A brilliant green pierced the night, it crept onto Marinette's rooftop.
A pair of eyes crawled out of the darkness, The moonlight revealed Chat noir. He carefully peered through the skylight.
Marinette was shook from the cold, she had pushed off her blanket in her sleep. Tears grew on edge of her eyes.
Chat quickly knocked on the skylight, "Marinette." He whispered. Slowly the glow of Chat's eyes became visible.
"Chat?" Marinette mumbled opened the skylight. "Chat, what are you doing here?"
"I- I had a bad day." Chat looked away, after he realized how loose her pajamas were. "Are you okay?"
"Me?" Marinette asked, not quite awake yet.
"You were having a bad dream." Chat still didn't look at her.
Marinette began to remember, her eyes filled with water.
"What's wrong Princess?" Chat held his hand against her chilly tears.
"I never knew how hard being a superhero could be, until today." Tears started to stream down her face, she barely got out her words before she sobbed. "Alya could have died, Chloe could have died."
Chat felt his heart twinge, two girls that nearly died, he ignored one and yelled at the other. he backed up and sat on the railing to think.
"Chat?" Marinette asked, she climbed onto the roof, and leaned against the railing. She noticed as Chat eyed his miraculous. "What's wrong Chat?"
"I'm not cut out to be a hero." Chat said solemnly.
"Chat, what are you saying? Ladybug wouldn't have anybody else as her partner." Marinette patted his shoulder.
"Now she knows who my identity, and I'm here left in the dark." Chat began to fiddle with his ring. "Do you know what she did, when she found out my identity?"
"Chat…"
"She ran."
"She needed time to think." Marinette grabbed his hand, so he couldn't with his miraculous. "just like you." Chat looked at Marinette his expression still gloomy.
"Your right purr-incess I'll talk to her next time." Chat used his staff to propel himself away.
"Chat!" Marinette shouted, he ran without turning back.
"Marinette, you did the right thing." Tikki created a gentle breeze, as she flew out of Marinette's sweater.
"I think it's more dangerous for Chat to give up."
Tikki pulled back, and flew above Marinette's head before she stopped in front of her. "The relationship between you two. Is… unique." Tikki put her hand on her head. "You two are so stubborn it's been your downfall."
"Tikki, would it be more dangerous if Chat knew who I was?" Marinette face was filled with worry.
"I think it's safer if he doesn't know." Marinette dropped her head at the response "Normally."
"What?"
"But this situation is far from normal."
"So you're saying?"
"In Alya's words, Get em' Girl."
"Thanks, Tikki." Marinette grabbed the small kwami in her hands, and held Tikki close to her chest. The soft feel of the kwami helped Marinette calm herself down.
Adrien walked over to Alya when school started the next day. Alya was on her phone, he glanced down at the text that read "Ladybug and Chat noir vs Plantami exclusive scoop from the victim."
"Adrien?" Alya looked up she quickly shut off her phone and tucked it away. "Look Adrien I'm sorry about what happened."
"No, Alya I should be apologizing that was no way to treat you." Adrien said his eyes drooped.
"No you were right, you trusted me. And I betrayed you."
"This isn't about that Alya."
"What?"
"You nearly died, are you okay?"
"I mean with you two risking you're lives everyday of course I'm fine, it was only one super villain." Alya's face remained unchanged but maybe it was the Chat in him, but he thought he could smell fear from her.
"We have magic superpowers Alya, you're a normal person. It's okay to fear death." Adrien reminisced about Chat's conversation with Marinette.
"Let's not talk about that. Who do you think Ladybug could be?" Alya nervously switched the topic.
"I want to respect her wishes, if she dosen't want to tell me I won't say anything bad about her."
"Do you think Marinette could be Ladybug, they look similar after all?" Alya's eyes were bright as she leaned in close to him.
Adrien pushed her back by the nose. "As much as I wish, that would be impossible."
"Why?" Alya furrowed her brow.
"How could Marinette have the time to save Paris, She helps her parent's bakery, goes to school, works on fashion design, and volunteers on tons of projects to help her friends."
Alya found herself struggled to refute him despite the truth, her expression went through many twists and turns before she found words.
"Aahhhh." Marinette slid into the table. "five minutes to spare."
"Plus, Marinette crashes into tables." Adrien pointed out.
Marinette walked up to Alya and pulled a box from her bag. "Alya are you okay?" she asked and handed her the box. Alya confusedly opened the box seeing macaroons lining it. She gave Alya a hug, "Consider these an apology."
Chloe was in her seat, she looked back at the commotion that surrounded Alya. She frowned, her eyes watered, she clicked her pen, repeatedly. She didn't even notice a purple butterfly slip it's way into her pen. "Blindside, nobody's looking at you, I'll give you the power to make sure, they never look at anyone else again. All I ask for in return, are the Miraculous."
"No Hawkmoth." She screamed the room faced her, everyone held different expressions.
"That's no way to act Chloe." The teacher scolded, clearly not having a good impression of the girl.
That pushed her to the edge, purple clouds covered her body. Her hair became loose and flew straight into the air, her eyes became bright lights, she moved as if gravity didn't exist. "I'm Blindside, And I'm going to make sure you regret not looking at me." Light erupted from her, filling the room.
"Marinette what are you doing?" Adrien asked they had both ran out of the room when Chloe yelled hawkmoth.
"I got scared when she said Bawkmoth. What about you" Marinette frowned as she scolded herself.
"You mean Hawkmoth?"
"Yeah Tal-" she stopped herself remembering a situation with photographs. "That's not important, we better get out of here until, Ladybug and Chat noir show up.
Adrien nodded before he ran off, Marinette turned and ran around the corner.
"Marinette that was your chance." Tikki said.
"What was I supposed to say? I'm just going around the corner to transform into the girl of your dreams."
"That works." Tikki said making an innocent look.
A bright light erupted from the classroom door. "What about you is so special?" Chloe slid out of the classroom, she held Alya by the neck. "Why was Adrien talking to you and not me?" Alya tried to say something but her throat was held tight.
"Now's not the time for this. Tikki, spots on."
Chloe moved into the middle of the courtyard. She held still for a moment the sun reflected beautifully of her purple hued skin and golden hair. Slowly she grew brighter until everything around her seemed to pale in comparison.
"What?" Chloe was wrapped in Ladybug's yo-yo, Chat noir sprung from within the darkness, rescuing Alya. Ladybug jumped into fight Chloe while Chat noir carried Alya off to the Eiffel tower.
Alya coughed before she managed out some words. "What is it with supervillains and necks?" Chat looked down surprised at her statement.
"How would I know?" Chat felt a sting in his heart. "No- I mean are you okay Alya?"
"I'm fine, absolutely great." Her phone interrupted, "I need to take this" she answered. "Nino?" she asked, "No I'm fine, I'm okay." She paused. Chat's hearing picked up on Nino's voice.
"Alya, I know you're not fine, your voice is doing that thing again."
Chat's expression changed, he couldn't tell anything unusual about her voice. She seemed the same as always. "Do you want me to bring you to him."
"Yeah." Alya responded weakly, now Chat knew that Nino, could really tell something was wrong.
"I'll bring you back."
"Weren't you going to bring me somewhere safer?"
"I was thinking the Eiffel tower, but the villains always look their first anyway."
The everything around Ladybug sizzled, she was crouched in the dark remains of the school. "Chat, this is worse than we thought." She mumbled to herself.
"Found you!" A line of light struck down, where Ladybug was. Blindside appeared, everywhere had become dark, she was the only light. She held a laser pointer in her hand. The light from her body wisped its way into the Laser pointer. She held her pen in the other hand.
"Blindside, stop!" Ladybug dodged another light beam. "This isn't who you are!"
"How would you know who I am? You didn't even talk to me last time! I nearly died! And you just ran off! Chat just ran off! Do I even matter to anyone!" Each word tugged at Ladybug, she wanted to say something to excuse herself. But her heart knew that wasn't the right thing to say.
"I should have checked on you. I'm sorry." Ladybug cast her eyes down, to avoid looking at Blindside.
"Even in the classroom, nobody even looked at me! Alya are you okay? Alya I made you some crossiants!" Brightside mocked.
"I-I" Ladybug paused "This is all my fault isn't it."
Blindside took advantage of Ladybug's carelessness and launched a beam of light. A dark shadow passed Ladybug, just before the light reached.
"Milady, your night in shiny leather is here to save you." Ladybug stared into the wreckage.
"Chat, this is my fault, I'm the reason she was akumatized." Chat's eyes were filled with pain.
"No, it wasn't just you. I ignored her yesterday it's my fault as well."
"You don't understand Chat, I could have stopped this." Chat gently pressed his hand to her chin, he slowly turned her head to look him in the eyes.
"Bugaboo, you can't take responsibility for everything."
"What, I-I-"
Chat noir, pulled ladybug into a hug. Feeling something soft against his chest he purred slightly.
"Ugh, Chat." Ladybug pushed him back. "Now is not the time for that."
"It just kinda slipped out." Chat smiled far wider than he should be able to. it gave him a gross perverted appearance. "What I want to say is, I'll take responsibility." He brushed her soft hair.
Ladybugs eyes went small, she stood there in silence.
Chat paused not quite understanding the reaction. Suddenly the conclusion hit him "No wait! that came out wrong! Let me bare the responsibility with you. No, that's not it either."
Ladybug laughed, tears appeared on the corners of her eyes. "I never realized how similar we are." Ladybug turned towards Blindside. "Thanks, Chat I feel better, let's focus on saving Paris."
"Perhaps your black cat could use a little luck Milady?"
"Just what I was thinking kitty." Ladybug threw her yo-yo into the air, "Lucky Charm!" a spotted hand mirror dropped into her arms.
"The lucky charm sure has been weird these past few times." Chat commented.
"This one's pretty direct actually." Ladybug handed Chat the mirror, "Aim for her pen, I'll get the akuma."
"What?" Ladybug took off running into the darkness. Chat had an ominous feeling and looked towards Blindside. She was staring right back at him, laser pointer in hand. A smile crept up her face, Chat quickly held the mirror up to protect his head, the laser bounced off the mirror in a random direction. He looked at the mirror for a moment before he registered what happened.
"What?" Brightside looked in shock.
"What's wrong glowy? Cat's got your tongue." He smiled at her.
"Don't look at me with those eyes, their the same as Adrien's!" Brightside, pointed her laser at Chat. Chat carefully angled his mirror towards the pen in her other hand.
"Yes!" he shouted as the light cut through the pen. Ladybug sprung into the air from underneath Bright side grabbing the akuma with her yo-yo and holding Chloe in her arms.
"Ladybug? What happened?" Chloe gazed at the devastation surrounding her and pulled herself closer to ladybug. "Did I do this?" her eyes started to water, as Ladybug put her down.
"No, you didn't do anything wrong." Chat noir walked up to her. "instead we should apologize."
"Chat no- it's my fault."
"Wait-wait what's going on?" Chloe looked strangely at the two superheroes. Ladybug's earring's beeped, warning her she was going to change back soon.
"Go" Chat said, "I'll make up for last time."
"But."
"Trust me I'm your partner." Chat held up his ring showing he was only half way through his transformation.
"Thanks Chat." She threw her mirror into the air and shouted, "Miraculous Ladybug!" before taking off.
Chat turned towards Chloe, he searched for the words to say. But quickly realized it wasn't as easy as Ladybug had made it look.
"Look, I'm fine Chat." Chloe went back to her usual self as soon as Ladybug left. She started going back.
"Chloe, you are one of the strongest people I know." Chloe stopped "There's very few people in Paris willing to fight against an akuma without superpowers." Chat paused "Even if everyone looks away from you, I hope you know, that me and Ladybug will always count on you." Chloe ran.
Chat tried to go after her, but a hand grabbed his tail. "Chat, sometimes you need to give a girl time before she comes around."
"Marinette?" Chat asked confused.
"Just like you gave me time." Marinette went on her tip toes, and leaned her body into his, kissing him. "I'm sorry for leaving you in the dark." She pulled his body, so it touched her at the waist, and leaned on his shoulder she whispered into his ear. "Let me take responsibility."
"Marinette! Your?" Marinette pressed her lips, against his sealing them shut.
"Not out loud kitty."
"It's really you!" He wrapped his arms around her, preventing her from escaping.
"Chat?"
"I don't know, how you could be Ladybug, and do everything Marinette does." Marinette stared at him awkwardly. "But that just makes you the most amazing person I have ever met." A feeling of embarrassment washed over her, turning her face red.
"I'm just a normal girl, I could never attract the attention of someone like you." Marinette belittled herself, attempting to explain her actions.
"If my heart wasn't set on Ladybug. I would have asked you out long ago." Chat's ring beeped.
"We need to get back to class." Marinette ran towards the classroom. Chat looked at her one more time before he ran.
"Chloe, I brought you this." Marinette held out a box of macaroons to Chloe, a similar one to Alya's. "I'm sorry I didn't bring it here sooner."
"Well, I'll accept your apology." Chloe looked away, her voice sounded snooty, but her expression told a different story. But she wouldn't let anyone see that.
"Marinette!" Adrien walked over to her. "isn't their something you should tell Alya?"
"Something I should?" Marinette looked confused before picking up the meaning. "I totally forgot!" she ran over to Alya's seat.
"Chloe, I'm sorry." Adrien looked at her his eyes seeming filled with sympathy.
"Adrikins?" Chloe asked wondering what the apology was about.
"I shouldn't have let you get akumatized." Adrien rubbed the back of his neck, a habit he had when he was nervous.
"Don't worry about it adrikins, how about I let you make it up to me by being my boyfriend?" Chloe tried to relax him.
"I have a girlfriend."
… dead silence filled the room.
"Who?" the room shouted nearly in sync
Adrien thought of a fun idea and walked around the room. "My secret superheroine crushed asked me out. How could I say no?" he stopped in front of Marinette, she glared at him. "My everyday Ladybug." He leaned down and kissed her.
The room was filled with reactions. Alya punched Marinette's arm, "Details, girl!"
Nino wrapped his arm around Adrien, "Dude you have to tell me how this happened."
"Someone help! Chloe fainted!" Sabrina yelled.