FIC: Marinette’s 29 Valentine’s Days: Day 26, Loop 25: Home (MLB/Lukanette)
Notes: Hey, y’all, remember when I said I sat down and outlined the rest of the prompts? Remember when I said I had a Plan? That I Know How It Ends? Bear with me. We’re gonna get through this. C: (“Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger – the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger, oh~”)
Marinette’s 29 Valentine’s Days
Day Twenty-Six, Loop Twenty-Five: Home
When her alarm started beeping Friday morning, Marinette was already awake. The alarm echoed as a dull beeping in the background of her mind, but she couldn’t really hear it. She felt numb, only vaguely aware of her surroundings as everything bled into a dull nothingness waiting to engulf her. Her eyes stared listlessly at the ceiling. Her face felt sticky and cracked. Stiff where the tears had dried and cold where they were still falling.
She heard a scuffling above her, but she didn’t even have the hope that it was Viperion on her roof. The noise was too low anyway – below the roof, inside her room – and too soft to be the familiar thud of boots. She rolled onto her side as her alarm was silenced. Tikki, then. She grabbed her cat pillow, pressing her face into its side as more tears fell. She curled into a ball, and before she could even try to contain it she was crying in earnest.