katsuki sneaks into deku’s room long after visiting hours are over to curl up in his hospital bed and fall asleep to beeping monitors. in his dreams, deku is awake. in the morning, he lashes out at the nurses for rousing him from his sleep and making him leave.
because he doesn’t know how to say “sleep is the only time i can pretend this isn’t happening.” he doesn’t know how to say “sleep is the only time i have him back” or “sleep is the only time the weight of this doesn’t feel like it’s cracking my chest open” so he just shouts instead.







