elopetothesea:

The common room was quiet, which was quite an achievement by itself. Even when it was late at night, the common room was bursting with energy. People playing Mario Kart, or gossiping about things Todoroki didn’t understand, was the normal thing to see exactly nineteen hours a day.

And the rest four hours? Well, it was at times like this.

Five in the morning, when everyone was asleep and didn’t want to be bothered until at least ten.

Todoroki found peace on moments like this. The whole building was quiet, and she could put on the tv to put what she wanted to see. Granted, at five am there were only really boring infomercials, and weird -almost surreal- documentaries about aliens and animals, but Shouto would take what she could.

With a bowl of cereal and a book she never bothered to finish, she curled up on the sofa, hoping that it would somehow lull her to sleep. It wasn’t working. Her eyes felt almost burning, and her energy wasn’t going anywhere. She gave up on sleeping and instead focused on the screen in front of her.

“Todoroki,” a voice called from the door. “You’re up already.”

“Yeah, Sero made a ruckus when she was going to bed, and woke me up,” Todoroki said, taking a spoonful of cereal to her mouth. “Once I wake up it gets hard for me to sleep.”

“Going to bed?” Midoriya asked as she walked towards the sofa. When Todoroki managed to see her face, she was frowning and looking at the tv screen. “At…five am?”

“Something about a marathon she stayed up all night to watch,” Todoroki said, shrugging. “Why —are you up?”

“I was going for a run,” Midoriya said. She dropped her weight on the armrest, allowing Shouto to have a perfect view of her face, lit up by the yellow light of the tv.

“But?” Todoroki asked. Midoriya let out a chuckle and pointed at the window.

It was raining.

“Oh,” Todoroki said and grabbed another spoonful of cereal.

“What are you watching?” she asked.

“I’m…Not sure,” Todroki confessed. The screen showed a dog barking at a stranger, while a laugh track played in the background.

“That’s so cute,” Midoriya said, a small laugh escaping her lips.

A warm feeling settled around Todoroki’s chest. She glanced at her bowl of cereal, and then back at Midoriya.

“Want to join me?” Todoroki stretched her hand, giving her bowl to Izuku.

Izuku stared back. She smiled, and nodded, taking the bowl in her hands.

“Sounds amazing,” she answered and sat down next to her. The next thing that popped in the screen was a documentary about aliens. Todoroki was pretty sure she was disassociating by the minute four. “You think they exist?”

As always, it was Izuku’s voice the one to ground her to reality.

“Aliens?” she asked. Izuku nodded. “Space is big. Maybe they do.” 

“Right?” she said with a smile. “Uraraka always tells me he doesn’t believe on them, but-”

It was followed by Midoriya’s usual string of words that only Todoroki could keep up. For some reason, despite how much she felt awake barely seconds before, her whole body relaxed. There was something soothing on the way Midoriya talked. 

Todoroki let her eyes trace Izuku’s freckles. They ran down her neck until they disappeared on the opening of her shirt. She forced her eyes to linger just the littlest bit on her chest. Midoriya was the cutest girl Todoroki had ever seen. It didn’t matter how much Kirishima kept ranting that Bakugou was obviously prettier. 

She counted the freckles in Midoriya’s face, as she talked about aliens and UFOS. 

Before Izuku could reach to the part where she talked about the scientific aspect of the aliens, she felt a weight on her shoulder and she froze. 

Todoroki  was resting against her shoulder, eyes staring at the tv. 

“Todoroki?” Izuku asked, her heart beating faster as she saw Todoroki’s lashes flutter against her cheeks. 

“I’m listening,” she answered, bright eyes looking through her lashes…  

Izuku felt like she couldn’t breathe.