The entire kindergarten class was out for a nature walk one afternoon. Little Adrien and Nino walked with Marinette and her friend Alya, who clicked with Nino quite quickly. The class ended up stopping at a river on the trail, and the kids were allowed to play in the water. Adrien rolled up the legs of his jeans so he could get in the water, his shoes already long forgotten in his day bag. He held out a hand for Marinette once he was in, and the girl started giggling.
"The kitty likes water?" she asked, twisting at her hips to make her skirt twirl.
"Only for the princess, Mari!" he giggled. She took his hand and tossed her flip flops up to Alya.
"Ooh! It's so cold!" she giggled, shivering slightly. Adrien wrapped his arms around her shoulders, offering to warm her up. The two ended up wading down the river as far as their teacher would allow, hand-in-hand as they examined the various fishes and bugs that were in the water. Marinette was careful with the wings on her back, and Adrien was sure to hold the tail around his waist and not give his father a reason to take it away from him.
"Hey, look at this princess!" Adrien called, tugging the girl closer. A catfish swam around his ankles, tickling the bare skin with its whiskers.
"Aw!" Marinette cooed, crouching quickly to see it better. However, the sudden movement scared the fish and it swam away before she could get a good look at it. "It swam away…" she pouted. Adrien felt bad, so he tugged her along to see if they could find another one, proclaiming that catfish was just a sissy and that they'd find a super tough one!
Eventually through their search, the teacher called on everyone to come back for lunch. Children splashed and swam across the water as quick as they could, pushing and yanking each other along. In the midst of the pushing and yanking, Marinette ended up being pushed down onto the rocks of the riverbed. She scraped her hands and knees and cried out in pain.
"Marinette!" Adrien yelled. He stooped down as he tried to help the poor girl to her feet. Their teacher ran over and lifted her, setting the girl in the grass. Adrien pulled himself out of the water and sat beside her, cuddling the girl against him. Her shirt and skirt were soaked, and the wings on her back had gotten wet at the base.
Alya and Nino ran over as well, concern written across their faces when they saw the girl. Her hands were covered in blood and her knees were caked in mud, just a little blood seeping out from them. "You OK, Mari?" Alya asked.
Marinette nodded, but her hiccups and heaving said otherwise. Adrien hugged her tighter, and girl buried her nose in his shoulder.
Their teacher came back over with a first aid kit. She cleaned the cuts and scrapes, not without wails of pain, of course, and placed bandaids over them. "There, all better," she tried to say calmly, but Marinette's crying only lessened a little.
"It's all better, princess," Adrien whispered, rubbing her shoulder. He picked up her hand and kissed the palm over the bandaid, and the action caught Marinette off guard enough to stop her cries. He smiled, "Gotta kiss it better, right? You've got a kingdom to run! The ladybugs need you!"
Marinette giggled and nodded, "Thank you, Adrien…" she mumbled.
"Let's go get some lunch," Alya said, standing up and holding down a hand to help Marinette up. The littler girl took the hand and let Alya pull her to her feet. The four children walked together, Alya and Adrien never letting go of Marinette's hands and Nino never letting go of Alya's hand. And, for the rest of the walk, Adrien was sure to kick any big bad rocks away from Marinette. He didn't need her crying again!
I wasn't sure if I'd do another chapter of this, but I had this idea and well...you know what happened after that!
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