Lucky Us Ficlet Request
Jun. 9th, 2018 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistkittAnonymous: love square request - a lucky us missing scene or after the fact?
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Rain.
It fell in irritable fits throughout the day. Water dripped from everything and puddled everywhere, whispered across the sky in dense gray clouds. Adrien’s eyes followed a droplet as it slid down Marinette’s window, slowed, collided with another, picked up speed, collected more.
His thoughts had gotten lost in another rainy day, more than a year past. A long email. Restless anger. A night without sleep. Haunted by the image of a brokenhearted woman, abandoned with all of her fears.
It had never gone away, that restless anger. That need to do something. That overpowering desire to reach back in time and pull that woman out of the ruins of her confidence and into his arms.
His gaze shifted to Marinette, who stood in her small bedroom coaxing Tikki’s ball-jointed arms into a bright pink raincoat. He stepped away from the window.
Marinette smiled at him as he entered the room. “Hungry yet? I know we planned to go out but I really don’t feel like eating in wet clothes.”
Adrien took Tikki and set her down on Marinette’s desk. Then he turned back to Marinette, cupped her face in his hands, and kissed her.
She smiled against his lips and stepped closer to him. But when he ended the kiss and looked into her eyes, her smile faded. “What is it?” she asked.
What indeed? How could he tell her that he was filled with the aching need to make her stop hurting? How did he articulate the desire to kiss away tears she’d shed long before they’d ever met?
He kissed her again. Pulled her hair loose from its ponytail. Lowered a hand to her waist and caressed the skin beneath her shirt with his thumb. He poured love into every touch, love enough to right the wrongs committed against her. Love enough to leave her breathless and asking for more.
An hour passed, and Marinette lay in his arms, pressing feather-light kisses to his chest. He wound a strand of her hair around his finger. Outside, the rain continued to fall.
“Ladybug?”
“Mmm?”
“I want to make you happy. Every single day.” He lowered his chin and kissed her forehead.
Marinette smiled wide. “Silly kitty,” she whispered, “you already do.”
