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**Update: Change 3rd PoV**
When Ladybug opened her eyes, everything was blurry. She blinked several times, to focus her view. A red spot appeared, and she knew it was Tikki.
"Tikki? What happened to me?" She asked, without getting up.
"You fainted, Chat Noir brought you here." She said, floating as she looked around nervously.
"Chat Noir?" Ladybug asked, and then panicked when she undestood what that meant. "But I was about to detransform! Oh no no no!" She take her hands to her face, covering with them.
"Quiet Marinette," the kwami said in a very low voice. "He refused to see who you were, he never lowered his head to your face, he almost fell a couple of times. He brought you here and then went into the bathroom, he was feeding Pl... his Kwami." Said Tikki smiling. "It was very sweet"
She sighed, full of relief.
"I think I should transform myself back." Marinette said, sitting on the bed.
The pain filled her, spreading from her stomach to all parts of the body.
"You're hurt!" Said Tikki, full of worry.
"I'll be okay, Tikki," She reassured her, pulling her shirt that had stuck to the wound. "Now I must transform myself, thank Chat, and get out of here."
Tikki nodded, still not very convinced.
"Tikki, spots on," She said, lacking of her usual excitement as she turned.
The creature dived into her earrings, and a second later she was Ladybug again.
Miraculously, the burn had left no marks on her suit.
She get out of bed, wincing, and approached the bathroom. She knock lightly on the door, a little nervous.
"Chaton?" Ladybug asked, trying to keep the pain from reflecting in her voice.
"M'Lady?" He said from the bathroom. "Give me a second, I'm coming!"
"Okay!" She responded and sat down on the bed again, waiting.
A few minutes later, Chat opened the bathroom door.
He leaned on the door frame, smiling half-way.
"Well Bugaboo, I hope you had a pawsome sleep."
She shook with her head and let out a slight sigh. Even so, she smiled at Chat.
"Thank you kitty." Ladybug said sweetly. "I really appreciate what you did for me."
"It was no problem M'Lady!" he said sitting next to her in the bed "I know most girls need their beauty sleep." Then he winked at the superhero, "Even though you don't need it Bugaboo."
"Stop flirting!" She said, pushing him slightly from the shoulder.
The burn in her stomach began to hurt, and she couldn't contain her face.
"Everything right?" Asked Chat, looking at her face.
"Ehm, yes!" She said taking away importance. "I'm just so tired." Ladybug add closing my eyes for a minute.
"You got a burn ..." Chat started, how did he know? "In the hands," he said, taking her hands in his.
"Oh" She looked at her hands, he was right, She was burned. "Truly, I'm so tired I hadn't even noticed." She smiled again.
"You should go to rest." Said Chat "I will be in charge of thanking the mayor in your name"
Truthfully, she hadn't even realized they were at the Mayor's Hotel, Chloe's father.
"Thanks again, mon minou," She told Chat, standing as slowly as she could, so that the wound would not hurt more than necessary.
"For you, whatever, M'Lady," he said, smiling.
"Au revoir!" Ladybug said, approaching the window, ready for leaving.
"See you later," Chat answered, and she jumped out the window,
Ladybug jumped from building to building, until she reached the roof of her house. She get into it with a leap, detransform and throw herself on the bed.
"You must do something with your wound, Marinette." Tikki said, looking at her shirt, stained from the wound.
"I know, but I can't go to the hospital, I told Dad and Mom that I would study at Alya's." Marinette explained to Tikki, with her eyes closed.
"At least clean it up." Said the Kwami "Maybe some cream ..."
She nodded, and tried to sit down.
"No! I'll find the things" Tikki was offered. "What do you need?"
"Give me some cream, I don't know what cream I need, so read the warnings first." Marinette said, thinking about what else. "If you could wet a cloth with water ..." the creature nodded, as she began to look for what Marinette was saying. "I have no bandages... but in the second drawer there are remaining pieces of cloth that can serve, look for the longest."
She closed her eyes, as Tikki searched for the things.
She was tired, dead.
If she didn't know that Adrien would go to school the next day, Marinette would surely be absent. But no, she can't miss a day of seeing Adrien!
"Ready Marinette" The Kwami said, leaving the things at her side.
She opened her eyes and sit. She take off her shirt and first took the cloth with water, pushing it against her wound. The wound stained quickly the cloth, but she kept cleaning the wound. Marinette close her eyes in pain, it hurt a lot, but she knew she needed to do this.
Tikki give her a hug with her little arms, trying to comfort her owner.
"Okay" she said breathing heavily. "Now, pass me the cream please." The Kwami obey, she opened the cream and handed it to Marinette.
She put cream on the wound, slowly. Maybe this cream wouldn't help to heal the wound, but it would certainly refresh it.
"Tomorrow I would go to the pharmacy and I would search for another cream that actually works" She said to Tikki, closing the cream and asking her for the piece of cloth that would work as bandage.
She passed it to Marinette, who smiled.
"Thank you Tikki" She wrapped the fabric around her body, covering the wound. Marinette made a firm knot in her back, enough so that it didn't come loose.
"Finished" She said.
"You should really go to sleep." Tikki said, and girl nodded.
"Good night Tikki." She layed on the bed, falling asleep almost just after she closed her eyes.
"You have a photoshoot right after school, so I'm confident you'll wait for your driver outside and be on time." Nathalie was saying, looking at the agenda in her hands. "After that, you will go straight home, without distractions, you will have dinner at 6 o'clock, you will have time for homework or whatever you have to do until 8 o'clock and then you must go to sleep." She wrote something on the agenda, ready to continue talking.
"Ok Nathalie," He said, to let her know he already understood.
Adrien kept looking out the window, longing for the moment when they would get to school and be able to get out of the limo.
When he arrived, he got off immediately, saying goodbye to Nathalie and the Gorilla.
Adrien watched Nino and Alya talking animatedly and approach them smiling.
"Hello!" he said, standing beside Nino and saluting them both.
"Hi dude," Nino replied, and Alya waved.
"Marinette is not here yet?" Adrien asked, looking at the girl without her best friend.
"That girl is always late, I'll give her an alarm for her birthday." Alya said, laughing.
Nino pointed behind Alya, where Marinette was coming, walking extremely slowly.
When she arrive, she greet Alya with a gentle smile.
"Hi Nino" she said after, and then she noticed him "Oh, Holle, I mean, Hello Adrien." she smiled bigger, looking a bit uncomfortable.
Sometimes Adrien wondered if Marinette really liked him. She always looked terribly uncomfortable with his presence, she kept quiet when she was with Adrien, as if she didn't want to talk to him.
"Oh look, you're early!" Alya said, clapping slightly on the girl.
"Oh, yes," Marinette said. "Though I'm still terribly tired." She touched her forehead with one hand, closing her eyes.
"Why the gloves?" Asked Nino, looking at the pink gloves Marinette wore.
"Uhm, we're entering winter." She said, hiding her hands behind her back. "This morning I had a lot of cold in my hands, so I decided to bring them."
"They look so cute!" Alya said taking one of the girl's hands to see the gloves. "You did them?"
The girl nodded, and he looked at them sideways. Marinette really had talent.
"You're very talented," Adrien said, smiling at Marinette.
"Really? Do you really think that?" She said opening her eyes "Well, I only have talent for that, not like you, you're good at everything." Alya and Nino chuckled, and he look at her confused. "No! I mean! I'm sure you're good at many things."
He smiled too, and she sighed.
"Marinette, did you see my new entry in the Ladyblog?" Alya asked, pulling out her cell phone to show her.
"Not really, yesterday I was very tired," said the girl.
He had not seen any entries from the Ladyblog recently either.
After the battle, Chat Noir couldn't stop thinking about My Lady. He was hoping she could rest, she really looked bad yesterday. When he got home, he fell asleep, running in circles followed by a fire boy was really tiring.
"It was awesome!" Alya said, excited. "I tried to record all the battle, but it was quite difficult. Chat Noir ran with the fire guy, distracting him while Ladybug thought. That was really teamwork! But then there were only flames, so I couldn't record Ladybug in action. When everything was over and the fire was extinguished, Chat Noir took Ladybug. I had never seen them get hurt from a battle!"
"I think she has to throw that thing to the sky to bring everything back to normal or something." Marinette said.
That was a pretty right guess.
"Do you think that?" Alya said, considering the idea.
"I think the same as Marinette. Ladybug always throws something to the sky when a battle ends, or that I have seen in your videos." Adrien said, nodding with his head.
"I will ask her if I get the chance to see her!" Alya said, excited. "That would make her even more awesome."
Adrien couldn't agree more with Alya.
"Well, I actually like a lot Chat Noir's power." Marinette said. "Destroying everything with just one touch, it is really cool."
She tought his powers were cool? That was completely clawsome.
"They're cool" Adrien said "But it must be a bit complicated to manage to not touch anything else by accident. I think he only has one touch to destroy things."
"How do you know so much?" Alya asked, with curiosity.
Shit, was it very obvious?
"Well, I hear people talking about Ladybug and Chat Noir in every place." he said, smiling. "Some ideas get etched in my mind."
They listened to the bell of classes, and began to walk towards their class.
Marinette stayed behind, so Alya stepped back to accompany her.
"Why are you so slow today?" She said, hurrying her friend.
"Maybe I slept in a bad position or something, my foot hurts." Marinette answered, hurrying a little.
When Adrien get to the class he take his usual place, Nino next to him.
"Adrikiiiiins"He heard a voice say.
"I will pray for you, dude." Nino said, seeing who was approaching.
"Adrikins, since when you don't say hello?" Chloe said, sitting down on the table.
"Hi Chloe." He said simply, waiting for her to ask what she wanted.
"Well Adri, you know, rumors say that today we will work on mixed couples in science classes. I consider giving you the honor of working with me, even reject Kim's offer." Chloe said, looking at her fingernails.
Dammit, he really didn't want to work with Chloe.
He look around the class, searching for some excuse.
He noted Marinette and Alya enter the class, and hurry to say.
"I'm sorry Chloe, you see, I'm actually working with Marinette." He said, smiling at the girl who was coming in.
Marinette paused in confusion, opened her eyes, and looked at Alya. Her friend pulls her towards their habitual place behind us.
"Marinette?" Chloe said, grimacing "Sure you can reject her, that is, it's Marinette." She said contemptuously to Marinette.
"Chloe you..." Marinette began, furious.
"Actually, I'd like to work with Marinette, but thanks for the offer, Chloe." he said, before they started arguing.
"Well, Adrikins, you're missing out." Chloe said, walking back to her place, annoyed.
Adrien turned to Marinette, who still looked at him in confusion.
"We don't have to work together if you don't want to..." He said, uncomfortable.
"No! It's not that! You can work with me... if you want of course!" Said Marinette, her face turning redder than usual.
She really did hate me.
"If it doesn't bother you to work with me…" he said.
"Nono! It doesn't! It may bother you to work with me" she said, looking at him.
"Not at all! I would love to work with you!" He replied.
"I love you too!" She said, and Alya looked at her with big eyes, she blushed, noting what she just said. "I mean! I would love to work with you too! Not that I love you! Is not like I could not love you… I mean…" Alya put her hand in Marinette's mouth, to shut her up.
"Both of you already agreed to work toguether, now just shut up." Alya said, smiling.
He smile to both of them and turn to the front, where the teacher was about to start.
The thing with Mrs. Mendeleiv is that she terrified most of the students. She's strict and doesn't like anyone to argue her orders.
So, when she comissioned them to make a work in mixed couples, she gave them three minutes to form them and to position themselves with their partner.
Adrien switched places with Alya, sitting next to Marinette.
The work consisted of a series of papers with questions that they should answer.
"Physics is my favorite subject" The boy said, smiling to the girl.
"Oh, really?" She asked "I can't say that I like it very much, sometimes I don't even understand it." She giggled nervously.
"Then I will read the answers, some I already know, but I will dictate them and you will write them in the paper." He proposed, looking at her.
"Yes, I would love to hear you speak," she said and then denied. "I mean, I don't like to talk."
He laughed then, and read the first question.
The boy began to dictate the answer, and then the girl hurried to take a pen and begin to write. At first she wrote slowly, and she had a grin of pain on her face, as if writing hurt her. He stop talking, just to ask her if she was alright.
"Wouldn't it be better if you take off your gloves? It seems as if they bother you..." He said.
"No, that's not it! I'm fine! Continue please!"
He did as she told him.
It's easy to work with Marinette. In a matter of minutes, they had finished answering all the paper that Mrs. Mendeleiv had left them.
They gave it to her first of the class, and she told them that as a reward they could leave earlier. They picked up our packages, the boy said goodbye to Nino, while Marinette said goodbye to Alya, who was laughing and said she would soon reach Marinette outside.
Once outside, he turned to Marinette.
"Will you go home at once?" he asked.
"No! Nonono! I have to wait for Alya," she replied with a smile.
"I was supposed to have a photoshoot after school, but taking into account that I left before, I guess I have free time." Adrien said, sitting on one of the benches outside the classroom.
Marinette stood, looking around as if she wanted to leave. Did my presence bother her so much?
"You said early that Chat Noir was cool." He said, hoping that the sudden choice of the subject wasn't very obvious.
"Oh yeah!" Marinette nodded. "I don't know him very much, or anything like that, but I think he's a great superhero, even though his jokes are fatal." Then Adrien smiled slightly. "Well, I suppose his jokes are fatal, I don't know him."
"Even so, I read that you are one of the people who has interacted more with him," He said, looking around as if the conversation did not interest him, but it did, and a lot.
"He just saved me a couple of times from my own clumsy being." She answered laughing.
"Well, I think Ladybug and Chat Noir make a fantastic team," he said, and she nodded.
"What do you think of Ladybug?" She wonder, with curiosity.
Adrien tap the empty space next to him on the bench, asking her to sit down, she nodded frantically and sat down.
"Ladybug is fantastic" He hoped the fascination for Ladybug would not be noticeable in his voice. "She is fair, compassionate, brave and smart, gentle with people, always knows how to act and what to say, and she is so beautiful!" Adrien was about to continue talking, when he turned to see Marinette.
The girl was red, red as a tomato. When she noticed him staring, the girl smiled at Adrien, and opened her mouth trying to speak.
"Yes ... Ladybug is very looc, I mean, cool." She said, blushing even more.
Why was she blushing? She doesn't even like me.
Alya and Nino appeared in front of them, both with a smile that the boy couldn't interpret.
"I thought we'd never get out of there, we couldn't find the fucking second answer." Alya said, approaching Marinette.
"That was easy," He said, watching them both get there.
He noticed Alya whispering something to Marinette, who turned redder than she was before.
"Well, you're the genius in Physics, of course you knew the answer." Nino told him, "Do you want to go to the zoo or something after school?"
"I have a photoshoot, I'm sorry." Adrien answered, sighing.
"Oops, maybe another day, dude." He slapped him on the shoulder.
"Well, shall we Mari?" Alya asked her friend, who nodded, even without speaking.
Marinette stood, ready to follow Alya. They turned in the middle of the road.
"Bye guys!" Alya said, pushing Marinette on the shoulder to say goodbye.
"See you morrow, torrow, I mean... See you...la...ter" she said, turning quickly and running towards the exit with Alya.
Once they disappeared, Adrien looked at Nino confused.
"Sometimes I think Marinette really doesn't like me," he said.
"Dude, really?" Said Nino, putting his hand on his forehead with disappointment.
"What?" the boy asked, even more confused.
"Nothing, your driver should be waiting for you, come on" said Nino, laughing and walking towards the exit.
He hastened to follow it, it was time to deal with multiple makeup artists, stylists, and a photographer with hyperactivity problems and a terrible taste for the "spaguetti".
"I'm proud of you girl!" Alya said as they walked out of school. "You worked with Adrien, limiting yourself to stupid comments and not fainting! That's definitely a breakthrough."
"Shut up Alya!" She said, with a smile on her face.
"He have a photoshoot there? We could just go and have some ice cream there..." Alya said.
Marinette was about to accept, when she felt a blow from her bag.
"Oh, I would love to Alya," she began. "But I can't, I need to help Papa with some things from the bakery."
"Well, maybe on some other photoshoot." Alya laughed "Then I'll update the ladyblog, and who knows, maybe Ladybug will make an appearance today!"
"Maybe not," Marinette muttered.
"Did you say something?" Her best friend asked.
"No no nothing!" She replied smiling. "See you Alya!"
Marinette said goodbye to her best friend, and hurried through the streets. She enter the first pharmacy she found, a dark place with rare music.
"Excuse me?" She asked, since she didn't see anyone at the counter. "Is there someone?" she asked again, with a little fear of entering.
The place was really awful. From outside, the sign that said "Pharmacy" was broken and with almost burnt lights, inside, was not at all better. The place was dark and with a disturbing music, the medicines were scattered everywhere.
It was not the pharmacy she had chosen, but it was the closest, and she couldn't stand the wound any more, the next one was more than three blocks away.
"Did you need something?" A voice answered from the counter.
When had this woman appeared?
She was old, maybe in her 40s, dark hair and straight face, extremely makeup. While looking at her, Marinette felt a certain uneasiness.
"So..?" She asked again.
"Yes, I'm sorry." The girl started, without getting too close. "I need a cream for a burn, the more effective it would be, the better...and bandages..." The woman nodded, turning, she take a bucket from the messy bookcase.
"This should serve, it will heal fast, but the cream burns on the wound, so you should take pain pills." She turned again, taking another container with purple pills. "These." She put everything on the counter. "€ 10," She said, reaching out her hand for Marinette to give her the money.
She hurried to get it out, and put it in her hands.
What did her hands have? Her fingers were extremely thin, and her nails long and sharp. That wasn't normal.
She gave her the two bottles and the bandages, which the girl took and left the store without hesitation.
Once in the house, Tikki came out of her bag.
"That place didn't give me a good vibe," Tikki said. "There was something, strange."
"I know, but it was the nearest pharmacy." She said.
"Do you would use that cream? I don't trust..." Started the kwami
"We should not judge people by their appearance Tikki, I'm sure it's normal cream." Marinette said, reassuring her, she smiled as she pulled the cream from the purse.
She opened the bottle with the cream, the cream was pale yellow, like many other creams, nothing out of the ordinary.
She took off the shirt, and asked Tikki to bring her a glass of water. Patiently, she removed the piece of cloth that had served as a bandage, she left it aside.
She take some cream in her hand, and start spreading it over the burn.
Ugh, it really burned.
Once finished, she take the glass with water that Tikki had left. Marinette take one of the pills, which were purple. Without hesitate,she take one and swallow it.
"You see Tikk? I'm still alive,"she said, smiling as she bandwrapped herself with the bandage.
"Yes, you're right Mari, I can't judge people." Said the Kwami. "Although there is something truly wrong in that place."
"You creatures are really idiots." The man said as he kicked the woman on the floor. "You were not supposed to give her the right cream" he kicked her again, this time stronger.
The woman let out a small cry, and made a cocoon on the floor.
"Now you're useless." He said, taking one of the woman's wizened hands.
The woman began to moan, trying to speak, but she could no longer speak, of course.
He take her hand, carefully picking a finger.
"If there is anything useful of you, it is your long nails." the man said with a laugh, "They certainly go through flesh." he take one of the nails, and pull it, pulling it off her finger.
The woman screamed, making a horrible sound.
"Oh let's not scream yet." He said disappointed. "You should at least endure this."
He kick her again, leaving the nail on the counter. The woman lay on her back, revealing the scars of the mark in the back part of her neck.
He look for the symbol on her back as the creature moved on the ground.
"Quiet!" He scream annoyed, taking the fingernail from the counter.
Once he found the symbol, he plunge the nail in it without hesitation, forcefully.
The mark used to be on the back of her neck, as always. In the same spot where his mark was.
Suddenly she stop moving. Seconds afterwards, she disappeared in a cloud of dust.
He snap his fingers, bringing everything back to normal.
"Change of plans." The man murmur, annoyed. "First the grumpy butterfly, then the spotted insect and the unlucky kitten."
-A/N-
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