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💝 - What gestures do they really appreciate? How do you get on their good side?
☕ - Coffee or tea?
💀 - How do they feel about horror movies?
💖 - How and how often do they try to impress their partner(s)? How and how often do their partner(s) impress them?
for your ladies!! :)
Tysm for asking about my girls! I'm going to do this for Jamila and Viola, Saoirse and Zoe, and Felicity and Shiloh. Jamila and Viola are both surgeons - Jamila's a plastic surgeon, and Viola's a trauma surgeon. Saoirse is a licensed esthetician and massage therapist and plays bass guitar in fables. Zoe is a hair stylist, and is a vocalist (and occasional strings player) in fables. Shiloh is a wedding and event planner, and Felicity owns a really cute little sweets & gelato shop in Maplewood, a small town right outside of New Islington. (Also tysm for your lovely prompt a few days ago! I love it and am really looking forward to working on it once I've finished this other ficlet I've got in progress.) Cut because this got really long.
I'm sorry Bessie looks hideous.
Felinette Month Day 16
Parents
Based off of this and this by @ko-chan-the-blueberry-donut
——
Felix brushed his finger against the silky fabric in his bag, anxiously awaiting Marinette’s arrival.
He would have to be an idiot to say he didn’t have a crush on the girl, but it did concern him that it had taken him this long to initiate a friendship with her.
Today was her middle name day, and he had made her a gift, a pink patchwork elephant.
Before he could get too caught up in his thoughts, Marinette barreled into him, sending them both onto the ground.
“Hi Felix!”
“Hello Marinette. Lovely day, isn’t it?” Felix looked away so as not to think about how close their faces were.
“Yeah, it’s really nice.” She crawled off of him and stood, offering him a hand.
“Thank you,” He stuck a hand in his bag, pulling out the lopsided pachyderm, “and happy middle name day.”
She accepted the stuffed creature and looked at it.
“I saw a pattern for it online and I knew you liked pink, and your love language has always seemed to be gifts so I thought you would like it. If you don’t, I can take it back; I’ll buy you some fabric or a new sketchbook instead.” He was rambling, a usual nervous habit of his.
“Actually Felix, I-” An alarm sounded far off in the distance, and Marinette froze.
“I have to go.” She turned around and began running to the bakery.
She hates it.
Felix groaned and pressed the heels of his hands against his eyelids, toppling onto the nearby bench.
Thank heavens the park was empty so he could have his outburst in peace.
He felt an odd shock go through him, but thought nothing of it.
Probably just the mild self hatred.
“Daddy? Are you sleeping?”
Felix peeked through his fingers to see a little six year old, staring at him with a tilted head.
“I’m not your father, little girl. You should probably leave, there’s an akuma attack going on.”
“Is that why I’m here, Daddy?” The girl persisted.
Felix rose and looked at the girl fully, about to remind her yet again that he was not her dad, but then stopped.
The girl had pale, pale blue hair, tied into braided pigtails with a fabric reminiscent to the tie he was wearing today. She had a lavender vest on and a matching pale yellow skirt.
However, the thing that caught his eye was the too-familiar hand sewn elephant clutched to her chest.
Of course she gave it away as soon as she could.
He sighed. “Who are you, girl?”
She straightened, a fierce expression on those bright blue eyes.
“My name’s Felicity Angelica Culpa.”
“Culpa?”
She grinned, showing a space between her teeth. “Yup!”
“You’re my daughter from the future, brought to me by the akuma.”
“Uh huh.”
“May I see that elephant?”
She handed it over. “It’s Momma’s, I’m not supposed to take it outside; the akuma was an accident.”
“I’m sure your mother will forgive you.” He turned the elephant onto its side, revealing a date sewn onto it. Today’s date.
“What does this date mean?”
“It’s when Momma says she stopped being denser than an Agreste.” She explained, sitting next to him.
“Fitting.”
“Daddy, what’s an Agreste?”
“A very silly person, Felicity.” He replied, handing her the elephant.
She pouted. “That’s what you said last time, too.”
The two sat and chatted, and Felix felt immensely disappointed as the magical ladybugs covered him and his future daughter.
The disappointment soon turned to surprise as Felicity remained sitting next to him.
She looked around, then at Felix. “Why am I still here?”
Felix puzzled over that for a moment, soon coming to a slightly concerning conclusion.
“The akuma is in your time, not mine, so you have to stay here until your Ladybug fixes it.”
Looks like he would have to be a parent.
—
Luckily enough, the school didn’t mind that he had brought in his future daughter.
“She’s so cute!” Allegra squealed, swinging her around.
“Yeah, I’m still surprised you can actually repro-“ Claude was cut off by Mercury slamming a hand to his mouth.
“Not in front of the kid!” He hissed.
“Uncle Claude and Uncle Mercury are silly.” Felicity declared, to the agreement of Allegra.
Almost the instant class began, Felicity tugged on his sleeve.
“Daddy, I need to use the restroom.”
He nodded. “Do you think you can find it or should I take you?”
She squared her shoulders. “I can find it.”
Felix set her off, devoting the rest of his attention to calculus.
——
It was almost lunch break. Felicity still wasn’t back.
Did her Ladybug cast the cure while she was on her way to the bathroom?
Did she get kidnapped?
What if she wandered out of school?
As soon as the bell rang, Felix shot from his chair and bolted through the hallways.
“Felicity? Felicity?”
“Daddy?” The baby blue hair Felix had so painstakingly tied into a bun was visible from across the school.
“Felicity!” He fell to his knees and embraced her, a few rouge tears falling from his face. “I thought you ran off.”
“No, I’m okay! I was just visiting Momma!.”
Felix’s eyes scanned the class, landing on the familiar pigtails he saw every afternoon.
“Okay, let’s go now. It’s time for lunch.”
“Yay!” She bounded after him, oblivious the many stares following her and Felix.
———
That morning, Felicity was gone.
Felix couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness at the loss of his daughter, dispute the fact she was going home to a him that was better suited to parenting.
He walked to school alone, something that he had done every day, but even that one day walking with Felicity made it better.
He went through all his classes as he usually did, but without those five minute before class with Felicity, the day felt dull.
However much the day seemed to trudge on, it was over faster than he expected.
As he prepared his things for the walk home, a series of pattering steps sounded from the hallway, getting louder and louder by the second before stopping.
“Hey Felix,” Allegra teased, “your girlfriend’s here.”
Marinette was standing in the doorway, blushing like a rose. Her fists her clenched at her sides and she was looking down.
“Marinette... why are you-“
“I love the elephant!” She shouted. “It was really sweet of you to do that and it’s adorable.”
A tension was realesed from Felix’s shoulders. “Thank you.”
“Do you want to go out on a date with me sometime? I have tickets for a Jagged Stone concert, I don’t know if it’s your thing or not, but it’s today, and...”
Felix smiled. “I would love to.”
She looked up and Felix could see the faint tears in her eyes. “Really?”
“Of course.”
She grinned, lunging forward to grab his arm. “Come on! It’s in like twenty minutes and it’s a thirty minute walk!”
Felix allowed himself to be pulled out of class, ignoring Claude’s catcalls.
————
The concert was lovely, but the walk back to Marinette’s home was much better.
The two walked hand in hand, both trying to tame feirce blushes.
“I’ve been carrying it around.” Marinette confessed, looking at Felix. “The elephant.”
She pulled it out, showing it to Felix.
“I just couldn’t bring myself to put it down.”
A passing car illuminated the elephant just enough for Felix to make out an addition.
“Is that... yesterday’s date?”
“Yeah, it’s when I realized I liked you as more than just a friend.”
“It’s when Momma says she stopped being denser than an Agreste.”
Felix stopped.
“Wait. You- Felicity- mother?” Words poured out of his mouth of his mouth of their own accord.
She laughed and pressed a tender kiss to his cheek, resting her head on his shoulder.
“Better start praying I’m not an utter failure as a mom, huh?”
He forced himself to overcome the shock of the kiss and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
“Judging by how amazing our daughter is at six years old and how much time we have to prepare, I believe we wil be exquisite parents.”
