The midnight haired girl hit the ground with a loud thud. She winced as her body made contact with the cold stone floor of the street road. She groaned as she sat up, her baby blue eyes moving around frantically in search for the source that knocked her down to begin with.
Her light pink purse had departed from her waist and now lay on the ground a distance away. "Marinette, watch out!" A strong male voice came from behind her. And before Marinette could process what he had said, she was airborne.
Marinette's slender arms slid around the neck of her savior out of instinct. She buried her face into the strong chest of the male who carried her -finding comfort in the familiar scent of faint cologne and a weird tinge of Camembert cheese- as the pair were constantly being put under the attack of potion bottles, of all sorts of colors, being thrown at them.
"Thank you, Chat Noir. That was a close call." Marinette said, albeit slightly annoyed he hadn't let her pick up her bag where Tikki was. She could only pray her little red friend was alright. But of course, Marinette knew it was not Chat Noir's fault he had not let Marinette retrieve the pink coin bag. After all, he wasn't aware she was secretly Ladybug and that she carried her kwami in her purse, plus, he was a super hero, and his job was to protect each civilian. "Don't thank me just yet princess." Chat Noir -despite their circumstances- took the time to look down at her to give her a cute wink. "We still need to get you far and safe from here." he said as he took them to a roof top were they settled to catch their breaths.
Chat Noir took out his baton from behind his back and slid up a small screen as he pressed the call button. After a few more vain attempts, he gave an agitated sigh. "Why isn't she answering?" Chat Noir said with his tail lashing behind him in annoyance.
Marinette paled as she knew Ladybug would not answer. "Maybe Ladybug's fighting the akuma on her own at the moment?" Marinette offered nervously.
Chat Noir cast a short side glance at the petite girl. He gave a soft sigh. "She better not be, we're a team. We're supposed to help each other out." Chat Noir said out of worry. Marinette gave her kitty a fond smile. It soon disappeared as she noticed the witch themed akuma flying towards them on a broomstick.
"Ah, there you are lovely. You didn't even hear out the rest of my offer hon! And it was such a good one! I give you the love potion, and you'll have Adr-" "I don't want him to fall for me by such a low move! I don't want your love potion, Witch!" Marinette said, unconsciously getting into a fighting stance.
Chat Noir gave the pig tailed girl a shocked look, he didn't know his princess could fight. He quickly snapped out of it though, as he remembered he had a task to complete. "Sorry to interrupt this talk about love potions and what not, but I've got a princess and city to save witch will require your defeat, miss." Chat Noir said as he extended his baton and started lashing at the purple haired akuma.
Marinette inwardly groaned at her partner's pun but decided to find a way to help her partner out despite being powerless. As he and the witch began to spar, her with her magic broom and him with his baton, Marinette cart wheeled feet first into the witch's side, knocking her out of the air and making them both fall straight towards the ground a couple stories down.
Chat's eyes widened in panic as he quickly realized what was going on. He jumped over the roof's ledge, dove far down, grabbed Marinette's hand, and then extended his baton so that it latched on to the side of the building.
They soon landed safely on the ground with Chat's arm wrapped around Marinette's waist. He separated from her then grabbed her by the shoulders softly, but his expression was anything but. "What the heck were you thinking Marinette?!" You could have gotten yourself killed! Why would you risk your life for me?! I'm the one who's supposed to be the hero here, not you, the civilian who has no powers."
You have no idea, Marinette thought. " I knew you would catch me, Chaton." She faked her best I-am-sorry-for-saving-your-ungrateful-butt-and-almost-dying-in-the-process look, but they both knew she didn't mean it. Chat Noir sighed, "You really are something, Princess." he said, raking a hand through his messy blond locks.
His green irises widened as he realized the witch had disappeared with the wind, probably by using some sort of spell. "Where is she-" Chat began but was pushed to the side by a surprisingly strong pair of small hands as a potion was tossed towards them. It exploded with purple fumes behind them. "Thanks." Chat said to Marinette then stood up and quickly swerved around to face the villain.
"I just want people to be happy, sometimes you need a little witch craft to achieve that." The witch narrowly dodged Chat Noir's attacks as they moved in circles around each other. "I can tell a person's troubles just by looking into their eyes." She said looking into Chat's eyes. A creepily wide smile spread across her black lips. "Awe, what a shame. The black cat suffers from unrequited love, just like your cute little friend over there." She said tossing a potion towards Marinette, who cart wheeled away from it, once again shocking Chat Noir with her flexibility.
"Leave Marinette out of this! Your target is me!" Chat Noir came at her with his baton, attempting to hit her with it, this time much harder than before. The witch cackled loudly as she floated up into the air on her broomstick. "You, know black cats are supposed to be a witch's best friend, right?"
"Well, I'm an alley cat with no owner." Chat growled as he separated his staff into two separate parts, getting ready into a defensive stance as the witch flew in the air around him in circles.
"That little pet bell on your collar says otherwise~ Come on Chat Noir, we both know a certain lady owns your heart. I'd offer you a Love Potion as well, but I'd rather the cutie with pig tails have it." A bright red potion bottle formed above the gloved palm of the witch's hand. It became a potion bottle with a bright red substance inside it.
"Hey, honey, catch this!" She said tossing it in Marinette's direction. Marinette caught it in her hands and looked up in alarm as Chat Noir rushed towards her. "Wait, Chat, no, I don't think it's going to explode-" but her pleas fell on deaf ears as Chat Noir knocked it out of her hands and smashed it to ground. The bottle cracked, releasing it's contents, a bright red and pink gas that flew out in fumes that reached Chat's sensitive nostrils.
Marinette and the witch had acted quickly and covered their noses. Chat Noir, however, was already inhaling the sweet aroma of the gas. The pinkish clouds that surrounded Chat Noir slowly disappeared and Marinette and the akuma exchanged glances as the last of it went away, and there stood Chat Noir. Only instead of his usual cocky stance and facial expression, his tail was curling in delight as he stared at Marinette with dilated pupils and the most love struck expression seemingly stuck permanently on his face.
Oh no, Marionette thought with a huge inward groan. Chat beamed at her like he had just found the cure to every disease in the world, accomplished world peace, and found true happiness all at once. He took one giddy step towards her. Oh god, please no!
Marinette glared to her side at the witch who just stood there with a blank expression, she slowly turned her head and gulped at Marinette's icy stare. "Oops?" The akuma offered before jumping on her broom and flying away.
Marinette was soon glomped by an overly excited Chat Noir. "Marinette~!" Chat gave her a bone-crushing hug and spun her around in the air in circles. "Chat, please, stop, I can't breathe!" Marinette wheezed out as she slammed her fists on his back in hopes of him letting her go. He set her gently down on the ground and widely loosened his hug, but still held his hold gently on her forearms.
He flashed her a cute dimpled smile with an endearing look in his eyes. "How could I have been so stupid all this time to not notice you! You're so sweet, and strong, and courageous, and- oh, I just love you so much." Chat enveloped her in a warm hug.
Marinette stood there awkwardly with an annoyed expression on her face. As if it wasn't already bad enough with how much he flirted with her as Ladybug, now she had his attention as Marinette too.
She sighed knowing she had to find Tikki soon so that she could fix this situation. Poor Chat would probably be horrified once he found out he showered 'another' girl who 'wasn't' Ladybug with his attention. Marinette was only relieved it was her instead of some stranger, that would save both of them some of the trouble, and also that the akuma had decided, for whatever reason, to run away. Marinette would like to believe it was because her perfectly threatening glare scared her away, but she knew better. There was no way Hawk Moth would have let the opportunity to steal Chat Noir's miraculous slip by, especially since it was much easier now in his current state.
Something fishy was going on, but Marinette decided to try to figure things out later, right now she needed to get Tikki and her purse back and find some way to explain why the hell one of Paris's superheroes was so latched on to her like glue that he went home with her.
What would her parents say? Even worse, what would her classmates say come next morning when he would show up with her?
I didn't mean to start another story... yet here we are. I promise to update my other ones soon. ^^'
Before anyone says something, yes he will eventually love her without the need of the love potion. Most of this short story will be just me torturing these characters with troubling situations. 😜
Please inform me if there were any mistakes! I wrote this using my phone and it has auto-correct so I had to constantly correct auto-correct.