Summary:

During an Akumatized villains rampage, Marinette gets critically injured protecting Queen Bee, With Chloe's Miraculous wearing off, Both Chloe and Marinette are shoved into a kitchen freezer, locked and forced to wait for any kind of help.

With Marinette slipping in and out of consciousness in her arms, Chloe is forced to rethink everything she's done in her life up until now.

Warning?

This fic will contain a bit of violence, issues with mental health (anxiety, PTSD, depression), also I may type up smut, not now, (this is a slowburn) but later on.

Genre:

Angst, Hurt / Comfort, Enemies, Friends to Lovers


Chapter: Unpropitious

She's afraid and for once, not for herself. But for the shaking girl in her arms. The trembling, injured girl, eyes blinking constantly as if she was trying to stay awake.

"Dupain-", She feels her voice tremble, her pink lips quivering, her vision starts getting cloudy, "...Mari...nette…", Tears finally spill, rolling down her rosy bruised cheeks, she tries to swallow that thick knot that seemed to be lodged in her throat, she felt her chest tighten, she felt utterly helpless. "...M-Marinette...st-stay awake, please…", she's afraid, afraid that this, was the last time she'd ever speak to Marinette, she knew that she could be dramatic about things at times, but this...no, she saw the damage Marinette took in her stead. The way Marinette's body had hit the wall had disturbed her, and that...blood curdling scream the girl had released, it sent chills down her spine. She felt sick.

Marinette's entire body was shaking, her breaths were uneven, it was clear she was having trouble breathing by all the short huffs and puffs she was trying to take in. It was cold, too cold, Chloe was trying to keep the girl as warm as possible, taking her sweater off and covering Marinette with it, she tried to not stare at the odd angle the girl's injured arm was in, she was trying to be as gentle as possible. After that akumatized monster just threw them both into the kitchen walk in freezer, she slowly and carefully repositioned the ravenette's body, pulling her into herself, so that she could hold her in an attempt to keep her warm, but it wasn't enough, so the sweater she wore, she chose to cover Marinette with.

Chloe was always seen as some selfish pompous brat, and for a time everyone was right, she only cared for herself. But that was before, things changed, she changed, of course she was capable of change, Ladybug, and Chat Noir appeared in Paris, and she wanted to be like them, so she tried to be a better person, and slowly but surely she was changing, and the change came a little faster when she was given the Bee miraculous.

She wanted to be a hero, she wanted to be like her idol, Ladybug.

But she failed. Instead of protecting Civilians, a civilian got hurt protecting her. And because of her failure, she almost lost the Miraculous, and someone she's practically grown up with, is laying broken, defenseless and slipping in and out of consciousness in her arms, all because she couldn't step up, she wasn't as strong as Ladybug or Rena…

"I'm so sorry", Chloe looked down to see the side of Marinette's bruised face, blue eyes blinking every few seconds, long lashes glistening with tears that were slowly but surely freezing into light frost and Pink lips trembling weakly. Chloe felt another wave of fresh tears rolling down her cheeks, she screwed her eyes shut she could feel her face growing numb, so numb it hurt. It'd been almost 20 minutes, it was worrying her, scaring her. And the temperature of this cold metal room they were thrown into was below zero...anything below zero was to be feared, especially if you don't have anything to keep you warm. She felt a headache coming on, she opened her eyes to find Marinette slowly closing her own, "Marinette!", Chloe half yelled, her heart racing in her chest, she could see how weak Marinette was, the way Marinette's eyes dulled. "St-Stay awake, please, Just...Please, please-", Chloe clenched her jaw tightly, she began to hug the teen tighter, wanting to warm her up. Every movement she made, she could feel her body burning due to the dwindling temperature, it was too cold, and she wasn't sure they could last any longer, she couldn't feel her face anymore, she felt her body getting warmer and warmer, and she knew...hypothermia was already kicking in.

"C-C-Chloe…", Marinette's voice was shaky and faint, her body was slowly starting to stop its trembling. "I...t's...kay…"

Chole hugged Marinette closer, she whimpered apologies, the teen's head was tucked under her chin. The girl she argued with on the daily was here, in her arms, injured to god knows what extent, She couldn't help but feel this crushing sadness building inside of her. "Please...don't…"

And just as Chloe was losing hope, the door to the freezer was disintegrated.

and Two loud gasps came.

"CHLOE! MARINETTE!", Both Cat Noir and Carapace yelled in sync, the shock in their tone was raw.

and real.

Chloe gave the two boys a weak look, and spoke, "Marinette...needs help...she was hurt really badly…", Chloe was visibly shaking. "You can't move her, you might hurt her more...get medics…", Chloe was trying to speak as clear as she could, but her time in the cold room made it so that she couldn't feel her face and her lips.

Chat looked hurt, but acted quickly, he told Carapace to stay with them until he came back with help. And Carapace stood behind, his facial expression spoke volumes about how he felt.

"H-Hang in...there, Mari…", She said weakly, her lips quivering due to the cold, she slowly and gently rubbed the ravenette's uninjured side, trying to warm her up.

"Hang in there guys, help's coming", Carapace spoke, he wore a heavy frown, his fists were tightly balled up.

And just as The hero spoke, Chat came with a few men.

She felt relief, gratitude...and she started to cry again. She released Marinette when two men came into the walk in, they carefully placed the girl onto a stretcher, the men then backed out of the freezer and quickly made their way to the elevator.

Then two more men came in for Chloe, the stretcher laid on the floor, the men helped her onto the it, she sighed out, tears now rolling down the sides of her head as she was lifted out of the room on the stretcher.

Chat and Carapace both began to back away, Chat was reluctant to leave, But he had used his cataclysm, so he had no choice but to leave Chloe's side.


Alya sighed deeply, this whole field trip thing went completely sideways, here she was standing outside of the Le Grand Paris hotel. It was supposed to be a basic work day experience at the hotel, but it didn't work out and before she knew it, she was separated from Marinette and Nino, it got too messy too fast.

Chat Showed up, Chloe resurfaced as Queen Bee and her boyfriend also showed up as A hero. They fought together, and lost together.

Ladybug never showed up, which prompted them to fight however they could, and before they knew it, they were all se-

And just as Alya was lost in thought, among the voices that called out for her superhero persona, she heard the names of two people she knew.

"Oh my god! Marinette!", came Alix's voice.

"Is that Ms. Chloé Bourgeois!?", a few news reporters spoke among each other.

Alya turned to the entrance of the hotel and found a heart wrenching sight.

"M-Mari-", and as she was about to run up to the men rolling Marinette's unconscious form towards the ambulance, a hand was on her shoulder, she turned and found Carapace looking at her with a sad expression. She felt her chest tighten as she turned again to look at her battered friend, a yellow sweater was draped over the teen's chest and arms. An oxygen mask over the ravenette's face.

"Chloe dear!", came that familiar voice, one many of the Paris residence knew.

Chloe didn't respond to anything, she remained still, looking up, tears rolling down the sides of her face, this, many saw, including everyone in their class.

Everyone saw The two girls get rolled out into the ambulance cars and taken away.

There would be many questions, questions, Chloe didn't want to be on the responding end of


This fic is also available on Ao3!

I decided to cross-post the fic to share it with more people, please mind the typos.

This is a Chloe/Marinette fic, a little bit of Past Alya/Marinette. Don't like it, don't read any further, thank you.