Word challenge thing: “flame”
For this ask meme! Everything I write with flame has to do either with Dabi or with Endeavor, and both options are miserable! Since you buy the ‘Dabi is a Todoroki’ theory - this snippet is, technically, about both! It’s from Bloody Murder, She Wrote, and is basically Dabi trying to get the situation under control while Todoroki has a flashback and confuses Dabi is for Endeavor. Definitely the roughest time of the whole fic. CW: child abuse
His ears are ringing, and it’s his father’s voice that snarls behind him: “If you let your enemies find you on the ground, they will kill you. Get back up. Get back up.”
“I’m up,” he gasps, but then there’s a hand in his hair and the whole world tilts without his permission.
Shouto blinks, and he’s suddenly staring at the floor cutting vertically through his vision. His cheek smarts. The heat of Endeavor’s flames rolls over him, pressing him to the floor.
He bites the inside of his cheek, a new spark of pain among everything already roiling under his skin, and stands back up. He doesn’t cry out, but he does swallow blood. Up. He’s up. He just has to - he has to -
