#LBSC October 2021 Minific

[bee-a-garbage-shipper]

Lukanette Deserves Better Part 3

Yes there’s more Lukanette, because canon makes me bitter in how Lukanette get’s shafted. Kinda Salty.

The Karma of Lies - Plus JuleRose. Mentioned Jean Duparc x Kagami Tsurugi. Canon Ships. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Principal Damocles Salt. Bustier Class Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Juleka Couffaine Sugar. Rose Lavillant Sugar. Plagg The Kwami Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath - Plus JuleRose. Mentioned Jean Duparc x Kagami Tsurugi. Canon Ships. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Principal Damocles Salt. Bustier Class Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Juleka Couffaine Sugar. Rose Lavillant Sugar. Plagg The Kwami Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior. 

What Goes Around Comes Around Saga (Series) - Plus JuleRose. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Principal Damocles Salt. Bustier Class Salt. Juleka Couffaine Sugar. Rose Lavillant Sugar. Sabrina Raincomprix Sugar. Bustier Class Sugar. In Character Behavior.

i get a little jealous, a little selfish - Plus Chlogami. Plus Plikki. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Principal Damocles Salt. Bustier Class Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Caline Bustier Sugar. Gabriel Agreste Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior. 

Summer Days Turned Nights - Plus Plikki. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Principal Damocles Salt. Bustier Class Salt. AdriChat Sugar. Adrien Agreste Sugar. Chat Noir Sugar. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

New Perspective - Plus NathMarc. Fluffy. Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Bustier Class Salt. AdriChat Sugar. Adrien Agreste Sugar. Chat Noir Sugar. Nathaniel Kurtzberg Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

Poison and Antidotes (Series) - Angsty. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Bustier Class Salt. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

The Lies We Tell - Plus JuleRose. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Wang Fu Salt. Su Han Salt. Tikki The Kwami Salt. In Character Behavior. 

Vide Stitch - Angsty. Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Caline Bustier Salt. Bustier Class Salt. AdriChat Sugar. Adrien Agreste Sugar. Chat Noir Sugar. Alya Céaire Sugar. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Caline Bustier Sugar. Bustier Class Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

Princess Justice & Lady Sunspot - Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Bustier Class Salt. AdriChat Sugar. Adrien Agreste Sugar. Chat Noir Sugar. Alya Céaire Sugar. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Bustier Class Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

Trou Noir - Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Alya Céaire Salt. Bustier Class Salt. AdriChat Sugar. Adrien Agreste Sugar. Chat Noir Sugar. Alya Céaire Sugar. Chloé Bourgeois Sugar. Bustier Class Sugar. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

Pouring Alcohol on an Old Flame - Tumblr - In Character Behavior.

A Murder of Crows  [LBSC October 2021 Minific Challenge] - Tumblr One, Tumblr Two - In Character Behavior.

Gotta Love the Accent - Tumblr - Plus JuleRose. In Character Behavior.

I Can Fix You - Tumblr - In Character Behavior.

It's a Love Story - Tumblr - In Character Behavior.

In The Silence - Tumblr - Plus JuleRose. Plus GabeNath. Plus FeLuka. Plus Love Square. In Character Behavior.

Reduced to Silence - Tumblr - In Character Behavior.

On Thick Ice - Tumblr - Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Girl Gang Salt. AdriNette Salt. LAdrien Salt. MariChat Salt. LadyNoir Salt. Love Square Salt. In Character Behavior.

A Dog Off the Scent - Tumblr - Salt. AdriChat Salt. Adrien Agreste Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Félix Graham De Vanily Salt. LAdrien Salt. AdriNette Salt. MariChat Salt. LadyNoir Salt. Love Square Salt. In Character Behavior.

Breaking the Cycle - Tumblr - Salt. AdriChat Salt. Chat Noir Salt. Tom Dupain Salt. Sabine Cheng Salt. Girl Gang Salt. MariChat Salt. LadyNoir Salt. Love Square Salt. In Character Behavior.

High Priest - Idea, Ch.1, Ch.2, Ch.3, Ch.4, Ch.5, Ch.6, Ch.7, Ch.8 - Yandere Luka Couffaine. Villain Luka Couffaine. Akuma Luka Couffaine. Salt. Lila Rossi Salt. Bustier Class Salt. In Character Behavior. Minor Out Of Character Behavior.

#miraculous ladybug #pro lukamari #endgame lukanette #lukanette #luka x marinette #marinette x luka #ml show #western animation #mlb #mlb au #c: marinette dupain cheng #c: luka couffaine #s: lukanette #s: blueberry square #mlb salt #adrichat salt #adrien salt #chat noir salt #lila salt #alya salt #chloe salt #chloe sugar #bustier salt #damocles salt #yandere au #yandere!luka #my fic recs #recs #mlb fic recs #mlb recs

[nerdypanda3126]

Stolen

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3

Part 1: Demon | Part 2: Cards | Part 4: Trick | Part 5: Treat | Epilogue: Stolen Part 2

He could die happy.

He didn’t know what he’d done or said—or not said for that matter since his tongue hadn’t worked properly around her after the… incident—to make Marinette grab his hand and lead him to a dark little corner and pull his face down to hers. But whatever the reason, she was now tangling her hands in his hair, her lips were warm and soft as they moved against his, and the party noise in the background was masking the way they were both panting.

A light flicked on near them and they froze together. Marinette pressed against him, hiding her face in his bare chest, and he wrapped his arms around her tightly, hoping beyond hope that they wouldn't be discovered, if only so he could continue the dream that was kissing Marinette.

The light flicked back off and they both sighed in relief. But as his eyes traveled involuntarily downwards, he realized a glaring problem.

He was covered in red body paint. She was wearing white. And her dress now looked like she was a murder victim and he had a Marinette-sized strip of bare skin down the center of his chest. Her eyes widened as she noticed, too.

“Don't worry, you can steal one of my shirts,” he said before she could panic.

She frowned down at her dress. “I think I might need to steal more than a shirt.”

He couldn’t help his smirk. “Well, you already stole my heart.”

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[lovebugs-and-snakecharmers]

October Minific Challenge Begins Today!

We enjoyed our August challenge so much, we’re doing another minific challenge for October!  Write a Lukanette minific of 50, 100, 250 words, or do a piece of Lukanette art work (we’re thinking in the spirit of inktober, but whatever feels appropriate to you), and tag us in your finished work. We’ll reblog it on the LBSC blog and you can add AO3 works to our AO3 minific collection. This month, we’re suggesting this prompt list, but we know there are a lot of available October prompt lists out there (Hauntober, Whumptober, and Cottage Charms are a few we know of)  so if another one strikes you, you can use it instead!

As always, you can do as few or as many as you like, in whatever order you like, and here’s a little reminder of our attitude towards rules (tldr; do what inspires you, even if it breaks the rules). You can join our LBSC Events discord server for encouragement and ideas (but this is totally optional in both directions - you don’t have to join to participate in the challenge, and you don’t have to participate in the challenge to join the server; you can join just for lukanette socializing, news on lbsc events, and general cheerleading), and if you have any questions you can leave a message in our ask box!

NSFW prompt fills are permitted as long as all characters are of age and it is appropriately tagged.

#lbsc minific challenge #event: october 2021 minific challenge #lukanette #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain-cheng #pro lukamari

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

What is the Weekly Roundup? | Previous Weekly Roundups

From @macaknight: What your lips can’t kiss, shall vanish Ch 2

From @goldenlaurelleaveswrites: The Weight of the Mask Part 3

From @verfound:  You Could Say I'm a Fan

From @airi-p4: Surfacing secrets

From @fenheart87: Wear Me On Your Sleeve

From various authors: LBSC October 2021 Minific Challenge (congrats to everyone who participated!)

As always if I missed something that should be included reblog with the link and I’ll reblog it here! If you prefer not to be included in these roundups for any reason please drop me a message, or if you post something that you would like to be sure I include, please drop a link in my asks and I’ll make sure it gets listed (Lukanette endgame only please - see what is the weekly roundup for more details). If you want to be sure I’ve flagged your work for inclusion you can check the quickroundup tag on my blog to see what I’ve got in the queue for this week.

If you find something you like please like/reblog the original post to let the author know you enjoyed their work!

#weekly lukanette roundup #lukanette #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain-cheng #miraculousladybug #miraculous ladybug #pro lukamari

[nerdypanda3126]

Murder

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3

Adrien was dead. 

Or at least he was playing the part of the murder victim for that night’s festivities. 

Juleka had planned it all out and invited everyone to be a part of the murder mystery, and Marinette could hardly keep from laughing when Luka had shown up as the detective, complete with a funny mustache and a bowler hat. 

“Mmm, yes,” Luka pretended to think as he examined Adrien. “This man was clearly shot. Close range, a small-caliber pistol by the looks of it.” He turned to Marinette, then. “Perhaps the kind carried by a lady of noble birth traveling alone?” 

She pretended to flutter nervously, although it wasn’t much of a pretense with Luka’s amused eyes on her. She had a line, something she was supposed to say, but nothing was coming to mind. 

"Why is Adrien the murder victim?" Kagami asked then, turning everyone's attention on her. 

Juleka mumbled something that sounded vaguely like, "No lines." 

From his spot on the floor, Adrien propped himself up on his elbows and smiled. "It's okay, Kagami, it's just for fun." 

Kagami frowned as if she was thinking hard about something, then pointed at Rose without looking. 

"She's the killer. Marinette was framed. Those aren't bullet holes, they're knife wounds, and the detective knows that, he was just trying to force a confession." 

Luka chuckled and took off his hat before he stood and put it on Kagami's head instead. 

"Apparently we cast the detective role wrong," he said easily. 

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #marinette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #kagami tsurugi #adrien agreste #juleka couffaine #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Pumpkin

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list. 

Read on Ao3

Part 2: Halloween

Marinette looked down at the dress she’d made, pulling it away from her rounded pregnant stomach distastefully. She’d thought the stretchy fabric would be forgiving, but instead it clung to her and the ribbing stretched in weird ways and with the brown leggings she’d chosen to wear underneath, all she needed was a green stem hat to complete the image in her mind.

“I look like a pumpkin!” she lamented to Luka in the mirror when he came up behind her. He laid a gentle hand on her stomach and kissed her cheek.

“An adorable pumpkin, though.”

She swatted at him and pretended to pout as he pulled away. “You weren’t supposed to agree with me!”

He laughed as he ducked to press a kiss to her stomach, intending it for their unborn child, and rubbed his hand in a comforting circle. There was a small flutter of a response that Luka probably didn’t feel, but it made her smile. She laid her hands over his, admiring the difference between them, wondering if their daughter would have his long, slender fingers or her short, nimble ones.

“Two more months,” she whispered, more to herself than to him, but he hummed in agreement anyways. “She’s about the size of a winter squash now.”

He chuckled and their daughter responded to him again, a more definite kick that made Luka’s eyes widen. He looked up at Marinette with that roguish grin of his.

“I guess that means she’s an adorable pumpkin, too.”

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #marinette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #pregnant marinette dupain cheng #LBSC October 2021 Minific #A Murder of Crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Broken

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3

Part 1: Ice | Part 2: Shot | Part 3: Water

Scarlet Beetle knelt in front of Lady Blanche as she threatened him with a Cataclysm loaded on the point of her fingers. 

“I don’t want to fight you,” he said, his voice shaky. Her eyes widened when he whispered to detransform, stripping his defenses. Slowly, carefully, Luka got to his feet. “I know my Lady Noire is in there somewhere. You don’t want to hurt me.” 

Her anger faltered and the Cataclysm she was holding stuttered. He kept his hands out, palms up, and took a tentative step forward. 

“Let me help you,” he said gently.

Her cat ears were twitching as she considered him, but her eyes were uncertain and the Cataclysm was receding. With one more calculated step, he’d closed the distance and gathered her into his arms. That was all it took and she clung to him, hiding her face in his chest to sob. 

He let her cry until she’d stopped sniffling. Even then, he held onto her, and on impulse dropped a kiss to her hair between her cat ears. 

“Can I have your akuma?” he asked. After a moment, she nodded and reached down to pluck off the decorative paw print on her belt. She crushed it herself, and he transformed again to capture and purify it. 

When the dark purple cloud had washed away all traces of white from his partner and green eyes blinked back at him from behind her mask, he sighed in relief and wrapped his arms around her again.

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #kwami swap #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Dream

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list. 

Brief Wishmaker spoilers in this one (although it is only 50 words, so I do mean brief 😅)

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"My childhood dream was to be the knitting fairy," Marinette said, giggling. 

"I know." He smiled involuntarily, remembering how cute she'd been as a fairy. 

Her head cocked to the side and she frowned. It took him all of two horrific seconds to realize what he'd actually admitted to knowing.

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Costume

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3 

Part 1: Witch | Part 2: Quote | Part 3: Poison

“Alya, I really should be looking for Luka.” Marinette frowned as she scanned the crowd, although she didn’t know what she expected to find. He was a six-inch long garden snake; the last place he’d probably choose to be was a crowded costume party dance floor where he could be stepped on. 

“He probably went to find something to eat, M.” Alya waved her hand dismissively. “And you’ve been so cooped up lately, you need a night out. Your little snake friend is fine. Stop worrying.” 

Marinette fidgeted with the ridiculous witch hat Alya had talked her into wearing. She was probably right and he was probably fine, but she couldn’t help but wonder why he would sneak off like that. Or why she was so disappointed. He didn’t even say goodbye. 

“Speaking of snake friends…” Alya hissed in her ear, breaking Marinette out of her thoughts. Before she could ask what Alya meant, she had disappeared, and there was someone else headed straight for Marinette. A tall, lean, handsome someone with eyes that glimmered in a familiar way behind his snake mask.

“Thought I’d ask you to dance,” he said, offering his hand, “now that I’ve got my legs back.”

Her words felt stuck in her throat, but she still managed to choke out, “L-Luka? But… how?” 

He chuckled and lifted his mask. “I’m no expert, but I think it might’ve been the kiss.”

Her fingers flew to her lips and his smirk was exactly how she’d pictured it.

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #marinette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Flowers

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Okay, so I kinda cheated on this one since English Ivy doesn’t produce “flowers” but... it’s the thought that counts, right? 

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“Here,” Marinette said, thrusting the little pot at Luka before she could chicken out. He took it out of her hands and she glanced up to gauge his reaction. 

He was smiling as he appraised it, but she didn’t know if that meant he liked it or was confused by it. 

“It’s a clipping from my English Ivy plant,” she explained. “I… noticed it can get stuffy below deck sometimes and I thought… I mean, it’s easy to take care of and it’s one of the best low-light oxygen producers, and it can reduce mold—not that anything is moldy! I was just thinking that it might be helpful and you might like it and…” 

She blushed when she realized he’d taken her hand.

“Thank you for thinking of me, Marinette. I know the perfect spot for it,” he said, his eyes alight with warmth. 

The next time she was downstairs with Kitty Section, she couldn’t help but look for it and was disappointed he hadn’t set it out anywhere. Had he maybe thrown it away?

But Luka noticed her confusion, and after rehearsal he took her hand again to lead her into his cabin. And there, on the amp he used as a nightstand, was the little ivy clipping. He’d transplanted it into a slightly bigger pot and it was growing happily in the indirect light of the porthole. 

“It’s the first thing I see when I wake up,” he said softly, “and I always think of you.”

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #marinette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Cards

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3

Part 1: Demon | Part 3: Stolen | Part 4: Trick  | Part 5: Treat | Epilogue: Stolen Part 2

At some point during the party, someone had started a game of cards. The point was to get rid of your hand before everyone else, even if you had to lie to do it. But if you got called out for lying, you had to take the whole stack back. 

Luka was doing well, mostly because he hadn’t lied the whole time. But he had five cards left in his hand. Marinette had three. There was nothing for it; if he wanted to win, he had to lie.  

“Two jacks,” he said, laying the cards face down on the stack with all the confidence he could muster. He could feel the body paint at the back of his neck sliding off as he started sweating, but he hoped he’d been honest enough that no one would call him on it. 

“Bullshit!” Marinette cried enthusiastically, coming out of her seat with the force of her excitement. “Luka Couffaine, you’re full of bullshit!” 

Luka could only blink back at her. He’d never heard her swear before and it was… unexpectedly hot aimed at him. 

Marinette flipped his cards over, revealing the two of hearts and six of diamonds he’d tried to get rid of, then giggled as she pushed the stack into his useless hands. The cards fluttered to his feet before he regained his senses and bent to pick them up. 

When he’d straightened back up, avoiding Marinette’s eyes and with his ears burning, Juleka was giving him a sidelong smirk. 

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Ice

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

For this one, when I heard the prompt my first thought was Fire and Ice by Robert Frost so... sorry in advance I guess? 😅

Read on Ao3

Part 2: Shot | Part 3: Water | Part 4: Broken

Her eyes were like ice behind the white mask. When Bunnyx had pushed Scarlet Beetle into this timeline and removed the bowl from his head, he was more disoriented seeing her than by the flooded Parisian landscape. Something was desperately wrong.   

“Lady Noire?” he asked, keeping his fear out of his voice. If her eyes were ice, it was nothing compared to what her fanged grin did to his heart. 

“Luka! You’re here!” Her arms opened for him, but there was a hidden threat behind the promise of her embrace. He was too stunned by her use of his name to duck away and in another moment she was nuzzling against his costume-clad chest. He’d missed something, apparently. Lady Noire was in love with someone else. He’d accepted that as fact and let it go a long time ago, but Lady Noire also didn’t know his name, or wear white… 

“You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you,” she sighed, then stood back to look at him, those icy eyes narrowing as she scrutinized him. “Why aren’t you happy to see me?” 

He swallowed and took a step back from her, letting his hands settle on her shoulders instead. 

“Lady Noire, what happened here?” 

“I made some mistakes,” she said quietly, her face inscrutable as she looked around. “But now that you’re here I can fix everything. I only need your Miraculous.”  

She held out her white clawed glove and her icy blue eyes sparkled with tears. “Please, Luka?”

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #kwami swap #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Witch

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list. 

Read on Ao3

Part 2: Quote | Part 3: Poison | Part 4: Costume

“Hello, where’d you come from?” A sweet voice asked as gentle hands disentangled Luka from the plant he’d found himself trapped in. Suddenly not having hands had turned out to make righting himself much more challenging, and flailing his ribbon-like body had only gotten him more and more twisted into the leaves. 

His new forked tongue flicked out before he could help it and a flood of information entered his senses. Smoke, ash, wax, sage, lavender, salt. Witch. He’d landed in the hands of a witch. Maybe this was a good thing? 

He wriggled in her hands and wrapped the end of his tail around her finger, branching off her thumb to get a better look at her. The infrared vision only let him see that there were pools of warmth in her cheeks, like she was accustomed to blushing, and for some reason that endeared her to him.  

“Friendly, aren’t you?” She giggled and maneuvered her hand to hold him more securely. 

I am if you are, he thought at her, knowing that it was probably pointless and she wouldn’t hear it. But to his surprise, she froze and looked him right in the eye. 

“You’re not supposed to be a garden snake, are you?” 

He shook his head, surprised but willing to roll with it if it meant she could help.

“Oh no…” She bit her lip as she looked down at what must’ve been the ashes of a completed spell. “I think I might’ve messed something up.”

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Quote

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list. 

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Part 1: Witch | Part 3: Poison | Part 4: Costume

“Look, it says right here,” Marinette said, pointing to the page as she read aloud to him. “‘Summon a familiar.’ There’s nothing here about transformation, so I don’t know why…” She frowned as she trailed off, reading over the spell and Luka slithered over to the edge of the page to look with her. It didn't make much sense to him, but it must’ve to her because her lips were moving as she read.

“‘Prepare the altar,’ check. ‘Cleanse with sage,’ of course. ‘Light the candle and recite…’” Her eyes widened and she blushed as she stopped quoting from her book, refusing to look at him. “That’s what happened… I mixed up the words and…" She huffed out an irritated breath. "I can fix this.” 

He waited as she started flipping through the book, although he had the strangest urge to slink up her shirt sleeve and curl around her wrist next to the warmth of her pulse. 

Apparently she didn’t find anything helpful because she groaned and snapped the book shut. 

Problem? he thought, although her answer was evident by the way she was worrying at her lip. 

“Okay, so I just have to… make something up. A spell or… a potion, maybe. I'll figure this out, Luka, I swear to you. You'll be human again." 

At her tearful tone, he couldn't hold back anymore and slid over to her hand, winding his tail through her fingers like he had before, doing his best to comfort and reassure her. 

#lukanette #Pro LukaMari #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #luka couffaine #marinette dupain cheng #witch au #LBSC October 2021 Minific #a murder of crows

[nerdypanda3126]

Poison

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list.

Read on Ao3 

Part 1: Witch | Part 2: Quote | Part 4: Costume

“This one is it, I’m sure this time,” Marinette said, spooning out some of the potion from her cauldron. Luka eyed it skeptically and she bit her lip. To be fair, some of her past attempts hadn’t smelled amazing and this one was still smoking slightly. But she had it right this time, she was sure. She lowered the spoon to him and after another moment of hesitation he dipped his head to drink. 

She waited, holding her breath, not knowing exactly what would happen. Would it be like a poof of smoke and he was human again? Or would there be stages in between snake and human? 

As soon as the potion hit his mouth, he spat it out and started writhing uncontrollably. She whipped the spoon away to dump it in the cauldron and took him in her hands, blinking back unexpected tears. Nothing else she’d tried had this effect on him. Did that mean it was working? 

Her blood ran cold at the thought that maybe she’d poisoned him. 

He went limp, then, but his ribs were still moving and he was wheezing through his open mouth. She rubbed at his head with her thumb, willing him to be okay. Finally, he flicked his tail. 

Gross, he thought at her, but there was a smirk behind the word and she couldn’t help but let out a relieved laugh. 

“Don’t scare me like that,” she said, then bent to press a kiss to the top of his head.

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Money

I’m gonna try to participate in the @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge this month! My prompt fills will all be either 50, 100, or 250 words and will be based on this prompt list. 

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It started with little things. He'd buy her buttons or thread or needles while they were at the craft store, anything small she mentioned she needed, and he'd sneak them into her bag before she could notice or protest. 

Soon she started recognizing his satisfied smile as a sign he'd bought her something. So she retaliated by mentioning offhand that she needed embroidery floss for one of her projects and debating over colors with him. When she had a handful of teal, bright blue, black, and purple, she pretended to mull it over before she "decided" to get them some other time. 

That time his satisfied smile made her glow with pride. 

It took her a week to make him a bracelet, and when she gave it to him, he looked at her like she'd handed him something precious beyond words. He never took it off after that. 

But while she'd thought that would make him stop paying for things, it seemed to do the opposite. It wasn't long after that she noticed his little smile again and checked her bag, expecting some small notion, and instead found a jewelry box. 

She was speechless when she opened it to find an exquisite silver bracelet with a pink floral charm.  

His smile grew as he took one of her hands in his and gestured for her to hand the bracelet over to him. When she did, he clasped it around her wrist for her, then lingered with his hands covering hers. 

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