Paris is a beautiful city, especially at night. The sunsets, all the lights, and the Eiffel tower looks best when it's lit. Adrien loved to look out over his city at night running from rooftop to rooftop, or just sitting on the Eiffel tower with his lady. When they went out on patrol's and nothing was happening so they would just sit up there and talk for however long he could convince her to stay after they checked the city. But then there were the nights when something did happen.
Adrien never did like late night akuma attacks they usually lasted a few hours; which lead to hard to get up mornings. He cherished any opportunity to see his lady, he just wished that it was easier to get up the mornings that followed these late night meetings. Being a Friday night meant that he had some time to sleep in the next morning, but not much. He got about an extra half hour of sleep before a full day of photo shoots, homework, and piano practice. Tonight's akuma had proven a challenge for Paris' superhero duo.
The akuma, while not that tough, had something of an advantage on them. Tonight Hawkmoth had created Manphibian, someone who worked at the zoo and was against taking out the amphibian exhibit to make way for an insect garden. Manphibian had sticky pads on his hand and feet, which now looked like those of a frog, that allowed him to stick to the sides of buildings and other structures with ease despite the rain making them slippery. His akuma was in his salamander keychain. Unfortunately, the slickness of the rooftops made it nearly impossible to catch him. As if his luck wasn't cruel enough to him he was starting to get sick. It wasn't anything too severe, so he was just going to have to push through it. He knew better than to bring it up. If his lady were to find out she would do everything within her power to send him home, or at the very least make sure he was resting. Moreover, the instant he returned home, with the exception of something serious, Adrien would be doing precisely what he was doing right now, pushing through it and getting the job done. He had a photo shoot tomorrow followed by a Chinese lesson. His father had expectations and Adrien, being the face of his father's company, was expected to live up to these expectations.
Adrien was pulled from his thoughts when he heard Ladybug call for her lucky charm, which happened to be a giant heating lamp. With the rain finally ending and a way to make him come to them capturing the akuma was moderately easy from there. As the two bumped fists in their customary "pound it" Ladybug pulled Chat back and placed a hand on his forehead.
"Chat you're burning up! Why didn't you tell me you were sick?" she exclaimed.
"I purromise my lady I feel purrfectly feline." He joked
She rolled her eyes but the worried look still persisted.
"Just promise me that you'll go home as fast as possible alright?"
"If it makes M'lady rest easy then I promise to go straight home and rest up." He bowed
She rolled her eyes again, but this time a slight smile replaced her previously worried expression.
"I've got to get going before I change back. Don't stay out too late."
She threw her yo-yo zipping away to go home and get some rest. Rest, that sounded great. His body felt weak and exhausted beyond reason. It felt cold, too cold for being the middle of September. Maybe if he just shut his eyes for a few seconds no one was here nobody would care. He felt his eyelids start to close and he didn't feel like fighting off the sleep. He would just take a quick rest, then back to getting home, but he didn't want to go home. Going home meant that he was going to have to face a two-hour minimum photoshoot, and at least an hour and a half of Chinese lessons. Maybe he could just go to sleep here? It's not like anyone would know as long as he got back before anyone came to check for him tomorrow morning. Until a beep from his miraculous reminded him that he only had three minutes to get home and that was almost halfway across Paris. Not to mention Adrien didn't have any Camembert on him for when he needed to transform again to get home.
He managed to get home okay after that, albeit with a few stumbles along the way, but he was still exhausted. His transformation dropped the moment his feet landed on the floor. Plagg choosing to be oddly silent and just went over to where he knew the cheese was. In any other instance, Adrien might have been worried about the lack of complaints, but he was too exhausted to worry. His room felt below freezing, but he couldn't bring himself to care though. He stumbled over to his bed before falling onto it; he fell asleep the moment his head hit the mattress.
Plagg finished his cheese before looking over at his Chat, the poor boy looked bad. He was burning up, but his whole body was shivering. He was covered in sweat and his hair was matted down to his head from a mix of the sweat and rain from earlier. It was a good thing he hadn't pulled a blanket over himself, the lack of a blanket and coolness of the room might help to lower his temperature. Plagg sighed trying to shake off the worry. Humans, with all their fancy machines, antibiotics, and other medicines, weren't invincible. And as much as Plagg may have wished otherwise Adrien was no exception to that superhero or not.
AN: This is the first fanfiction I have written. I hope you enjoy, also criticism is welcome.