Night Night

'Shit!' Marinette thought as she looked over at Chat Noir in Sandman's grip. Thinking fast, she used her Yo-Yo to swing onto his back and distract him, allowing Chat to escape. Gasping with effort, she dodged a blast of sleeping powder that he sent her way. She HAD to get his nightcap in order to destroy the akuma.

"Lucky Charm!", she cried , throwing up her Yo-Yo. Once the pink light faded, a coil of rope that was red with black polka dots fell down. Finally! Something that made sense!

Quickly, she used her Yo-Yo to scale up the 30ft man and the rope to tie his hands up.

"Yess!" Go Ladybug! Go!" Shouted Nino who was watching from afar. 'No, no, no' thought Marinette in a panic, but it was too late, Sandman had noticed Ladybug scaling him and growled.

As she grabbed his nightcap and hopped down, she was hit with the sleeping powder and with the last of her effort, she ripped it and caught the akuma. With her vision fading, she muttered, "Miraculous Ladybug…" and threw the rope up. She took a deep breath and passed out.

A very bruised Chat Noir watched in horror as his Lady risked herself for him ended up passing out. Gasping with effort, he stumbled over to her and saw that she only had two minutes left. He picked her up bridal style and used his pole to carry her to safety. As he was running to the hospital, she de-transformed with a flash of light. He looked down to see who his Lady was, his sassy, quick-witted smart beautiful lady was- wait, Marinette? That doesn't make sense.

'Oh well,' he thought, 'I'll have to discuss this with her once she's awake.

Hours later Adrian sat in the hospital waiting room, waiting for her to wake up.

"Mister and Mrs Dupain-Cheng? Miss Dupain-Cheng is awake now. You can go see her if you choose."

The couple nodded to him and he stood up, Alya and Nino hot on his heels. When they got into her room, Adrian asked, "Are you OK, Marinette?"

"Yeah," she replied "Just a bit sore-"

"Oh, who cares!" Alya interrupts, "You have some serious explaining to do!"

'Uh oh,' thought Adrian as he stealthily backed out of the room.

"OH NO YOU DON'T AGRESTE! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME!" Marinette desperately screeched as Alya peppered her with questions.

Later that night as Marinette was getting ready to sleep, Adrian sheepishly wandered in.

"Hey , I'm really sorry about leaving you to deal with them on your own," he said, rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment, "I guess I was kind of afraid of what you'd think. By the way, I've been meaning to ask, how did you know it was me?''

"It's alright, Adrian. It was pretty simple, actually. All it took was the nurse telling me it had been you dropping me off here, and me remembering that Chat had carried me here. It didn't take me too long to connect the dots after that…"

"OK," he said, the long, awkward words stretching out in the silence. "So that leaves me with one more question... How did Alya know about you? Did she see you? " Adrian questioned once more, rather tensely though.

"Yeah, she saw you carrying me last night and wanted an interview, but she saw me de-transform instead… she was mad that I didn't tell her."

"..." they were both silent for a beat.

" So, I guess we have to talk about Us." Adrien said.

"I guess"

" It would be purrfect if you would take this kitty on a date…" Adrien said with a smirk.

"Oh Kitty," Marinette sighed