#just to make sure i didnt overdo it from aiming to please too hard while still recovering

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Hello, can i have a modern sylvain pls??? PS: i love how you draw scrimblos

Finally another Wheel Spin and thankfully modern equals I get to draw someone with fish somewhere on their outfit. (Overlay layer my friend how I missed you)

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Okay but what if Tori met Luke much much earlier? Like when he was still on the run with Thalia and Anabeth. Tori going out to buy some sweets and Luke stealing them cause he got 2 girls to feed and Tori being all angry trying to catch him and idk... at the end she didnt catch him and forgets about it. But jokes on Luke, he got the sweets but she got his heart.

someone sent me this ask in forever and a day ago, and i can’t seem to find the original ask :/ which is also probably why i forgot about it -_-;

but i was looking thru my luke/tori misc file on my desktop (in a word file bc i had been planning on writing smth for it and i guess i got caught up in everything else) and found it again!! it was a very sweet surprise lol

so i’m here to remedy my forgetfulness with some hcs and a cute, fluffy drabble for ya’ll

so tori’s 12 and luke’s 13, so she steals his heart in more of a crush/squish the way middle schoolers do way at this point

a yr, maybe a few months before shit hits the fan for tori (and kinda luke since the whole thalia-getting-turned-into-a-tree thing happens ya know)

so let’s say...they’re in nyc proper, and uh luke, thalia, and annabeth are hanging out in one of their forts they built (i wish we knew more abt where they went, bc somehow they ended up all the way in west virginia at some point wow)

and luke goes out to find them food in the big city since it’s a great place to pickpocket ppl

tori, diana, and dan are out abt the town getting some mexican sweet bread as a special treat for dan getting cast lead role in his middle school play

as well as some sugary treats for tori for working hard to get her grades up (what with her dyslexia and adhd and all)

and diana lets tori carry the bag--one of those, “please let me carry the bag bc it makes me feel all grown-up and responsible” kind of things

so they’re walking down the busy streets, diana’s got both her hands in one of tori’s and one of dan’s

luke spotted them as they were exiting the baker, and see the bag tori’s holding and thinks that it’s too easy

but he’s hungry, thalia and annabeth are hungry and counting on him. instead of pickpocketing someone for their wallet and buying food (which would take too long and his stomach feels like its collapsing in on itself, so that would make concentrating hard) he decides to take an easier route

so he makes his way around them, jumping in and out of side-streets and alleys so he can get in front of them and approach from the front for easier grabbing and going

when his chance comes, he begins briskly walking, almost a jog, almost a run toward three williams, aiming for tori’s bag

he bumps her shoulder pretty hard, while making a grab for the bag

tori exclaims, “hey” and glares at him

dianan pulls tori more toward her

and luke realizes tori has a stronger grip on the bag than he thought

but he’s already a few inches away, still pulling at the bag and when tori realize’s what’s happened, her eyes widen in shock

luke takes advantage of that moment and yanks the bag from her fingers before turning and booking it

since it’s new york no one really cares abt the kid running down the sidewalk, clutching a bag to his chest like a football player

he hears a woman’s voice call out “tori!” in a panic and luke glances back to see the girl following him, running at full speed toward him, her brown eyes blazing with determination

that’s never happened before, not with a kid as young as tori

kids always screamed or cried and stayed with their parent(s) as he took off and disappeared

luke faces forward, pushing himself as hard as he can without overdoing it since he is kinda starving

but bc he’s malnourished and starving, every breath is like razor-blades in a lungs, and his visions starts to go a little fuzzy

he’s pretty sure he can hear tori’s footsteps behind him and when he glances back again, she’s gained on him

behind her are her mom and dan

desperately trying to focus, he faces forward again and calls upon the city’s map mentally and makes a route of escape

he swerves into an alley with a fence blocking off the other side, but luke doesn’t even hesitate, he throws the bag over mid-run and launches himself up onto the fence and easily scales it

tori turns into the alleyway just as he lands and picks the bag up

“give those back! they’re not yours!” she yells, going forward and grabbing the fence

at first luke thinks she’s just going to glare at him and shake the fence--many ppl have done that

but his jaw drops a little when she begins climbing it

in all the yrs he’s been on the run, this had to be the weirdest thing he’d ever seen, and that included the monsters he’d encountered

here was this tiny girl with blond pigtails, in a dress her grandma probably made for her, and mary janes scaling a fence in a nyc alley

more footsteps sound at the end of the alley, the side that tori’s on, and luke quickly darts behind a dumpster, crouching and clutching the bag to his chest

his knees are weak, and his vision now has spots, so he needs this break

he only hopes that those footsteps signaled the girl’s, tori’s, mom

and he lets out a sigh of relief when he hears, “tori”

diana is standing a few feet from the fence that tori has almost just scaled

dan is behind her, a “you’re in trouble” smirk on his face

“mom he stole our treats! i worked hard for that candy!”

“he’s not here, tori. please get down, i don’t want you to get hurt”

“he’s right there mom! behind that dumpster, let me just--”

“Victoria Anna Williams”

tori lets out a heavy sigh and begins to climb back down the fence

meanwhile, luke mouths her full name, picturing her climbing the fence. it suits her and he finds he really likes her name

“we’ll go buy some more. sometimes that happens.”

diana takes tori’s hand and squeezes, kneeling down and wiping some sweat from tori’s forehead

“please don’t run off like that again, you had mommy really worried”

“i won’t, i’m sorry.”

diana takes their hands again and they head back to the bakery

luke waits a few minutes just in case before heading back to thalia and annabeth

“wow, you got bread this time! who’d you steal it from?”

luke shrugs, “just some girl. wasn’t holding on to it very well”

“you’re face is red” thalia points out when she looks up from digging through the bag

luke starts. “is it?” he was thinking abt that girl, victoria. tori

“...yeah” thalia’s tone is like, “you think i’m lying?f”

“well i did just run a lot”

“you weren’t red before” annabeth points out helpfully

“look, i got the food okay and i’m starved, so lets dig in”

thalia and annabeth brush it off bc they’re also hungry, but while they eat all luke can think abt is looking back and seeing that girl chase him

and until they meet again, he can’t get her out of his head

fast-forward: luke’s been at camp now for abt a month or so when tori shows up again

and when he first sees her, his heart stops before doing a little somersault and he thinks, “it’s her. it’s the girl. tori.”

but he can also see she looks pretty despondent and so restrains himself from going up to her

besides what would he say, “hey i’m the kid who stole the bread and candy from you, but i haven’t been able to stop thinking abt you since bc i think i have a crush on you?” yeah. right.

besides it doesn’t even seem like she remembers him or that incident, which is kinda embarrassing bc he can’t stop thinking abt it

like in my og story, itps, they have that test to see what skill they’re good at, go into the forest to fight monsters, have more skilled campers watch over them

luke is so busy thinking abt how he could introduce himself without compeltely embarrassing himself when he realizes that tori’s in danger

he goes to her rescue, kills the hellhound, leans over her and helps her cover her wound before yelling for medic feeling insanely guilty abt everything

then he looks down at her and her eyes widen in recognition and she gasps, exclaiming, “it’s you!” before passing out

and now for the drabble :D fast-forward many yrs, they’re both alive, mid-twenties, and living together in nyc

Tori couldn’t sleep. She rolled over, reaching for Luke, but his side of the bed was empty. Still warm, though, so he’d just gotten up.

She glanced at the clock: 3am. Frowning, she sat up, throwing her legs off the side of the bed.

What in the world could he be doing at 3am?

She stood and shuffled out into the living room, which was right next to the kitchen, only separated by a breakfast bar. The lights are on and Luke is in the kitchen. Tori can see ingredients for Mexican sweet bread spread out on the table. Luke’s looking so intently at a cookbook that he doesn’t notice Tori enter the kitchen.

She wraps her arms around his waist and presses her nose into his back, inhaling his comforting scent before pulling back and resting her cheek against his spine. Luke rests his hands on hers.

“I wanted this to be a surprise.” She can hear the pout in his voice and giggles.

“Why are you making bread at three in the morning, Sticky Fingers?” she asks.

Luke sighs and turns to face her. “I wish you wouldn’t call me that.”

Tori keeps her arms wrapped around his waist, resting her chin against his chest so she can look up at him.

“Tell me to stop and I will.”

Luke presses his lips together, his eyes narrowing, but he says nothing. They’ve had the same conversation a million times before. When she woke up from that hellhound attack, Luke was there, wanting to apologize as soon as possible. She had remembered him and what he’d done, and from then on, his new nickname was Sticky Fingers.

That was also the day he came up with her nickname.

“What are you doing up, SweeTart?”

Tori groans and presses her forehead against his chest, hiding her face. “I told you, it was a phase!”

The bag hadn’t just been filled with bread, it’d also been filled with boxes of SweeTarts. A lot of them.

Luke chuckles and runs his fingers through his hair. He knows she’s joking. Much like how he jokes about his nickname.

“Go back to bed,” he murmurs. “I’ll bring you some warm milk.”

Tori is silent for a while before mumbling, “With honey.”

“Of course.”

Sighing, Tori finally lets go of Luke and pulls back. They lean in for a kiss before Tori shuffles back into the bedroom as Luke pulls out a small pan to heat the milk and mix the honey.

And as that’s heating up, he turns back to the bread. It was for their anniversary--not when they’d officially decided to go steady, but the day that he’d stolen bread from her and she’d stolen his heart.

blegh, i definitely changed tenses bc the way i write hcs and the way i write-write are two completely different styles and tenses, but i wrote the drabble immediately after i wrote the hcs and i’m tired, so switching back was a challenge. one i did not win this time around

it’s also a lil rough around the edges, but this was just a fun little, impulsive thing i wanted to do. i love me some fluff b/t my bbys, and i’m not...too terribly busy??? quite yet

so i figured this was a good opportunity to unwind a lil bit and write some fun stuff involving my two faves

i know you probs don’t even remember sending this in, but thanks anyway for sending this! i had a lot of fun with it ^_^