Chapter 4: Confession

Adrien was sitting in his room watching the news when it happened. The reporter just announced that an akuma was attacking right then! Adrien felt the adrenaline kick in. He was excited, anxious, worried, but above all else, nervous. He told himself that the next time he'd see his lady, he'd confess his love to her, and the time has arrived.

He turned to Plagg, and announced, "We have to go. Plagg, claws out!"

Marinette was in her room, doing homework. A certain math problem was giving her trouble.

"Wait," Marinette asked Tikki, "So to find x I need to divide sine 50 by 15?"

"No Marinette," Tikki answered, "cosine 50 equals x divided by 15, so to find x..."

Suddenly, Marinette's phone started ringing. It was Alya.

Marinette greeted, "Hey Alya. What's up?"

"Girl, did you see the news?"

"Uhh... No. I'm doing homework."

"There's an akuma attack going on right now!"

Marinette stood up, ready to spring into action.

"Thanks Alya! Where?"

Chat Noir was on his way to the akuma when he saw her. She was on her way like him. He quickly closed the gap between them.

When Ladybug noticed him, she said, "Oh, hey Chat, glad you could make it."

"Hello Milady," Chat greeted as he slightly bowed his head, "I have something very im-purr-tant to talk to you about."

Ladybug rolled her eyes at the pun before replying, "Can it wait Chat? We have an akuma to fight."

"It can't wait. There won't be time after." Chat Noir closed his eyes, mentally preparing himself. He opened them, looked in her eyes, and announced, "Ladybug, I love you."

Ladybug was slightly taken aback before regaining composure. Unconvinced of his sincerity, she scolded, "We don't have time for your childish flirts Chat Noir."

Chat Noir jolted back. He wasn't sure that she'd return his love, but he didn't expect such a vehement response. It hurt him more than he could possibly imagine. Despite his injured heart, it still had a glimmer of hope. He wasn't sure that she knew he was serious. He had to be sure, so he stopped in front of her, forcing her to halt, and looked her in the eyes. Mustering all of his love, he expressed all of it in his stance, face, words, voice, and eyes, "Ladybug, I'm serious. I love you."

Ladybug was stunned. Before, she was sure he was joking, like every other time. He was always joking about this stuff. But looking at him now, she could tell he was serious. There was no doubt. The way he stood, the look he gave, and the sound of his voice; he was dead serious. But then, if he's serious now, was he serious during all those other times? She was confused. She didn't know what to do.

Chat Noir was nervous. His true feelings were out there. He was just waiting. He stared at her and waited for her response.

They stood like that, staring at each other, when someone screamed.

Ladybug woke up. She didn't have time for this! People were depending on her to save them! Their lives were at stake! She couldn't just stand here!

Finding her voice, Ladybug stated, "Chat, I'm sorry, but we don't have time for this. They need us to stop the akuma. We'll talk about this after, okay?"

Hurt that she was putting his feelings second, despite the fact that it made sense, Chat argued, "But there won't be time after! Once we use our powers, we'll only have minutes until we change back. This is the only time we have to talk about it."

Ladybug counter-argued, "But if we talk now, people could get hurt." She then looked at Chat Noir, his mixed emotions on display. Her resolve weakened. Thinking of him, she thought of a solution, "How about after the fight, when we transform, we'll feed our kwami, transform back, and then we'll meet..." Ladybug then scanned the nearby buildings. She found one to her liking, pointed to it, and continued, "there, on top of that building. Okay?"

Although Chat still didn't like the fact that his feelings are being put on hold, he relented to the compromise and said, "Fine."

They then rushed to fight the akuma.

The battle went worse than usual. They were both distracted and their teamwork was awkward, but in the end, they managed to stop and cure the akuma like normal.

After Ladybug used her lucky charm to heal all damage done, Chat Noir looked her in the eyes, his vulnerability oozing out of them. Suddenly, his ring beeped. Still staring at his lady, Chat inquired quietly, "Meet you there?"

"Uh... yeah. I'll catch up to you."

Chat Noir then left to get ready. When he landed in an alley, he transformed.

Adrien looked at Plagg and said, "Come on, let's go."

"No. I'm not gonna help you transform again just so you can flirt with Ladybug."

"Come on Plagg! You know how important this is to me!"

"I already helped you tranform. Doing it again? Well, it's harder than it looks, you know?

"I'll buy you cheese"

Plagg's eyes widened. "Camembert?"

"Sure, any kind you want."

Plagg started to salivate. He could already taste the cheese. Plagg began to think really hard. Then he looked at Adrien and said, "ok, but the cheese better be gooey!"

Adrien didn't waste time finding cheese. It actually wasn't that hard, he was practically standing accross the street from a shop selling cheese.

After Plagg ate, Adrien transformed and hurried. He had to be with his lady.

When he arrived at the designated building, she was nowhere to be seen. Apparently, he got there first. It made sense to Chat, he did hurry after all. So then he just stood there, impatiently waiting for his love to arrive.

Ladybug landed atop a random building. She immediately transformed back to Marinette. She starred straight at Tikki and asked, "Tikki, what do I do?"

"Oh Marinette. That depends, what do you want?"

Chat Noir was pacing back and forth. Where was she? What's taking her so long? Feels like he's been pacing there forever! He took his baton out to check the time on the screen. Actually, it's only been five minutes. It felt like five hours! But still, what's taking her so long?

"Hey girl! How'd it go?" Alya aked through the phone.

Marinette replied, "Uhh... good, I guess. Um... Alya? Uh... Well... something happened and I need your help."

Fearing something terrible has happened, Alya questioned, "What!? What happened girl? You alright?"

Slightly blushing, Marinette studdered, "Uh... Well... I guess I am? I don't know. Well... Chat Noir, um... he... uh... he... told me... that he... um... l-l-loves me."

"WHAT!? Are you serious girl? That's crazy! What did you say?"

"Uhh... well... I haven't said anything yet"

"What!? You just left him hanging!?"

"Well, the akuma was still out there, and after we stopped it, we transformed, and now I'm gonna go see him now."

"What are you gonna tell him?

"I don't know... I was kinda hoping you could help me with that."

"Well, do you like him? Do you want to go out with him?"

Talking to himself, Chat Noir said, "She's taking forever! What's taking her so long? She wouldn't ditch me, right? Of course she wouldn't! She'd never be so cold. But then... what could be taking her so long to get here?"

Finally realizing that his legs where getting tired to pacing, he stopped and looked around. To his surprise, he saw her. She was jumping between rooftops to get to him. When she finally made it, she stopped in front of him. She didn't say a word. They just stood there, starring at each other.

Author's Note: I had almost every conversation planned out beforehand, then I started typing. I know it's cliche, but it did feel like the chapter wrote itself sometimes. Some parts still feel choppy to me, but the others I could swear I didn't do it. As I did Ladybug's reaction to Chat Noir's confession, It felt like she was reacting herself, without me. It didn't exactly worked out how I planned beforehand, but it works and, I think, more realistic.