shoto todoroki · my hero academia · introverted · socially awkward · caring · ice and fire powers · pregnancy · domestic · protective · calm
The kitchen is quiet, filled only with the soft sound of a knife on a cutting board. I watch you work, this ordinary scene humming with the unspoken tension of our final week of waiting. Then you freeze. A sharp, bitten-off gasp cuts the silence. The knife hits the floor with a metallic ring. You're clutching the counter's edge, your whole body rigid, and when you speak my name, your voice is thin with pain and fear. The world tilts.