Marinette's POV
"Marinette wake up! You're going to be late!" Tikki said
Oh no! I'm late again! This is so lame. If it wasn't for that stupid cat last night I would've gotten more sleep, I grumbled to myself as I thought back to what happened on patrol last night.
*Flashback to the night before*
No one's POV
Ladybug and Chat Noir are patrolling the streets of Paris, late at night. Today's patrol is especially long,despite it being Sunday, because of the frequent akuma attacks during the previous precaution was mandatory, Ladybug/Marinette thought to herself, as Cat Noir is filling the silence with puns and flirtatious lines. Her train of thought is suddenly derailed by the ringing of Notre Dame's large bells, signalling the that the eleventh hour has struck, and panic swept through her usually calm demeanor. She hadn't realized how long she had been "prowling the streets" as Cat humorously put it. She turned to Cat,and was unimpressed to see he was once again staring at her as if she were the most beautiful angel in all of christendom. It was about the thirtieth time this night. Cat Noir, to nobody's surprise, was once again thinking not of his duty but only of his bug-a-boo, and how the moonlight reflected off of her raven colored pigtails, and how she faintly smiled that million dollar smile whenever she glimpsed a landmark of their fair city.
This cat is going to be the death of me, Ladybug thought to herself, as the chill of the empty night air sweeps through her.
"Milady," Cat chimed "You look absolutely Purr-fect this evening, and may I say-"
"You may not, in fact" Ladybug interrupted coolly "Whatever you're about to say, I'm sure you've said before, Kitty." Ladybug, with a small ounce of pride, walks slowly away from a momentarily dumbstruck, and lovestruck Cat, before motioning for him to follow her. She didn't need to look back again, as it was as likely as the sun would rise in the next few hours that Cat was right on her heels, like a lost kitten following someone home. When he put his arm around her shoulder.
Suddenly, Cat's ears perked up, and he stiffened immediately, all humor draining from his face. Ladybug quickly caught on, as her partner is almost never this serious unless something was afoot. He silently nods to her and she follows as Cat jumps from rooftop to rooftop traveling for a mile to get to the gas station that Cat Noir knows he heard something bad happening at. They silently jump into action, with Cat Noir surveying the station's insides with Ladybug following suit, albeit at a far slower rate. Akuma's don't use fire arms, Ladybug thought to herself, It must be a regular robbery. She looks over to Cat and is impressed to see that he is in a completely professional state; all business, no jokes. Honestly, she was scared of Cat when he got like this-It was terrifying to see him change into such a badass... She jumped at her own thoughts, and shook them away. C'mon girl! She thought feverishly, There are more important things to think about! Focus! Together, the superhero duo moves silently into the main entrance, not disturbing the fragile silence that penetrated the store. Relieved to see that nobody has been shot, Ladybug sighed, and has to be tackled silently to the side by Cat so as not to be noticed by the three armed assailants who looked over at the noise. Not surprisingly, Cat was on top of her, and was subsequently knocked off for wiggling his eyebrows at her suggestively. At least he still has some sense of himself, she thought to herself, as she prepared herself for an intense battle. The suits that they wore could prevent major damage to their bodies, but that was for magical attacks used by akuma enemies, not bullets fired at hundreds of kilometers per hour. The suits would be as helpful as wet paper when stopping bullets. They would need to be careful. Cat stepped up first, and signaled Ladybug to circle around him, as he straightened up to confront the villains. Marinette heard him address them calmly, and watched him walk slowly towards them with his hands in the air. "I only want to talk, okay?" Cat claimed "This doesn't have to end badly you guys." Ladybug rolled, ducked, and navigated the tiny hallways of consumer goods, to gain a better vantage point to disarm the gun toting maniacs. Ladybug used her yoyo as a cell phone and called the police to come to their location before anything could get out of hand even though Cat Noir was handling it at the moment. There was mumbling and before they know it gunshots are going off and Ladybug hears Cat Noir grimace and yelp. Ladybug jumps into action and wraps her yo-yo string securely around the thieves and disarms them. "I didn't want to have to do that" Ladybug said to them. She looks over to see Cats left shoulder is bleeding. He was grazed by a bullet. "Are you okay kitty? She asked him, her voice dripping with concern for her partner. "Yeah, I'm fine. I should probably go to the hospital and get it checked though." Just than did they hear the whooping of the police sirens and realized that the police were here. It had only taken them 10 minutes to get there.
The police officers thanked Ladybug and Cat Noir for their service even though it wasn't related to an akuma. Cat Noir was about to jump and head to a hospital to get his wound patched up, but ladybug grabbed his tail to stop him.
"Where do you think you're going?" Ladybug asked him.
"Hospital, m'lady. My shoulder is killing me." He responded to her.
"If you do that they might find out your secret identity. Follow me, i'll take care of it for you."
It was midnight by the time they got to a safe place. AKA her own home. Hoping Cat Noir doesn't say anything about her being at a civilian's home, she still thinks she should think of an excuse in case he asks about it. They jump through her balcony window and land on her bed. Cat Noir looks around confusedly why are we at Marinettes house? He thought. "Stay here for a moment, i'm going to go get some supplies." Ladybug tells him. She gets off her bed and goes to her chaise where there is a pair of black jeans, and a black domino mask and gives them to her partner.
"I'm going to go get the first aid-kit, detransform and put those clothes and mask on so I can get a better look at your wound." She told him. It was about time for him to voice his thoughts before they do anything.
"Why are we at Marinette Dupain-Chengs house?"
"Oh, um her and I are friends. If I ever need anything like help getting injuries fixed or to recharge my Kwami on a short notice I come here. She has things for both of us for the same purpose. That's how she has those clothes. She's downstairs keeping her parents busy while we do this so we have to be quiet." She turns and leaves and once she fully leaves the room he quickly de-transforms and changes into the clothes, as fast as he can with his still slightly bleeding shoulder, that had been given to him. He hisses in pain as he moves his right shoulder. Just as he finished his struggle with putting the mask on Ladybug came back in the room with the kit. Realizing his civilian clothes are out in the open before ladybug can, he kicks them under the chaise.
"Alright, I have to clean up the blood around the wound so i'm going to need you to move your hand and to stay still in case I touch it. You will want to sit down before I do this." Ladybug instructs him. He sits on the chaise where his clothes once were. She takes a damp cloth and gently scrubs his arm and around the injury. He hisses once again due to pain.
"You're okay kitty, i'm not gonna hurt you. I'm just going to help fix your shoulder." Ladybug says softly to him. He's grateful that he has someone like her to help him unlike the cold and dreary place he calls his own home where he gets no help at all from anyone. Minutes pass before the blood is mostly cleaned up to the point where ladybug can get to work. The wound wasn't as bad as they originally thought, although with all the blood that was caked on him it's appearance did seem worse.
"There's a bullet fragment in your shoulder, and the cut isn't that bad, it's just deep." As she said this she pulled the piece out of his shoulder and immediately gave him a gauze to hold there to keep it from bleeding to much more. "I'm going to put stitches in the wound to keep it closed until it heals. I have the stitching thread but i need to sterilize the needle." She leaves once more and once she does Cat Noir, or Adrien for his civilian name, hears a voice.
"How're you holding up kid?" His Kwami, Plagg, asked him. Cat Noir (Adrien) knows that Plagg doesn't normally show concern because he's 'tough' like that.
"It hurts" He replied wincing as he slightly moved his shoulder. Before Plagg could question him further ladybug came back with the sterilized needle. Once she notices who Cat Noir is talking to she asks him if it's his Kwami. Saying yes she asks him if he's hungry and that her kwami has told her that he likes cheese. Camembert to be exact. She tells him that she will get him some after she stitches his chosen.
"This will hurt, and I need you to sit very still. If you lay against the back of the chaise" She says gently to him. He complies and lays against the back of the chaise. She tells him to move the gauze and gets right work. It takes a few minutes for her to put the stitches in. Being a designer in her civilian form gives her a steady hand, but because she's stitching a person she goes extra slow as to hurt him as least as possible while putting a needle through his skin. Once she's done she wraps it with a simple shoulder wrap and wraps it around his arm so it stays in place and he doesn't move it very much. It was 1:00 a.m by the time she finished, and could tell that they were both extremely exhausted after that night's events.
Ladybug reaches her arm out to help Cat Noir up, using his good arm. Ladybug's civilians clumsiness comes into play because she trips over something or nothing. She falls over and, trying to catch him so he doesn't fall on his bad arm, Cat Noir falls on top of her. The predicament of him falling on her has left the superhero duo shocked and stunned because: He kissed her.
It wasn't a long kiss, but it wasn't short either. As soon as he realized what was happening he scrambled to get off of her, eyes wide and shocked. Both of their faces were flushed red, but the other couldn't tell because of their masks. There was an awkward atmosphere because of the impromptu kiss.
" I-I am so sorry m'lady! I um didn't mean for that to happen at all!"
"It's not your fault kitty, I dragged you down with me when I tripped. We should probably leave and get home, assuming you have school tomorrow you should go to bed. And please be careful with your shoulder, I couldn't bear to see you get hurt again or worse." She whispered the last bit hoping he wouldn't hear her. He smiled at her, and gave her a hug. When they pulled back from the hug Ladybug immediately rolled her eyes.
"So you really do care about me M'lady! Purr-haps you might even have feelings for me?" He wiggled his eyebrows with a smirk on his lips.
"Hm! Only in your dreams kitty. We better get going now." They said their goodbyes to each other and left. Ladybug went the opposite way Cat Noir did to make it look like she was going home… even though she was already home.
"Spots off Tikki. I'm so sorry that I was transformed for so long. That darn alley-cat doesn't know how to not get hurt." Ladybug, now Marinette said to her Kwami.
"That's alright Marinette, and Cat Noir didn't MEAN to get hurt, those thieves shot him!" Tikki said in her cute voice.
"You're right Tikki. Its after 1 a.m. I should get to bed. Goodnight Tikki"
"Goodnight Marinette"
*End of Flashback*
I rush around getting ready to school so i'm not overly late. I grab my bag and go sprinting down the stairs.
"Don't forget your breakfast!" My mom stops me when i get downstairs and gives me two chocolate filled croissants.
"Thank you! Bye Maman, Bye Papa!" I barely heard my papa say bye to me because I went sprinting out the door to school. Even though it was only a five minutes away, I ran the whole way there. The exercise I get as ladybug helps keep me fit. I get to the school yard fifteen minutes before the bell is supposed to ring. I see Alya talking to Nino, and walk over to her.
"Hi Alya! I have an extra croissant, do you want it?" I asked her. Before I knew it it is snagged from my hand by none other than Nino.
"Hey! I wanted that!" Alya says angrily to him. "Anyway, I was just telling Nino what I saw and you will not believe what happened last night! I saw Ladybug and Cat Noir stop some thieves from this gas station right outside my house! Can you believe that?! I didn't see all of it because my mom told me to go back to bed. You look so tired, did you stay up all night again? Girl you need to go to sleep sooner than that!" Alya is always on my case about sleeping.
"I would have been late if I didn't run here. Do you know if Adrien is here yet? The bell will ring soon." Nino and Alya simultaneously say no until they hear a familiar voice call out to them.
"Hey guys! Sorry I'm late, Nathalie was telling me my schedule for the day."
"Hey Bro! That sucks bro, and here i was gonna ask if you wanted to chill after school. Before the group of friends knew what was coming, Nino, Alya and Marinette see a flash of long blonde hair coming towards them. "Chloe" The 3 thought. Before anyone could tell Adrien to move to escape Chloe's hug, she came from behind Adrien and made the mistake of squeezing him too tightly because Adrien lightly screamed in pain.
"Chloe get off him! Don't you see that he's in pain?!" Marinette said while Alya shoved her off Adrien.
"Ew! Don't touch me! Adrikins! Are you okay? Do I need to call Daddy to get him to take you to the hospital?
"You okay Bro? What happened?" They were all concerned for their friend when he turned ghost white. Adrien then took his white over shirt off and was left in his black striped T-shirt. At the neck of his shirt, Marinette could see where there is a shoulder wrap and freezes. Because that is the exact same wrap as she put on Cat Noir last night.
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