FIC: "Hard Pass, Huh?" (MLB; Lukanette)
Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: While waiting on her flight to board, Marinette discovers she never uninstalled that dating app Alya had signed her up for. She’s also surprised to find Luke Stone uses it – and that he’s sitting right behind her.
Author’s Notes/Warnings: @Rierse dropped a plunny, and while she was getting bullied enabled into chasing it I was sitting in boring meetings kicking stuff around? So uh. Hey, two cakes? 😂🖤
“Hard Pass, Huh?”
“Attention please. Attention please…”
Marinette glanced up as the tannoy clanged to life. She glanced at the board as the woman’s voice prattled off another flight that would be delayed due to the weather, and she sighed as she noted there was no change to her own flight. For now, at least, it looked like she wasn’t going anywhere.
She turned back to her phone and sank lower in the uncomfortable plastic chair. She hadn’t bothered checking the weather when she’d left that morning, but she’d been on autopilot since Fashion Week had ended twenty…eight hours ago? She wasn’t entirely sure anymore. She had wrapped up her last show and had immediately been whisked off to a party one of Audrey’s partners was throwing. She hadn’t had time to catch any sleep before she’d had to head back to pack up her designs and make sure everything was properly labelled and sorted to the delivery service, and then she’d been dragged off for a series of interviews before she’d had to race back to her hotel to pack and make checkout. The entire week had been a crazy, exhilarating blur, but the past day had been absolute hell. Just then, all she really wanted was her own bed, back in Paris, instead of the (admittedly fairly comfortable) hotel bed in New York.
…she didn’t always like New York. These days. It was a huge city, easy to get lost in, but these days she felt like she spent the entire time there on edge. Just waiting to accidentally run into…it hadn’t happened. Yet. But she had never been a big believer in her own luck, and she knew her days were numbered.
