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[Maribat] Sparks Au - Snippet 4

Well...its been a while! Enjoy!

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Context: It’s halfway through the week (as is four or maybe five days after Damian taking care of Alicia) and Luka is finding it strange as to why he hasn’t called to find out what Alicia’s weekly routine at school is like. So Luka reaches out first. Although it required being transferred over hundreds of times to even reach Damian’s personal number. 

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Luka waited in the city park, tapping his foot as he mentally listened to the new piece he was composing. 

The sun was finally out, breezes were cool, the perfect day to stroll outside, or in Luka’s case, check in on his daughter...

He stopped tapping his foot, instead running his hands through his hair as he let out a heavy sigh. 

His daughter, huh?

“Papa!” Alicia cried out, Luka snapping from his thoughts. “There’s so much I have to tell you about!”

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The two men sat together at an ice cream parlor, listening as Alicia reencountered the past few days, Luka noticing how Damian kept interrupting her whenever she tried to mention school or whenever she was about to use Damian’s actual name. 

“-and yesterday! I won the dodgeball competition!” Alicia said with a grin. 

“Well done!” Luka said with a smile, Alicia’s grin growing wider. 

“It’s all thanks to Da-M.Wayne!” Alicia said, smiling at the man. 

“I couldn’t say no to helping you train for the match.” Damian said with a smile, before a frown replaced it. Luka narrowed his eyes a bit, wondering why he frowned. 

“Something wrong?” Luka decided to ask, Alicia’s eyes widening when she noticed Damian’s frown, quickly scanning the area. “Alicia, are you-“

“11 crows.” Damian bluntly said, looking at his phone. 

Luka watched as Alicia stopped looking around, quickly turning her attention to those in front of her. Luka frowned. 

“What else has M.Wayne helped you with while you are with him?”

“Aside from helping me with my homework,” a hum. “He also taught me some gymnastics!” Alicia said with a smile. “Did you know that M.Wayne has a brother who loves gymnastics? I wanna meet him one day!”

“You taught her gymnastics?” Luka asked with a raised brow, Damian looking at him before sliding a card at him. “Holy shit.” Luka whispered as he saw the card. “Do you know-“

“I’m a billionaire.” Damian casually stated, Alicia grinning, Damian’s expression softening. “I’d gladly throw any amount if it means that Alicia always has a smile on her face.” 

At that, Luka frowned, listening as Alicia talked about their new routine. 

They’d wake up, stretch together, Damian would make breakfast, take her to school, work on some papers while she did her homework if she didn't have school, they’d eat lunch, pick her up from school (if she had it), watch a movie, arts and crafts, make dinner and then watch another movie before heading to bed. 

“And I get to choose whichever story I want!” Alicia squealed, taking another bite of her ice cream. 

“Is that so?”

“Yup! M.Damian thinks it’s fine since my grades are always at the top of the class.”

“Don’t you think you’re pampering her too much?” Luka asked, watching as Damian didn’t look up from his phone.

“Pampering? She deserves to be rewarded for her hard work.” Damian said, lifting his eyes off his phone. “Besides, we both know why I do it.”

At those words, Luka’s lips morphed into a thin line.

“You can buy her as many materialistic things she could want, but that would never make up for the time you lost-”

“I know that.” Damian looks over to Alicia, watching as she savored her last spoonful of chocolate mint. “I just want her to be happy with the small amount of time she has with me right now.”

A comfortable silence settled over Luka, his shoulders relaxing upon hearing those words. 

That’s right. How stupid was he? At the end of the day, Alicia still thought Luka was her actual father.

“Well, I have to get back to the studio.” Luka said, getting up from his seat. 

“Papa, you’re leaving already?” Alicia cried, also getting off her chair. “It’s still too early for you to leave!”

“As much as I would like to stay, I have to get back to work.” Luka reminded her, specifically leaving Marinette out of the reasons why he had to leave. He didn’t want to ruin her smile. “But you can always call or FaceTime me whenever you want, okay?”

Alicia smiles at that, giving her father a grin, Luka wondering how many he had missed while she was under Damian’s care. 

“Okay!” 

“See you soon mon petit tresor.” Luka kissed her forehead, causing Alicia to erupt into a giggling fit.

Alicia and Damian watched as he left, Alicia waving her hand until Luka turned a corner.

“M.Wayne.”

“Dad is fine.” Damian reassured, watching her grin.

“Dad, Corvus was at three, not 11.” Alicia argued, stretching out her hands. It took Damian a while to figure out what she wanted before handing her the pastel blue bag he had recently bought for her. 

“True, Corvus was at three,” Alicia swelled with pride upon getting it right, “but this time I was referring to their number symbolism.” Damian watched Alicia mumble about the two systems as she worked with the tablet in her hands.

He let out a happy huff when he watched her connect the pieces.

“Are we finally going to launch the plan?!” Alicia squealed, her smile infectious. 

“Tomorrow, during lunch, you’ll start Operation: Get It Back.” 

“Should we start with observing her?” Alicia asked, handing the tablet over to Damian, the screen already tracking Corvus’ location. 

 Damian beckoned her over, Alicia dragging her chair over to Damian, the two looking over at the tablet.

“Seems like she’s…”

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“I’m sorry about yesterday and trying to take the necklace from you.” Alicia said, looking Xochitl, Xochitl feet away from her. “I thought it was the one I lost. Maman’s necklace.”

“Well, it’s not. Ronald gave it to me.” Xochitl defended, putting her hands over the necklace.

“I-I know that, but it just looks like Maman’s.” Alicia said, about to take a step forward when she remembered Damian’s advice.

Ask before you touch. If you just try to grab it again, that’s it. The mission is over.

“Can I see it? I promise to let it go once I finish looking at it!” Alicia promised, raising her right hand and offering a pinky promise.

“You promise?”

“I do.” Alicia said, happy to see Xochitl seal the promise.

Xochitl let Alicia hold the necklace, not expecting her to cover the necklace in some weird powder, brush it off and saw some weird patterns on it.

“What is that?” Xochitl asked, about to touch it before Alicia stopped her.

“See that? That’s boy cooties.” Alicia said, Xochitl cringing at it. “This is to take it off.” Alicia explained placing tape over it, peeling it off and putting it into a plastic bag. “Dad knows how to forever get rid of boy cooties, so I’m going to give it to him.” 

“How did you know it has boy cooties?”

“Well, since it’s not mine, it should have.” Alicia said, storing the evidence away in her bag. “If it were my necklace, it wouldn’t have boy cooties since I never let anyone touch it. Not even Papa.” Xochitl looked at her in awe, tackling her into a hug.

“Thank you for getting rid of it! Oh! Did you watch the new episode of Untold?”

“I knew I forgot to do something! What happened?”

“Well…”

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Alicia grinned as she saw Damian outside of the school, waiting for her with a smile on his face.

“Dad!” Alicia said, running to him, Damian catching her. “I got the prints of fingers!”

“Fingerprints.” Damian corrected, ruffling her hair. “Now that we have that, we can go to phase 2: Flip-a-roo.”

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