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FIC: A Thousand Words: Ch 4/5: A Thousand Words (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: This got way longer than I initially intended. I kept debating if I should split it or not, but when the post-Curse part of the chapter kept getting longer and longer I figured it would be better. (Though Rierse thought it would be hilarious if I posted a 20k chapter called “A Thousand Words”, and I have to admit she had a point. 😂)

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3

A Thousand Words

Part Four: A Thousand Words

“And what time’s your flight getting in tomorrow?”

He double-checked his ticket, his jeans half-folded in his arms.

“I should be back…after you get home from school, but before dinner,” he said. Across an ocean, Juleka snorted, and he chuckled as he tossed his folded jeans back into the suitcase. “What? That’s more helpful than telling you eh, maybe two.”

“Fair,” she said. “That does tell me to plan for four instead of three when I grab the takeout.”

He paused, his toiletry bag in hand, and frowned. His shampoo was missing again. Had Crusher…? Her words caught up to him, and he glanced at the phone.

“Four?” he asked. “Are we expecting company?”

“Yeah, dumbass. You,” she snorted. He sighed her name, and he could almost see her rolling her eyes. “I told you. Marinette? My friend from school? She’s been staying with us for a few days now. Using your bed while you’re gone?”

…right. He sort of remembered that? He was pretty sure she had said something already, at least.

“…yeah,” he said. “Your friend from school. Her parents…”

“She broke her leg last week? And her parents are out of the country helping her sick gran?” Juleka said. It sounded weird, but he couldn’t place why. He didn’t know this friend, and he certainly didn’t know her parents, but the idea that they wouldn’t be on the first flight back when they heard their daughter was hurt…it wasn’t like their ma would have done that. She’d tell them to suck it up and she’d see them when she saw them. He knew most parents weren’t like that, but he had no reason to think this Marinette’s parents would be any different. “God, Luka, how rough was this tour?”

He shook his head at her question, dismissing the thoughts. It had been rougher than he was comfortable admitting. Not that he’d told her that yet — not that he planned to. It was just…

It hadn’t been as easy as he’d thought it’d be. It had been amazing, but…it hadn’t been easy.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

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From @verfound: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You Ch 14 | Ch 15 | Enough to Want to Keep You | A Thousand Words Ch 3

From @djwriterkp: Pirates, Princesses, and Peonies Ch 15

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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 15/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: I was just smacked in the face with the fact that Friday is August.  Is today actually Sunday?  Am I actually posting on the right posting day?  😂

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Fifteen: Of Chances Tried

Having a soulmate was…weird.

He wasn’t sure what he’d been expecting whenever he’d tried to think about the day he finally found his. Someone to talk to, maybe. Someone he connected with. He saw how soulmates worked long-term with his parents. With Marinette’s parents, who weren’t as volatile as his own parents but still just…clicked. There weren’t as many soul matches at school, but finding your soulmate early wasn’t completely unheard of. He saw how it worked around his age in his own sister. For the most part, the only difference between a soulmatch and dating someone was the certainty that the relationship wasn’t going to end.

But he hadn’t had his words for years, not like Marinette, and then even after he had had the words he didn’t actually have a soulmate, and he hadn’t been super preoccupied with finding them yet, anyway. He’d been happy with his life, with his family and his little group of friends. With the best friend he kinda sorta definitely wished was his…but he hadn’t really given much thought to what would come after.

After he actually had found his…soulmate.

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Conversation Prompt

“Do the voices ever bother you?”

“Not really. They’re annoying to listen to, and it makes it hard to think. But they were all I had for a while, so I’ve sort of become used to them. Why? Does it bother you?”

“No, but I can’t help but think you look like you’re in immense pain when you listen to them. I just hope they’re saying kind things to you.”

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FIC: "Enough to Want to Keep You" (MLB; Lukanette)

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Summary: Marinette is having trouble settling on an outfit for her second first date with Luka.  She knows he’ll like whatever she wears, but will he like it enough to want to keep her this time?

Author’s Notes/Warnings: I needed silly fluff, and then a song came on the radio this morning, and here we are.  🖤  (I make no promises.  I’m threadbare this week, and I was trying to sprint this.  Brain off, stupid fluff, quick edit & post.  And life has fought me all day.)

“Enough to Want to Keep You”

Marinette pushed a frustrated breath through her teeth, her cheeks puffing out in the process.  Her hands landed on her bare hips, a manicured nail tapping anxiously.  Her eyes surveyed the disaster zone the past two hours had made her room, clothes strew haphazardly over almost every available surface.  She was pretty sure every single thing she owned was on the floor, tossed over a chair or desk or chaise, or hanging from her mirror or loft.  Luka was going to be there any minute, and she had a big problem.

She had absolutely nothing to wear.

…well.

Nothing appropriate, at least.  Acceptable.  Good enough.

Nothing that would work for their second first date, at least.

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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 14/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

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Fourteen: Of Chances Taken

“Excuse…oh my gosh, Luka???”

He looked up at the voice, his eyebrows furrowing as he tried to place it. There was something familiar about it that he couldn’t quite grasp, and when he partially closed his locker door to get a better look at the girl who had spoken seeing her didn’t actually help. She was pretty, sure, if you liked the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, preppy look. She also had a familiar face, but again that last degree of connection escaped him.  It was just as likely they shared a class as it was he just passed her in the hall every day. Her eyes were wide and sparkling as she stared at him, though, and her hands were clasped over her chest. Her mouth had also dropped open.

“Oh my gosh, it is you!” she gasped, her mouth curling into a pearly-toothed smile. It was a celebrity smile, one he recognized all too well. One he was seeing more and more of his classmates settle into the longer they studied at the prestigious Saint-Saëns Académie des Beaux-Arts. “I didn’t realize you applied here!”

“Do…I know you?” he asked, his brow furrowing as he searched for a connection — any connection — to the girl in the blue dress beside him. Her smile slipped a…lot, actually. Her entire presence seemed to deflate with his question.

“…no, I suppose you wouldn’t,” she said, her voice soft and sad. “We went to Dupont together."

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new ask game for my writers: reblog for your followers to anonymously (or not) tell you what fic brought them to your blog :)

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

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From @djwriterkp: Bed, Wed, Behead

From @rierse: Baby Just Say Yes

From @verfound: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You Ch 13

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Biker AU. Chapter 3. Part 10.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

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From @verfound: All These Signs Led Me to You Ch 11 | Ch 12

From @rierse: How to Be a Fairy Ch 5

From @djwriterkp: Pirates, Princesses, and Peonies Ch 14

From @scareqrow412: MLB Prompt Challenge | Lukanette in a Star Wars AU prompt

From @smileytrinity: Happy Anniversary

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