Ooh karaoke!! Can I get an angry/breakup ballad mixed with a tiiiiiny little bit of seduction (like tension) with Touya please? :D
how long | charlie puth / dee's karaoke night
notes: ex boyfriend touya / dabi. cheating, suggestive, alcohol consumption, touya's an ass. language. some hawks mentions bc i could not help myself lmao. possible dark content: coercion? i don't know if this counts tbh.
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"i don't remember you drinking that before," a low timbre managed to crawl it's way down your spine and you knew immediately who it was before even turning around. or even smelling him. his distinct scent wasn't too far behind, which only further confirmed that you were right. "how long's that been goin' on?"
your tongue meets the inside of your cheek. the burn from your previous sip is still stinging the skin and taste buds inside of your mouth but you're ignoring it. almost as good as you are at ignoring him.
but one thing that both of you know is that it doesn't last for long.
touya's hands meet the bar-top on either side of yours, caging you against the wood as he stands behind you. his mouth is mere inches away from the sensitive shell of your ear and you hate how your body still instinctively responds when in his proximity.
"you're still keeping me out on ice here, pretty," he mumbles into the space nestled against your earlobe. the pads of his fingers drum along the bar-top. irritable, in a way. impatient. you can feel the warmth of his quirk and his skin through the fabric of your own clothes.
it's been months since you've been this close to him. you swore you'd never be in the same vicinity as him ever again, but this is dabi being dabi. and subsequently touya being possessive. and reckless.
"you want me to apologize again?" he continues speaking when you continue to stay silent. his lips now linger along the prickled skin of your neck. hovering and teasing, but never quite making contact. "i'll do it and then some. just say the word."
as much as you want his hands on you, how much you miss the taste of him-- you can't get what hawks had told you out of your head. a clandestine meeting for intel had given you more than just information on hero plans.
did you believe him at first? no. if touya never trusted hawks to begin with, why would you? your trust lied in touya's judgement. you believed it was a manipulation tactic to unsettle and sow discord within the league-- which ultimately it did when the two of you fought and broke up.
touya sleeping with hawks' girlfriend to get high value intel on the winged hero himself? not something you wanted your boyfriend of a year and half to confirm.
touya doesn't act remorseful at all. underneath, however— he's gutted. brokenhearted. he always keeps his cards close to his chest-- even with you. he'd never outright admit he's been struggling and regretful since everything happened. he knows he fucked up. why does he feel the need to keep re-hashing it?
he didn't want to cheat on you in the first place. the whole event was pathetic to him-- just as he found hawks himself. a lousy night with some woman that wasn't you, turned into a gamble of just how hard he was willing to fight to get back into your good graces and be worthy of your implicit trust once again.
touya's left hand leaves the bar and latches onto your hip, ring finger and thumb flexing into your skin like he's done countless times before.
you stiffen in your seat. the gut reaction was to lean back against him, to push into his touch and accept the warmth that had only ever been reserved for you. it's a brief moment of hesitation, but touya catches it. of course he does, he's too perceptive for his own good.
it's the alcohol dulling your senses. surely you don't miss touya's touch at all. he cheated on you for scraps of information on a mere pawn in his game. you don't miss the taste of his skin in the middle of the night when you're a mess of tangled limbs. it must be the whiskey.
his mouth moves lower against your neck, meeting the crook of skin where it meets your shoulder. you can feel his lips curl into a smirk, ghosting against your skin in that infuriating way that always gets you to unravel just a little more for him.
does he know this dress is new? the way his hand travels from your hip to fit snugly on the curve of your waist indicates so. his thumb runs a little pattern-- back and forth, back and forth. soothing. drawing you closer towards a breaking point with each provoking pass of his thumbpad.
touya's breath is hot in your ear. "this looks nice on you." his pointer finger and thumb pull the fabric taut before letting it snap back against your skin. your jaw clenches.
touya's lips trace the seam of his mouth and it grazes the shell of your ear. a flicker of shameful heat wanders down your spine.
"c'mon baby," his voice lowers-- purring in that one persuasive tone that only stokes the embers that threaten to ignite in your gut. is the alcohol making him talk like this? "indulge me just for tonight. i want to see how it looks on my floor first before anyone else gets to."
you knew when you turned around that it wasn't going to be one night. and you also knew that the moment you locked eyes with him that the dress wasn't going to leave his room either.
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𝒜𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇'𝓈 𝒩𝑜𝓉𝑒: I haven't written in so long, and I haven't written for Dabi/Touya before, so he might be completely OOC. Sorry!! This also took me 2 and a half hours, starting at 2 in the morning, so apologies for any typos!
𝐼𝓃𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃: That's So True by Gracie Abrams. And thanks to @rueclfer for letting me bounce the idea off them!
𝒫𝒶𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔: Touya Todoroki, ex reader.
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You really aren’t a nosy person. Well, maybe that’s not entirely true, but you usually aren’t so nosy as to keep watch over the guests in each apartment, making excuses for a reason to leave your own apartment every thirty seconds, just to see when, or if, they leave.
You can’t help yourself when it comes to their apartment, though. The one you’ve spent countless hours in, even considering it a home away from home, despite the fact that your actual home was only about five feet away.
But it hasn’t been your second home for a while now. You know the tenants haven’t changed. The decor is the same. But you can’t bring yourself to stay longer than ten minutes. Not when he’s home.
Touya Todoroki, your ex-boyfriend. You dated for three years and know nearly everything about each other, but even though you both swore you’d make it through thick and thin together, it didn’t work out the way you’d hoped. Life never seemed to.
You knew you’d never be able to replace him, but you also knew you were tying each other down. It was for the better this way… It’d sting, but you could manage alone for a while.
Apparently, you were the only one who felt that way, though.
You hadn’t meant to be nosy; you just happened to be taking out your garbage at the same time the woman entered Touya’s apartment. Sure, he shared the place with Keigo, but you hadn’t seen the winged man all day, and no sensible person would invite someone over when they weren’t even home. Which must mean one thing.
Touya’s moved on. Found a new girl to replace you, just like that. You can’t deny she’s pretty, but the fact that he could move on after being with you for three years stung a little. More than a little. It hurt like hell.
But it wasn’t your place to care anymore. It wasn’t like he was cheating. He’s a ‘free bird’ as Keigo liked to joke. You didn’t find it funny.
You didn’t recognize the girl. She wasn’t anyone you’d seen with the League, and she certainly wasn’t Touya’s sister. You’d met Fuyumi before, and as far as you knew, she was the only Todoroki daughter. Besides, they don’t even look alike.
You couldn’t take it anymore. You had no more excuses to roam the halls, and anyway, it wasn’t like you couldn’t talk to your neighbors about guests, right?
As you marched across the hall, you almost felt bad for the earful Touya was in for. Almost. He deserved it for this little stunt.
Just as you raise your fist to bang on the door and demand he come out and talk to you like a man, the door swings open. The fiery drive from mere seconds before is extinguished with the sound of the creaking hinges, leaving you feeling off-kilter. Unfortunately for you, there’s no task to suddenly rush off to complete or explain your sudden presence right outside his door.
He leans against the doorframe lazily, as he always does when people leave the apartment, as if he wants to make sure they know their stay is over, and not to try and reenter.
As the girl makes her way down the hall, you decide now’s actually the best time to return to your own apartment, no lecture necessary. She’s gone now, there’s no problem if he wants to have friends…
“Y’need something?” He asks, staying put against the doorframe, despite the visitor being long gone by this point.
You can’t just ignore him. He’s only being polite, after all. And besides, it’s not like you’re angry at him.
Actually. Yeah, you are still a little angry with him.
You spin around to face him again, taking in his lazy posture, the raised eyebrow, his arms crossed over his chest. The way he still somehow towers over you, even when he’s slouching—
Focus.
“Uh,” You say, plastering a friendly smile on your lips. What are you even doing?
“Uh?” He echoes teasingly, clearly finding amusement in your position, caught red-handed standing outside his door like that.
“You had a guest.”
You can’t think of anything better to say, and you mentally kick yourself for pointing out the obvious. Why are you so awkward anyway? It’s just Touya.
He snorts at that, nodding slowly.
“Clearly.” His tone is sarcastic, but not exactly rude. Still, he’s not taking you seriously.
“And? Is she any good?” You suddenly feel less squirmy. He needs to understand. Needs to take this seriously.
His eyebrows fly up, and for a moment, he’s got nothing to say.
“I mean, how long have you known her? You’re obviously comfortable enough to invite her over. And she’s okay with the fact that you sometimes cry after sex? Or did that suddenly change since we broke up?”
You don’t even know what you’re saying anymore, just that you need to get it all out. Your mouth is working faster than your brain, and you don’t even consider the fact that you actually have no idea what kind of relationship they may or may not have.
“I mean, she’s pretty, yeah, but that can’t be all there is, right? Is she, like, super emotionally deep? Or maybe she doesn’t take anything seriously; maybe that’s how she’s better-”
By this point, Touya’s overcome his shock, simply looking at you with an amused smirk, head tilted slightly as if looking down at a puppy making noises for something it can’t communicate, try as it might.
“You done?” He asks simply, giving you a moment to collect yourself and calm the thoughts whirling around your brain at one million miles per second.
Considering his question, you realize that you’ve already talked at him long enough and haven’t even given him a chance to answer a single one of your accusations. Your shoulders slump slightly as you give a nod.
“As flattering as it is that you think I could find someone that quick, she wasn’t here for me. She was here for the bird.” He offers his reassurance with a chuckle and a smirk you know isn’t meant to charm, but it somehow does anyway.
“I thought Keigo wasn’t home,” You defend, losing all of your previous steam.
“He wasn’t, earlier. He’s conked out on the couch right now, but I assure you he’s very much here.” Touya straightens up, taking a step to the side, no longer blocking your view into the apartment. Just as Touya had said, Keigo is sprawled out across their couch in the living room.
You suddenly feel so stupid. All of these baseless accusations thrown around, and the only thing it proved was that you clearly still weren’t over him. And now you’d made it clear as day to him, too. Getting jealous over an assumption. What an idiot.
“You know I don’t invite people into my home, Sweets,” Touya interrupts your internal berating, and you’re so hung up on the familiar, almost bittersweet nickname dripping off his tongue like the sweetest honey that you almost miss the next words out of his mouth.
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fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
bro i find a new piece of media i like, join the fandom, hyperfocus on it for multiple months, lose interest, find an older fandom i used to be part of, check that one out for a month, hyperfocus, lose interest, and the cycle goes on…
reblog and make a wish!
this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS.
WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????
ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE
THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.
SO I WISHED FOR AN IMAC THE LAST TIME I DID THIS AND A WEEK LATER MY MOM SURPRISED ME WITH AN IMAC. HONESTLY SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WANTED ONE, I DIDNT TELL ANYONE, IT WAS AN EARLY XMAS PRESENT. Wow this works
reblog and make a wish!
this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS.
WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????
ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE
THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.
SO I WISHED FOR AN IMAC THE LAST TIME I DID THIS AND A WEEK LATER MY MOM SURPRISED ME WITH AN IMAC. HONESTLY SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WANTED ONE, I DIDNT TELL ANYONE, IT WAS AN EARLY XMAS PRESENT. Wow this works