'Tap, tap, tap.' Adrien was awoken by a strange tapping sound on the window near to his bed, outside the raging western European weather was raining cats and dogs and the ominous sounds of thunder could be heard every few moments, it probably wasn't far away.
'Tap,tap,tap' It was heard again, as Adrien stirred out of bed blond hair sticking up in small wisps off his forehead. He groaned with his eyes still closed "Just five more minutes."
"Hello?" He heard the sound of a girls voice. The tapping sound moved along into the room adjacent to Adrien's bedroom, Adrien's bathroom.
Moving very slowly out of bed, and trying to find a black dressing gown to cover himself in the dark is hard.
He managed to walk into a side cabinet, and tried to supress an ouch of stubbing his toe on the metal cabinet.
"Hello?" The voice was heard again, along with the three accompanying taps on the glass. "Are you okay I heard a noise?"
"Marinette?" He wondered, recognising the voice from the girl he knew from school, 'What's she doing here and outside on the second floor window? Wouldn't one of the security guards have seen her?' He manages to find his way into the bathroom whilst groping around for a light switch. "You would think been able to transform into Chat Noir would allow me to see in the dark" He mumbled to himself.
"What's that noise?" Plagg asks, having been stirred from his restful slumber and dreams of deli counters stocked with hundreds of types of cheese. "Some of us have to sleep..."
"Ssh" Adrien mutters "Someone's outside."
"Can you let me in please it's kind of wet out here?" The voice is heard again this time moving away from the bathroom back to his bedroom.
"Don't even think about transforming to see who it is." Plagg says, floating back to bed.
"What?" Adrien mutters.
"You had me up all night out with Ladybug, I am not doing anything else." Plagg continues "I want a nice rest. And some cheese..." He mumbles falling asleep.
'Just see who it is.' Adrien thinks.
"If you know where Chat Noir is I'll leave you alone, he disappeared on me." The voice says tapping again.
"Is that Ladybug?" Adrien mutters.
"Of course it is." Plagg mutters "Now can you please open the door so we can tell her who you are and so she knows who Chat Noir is."
"Plagg if you hide and don't say anything I'll let you have your pick of the cheese before the chef gets here tomorrow." Adrien replies.
"Fine, but don't you dare go back on this." He says "I'm gonna sleep on top of my new best friend, the cheese draw." He glides downstairs, muttering about how lack of sleep isn't good for a kawami. And how the Agreste name is getting to that boys head.
"Ladybug." Adrien finally announces himself.
'Oh shit' She thinks 'I thought I recognised the house, it's Adrien's house.'
"Adrien, can you let me in I'm kind of wet." She says, looking at her crush.
He opens the door to his balcony (No idea if he has a balcony I just made it up.) and she walks in her red suit covered in a thin layer of water, and her hair drenched in rain.
"Hey." Adrien says, blushing awkwardly.
"Hey." She smiles "Sorry about that, I was looking for Chat. He seemed to be going towards your house?" Inside she's squirming in nervousness and excitement she's standing in Adrien Agreste's bedroom. 'I'm in Adrien's bedroom!'
'His bedroom' Ladybug stares at his double bed.
"Ladybug, I don't know your tapping kind of woke me up." He says, turning the lights down so the security guards might not see him.
'Adrien's bed...' Ladybug seems focused 'Focus.'
"You alright the cold must be getting to you, you've been staring at my bed for half a minute ladybug." Adrien smiles sitting down on the bed.
"Oh yes, Where did Chat go? sorry I was distracted." She says shaking her head.
"I don't know, sorry Ladybug." He smiles. Then it hits him, his study's covered in pictures of Ladybug. 'She's here in my house? I'm still dreaming I'm gonna wake up in a few seconds to my alarm'
"Oh okay." She says, "Adrien I was looking for him because I'd managed to de-akumatise someone and he'd disappeared."
"Maybe he needed some sleep, his civilian identify might be a busy person." He suggests. 'As much as I want you to stay, please go.'
Suddenly she sneezes.
"Apparently even superheroes can get colds." Adrien laughs. 'She sounds cute when she sneezes' 'Shut up' he quickly silences his thoughts.
"Yes apparently I can." Ladybug grins, trying to find a tissue and a bolt of lightning in the clouds illuminates Adrien's bedroom.
"Do you want to use my bathroom, warm you up a bit?" Adrien offers opening the door in pitch darkness as his lights fade out.
"I couldn't." She grins, it's your bathroom.
"I insist, I don't think ladybug dying of pneumonia would be a great thing to tell Paris." Adrien says turning the light on. 'Wow, show of confidence.' 'Shut up, I'm helping someone she's got me out of tonnes of scrapes.'
"Well, if you insist." She walks in, leaving a trail of water marks in her footsteps. "Don't come in though, I might have to release my identity."
"Yeah sure." Adrien smiles, leaving a dripping wet ladybug covered from head to toe in water in his en-suite.
As the door closes he walks over to his massive bed and almost falls asleep straight away, the stress of photoshoots, homework and his school life plus knowing that his crush isn't going to get hyperthermia brings him comfort and he falls asleep without even taking his dressing gown off.
Back inside Adrien's bathroom...
'I'm in Adrien's bathroom.' She laughs inside.
Suddenly her transformation disappears and Tikki appears.
"Lovely evening we're having Marinette." Tikki says falling asleep in one of Adrien's hand towels.
"Quiet Tikki, We're inside Adrien's house." She whispers, trying to get her clothes off.
"Why are you doing that in here? Your both a bit young for..." Tikki begins.
"Please get some rest, I know it's Sunday tomorrow." Marinette says still covered head to toe in rain water.
"Is the door locked." Tikki asks, checking the door. "Yep."
"Well it is cold." Tikki agrees falling asleep in a warm spot.
The warm water flows thick and fast, and before long Marinette is looking round for a towel.
'Oh god, why does Adrien have a heated towel rail. I almost burnt my hand.' She thinks taking a nondescript white towel.
She quickly dries herself and finds Adrien's spare bathrobe she manages to sneak into Adrien's pitch black study and locks the door. The muscle fatigue catches up with her and she collapses into a sofa (Couch) and falls asleep, Tikki manages to get underneath the sofa and she's piled all her clothes in the corner of the locked study.
"Goodnight Adrien." Marinette thinks as she falls asleep, wearing his bathrobe and lying on his sofa.
As another day dawns her body wakes up at 6:00.
"How did I end up here?" She mutters, still half-asleep. "In Adrien's study."
'I'm in Adr..." She looks round and staring her in the face is four maybe five posters of her.
"Bit of a ladybug fan? Can't believe that your all-time crush Adrien Agreste is a ladybug fan."Tikki smiles.
"I need to do something to say thank you." She smiles, taking a permanent marker and writing on it.
'Thank you Adrien.' And signs it with a little heart. Her confidence brimming.
She wants to write so much more 'I want to..." but decides against it. 'Oh god Alyas gonna tease me so much if she knew."
"Okay, let's go Tikki. Spots on!" She transforms back into Ladybug and in a black and red blur she disappears into the early morning sun. Feeling no regrets for the little heart.
As Adrien awakes more than an hour later he notices his favourite poster has a note and a little heart written on it.
He thinks about it for hours.
'Does Ladybug like me?" He asks himself. "Oh my god!"
He sits at his desk and laughs quietly.
"I'm never moving that poster ever..." He mutters looking out into the city.