The House Band
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When Marinette finds out she’s pregnant with their first child (and Dingo accidentally finds out before Luka), Dingo begs her to let him be the one to tell Luka the happy news.
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- Part 1 of The House Band
- Part 11 of The Dingo Files: Tales of an Australian Dumbass
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When Luka’s attentiveness starts to lean towards overbearing, Marinette finds the perfect way he can help prepare for the baby: find her the automatic diaper changer Rose had been telling her about.
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- Part 2 of The House Band
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Harmonika Couffaine came into the world like a hurricane, but you would expect nothing less of a Couffaine. (At least they actually made it to the hospital. Marinette would have killed Dingo if they hadn’t.)
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- Part 2 of The Dingo Files: Tales of an Australian Dumbass
- Part 3 of The House Band
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Luka has a surprise for Marinette. She's getting a little sick of surprises after all the baby showers, but this one might not be so bad.
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- Part 4 of LBSC Lukanette Month Sept. 2024
- Part 4 of The House Band
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Luka hasn’t been allowed near Marinette’s boobs since shortly into her pregnancy, and he makes the mistake of telling Dingo he misses them.
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- Part 5 of The House Band
- Part 10 of The Dingo Files: Tales of an Australian Dumbass
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Luka is jetlagged as hell, barely awake, and staring at a text from Marinette telling him she’s at the hospital. With Harmony still asleep in the other room and no Marinette to be found, what else was he supposed to think?
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- Part 21 of It's a Sprint (Sometimes a Marathon)
- Part 6 of The House Band
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When Marinette’s too sick to make the chocolates for Harmony’s birthday treat bags, Luka offers to help to…some success.
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- Part 7 of The House Band
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When Marinette signed up to be Jagged Stone’s tour stylist, Luka had a teensy little clause written into her contract.
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- Part 8 of The House Band
- Part 1 of It's a Sprint (Sometimes a Marathon)
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Marinette’s day has been just a little hectic, with her assistant out and the daycare closing and Luka on the road. But it’s fine, it’s cool, she’s got this – Melody can just tag along at work, right? It’s fine. It’s not like her baby’s about to eat something questionable or flip off a cop, right? Right. Riiiight.
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- Part 9 of The House Band
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Marinette has this adorable little habit of squeaking when she’s startled, and Luka enjoys it entirely too much – especially when he’s the one startling her. Which would be fine, if he hadn’t started calling her Squeaks because of it.
Around their highly impressionable three-year-old.
Who likes to tell strangers everything.
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- Part 10 of The House Band
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Taking cold medicine is as easy as one…two…SHOT! According to Anarka Couffaine, at least.
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- Part 11 of The House Band
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Luka had planned everything for their anniversary…except the babysitter. Good thing Dingo had played a relatively harmless prank a bit back that gives him the perfect idea of how to procure one last minute.
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- Part 12 of The House Band
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Luka comes home to find Marinette scouring every book in their daughters' library, looking for anything Melody could be for Halloween except the one thing she wanted to be.
"I cannot have your child screaming her lungs out every five seconds, Luka Llewellyn Couffaine."
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- Part 8 of LBSC Lukanette Month Sept. 2024
- Part 13 of The House Band
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A morning coloring with her Papa, Uncle Dingo, and KK has Mellie realizing that boys are gwoss. Absolutely gisdusting.
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- Part 14 of The House Band
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Harmony knew if they didn’t get the gum out of Mellie’s hair before Granarchy woke up, they were gonna be in a LOT of trouble…especially if Maman and Papa got home with the twins first…
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- Part 15 of The House Band
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Luka’s only going to be away for a few weeks, but his little Songbird is tired of her papa always leaving. Luka’s suitcase has gotten surprisingly giggly lately…
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- Part 16 of The House Band
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Melody decides to
traumatize her brotherput Huey in time out.Series
- Part 17 of The House Band
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Luka knows the current pregnancy has been harder on Marinette than the last two, so now that he’s back from the road he offers to take Melody for the day to let Marinette rest. He’s forgotten Melody isn’t like Harmony, though. Melody is her Maman’s girl, not her Papa’s.
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- Part 18 of The House Band
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Life gets hard when you have four kids under five. Luka’s just trying to let Marinette sleep in a little bit and take care of the Band himself. Is that too much to ask? (…yes. Yes, it is.)
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- Part 19 of The House Band
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If Mellie’s going to marry KK, he needs to get her a ring just like her Maman’s: one with flowers and shabooey knots and everything. (Or: that time in Maternelle when KK ‘borrowed’ Marinette’s wedding ring to propose to her four-year-old daughter.)
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- Part 20 of The House Band