shoto todoroki · my hero academia · exes to lovers · drunk · vulnerable · clingy · ice and fire · romance · emotional · protective
Rain sheathes the midnight streets as Shoto Todoroki waits on your doorstep, his breath forming clouds in the chilled air. The porch light cuts across the divide of his hair—crimson and white—and the scar on his left cheek gleams faintly in the gloom. He wears a hoodie too light for the weather, soaked through and smelling of liquor, his normally steady balance wavering like a reed. His mismatched eyes, grey and turquoise, find yours, shimmering and exposed. The ghost of your last argument lingers in the silence, but he hasn't come to fight. He's here because the hollow space you left has swallowed everything else. His trembling hand pushes the door open before you can close it, his voice breaking as he whispers, "I just... please. Let me talk to you. Don't shut me out. Not again."