face in my hands. "When I first woke up in the hospital, I didn't care about what happened to me. All I cared about was you. Because you weren't my Bakugo."

"No I wasn't!" He yelled and shook me. "I could have killed you! I would have! But you still walked into my room. You-."

"Trusted you?" I asked, interrupting him. "That I believed in you, that you could pull through it?"

"Yes." He said and his head fell onto my chest. "How could you do that?"

"I did that." I said and Bakugo laid on top of me and I hugged him to my chest. "Because I knew you would pull through."

"How?" He asked, and he closed his eyes as he listened to my heartbeat.

"Because that's what I love about you the most." I said, and I could feel the tension in his body disappear. "You never give up. You never let yourself lose." We laid like that for a while, and while he listened to my heart beat I petted his hair and listened as he cried silently into my chest.

"I can't lose you." He whispered.

"I know." I said. "And I can't lose you either."

"I love you." He said into my chest and held me as tight as he could.

"I love you too." I felt him fall asleep in my arms, and I hugged him even tighter. "I'll never let you go."