Written for ML Fluff Month Day 20: Caught. Continuation of the first part which was supposed to be a one shot but i felt inspired to write something else. cutetophy this is for you :) Also this is set kinda in TwinDoodle's universe on tumblr where Chloe cant keep her identity a secret from Nath. Enjoy!
Day twenty of finding out that the class bully, Chloe Bourgeois, was the new hero Queen Bee. Nathaniel sighed into his sketchbook for the umpteenth time. Looking at what he assumed was mindless doodling he drew her yet another time. Her hair floating behind her while she leaped, and a smile taking up her face,Nathaniel had drawn Queen Bee again. Before he knew Chloe was behind the mask, Bee was his crush. Finally moved on from Marinette he found someone else unobtainable but this was slowly becoming a disaster. Since he caught sight of her transformation Nathaniel tried everything in his power to forget his crush on the golden heroine but to no avail.
Time grew and he was sure to avoid akuma sites as he did not want to run into Chloe. Luck would have it that after discussing a project with Marinette he was left alone in the locker room to sketch to his heart's content. The familiar shape of Queen Bee came to life on the page but it was not the hero but her civilian identity he drew now. Chloe appeared and he could not stop himself, the trademark smirk, the glasses atop her head, the bouncy hair, Nathaniel found himself falling deeper down the rabbit hole.
"Is that me on your page, Tomato?" Chloe's voice rang out above him, causing him to drop his pencil and let out a tiny shriek. Perched on top of the locker with her legs absentmindedly swinging was Chloe Bourgeois in the form of Queen Bee. She had on her signature smirk almost identical to the one on the page as she looked down on his huddled form. "It is isn't it. I must say, I do look good."
"M-Maybe it is…" Nathaniel mumbled while scrambling to grab his pencil, it rolled to other other side of the lockers and he made the mistake of putting down the sketchbook to go get it. Given the opportunity presented Chloe wasted no time in dropping down to pick up the sketchbook and flip through it. She had noticed him looking at her in class often and wanted to know what he had been drawing ever since that day she found him in the park. The day he caught her transformation. Flipping the pages she could see they were all of her, variations of her inside and outside the suit. She sat on a bench and transformed just as he reached the pencil and looked back to where he was formally seated.
"Chloe! You can't just detransform! What if there were people in here!" Nathaniel blushed almost as red as his hair as his crush was back to looking like his bully.
"There were, luckily for me that they already know my identity." Sending him a saucy wink she went back to browsing the sketches. "These are actually quite good." She murmured him a compliment which he barely caught.
"What was that? Was that a complement?" Mystified, he could only crawl quietly up to the bench she was sitting on and looked over her shoulder. Ignoring his questions she flipped the page to the drawing he made yesterday in the park. Like all his sketches he dated them with his signature exclamation point.
"This one… You drew it yesterday… in the park correct?"
"H-How did you know?"
"I saw you from my room. That tomato red hair stands out amongst the greenery of the trees you know." With that she ripped the sketch from the book, folded it neatly, and tucked it into her purse. Shocked, Nathaniel accepted the book back and watched Chloe walk away. This time she had the final say before the door closed.
"Bee sure to get the shine in my hair right next time. Remember its honey blond." A pun and a wink was all she left him with besides the blush, that this time, was the color of his hair.