Note: mayuralover asked me a good question. She asked, "Before she knew who Chat Noir was, did her power do that? reach out to him?" The answer is No, in order for her to use it, she has to search for something. Think of it like a switch. She has to open herself up and reach out to find what it is. She looks for the demon monster and finds Chat Noir. She doesn't know that he's the monster. She thinks her feelings and her heart are outwaying her sight. I'll touch on this later. ^-^ THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE REVIEWS! ^-^
Marinette walked out of her room to find Alya sitting with Nino on their couch.
"I didn't know Nino was here." Marinette grabbed something to eat from the fridge and a cup to drink tea with.
"What happened to you?" Nino looked her over and noticed all of the red marks on her skin.
"Chat happened." Alya giggled and covered her lips with her hand.
Marinette glared at Alya and Nino's eyes flew wide.
"I'm sorry, girl. I couldn't resist." Alya wiped the tears from her eyes and slowly stopped laughing hysterically.
"Ha ha, very funny." Marinette bit into her pain au chocolat and steeped a tea bag in her cup of hot water.
"You should cover those up." Nino cringed at the sight of them.
"I forgot I had them, okay?" Marinette sighed and touched one with a wince. "They hurt though." She groaned and fell onto the couch next to them.
"You're like- covered in t-" Nino looked from her neck to her breasts.
"Nino…" Alya knocked him in the arm with her elbow.
"I know… Hey." Marinette sat up suddenly and turned slightly to look at the couple. "Think you could get Adrien to go out again?"
"He's pretty busy." Nino rubbed the back of his head.
"Please…" Marinette begged him with batting eyelashes.
"You just saw Chat and he did-" Nino gestured to her body again. "that. And now you want Adrien? Girl, you can't have both."
Marinette bit her bottom lip. "I just wanna see if what Alya said was right."
Nino sighed and took his phone from his pocket. He knew she was right because he knew they were the same man. "You two owe me." He glared at them and searched for Adrien's number.
Nino sat back on the couch with his cellphone to his ear and listened to it ring.
"Hey, man." Adrien spoke through his white cellphone. He was currently on break at a photo shoot for some new swimwear that his father had designed.
"What would you say to going out again with me, Alya, and Mari?" Nino looked at both of the girls who were on their knees begging him to ask Adrien and he rolled his eyes.
"I'm at a photoshoot at the moment…" Adrien swatted away at a makeup artist that was busy touching up his face and tattoos.
She shrugged. "You got five minutes, Monsieur Agreste."
"Thanks." His voice came out more irritated than he meant for it to.
"Ask him when he's done." Marinette whispered with pleading eyes.
Nino rolled his eyes. "MARI, wants to know when you get off, A...DRIEN?" He put an inflection on specific words on purpose.
Marinette and Alya raised their eyebrows confused.
"I swear if she catches on that you said that shit, I'm gonna rip you a new one." Adrien seethed under his breath and quickly gave his model smile at a random wardrobe woman near him that had heard.
Nino chuckled. "Same… old Adrien."
"What does that mean?" Alya and Marinette asked in tandem.
Nino waved them away and got up to walk into Alya's bedroom.
Alya looked at Marinette and they shrugged.
"Dude, Mari really wants to see you." Nino sighed. "The girls were begging on their knees, man."
"She just saw me last night." Adrien pinched the bridge of his nose with his eyes screwed tight.
"I could tell with the bites on her body. Jesus dude, what the hell did you do? Not eat and decide to eat her?" Nino snorted and shook his head.
"Shut up, man. You should of seen what she wore. You know what, I'll send you a picture when I have Chat's phone." Adrien sighed and tried to not let the memory get to him. He wasn't in the most private of places and the white swim shorts he had on wouldn't hide much.
"When are you free, Adrien?" Nino sighed and fell back onto Alya's bed. "And I mean you, as Adrien. Not Chat Noir."
Adrien sighed. "I'm free tomorrow night. I have a tattoo client after this. You of all people, should know that, Nino."
"Well, excuse me for not having your date book in front of my damn face all the time. Should I carry it with me everywhere?" Nino scoffed at his comment.
"Sorry, Nino. I'm just-" Adrien rubbed his eyes. "Really irritated and frustrated right now. You know how much I hate modeling."
"Yeah. Alright, we'll talk tomorrow. Text Mari. She's feeling guilty that Adrien likes her and she's more interested in Chat Noir." Nino smirked.
"But, how does that make sense… She just met me. I mean A-" Adrien was confused and Nino hung up on him with a chuckle.
He quickly sent him Marinette's number through a text.
Adrien looked at his phone and groaned. It didn't take long for him to be ready and in front of the camera again, doing the same alluring poses that Vincent always asked for.
Nino walked back out to Alya and Marinette.
"So?" Marinette looked at him with hopeful eyes.
"I gave him your number and told him to text you." He sighed and flopped onto the couch. "Can I ask you something?"
Marinette sat with her lips parted in confusion.
"Why do you wanna see Adrien if you like Chat Noir so much?" Nino looked at her with interest and soon Alya did too.
"Alya told me he wouldn't have bought me so many drinks if he didn't like me. I've always admired him, always secretly had a crush on him. Even if I only saw him in photographs. I just wanna know if he does like me." Marinette tangled her fingers together in her lap, nervously, and peered down at them with her bottom lip between her teeth.
Nino scoffed and crossed his arms. He sure as hell knew the answer to that, but it wasn't his place to say. "He's busy tonight, but he said he can go out tomorrow night."
"Thank you Nino." Marinette hugged him.
"I just hope you don't break him." Nino spoke under his breath.
"What?" Marinette looked over at him after she was done daydreaming.
"Nothing." Nino sighed and Alya looked at him with a worried expression. She had heard him.
"Where should we go?" Alya tried to change the subject by clapping her hands and bouncing down onto the couch beside Nino.
"A new club opened up near Le Noir Tattoo. We could go there." Nino shrugged his shoulders.
"I heard about that." Alya smiled and got excited. "Let's go there tomorrow night."
"Sounds good." Marinette smiled and got up from the couch. "Is there anyway we can go to the tattoo shop and I can watch Chat work?"
"Girl, you're obsessed!" Alya laughed at her friend. "I think he did more than just sex you up."
"We didn't have sex!" Marinette was mortified.
Alya laughed harder and Nino looked at the two of them like they were inhuman.
"We can go." Nino shrugged after the shock wore off. "I have to go in and grab something I forgot anyway."
Before long, they were in the car and off to the tattoo shop. Nino walked in through the back door with the two girls trailing behind him. The song, Twin Flames by In This Moment, blasted through the sound system.
Chat Noir sat at his station, pressing the stencil he had just made onto the back of his client's calf.
"Hey, man." Nino stood next to Chat and Chat peered over his shoulder at him with a red pen in his mouth.
"Hey." Chat's eyes scanned behind Nino and landed on Alya and Marinette. He about fell from his bar stool.
"Marinette wanted to watch you work and… Alya kind of just tagged along, as she does. I came to pick something up I had forgotten." Nino shrugged.
Chat set the pen down onto his work area and gazed at Marinette.
She took in his clothing. He wore a black with neon green plaid button down shirt that was unbuttoned with a black deep v-neck tee beneath it. He wore worn out black denim pants and a pair of biker boots that were silver toed and worn a bit on the edges. He had his usual piercings in. Chat went back to his client and slowly peeled the stencil off.
"You can sit in that chair if you want to watch. That is, if, Kim, here doesn't care." He tapped the muscular man that laid stretched out on a leather folding bench.
"I don't care." Kim shrugged and Chat nodded.
"There you go." Chat changed his black latex gloves and poured ink into small white cups.
Alya stood behind the desk with Nino, with her fingers curled in his shirt, and her lips on his.
Marinette giggled and looked away from them and set her eyes back on Chat Noir, just as he was pressing his foot down to test his tattoo gun.
Chat scooted over to Kim and touched his leg, before he began to do the outline of his new tattoo design. Kim laid his head on his folded arms.
Marinette watched him expertly follow the sketch on Kim's leg. "What are you getting done?"
"I wanted something to remember by pops by. So, I got his favorite football player's number surrounded by autumn leaves. Fall was his favorite season." Kim shrugged with a warm smile.
Chat wiped the tattoo off and rubbed it with clear gel.
"I'm sure he would have loved it." Marinette warmly smiled at Kim.
"We tried really hard on this one." Chat finally spoke and sat back, after wiping it one last time with gel. "Outlines done. Go check it out in the mirror over there. You know the drill."
Marinette took that moment to notice he had a slew of tattoos on his arms and legs. They were all different, but most of them were traditional and appeared to be all Chat's style.
"Did you tattoo all of those?" Marinette looked at Chat with wide eyes.
"Most of them, yes." Chat smirked at her and took his gloves off and threw them into the trash can.
"They're beautiful." Marinette was entranced by them.
Chat snorted. "It doesn't take much to impress you, does it?"
Marinette gave him an unamused expression and he burst out laughing.
Kim came back from the mirror and laid back down. "It's perfect, like always, man."
"Great. Let's get the tones started." Chat put on new gloves and set out another pile of paper towels.
Marinette watched Chat intently. Her eyes sparked, as she watched him expertly shade in the number and then the leaves.
"Do you wanna stop here, or do you wanna keep going into the color?" Chat threw the white caps into the trash with the gloves.
"Let's just get it done. I'm good." Kim shrugged and repositioned himself.
"Alright, whatever you say, man." Chat pulled out more caps and filled them with the colors that Kim had selected and changed out the cup of water.
Marinette looked back at Alya and Nino. Nino had Alya propped up onto the counter and she was watching him going through stuff.
She smiled and went back to watching Chat Noir. He began to add in the colors and Marinette watched the tattoo go from a monochromatic art piece to a bright one.
"That's amazing!" Marinette lit up with a smile and Chat smirked, while he wiped the tattoo with the paper towel and added gel to it.
For some reason, her mind wandered and she thought of seeing him last night in his bed with his fingers wrapped around his arousal and she bit her bottom lip. Her thighs tightly pressed together and Chat's eyes shot to her. She shook her head to try to ignore it. His breathing hitched and electricity crashed between them. He cleared his throat and went back to focusing on the tattoo.
Marinette blushed and looked away from him. Chat tried to not think about her thighs, or her kiss, or really anything that involved her.
He finished up the tattoo and covered it in gel and plastic. "You're all set."
Kim handed him money and fist bumped him, before walking out the door.
"We're gonna head out. I'm assuming you can take Mari home?" Alya winked at her best friend, who was busy blushing.
Chat cleaned up his station with his back to them. "Yeah, I can do that."
Marinette nervously shifted her feet and rubbed her upper arm.
"I'll see ya around." Alya waved goodbye with her arms around Nino's arm and winked at her friend.
"See ya!" Marinette waved at them with a smile.
Nino clapped Chat on his back with a knowing glance. Chat looked at him and sighed.
"So, what do you want to do?" Marinette smiled at Chat.
"Are you hungry?" Chat turned to look at her, while he leaned on his tool box.
"I could eat." Marinette looked at him with excitement in her eyes.
He didn't miss her double meaning. Chat laughed and tugged her close to him. They crashed into the tool box, making a loud clang sound.
"You'll be the death of me, ya know that?" He picked her up and spun her around to sit on his tool kit. Her legs wrapped around his waist and he kissed her hard on the lips, while her fingers tangled in his hair.