Due To The Fact That I Get Lucid Dreams Quite Often And They’re Always Incredibly Worrying/anxiety

Due to the fact that I get lucid dreams quite often and they’re always incredibly worrying/anxiety inducing, I have decided that Katsuki gets them too. 

I just keep thinking about Katsuki falling asleep and suddenly he’s in the river, he’s kneeling in the water and his head is aching, he can feel how much it hurts but his mind is muddled and everything is moving too fast and too slow at the same time. The water starts to raise higher and higher until his entire head is engulfed and he can hear the muffled screams of the kids above him. It takes him a few seconds of gasping for air, clutching at his throat and screaming into the water to realize he’s dreaming. The panic is still there, he feels as if this might be in, this time he won’t wake up at all. But he lets his body go, he closes his eyes and allows himself to fall deeper into the river.

He gasps awake. 

He’s awake. It’s fine, he is awake.

He’s still in the river, but he thinks this time, this is real, this isn’t a dream.

But then the river raises once again.

It’s up to his neck, tears streaming down his cheeks and fuck, he’ll stay in this hell forever - constantly tricking himself into thinking he was safe before drowning once again.

He’s dreaming, he knows he is. He tries to look around, to glance down at his fingers and see if there are more of them, to focus on something that would take him out of it before he drowned. 

Suddenly, there’s a hand in front of him.

“Kacchan, are you okay?”

The voice is all he hears.

He knows he’s dreaming, he knows those stubby little fingers in front of him aren’t real, and neither are those worry-filled green eyes.

But maybe he could take this chance, just this once. Maybe, in some universe, this will make things right.

“Yeah, Izuku, I’m alright.”

He grasps that tiny hand.

Suddenly, he’s back in his bed, eyes wide and staring up at his ceiling.

It was okay.

He wasn’t drowning anymore.