Marinette was the first to awaken, the room was dark except for the small window in the upper section of the wall, she was probably in a basement. "Tikki, are you here?" She called out.
"Yes Marinette, we're all here." The little Kwami replied, happy one of them finally woke up.
"Where are we? And how did we get here?" Marinette questioned, "the last thing I remember was getting beaten by that akuma. Oh" Marinette held her head as it began to throb.
"Thhat can be ansssswered later." A new voice hissed. "I need you to go upsssstairsss and grab a ssslab of meat out of the fridge."
"Alright where's the light switch" Marinette started to stand.
"Not yet, Chat Noir is still unconscious and not transformed. I'm Plagg by the way."
"Oh," Marinette tried her hardest to not look, but she couldn't see his face anyway. There was another body in the room, a puddle of blood pooling under his arm. "Oh god, is he."
"No, hesss fffine. But he needsss meat."
"Do you all need food as well?" Marinette asked the Kwami's.
"We already found food, Quetz says the house should be clear for a couple hours still but we need to be quick." Tikki said guiding Marinette to the stairs. The house was quite as Marinette climbed the stairs she felt her pocket buzz.
"Shit" Marinette said seeing the text from Alya about her date with Adrien. "God now he thinks I ditched him for sure. He hates me doesn't he Tikki." Marinette complained to her Kwami.
"Who's going to hate you?" Chat said from the stair well, not revealing himself.
"Oh Chat, I didn't know you were awake. Um are you, in your suit?"
"Not yet, Although I have a feeling I'm in the same boat as you."
"Hold on lets take care of our friend then we can talk about our personal crises." Marinette said with her ladybug authority.
"Right. Plagg claws out."
"Tikki, spots on"
The two hero's looked in the fridge and found a slab of steak still packaged " should we cook it?" Ladybug questioned.
"No jussst bring it down."
"Should we really see his identity?" Chat asked.
"Umm" Marinette started, avoiding Chats eyes. "I kind of already know who he is, and he knows who I am." Ladybug muttered the last part.
"Wait you'll reveal yourself to some new guy but not to me, your partner of a year?" Chat yelled.
"It's not that, he found me out in my civilian form and wouldn't drop it."
"How did he do that?"
"He said I smelled like magic."
"I know you smell heavenly but I don't think I could sniff you out if you were right behind me not in costume."
"Chat! We don't have time for this." Ladybug started down the stairs. When she got by Jaidens side she opened the package of meat, Jaiden winced at the smell. "Help me roll him on his back and prop him up."
Once the two had shifted Jaiden and propped him up on ladybugs lap, she tore bits of meat and Jaiden, whether he was conscious or not greedily ate the pieces.
Once the shock settled from Chats system as he realized who the new hero was he finally found the words to speak. "I know him."
"Wait, Chat, how do you know him?"
"He kind of convinced me to ask a girl in my class out for ice cream today, but you can guess how that ended." He gestured to there surroundings.
"I thought you liked me?" Ladybug said startled at the possible realization of Chats identity.
"Ladybug, I love you more than anyone. But you've kept turning me down for a year, and this girl is really pretty and smart and clumsy and she has this cute stutter when she's around me. Jaiden said he was in a similar situation with two girls, he chased one while another chased him and in the end, he lost both. So I decided that, I could care for both of you and now she probably hates me so much."
Neither of them saw the grin forming on Jaidens face as he gained consciousness.
"A-Adrien." Ladybug said hesitantly.
A look of shock passed through Chats face. "H-how do you know?" Was all he could muster.
"Because silly kitty, you asked me to ice cream today."
"Ma-Marinette!"
'Jaiden, how long have you been awake?' Quetz asked realizing his master has been awake for some time.
'Only since Marinette started feeding me.'
'You planned this, didn't you?'
"Just as planned." Jaiden coughed and the two hero's just stared at him with question marks on their faces.
"You planned this!?!" They said in unison.
'No there is no way I could have. But not like I'll tell you that.' "Absolutely." A shit eating grin spread like wildfire on his face.
"Since when!?!" Adrien asked.
"Oh since you two came back down talking about the person you let down."
"You're an asshole, you know that right?"
"Don't get me started." The two of them thought for a moment and remembered that sudden gust of wind in the classroom earlier.
"Did you have something to do with that wind in the classroom?" Marinette said, her face growing more read by the minute. Jaiden couldn't help but laugh about that.
Once he finally calmed down, "it was so priceless." He said through wee-zing coughs. "Ok, you two should go. Either together or separate but I'm going to get Alya over here so unless you two want to explain to her." Jaiden pointed to the trap door.
"Why Alya?" They both asked.
"Because for one I don't think Adrien would like me making out with his new girlfriend, even if it was to recharge my soul. And Alya is such a nice girl with a lot of magic potential, if she ever got her hands on a miraculous she would be a force to be reckoned with."
"What are you talking about?" Marinette asked .
"Leave. Maybe I'll explain later. Actually wait, I don't actually have her number."
Once Marinette had given Jaiden Alya's phone number the two left to go talk about the sudden reality that the two people they loved were the same person. Jaiden heard the front door open and close. "Jaiden we're home." His parents called.
'Right, parents.'
"Although our boss asked us to dinner in an hour, did you want to come with?"
"Actually I was thinking of going to see a movie with a friend and getting dinner after, if that's alright?" Jaiden said walking up the stairs.
"Oh that'll be fine, your mother and I are happy your making friends." His dad said cheerily.
"Cool, thank you. I'm going to go shower quick and then I'll be off." Jaiden gave both of them a hug and walked back downstairs, texting Alya if she wanted to meet out tonight.
To say his phone exploded might be an exaggeration, but it would have been quieter if it had as Alya called him nearly immediately.
"Where the hell did you run off two with Ladybug and Chatnoir!" Alya yelled into his ear even though he held the phone at arms length away.
"Alya listen to me." Jaiden tried to start.
"No, Jaiden, Ladybug and Chatnoir were unconscious, and you purposely sliced your arm and released fucking sunlight! And then you all just disappointed! Where the fuck did you go!"
"Can I speak now?"
"Yes!"
"Ok so when I released the sunlight Ladybug and Chatnoir had detransformed and I know how much Ladybug likes her secret identity a secret so I hauled them into the river and swam home, I found a mysterious tunnel under my house that leads to the river. They left a little bit ago."
"Wait, do they know each other's identity now?"
"Yes, I'm not telling you."
"Fine, let's meet, you want to come over to my place for dinner?"
"I was thinking movie and dinner, you know, like a date."
"Sounds cute, let me ask my mom." A moment of silence, "she said it was ok, where should we meet?"
"How about the park across from Marinette's bakery?"
"Sounds good, see you in half an hour?"
"Sounds good." The two hung up and got ready for their date.