#companion to WM2k19: hope

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Fic: MLB: Peachy (Lukanette)

Title: “Peachy”

Rating: K Plus / PG / General Audiences

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

Summary: The only reason Luka was at the bakery was because he was craving some macarons.  Not because he had the feeling Marinette was avoiding him and he missed her or anything. (Companion to WM2019: Hope.)

Author’s Notes/Warnings: This is technically a companion piece for Ch15 of the Writer’s Month ficlets (Aug 21: Hope) – more specifically it’s the bit where Luka goes to talk to Marinette.  That was written before Reflekdoll & Desperada aired, so this pretty much ignores those two eps, but that ficlet should probably be read before this one.  (The gist: Juleka is a Concerned Baby Sister and tells Marinette to stay away from Luka if she still loves Adrien.  Marinette respects her wishes; Luka doesn’t.)  This also follows the Day 10 theme of Lukanette month (Baked Goods).  I’ve got like an hour to kill between work and class on T/R, so I wrote this up then because the one scene would not get out of my head, and it just tied in perfectly with Hope.  (There are so many cheesy Labyrinth jokes ahead of y’all, but if you haven’t serenaded your crush with Labby!Bowie what are you even doing with your life?)

Luka Couffaine was annoyed.

…no, that wasn’t right.  He wasn’t annoyed. He was…not upset, not really. Perplexed?  Maybe.  Agitated. Concerned and trying to keep the concern from turning into worry.  A little afraid.  A little lonely, too, if he was being honest.

The point was he didn’t feel good, and in a city where feeling bad can lead to looking like Daft Punk and stealing voices he felt keeping his emotions on the positive was a decent priority.  He’d been watching the road by the river for over an hour now, the confusing tumble of negative emotions getting worse the longer he picked at his guitar.