It took Jason three months, after their meeting to ask her out. He finally had the courage to kiss her in the middle of a movie night at her place. They had known each other for so long that the domestic feeling of their relationship became their new normal, almost having scheduled nights for where they would sleep, depending on Marinette's work and Jason's patrols.
Her work became popular so fast that less than a year after moving to Gotham, Marinette had to start looking for a studio and even thinking about hiring some employees, because she could produce everything on her own. Jason even helped by modeling most of her male designs, but because keeping low was important for the both of them, they never took pictures of faces, when posing for the brand.
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After a yearlong lease, Marinette and Jason decided to buy themselves a small place together. They were basically living together in two different apartments, so the least that would change would be avoiding the double rent. They had Tikki's luck on their side because less than a week later they had bought a three story town house in the fashion district. Marinette was so excited, the first floor was step up has a boutique, with a storage area and a studio like space where she could work on her designs and on the production of her commissions. She already saw where the front desk would be and how to arrange a private section for consultations and fittings, she would also have enough space to expose some pieces on racks or mannequins.
They decided to keep the two upper floors for themselves. The second being mostly for the kitchen, dining and living room, when the last was for the bedrooms. They had their own and two more, so they did a small office-library-reading nook and with the other a guest room, not that they had much guests, but it was the better than to have the room empty. It was still really to have it especially a year later, Jason got shot in the leg and wasn't able to sleep in the same bed has her because every movement on the mattress, made his wound hurt like hell or when Marinette was so sick and he went to sleep a couple of hours without hearing her cough or blow her nose.
It took another two years for the two young adults to finally finished setting up LadyLove's company and their new employees: three seamstress and two consultants, to be able to take the time to appreciate it. The young designer could now fully concentrate on her designs and the commissions she kept for herself, like Jagged Stone, Clara Nightingale and Audrey Bourgeois. They were even able to take a little gateway trip to Cape Cod for a week, enjoying the little bit of freedom of being away from home.
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One night, Jason was at the Manor for dinner and the animated conversation drifted to the new mystery designer LadyLove and how she could make everyone feel better in her clothes. How she made the most beautiful dresses and how her designs were for once not all for small skinny models. Tim was, of course, set on find out their identity, calling on all the members of the family their detectives instincts and the search quickly became a competition, which amused Jason, but he played along.
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Beyond Words and Oceans
FanfictionComing back to the Wayne Manor, four years after his death is not easy for Jason. Maybe finding something Alfred kept all these years, in his room, could help him reconnect with his life and find a new purpose to his work and second chance in life.
