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And Siren's Sacrifice is complete!

Chapter 5: Sabine's Choice is live on AO3

Thursdays in June will be for Anarka's story.

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Accidentally Hurt by Friend (MLB/Off. Roger)

Prompt: Accidentally Hurt by Friend

Character/Pairing: Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Luka Couffaine

Rating: K Plus / PG / Most Ages

Notes: Also NOT part of the DLM AU.  This was one of the first ones written, before the AU took over.  xD  I made one comment about Adrien needing a Gap Year, and Fxl and Bloody started spitballing, and now here we are.  Kiiinda salty towards Adrien/Mr. Bug?  I mean…it’s a plausible observation, based on his canon character, but…y’know.  Enough people have bitched about my observations. So warning?

The pub was small, and cold, and damp, but Marinette had found most of the places around Stornoway – around the Hebrides in general, actually – were like that. At least during her time there. But Luka had always made Stornoway sound so warm, and vibrant, and when her travels happened to take her through the Couffaine homelands she had known she’d have to spend at least a few days in the town his family once called home.  It would have been better spending that time there with him, with her own personal tour guide, but that hadn’t been the point of her trip anyway.

She was supposed to get away from Paris.  To recoup.  To recover a bit of her sanity and relax – something she had been unable to do with Hawkmoth’s attacks becoming more erratic.  But Chat had assured her Mr. Bug could handle things, and Ladybug needed a break.

“Go travel,” he had told her.  “I’ve got this.”

From what Luka had spent the past hour telling her, Mr. Bug very much did not ‘have this’.

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Day 6: Cradling Someone in Their Arms (MLB/Lukanette)

Prompt: Cradling Someone in Their Arms

Character/Pairing: Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: K / G / All Ages

Notes: The song used is “Ten Thousand Miles”, which is a traditional ditty.  My preferred version is by Altan, but Quick found this wonderful version by James Findlay (I point you to the voice crack/warble in the final verse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU-Av8DAj8&feature=youtu.be

“Fare you well, my own true love…farewell for a while…I’m going away…”

She loved his voice.  Once she’d finally heard him sing, she’d told him she fell in love with him all over again. He had taken every chance he could after that to serenade her, if it meant he could keep her heart a little bit longer.

Of course he’d take a second chance to sing for her one last time.

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Day 9: I Will Only Slow You Down (MLB/Juleka & Marinette; DLM AU)

Prompt: I Will Only Slow You Down

Character/Pairing: Juleka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Notes: These weren’t supposed to be connected (just stand alones, maybe a few tied together), but apparently once the DLM bug bites…I am amazed and delighted at the response, though.  xD (Hey, look, no death today!  Some worldbuilding for the AU that will lead to Mari’s death in a later prompt.)

Juleka fiddled with her camera, glancing up at the sudden squeak.  She smirked as she watched the young designer apologizing to Victor (one of the lighting guys).  Victor grinned, laughing off the near-miss and telling her not to worry about it.  Marinette Dupain-Cheng’s klutziness was well-known around the studio by now – about as well-known as her kindness.  She was one of the youngest designers to work for the notorious Gabriel Agreste, but she was also one of the best Juleka had seen in years.  She was also refreshingly different, for a Gabriel designer.  She was nice.  Kind to everyone.  Shit, she even took the time to learn the names of the crew.  Most designers around here barely took the time to learn the names of their models.

Juleka hoped Marinette could hold onto that.  She was just what the fashion world needed, if she could hold onto that.

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Day 8: Punctured Lung (MLB/Luka; DLM AU)

Prompt: Punctured Lung

Character/Pairing: Luka Couffaine, Mendeleiev

Rating: M / PG-16 / Adult

Notes: Went 100 words over the limit because SOMEONE got me going on a Dead Like Me AU, and then THIS happened, and I am Not Sorry At All.  The dangerous thing about these prompt collections is how many of them sit here demanding to be continued.  (This will DEFINITELY be continued.  I am DLM trash, and @semi-slaughtomatic hasn’t just handed me a plunny.  She’s given me an entire fucking army.)  Rating here is for language and the general nature of Dead Like Me. 

Luka Couffaine had no fucking clue what had just happened.

One minute, some green-eyed, brown-haired, too-handsy…he would never say slut but God if the term didn’t seem applicable to some people…was pressing into his side, trying in vain to get his phone number or buy him a drink or something while he (politely) tried to tell her he wasn’t fucking interested, thanks, he had a show to do, and the next he was standing outside the burning venue, frantic patrons running through him as sirens wailed in the distance.  He remembered the girl grabbing his arm as he tried to escape, her hand brushing along his tattooed skin in a gentle caress that quite frankly freaked him the fuck out, before he left the bar with the water he’d been sent to get.  He’d ignored Ivan’s knowing look as he hopped on stage, tossing him a bottle and telling him to shut up.  Rose had grabbed the mic, done their intro, and then…

What the fuck had happened?

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Day 5: Impaled Chest (MLB/Lukanette)

Prompt: Impaled Chest

Character/Pairing: Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Luka Couffaine

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Notes: It shows incredible restraint on my part that it took me five days to bring the OTP in. (If you’re new to this corner, Lukanette is endgame and I only ship Adrien with Therapy.  Not that ships are what matter in this collection.  xD)

“Ok, ok, I got it!” Marinette giggled, swinging their hands between them. Luka’s eyebrows lifted, his lips quirking in a smile as he watched her.  She danced around from his side to his front, a grin on her lips.  He stopped walking and squeezed her hand, waiting. He’d wait forever for her.  “Most embarrassing music misconception.  Go!”

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Concussion (MLB/Juleka, Lukanette; DLM AU)

Prompt: Concussion

Character/Pairing: Luka Couffaine, Juleka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: M / PG-16 / Adult

Notes: DLM AU. What’s a word limit again? xD  When the AU gets properly written, I want there to be a whole thing where – after Mari joins the group – Luka has to confront Juleka again.  I’m still working out the kinks, but it’s following that whole “You can’t visit your family bc they have to move on.  You have to move on.  That’s not your life anymore.”  There’s gonna be a bit with Luka helping Mari learn that (she’s trying to visit her parents’ bakery), and then this where she has to remind him of it, too.

“Luka, you can’t do this.”

Marinette meant well, but she was new.  Young. She had no idea what the fuck she was talking about.  He was older, smarter, and better acclimated to this whole death thing.  That made it easier to ignore her as he knelt by the groaning woman.

“Lu…Louis!” Marinette hissed, glancing at the semi-conscious woman on the ground.

“Hey, hey,” Luka said softly, ignoring her.  “Stay with us.  They got you pretty good.”

Hazel eyes blinked open, and Luka let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding.  It was ok.  Juleka was alive.  

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FICLET: A Miraculously Murderous May: Day 11: Reopening an Old Wound (MLB/Lukanette; DLM AU)

Prompt: Reopening an Old Wound

Character/Pairing: Luka Couffaine, XY Roth, Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: M / PG-16 / Adult

Notes: Continuing the DLM AU because the plunnies won’t leave me be.  Set immediately after Ch9; Mari and Alya getting drinks.  There was a line about Alya ditching Mari to dance with the DJ that got cut for length.  (…after the Loops and CSS are done I swear I’m coming back to this and making a cohesive fic.)

By now, Luka should’ve been used to getting fucked up the ass by life, and not in the fun way.  It typically came with the territory when you died young and were told, “Hey, sorry, no rest in peace for you!  You’ve gotta be a Grim Reaper!”  So maybe it was Death doing the fucking, in the end, but either way Luka should have been used to the feeling of being totally, thoroughly, 100% boned.