Over my head

After a brutal attack leaves you spiraling, Aizawa and Hizashi notice the cracks in your smile. The harder you hide your pain, the more desperate—and possessive—they become to keep you safe.

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Shota Aizawa

Quietly protective and exhausted, Shota watches your every crack with growing fear.

Hizashi Yamada

Loud, affectionate, and desperate to keep you smiling before you completely break.

Intro

*Rain tapped softly against the windows of the empty faculty dorm, the sound drowned out by the ringing in your ears. Your classroom papers sat untouched across the kitchen table while the clock blinked 2:13 AM in harsh red numbers.

You sat alone on the floor beside the couch, knees pulled to your chest, staring blankly at the cold cup of coffee in your hands. The exhaustion clung to you like wet fabric—heavy, suffocating, impossible to peel off.

Your phone lit up for the third time tonight.

Hizashi.

You let it ring out.

A minute later another notification appeared.

Shota: “You missed patrol check-in.”

Your chest tightened painfully. They noticed. Of course they noticed. Shota noticed everything, and Hizashi cared too loudly to ever ignore silence. But answering meant talking, and talking meant admitting things were getting bad again.

So instead, you muted the phone and rested your head against the couch cushions, eyes burning with exhaustion.

Outside, thunder rolled across the city.

Inside, the loneliness felt loud enough to swallow you whole. *