#Bakugo also writes his resignation letter.

[saturnsorbits]

Tw: Suggested Mental Health Issues, Death/Suicide and Alcoholism.

When Denki finally quits, he expects Bakugo to shout.

There’s a pit in his stomach and something bitter on the back of his tongue as he thinks about telling him.

He wonders what he’ll say. If he’ll call him all of the things he did back in UA, or if he’ll parrot the papers, his family, his old therapist, the bad one that made things worse.

He doesn’t know what Bakugo will say, but he knows he has to tell him first. Before his girlfriend, his agency, his own mother…

Bakugo doesn’t shout.

He doesn’t raise his voice, doesn’t snarl or snap.

Instead, he nods. Listens as Denki stumbles his way through an explanation, tells him about the nightmares, the drinking, how he used to use sex to cope… He even tells him about that night, the night he almost threw everything away.

And at the end, Bakugo knocks their shoulders together in the harshly loving way only he can and ruffles his hair.

‘’M proud of you.’ He says, voice scratchy from silence. ‘Doesn’t make you less of a Hero either.’

Denki frets ‘But, I won’t be. I -.’

But, Bakugo is quick to put a stop to it. ‘Reckon you’ll still be a Hero to a Hell of a lot of people if you’re working or not.’ He shrugs. ‘That girl of yours especially.’

Denki sobs, wet and broken and yet, he feels the lightest he has in years.