❧ it's 3am and the only thing I can think about is how our crisp boy dabi needs some love so here's a little something
Dabi doesn't know much about love. He doesn't really understand what it is. And honestly, he doesn't even get what it is all about.
He never learned to give it, never felt what it is like to truly receive it, and frankly, he didn't even cared much about it.
Ever since that incident that almost killed him, the only thing driving him was revenge. Revenge against the man that viewed him as nothing more than a tool. And deep down he thought that no one would ever look at his horrifying, barely held together body and feel anything remotely close to love.
That was why your presence in his life was so confusing for him.
You are, compared to him, a beautiful, delicate little thing. You could get anyone in the world to love you, so why would you settle with him when he looked like that. Like a monster.
He didn't understand how you, with that heart full of love, could choose to give that love to him, someone who doesn't even have anything to give you. He doesn't even know how to accept your love, to think about giving anything in return.
But he doesn't want to let go of you. Because he is selfish like that. He didn't realize how starved he was for love, for a tender touch. And ever since you started giving him that he couldn't get enough.
He couldn't get enough of waking up to your pretty, peaceful face, or the sweet smile you grace him with once you open your eyes, or the lovely way you snuggled into him, careful to not touch him in any way that would hurt his fragile skin.
It made him feel... something.
A strange feeling that he couldn't name but still liked.
He knew you loved him, you made it clear with how often you said it, with every little thing you did for him, but he didn't know how to love you back.
He didn't know how to love you but he was willing to learn.
Dabi didn't know how to love you but he knew he would burn the world down if only it meant he'd always have you by his side.
And maybe, just maybe, one day he'll find a way to show you that you're the most important thing in his life.