#matchmaker rose

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters/Pairings: Brielle Girard (OC), Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Rose Lavillant; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant (Background)

Summary: It’s Rose and Juleka’s first Christmas as an official couple, and Rose just wants to get her something special, honest.  There really was no ulterior motive behind all the pictures she was texting Luka that day.  After all, he knows his sister best, right?  She just wanted his opinion on a few things…

Author’s Notes/Warnings: It’s still technically Christmas right?  Christmas-adjacent?  😂  This started as a joke with Laurel about Yenta Rose texting Luka pictures of Marinette “on accident” at the beginning of December, and then it just fought me and refused to get done for Christmas.  I’ve got about 10k of fic here and 10k in a scratchpad of drafts and rewrites and screaming at the fic.  😂  Happy General Winter Holidays?

“Christmas Shipping”

“Pleeeease?”

Luka sighed and leaned back against the wall behind his bed, closing his eyes so he wouldn’t be tempted to roll them.  On the other end of the phone pressed to his ear, he would swear Rose was whimpering.

“Ro, I have to practice today,” he sighed.  “The concert is Friday, and I’ve got work all week.  I’m still struggling with that progression in the bridge.  I have to work on it – Sinclair will have my ass if I don’t have it perfect.”

“Oh, please, it’s you,” Rose huffed.  While her confidence in him was touching, her blithe dismissal of his concerns was not.  “Of course it will be perfect – you’re overthinking it, Luka!  Besides, I’m only asking for an hour!”

“We both know it won’t be one hour,” he deadpanned, and Rose humphed again.  “Rose, you’re overthinking it.  It’s just Christmas.  Jules always loves your gifts.”

Notes: The good news: I actually HAVE been working on this fic! The bad news some of y’all have been witnessing me screech over: none of it’s been in order! 😂 (I’m usually a linear writer, but I’ve had scenes pinging so out of order for this. I had the end of this chapter written first, then part of three that flowed from it, and pretty much all of ten? Which is actually an extra chapter that just Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone? Laurel, I WILL finish this fic. Some day. I will feel worlds better when I start cranking chapters out and you actually get the fic. 😂

Ch 1

Princess Heartmaker

Chapter Two: It’s Kind of Strange How We Change Orbit in Our Lives

When Juleka had told Rose to let Luka and Marinette figure things out on their own, Rose had heard her.

The problem was that Rose had also heard Marinette. And she had heard Luka. And Rose, who had heard both Marinette and Luka, knew something that Juleka, who had not, didn’t.

Juleka, who had not spoken with Marinette about the upcoming dance and her very Luka-specific plans regarding said dance, did not know that if Luka did not stop being stupid and make a freakin’ move already he was going to lose Marinette forever because Marinette was going to give up on him.