Ladybug furrowed her brow as she studied Jacqueline's shaded expression. Deciding that the woman was just another noble who needed to be pandered to, Ladybug slowly drew her sword. "I've heard all the stories of his strength," she said as she held her blade horizontally in front of her. The flat edge of the blade faced upwards, catching a faint glimmer of their reflections facing each other. "I believe that strength can be tempered into something useful. Retribution in death is worthless. If he's alive, then he can be used to correct at least some of the wrongs he's committed."
"So not a comrade," Jacqueline mused with a curious smile, "but still a weapon. Although a very crude one at that."
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Love Remains - Ch 9
Written for @thelibraryloser‘s birthday, which was way back in July! But I'm it's finished now and on Tumblr! Woot!
Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
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Chapter 9: Epilogue
One Hundred and Six Days Since Marinette Lost Her Memory
Adrien turns behind him, and Marinette immediately catches his eyes, smiling that small smile with her cheeks turning pink and her eyes sparkling with playfulness.
He smiles back.
He can’t believe that she’s there, that she loves him, that she fell in love with him twice.
That she’s Marinette and has been sitting behind him since they met and he never realized.
He doesn’t know how he can be so lucky. He’s always not sure he deserves it.
He feels guilty about it sometimes.
“You’re being ridiculous,” Marinette tells him again and again.
And maybe she’s right, but he learned long ago that he couldn’t reason with his feelings. And so he continues to feel guilty. Because he is grateful that she lost her memory. And it’s not just because that seemed to be the catalyst that got them together. Marinette without her memory trusts him. He doesn’t really know what the difference was. He thinks she may have some idea; she’s alluded to things in her diary, but she’s never told him.
But he doesn’t need to be grateful to her memory loss for getting them together because knowing what he does now, he’s convinced that given how they both felt, they would have eventually figured it out and come together. Eventually.
But no, the reason he’s grateful is that she seems happier and freer without them. She hadn’t ever wanted to be the Guardian, had never been given a choice for what was essentially a lifelong obligation. She was free of it now. And she still had the people most important to her.
She has her family and her friends. Sure, there’s a lot she doesn’t directly remember, but she knows the gist of it now.
She confessed to him that she loves hearing others reminisce about their memories of her. Like it was always a story she doesn’t know the ending of and she’s always on the edge of her seat.
“It’s like getting to enjoy a favorite book for the first time all over again.”
So he has taken to telling her stories of old akumas and patrols, of stupid little moments in class when she had stumbled through sentences talking to him.
She’s still Ladybug and she enjoys that role and the freedom it provides in a way she never had before, and he’s in awe that he gets to share that with her.
It just seems like everything is better for her now and better for him too.
But it’s a price she never should have had to pay.
“Life is just like that,” she tells him. “It doesn’t always make sense. There’s not a reason for the things we go through. You lost your mom. I lost my memories.” She shrugs, like it’s no big deal.
He looks up to her. She is his model for accepting things that seem unfair. She seems to have a clearer idea of what’s important to her and what’s not than him for sure, but also compared to her former self.
He wonders sometimes how the old Marinette would feel about what her life has become. He hopes that she would be just as happy as he is.
“She would be,” Marinette tells him.
“How do you know?”
“She’s me.”
And he can’t argue with that. Especially when she’s smiling at him like that.
So he doesn’t. He kisses her instead.
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LBSC Minific Challenge - October 2023
Welcome to the LBSC Minific Challenge! October is upon us, and the challenge is now open!
Write a Lukanette minific of 50, 100, 250 words, or do a piece of Lukanette art work (we’re thinking in the spirit of inktober, but whatever feels appropriate to you), and tag us in your finished work. We’ll reblog it on the LBSC blog and you can add AO3 works to our AO3 minific collection.
We’ve collected a few prompt lists from around the internet you can use, but feel free to make or choose your own, or mix and match as you choose!
Fictober 2023 Prompts
Angstober 2023 Prompts
Flufftober 2023 Prompts (1)
Flufftober 2023 Prompts (2)
Dystober 2023 Prompts
LBSC Smooch Roulette
As always, you can do as few or as many as you like, in whatever order you like, and here’s a little reminder of our attitude towards rules (tldr; do what inspires you, even if it breaks the rules)
You can join our LBSC Events discord server for encouragement and ideas (but this is totally optional in both directions - you don’t have to join to participate in the challenge, and you don’t have to participate in the challenge to join the server; you can join just for lukanette socializing, news on lbsc events, and general cheerleading), and if you have any questions you can leave a message in our ask box!
NSFW prompt fills are permitted as long as all characters are of age and it is appropriately tagged.
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I love you. I just got to chapter 33 of sexing times and I'm dying. I'm alive. I'm squeezing like a school girl. I'm composed. I'm very normal. I want to eat this fic.
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
Hope you like the rest of the story as much!
To be honest, the idea of over 250k people reading ST is sinking into my head very slowly - together with ST keeping at the 1st place in ratings for so many tags, including ladybug and all that, - so the comments of joy from readers are much easier for me to take in and I'm always thankful for those!
I really enjoy writing it and I treat myself with the idea that this book can not only entertain readers, but also help them realize something in themselves and reveal their inner potential in real life.
Thank you for reading again!
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I remember someone saying that the circle looked an awful lot like The Bubbler‘s bubbles and I was like “Y’all are over analyzing things, is just a circle”
But the “Senti-bubbler” episode is now comming out in 4 days, I want to formally apologize as well as to say That I am now scared of every theory relating End cards of S4… Adrien’s scarf theory I am looking at you.
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