BLK: Sorry about typos and such on the first chapter, I didn't thoroughly re-read it. I'll do it from now on though.

Chapter II

"Man, this sucks!" Alya groaned as she paced around the airport's investigation room.

Nino sat grimly with his forehead on the table and his arms down at his sides, like an unplugged toy. As his wife reached one end of the room she'd turn on her heel swiftly and march to the other end of the room, ranting the entire time.

"Next time I see that witch-she-devil I'll give her a piece of my mind and my fist!" Alya hissed out as the security agent flipped through a file in front of Nino. The guard gave her a strange look upon the threat of violence, but perfectly understood the raging woman's reasoning, anyone would be pissed off after a false accusation of this scale.

"Well mister and misses Lahiffe, I'm seeing no immediate warrants for arrest and nothing comes up in our systems with your names on it. We have no reason to hold you here, but we still can't let you fly internationally because the call came directly from the mayor of Paris. It's not a call we can take lightly." The man in uniform said as he unlocked the room's door and held it open for them.

Alya grabbed Nino by the upper arms and dragged the lifeless man out of the room like the rag doll he'd become. Without a word to the security guard she stormed out of the airport and into a taxi cab. On the ride home she furiously texted Marinette who was busy consoling a lad in distress.

[Alaya: Can you fucking believe this?! I don't care whose daughter you are, I'm gonna sue for damages! We can't even get a refund on our plane tickets or hotel room!]

[Marinette: Oh I know! But you aren't gonna believe this either! Adrien says he's not gonna marry she-devil afterall. He said she's too mean and that he doesn't love her. Chloe is gonna flip out for sure after she finds out he's calling off the wedding tonight.]

[Alya: Holy shit gurl, are you for real?!]

[Marinette: It's a real mess out here, I don't think some of us are making it out of Japan alive…]

"Nino!" Alya exclaimed and shook his shoulder violently.

The grief-striken man barely mumbled a "hummff" before his wife loudly shrieked in his ear.

"Marinette says that Adrien is calling off the wedding!"

Nino blinked several times before looking at Alya's screen and doing a double take. "This will turn into an international scandal easily, it'll be on the news for sure." He said worriedly. "Tell Marinette to convince Adrien to get out of Japan as soon as possible! Chloe has only gotten worse since high school from what he's told me, she actually pulled a knife on him last week!" Nino urged her and Alys tapped away at het phone.

Marinette's eyes widened and she gasped sharply at the current text. "A knife?!" she cried out. "Adrien, did Chloe really pull a knife on you last week?"

"She didn't just threaten me with it, she carved over the top of my left ring finger, saying I'd have to wear my wedding ring for the rest of my life to cover up the scar in photoshoots…" he said drearily as he showed her the scab. "it's her way of owning mem I suppose."

Wordlessly Marinette held Adrien's slender, yet still masculine, hand and caressed it gently. She glanced back at the text from Alya telling her to get him out of Japan immediately and made up her mind. Damned be the consequences, she'd face them all for his sake. She'd fight off Chloe, run from the French army, and even beat an akuma with her bare hands if she must, but by the grace of the gods she'd save her soulmate from this hell.

"Let's go to China!" she said as tears pooled in her eyes and she shivered slightly.

With almost enamor and a hint of curiosity he looked up into her teary eyes with his own damp eyes. With soaked lashes and stained cheeks, he whimpered a meek "please".

"We'll leave quietly, so that no one will know!" she said as she helped him stand up. "Just grab enough things to last a few days until we get to my relative's house!"

"I knew you were half Chinese, but I didn't know you still had relatives in China!" he said surprised as he wiped his eyes on his sleeves.

"I know which airport we need to land in, but I'll have to ask him for directions to his temple. They have an herb and exorcism shop there with a natural hot spring. It's a great place to take a short vacation and get things sorted out from a safe distance from the wit-err…"

"Bridezilla?" he said flatly.

"Yeah, let's go with that!" Marinette said nervously, not entirely certain if blatantly insulting Chloe was a good idea at the moment. She didn't know the depths of Adrien's love, or possible contempt, for the woman yet. It was best to play it safe for now.

"Where's this temple at exactly?" he asked as he threw several articles of clothing into a duffel bag.

"It's right on the outskirts of Tibet, right to the East." She said as she handed him some of his belongings off of his dresser.

XxXxX

From the other side of the door Luka stood nearly horrified. To say he was scared was incorrect, the man was mad, mad enough to seek out the villain herself for assistance. He asked several shrine staff members where the bridal quarters were until he found Chloe in her evening robes crying into her phone with her mother. Even though the door was open he knocked softly with an expression that could kill a demon.

"What in the hell do you want?" Chloe asked with disgust. She looked him up and down, noting the dangerous expression on his face.

"You're a good deal-maker, right?" he opened cautiously.

Intrigued she lifted her nose in the air, but kept her eyes on him. "Of course I am, so if you have something good to offer, speak up!" She hung up the phone without so much as a 'goodbye'.

Sabrina clenched the hem of the wedding dress she was stitching and braced herself for what felt like a show-down between two villains. She didn't like to disobey Chloe, but she also didn't like getting overly involved in her scandals and schemes. She knew if she got in too deep, there'd be no reasonable way out; facing 'damned if she did, damned if she didn't' ordeals daily.

"I have information that you'll want, in exchange I want you to work your magic as daughter of mayor for something I want in exchange." He said as he closed the door behind himself and locked it. The clicking of the lock perked her interest more than his words; a locked door meant a bigger secret.

"I'm all ears." She said almost sweetly as she patted the spot on the loveseat next to her.

XxXxX

[Nino: I heard you and Mari and going somewhere safe? Please just tell me you're safe and with good company bro.]

[Adrien: This cannot reach Chloe's ears, but I'm with Marinette, we're going to a relative's house in China. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I'll call when we arrive.]

[Nino: Alya and I are on a no-fly list for international flights, but if there's a chance you could make it back to Paris, or even France, we're here for you buddy.]

[Adrien: Thanks man, and tell Alya I said thanks for telling Mari to come with me. You have no idea how alone I felt sitting at that airport trying to leave by myself.]

"Looks like he's going to be okay." Nino sighed out in relief. Alya smiled at the last text Nino had received.

"Well, I can rest easy now that those two are together again!" Alya smiled proudly.

"It's not like they're eloping, she's just helping him get away from Chloe." He cocked his eyebrows at her.

"Eheh….boy, when a man and woman run away together, it's romantic!" she snickered as she beat her eyelashes at her man. The two made it home with their luggage and were greeted by Rose, Marc, and Nathaniel.

"I know I asked you to look after the cat while we were gone, but we barely made it to the airport and ya'll are already here?" Alya asked jokingly.

"Well, we wanted to just make sure you didn't forget to turn off the stove or anything!" Rose giggled effervescently. "Besides, we just got an interest text from Juleka."

"Oh no…" Alya bit her lip. "Don't tell me you already heard something…"

"Yup! No keeping secrets from uuuuss!" Rose said in a sing-song chirp. Alya panicked slightly as Nino sank behind her. "Juleka said that Marinette and Luka reconnected and it'd be awesome possum if we had a dual wedding together!" she said in delight as she held her phone to her cheek lovingly.

"But didn't you want Marinette to cater you and Juleka's wedding?" Nathaniel asked with his arms crossed. "How is she gonna cater your wedding if she's getting married at the same time?"

Rose's expression dropped. "Oh…"

Alya took a sigh of relief before realization dawned on her. "What exactly do you mean by Luka and Marinette reconnected?"

"Well Juleka says that Chloe says that Luka says that he and Marinette talked and were getting along very smoothly!" Rose said with a thumbs up and a wink.

"Uh huh…." Alya said with an anxious tone and a confused blink. "Gurl, I'll be right the fuck back!"

[Alya: Gurl, what the FUCK is Rose talking about?]

[Marinette: What? I'm kind of busy, Adrien and I are at the airport right now. We're trying to be discrete! I'm sure Rose knows what she's talking about, she and Juleka already talked to me about it. It's gonna be amazing! Just let Rose explain everything!]

"Oh my god…what?!" Alya screeched at her phone. "She's with Adrien, but she's talking to frickin' Luka?! That damn girl! What is she doing?!"

Rose and the others shrugged.

"What do you mean that Marinette is with Adrien right now?" Nathaniel asked curiously as he took a sip of his tea.

Alya clenched her phone as she stared at the last text from Marinette. "I don't even know what she means anymore either."

XxXxX (Parenthesis means Chinese being spoken.) XxXxX

"Oh, well I guess the cat is out of the bag." Marinette said as she and Adrien sat down in their seats on the plane.

"What cat? What bag!?" Adrien shrieked out in panic as his eyes darted around the plane at all the other passengers.

"Calm down, it's not about you or Chloe, silly!" she giggled. "It's about Rose and Juleka's baby plans!"

Adrien allowed the adrenaline rush to fade before coming to his senses. "Baby plans?" he asked dumbly.

"Yeah, Rose is going to get the sperm donation from Luka so that the baby is related to both her and Juleka. Then Juleka is going to get a sperm donation from Rose's Swedish cousin so that that baby is also related to both of them. I think it's an awesome idea!" Marinette said happily and Adrien nodded.

"I'm just glad someone from our class got their happily ever after like Alya and Nino did." Adrien smiled softly.

"Oh, you didn't hear?" Marinette asked and Adrien turned to her curiously. "Mylene and Ivan got married last month, then Marc and Nathaniel's wedding is next fall, and Alix just got a boyfriend too!"

"Seems like we're the odd ones out." He noted mostly to himself.

'We don't have to be.' Is the statement burning it's way from the back of her mind wanting to leap out of her mouth, but she managed to get ahold of herself and recompose.

"Ahh, yeah…heh…" she said shyly.

She had planned to make small talk with Adrien on the lengthy flight to China, but the constant buzzing of her phone kept her fairly busy. She was bombarded with questions from her parents about her whereabouts, from Juleka about possible dinner plans together, strange questions from Alya, and even stranger questions from Luka.

'What is going on all of a sudden? Why am I the center of attention so quickly? The only ones who should know I'm with Adrien are Alya and Nino….' She thought as she chose to answer her parents' texts first.

[Marinette: Mom, I'm so sorry, but I'm with a friend. I'm staying at their hotel for a few nights. Please don't worry about me, we're helping the groom get ready! Please forgive me for not helping serve the cakes at the weddings, I know you and dad can handle it!]

One text down, several more to go. She grew weary of the half-lies she had to tell the innocent people, but Alya and Luka were two different stories. Next to her, Adrien's phone began to light up just as quickly as hers.

[Nino: Bud, I think something super shady is going down. Is it true that Luka and Mari were talking today? Did you know about it?]

[Adrien: Yeah, why? I knew, I was there.]

[Nino: nvm then, none of my business…as long as you know]

Adrien's brow furrowed, the perplexed expression on his face told Marinette that something was amiss on his end as well.

"Seems like we're both getting crazy texts, huh?" she said casually as she continued tapping on her screen.

[Luka: Do you wanna catch dinner with Juleka and me tonight? We don't need to rehearse, we did that plenty before the flight. It'd be nice to reconnect and stuff.]

[Marinette: Actually I'm exhausted from the flight and baking. I'm gonna stay in my hotel room until the ceremony! Maybe after the wedding? Aren't we all staying a week?]

'She's really lying to me?' Luka sneered at his phone in disapproval.

[Luka: No, actually Juleka and I have a concert in China in a few days, so we won't be staying very long. I think we leave the morning after the weddings.]

Marinette cried out with a small squeak that caught Adrien's attention. He gave her an odd glance as she fumbled with her phone madly.

[Marinette: China?! Where in China?]

[Luka: Near Tibet, it's by some small town, but I hear they have a Miyota-Cheng temple there. When I saw the name Cheng I kinda got inspired by your name and decided it was fate!]

The unreadable expression on Marinette's face gave Adrien the impression that something new had come up. It was as if she'd seen a ghost, or had been told a really bad pun.

[Marinette: That's such a crazy coincidence, I have family out there! The Miyota-Cheng temple belongs to my Uncle and cousin! Say hi to them for me!]

"Adrien," she said solemnly, which got his attention undividedly. "We can't go to my relative's temple."

"Why not?" he asked desperately.

"Luka and Juleka are having a concert at the temple in a few days. I don't buy that it's a coincidence either. Please don't tell me that someone found out already?" she grimaced as she stared at her phone intensely.

Adrien kept his eyes locked on her expression, cherry picking his next words carefully. "I know someone in China." He finally said as he began dialing a number.

"Someone trustworthy?" she asked pensively. He could see the worry in her eyes, and the unwavering desire to see-through this situation to the end.

He nodded as the phone rang up to his ear a few times. "He's who I was going to go see in the first place if I'd gone alone."

"Who?" she asked wondrously.

"Nino and I have a code name for him; Beijing." He said with almost a scowl.

'A code name? Is he someone important or undercover?' she pondered.

The phone's receiver picked up and without a word from the other end Adrien spoke in an ancient tongue, ("The kitten returns to Beijing.")

A short silence overtook the scene before a reply could be heard, ("Beijing is no longer in paradise, return to Oblivion.")

Adrien made a grunting noise of disapproval. ("There is no Oblivion!")

Marinette's head spun, she had Chinese ancestry and could speak key phrases, but nowhere near fluently like Adrien could. She let out a small whine of confusion as he brain tried to decipher any single word they two spoke.

("What happened to Oblivion?") the soft, yet clearly male, voice asked from the other end of the phone.

("The tiger and the lion swallowed it whole, then the wasps took over. There is no other option.") Adrien retorted.

Another silence swept over them as Adrien's lip quivered.

("Come to Beijing, but know this, the flower beside you…take a long look at its petals and tell me if its fragrance warrants plucking.")

A chill crawled up Adrien's spine as he looked into Marinette's inquisitive bluebell eyes. He thought long and hard about the deeper meaning behind Beijing's words before giving way to a soft smile. ("This flower is a lotus of war.") Marinette had no idea what he'd just said, but he said it with such a gentle and caring tone that she couldn't help but wonder what he was talking about.

'He looked right at me as he said something so…lush.' She thought with a blush.

("Beijing awaits.") the voice said before hanging up.

'Marinette was always awesome at helping calm the class down during akuma attacks, I'm sure she'll make an excellent ally if that's what he thinks.' Adrien thought as Marinette squirmed in her seat.

"What was all that Chinese about?" she asked with a confused pout.

"My phone is wire tapped, but only while a call is being made. My father doesn't know that I know about it. So whenever I call him I have to speak in as much code words as possible. Even though father is fluent in Chinese as well, it just makes it less likely that someone else will pick it up and try to decipher it for him if they overhear. It's just an extra precaution." He explained.

"But won't your parents come looking for you in Beijing if they know you're going there?" she asked perplexed. "I mean you're going to China and calling this guy 'Beijing', won't they find you?"

"That's the thing, they don't know that I know my phone is bugged. So calling him Beijing will make them think I'm going to Beijing. His place is actually in Qinghai, not a place my parents would look for me in." Adrien smirked.

Marinette's mind reeled with terms and words before it dawned on her. "But…Qinghai is directly East of Tibet….where my family's temple is….where Luka's concert is…." She blinked slowly as she spoke.

Adrien made a soft humming noise of thought before his eyes opened wide. "Wait a sec…"

[Adrien: What's the actual name of your castle?]

[Beijing: Is it safe to give real names?]

[Adrien: No, but it won't matter soon. Please tell me the real name.]

[Beijing: Miyota-Cheng.]

[Adrien: Shit, expect a call from the Lotus of War. This is bad.]

[Beijing: Understood.]

"Marinette, we're in deep shit." He grit his teeth and she sank into her seat. "I need your phone." He demanded and she gave it to him freely. He took his original phone and ripped open the back panel and removed the battery before standing up and disposing of it in a trash receptacle down the aisle. When he returned he began dialing a strange number on her phone.

"It's me." He said darkly.

"Oh? This is rare…" the voice said in French.

"Miyota-Cheng isn't a good place for us to meet." Adrien said with a shiver of fear. "This phone will be my only contact with you until we meet in person."

"Father has gone that far off the deep end, huh?" the voice said menacingly.

"Worse, he's forcing me to marry Chloe. Now someone might know we're going to Miyota-Cheng temple. We cannot be there. You cannot be there!" Adrien urged direly and the man sighed softly. "The Lotus has ties to Miyota-Cheng temple, it's too dangerous."

"Sounds like you're in a real mess, Adrien." The man said and some shuffling in the background could be heard followed by the man talking to someone behind him saying 'Ready the box, we're moving out.'

"It's worse than you could imagine." Adrien groaned lightly.

"I can't wait to meet Miss Lotus of War, we'll meet at the airport. Security cameras may be able to follow us inside the building, but once we're on the road they won't be able to spot you. If he high tail it before any of father's private jets make it here we can get away. Don't answer any unfamiliar numbers, it's how father puts a tracking code in your phone. I'll have Kyoto greet you with a disguise." The man said before hanging up abruptly.

Adrien gave Marinette her phone back and sighed with relief. He gave her a reassuring look before she could even ask anything.

XxXxX

Luka took a seat next to Chloe and leaned unusually close to her, not that she minded a handsome famous young man's company. They eyed each other for a moment before she leered at him suspiciously.

"Speak." She commanded directly.

"Don't be so callous, I know you were a real nightmare in high school to my sister. So don't think I'm going to tolerate your attitude." Luka said with disgust. "I'm only coming to you out of desperation."

"Well then hurry up, I don't have all day. I have to make a call to daddy to bring Adrien back to his senses and-"

"What if there was no Adrien anymore?" he asked ominously. She paused and looked at him cautiously.

"W-was that a threat?" she stammered and her jaw dropped at him.

"No, it's a warning. I over heard something Adrien said. I'll give you all the details you want if you do something for me first." He said as he leaned back in his seat comfortably, as if he held all the cards in the game.

She looked thoughtful and huffed. "What do you want me to do?"

"Have your father arrange a concert in China at a specific location for me. I did some looking into the location and there's a concert hall near a temple called Miyota-Cheng. Get me that concert to be hosted in two or three days and I'll tell you absolutely everything that Adrien and Marinette talked about."

Chloe's mouth hung open even further as she looked at him with despair. Her Adriekins, with that nasty Dupain-Cheng girl? "Deal. Let me make the call." She said as she picked up the phone and immediately whined "Daddy! I need a favor!"

Luka chuckled lowly, he hadn't felt this alive in years. As much as everything was going his way he could shake this heavy weight in the pit of his stomach, it felt alien and deafeningly strangling. Like an arm was wrapped around his neck and the hand extended into his stomach. He felt conflicted, but so….so….

"Okay, it's done. You have your silly concert. Now spill everything!" she said viciously.

'Thrilling!' his mind roared.

"Juleka and I were picked up by your father's private jet in Paris as instructed, but for some reason Marinette and her parents were also scheduled to be picked up as well. When we got to the Tokyo airport we kinda split off, Marinette seemed like she was looking for someone, like she had anticipated that someone she knew was gonna be there waiting for her already. Then by the time I found her Adrien and her were hugging and crying, like a lover's reunion after years apart. They tried to play it off like it was a coincidence, but I saw right through it. He's using her for something, I can feel it."

Chloe sank to the floor beside Sabrina who put her hand on her shoulder for support. She too was having a hard time grasping what Luka was saying. "But….why…." Chloe stuttered out as Luka continued.

"I don't know why, but when Adrien escorted us three to the Tsurugi shrine he told Juleka and I to put our stuff in the other room while he and Marinette went into his bedroom all alone. I was kind of suspicious so I pressed my ear to the door and listened for a bit. They mentioned running away to the Miyota-Cheng temple in China tonight and that Adrien was calling off the wedding or something. He's giving her a sob story to con her into eloping with him or something." Luka said with a sour bite in his tone. "Marinette would never run away with an engaged man without a good reason, right?"

Chloe had a single tear down her cheek as Sabrina patted her back cooingly. "Give me your phone, I'll handle this." She hissed darkly. Chloe began typing on Luka's phone as she mumbled something incoherent under her breath.

[Luka/Chloe: I won't be back tonight, set up without me. I'm gonna hang out with Marinette alone in her hotel room. We're reconnecting and it's going well! We're talking about going for coffee when we get back to Paris. I smell a spring wedding! 3]

[Juleka: Woah, that's crazy awesome! But since when did you start using emojis?]

[Luka/Chloe: g2g, Mari is waiting for me in the hot tub!]

"Chloe!" Luka exclaimed with his hands on his head. "Why did you lie?"

"It's so obvious it's pathetic! You like that slovenly girl, so this works out for us both!" Chloe cackled as she stood up, knocking Sabrina back slightly as she did. "I get Adrien back, you get little cake girl!"

"How exactly is spreading lies like that going to help me win Marinette over exactly? I only just reunited with her today!" Luka growled, remembering that dealing with Chloe was always a huge mistake.

[Juleka: Did Mari say she wanted to hang out anytime after the wedding ceremony? We don't leave until the morning.]

[Luka: Not yet. I'll see.]

'Shit, I don't know how to get out of this or handle lying like this. What if I make some huge lie that doesn't make any sense?' he thought as he furrowed his lower lip. He hesitated to text Juleka again with another lie, it felt wrong.

"Ugh! Give me that!" Chloe rolled her eyes and snatched his phone.

[Luka/Chloe: I'll ask her after we get out of the shower after the hot tub. Right now we're picking out couple names. Which do you prefer? Lukanette, Marika, or Marilukanette?]

"Quit making me sound so cheesy!" he stole his phone back from the witch's clutches.

"Look, the more you sound invested, the more people will believe it." She huffed her nose in the air and turned her back on him.

He growled from deep within his chest, the audacity of this woman was unreal. But he knew he was entirely reliant on her at this point, that at any moment, with a flick fn her fingers, he will be undone and his secrets exposed. "How do I go forth from here?" he asked quietly.

"If you want my guidance you must act gracious!" she said as she sat back down on her love seat and crossed her legs.

He swallowed his pride and took a deep breath. "Chloe, please help me, I'm begging you."

"You don't look like you're begging…" Chloe said boredly.

He dropped to one knee and glared her directly in the eyes. "I will bring Adrien back to you, and he will return willingly." He said defeatedly.

"Not exactly what I expected, but it works for me." She said victoriously. "Now then, we do have a problem here."

His defeated expression gave way to a more concerning appearance. "Oh?"

"We need cake-chick to fall in love with you and to convince Adrien that she's no longer on his side." Chloe said thoughtfully.

The two were silent for a moment before Sabrina spoke up. "If only Hawkmoth were here, you could get someone akumatized."

Chloe and Luka did a double take and looked at the ginger in surprise. Luka's stomach twisted while Chloe grinned sinisterly.

"During my time as Queen Bee I once followed Ladybug to Master Fu's hideout in Paris." She began and Luka's blue head snapped back to look at her astonished. "I watched very carefully at the passcode to get into the miraculous box for just this occasion." She cackled slightly under her breath.

"The say what now?" Luka asked, he didn't like where this was going.

"The five heroes vanquished Hawkmoth five years ago, Master Fu approached us each individually to retrieve the miraculouses. Gabriel Agreste may not remember being Hawkmoth, but the rest of the world does. Ladybug gave the butterfly miraculous back to Master Fu and he sealed them back into the box. If we can get back into that box and –"

"Woah woah woah woah!" Luka shot up straight and backed into the door. "We're supposed to be talking about breaking up secret lovers, not stealing the friggin miraculouses and akumatizing people! Are you nuts lady?"

The panic in his voice caused Sabrina to tremble as well. 'This is all my fault, me and my big mouth!' she thought as she whimpered and drew her knees up to her chest and buried her face in them.

"How else are we going to do this? You can't uphold a lie without a little magic." She smirked.

"How did you plan on doing this before Sabrina mentioned akumatizing someone?" he asked with a shaky voice.

"I didn't plan on anything, I just knew I had so many aces up my sleeve that no one could stop me, but I like the idea of akumatizing someone more than just lying our way through it." She said with a small chuckle.

Luka's mouth opened to speak, but all that escaped was an exasperated noise.

"Chloe please," Sabrina pleaded. "Please don't do something that will get you in trouble. I'd hate to see you arrested or-"

"Enough!" Chloe snapped her fingers. "Tell daddy the wedding is postponed. Adrien and I had a lover's quarrel and we're holding off the wedding until I say so!"

"R-right away!" Sabrina said clumsily and fumbled with her phone.

"You, Luka." The blonde pointed at the dumbstruck boy. "Go prepare our flight back to Paris, I want to be there by tonight." She ordered with a snap of her fingers.

Chloe disappeared into her bathroom as Sabrina hung up the phone and stood awkwardly next to Luka who was staring at the wall in denial.

"What….the hell have we done?" he mumbled lowly and Sabrina cringed.

"Something evil." Sabrina sighed in ruined joy.

BLK: Have I ever mentioned that Chloe is OOC af in this? I feel like even though I put the OOC warning label, I've gone a bit too far, I'll have to reign her back in some if you guys don't like it. I think Luka is within an okay range of acceptable OOC-ness.