Chapter 2 – Paris's strong and mighty hero

By the time she landed on the tower Chat was already there. He was looking across the city seemingly lost in his own thoughts. Ladybug decided to take the opportunity of his distractedness to get a bit of payback.

She edged closer to him reaching out to tap his shoulder, holding her breath to avoid exhaling too loudly. Her hand was only an inch away from his shoulder when he suddenly turned around.

"Trying to be sneaky M'Lady?"

The suddenness of his movement cause Ladybug to fall back in shock. Just before she fell onto the metal floor Chat reached out and grabbed her still outstretched hand to stop her fall. Once she got her feet in a position that would prevent her tripping Chat pulled her back up. She still looked stunned but her expression began to morph into anger.

"Chat that was mean! You scared me!"

"What were you trying to do to me just then M'Lady?" Chat retorted smugly. He smirked enjoying the flustered look on Ladybug's face as she knew he was right.

"I uhh- I almost fell, that's different." She mumbled knowing that she really couldn't be mad as he was right.

"But I caught you." Chat said was a charming grin, acting like he was her knight in shining armour.

"Yeah Chat you did, it's just – I – ugh – let's just move on."

"M'Lady are you... embarrassed?" Chat asked with a raised tone in his disbelief.

"WHAT! NO! I'm not! We just need to focus on the mission!"

Her face had flushed red at this point.

"You are! Oh my gosh! Ladybug, Paris's strong and mighty hero, embarrassed! I've never seen you like this before." Chat spoke full of glee, he was enjoying his partner's despair far too much.

"Chat stop it!" Ladybug gave him a small dig in his arm and hung her head lower.

Chat stopped laughing at her and looked her more concerned, "I've caught you from falling before, what's so embarrassing about that anyway?".

"It's not just that Chat, I just - ugh – Look. I don't remember much of last night but I do remember making a right fool of myself in front of you. I was acting like a child Chat! Whining and stroppy! Not even to mention how clingy I was on you – "

Ladybug was interrupted by Chat's hand cupping the side of her face and lifting her head to look at his. Their eyes locked together, "Ladybug please, you don't need to be embarrassed about that! You had a head injury before that, you weren't acting like yourself. I would never judge you for that." His smile was no longer a smirk but a reassuring smile, similar to her mother's smile when she took care of her. It comforted her and made her feel better. "And for the record, I found it quite cute." Chat added as he winked at her and her face once again flushed red as she pulled away trying to hide it.

Chat too turned away to hide the smirk on his face, he loved how she would blush like that whenever he flirted with her. And even more he loved how she always attempted to hide it. He decided it was best to change the topic to the mission.

"So Multi-Man could be anywhere in Paris at this point and there's definitely four of him by now."

"Are we sure he could be anywhere?"

Chat turned to his partner to see what she was implying.

"Well Multi-Man's only goal other than to get our Miraculous is to complete tasks efficiently as a team of clones, given Hawkmoth's evil influence I would guess that these "tasks" have to be some kind of crime."

"So we go to the Police Station and look for any crimes that took place last night?"

"Spot on Kitty!"

"Well we better get on our way then!"

And with nothing more said the duo jumped off the Tower with yo-yo and staff in hand and headed towards the Police Station.

Alya and Nino walked through the park hand in hand. Alya also held an ice-cream from André's which they shared on a bench in front of the fountain.

Their date was going well and had so far had no interruptions. That couldn't be said for many of them considering Alya's tendencies to want to keep tabs on Ladybug and Chat Noir for the Ladyblog and Marinette often frantically calling her when she had an 'Adrien Problem'. However quite unusually this time it was Nino's phone that made the noise that interrupted their conversation.

"What is it babe?" Alya asked him

"It's an offer for a DJ gig in some nightclub"

"Why the look on your face then?"

"They're offering me 250 euros for only one night!"

Alya dropped her ice cream spoon with her mouth gaping open.

"That's more than I get for a whole week at some of the usual clubs."

"Take the gig then! Why are you hesitating?"

"They say that if I want the gig then I need to meet them within the next hour or no deal."

Nino looked at her looking conflicted. She could tell the exact thoughts going through his head, "Go take the gig, we can have dates any time. And it's not like I've never ended a date early."

Nino got up but then looked back at his girlfriend, she wasn't normally that simple. "Are you sure?".

"Yes, go on!" She said smiling.

"Ok then." He began to run away.

"And you can make it up to me with a fancy date with the extra money you get!" She added as he was still in ear shot.

Nino rolled his eyes. There it is. He thought to himself.

Alya looked back at the ice cream and took the last mouthful of it. Now what to do?

She decided to pull out her cell phone and call Marinette... voicemail. Great. What on Earth could Marinette even be doing? She had nothing on her schedule except stalking Adrien's photo shoot this morning.

BEEP

"uh- Hey girl! It's Alya! Your bestieeeee! Ummm call me back I guess when you're done whatever you're doing. Nino had to leave so I'm in the park by myself with nothing to-"

Alya's thoughts were interrupted by the sight of a red and a black figure gliding through the sky.

"Actually, never mind! I think I've found something to do!"

BEEP

She hung up her phone and began to run in the direction the superheroes went ready to capture for her blog.