Ladybug landed on her balcony with a quiet gunt. She rushed into her bedroom, as the last spot on her earrings disappeared. Tikki zoomed off to find some sort of sweet to indulge in as Marinette took a second to catch her breath. The akuma she had fought with Rena Rouge normally wouldn't have been much of a big deal, just a standard, minorly inconvenienced civilian, who'd been upset over missing his daughter's race, at a track meet.

The problem was, she'd been fighting alongside Rena Rouge.

Obviously, she had nothing against Alya, but as Rena she was both less experienced, and less powerful than Chat Noir. The super power "Mirage" hadn't been at all helpful in the situation. The fox-like hero had called it out too early, the illusion she had produced was barely enticing to the villain, and after she ran out of time, she had left Ladybug to fight off the Akuma on her own.

Apparently whoever came up with the phrase, "Seperation makes the heart grow fonder," was right.

Marinette would have never admitted it to anyone, but in that moment, she deeply missed Chat Noir.

A part of her knew that comparing a newbie hero with her well-practiced partner was completely unfair. Yet, she did it anyway. She couldn't help it.

Alya's excited raving proved a poor substitute for Chat Noir's quick wit, and wordplay. Not to mention that somewhere along the way, Rena had begun calling her "Spots" a nickname that, for some inexplicable reason, had rubbed her the wrong way.

Who was she kidding? She just missed being called Bug-a-boo.

The more she thought about it, the more she wished she could been with her Kitty. She thought about his intelligent eyes and wit. Thinking back to how kind he had been when she'd completely botched her first attempt at using a magic yo-yo. She thought about his eyes, glowing green with mischief, and his sun-blonde hair, undone and shaggy in an oddly cute manner.

Realizing, what she was thinking, and who she was thinking of, she abruptly got up, walked over to her bed, and punched one of her pillows so hard, it shook her whole room.

"Marinette?" Tikki zoomed up to her holder, "are you alright?"

"Fine, Tikki," The girl sighed collapsing onto her bed, "a bit confused."

Tikki had dealt with several time periods, several regions, and several challengers against the power of the Miraculous, but one thing that was always a constant with Ladybugs were boy trouble.

"Are you feeling down about Adrien?"

"What?" Marinette looked up at the Kwami, "No, it's much worse."

"What's so bad that you have to cause a mini earthquake in your bedroom?"

Marinette sat up and looked Tikki in the eyes dramatically, "I think I'm falling for Chat Noir!"

Tikki exploded in to laughter. Marinette frowned at her kwami, this was no time to joke around.

"Marinette it's ok!"

"No it's not!"

"Why is it such a bad thing that your in love with Him?"

The girl stopped to think, why was it such a big deal? Determined not to look like a fool, she thought long and hard for some sort of reason, when she couldn't find one, she resigned to flopping down on her bed once more, drawing more giggles from Tikki.

"Oh hush," she sighed. Eventually her mind wandered off, thinking about Rena, and Chat and Akumas.

it was going to be a hard three weeks to wait.


Hey look! I'm on time today! I'm even early! But that's beside the point, I released my oneshot today! It's called "Mentor" and it's roughly 2,000 words long, so if you need something to nice a and short to read without any cliff hangers, you know where to look. See you soon!