After finally finishing up making their dinner with Shayera's help overseeing everything so that he wouldn't wind up killing them. The two sat down to eat their shrimp cooked in a garlic, white wine sauce served over rice and a couple of side salads and a glass or two of wine- Toshinori finally decided to broach the subjects most in need of speaking of.

Downing the last of the wine in his glass, he gently set his glass aside and licked his lips nervously before asking almost hesitantly, "So...um, I...need to speak to you about some things. But before I do, d-do you still want to do this? With me? I mean I would understand perfectly if you wished to bow out. You have no obligation to me or to help me-" He faltered somewhat when he looked at her and noted the shuttered expression on her pretty face.

"Do you want me to? Bow out I mean?" He inwardly cringed despite the fact that she had asked the questions in an eerily calm tone. He could almost detect the hut in her voice and it made him feel like absolute shit as her vivid turquoise gaze stared at him unblinkingly for a moment or so before she looked down at her lap.

Knowing that he had only one shot to explain himself or lose her, Toshi decided to try and articulate his feelings so that she would better understand his doubts. "I don't want you to leave me Shayera, but at the same time I feel as if a quirk marriage would be unfair to you. Especially if you married me under such pretenses. The general expectation of outsiders when they view quirk marriages make even the most strong hearted people crumble."

"Add to that that I genuinely feel something for you and don't wish to lose that. I feel...that it would be very easy to both love you and lose you because of my situation. After all, there are things outside our relationship that will attempt to pull us apart. And that scares me. Though I will not deny you if you wish to continue with the marriage. Nor will I deny how lucky I think I am to have found you. I just...wanted you to know what I think you deserved a chance to bow out with no hard feelings if you wanted something more."

Shay turned her head back so that she was facing him again and narrowed her eyes so that she was glaring at him, and then hissed. "You mean if I want someone else." It wasn't a question. Merely an unstated fact that he was skirting around.

It pissed her off that even after earlier, he still doubted himself to this extent. But at the same time, she knew that one day of mind blowing sex wasn't going to change his tune. It might help him bit by bit as time passed, but that was about it.

She picked up her wine glass and brought it to her lips in an effort not to mention the possibility of therapy in his future since she doubted that he would appreciate that much. So instead she chose silence as she collected her thoughts and sipped her wine before finally placing her glass back down and saying, "Well since this is obviously going to be a long talk, you might want to refill my glass. I sometimes tend to work better when I'm a little bit tipsy," He reached for the wine bottle and deftly reopened it and started to refill both of their glasses when she suddenly decided to tack on with a grin, "And once we're done you have the added bonus of being able to take advantage of me."

Toshi's eye grows almost vanished into his hairline as he looked at her before smiling a little bit and saying in a wry tone, "If we both keep drinking I think we'll both be in the same boat Shay..." He recorked the bottle and set it aside again and then resettled down in his seat before asking, "So I suppose that it's safe to assume that you refuse to leave me?"

"Yup."

Toshi couldn't begin to describe the feeling of relief that flooded him upon hearing her confirmation. "Alright. One of the things I need to speak to you about is any quirks that run in your family. I also need to know where your family is, if I can meet them, and if I can't I need to know why. I also need to know if you possess any quirks yourself. We'll move on from there when you're ready to proceed."

"My parents weren't born with quirks. But there is something strange that runs in our family that skips a few generations here and there with the females born into it. It's not a quirk, but it is a weird ability. My great grandmother on my mom's side had it. And her great, great, great something or other was famous for her ability."

Toshi cocked his head slightly and stared at her for a moment before asking, "What sort of ability is it?"

"I don't know. It...mutates or something every time someone new is born with it."

"Did your mother have it?"

"No."

"Sibling?"

"I'm an only child."

"Do you have it?" He asked curiously and she suddenly tensed up a bit and reached out for her wine glass and started to pick it up when his hand shot out and he lightly grasped her wrist in his big hand and asked again, his tone insistent. "Do you?"

"I-I don't like speaking about it Toshi." Was all she finally managed to say to him before gently extracting her wrist from his grasp.

"Why not? It can't possibly be that bad, can it?" He asked as he studied her. She looked uncomfortable, for several heartbeats before finally saying in a small voice.

"I'm sorry."

Slowly shaking his head at her words, he told her not to be. He could wait until she felt more comfortable speaking about her ability before he asked her anything else about it and she gave him a small grateful smile before he then asked her how her childhood was.

She told him about her parents. And how they had had her late in life.

What she didn't tell him was that the two were currently in their seventies and eighties and both were living in a nice nursing home where they could be tended to twenty four seven. Nor did she tell him that she tended to call and visit them quite frequently since her mother was dying. And once she went, her dad wouldn't be too far behind.

She did however, tell him what little bit she could before her mother had started to lose her mind. And her dad had begun to ignore her in lieu of taking care of her mom.

Toshinori listened intently before asking a few more questions about her parents and then asked if she would like them at the wedding. Shayera was told him that while she would like that, she didn't think it for the best since they tended to wander off and get lost and become violently agitated around people that they didn't know.

Toshi would be lying if he said that he totally understood. But mentioned that it may be the last time that she got to make memories of the two of them.

She was tempted to plan for her parents to be at the wedding...but after several moments of careful consideration, wasn't sure that it was in either of their best interests since she knew that her mother only had a week or so left. So instead she simply gave him a small, pained smile and simply said that she would think on it.

The conversation died down a little bit for several minutes as the two sat there in awkward silence trying to figure out what to say next when suddenly Toshi perked up and asked her if she would like to pick out her engagement ring and wedding ring.

Perking up a tad despite the previously depressing conversation, she was quick to nod her head and then watched as he quietly excused himself to go grab the jewelry bag.