#assumed dating

[foulwitchknight]

Everyone in Hawkins thinks that O!Steve and A!Eddie are courting and seconds away from bonding. They already live together (Steve got kicked out by his parents and the Munsons were generous enough to open their home up to him). Steve wears Eddies clothes all the time (his parents changed the locks before he could collect his things). Eddie even calls him pet names more than his actual name (the Alpha’s flirty) and gives him gifts (mostly little things to help replace his stuff). Steve’s too embarrassed to admit the truth. He doesn’t want to make things awkward especially when he desperately wishes it were true, but it’s not. He’ll just have to bury his feelings, work hard to save up for his own place and try to move forward knowing his feelings will never be reciprocated. What really hurts though is Eddies obliviousness to the whole thing. As if he needed more proof that his feelings weren’t shared by the Alpha. He doesn’t know Eddie’s very much aware and has been planning on making things official for a while but doubts are making him procrastinate on his plans.

[verfound]

FIC: Paris's Favorite Not-a-Couple (MLB; Lukanette; LBSC Valentine 2025; 1/8)

...good Lord that's a mouthful 😂

Rating: Mature

Characters/Pairings: Alya Césaire, Juleka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Rose Lavillant; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, minor Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant

Summary: If you ask anybody in the world — at least anyone who follows celebrity gossip and cares — Luke Stone and Marinette Dupain-Cheng are totally in love.  If you ask Marinette, they’re just really close, really old friends.  If you ask Luke…totally the same.  There is absolutely no truth to the rumors, none at all, not…not even a bit…

(Or: the one where everyone but Marinette and Luka realize they’re totally dating, so why don’t we get on that already, huh?)

Author’s Notes/Warnings: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLES!!!! Who's ready for another @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers Valentine's Exchange? 😁

@omnoramayday asked for a Famous AU (where fans can’t believe they’re NOT dating), posing with each other (like as an art ref), or pirates (any way you sail it).  Somehow I think I twisted all of it together to get you a Fake/Assumed Dating Celebrity AU with Wardrobe Malfunctions and a smidge of sea shanties?  I also may have kidnapped Quick’s Angie again.  And Rose is unhinged as ever.  And I was screaming at them to JUST KISS before I even hit 2k.  So…happy Valentine’s, I think?  I was your secret admirer.  😁

Chapter One: A Favor Between Just Friends

“What?  No way.”

The microwave dinged, and Alya kicked back from her desk, hopped up from her swivel chair, and walked across her flat to the kitchen to retrieve her dinner.  Her mom had sent her home with leftovers when she had visited a few days ago, and she’d been saving them for a deadline night.

It wasn’t actually a deadline night, but she had been too busy staking out her latest story to remember to do the shopping this week, and it was raining, and who wanted to go grocery shopping in the rain, anyway?

So, mom’s leftovers it was!

“Because I’d know,” she laughed, rolling her eyes as she stirred the stew to distribute the heat.  It was steaming, but she’d been fooled by steam and a frozen center before.  Kimi, a friend from another publication she was currently on the phone with, said something else into the bud Alya had popped in her ears.  “Girl!  She’s, like, my best friend.  I would know if she was dating Luke Stone.”