Court of Darkness Oneshots (requests open)

(Lou x MC) Cabbage (also on AO3)

(I'm crossposting this here because I want to.)

MC sighs as she finishes one of her assignments from her somehow ever-growing pile. It was like a hydra; whenever she thought she was finished with one, three more would appear. How did she manage to fall this far behind?! She hadn't even missed any class!

Looking over yet another assignment, she groans and rests her head on her desk.

"Milady?" Robin's paw nudges her cheek. "You have been working for quite a long time..."

"Yeah... I know..." MC lifts her head, gently stroking the cat, "But if I don't my workload doubles in size every time I turn around."

"Eh? Really?" Robin's ears flatten against his head.

"But maybe I do need a break..." MC stretches her arms above her head and stands up from her desk. "I think my reading comprehension is slowly going to disappear if I keep this up. Oh shoot, I missed dinner!" Glancing out the window, she notices the dark, star-filled sky and sighs. "Oh well... I guess I'll just go down the kitchens and make something then."

"I shall come with you!" Robin flutters into the air.

"Good evening, Miss MC." The headmaster's voice from the doorway startles her into dropping the spoon she was using right into the soup she was stirring.

"Hello." She waves awkwardly before grabbing another spoon to fish the first out of the pot. Robin peers over the edge of it, his fur raised in alarm.

"What might you be doing at this late hour?" He enters the kitchen and approaches the stove.

Grimacing down her own embarrassment, MC explains, "Well, I was working on my assignments and ended up totally missing dinner, so I figured I should eat something before getting back to work."

"Oh?" His eye widens in surprise, "Is any part of it unclear?"

"Not really, no." She shakes her head, "It's just a matter of getting it all done..."

His brow shifts into a stern, thoughtful expression.

"Uh, headmaster?" She pulls the first spoon out of the soup and rinses it off in the sink, while gently stirring the pot with magic.

"Would you perhaps mind if I joined you?"

"Huh?" Both MC and Robin blink.

"F-For dinner?" Robin asks.

"Yes." The headmaster nods, a cheerful grin on his face.

MC is very glad she did not say anything. She thought he meant her studies. She wouldn't have turned him down, but... "Alright. This soup should be almost finished. I just, um, need to add one last thing."

Robin cheers excitedly as the headmaster softly laughs.

"Is this a recipe from your realm?" The headmaster asks as they all sit down at the table.

"Yeah." MC nods quickly, "It is actually. It was something I made if I didn't want to cook for the next week or had a lot of unused bread."

"Milady would usually let me lick the spoon clean!" Robin adds cheerfully, sitting on the table with his own small bowl of soup.

"Well, there was nothing in it you couldn't eat and I didn't want you climbing on the stove to stick your face in it." She chuckles, scratching her cat's ears.

The headmaster laughs, lifting his spoon to his mouth.

MC lowers her gaze to her bowl the second she feels she's been staring too long and wills herself to dip her own spoon in her bowl and eat.