Sorry for the late-ish update. I'm sick and running a temp of 102.4

So if this chap sucks, I say we blame that.

Over the next two weeks, the couple fell into a sort of routine.

Toshi went to work, and thoroughly used (and abused) his new toy, and loved every moment of every hour that he did so.

Whereas Shayera had been staying over at his place ever since he had proposed to her, and had even secretly moved some of her things into his home when she was sure that he wasn't looking. Which didn't bother him, really, especially since married couples tended to live together anyways.

Unless you had a relationship similar to what Endeavor had with his wife that is.

Toshinori spent most of his alternating between work at school, and coming home to a nice clean house, a home cooked meal, and pleasant company. And when Shay didn't manage to find the time in her busy day to make his dinner, he would make quick work of changing out of his work clothes and dragging her out to dinner.

After which they would return home, curl up on the couch in the living room and either make love or watch a movie or two to unwind.

Today wasn't really all that different from the past two weeks with the exception of coming home to find Shay using his living room as a work area, again, while she did some sewing and embroidery on some items that she had been working on for the past few days without any real rest.

Pausing in the doorway to the living room, he studied her for a moment, taking note of the dark circles that had been forming more and more underneath her eyes these past few days, he sighed softly and decided that enough was enough. His girl was going to eat something and then he was going to put her to bed.

And she would sleep tonight and a good portion of tomorrow too or he was going to be pissed that she wasn't taking better care of herself.

"Shay?"

"Hn?" She hummed as a small frown marred her pretty face for a moment as he walked into the room and very gently reached out and shackled her hand in mid motion, stopping her from continuing while drawing her attention to him. "Toshi, when did you get home?" She asked in a confused tone as she looked at him.

"Just now."

"Oh. I'm sorry I didn't fix anything to eat yet for dinner. I was busy and I guess I lost track of time-"

"It's fine angel," He said as he carefully pried her sewing materials from her hands and fixed it so that she wouldn't lose the needle and then set the stuff aside as he said, "I can just order out for pizza or something in a few minutes. Right now I'm more concerned about you."

"Me? What about me?"

"You've been distracted. You haven't been sleeping or eating for the past few days. And we both know that that isn't very healthy." He said as he watched her. His poor angel looked beyond exhausted. She looked like she was ready to kill over and sleep for a month.

Sighing, Shay tiredly scrubbed her face with her hands and then asked, "How long have I-"

"Four days and nights."

"Sounds about right." She muttered wearily as she looked at him and then asked in a small pleading tone, "W-Will you at least give me another two hours before you make me stop?"

"Shayera-" Toshi said in a low warning tone, wishing to argue with her that she needed the rest now. Not later. But decided on a different tactic instead and simply saying, "What is so important about these items that you are making yourself ill just trying to finish them? Are they for your shop? A special order? Help me understand why you've been pushing yourself so hard these past few days."

"They're for my mom..." Toshi fell silent for several heartbeats as he considered this little bit of information and tilted his head slightly as he waited for her to continue filling in the blanks. "I need to finish them and take them to her in two days time," She finally said, picking up her explanation where she had stalled mere moments ago. "It's really important, so I need to finish them as soon as possible."

"O-kay..." He said, not really understanding the sudden sense of urgency that she felt. "Tell you what, finish up this last little bit and then call it quits for today. I'll order us both a pizza, you can go take a shower and relax some while the pizza is on it's way. And once you've eaten, I'll curl up with you in bed and hold you while you rest. And tomorrow you can work on the stuff in the afternoon until I come home from work. Sound like a plan?"

"Yeah. Yeah it does. But actually... I think I'm just going to go ahead and call it a day." She said as she slowly got up and started to meander away from him when he moved to stop her, his arms wrapping around her before she could move too far away from him.

The sudden action startled a gasp from her as he scooped her up and held her in place against him as he said in a low growling tone, "You need to eat before you go to sleep Shayera."

"I'm really not very hungry Toshi." She said as she stared his in the eye.

"I know that you aren't hungry Shayera, but you need to eat. It's been four days and I can already tell that you're weakening." Toshi said as he tightened his grip around her slender form a little bit in anxiousness. He didn't like this. He didn't like seeing her like this.

Seeing her like this scared him.

"Very well, I'll give in for now. But I still plan to order you a pizza with your favorite toppings just in case you change your mind around midnight or something."

"Thank you Toshi." She muttered as she leaned down and nuzzled the side of his neck. Toshi merely huffed softly and started carrying her down the hall to his bedroom, and bypassed the closet and dresser, deciding that clothing right then was of a more low priority than a shower and sleep. And walked into the bathroom and took a moment to shift his hold on her so that he could turn on the light before he set her down on the counter and told her to wait there and then turned and disappeared back into his bedroom for a moment to grab them both something to wear before returning to start their shower.

Shay barely looked at him as he went about turning on the tap and then stripping the two of them before finally picking her up in his arms again and then stepped into the shower.

Shay made a soft hissing sound and pressed her face more firmly against the side of his neck as the warm water hit her skin. She was so tired and already emotionally drained from what her ability kept telling her was coming that she could barely hold her head up as Toshi grabbed the loofa that he kept in the shower, and took a moment to rinse it off really good so that he could wash her.

All in all the shower took more than few minutes given the fact that he didn't bother putting her down again until he was sure that she was nice and squeaky clean. After which he turned the water off, and grabbed her towel and wrapped her in it and then set her back on the counter so that he could grab his own and quickly dry off before he could focus on her again.

It took a little bit of doing, especially since he had to keep shaking her awake a little bit after he found that she had somehow dozed off, and it apparently irked her enough to make her inevitably growl at him to 'knock it off'. Which earned a small huff of semi amusement from him as he finally finished drying her off before he then picked her up again and carried her into the bedroom and laid her on the bed while he went about slipping on a pair of loose fitting boxers and grabbed her a pair of panties and a shirt.

However upon reaching her side again to dress her, he found himself shaking his head in vexation as he noted that she was sprawled half across both sides of the bed, sound asleep.

Huffing again, he decided that his girl could go without clothing, just for one night, he then carefully pulled the sheets over her body to prevent her becoming chilled while he went and ordered his pizza and ate.

The next morning, Toshi decided to call in from work and stay home with Shayera.

He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but the more that he thought about the past few days and the reason why she had been working day and night on finishing whatever it was that she was working on for her mother, he couldn't help but feel that there was some sense of...anxiousness driving his girl.

And because of this, he felt that it would be best to hang around and see what was up among other things.

Once he was done speaking with Nezu and hanging up the phone, Toshi went about his usual morning routine. Though instead of bothering to cook breakfast this morning, he reheated some cold leftover pizza form last night and was eating that with his coffee when he heard the soft sound of small shuffling feet heading his way, and turned his head as she finally reached the kitchen.

He took one look at her and almost choked on the bite of pizza in his mouth that he'd yet to swallow. Luckily though, after a few solid thumps to the chest, he managed to get the piece down without much difficulty and then turned his attention back to his fiancée.

Damn, she must still be out of it. This is the first time ever that he'd seen her walk around naked, acting like a zombie. Truthfully, if not for the fact that she was likely still very tired- he'd find the situation hot and would thoroughly and shamelessly take advantage of it and her.

But seeing as she wasn't exactly herself, he decided that right now, discretion was the better part of valor. Besides, he had far too much honor to take advantage of someone who wasn't acting right.

That was more Endeavor's territory than his.

Watching her shuffle into the room, he watched her almost warily as she flopped down in the seat across from him in a graceless manner and look at him for a second before muttering a raspy sounding, "Mornin." Causing him to internally shake his head at her.

As a teacher of the next generation of hero's, in Toshi's opinion, anyone that couldn't form a whole coherent word, or a coherent sentence needed help with a capital H.

Thank god he'd thought ahead and called in.

There was no telling what sort of disaster he might have come home to after work if he had left her alone while like this. For all he knew she might've finished her work up around noon or something and then tried to cook and passed out.

And then what would he had come home to?

A burning home and a possibly dead fiancée, that's what.

Reaching out, he cupped her cheek in his hand and watched as she turned her face into his palm and rubbed her face against his callused flesh almost as if seeking his attention, he smiled faintly as he got up from his seat and moved to kiss the top of her head as he slowly removed his hand from her face so that he could collect his plate and his cup.

Since he had finished eating around the time he had almost choked (and didn't want a repeat performance) he was going to simply place his used pizza dish in the fridge for later and get a coffee refill while he worked on fixing Shay something to eat and grabbed her a drink to go with it.

Setting everything down on the table in front of her once he was done, he tapped the surface with his fingertip and ordered her to eat.

And she did.

Sort of. Though he'd had to sit there and watch her gnaw on the tip of her pizza for the better part of a half hour before she had finally put the one piece she'd been chewing on down and quickly slapped a hand over her mouth and jumped up and ran to the bathroom.