I think I messed up the bottom a little bit.

Well- sort of anyways.

Toshi didn't sleep that night after Izuku fall back asleep. He simply wouldn't have been able to even if he tried, no matter how emotionally exhausting the day had been for him. His concern for Izuku kept him up and wide awake, ready to take on any possible nightmares and monsters that may plague her as the night wore on.

It hadn't been long after his girl had eaten and decided to bathe- that she had returned to bed. Only barely managing to ask him if he would be okay sleeping on the cot that he had set up not far from her bed before she slipped seamlessly back into sleep's embrace.

Leaving him to entertain himself.

And he wasn't going to lie, he had. But only because he had sort of snooped around a little bit. Oh don't get him wrong, he hadn't touched something that he knew would upset Izuku any- instead choosing to check out some of her new notebooks full of quirks, attacks, counters and such since it seemed like the safest and best way to pass the time until morning.

After all, she had over fifty something volumes of the damn things because she was always studying other people and their abilities.

He had been sitting on the cot, silently thumbing through the pages of the book in his hand when Izuku began to show signs of distress in her sleep. Quietly shutting the note book, he got up and moved to bedside and started to gently place his hand on her shoulder to shake her away when she made a funny half whimper/half keening sound and began to thrash around a little bit and talk.

Her voice was barely audible at first. But once he got close enough he could hear her distressed voice trembling as she said, "No! No Ka-chan don't do this! Don't- not in front of All Might! No, no, don't! Stop- Don't look, please. Please don't look at me! NO!" He had paused at first in touching her, Especially once she mentioned his alter ego- but now, seeing how upset she was, he continued and placed his hand on her shoulder and gently shook.

The violent reaction she had to him touching her simply to shake her awake- was heart breaking in and of itself. Because one moment he was hovering next to her and the next she was creaming and bolting upright and flinging herself as far away from him as her injured body would allow.

Tripping over her bedsheets in the process, causing her shoulder and head to slam into the wall before she crumbled to the floor- wide eyed, and crying with her hands tightly clasped over her mouth as she stared at him with a fearful expression.

"Izuku!" He called out, feeling a little bit hurt as well as horrified by her reaction, but most of all- he was worried. He'd never seen a look of such complete and stark terror on her face before. Keeping his hand out in front of him, he slowly made his way around the bed to where she sat huddled on the bed shaking and quietly crying.

"Shhh, it's okay." He whispered in a hoarse tone as he reached her side and slowly and carefully pried her small hands away from her mouth and simply held them in his hands for a moment before releasing one so that he could run his fingertips along her scalp where she had hit her head.

With as hard as she had hit the wall, he knew that she must have given herself a nice bump on the head or something. Which meant that she had a possible concussion, and that wasn't good. Especially since another trip to Recovery Girl in the middle of the night would get him lectured until the woman's voice gave out.

Carefully using his fingers to gently probe here and there for bumps- he was somewhat relieved to find that she didn't have any lumps or bumps on her head from hitting it and softly sighed and let his hand drop to her trembling shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze to let her know that he wasn't going anywhere until he was sure that she was okay.

It took a few minutes. But she gradually seemed to come back to her senses enough for her body to slowly stop shaking as she seemed to finally realize that she was somewhere safe, and had just had a really bad nightmare.

Finally when she seemed to have calmed enough, he asked softly. "Are you alright, my girl?"

"I-I d-don't know. I think so." Izuku said as she slowly pulled her knees up towards her chest as she stared blankly at him for a moment.

Toshi felt at a loss for once in his life. He wasn't all that sure how to proceed here.

There was no joke, no funny store/life lesson that he could speak of that would make this better for her and it killed him inside to know that he wasn't sure how to help her.

And after a few seconds of very careful thought on the subject, he finally managed to make a suggestion. Though he didn't expect her to absolutely leap at it. "I know that your upset. And I understand that you likely won't want to speak of your nightmare given how badly it's rattled you, so instead of staying here in your room and making some poor attempt to go back to sleep and probably suffer even more nightmares- how about we go to the common room and curl up together on the couch and watch some TV? And if you'd also like, I could fix my late mother's mixture of warm milk with honey and cinnamon to try help you doze off again later."

Izuku was silent for several heartbeats and he was beginning to fear that perhaps she didn't care much for the suggestion when she asked, "What about classes? I can't be up all night and then attend. I'll fall behind and I can't have that."

He gave his girl a faint smile and then told her that Aizawa and the other teachers had decided to excuse her from class for a while and let her simply train with him when she was feeling up to it, that way she wouldn't fall behind in her hero classes and such.

But he also made sure to stress that she should go at her own pace and not someone else's. Once he was done explaining, Izuku gave him a small nod to let him know that she was on board with his suggestion. He grinned at her and told her not to move and then quickly moved over to his cot to grab one of the spare blankets that was folded neatly on top of it and then made his way back to her and with a dramatic flourish, spread the blanket out some and then wrapped it around her body and then picked her up in his arms and made a beeline for the door.

Everything was quiet outside of the bedroom, especially given the late hour of the night- so Toshinori had no issues with carrying Izuku down the long hallway to the common room and gently depositing her on the plush couch before grabbing the remote for the large flat screen TV and turned the thing on.

"What are you in the mood for?" He asked curiously, noting that there was an almost obscene amount of comedies and horror flicks on a majority of the channels.

Izuku was quiet as he channel surfed for a few minutes before reaching out and placing her hand on his, to still any movements when he reached a certain channel. It was the Chiller channel and there was nothing but horror movies and bloody slasher films on. Scream, I know what you did last Summer, Halloween, Friday the 13th... Aliens?

Glancing down at her as she pressed the button that changed the screen on the TV from the menu to the actual show, he nearly cringed as his ears were met with a blood curtling scream coming from the speakers.

Blue eyes riveted on the TV to check and see what she had decided on- he was somewhat surprised to find that she had decided to watch one of the Scream movies.

"Izuku, are you sure that you wish to watch this?" He asked, uncertain of what further damage the questionable content may do to his girl's already fragile heart and mind, he was having a hard time imagining that these particular movies would be of any help to her as she was right now.

However upon asking why she had chosen the films, she shocked him when she told him the reason why she had chosen the Scream films to watch was this- "It's because the killer/killers die bloody in the end... And I sometimes like to pretend like I'm Sidney- putting a few bullets into Ka-chan for what he's done to me."

He became quiet and thoughtful after that and simply allowed her to watch the movies without anymore complaints. Part of him understanding that this was her mind's small way of escaping reality for a little while so that she didn't have to exhaust herself with making any attempts at coping right this moment.

And the other, more savage part of his mind understanding that after what Katsuki had done to her- some small part of her wanted to shed his blood- though she didn't express much of a desire for it. Probably because she felt as if she wouldn't be living up to everyone's expectations of her if she didn't remain the same person that had first come to U.A.