Before I start, I just wanted to point out (1), Certitude has not been discontinued and will be updated next week, (2) this story was inspired by flamefairyx777's story 'Thank You Nashi', if you guys like this story or the anime Fairy Tail, you should really check it out, (3) I don't own Miraculous Ladybug (I'm not blessed enough for that unfortunately), and (4) my friend who I was talking to on the phone while I was typing this and I literally argued for 5 minutes on whether all the ages and numbers I used I made make sense… don't worry, she approves.
Ladybug nervously sat detransformed in a red dress with black poka-dots with a regular ladybug mask on in an old run down abandoned building as she waited for Chat to arrive. This place had been a meeting point for the superheroes to meet before and after patrols and akuma fights.
She buried her face in her hands thinking about the dumb bet she lost. She bet she would be able to locate the object the next akuma was hiding in first. She was pretty confident considering she was usually the one to find the butterflies hiding spots with ease. However, when Vincent, a photographer that typically takes photos for Adrien's photoshoots got akumatized during a session, Chat seemed to have the upper hand.
Ladybug fiddled with her dress. Because she lost the bet she was forced to go on a date with Chat. Since they couldn't do as their superhero selves without causing a commotion, Marinette wore her dress with sunglasses while Chat wore a black T-shirt, leather pants, and similar sunglasses.
She would never admit it but the time she spent with Chat today was one of the most fun and light hearted moments of her entire life. Also, spending the day with him made herself more and more aware of her growing feelings for him.
Happiness grew inside her when she noticed a blonde boy wearing all black and a black mask entering the room from the corner of her eyes. She turned to him grinning widely. "So I guess this date hasn't been a complete disaster… what did you want to do again?"
He beamed, extending a hand to her she gratefully took as he led her to the roof.
"What are we doing here?" Ladybug asked as she sat next to Chat who was looking up at the sky.
"Stargazing." Was the only thing he muttered not bothering to glance at her confused expression. Ladybug sighed and looked up in defeat.
After a moment of silence Ladybug turned to Chat. "The sky is beautiful and all… but what are we doing?"
Chat sighed slightly. "My mother used to always make me tag along with her as she stargazed. I used to hate it considering I had to sit still, quiet, and look up at the sky pointlessly, but after she… passed, I realized how relaxing this is." Ladybug turned to the twinkling stars again, letting him continue. "My mom always asked me about my day and what I wanted to do when I got older under the stars. It made me think about my future a lot." He finally turned to gaze at her. "Like with us, I think about our future a lot M'lady." Chat tensed as he carefully placed a hand on one of hers but eased up when she didn't pull away. She finally looked at him again, allowing him notice the slight blush on her cheeks.
"That's very sweet Chat," she looked down thoughtfully "I think about our future a lot too to be completely honest." He gave her a 'go on' look so she continued. "I feel this everyday we're getting closer and closer, and I couldn't be happier since it's with you…" His staring made Ladybug squeak, her inner Marinette showing as she looked back at the sky in a failed attempt to hide her blush from him.
Interlocking her fingers with the fingers that still laid on her hand she smiled. "I love this time we spend together… because whenever I'm with you… I'm feline good!" Chat froze processing her words before bursting into laughter, her soon following suit.
"M-M'lady… you've got to be KITTEN me right now!"
They continued laughing until they fell into a comfortable silence where they enjoyed each other's company. Chat stared into Ladybug's eyes smiling softly causing her to smile back in return. Neither of them were sure who leaned in first but before they knew it the gap between their faces closed and they were kissing passionately.
To deepen the kiss Chat slowly put his arms around Ladybug's waist and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Feeling a bit more confident Chat broke the kiss and started trailing small kisses down his lady's neck. Blushing slightly when he heard her soft moans he kissed her lips again and cupped one of her breasts with his hands. He was surprised when she broke the kiss smiling brightly at him and removed her dress letting only her lacey red bra and underwater. "L-ladybug… what are you…?" She silenced him with a kiss as she tugged at his shirt.
Chat quickly obliged to her silent request, butterflies filling his stomach as he kissed her again and found his fingers detaching her bra and removing his pants.
Pushing her down slowly Chat quickly moved on top of her and gazed at her body. Suddenly feeling bashful being looked at the way she was, Ladybug tried to cover herself up but Chat chuckled pushing her arms away. "You look purrrfect bugaboo, please don't try to hide." She laughed lightly rolling her eyes as she wrapped her arms around his neck to pull him down for more kisses. She felt herself flush all the way up to her ears as she felt him removing both her and his undergarments. Breaking the kiss Chat gave her one cautious look.
"A-are you sure we should be doing t-this? W-we can stop if you wan-" His words dyed in his throat at her giggles. "Where has your big brave flirt façade gone Chaton? Don't tell me you're actually a scaredy-kitty," her eyes softened. "Yes, I'm sure. I want this Chat."
Hearing her words made his heart swell up with many different emotions. Before his brain could reason with his heart's desires he-
Marinette shrieked as her eyes snapped open. She sighed as she recalled that fateful day; it was still hard to believe after that day that occurred almost 10 years ago, not only has her best friend/long time crush Adrien Agreste moved to America for the good of his father's company but her Chat, the person who she finally realized loved unconditionally just as he did her left with barely any trace.
Trying to rid herself of these depressing thoughts Marinette decided to focus on the present, on the blue-bell eyed blonde haired girl who sat on her chest, smiling down at her. "Good morning sunshine," Marinette yawned while sitting up and ruffled the 8 year old's messy hair. Said girl giggled.
"Mommy, school starts in 30 minutes; you have to get up so we can make breakfast or else I'll be late again!" The girl pouted at her mother. The 28 year old scooted towards the edge of her bed, letting her legs swing at the edge of it and looked back at her daughter who was already in her uniform. "Go on downstairs and wait in the kitchen, I'll be ready soon." The little girl nodded and climbed off the bed, her knotted blonde curls bouncing as she did so.
"Wait a second Emma!" A red and black creature that was now woken up flew over to the kid who was grabbing the doorknob, a comb in hand.
"Thanks Tikki!" Emma grinned as Tikki combed her hair to comb out the disorganized curls in the girl's mid-back long hair.
Marinette smiled as she grabbed her towel and made her way to the bathroom. After a quick toast, scrambled eggs, and strawberry breakfast, Marinette quickly dropped her daughter off to school. The night before she finished gathering all the necessary paperwork for the buyer of the house she was in charge of so today's work day would probably run smoothly. She had a feeling this was going to be a good day.
"This is not going to be a good day." Marinette thought as she picked up her daughter after school and held her hand as they walked to the car. "Emma, your teacher and I had a lovely conversation about you disrupting the class… again."
Emma laughed awkwardly. "Ha… did you? Sooooo how was work mommy?"
"Emma," Marinette said lowly, not in the mood. "What. Did. You. Do. This. Time."
"Well… Amber accidentally knocked her open water bottle off the table and made a mess on the floor."
"And?" Tikki crossed her small arms as she peeked her head from Marinette's purse.
Blushing slightly Emma looked down at her fingers she was twiddling. "I made a joke on how she better get some paper towels and roll with it."
Marinette and Tikki both groaned.
"Amber thought it was funny but I don't think Mme. Jacques liked what I said very much. She asked me if I was done so I responded, not really, I have another paper joke but I wasn't going to say it because it was pretty tearable."
"There's more isn't there?" Marinette asked earning a nod from her daughter.
"Mme. Jacques looked really mad so I asked her if she was okay. She didn't answer so I turned to Amber and whispered water's her problem?"
Marinette coughed to suppress her laughter, she really shouldn't encourage this behavior while Tikki shook her small head.
"Everyone at my table laughed and I guess Mme. Jacques heard me so that's why she called you… I'm sorry mommy," Emma looked at her feet.
Marinette smiled sadly patting Emma's head. "It's fine Emma, you just need to learn to keep your jokes to yourself." Emma nodded slowly, confused by her mother shift in mood. Noticing Emma's reaction Marinette forced a smile and gestured to the car. "Let's go home so we can make you a light snack and then get you conditioned for gymnastics Emme." As Emma nodded and trotted towards the car Marinette let her features fall back into a frown. Tikki looked up at Marinette. "Marinette… are you okay?"
Marinette bobbed her head and closed her purse, not bothering to force another smile. "Emma acts just like him…"
In the evening Emma was laying on her bed in her baby purple colored room coloring in a page of her coloring book. Marinette was making dinner and said it was going to be a surprise so Emma couldn't help. But Emma was smart enough to know it was her mother's way of saying she wasn't big enough to make something as grand as dinner.
Emma hummed as she was finishing up coloring Moana's dress. She smiled. "Almost do-" "AAAAAAHHHHH!" Emma leaped up as she heard a loud thud and her mother's scream from downstairs. Emma froze trying to even out her staggered breathing as she tiptoed towards the door.
She pressed her ear against her bedroom door opting to listen for more sounds before she went downstairs to investigate. When she was met with silence Emma debating against heading downstairs and hiding in her closet instead. She sucked in a deep breathe. "She's my mommy… I have to see if she's okay, even if she just burned her hand or something."
Emma grabbed the door knob and slowly turned it. "Mom's probably fine, she must've dropped the pot she was…" Emma gasped in surprise as her bedroom door swung opened. She sucked in a breath to scream but she was quickly scooped up off the floor with her mouth covered. Emma squirmed and twisted in her captor's gasp letting out muffled screams to try and let either her mom or Tikki know she was in danger.
"Emma!" the person spoke in a hushed tone. "Emma stop fighting me!" Emma's eyes widened and quickly stopped moving as she recognized Marinette's voice.
When she felt Emma's body go limp, Marinette put her down and squatted to Emma's height to give her a quick hug. As the hug broke Emma felt horrified as she looked at her mother whose hair that had earlier been in a tight ponytail fell messily on her shoulders, lip was red and swollen, and face was red.
"Momm-"
"Not now Emma," Marinette shushed her as she quickly rushed towards Emma's schoolbag and emptied it out while Tikki locked the door.
"Come out Ladybug," Emma shivered as she heard the sickly mocking voice from down the hallway and turned back to her mother and Tikki who were shoving clothes and food into the bag. When they were down Marinette rushed to Emma forcing her to put on her bag and a jacket and placed an open earring box in her hands.
Marinette crouched down to Emma's height again and held her shoulders. Emma felt tears sting her eyes as her mother began to silently cry.
"E-Emma…" She breathed out shakily. "You have to run away from here as fast as you can…"
Emma blinked warily. "What do you mean? What's happening? Aren't you coming with me?"
Marinette shook her head sadly. "N-no sweetie… I can't go, you have to go to Auntie Alya."
Emma gawked at her mother, tears threatening to fall. "Auntie Alya?! She lives like halfway across Paris! I can't get there on my own! I may not know what's happening… but I can't leave without you mommy!"
Marinette sighed heavily as gave Emma a stern look. "You HAVE to go by yourself, if I try to leave with you, we will be followed and you will be captured with me, at least this way you'll have a chance…" Marinette's words trailed off as she heard noise from outside Emma's door.
"LADYBUG!" Emma yelped at the person and hugged her mom.
"Who is that and why are they after you mommy?" Marinette sighed again as she pushed Emma away so she could look at her.
"Remember how mommy has magical earrings?" Emma nodded. "Well the bad man I told you about a long time ago is back and he's sending people to take them from me."
"W-why don't you just give them up? Wouldn't that solve every-"
"NO!" Marinette exclaimed. "Emma, if that man gets my miraculous, he can use my earrings for evil and put the whole world in danger!" Emma gulped as Marinette quickly ripped off her earrings making Tikki disappear.
"Mommy…?" Marinette ignored her as she put the black earrings in the box and put it in Emma's bag.
"Listen closely Emma," Marinette said hurriedly as banging came from the bedroom door. "Hide behind your clothes in your closet and don't come out until it is COMPLETELY silent, no matter what you hear. Once it is, use this money to buy a ticket for the bus we usually take to Auntie Alya's. When you see her ask for her help and tell her I've been kidnapped by Hawkmoth." Marinette handed the girl 500 euros and pushed her towards the closet. "Don't EVER put on the earrings or else its magic will give your location away!" Marinette said as Emma climbed on some boxes in her closet to blend in with the clothes. "And if you can… you need to find your daddy, you have to find Chat Noir."
As she closed the door Marinette smiled softly. "I love you Emma." She whispered using her hair to cover her empty earlobes.
Emma sat down and hugged her knees as heard her door being blown open and her mom yelling words she that would result in the worst punishment in her life if she repeated.
She buried her face in her knees as she listened to things being thrown at someone but then her mother's ear piercing scream. Emma stifled her tears to the best of her ability as she tried to drown out the sounds of her surroundings.
After 5 painful minutes of silence Emma peeked out her closet looking at her completely ruined room. She wiped her tears as she creeped to her upside down vanity and stuffed her money in her bag, along with some hair ties, a brush, her tablet and its charger, and her favorite stuffed black cat plushie her mom made for her when she was a baby. As she snuck to her door she looked back at her dresser. "It feels something that used to be there is missing… oh well."
Emma quietly opened her door and felt disgusted as she saw the rest of the house was about 100 times worse than her room. After she tip toed down the stairs she made a run out the back door, using the darkness of the night to conceal her.
Unknown to her, she just barely missed crossing paths with a man in a purple and black suit glaring at a broken picture frame holding a tattered picture of Marinette holding a small cheerful blonde girl.
Emma stirred in her sleep as she felt someone tapping on her. "Mom?" She yawned rubbing her eyes. She frowned as she looked up, locking eyes with a train conductor who confirmed the events she's been through wasn't just a terrible dream.
"This is the last stop little missy." He sighed sitting down next to her. Emma immediately felt panicked as looked around the empty bus. If this was the last stop, she surely pasted her stop, that meaning she was in a part of Paris she's never been in before, THAT meaning, she was complete and utterly lost. Curse her small body needing sleep!
Catching on to her inner turmoil, the conductor patted her head. "Where's your parents honey? You're lost aren't you? Why don't you come with me?"
"U-um no thank you, I'm fine." Emma hopped off the chair and put her bag on.
"Come on sweetcakes, I'll take you to my house, I have lots of candy and games there." Emma would be lying if she said her interest wasn't peaked, but she knew better than to follow her curiosity. "I already said no!"
The conductor huffed as he got up and tried to grab the surprised blonde. Emma screeched and tried to squeeze in between his open legs but was picked up. Looking at the flailing kid in his hands the man smiled. "I wonder how much someone would pay for a pretty kid like you…"
Emma bit at the guy's hands but remembered what her mother once told her to do in a situation like this.
The man's eyes widened and quickly dropped Emma as he felt his world crumble. His vision blurred as his eyes watered. He felt lightheaded as he fell to the ground in slow motion thinking one thing… why.
Emma stared at the man with a concerned look as she watched the man roll around on the floor, holding his crotch. Not wasting another second she bolted out the bus doors.
After a while of running Emma found herself in a forest. Letting herself catch her breath, she sat down at the base of a tree and pulled out her tablet and opened up Google Maps.
"1% left? Dang… I can't believe it's only 10:13 p.m. Ok… so Auntie Alya lives here, up north a bit… Aw poop, it died." Emma sighed putting her tablet back in her bag and looked around. "Why hasn't someone installed outlets out here? I'm shocked… heh, shocked. Now how will I find north…" Emma pondered on that question until she finally found the solution.
Being very careful Emma climbed the tree she was sitting by and sat on a sturdy branch that allowed her to be able to see the sky. Suddenly feeling grateful for the times her mother took her stargazing Emma looked for the North Star.
When Emma finally reached the doorstep to Alya and Nino's house she collapsed on the doorstep and placed a hand on her beating heart to collect herself. Walking through a forest and streets alone in pity dark shockingly was a very nerve-racking task. All the silent walking she did made Emma more painfully aware the situation she was in. In the span of a few hours, she lost her mom, Tikki, was nearly abducted by a crooked bus driver, was forced to bank on the fact Alya and Nino's house was some place north and use that to navigate, and was scared to death of something jumping out of every alley she passed.
Using her hands to help her, Emma propped herself up sucking in a shaky breath as she knocked on the door. After a long moment of silence she tried again, banging on the door a lot harder. After more silence Emma furrowed her brows. "That's strange, I don't think it's that's late, they usually stay up really late…" Taking a peek inside the windows she noticed all the lights were off_ this had to mean…
"Ugh! No no no… They aren't home!" Emma kicked the door in frustration and buried her head in her knees at the realization. "What am I gonna do?" She whispered to herself, tearing up "I have nowhere to go an-" "Hello?"
Emma could've sworn she jumped 20 feet in the air at the sound of someone's voice next to her. Startled by her reaction the strange man smiled softly yet awkwardly at her. "Hi there," he squatted to her height. Emma silently stared at him. "Are you looking for Alya or Nino too? I dropped by to say hello since I'm going to be in town for a while, it seems we're both out of luck." He chuckled softly.
Emma, still unable to say anything kept looking at his emerald eyes, making a mental note of how his golden hair glistened in the moonlight. Hesitating slightly, the adult placed a hand on Emma's shoulder concern in his eyes. "Are you lost? Where's your parents? Are Alya and Nino supposed to take care of you?"
Emma sniffed at the action, it was something her mother would do when praising her or for support… her mother. Emma bursted into tears as the stress she'd been trying to holding back all came crashing down at once. As the man pulled her into a hug, Emma quickly hugged back, somehow feeling a bit at ease as she could cry her problems away.
I can't tell you how uncomfortable I was typing the flashback. I hope nothing seemed rushed, I tried to prevent that. So the story beings! A whole bunch of adventure, discoveries, and complete obliviousness start NOW! Heh. How I suddenly was inspired by a story I read 2 years ago I randomly thought of in the middle of class is honestly beyond me. If you guys like this story you should really follow, favorite, and/or review. I seriously read every single review I ever get since I like reading them... also cause I'm a hermit that does nothing productive with her life…
Seriously though, you should review.