Alrighty, so this is going to be my first ml fanfic, and I'm kinda new to writing so I hope it doesn't go too bad!
Marinette was awoken to yet another shout of her mother.
"Marinette! You're going to be late to school!"
She rushed out of bed ever so quickly that her head began to hurt. 'Not now…' she told herself as she started getting ready.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" Marinette asked Tikki as she slid on her backpack.
"Because you stayed up until three in the morning Marinette, I couldn't bring myself to wake you."
The black haired girl sighed as she ran down the stairs.
"Bye Mama!" She told her mother smiling and waving goodbye before going out the door. She guesses her father must be delivering a cake or some baked good. Marinette raced to school, her head was still pounding and she could tell half her body was still sleeping. It wasn't going to be that good of a day was it…
She reaches school five minutes before class starts and runs into her classroom. She wasn't sure if she was late or not and plus she wasn't fully awake thinking, so of course she just has to bump into someone right when she runs in. The klutz Marinette is, she ends up dropping all her books on the floor and landing on her behind. Well, at least she wasn't late.
"Oh gosh, my bad…" She hears a sweet voice above her.
Marinette doesn't even look up as she says, "No no, it's my fault I was running…"
She grabs up all her books and everything she dropped on the floor when a hand appears in front of her eyes.
"Need some help getting up, Marinette?"
This time she looks up and her eyes widen. She had bumped into Adrien, her crush Adrien.
"N-No, I-I'm okay!" She tells him, her voice pitch higher than before.
He shrugs and nods a "okay" before making his way to his desk and next to his bestfriend, Nino. Finally, Marinette gets everything into her hands and ignores the snickers of Chloe as she walks by her to get to her desk. She looks over to her friend and smiles, Alya was on her phone reading some article, most likely to be about Ladybug. It was kinda funny how Alya didn't even know that Ladybug was sitting next to her this whole time.
"Guys," Ayla suddenly spoke and poked Nino's back just to get his attention. "You know, the more and more I read about Ladybug and Chat Noir, and the more I see pictures of them, the more I think that they're secretly together…"
Marinette noticed Adrien slightly shift towards Ayla's direction, Marinette wondered why he would be interested in such topic. She shrugged it off and lay her head on her arms on the desk. Her head had not stopped hurting since she woke up and it was only getting worse.
"Marinette? You okay?" Alya asks her noticing her friend head down on the desk.
"I'm… I'm fine…" Marinette says yawning.
Adrien raises an eyebrow and looks to Marinette. "You don't look fine, what time did you go to sleep last night, Marinette?"
She was too tired to stutter as she would usually do when spoken to by Adrien, "Around three in the morning," she yawns, "why?"
Nino's eyes widen, "Why so late? Or early? No no, why so late?"
Marinette is about to answer when the teacher walks in.
"My apologies for being late class!" She says before starting the lesson.
Throughout the whole period Adrien kept glancing at Marinette. She seemed so tired and somewhat pained because every few minutes she would wince pressing her temple. It, for some reason, worried him. Why didn't she go to sleep earlier last night?
Once school was over Adrien decided to check up on Marinette, but she was already gone when he asked Ayla.
"Oh, she said she has loads of homework and needed to get it all done." Ayla told him scrolling through something on her phone.
Adrien nods and thanks her. He decides that later today he'd pay her a visit as Chat Noir. Soon he is picked up in a limo and is taken home.
Marinette had so much homework and such little time. She was sure of it that she was going to spend yet another night doing homework. But right now she just needed some water. She opens up a bottle and drinks it as she opens her purse.
"Marinette… You can't do what you did last night again. Look at the condition you're in!" Tikki told her.
Marinette shook her head. "Better to lose some rest than get a bad grade." She sighed telling her little friend.
Once Marinette had drunken the whole bottle and Tikki had decided to take a nap, Marinette takes out her homework and begins to work on it. She's not too far into it when she hears a knock at her window. At first she's scared and surprised but finally decides to go see who or what it is.
"Hello princess." Chat Noir says once Marinette opens the window, basically inviting him in he thinks.
"What do you want?" Marinette asks him, why would Chat be at her house?
"Just wanted to check up on you… Who is that in those pictures on your wall?' Chat asks raising an eyebrow. "He looks quite dashingly purr-fect."
Marinette's eyes widen, realizing Chat Noir was talking about the pictures of Adrien on the wall.
"O-Oh, he's no one…" She says shrugging not looking away from Chat Noir.
"You sure? He doesn't look like no one since he's all over you wall…"
Chat Noir begins walking around her room inspecting each picture. Her cheeks were on fire, yet she wondered how did Chat not know who Adrien was? Adrien was a famous model in Paris.
"Chat, tell me why you're really here-" Then a huge pain bursts in Marinette's head and she winces squeaked a small cry of pain.
"Princess!" The cat rushes to her side and quickly leads her towards her bed where she can sit down.
"I'm okay…" She tells him.
"No, you're not," He responds removing her hands from her temples. He gently runs his thumb across them and sighs.
"When did your head start hurting?"
"This morning when I got out of bed…" She tells him, feeling faint and weak.
"Just get some rest, okay?"
Marinette nods and lies in her bed.
Chat Noir shakes his head. He hopes Marinette will feel better soon. He takes one more quick glance at her before leaving. He looked so peaceful, so pleasing. He smiles and then dashes out the window.
Chat reminds himself he has patrol with Ladybug in a bit, that makes him smile even more as he goes across rooftops. Once he reaches home, Chat transforms back into Adrien and gives Plagg a slice of cheese.
"So you're not going to question why Marinette had pictures of you all over her wall?" Plagg asks him.
Adrien sighs and shrugs. "Maybe she's just another fan of me. Would explain why she's always stuttering and acting so strange around me."
Plagg said something while chewing causing Adrien to not understand him.
"Well Plagg, time to patrol with Ladybug." Adrien says smiling after about half an hour.
Plagg rolls his eyes and before he can say anything, Adrien has already called out his transforming phrase.
There, now he was Chat Noir, off to meet up with Ladybug to patrol the night. He leaves the house and begins pouncing house to house, waiting to somehow bump into Ladybug.
Finally, he does.
"Bonjour Ladybug," He greets her smiling and taking her hand to kiss.
She doesn't pull away and only replies with a faint 'hello'.
This concerns Chat.
"My lady, are you alright?" He asks her worriedly.
"Just a slight headache kitty." She answers him.
Marinette had had the same problem. He decides that this must just be a coincidence between the two.
"Since when have you had this headache?" He asks her, now curious.
"Since… Since this morning."
'Marinette has had hers since this morning as well…' He thinks to himself, his eyebrows furring