Hello once more! Some background with this, I know we've had a Valentines day Episode but I had come up with this before and just haven't had time to write it out. I do now and instead of making this a one shot as I had intended, I decided to make this a chaptered fic. I hope you all enjoy.
Disclaimer I do not own any of the characters or original works, just this idea and the writing.
Cat Noir would like to think he had amazing patience, he really would given some of the crazy villains he's faced alongside Ladybug but the situation he was currently trapped in was slowly whittling that patience down to nonexistence. Sure the fighting had been easy, the villain hadn't been all that powerful but he was fast and he kept dodging the super hero duo at every corner before they'd managed to corner him in a new building complex and both were running out of time for how much longer their transformations were going to last.
The mayor had arrived shortly after that, coming into congratulate and thank them for their service, which normally Cat would not mind under better circumstances but these were not better circumstances. Ladybug was busy still making sure the victim of the akuma was alright, he could just see where they were from his peripheral and he was worried she wasn't keeping an eye on her time. He also wanted to give the lovely lady something as well.
Valentine's Day had snuck upon Paris and he wanted to give his lady something special, something that explained his feelings in total. All he could think to do was write a letter though, but he was giving it his all and putting his heart on the line.
What he hadn't expected was getting his heart broken in quite the way it would.
"Bye-bye butterfly." Ladybug smiled, watching the white creature flutter off to who knows where now that it had been cleansed. She gave a sigh, this villain hadn't been tough but he was fast and kept dodging her and Cat Noir at every corner they'd trapped him in. It took quite the odd trick of conveniently spilled tar to finally catch him and get the akuma, They were lucky this time, her Miraculous Cure didn't have much to clean up and once they had caught their villain he had been easy to subdue.
The heroine looked to Hawk Moth's newest victim, and smiled as he slowly regained his senses. "Are you alright?" The question caused the boy to blink, before he looked at her with awe.
"Y-you're Ladybug! The Ladybug!" Marinette raised a brow at that, so he was a Ladybug fan. Oh well she met many of those, and seeing as he was just de-akumed she could indulge him a little bit. "Yes I am. I take it you're a fan?"
Furious nodding from the young man, and he scrambled to find something and making a triumphant noise when he produced a pen and a news clipping with her on it. "W-would you mind s-signing it?"
"Not at all." She smiled before taking the paper and pen, writing a small message and signing her mark and returning it to the boy.
"Oh wow thank you!" He exclaimed, holding the paper with awe and reverence before looking down at the ground and shyly "And well for saving me."
Ladybug opens her mouth to respond, to say it was no big deal, but the words die in her throat as the boy suddenly leans over and gives her a quick, chaste kiss on the cheek before pulling back and looking extremely embarrassed and flustered.
She gives him a look, ready to reprimand him for the action but a gasp, and the sound of footsteps once again causes her to stop, and oddly enough her heart to feel like it was encased in ice.
She rushed out from behind the tarp, hand reached out as she tried to call out to her partner. She was too slow though, and all she had gotten to see was Cat's tail as he jumped out of one the windows. She wanted to give chase, but her miraculous was running out of power, she had no choice but to leave the scene and hope that she could explain it all to Cat next time she saw him.
Adrien was being a little ridiculous, he knew that, running away from the warehouse before he'd even talking to Ladybug or investigating it fully. Did she know the akumatized person? Were they close? They had to be, seeing as they had been kissing. Well it certainly looked like kissing from Adrien's position.
He felt the heat of tears building up behind his eyes, and he did not want to get caught crying by the general public of Paris seeing one of their heroes break down crying, that would do no good for anyone's moral. So he quickly ducked into a darkened alley way, pressing his back against one of the walls and taking quick harsh breaths, if they were caused by his run or if it was a prelude to crying he couldn't say. A part of Adrien's mind was telling him to undo the transformation, the same parting reminding him that he was being irrational and letting his emotions get the best of him, but that part of his mind was blocked by a haze and sounded so distance as a million other thoughts were racing through his head.
He pulled out the note from his pocket, unfolding it gently and staring at it sadly, the words blurring into an unrecognizable mess as his tears built up and slowly started to fall down onto the paper. Everything he felt for Ladybug was on that paper, he'd worked hard to find a way to articulate his feelings the best possible way he could. Every ounce of his love for her, from light admiration he'd felt when they had first met that had grown into something more as they spent more and more time together as a time. Most importantly though, he had put in just how grateful he was to her, to this beautiful, amazing, talented, heroic individual who took him as he really wanted to be and never pushed him away, and let him be him for the first time in his life. Sure he had friends like Nino, but he still had to be polite and quiet and reserved because that was expected of him, but as Cat Noir he got to be freer than he'd ever been in his life and he got to be that with her and she'd never shunned him or acted like it was wrong of him to act this way. He knew he'd never be able to properly thank her or tell her, but god if he didn't try with this note. Though now it seems to have been all for naught, she had another and now all he could really hope for was that his reaction hadn't caused her to hate him.
So lost in his thoughts he didn't notice the little things going on around him, not the noise of people walking through the illuminated outlet of the alley, not of his ring beeping in further warning that his time was almost up as Cat Noir for now, and certainly not a little black butterfly that was flittering ever closer to him.
Hawk Moth couldn't believe his luck, not only would have two chances in one day for a strong akuma to assist him in his attempts to get the miraculous stones, that would have been a stroke of luck in its own right but considering whom the new victim would be?
Hawk Moth could not have stopped the laugh from leaving him if he had tried, it was all too perfect. This would be his best akuma yet, and if he put a little more power into this butterfly, well that was just insurance that his plan would work after all.
Adrien's thoughts had only cleared a little due to a somewhat panicky feeling starting to form in him. He knew it wasn't from him, but he quickly figured out it was from Plagg, though he couldn't find out why. Not until he saw one of the sources of his daily problems suddenly land on his note, barely having time for a gasp to escape him as it sank into the paper and another presence, this time with a voice to it, to make itself known in his mind.
"Well, well now you're one person I hadn't expected to ever have the pleasure to offer my assistance to Cat Noir." Hawk Moth's voice reverberated deep in Adrien's mind, blocking out Plagg and leaving only the two of them. Thankfully he didn't learn Adrien's true identity from the invasion.
"Well if your help being offered I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to decline." Adrien snapped sardonically, hands gripping the not tighter "So as the Lady would say 'Bye-bye butterfly.'"
"Now, now no need to be snippy." Hawk Moth's tone is condescending, as if he were talking to his young child before they threw a tantrum. He lets out a sigh before his tone turns neutral "Heartbreak is painful isn't it? It hurts to see your sweetheart in the arms of another, that grief is all consuming and it needs an outlet." One could practically hear the smirk in his voice as he added on "I can give you that, all you have to do is accept my offer."
"And steal Ladybug's Miraculous?" Adrien's voice is tense, he wishes he could feel Plagg and have his support at the moment but he held strong "Let me rethink, hmmmmm sorry it's still no."
"Don't you ever wonder why your powers are bad luck and nothing but destruction?" The question is abrupt, but before Adrien can make a retort the enigmatic villain carried on "Even your look, do you really think that looks like a hero's? You can't even cure my butterflies like Ladybug can. You dear boy were never meant to be a hero, you're meant to act from the shadows at best, and at worst you're a force of destruction and evil. Now what would Ladybug ever see in someone like you? Someone her total opposite, who can do no good on his own, and who clearly can't read the signs? You can't be good Cat Noir, but with my help at least your pain will be lessened."
Whatever Adrien was going to say before were stuck in his throat, green eyes widening in shock and he's left gapping and trying to come up with anything to prove Hawk Moth was wrong. He couldn't though, what if Hawk Moth was right? What if he and Plagg were meant only to do evil or to only be in the shadows? He couldn't find an answer, and no matter how much he wanted Plagg to ask him, even if the answer he would get would be sarcastic, the kwami was out of his reach. He was alone, once more and this time in a much worse situation.
Hawk Moth chuckled, before asking "So this is the last time I'll offer my help, will you take it Cat Noir?"
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