Lady's Things

Fanart by the inestimable @theladylu​​! Absolutely gorgeous work, I am just in awe…

have the stars been blotted out by a brilliant Morse code by sagansjagger

Summary:

Marinette doesn’t know what to think of the boy shining a flashlight into her window every night. At first, she’s annoyed.

Then Tikki tells her he’s trying to send her a message: dah, dah, dah, dit, dit, dit, dah, dah dah–or S.O.S.

As Marinette develops her skills in the technical, outdated language of Morse code in order to communicate with this lonely, mystery boy, their friendship blossoms into something more…

Main Tags:

              Fluff

Angst

Humor

Morse Code

Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng Fluff

Oblivious Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Identity Reveal

            Excerpt:

“Ugh,” Marinette said, squinting in the darkness at the bright light flickering in her window. That attractive blond boy from across the street–not that she wanted to see his blurry form walking around shirtless in his room, she just had a decently solid view from her balcony–was clearly shining his flashlight into her space again.

It was always the same pattern, too. Long, long, long, short, short, short, long, long, long. She huffed at him, folding her arms. “Tikki, he’s at it again.”

“Marinette,” Tikki said, cocking her red, bulbous head. “I think he’s trying to send you a message.”

Marinette blinked, smoothing her bangs off her forehead. “A message? How?”

“Have you ever heard of Morse code?”

“I think so?” Marinette said, shielding her eyes from the light. The flashlight had woken her up, and she was beginning to get truly annoyed. “It’s like dah dah dah, right?”

Tikki smiled gently. Marinette knew she was about to get lectured or told something really sad. “Morse code is the sort of thing a boy would learn if he spent a lot of time alone in his room.”

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