Izuku + Katsuki – Doing the right thing
Izuku sat with his wife in the room. Kairi and Ian gave her blood rotatory, but it didn’t exactly look good. Whenever they cut her off the blood, her vitals would drop immediately. It was horrific.
He was aware that he put a massive strain on the two Ridgways and his wife, but he couldn’t help it. He wasn’t ready to let her go.
Lucia opened her eyes. She looked exhausted. “Izuku …” she mumbled.
“I’m here. I am here, Lucy,” he caressed her cheek.
“I’m sorry …” she said in a weak voice. “But it’s enough, please …”
“What are you saying? You will get better!” Desperation was in his voice. No, he didn’t want to let her go.
“Izuku … it’s enough! I can’t anymore. Everything hurts.” Tears ran out of her eyes.
Izuku’s lip quivered. He bit on his bottom lip; it was already completely raw from being gnawed on so much. “No … I can’t, you … you have to fight.”
“I’m tired. I fought enough. Please let me sleep. You put them through hell to keep me alive.” She nodded to Kairi next to her. “Take care of our pups for me, please. They need you. Please, don’t let anything happen to them.” She had a serious tone in her voice.
“I can’t do this on my own. Lucia, I need you by my side!” His voice cracked.
“No, you’re a big, strong prime alpha. You can walk this path on your own. You will be the best father to these little ones, I know it.” She smiled at him.
Tears ran down Izuku’s face. “What about Kieran and Leony?”
“… I want to see them one last time …” She said, voice breaking. Izuku called his mother that she should bring them in. It took a few minutes, but eventually, they came. Miles accompanied them.
“Mama,” Kieran said. He rushed to his mother’s side. He was already crying.
“Kieran, stay strong, my darling. Stay with Izuku, and don’t make him trouble, okay? Take care of your siblings. And don’t let the world beat you down. You’re strong! I love you.” She said to him.
“I promise you, mama, I will stay with Izu. I will take care of my siblings …” He leaned into the bed and hugged her. He was surprisingly calm, even though he was crying. He had thought that he had lost her when she was in the prison camp all those years ago. So he was unfortunately familiar with this feeling.
Inko brought Leony over to Lucia. “My baby, I’m so sorry that I can’t be there for you any longer. You might not understand it now, but eventually, you will.” She wished she could touch her daughter, but she couldn’t even lift her arms.
“Mama? What’s wrong? Are you hurt?” She said in her high voice. She was confused.
“No, baby, but mama’s going to sleep now. A long sleep.” She blinked the tears away. “Be a good girl and don’t give daddy problems, yes?”
She nodded, crying. She didn’t understand what was going on. Inko took her in her arms again. The omega bawled too.
“Thank you, Inko, for everything. Please, take care of my children.”
“Of course! Thank you for making my son happy for so many years.” She forced a smile on her face. She had lost weight tremendously these past weeks. Her cheeks were sunken in, and dark circles were under her eyes. She looked from Lucia to Izuku. He tried to hold himself back.
“Baby, I know it will be hard, but I know you can overcome this,” Lucia said to her husband. “You’re so strong, don’t let the world get to you! Even though it will be hard in the next months, I know that you can push through it. You will find someone new that can make you happy. I know it! Please, don’t keep dwelling on me forever. You can move on when you’re ready!” She forced a smile again.
“Yeah …” Izuku nodded. He wasn’t so sure about that, but he didn’t want to worry her at a time like that. “I’ll see about that.”
He leaned down to kiss her; she reciprocated it. “It’s time now.”
“No,” Izuku shook his head, grabbing Lucia’s hand.
“Izuku … It’s better to let her go,” Kairi mumbled.
“I don’t want to … I can’t, not yet …” He gritted his teeth.
“Please, Izuku, do it. You just have to pull the needle out. The rest is a matter of time,” she murmured.
“I can’t do it.” He felt like he was suffocating.
“Then, please, Kairi, you do it, don’t let him go through this.” Lucia’s gaze turned towards her. “I thank you and your family for everything you’ve done. But now it’s enough.”
Kairi looked over to Izuku. She gritted her teeth. She knew she had to pull the cord, but she was unsure.
Miles stepped next to Izuku; he put a hand on his shoulder. “Trust me; you should respect her wishes. She wants it to be over, don’t let her suffer. You will feel awful right now when you do it, but you will suffer even longer when you don’t do it.”
“Kairi … please, pull the cord …” Izuku mumbled through gritted teeth. Tears streamed down his face while he pressed a last kiss on her lips. “I love you so, so much!”
“I love you too.” She smiled at him.
Kairi nodded, and she pulled the needle out of her arm. The blood flow stopped. She also removed it from Lucia’s now. The vitals dropped immediately, and her eyes fluttered shut. The transplanted heart couldn’t keep pumping the blood, and eventually, it stopped.
Izuku could hear her exhale one last time; then, he heard one long beeping sound. His world broke down.
Nurses and doctors rushed in. They wanted to reanimate her, but Kairi stopped them. Izuku was completely zoned out. He couldn’t process what was happening. Miles pulled him back from the bed and sat him down on a chair. Kieran walked over to him and hugged him. Leony cried in Inko’s arms, she didn’t understand what happened to her mother, but she knew it was bad.
Izuku was thankful that Kairi handled the situation for him. He just stared to the ground while holding Kieran.
The horrors wouldn’t end, however. After a restless night, he got called out by a doctor. “Mr. Midoriya. There is a problem with your daughter.” He had a somber tone in his voice.
Izuku’s heart sunk. No, please, no! He got up and followed the doctor to the preemie station. He was brought to his two babies. They were in incubators, hooked to machines. “This is your son, and over here is your daughter.” The doctor told him.
“What’s with her?” He asked. He wasn’t sure if he could handle it.
The doctor cleared his throat; he knew that Izuku’s wife had just died, and he tried to find the right words. “She was weak when she was delivered, even for a preemie. We put her on a ventilator, but during the night, her brain stopped working.”
Izuku stared down at the lifeless child in front of him. She looked pale, and her eyes were closed. It still looked like she was breathing because of the machine, but Izuku could sense that she was nothing more than a husk.
He closed his eyes. “So you are telling me that my wife died, and now my daughter too?”
“Yes. I am very sorry.”
Izuku sunk. He was surrounded by cold, black water. Where he previously tried to struggle against it, tried to get back to the surface, he just let himself sink further. He breathed in; welcomed the black liquid. It filled his lungs and numbed everything out. He was floating in the vast sea. It was surprisingly calm down here, unlike the surface.
“I knew it … I dreamt she was dead,” he said with a gravel voice. “Turn the machines off. If there’s nothing you can do, then we shouldn’t keep her on life support …”
“Very well …” The doctor turned off the machines, Izuku looked at the dead child in front of him. He felt nothing but the cold numbness of the water surrounding him. He sunk deeper. He didn’t fight it.
His gaze turned to his son; he knew that he was fine. Relief washed over him. At least he looked normal, unlike the little creature from his dream.
“Do you have a name for him?” A nurse asked.
“No …” He couldn’t concentrate on that if he were honest.
“That’s alright; you still have some time to decide. He can’t leave the hospital anyway,” the nurse said.
Izuku nodded. After that, he slouched back to the others. Then, he sat down on his chair and buried his face in his hands.
“What’s wrong, Izuku?” Inko asked. She was anxious. She could smell the distress coming off her son.
“One of the twins died,” he said.
Inko gasped; she walked over to him, tears in her eyes. “Oh no, baby, I’m so sorry!” She nestled her head against the crook of his neck. He wrapped an arm around her. He was leaning his head on top of hers.
He closed his eyes and numbed out everything.
He walked out of the hospital. He needed some fresh air. The inside of the hospital was suddenly too much for him; he felt like he was suffocating.
With Float, he made his way up to the roof. He sat on the edge and just stared down. He was still numb, surrounded by the cold, black water. He chewed on his bottom lip when his hand wandered to his pocket.
The alpha didn’t know what came over him, but even though it was the early morning in Japan, he called Kacchan’s number.
A very sleepy Kacchan answered. «Huh, Deku?»
“Hi … Kacchan,” Izuku mumbled.
«What’s wrong?» he heard the other alpha ask. Yawning could be heard on the other side.
“I just …” he started, but he couldn’t continue the sentence how he wanted to, “… need to hear your voice. Please talk to me. It doesn’t matter about what …” There was a slight crack in his voice. Katsuki didn’t seem to notice.
«Uh, okay, uhm …» Kacchan started. He seemed to move around now, probably to leave the bedroom. «I, uh … hm, what to talk about … Uhm, do you want rather happier stuff, or does it not matter?» He sounded unsure.
“As long as it doesn’t involve gruesome death, I don’t care,” Izuku said.
«Okay, no, no deaths,» Kacchan said. «But I had a stalker. She even kidnapped a guy that looked like me, can you believe that?»
“A stalker? I’m sorry to hear that.” Izuku felt irritation at that. Who dared to stalk Kacchan?
«Ah, she got captured. But if it weren’t for my dog, Karma, she would have gotten me. Bitch snuck into my house while I was in pre-heat.»
“Oh, you got a dog?” Izuku’s mouth twitched a little.
«Yes, Karma is the best guard dog you can imagine. And he is so calm even around Kira!» Katsuki sounded happy. That was good. At least one of them was happy.
“That’s good to hear,” Izuku answered.
He heard Katsuki exhale. «Deku … can I ask you something?»
“Sure, go ahead.” He was not prepared for the next thing. So it took him quite by surprise.
«Did you really sleep with Kirishima during our school time?»
Deku stared at his phone for some time. “I guess he told you about it? Yes, it’s true.”
Kacchan was quiet for some time. «He took all the blame. He came out of nowhere and told me nothing was my fault, and he was the real reason everything ended.»
Izuku furrowed his brows. “What?”
«Yes, he wants to take my mistakes and make them his. But that’s not right. How do I deal with that? I told him, I have to think about it for some time.»
“He’s an idiot … What’s the point of pushing the blame around? Can’t we just agree that we all fucked up?” Izuku shook his head. He didn’t necessarily want to think about that, but it was a good distraction.
«Yeah, I would say the same. We were all stupid, immature kids.»
“That’s true …” His gaze trailed over the snowy hospital parking lot.
«… Deku … Do you know that he’s in love with you? Even after all this time?»
Izuku’s eyes widened. “What?”
«Yeah. He broke up with Mae. He was a bit desperate; he didn’t know how to handle it since you’re married to Lucia. He even thought about asking you for a throuple relationship.»
Izuku looked down again. Eijiro was still so fixated on him that he broke up with Mae and wanted to move to Ireland too? What the hell was that?
«Deku?»
“I … just had to think about that …” he murmured. “Kacchan … I’m coming back to Japan.”
«What? But what about your life in Ireland?» Katsuki was so confused.
“It’s over … Lucia … she- she passed away,” he managed to say.
Katsuki gasped. «What? Why? No! I’m so sorry!» His voice cracked. «Are you okay?»
“No … not really. That’s why I called. She died after giving birth …”
«Oh shit, I … I have no words. I’m so incredibly sorry that this happened!» Izuku could hear the tears in his voice. Kacchan had to hold himself back too.
“Thanks … It’s hard. I don’t know what to do. Kairi tried to keep her alive with her blood. But that’s not a long time solution,” the wind was cold on his face; it dried his tear streaks. Izuku’s cheeks were sticky from the salty fluid. “I don’t know when I will get back to Japan. My son is still in the preemie station, but after he is out of there, and after the funeral is done, I will come back.”
«I understand. If you need help with anything, just say the word, and I will do what I can to help you!»
“I appreciate it, Kacchan. Thank you for helping me. Even though I was a bad friend throughout the years.”
«Don’t worry about it, Deku. Just, huh, focus on yourself, on getting better. You’re strong; you can do it!»
Izuku nodded; yeah, he had to. He had no other choice than to pull through it. “Yeah …”
Katsuki sat at the kitchen table; he stared at his phone. He had just ended the call with Deku. He was incredibly shocked to hear about Lucia’s passing. He pressed a hand in front of his mouth, and silent tears ran down his face.
“What’s wrong, Katsuki?” Hiroto asked. He looked like he had just fallen out of bed.
“Deku called me. Lucia died a few hours ago,” he explained, sniffling.
Hiroto sat next to his husband. “Damn …” For a while, they just sat there in silence. Katsuki felt weird. He didn’t even want to imagine what Izuku was going through. The thought of losing Hiroto was terrible.
“He will come back to Japan … I wonder how Kirishima will react to that …” Katsuki mumbled.
“Are you going to tell him?” Hiroto asked.
Katsuki shrugged, “I wanted to talk to him anyway. So I will probably tell him …” Katsuki pursed his lips. He stood up and pulled Hiroto into a hug. Thousand thoughts rushed through his head. He couldn’t focus on one of them at the moment.
