“I think she felt like she had to confess everything to me,”
“… but I told her, ‘the past is the past’.”
“All that matters to me is who you are now.”
ROSE TRIED TO TELL GREG THE TRUTH BUT HE WOULDN’T LET HER. HE DOESN’T KNOW BUT NOT BECAUSE ROSE DIDN’T TRY. HOLY SHIT.
remember in school when we had to put these orange covers over the keyboards when practicing our typing skills so we wouldn’t be able to peek at where the letters are?
no… what the hell kinda school did u go to? prison??
dreamworks: *actually leaks screenshots of season 6* this is gonna shock everyone, we can’t wait for the fan’s reaction
us: lmao 😂😂 these fake 😭💕klance screenshots 😍😍are getting out hand 👏🏽🤚🏽
dreamworks: *releases s6 trailer*
us: 😵😵 omg guys 🤣🤣🙏🏽🙏🏽 who did this??? 😍😂😂👏🏽❤️
Surprise, surprise, guys! A fluffy (shet I hope so tho) one-shot of Lukanette, (since I’ve seen that some of you are already waiting for a fic) taken two days after the Captain Hardrock episode.
This is my very first attempt at a one-shot or writing in general, so if there are any mistakes in my writing, please notify me!
I won’t keep you waiting, here goes!
Marinette strolled through Champ de Mars a day after her latest akuma deafeatening, Zombizou. The buzz of little kids running and laughing and the chatter of teens and adults alike on the green grass was familiar, and also the snaps of the tourists’ cameras. But they were fewer, fewer than usual, which made Marinette comfortable.
She then heard the sound of a guitar. A very familiar one, if you asked her. Marinette immediately stopped walking, looking around the greenspace, trying to pinpoint where the strumming came from with furrowed brows. The sound was faint, but it was there. It sounded like…the tune Luka strummed on his guitar when they first met.
Luka.
That’s who she has to find.
Well, it’s not like it was hard to find him though. His blue-dyed hair tips was already distinguishable. She just had to look around a little bit more–
Found you, Mari thought, her bluebell eyes glinting with a bit of acheivement in them. Luka sat down on the grass about 10 meters away from where she’s standing, his back facing her. As presumed, he was playing his guitar. Etching closer to him, the tune Luka was playing sounded foreign, one that she never heard before, but it was soothing.
When Mari was about 2 meters away from him, something rised up within her, a feeling of playfulness. She thought it was fair, because Luka already teased her too anyway, with that ‘Ma-Ma-Ma-Marinette’ thing. She felt a giggle bubble up within her chest, but she closed her mouth with her left hand. She took slow calculated steps until her right hand could reach Luka’s hoodie. Her left foot lifted up a little bit, trying to make her fingers reach his hoodie better. Marinette’s finger’s just reached the tips of it when–
He chuckled, ”No need to be playful, I know somebody’s out there.”
With that, Marinette’s eyes widened, and her body jerked forward. Resulting in, well, her body relatively crashing Luka’s back. When she already found out that she fell, however, she was laying down, face-to-face with Luka’s confused and frantic eyes. She blinked rapidly, trying to focus on the world around her. The blue sky vanished when Luka leant over her–wait a second, leant over me?! Marinette’s eyes were wide as saucers now, starting to sweat. She quickly and panickingly roamed her eyes around and found out that Luka’s hands were planted at either side of her head.
Now Marinette was full-on blushing, way way harder than when she’s around Adrien.
“Wait a second, M-Marinette?” Luka started, then his eyes started to widen too.
He immediately sat back up again, leaving Marinette with wide, dazed eyes, and an all-too visible blush on her cheeks and ears.
She sat up while trying to cover her face, but it was impossible since she had a pale skin tone. Marinette frantically looked around and found Luka’s guitar lying on the ground with a visible crack on its body. Marinette’s eyes widened even more.
Luka sensed her distress, and set his eyes on his guitar too. His face looked half and half , then looked back at Marinette, who looked like she just dropped a new born baby from her arms. “It’s okay, Marinette. My sister cracked it before too, but I managed to fix it. It’s perfectly okay.”
“No, it’s not.” Marinette started and stood up suddenly, causing her to jerk and almost fall down again. Luka stood up too with worried eyes, but Mari just shook her head and backed away further. “I-I’ll leave you alone, now. I-I caused you too much trouble, I fell on you, I-I broke your guitar–”
Before Marinette would step away any longer, Luka grabbed his guitar from the ground, and raised his eyebrows with a reassuring smile plastered on his face. He began strumming a new tune on his guitar, one that Marinette never heard of before. It made her feel more calm, an unusually comforting. He rolled his eyes. “Can you call that broken, now?”
Mari’s head perked up, surprised. She shook her head, smiled slightly, then shrugged. “I guess… not.” A giggle bubbled up from her chest.
Luka sighed, glad that he found a way to make Marinette calm again. He stopped playing, looked down, and walked to where Marinette was standing. Luka held her hand which made the girl widen her eyes once more. “You know, Marinette,” he mumbled, slightly caressing the back of her hand with his thumb, “I made that little tune after you left our ship, because I wanted a small piece to remember you by. You’re still amazing to me, especially when you guided your fellow students outside the building after the akuma attack yesterday, and you even distracted the akuma until Chat Noir arrived.” He shook his head, scoffing. Looking back at her, he said, “You’re so unbelievably brave.”
Ladybug smiled and helped Luka up, but she was surprised at the words that came out of his mouth.
“Ladybug, is Marinette okay?“ Luka asked with a worried look on his face.
In her imagination, she widened her eyes. Trying to keep her voice and smile steady, she replied, “She’s safe. She’s the one who alerted me.”
“That girl is unbelievably brave.“
Marinette blushed, but tried her best to make it more subtle. Those words Luka said today almost sounded like the exact thing he said when he and her alter ego first met. After that came confusion, because the moment his fingertips touched her hand, it gave off a somewhat similar feeling, but foreign nonetheless. It felt similar to the feeling when Adrien held her hand when they danced at Chloe’s party, but the other half, well, she wasn’t familiarized with it at all.
She was too preoccupied with her thoughts to even notice Luka removing his hand from hers, and stepping away to a farther distance which made her breathe more freely again.
Thunder rumbled across the sky. Neither of the two noticed that it was already cloudy, that almost all off the people are gone or either opening up their umbrellas.
It downpoured in less than 30 seconds.
“Uh-oh,“ Luka mumbled, and started to place his guitar back in his bag. For Marinette, well, she only wondered whether to just stand there or go to a much safer, dryer place.
Marinette then looked on at Luka, who started to remove his hooded jacket. To her surprise, he placed it above him and Marinette’s heads, adjusting his arms so he can make a small canopy with it.
“Would you like us to get the heck of here, mademoiselle?“ he smiled, his blue eyes glinting with the same feeling when he helped her up, two days ago.
Marinette nodded, clutched her pink bag then smiled. “I’d love to.”
Oh shet I didn’t expect it to be this long wtf.
Useless thoughts aside, that’s my first attempt in writing. Notify me when you see any mistakes. (Of course there’d be a lot of mistakes) (But it’s 3:50 am now and I’m tired so)
You’re a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her.
“cool,” you say, picking a bone from your teeth. it’s a power move you saw on VHS, but it actually just makes your gums kind of hurt. feels like ripping a popcorn kernel out.
around you, the abandoned subway is dripping. your horde of slightly-used-but-still-good Items Of Debatable Usage shifts under the scales of your tail.
“so, like, how did you find me, again?” you curl your tail up, around, through the air. the soldier looks bad, but you also don’t want him to die on your rug because you just got that cleaned. it’s really sixty rugs sewn together and to be honest? talk about a cleaning charge. used to be a dragon’s promise was worth something in this world.
you weren’t listening. “then she sent me here to you,” the man is saying.
you curl your tail around a handkerchief and pass it to him to clean up his blood. when it lands on him, you realize you’ve sort of erred. it is not a kerchief. it is a full king-sized sheet that is a replica from the set of the That’s 70′s Show. you’ve never seen an episode.
“she?” you taste the pronoun in your mouth. “let me guess. tall, green-black hair, very like a snake, but like, in a way that feels sort of human. like if a human was being a snake more than if a person was snake-ish.”
the soldier, with his one free arm, is trying to wrap parts of the sheet around his wounds. he barely nods. it’s kind of rude he’s so distracted.
you appraise him. “she didn’t like you,” you say, and hop off the ledge you’re lurking on. you feel graceful usually, but the smallness of this man makes you feel sort of crowded. like if you walk the wrong way you’ll squish him.
he coughs into his hand. the baby is fussing. “she… what? how do you know?”
“sent you the hard way,” you say, “quest and everything.”
you sniff downwards. the baby is absolutely Royalty, capital R. smells like a future princess. smells like hidden-in-a-wood. you smell again. actually, maybe it’s a tower. she smells like a tower princess.
maybe he thinks that you’re gonna eat her, because he wraps her tight against his chest. he smells like not-related, but absolutely sworn-to-protect. ugh.
you swipe your tail. clear off a space, dive in your claw. fish around. pluck out what is not a crib (cribs are useful) but instead a race car bed that has high enough walls it could convince itself to be a crib. “plop her down,” you say, “she’ll be safe here.”
“how do i know?” his voice is scratchy.
“call her,” you say, “call steph.”
he doesn’t move. you roll your eyes. “ugh. is she still going by that name? call The Witch of Night”. a name, which, not that it matters, you suggested to her about six eons ago. now it’s more like “One of the Several Witches Of New York City And Surrounding Boroughs.”
“i trust her,” he says, “i don’t trust you. how do you two even…?”
“she’s punishing me,” you say, because honestly! when is she not! she has no idea what a prank is supposed to look like! “this is to remind me that i belong in a Tale, and i escaped, and it totally ruined a Very Good Spell.”
he’s staring at you. his eyes are glassy. he stumbles. you edge the racecar bed closer. he puts the baby in it and she hushes, which you take to be a good sign. you rock it gently with your tail. if you took care of her (which, you won’t, obviously) you’d have to do some Small Magic and turn human for a while, even though you always feel kind of tiny and weak in human bodies. it would make it easier to hold and carry and take outside this little bundle of joy. no, not joy. Royalty.
“dragons are supposed to die in Tales,” you say, “and i didn’t die, clearly.” you begin to hunt for something that can function as a bottle. “major disappointment for all involved, myself included, trust me.”
the man drops to his knees. you suck in your breath between your teeth. he flinches like he expects flames, which is kind of hurtful. if you had wanted to eat him, you would have just done that already. but really, barbecue in front of a baby? even dragons have morals.
“ugh,” you say, and you pull out your old talking stone you can’t afford (Verizon has great coverage for hidden supernatural beasts, but really, at what cost) “hang on.”
the phone rings about two whole times. your heart always flutters, just a little, because it’s her on the other end. “sophie?” you ask.
“yeah?” her voice holds a smile in it.
“steph sent me another baby,” you say. you meanwhile pull what-is-not-a-rattle out of the pile and shake it for the girl. “the guy who brought it, is, like… toast.”
he looks pale.
“not literal toast,” you amend, “absolutely could be worse.”
“i keep telling her,” sophie sighs, “we’re not ready.”
“she’s just excited,” you say placidly. it’s not good to speak ill of your inlaws.
“how much longer for the guy?”
you sniff. “uh, forty minutes, tops. how fast can you get him to the hospital?”
“oh, twelve with traffic.” in the background, you hear her moving, already on her way, her keys jingling.
“what do we do with … uh Recent Acquisition.” you tickle the baby with a tail. it giggles and it sounds like bells. you roll your eyes. absolutely Royalty, kind-as-kittens, pure-of-heart, some-bullshit-yet-to-be-written. you want to snuggle with her, which is just completely unbecoming of a dragon.
“i’m going to kill her,” sophie says, “what kind of baby?”
“tower princess.” you gently push the man and his blood off your rug. ugh. he’s moaning and groaning, so you tell him, “dude i’m on the phone.”
he’s going to be fine. sophie never met someone she couldn’t heal. she healed up the big old wound that was your heart, after all, cleaned it out and patched it up and made you whole. and she’d done that literally a few times, too. your Day Witch. the dawn star of your heart.
there’s a little laugh. “remember our tower?”
“babe,” you say, “how can i forget.” you look over to the Dying Man on his Final Quest. you offer him a partially-burned cellphone and mouth call who you need to. you need to say it a few times, because he isn’t good at reading dragon lips.
“sorry about steph,” sophie sighs. “she just wants to be an aunt.”
there’s kind of a pause and sophie adds, gently, in a way that your heart breaks to hear, “and maybe …. i kind of told her i wanna be a mom.”
sure, steph is much nicer since six eons ago when she went through a totally-edgy there-can-only-be-one-powerful-twin phase (and really, aren’t we all like that as teenagers), but as an aunt? she’s not like sophie, who is kind and gentle and good and whole and has loved you in any form you choose, who has held your claw when your cried and shined your scales and sorted your Horde and helped you find new bodies and helped you escape a Tale (her Tale too) and who ran off with you and survived, and thrived, and lived in a world that forgot magic, and live, and love, and watch lots of netflix, which, along with vaccines, is your absolute favorite New Era thing.
but anyway. what if steph goes dark again. what if you forget to invite her to the birthday party or it gets lost in the mail and lo and behold, eternal sleep. what if she don’t like how the baby speaks and decides Toads For Tongues. what if she goes through the whole mirror-mirror bullshit. not with your baby.
your baby. is this, like, your baby now?
“i kinda,” the words feel so Right. like Tale kinds of Right. like somehow when he showed up he wasn’t finishing his quest but starting yours. the baby laughs again and you realize: she doesn’t sound like bells. she sounds normal, you just already love her, “i kinda wanna be a mom too.”
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