Signs

Ladrien June- Day 1

Hello and welcome to Ladrien June! I'm really excited to do this so let's go!

This prompt actually gave me hell but here I am, ready for this first day of Ladrien June. Enjoy!

Prompt: Accidental Reveal

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Adrien was in his room finishing the last of his homework for that night when he saw a flash of red outside his window. He jumped up just in time to see Ladybug land on the rooftop across from his. She stopped for a moment and he wondered what she was doing. Without thinking about it, he had grabbed a piece of paper and in big letters he wrote, 'Hey' and held it up to the window where she would be able to see it if she glanced over at him. He could tell the moment she saw his message. She looked confused for a moment before an amused smile broke out over her face and she lifted a hand to wave at him. Flipping the paper over, Adrien wrote on the other side of it. 'Everything okay?'

She gave him another dazzling smile and nodded. Adrien felt silly now. There was nothing really to say to Ladybug now and they were both just standing there awkwardly. He chewed on his lip, wondering what to do next but his thoughts were disrupted by a loud crashing that could be heard from the other side of Paris. He startled and met Ladybug's eyes. She waved goodbye to him before taking off in the direction of the sound and he breathed out a sigh and transformed himself.

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It was only a few days later when Ladybug came back. Adrien was busy digging in his mini fridge to find some camembert for Plagg when a thud against his window drew his attention. His head snapped up to look at the window and he gaped when he saw Ladybug standing on the roof opposite his, waving shyly. He figured she must have thrown something at his window to get him to look up. Shutting the fridge, he scrambled over to the window. Plagg's cheese could wait; his lady love was outside his room and was waving at him. She had deliberately gotten his attention. She wanted to see him.

He wasn't exactly sure what she was doing, or why she had wanted him to look at her. His question was answered a second later when she pulled out a pad of paper he hadn't even noticed she had and held it up to reveal the words on it, laughter in her eyes as she did so. 'Hi.'

Adrien couldn't help the grin that came to his face and he quickly ran to get his own pad of paper and write back. 'Hi.' After giving her time to see his greeting, he flipped his paper over to write another message. 'What are you doing?'

'Patrolling.'

'Any trouble?'

'No. Quiet tonight.' As he finished reading it, she held up another piece of paper. 'Better keep going. See you later?'

Adrien saw a soft smile touch her lips as he replied, 'Of course.' She gave him a little wave then gathered her paper and took off again. He sighed happily and leaned back against the window. Ladybug had come to talk to him. Him. She took time out of her patrol specially to come say hi to him. He could hardly believe it.

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Communicating by means of holding signs up became a common thing for the two of them. Ladybug had come back several more times and had stayed to talk. She sat on the rooftop across from his and he stood in his room at the window, and the two of them held up their pieces of paper and held conversations via the paper. Neither knew why they didn't just talk normally to each other, but somehow, it was easier to talk this way. They often sat for several hours just talking. He was almost surprised that no one had seemed to notice yet. But he wasn't complaining. He loved being able to talk with Ladybug. He loved that she came specially to sit and chat with him, even when there was probably a lot of other stuff she could be doing with her time. Why was she doing it? Adrien didn't know and he didn't care to question it either. It was easier that way.

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It was a couple weeks later that they ran into trouble. There had been an akuma, which wouldn't have been so bad, had he realised it earlier. But the fact was that he was at a photoshoot and hadn't known that there was an akuma until it had come barrelling into the building he was in, Ladybug right on its heels. Mostly everyone had evacuated but Adrien had stayed for a moment to tackle Ladybug out of the way of a blast by the akuma that had been a second away from hitting her. They had recovered quickly, scrambling to their feet, though Adrien would've gotten hit if Ladybug hadn't deflected it with her yoyo. "Get out of here." She had hissed, and he'd done as she'd instructed, getting out of sight before transforming and swinging back in to assist her.

It was later that night now, and she had just landed on the rooftop across from his. She looked upset. 'Are you alright?' He wrote.

He could see her frown from her spot on the roof. 'Yes but are you?'

'I'm fine.'

'You almost got hurt.' He didn't need to hear her voice to know she was upset at him.

'I'm sorry.' He held up his piece of paper with an apologetic look. He was really only sorry for worrying her. He could never be sorry for trying to protect her.

It was like she knew what he was thinking because her next message was, 'It's dangerous.'

'I know.'

He could see the frustrated look on her face. 'But you don't.' Then before he could answer, she held up the next piece of paper. 'You're not a superhero.'

Adrien couldn't help it and he found himself quickly scribbling down, 'I am though.' And holding it up before he could change his mind.

It might've been easier to simply let Ladybug vent until she felt better, but somehow he felt like he had to ease her concerns in any way he could and this was the only way he had thought of.

She didn't write anything else after that, simply staring at his piece of paper with wide eyes so he held up another two signs in succession. 'I'm sorry, I know it was supposed to stay secret.' And 'You don't need to worry about me My Lady.'

She was still for a moment before completely dropping her paper and swinging down to his window. He stepped aside to let her in and she dropped down beside him before wrapping her arms around him and burying her face in his chest. "You stupid cat." She murmured. "I was so scared for you. You just jumped in the way... the akuma was so close to hitting you too. You would've just disappeared like the others had done." Her arms tightened around him. "Please don't do that again."

He smoothed her hair out of her face and tilted her head up to look at him. "Hey, it's alright. I'm ok. It's my job to protect people from akumas." He soothed.

"But not when you're not transformed!" She burst out. "You're not invincible, Adrien. I- I couldn't stand it if I lost you." Tears quivered in her eyes and with that, she released her transformation, hiding her face back in his chest.

He pulled her closer and rested his chin on the top of her head. "You won't lose me, Marinette." He said softly. "I promise."

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I just realised right as I finished this that the reveal wasn't really accidental at all... I'll just go cry and post this anyway instead of actually following the prompt because I don't want to have to rewrite most of this.

Anyways, this was meant to be just pure fluff and blushes but it got a bit sad at the end so... yeah. Hope you enjoyed it anyways. Tomorrow's fic is a lot more of pure cuteness so you can look forwards to that. See you then!