Where’s that smile?
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Heyyy back with another fanfic. Sorry it’s been a minute since I’ve written a full length one. I’m Going through weird teen stuff! I’ll try to keep somewhat active since school starts back in a week.
Summary: Luz has a bad day at school in the Human Realm. Amity decides she’s in dire need of cheering up.
Lee:Luz
(Kayla writes something other than Lee Amity?? REAL??) No but I’m sorry I kept writing that over and over again (I will do it again probably because I’m hyperfixated on her. I WILL TRY NOT TO AS MUCH THOUGH!)
Ler:amity
SPOILERS FOR THE OWL HOUSE FINALE IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED THAAAAT
Warning: this is a sfw tickle fic for comfort purposes. If you don’t vibe with that, that’s fine but just know what you’re getting into and scroll away!
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Today Luz Noceda couldn’t catch a break.
School sucked. She was getting really tired of picking spitballs out of her hair, hearing snickers behind her back, and to top it off, drawing King on the corner of the math worksheets she received was becoming something her hands just did now. Like second nature. Having to see his face every single time a paper was passed out was already bad enough for her psych, and yet there was another worse issue with it that was rearing it’s ugly head.
Her teacher didn’t like the drawings very much.
Most of the time, there was only a few little notes next to the pictures When her work was passed back to her after it was graded.
“Don’t draw monsters next to your geometry.” Or something like that.
Luz always just shrugged and made a mental note to stop, but just found herself unable to.
Today though, it had seemed like her teacher had it with her King portraits, and had held Luz back after class to lecture her.
Luz didn’t get it. The work was done AND (mostly) correct. So what if there was a silly drawing in the corner?
But, all of Luz’s rightful points were left unsaid as the teacher ranted to her about unprofessionalism.
About how this wasn’t art class.
And Luz just had to nod tiredly.
And do nothing.
And now, she was low.
So, when she entered the Noceda household, one witchling in particular caught on almost immediately to her blueness.
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Amity Blight knew her girlfriend inside and out, maybe even better than Luz knew herself. And although Luz had never been particularly happy during their stint in the human realm, she picked up on the extra sadness that weighed her human down today.
How those eyes just looked so.. downcast.
Well, that just couldn’t do!
A short talk later about Luz’s day, and a little rant from her about the unfairness of her teacher that also followed led Amity to discern just what her batata needed.
A good laugh, of course!
It only made sense after all.
What did Luz do every single time Amity found herself in a little sad rut?
She Made her laugh!
It was about time that favor was repaid.
She needed a plan, though..
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“I’m off to bed!” Luz called from the kitchen, making her way to her own room. She halted as Amity waltzed behind her, hugging her from behind with a playful little canter in her voice.
“Oh no you don’t!~”
Noticing her tone, Luz sighed and turned to meet the other girls face.
“I’d love to play cards with you again, Ami, but I’m not really up for it tonight.”
Amity chuckled, reaching up to put a stray curly hair of her girlfriends mane behind her ear.
“We’re not going to play cards, silly. But I am_ gonna get that smile on you again.”
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“You could’ve just asked.” Luz said, putting on the best smile she could for her.
It wasn’t her normal one.
“Nuh uhhh! That’s a sad smile. Where’s the Luz smile?” Amity giggled, placing a finger under Luz’s chin.
“I dunno if I can do that one tonight, sweet potato..” Luz replied dejectedly, looking to the side as her hand reached up to touch the one at her chin.
“Not without help you can’t!” Amity grabbed her hand gently, pulling her along to the living room couch.
“What’re you getting at?” The human raised an eyebrow.
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Sitting down with her, Luz took in her surroundings.
Around them, Camilla was getting ready for bed, the sound of her taking a shower just being heard down the hall.
Willow and Hunter were having an epic Uno battle while sprawled out on the carpet. (Willow was winning.)
In another corner, sitting on the floor, Vee ranted to Gus on and on about things she learned about in the human realm as some space documentary played on the tv in the background.
It was.. really calming, actually?
Everyone was seemingly okay for the moment.
Her observations were cut short, however, as Amity tackled her, letting out a little playful growl.
“What I’m getting at..” Amity started, wiggling her fingers over Luz’s ribs teasingly,
“Is that I know EXACTLY how to cheer you up!”
“Amityyyy-EHEHEHE!” Luz’s whine was cut off as her girlfriends fingers dug into her ribs and sides, reducing her to giggles.
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“There’s that smile!” Amity exclaimed happily, reaching up to tickle the humans’s armpits next, the girl’s laughter going up like 3 octaves as she did so.
Everyone in the room glanced up for a moment at the predicament.
Willow in particular grinned smugly, and she yelled out “Get her knees, Ams!”
Amity nodded, reaching down one hand to squeeze at Luz’s knee, trying her best to also keep her pinned.
“SCREHEHEW YOU WIHIHILOHOW!- AHAHAHAHA!” Luz fell into cackles as she was mercilessly attacked.
A few minutes later, and the tickles had stopped, Amity instead pulling Luz in and snuggling all the ghost sensations away, playing with her hair as they listened to some British man in the documentary talk about black holes.
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Surprisingly, this had felt.. nice.
Her laughter was such an odd sound to her now, besides the occasional chuckle here or there.
Everything had been so crazy lately.
And yet, now here she was, laughing and carrying on, just like the rest of her friends.
It was far from perfect, and this bout of happiness wasn’t going to last forever or make everything suddenly okay
But, atleast now she was relaxed for the night.
And she was smiling.
Her real one, this time.
