Miraculous: Bluebell Eyes
Standard Disclaimer. You all know the drill by now.
"I'm sorry Adrien." A few words he couldn't understand followed. "I should have said something earlier." More words that he couldn't quite understand, but those eyes, those deep bluebell eyes drew him in. He reached out for her. "I don't want any regrets. I love you" and then he woke up. Adrien could feel a slight dampness on his cheeks as some tears slipped from his eyes. He dragged himself out of bed and went to the shower. He'd been having the dreams for weeks now. The first time, he only saw those beautiful deep bluebell eyes and it had been a week after the earthquake named, "the Great Cataclysm" had hit the Paris Area.
He finished his shower and got dressed for school. He rushed down the steps and out the door. He was bothered by the dream, but school called and he was going to answer that call. At the bottom of the steps was his best friend of five years, Nino, with his Girlfriend Alya.
"Hi Guys!" He called. Alya waved at him as she checked her phone.
"Hey Bro, how goes it?" Nino asked as he held his first up for their traditional fist bump.
"It goes good." Adrien replied.
"Then why are your pants on backwards?" Alya asked glancing up for her phone.
"Wait what?" Adrien's hands flew down to his crotch to check, and Alya laughed.
"You are so easy sometimes Agreste." She continued to laugh. He frowned. He hated when she did that kind of thing to him. The trio waited together to grab a bus to head to school.
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"Adrien, Audrey is going to be coming home this weekend for however long she decides to stay." Chloe stated as she sat behind him in the classroom.
"I'll make sure your room is ready." He replied with a smile.
"Thanks, I appreciate it." She remarked with a sigh of relief. She sat back in her seat at Ms. Bustier entered the room and started class. The school had been mostly okay after the Great Cataclysm. The Gymnasium was the only building that fell so they were able to continue holding classes in the main building while crews were taking away rubble and new construction could begin.
At lunch he sat with Nino, Alya , Chloe, Rose and Juleka. He and Nino always got crap from the other guys in class for hording all the girls. He just laughed it off and winked at them when they did it. Girls may have always surrounded him, but he never really found anyone that was right for him. He had no one he wanted to date. He looked at his three closest friends together and felt a great sense of relief. Alya and Chloe interrupted his thoughts with their laughter over some photos Chloe had taken.
After school Nathalie greeted him at the door with a smile. She had her hair in a loose ponytail and was dressed in a pair of jeans, a tee shirt and sneakers. He shook his head.
"Moving more furniture around?" He asked.
"Always it seems." She joked as they entered.
"Ah, Adrian, you're home. Great, we could use a strong man to help us." His mother called from her office.
"You know you can hire guys to move stuff right?" He replied as he rushed to her and hugged her.
"Why pay when I have a child who can do it for me." She mused his hair with her hand. Adrien rolled his eyes but followed her into the office to help move the furniture around. He paused looking at the stylized painting on the wall of his mother and father together. He barely remembered his father. He'd been gone for nearly a decade. The painting and some photos were all he had to help him even remember what the man looked like. He was pulled from his thoughts when his mother snapped her finger at him.
"Come on Adrien, I really need you to help with this." Emilie groaned as she tried to push a large couch.
"Have you ever considered getting smaller furniture?" He groaned as he helped her push.
"A smaller Couch would not be as comfortable for me to work on." She explained. "I have lots of scripts to go over as both actress and director."
"Yeah yeah and when they put you to sleep you want to be comfortable and not get a sore back. I get it. Then how about leaving it in one place for longer then a week."
"I'll consider it." She smirked.
"And you'll reject that consideration." He frowned. "Oh by the way, Audrey Bourgious is going to be in town again this weekend."
"Awesome. Then I can play dress up with my daughter." She laughed. He shook his head. It was times like that he wondered if his mother had wished she'd had a daughter instead of a son. Almost as if she could read his mind, she spoke.
"A daughter would never be able to help me with the furniture." She got a sly little grin on her face. "Besides you're just as fun to dress up as Chloe is."
"Seriously Mom, how old are you?" He asked.
"Now Adrien dearest son, you know better then to ask a woman her age. It's considered rude."
"So is tying up your son so you can put make-up on him with the help of his childhood friend." Emilie laughed and pulled out her phone.
"But Honey, you two looked adorable as twins in those Gothic Lolita dresses I got in Japan." She held out her phone showing that the wallpaper on the phone was him and Chloe in matching black and white Gothic Lolita style dresses, with them wearing pink wigs with ridiculously long twin tails off to the sides.
"You have that as your wallpaper?" He exclaimed stunned.
"Of course I do. I need something to remind me of my children when I'm off working." She smiled. "Wouldn't you want this picture on your phone Nathalie?" She asked.
"I already have a version on mine as well." Nathalie remarked and held up her own phone. It was a selfie shot with Adrien and Chloe dressed that way, with Nathalie in the middle and Emilie photo bombing it behind them.
"Ugh." Adrien groaned.
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"I'm sorry Adrien. I know this is selfish of me." Again there were words he couldn't understand. "I should have said something earlier." More words that he couldn't quite understand, but those eyes, those deep bluebell eyes drew him in. He saw a little more of the face, the girl those eyes belonged too. "And that sill stupid cat." He could see tears running from those beautiful eyes. "I don't want any regrets. I'm sorry for my selfishness. I love you." He noticed a darker area around her left eye, and a bright red liquid near her mouth. He still couldn't make out all her features though. He wanted to reach out to her, to comfort her, but he couldn't touch her.
Adrien woke in tears again. It was the first time he'd had the dream two nights in a row. It seemed like whatever he was dreaming about, he would continue to see more and more of each time it occurred. He was desperate to know whom those bluebell eyes that haunted him belonged to. He felt like he should know her, but he didn't know her. It was maddening. The comment about the cat just confused him, because he felt like it was one of the most important parts.
"Are you feeling okay Adrien?" Emilie asked when she saw him walk down the stairs.
"I'm fine, just a bad dream." He remarked with a sigh.
"Do you want to talk about it?" She offered a chance to be his confident. He paused and bit his lip a moment. He wanted to talk to someone, but he didn't feel it was right to do so. There was a part of him that was certain that saying anything to anyone would cause the dream to stop and he needed it to keep going until the end.
"No, It's okay. I really don't' remember it." He lied.
Once he made it to school, he noticed that Chloe was already there and she had her pink princess duffel bag with her. It was the same bag she'd carried the first time she'd run away from home and ended at his home. It meant she would be coming home with him after school. It was still a couple days before the weekend, so she was probably just dropping off some stuff.
"You changed your hair." Alya noted when she saw Chloe.
"Yeah, I felt like I needed a change. Do you like it?" Alya nodded. Adrien looked up and noted that instead of her usual ponytail, Chloe had her hair down. He never realized how long it had become as it now fell midway down her back.
"I really like it, and it makes me want to brush it." Alya spoke with a grin.
"You have your own hair Alya." Chloe remarked shaking her head.
"But you're is long and straight. Mine is wavy." As Chloe sat down, Alya started to play with her hair. "And it's so silky. Really how do you get it like this?"
"The one good thing about Audrey, she buys the best hair care products, and in bulk. I could quote, borrow some for you." She had a sly little grin on lips.
"I could be persuaded to accept some." Chloe started to go through her princess duffel bag and pulled out a few bottles.
"Actually, I was restocking my supply at Adrien's anyway, so here's a set." Adrien stopped paying attention once they started going over Chloe's hair care process.
The school day went by without any incident and the four of them headed to Adrien's house, taking a bus since Chloe had so much baggage, both literally and figuratively. Once they made their way to the door, it was flung open and Emilie rushed out to grab Chloe and swing her around. Chloe let go of all her bags, one of them flying at Nino, who barely managed to catch it.
"My precious daughter, you've returned to me!" Emile cried. "I have so many plans for us this weekend."
"Thanks Mom." Chloe replied laughing. By the time Emilie had let her down the two were a little dizzy. Emile laughed as well. "I've picked up the most beautiful dressed for you to try on for me."
"I wish my mother would grow up a little." Adrien whispered to the Alya and Nino. They both laughed at him.
"I wish my mom was that childish. Her and Sabine are so serious all the time." Alya complained.
"Yeah, being an adult mostly sucks my dude, let her have her fun."
"Yeah, but her fun often involves me." He groaned.
"Oh, you mean like their dress up games?" Alya chuckled. Adrien's good humor seemed to totally disappear. "Oh yeah, I've seen the photos. You don't really think my best friend would keep those secret from me do you?"
"CHLOE!" Adrien yelled.
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"Adrien!" The voice yelled at him, making him stop. "I'm sorry Adrien. I know this is selfish of me. I should have said something earlier." He could make out more of her face, and her blue black hair. He was certain he was looking at a bruise on her eye and blood from her lip. "And that sill stupid Cat Noir." That last phrase, that one broke the dam of tears in her eyes and allowed them to flow freely down her dirty cheeks. He knew that name was important, but he didn't know why, and he was desperate to know why. "I don't want any regrets. I'm sorry for my selfishness. I love you." She pulled away from him, confusing him again. "I have to stop him." She turned away from him.
Three days in a row now. His dream was becoming clearer. He just wished he knew who the girl was, and why his heart was beating so fast now. He looked at the time on his phone. The dream was getting longer but it's timing was getting earlier. He still had four hours before school. He laid back down looking at the ceiling. His mind was racing as much as his heart was. He found himself laying there thinking until his alarm went off for school.
It was the last day before the weekend, and Adrien just wanted to go back to bed. He'd maybe gotten three hours of sleep the night before thanks to waking up so early from that dream. He had dark circles under his eyes shuffled his way through the process of getting read for class. He didn't bother to fix his hair, he grabbed a pair of work out shorts instead of pants, and he put his tee shirt on over his miss buttoned, button up shirt.
"That's an interesting look you're trying out." Nathalie commented when she saw Adrien walk down the stairs.
"Huh?" Adrien asked finally feeling a little more aware of things. He looked down at himself. "Oh, oh wow. Did I do this myself?" He wondered aloud.
"Probably, if Emilie had done it to you, you'd be in a skirt and tights, not um, that." She pointed to his shorts. Adrien shook his head and ran up the stairs call back down to Nathalie.
"Can you make a cup of espresso for me please, Nathalie!"
"Sure thing kiddo." She replied laughing. If he could be that much of a mess in high school, she wondered how he'd be in university. That thought made her laugh all the harder.
With espresso in hand, Adrien ran out to meet with Nino and Alya so they could take the bus to school together. None of them talked very much though, which was unusual, but Adrien didn't think much of it, since even the espresso wasn't helping his waking state.
The three walked into class to find Chloe, with her pink princess duffel bag already in her set.
"You all look terrible, utterly terrible." She commented.
"You're mother is showing." Adrien replied without thinking. Audrey always spoke like that, and Chloe occasionally did, and hated herself for it. Normally he wouldn't say anything about it, but he was irritated from the lack of sleep. She looked hurt by it and he felt bad he'd said it.
"Sorry, Chloe. I'm just really tired." He explained. She nodded.
"Audrey came home earlier then we expected. I ran into he this morning. It was not pleasant."
"I'm really sorry then." Adrien added.
"Me too." Alya added.
"If you like, I could go over there and fart on your mother." Nino added, breaking the tension and allowing them to all laugh. "No seriously, I've been like super gassy since last night."
"Everyone, please settle down. I have a meeting with Mr. Damocles this period, so I'm going to let you all have a study hall. Please try to study while I'm gone. Sabrina, you're in charge of the class." Miss Bustier stated pointing to Sarina, the class president. Adrien sighed and laid his head on the table in front of him.
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"Adrien!" He heard his name yelled and he stopped running and turned around as she rushed towards him. She stopped in front of him, her bluebell eyes practically glowing in the alleyway. She had blood leaking from the corner of her mouth and from her ear. A bruise darkened the area around her left eye. Tear streaks cleared a path through the grime that dirtied her cheeks.
"I'm glad you're all right." She said softly.
"Mostly." He replied with a smile. He didn't want to mention the throbbing pain from the broken finger, the finger that once wore his ring. There had been so much destruction in the city. Buildings were on fire and or collapsed. The Eiffel tower had fallen over. He felt so responsible because he'd lost the power to help.
"I'm sorry Adrien. I know this is selfish of me. I should have said something earlier. Now with Queen Bee, Rena Rouge and Carapace gone, I I." She paused additional tears glistened in her eyes, making them stand out all the more. He'd never really noticed how beautiful her eyes were before. "And that Silly Stupid Cat Noir. I don't even know what happened to him." This time she was openly sobbing. He felt like he should be making some sort of connection with the words she was speaking, but it was like his brain was refusing to do it, like it didn't want to do it.
"If the worst happens, I don't want any regrets. I'm sorry for my selfishness, but I wanted to tell you, I love you, I've loved you for a long time." She paused and smiled a little. "Although I can't say since we met, since I really couldn't stand you at first." She laughed a little and the sound was heartbreaking, but he wasn't sure why. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't, his mouth didn't want to work. He just continued to look into those eyes until the moment he felt her lips on his. The kiss was filled with a desperate passion and didn't last long enough.
"I'm the only one left. I have to stop him." She turned from him and started to run down the alley. He could see a slight limp as she did so. He couldn't make out what she'd said next, but suddenly he saw her clothing change into a tight red suit with black spots.
"Ladybug?" He questioned softly before his eyes went wide. He rushed after her, reaching for her and yelled…
"MARINETTE!" He screamed as he woke up. . . in the middle of study hall. He glanced around at his classmates and they were all staring at him. A number of the girls looked almost heartbroken. It was like they understood the loss he'd felt, the anguish in his voice as he woke up. He took a deep breath as he turned to look at Chloe and Alya. They both had tears streaming down their cheeks, reminding him of the tears from those bluebell eyes in his dream. He gulped as he heard the little hiccup sound that Chloe always made just before she started sobbing. Once she started, Alya couldn't hold back her own sobs and soon joined Chloe in weeping sobs. The pair turned to each other and embraced each other as they cried. The rest of the class looked stunned and confused, but finally one voice spoke up.
"Um Adrien, who's Marinette?" Kim asked.
To be Continued?
Notes:
So normally when I write a longer story, I finish it before I post it. I'm doing something different this time. I'm posting the first part as I finished it, and I'm working on the second part. My plan is to have chapters for Adrien, Chloe, Alya, Nino and Emilie. If I do it right, at that point, the entire mystery of what happened should be clear.
Reviews appreciated and in this case, might help get my butt into gear to write the chapters. :D
Peace and Love.
