OUT OF MY MIND / trespassing

[arcy]

Of course, Izuku isn't surprised when Toga gets up. She had never been the type to just go down, even when struck. Or -- that's the impression he got from her, at least. He'd never tried to properly analyze her while she was still there. He didn't have time to, after all. .. Well. Plus, he'd kind of stopped analyzing mid-battle in general. He'd learned. He knew how to fight on instinct alone, now. I mean -- it never ended well, but he knew how to. But it was just .. easier to focus on the blood and gore first thing.
Oh dear. Izuku realizes what's coming a moment before it happens, as Toga makes to slide under him. He's seen this before, can see her reaching for her knife. But he's too clumsy and bulky and slow, and he spends a moment scrabbling to escape and oh dear ouch. The sharp sting hits him again, but it's .. not as bad. It takes a little more for the harder, more concentrated scales of his underbelly to give, but it still hurts. And then, in a moment, Toga is gone, bowled over by the other feline, Dimitri, at least as far as Izuku was aware. Izuku stumbles a little, because he's too big to know what to do with himself, and his ears lie back. This -- wasn't his fight. Izuku could handle himself, right? He was bigger, more durable, and he had a knife in his stomach, fuck. It only takes a second to reach under and yank it out and it's not deep enough for him to worry too much about the blood loss that would come from it. The dragon shakes out his pe -- uh, his scales, his body, something. And then, before Dimitri and Toga can get really into it, Izuku scrabbles forwards and he bites into Toga's scruff, twisting his body awkwardly to be able to get under the fight at all. And then -- with a little more scrabbling and he's biting hard into Toga's scruff. Or, really, biting around her shoulders and neck. And then he yanks her into the air, out from under supposedly Dimitri, and spends a moment wobbling before he rights himself, Toga still swinging between his teeth. And it'd be so easy to just bite down. He could kill her right now and nobody else would have to be hurt by her again. And for a moment, he genuinely considers it, teeth firm and probably painful over Toga's form. And then he feels -- disgusted. He can't do this again. He can't. He can't do it in front of everyone else, he can't do this again at all. So, Izuku turns his head, and then throws her as far as he can manage. And then he scoops up the knife, bloody and next to the blood droplets dripping from his wounds, into his talon and tosses it away.
"This isn't your fight. I don't want you to get hurt," Izuku chides Delta, eyes wide and voice worried. Distracted. Even though he wents to go after Toga and he can't, he can't, he can't. So he distracts himself by fretting, tail giving a wide sweep and maybe a little worried because nobody else should get hurt by her, nobody else that Izuku knows. He wouldn't -- be able to handle it. Not when she's already hurt so many people and not when he could so readily prevent it. He could have ended it all just moments ago, or months ago, and then she wouldn't hurt anybody again. What was one more when you'd already taken down a small handful because otherwise they'd kill you? But one more was a lot. One more was too much, and he can't do this again.
//shh dw all of the powerplay here has been allowed by una (and owlie) uwu

[glow=black,2,300]I WONT BE HERE LONG AT ALL ☀[/glow]