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Her feet should have made contact with the floor, and looking down it seemed like they were. Only she didn't feel it. And then she realized she didn't feel anything. Not the bed underneath her or even the temperature in the air around her. She had a vague memory of what the bed should feel like, but no matter how hard she tried, her fingers had no weight behind them to push against the mattress.

And that's when she noticed it. There was someone laying in the bed she’d just gotten out of hooked up to about a hundred different machines in order to keep it alive. Her body. And that's when she began to really panic.

And then she ran. Without making a sound on the linoleum floor like she should have, she ran. Ochako didn't want to think about the fact that somehow, her body was laying in a hospital bed while her spirit was free to roam as it pleased. The little part of her brain that wasn't panicking told her that if her body was hooked up to a machine, that meant she wasn't dead. It meant she still had a chance. This made her slow her pace. Not that the initial shock had completely worn of. The part of her that thrived under pressure was just taking over and forming a plan. If she was a spirit right now she should go back to her body. There was little chance of her waking up without her spirit being there. Once she got back to her body she'd be able to find a way to wake herself up.

And just as she had made her plan and turned back towards the direction she'd come, she felt it. A pressure in her right hand that sent an electric current from her fingertips straight to her heart. The feeling set Ochako's feet running again before she even had time to think, following that feeling. In moments, she was standing in the doorway to the room she'd woken up in only a few minutes ago and looked over at her body which was no longer alone.

"Ochako, I swear to god," Bakugo's voice was barely above a whisper but somehow she heard it as if she was right next to him. "You can't leave me you hear? You've gotta come back and kick some more ass with me." If she didn't know better she would have sworn his voice broke as he spoke. "You even talked me into taking a vacation next month. I can't go by myself. Especially when.." his voice definitely cracked there and Ochako found herself suddenly right behind the man she loved as he sat next to her body, holding onto her hand as if it was the only thing keeping him tethered to the world, which was funny if you thought about how her quirk activated from that very hand could send him to the ceiling in mere moments. "Especially when I have a question I need to ask you. One I've been meaning to ask you every day for the past year."

Ochako’s heart ached at what this sudden revelation meant and instinctively she reached out to gently place her hand on his shoulder only to find once again that there was no weight behind her touch. She could do nothing for the man sitting by her bedside as he begged her to wake up. Except just that. She wasn't quite sure how she could accomplish this goal, but she knew she'd move heaven and earth to put that dumb smirk back on Katsuki's face. Slowly, she moved so she was face to face with him and it was so strange having him look right at her and yet straight through her. She hated seeing him so worried. And so she leaned forward and planted an invisible kiss on his lips in silent promise.

"I'll see you as soon as I can. I love you Katsuki."  And then she closed her eyes and put her soul to work

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The first thing Ochako realized was that there was a wicked thunderstorm going on outside. At first she thought maybe the thunder was what had woken her up, but then she realized she wasn't in the plush bed she shared with Katsuki in their apartment. She was staring up at a tiled white ceiling and in between thunder claps she could hear the rhythmic beeping and whirring of machinery. And then she felt it. A weight in her right hand that sent an electrical current straight to her heart and she looked over and straight into the eyes she would happily stare into for the rest of her life.