Hello!
This was written a few weeks ago for Lenalove 2018, but I ended up busy with other things and forgot to post it here and on FFnet. There was three days with one theme each, which were Friendship, Family and Romance. I am posting Friendship and Family as one story, though the friendship's drabble is a stand alone and so is the family one. The same way, relations are friendship/platonic in Friendship, while in Family, they are obviously familial.
The Romance drabbles will have their own story each on FFnet (as I can only tag four characters so I wouldn't be able to tag all of them), while on AO3 it will be one story with a chapter for each romance's drabble (since I can tag all characters and relations). There are in total four drabbles, three with the ships I ship/love most for Lenalee, and the fourth is an implicit aromantic Lenalee.
Fun fact: I also ship Alma/Lenalee, but I did not find inspiration to write something. I can see them bonding by sharing a friendship with Kanda (which can also make an OT3).
I hope you appreciate!
Note: It is left unsaid if Road has mentally played with Lenalee or not, but I do consider Road didn't, meaning that Lenalee's feelings are not planted by Road, but really Lenalee's.
Still, if you are really sensitive to dub-con, Lenalee's own thoughts can seem as if she is victim of manipulation, so be warned!
Butterfly's thoughts: Romance (Road)
As much as Lenalee's mind had not been there until Miranda's Time Record had healed her mind, she had always remembered the feeling of Road's hand brushing her cheek, the soft voice murmuring, such a pretty doll.
Lenalee felt Road had done it on purpose, and many times, she wondered wih a shiver of fear, if she had fully been released from the Noah of Dream's hold.
Why else would she think more of this memory that should not be, rather than the fight that followed? Why else would she feel annoyance when Road kissed Allen's lips, the Noah's eyes meeting hers subtly after?
Oh, Lenalee had tried to tell herself it was because it was Allen, but she could not feel herself. She knew that she did not feel this way for him.
Tried as she might, Lenalee could not ignore the pang of sadness when Allen exorcised Tyki-or so they thought. She could not ignore how similar Road felt to herself, when she watched the apparent young girl grow dangerously protective, how she knew that if anyone harmed Komui, Lenalee could not deny for sure that her own reaction would not be unffiting for an Exorcist.
Maybe, Road had sensed that long ago. Maybe Road had seen Lenalee's mind better than Lenalee herself, seen all of it to destroy it better.
Maybe Lenalee's dreams that she could not share, that sometimes left her waking with her body still burning, were not quite dreams after all.