Title: that time the toilet paper was pink
me chanting: RAREPAIR HELL! RAREPAIR HELL! RAREPAIR HELL!
[MidToss - BNHA CanonVerse]
“That Time the Toilet Paper was Pink” — a summary
Cementoss has been completely oblivious to the fact that Midnight has been not-so-secretly crushing on him for MONTHS - her romantic feelings slowly began to develop after Cementoss had her back during a noumu outbreak, using his quirk to shield her from a noumu that was immune to her quirk, unknowingly looking Oh So Cool and Determined and Oh No He’s Hot.
For months, Midnight has been trying to flirt with Cementoss. But he’s just. Not. Understanding. “He’s a blockhead!!!” Midnight will rant/gush to the other teachers.
Midnight has been going out of her way to chat with Cementoss in the staff room, inviting him to participate in conversations and after class hangouts with the other teachers. Because she really really likes him, and she wants to grow closer to him, but she also wants him to become closer friends with their coworkers. Because she thinks he deserves that, too. Ectoplasm is always glad when Cementoss joins them for karaoke, even if he just likes to play a tambourine in beat with the music. She brings him coffee refills when she has spare time, they start grading homework together (um HELLO he teaches Modern Literature and she teaches Modern Hero Art History?!), and she asks him for book recommendations to read to learn more about what he likes purely for educational reasons.
Cementoss is still mostly quiet and normally only voices his opinion when he feels it is necessary, but Midnight hangs onto every word he says. Whenever he throws shade under his breath she genuinely Dies with laughter. She’ll go out of her way to wave at him in hallways and latch onto his arm, or just stand close to him.
The reason for all this, Cementoss is completely oblivious to. At some point Mic just blurts “DUDE CAN’T YOU SEE SHE’S IN LOVE WITH YOU” when the teachers go out drinking and Midnight is in the bathroom, and Cementoss doesn’t believe him bc Mic’s obviously just drunk.
No way would Midnight like him romantically!! Everyone is just teasing. Midnight is friendly with everyone. She’s just kind!
Now, Cementoss has a sister or a cousin who has a young daughter, either an infant or a toddler, and Cementoss promised to babysit for a weekend so her parents can have a nice date night.
But he forgot that he had made plans with Midnight to hang out at a museum, or something, so she shows up as planned and suddenly there’s a child that looks vaguely similar to him in his arms and Midnight can’t handle how cute she is!!! A little angel!!!
And while Cementoss has saved countless children in his time as a hero, he’s a little overwhelmed with his niece demanding all his attention. So when this little girl takes an immediate liking to Midnight and she offers to help him take care of her over the weekend, since she really just wanted to spend time with him, he’s relieved.
Now. Here’s the thing. Cementoss’s quirk allows him to manipulate cement-based material. His niece has already developed her quirk. Similar to him, his niece can manipulate paper. This, she got from her mother. From her father, she got an ability related to colors.
Combined, she can turn anything that is made of paper the color pink.
Including the toilet paper.
So Midnight and Cementoss spend the weekend bonding with her and making sure she doesn’t get into too much trouble with her quirk.
Cementoss lives alone, and his niece took the guest bedroom. So of course there’s the whole Oh No There’s Only One Bed trope! Combined with Midnight’s feelings, she is a blushing mess and insists they share the bed. Cementoss just thinks she’s being nice, but doesn’t want to be rude to his guest who is helping him with so much, so he hesitantly allows it. (She wants to snuggle with her crush dammit!)
And Cementoss keeps seeing Midnight’s softer side, and she keeps smiling so softly at him when she thinks he doesn’t notice, and the three of them go out to dinner and have fun and his niece starts calling Midnight “Aunt Nemuri” and on Sunday Morning Cementoss wakes up to Midnight still wearing the oversized nightshirt he gave her, her hair a mess, no makeup on, humming a pretty song to his niece, with his niece held securely in Midnight’s arms as she gets the coffee ready and moves familiarly around the kitchen like she belongs there, and Midnight turns and sees him.
and she just kind of gasps in a breath and her eyes sparkle and she beams only for him and she just breathes, “Ken!” Her voice thick with an emotion he is too scared, too surprised by to name.
He’s just become a block of cement. This beautiful woman has turned him to stone. He doesn’t know what to say because. Because. Wow.
She hands him his adorable niece to hold and gets his coffee, and he starts to realize just how much she means to him.
And he suddenly feels shy that she’s wearing his big shirt to sleep in with a giant grin on her face.
It’s later that day, after his niece gets picked up and says a tearful goodbye and a promise to visit, he and Nemuri—Midnight—Nemuri—are once again cleaning up after his niece’s quirk. She got to the paper towels, the paper napkins and box of tissues, his stack of newspapers, parts of the wallpaper and a few of his books from the bookcase. Nothing that couldn’t be replaced, thankfully, like the yen in his wallet, but it was a lot of cleaning up.
They are in the bathroom, getting the pink toilet paper his niece had gotten a hold of again, and Nemuri says an unexpected joke that makes Cementoss jump and the toilet paper is thrown into the air and she Laughs and Snorts and it’s a truly Perfect Sound and suddenly Cementoss finds himself covered in the unraveled pink toilet paper and Nemuri giggles and gets in his space to help him get untangled bc Wow he really is stuck in this and she is so soft and round and she has the bluest eyes and she cups his square face as best she can bc there’s pink toilet paper all over him and he kisses her.
and that’s the time the toilet paper was pink.
(Fic seriously coming to an ao3 near you Summer 2019 i’m gonna flush this out when I have time I Swear!!!)
(Edit 2021: ;A; I still really want to get around to writing this!)
send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it