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blockquote class="userstuff" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.643em; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He thinks for a moment, making a little sound to let her know that he'd heard her question. "I do. Overall, I'm grateful that you gave me the Miraculous all those years ago." /p
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blockquote class="userstuff" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.643em; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do you enjoy having Sass?" Marinette asks him softly one night. They are cuddling on the couch watching one of their favorite trivia shows and Luka is brushing small, absentminded circles up and down her arm with one hand, the other wrapped around her, holding her close. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He thinks for a moment, making a little sound to let her know that he'd heard her question. "I do. Overall, I'm grateful that you gave me the Miraculous all those years ago." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""But," Marinette prompts, looking up at him with sad eyes. "That's not all of it, is it? I know you've been having nightmares." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Luka sighs deeply. "I see a lot of things that no one else does. I have seen every single one of us die more than once. It can get…" he pauses for a couple of seconds looking for the right word. "Haunting. I know it's not real, b-" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It is real," Marinette cuts him off. "You see them happen. The events might not be permanent, but they really happen. ...and only you know," she finishes, slowly, sadly. "Oh, Luka." She feels tears sting her eyes and turns to wrap her arms around him in a tight embrace. "I'm so sorry." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hey," he hushes, running his fingers through her hair. "It's okay. Like I said, I do enjoy having Sass. He's basically a part of me now. I love that I get to defend our city right by your side. I can't imagine giving either of those up. And...don't let this upset you, love, but I don't want to pass off the nightmares /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"and hauntings to anyone else." He lifts her chin up gently so she's looking him in the eyes. "All of our Miraculous have their difficulties that come along with them. If I could go back to the very first day- knowing every single thing I would see- I'd still take him. The good we do- being with you- that far outweighs the bad. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Marinette slides her hands behind his neck, pulling him down into a tender kiss that quickly turns needy and heated. He digs his own hands into her hair, tugging slightly and indulging in the moan that it pulls from her lips. Once they untangle themselves from one another, they are both breathless, flushed, and disheveled. They settle back into their previous cuddles as Sass and Tikki come out of their hiding spots to settle in with them. /p
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