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Denki is lighting up the room as he controls chargers and phones for the rest of the class. He’s not the self-pronounced battery pack of the class for nothing.
“Hey, why are we using the whey guy for our phones?? Do we actually trust him? He’s kinda, ya know, dumb.” spouts one of the visiting kids from Class B with an arrogant eye roll as he holds his phone protectively to his chest.
“Umm, I know you’re not talking about our Sparky like that. If you want a dead phone because you’re a dick, then be our guest. Keep running your mouth. But when Blasty returns, he’s going to blast you into the sky, and you’ll need a phone then.” snaps Mina as she blocks Denki from view, hands on her hips, and protective.
“Hey, it’s not my fault he can’t control his volts, besides, you lot call him dumb all the time, so does Bakugou, so how are you getting mad at me about it?” asks the class B guy, he’s blonde but he’s not Monoma, which is a surprise.
“You’re a class B kid, yet you’re shit-talking about Denki when not even Monoma is being an ass. Listen, man, you can get your ass outta here, Mkay? Cause I’m going to be the one to beat your ass before Blasty even gets here.” snaps Mina as she gets in his face, pissed.
“Mina, come on, don’t do anything dumb. ‘Zawa will have your ass grounded to the dorm faster than Blasty can explode me for causing problems with the other classes. I already got in trouble for accidentally zapping Hitoshi, and that was when I was asleep!” says Denki softly as he tugs her back, handing the charged phones off to be able to actually tug her into the seat next to him.
“Well, if he wouldn’t be a dick.” huffs Mina as she pouts in her spot, eyes narrowing towards the blonde jerk.
“I’m not from class B, idiots. I’m from general studies. I’m only friends with Tetsu.” snaps Blondie as he holds his phone out. “Charge my damn phone.”
“No.”
That voice is low, it’s angry, and Denki instantly flinches when he hears it.
Katsuki Bakugou is standing behind the jerk with Izuku Midoriya and Eijirou Kirishima right behind him, Hitoshi and Tetsu behind them, and Shoto and Hanta bringing up the rear.
“Shoot.” mutters Denki as he side-eyes a smirking Mina before he holds his hand out for the phone, twisting a smile onto his face, uncomfortable with the curve of his lips splitting. “It’s no big deal, blasty! You go on and do what you need to do, I’m needed!”
“You grab that phone Sparks and you’re going to be on house arrest. I will tell Zawa bout this.” calls Hitoshi loudly, not even looking at Denki as he glares at the guy slipping his phone into Denki’s hands.
“Denki, you don’t deserve to be treated like that, especially by someone who clearly isn’t going to thank you for using your quirk like everybody else in this room has.” says Izuku in a dark tone, one that has Denki freezing to look at their sunshine greenie.
“Izu, Toshi, come on… They just want their phones charged, and it’s not like they’re wrong... I mean… I am a screw-up, and sure, they don’t know that the nicknames are loving now, but it’s not like I didn’t earn most of them.” stutters Denki as he takes the phone, focusing on charging it.
“Let the idiot charge my phone. You lot are just as dumb as he is, I swear. Trying to be heroes… All you’ve ever done is ruin our time, ruin our school, you’ve made us targets, yet we’re supposed to trust you. Ha. Funny. I am never going to trust you, never going to support you, hell, I don’t even want anyone to know that I know you.” spits blondie coldly, until sparks fly at his hand, the smell of burnt technology sizzling into the air.
“You can say whatever you want about me… But you come after them, after MY class, MY FRIENDS. And I will make you twitch into an early grave.” snarls Denki lowly as he drops the mutilated, sparking phone to the ground, glaring hard at the boy in front of him. “Did you fight in a war? Did you put your fucking life on the line? Did you put your life in other people’s hands for the sole sake of saving this fucking world? Our home? No. No you did not, and it’s not because you’re not a hero, Mr. general studies. It’s because you’re a coward. You couldn’t help us because you refused to let yourself figure out what being a hero means, more importantly what being a teammate means. We all put our lives on the line for jackasses like you, and we did it together. Yet all you want to do is criticize us. But where were you when we needed help? When Kats was dying? When Izu was struggling to pull in a breath? When Zawa was hit with a quirk stealer? Huh? Where were you when Shoto had to save his father? When Hitoshi had to jump in and save his dad and pops? When Monoma helped save our asses? Where were you? Not out there. No, you were hiding like a coward, and you have the audacity to be ungrateful. Buy yourself a new phone, and then find someone else to charge it. Or hell, find yourself a new school. We don’t need people like you at UA.”
Denki is heaving in breaths by the time he’s done, pissed and sparking like crazy, but the guy gets the message, and he gets it good. Looking like Casper the ghost with how pale he was, and Denki was proud of himself, even if he was embarrassed for ranting like that.
“This is why I fall harder for you every fucking day. Can’t you give me a goddamn break Lightning bug? I’m gonna die at this point.” groans Katsuki as he looks at Denki exasperatedly, yet so fucking proud he’s grinning, proud enough that he’s holding his arms out despite the sparks flying off of Denki.
“Nah, Kats, I think I’m gonna send us both to the grave together. Fuck the way you came in here, darling you can’t do that to me looking all hot and sexy and intimidating.” whines Denki as he flies into those arms that saved him, those arms that protected him, those arms that have become his safe place.
“Eh, we can easily go together whenever, but you were getting bullied, and Kyoka hollered at me about it. Fuck training when my baby needed me. Second that text was read, we were on our way. Now, lightning bug, you’ve been charging phones for several hours. How about you and me go take some rest time? The others got this, you need some rest from using so much of your quirk.” says Katsuki lightly, kissing Denki’s hair soft as he could.
“You get what I asked?” asks Denki softly as he looks at Katsuki with those big yellow eyes.
“Mmhmm. Mei said she was excited to hear bout how it worked.” replies Katsuki calmly as he digs out the box he was given from his gym bag.
“Sweet! Okay, this is gonna work as a charging port, so I’ll give it the juice, and y’all can plug your chords into it. When it dies, I can boost it again, but this should give me and Kats enough time to wash up, rest, and be back down to make some cold dinners!” explains Denki as he pulls out the little charging port stand, it’s like a mini lamp with usb plugs up and down it.
“Sweet, you two go get some rest then! We can take it from here!” exclaims Mina excitedly, clapping her hands as she grabs the chords Denki had been using before. “I’ll just dry these off and set them out, the other set should be ready for me to use, yeah?”
“Yep, they’re just chillin’ in the kitchen!” replies Denki softly as he leans into the hand Mina places on his arms in passing before he turns back to his boyfriend. “You ready to get some sleep, Kats?”
“Cuddles and sleep, lightning bug, and you bet your sweet ass I am. Yell if you lot need us, okay?” says Katsuki as he wraps an arm around Denki’s waist, holding him tightly to him, protectively.
The hollers of “okays” and “will dos” are all Katsuki needs to hear to start guiding Denki into the hall and towards the stairs. It’s a bit of a walk, going to Katsuki’s room, but he knows Denki left his weighted blanket there, so it’s where they need to go.
Katsuki unlocks his door, dragging Denki in by the hand that’s entwined with his own, and the second the door is shut, he hears Denki’s sigh of relief.
“Fuckin’ knew you’d go overboard. How bad is it?” asks Katsuki as he turns and looks at where Denki is sitting on the bed, already wiggling his way under the weighted blanket.
“Not too bad, it’s actually one of those times where I’m inches away, but the timing for this was perfect enough that I’ll be fine in an hour or so. Come on Kats, the sparks have stopped, come give me my cuddles!” whines Denki softly as he lifts an arm and makes grabby hands at his boyfriend.
“I’m comin’ lightning bug. Gonna cuddle you to sleep, just like you like.” replies Katsuki fondly as he makes his way to the bed and clambers onto it, he lays himself on his back, knowing Denki prefers to start their cuddle session by laying his ear over Katsuki’s heart.
Once Denki is fully cuddled in, he rests his head over the beating heart of his boyfriend, and it feels like coming home. He lets all the tension from quirk use and that mess just slip from his skin, leaving him feeling more comfortable than he has felt since the power went out.
Denki lifts his head up, and smiles when he sees Katsuki looking down at him with that soft smile of his that he barely ever shows. It’s so beautiful, and Denki can’t help but lean up enough to press his lips against that smile, to feel Katsuki’s love in the melding of their kisses, soft, slow, and warm. They’re short, but they’re perfect.
“Alright baby, you need to get some rest. More kisses later, I promise.” whispers Katsuki as he pulls away from their kisses, smiling at the pout that Denki wears for only a moment before he’s turning in Katsuki’s hold and letting himself melt into his little spoon position.
Katsuki chuckles lightly when Denki reaches back with his arm to drag Katsuki around him, tugging insistently until Katsuki presses his chest to Denki’s back and wraps him up in his arms just how he likes it.