a cluke slowburn celebrity/bodyguard au.

clementine and her adoptive father lee are both actors, and rather famous ones at that. while lee isn’t very dedicated to the celebrity life, as he’s very invested in his teaching career, clementine is one hundred percent ready to dedicate herself to being a movie star — or, at least, she thought she was.

after two years of being in the spotlight, from ages nine to eleven, clem figures out that there’s a lot of things about being famous that they don’t tell you. her job isn’t only stressful on its own, what with all of the scheduling and rehearsing and shooting taking away from what would otherwise be time she would be spending just being a normal kid, but being a girl on top of that gets her quite a few creeps looking for a bit more than an autograph. seeing no better option, lee decides to hire a bodyguard for his daughter — a young man named luke.

at first, clem is cold to her guardian. she insists that she can take care of herself, and doesn’t need someone else to protect her, even if on the inside, she knows she’s happy to have someone there to watch her back when her father can’t. not only is luke getting paid for this, but he is genuinely interested in clementine as a person, so he deals with the girl’s attitude towards him without letting his friendliness falter.

eventually, clementine starts to warm up to her cheerful protector, and the two slowly build a personal relationship that’s a lot more than professional — and, eventually, a lot more than platonic, too.