Todoroki sees someone with a soul mark identical to his. Bad news: it's an employee at a roadside motel in a tiny, middle-of-nowhere town. Worse news: he apparently already has a boyfriend. That's how Todoroki finds himself booking eight weeks at the Black Rock Inn and hoping for the best, all the while knowing he may very well be about to destroy someone else's relationship. (He'll leave the question of whether he's a bad person for later.) [Note: I originally posted this story on AO3 in April 2019.]