In the Morning
Chapter Ten: My Lady?
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My head and heart are a mess, they are at odds with each other and neither want to cave. One is saying that it isn't a big deal and I should be happy but the other says the complete opposite. I really can't tell what my heart is trying to tell me out right, there is just too much swimming around in my head.
I look to the wall of akumas before me, I have got to focus! My heart pipes up interrupting my thoughts that are trying to focus on the battle.
AHG! Stupid heart! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME!? Just spit it out already! I need to pay attention and I feel like I can't do anything right now. Move. Think. Breathe. My vision is clouded by thoughts of Adrien and Chat Noir, my body stills as my last piece of focus on the battle fades away.
"LADYBUG! LOOK OUT!" I hear Chat's voice and start to feel like I am falling right as my world goes black.
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H-how did this happen? How did I even get in this situation? How did I go from trying to get ahold of Marinette to fighting off herds of akumas with Ladybug to now hiding in an alley with an unconscious Marinette in my arms? I look to the pigtailed girl laying across my lap, still in my arms with confusion clouding my mind as a small red creature suddenly forms before my eyes coming from her earrings.
-Eariler that day-
"I really need to talk to her Plagg, she can't keep-"
"Give. Her. Time." He says as he takes a few bites of cheese.
"I know I know…" I glare at him. I can't stand when I know he is right. "You sure I can't even text her? Just a short message?"
"Well it's your life kid, do what you want." He eats more. "I'm just telling ya, she will come around, she just needs to process it all."
"I understand that but she is obviously avoiding me." I sigh harshly and run my hand through my hair as Nathalie walks into my room.
She stands there a moment looking around the empty space, "Is someone here Adrien? Wheren't you just talking to someone?" She looks at me over her glasses.
"Yeah, I was, ah, on the phone until a moment ago." I try and lie smoothly.
"Very well, are you ready? Your modeling shoot for today is all set up, we best be on your way."
"Okay," I grab my bag and follow her out the door.
This has got to be the worst shoot ever. I can't stand what my father has me wearing. He says it is for his new line but I think it all just seems a bit stiff. We are at the library today, and my outfits make me look like a spoiled little rich kid. Well I may be a rich kid, and some would say I am spoiled but most of the things I have I never asked for. Just things my father gets me to try and say he still cares. I know he does but I'd much rather just have dinner with him. Not have him buy me stuff.
"I need to change my camera lens, how about we take our lunch break." The photographer says. I loosen the neck tie, unbutton a few buttons on the shirt and relax. Taking the fake glasses off of my nose I place them on the desk in front of me.
"Adrien, I am going to get us our lunches, I'll be back shortly." Nathalie says and then is gone before I can reply. I glance toward where Nathalie was standing and now just the Gorilla is there.
I really need to figure out how to go see Marinette, and soon. If I don't talk to her about all of this it could ruin everything. Out of the corner of my eye I see a window and outside that window is a bakery.
That's it! We are at the school today! Marinette lives right across the road! I can go over there real fast and talk to her! I jump out of my seat and quickly tell the Gorilla that I am going to go wash up before Nathalie gets back with the food. Once in the bathroom I lock the door and open my bag where I see a sleeping Plagg. "Wake up Plagg, I have to go somewhere."
"Why do you need me to do it? I'm trying to sleep…" He murmurs.
"Okay, correction, Chat Noir has to go somewhere."
"But I didn't hear an akuma or anything…" He sits up and glares at me, rubbing his eyes.
"Sorry, I'll repay you in camembert later!" I smile at my kwami, "Claws out!"
I land on Marinette's roof softly and then peak into her sky view window. Wow, nothing creepy going on here. I shake my head at myself.
I see Marinette sitting at her desk fiddling with a pen. I take a deep breath and tap on the window. I see her jump slightly and look toward me, I also notice her face flush and her eyes quickly dart around her room. I smile, a very Chat Noir smile, and wave. She stands up and walks to the steps that lead to her roof.
I pull myself back up to stand on the roof and wait for her. She opens the hatch door and stares at me with wide eyes. "D-don't you have a shoot today…" She cocks her head toward the school.
"Yeah, but we are taking lunch, and I need to talk to you." I step toward her and take her hands in my black clad ones. "Please stop avoiding me." I say as I hold her gaze.
"I'm not avoiding you A- Chat Noir. I just have been thinking about everything and I…" She looks past me.
"Marinette, please, don't be like that…" I feel my heart drop, she is pulling away from me.
"Get down!" She exclaims as she pulls her hands from mine and pushes my shoulders down as she crouched beside me. I look above me and see a flash of red scan across the side of Marinette's home. I stand quickly and look out over the city, trying to figure where they light came from. After pin pointing it I turn to tell Marinette that I need to go, "Go Chat Noir, I'll be fine." She smiles simply.
"I'll come back later." I nod and dash off.
"I am Check Out, and you are all going to give me your energy so I can be the best there is! No one will walk all over me ever again!" The akuma victim standing a few yards away from me and my partner yells as she used her scanner to scan the people in closer to her. They all froze, all then turned black and white looking like barcodes. After a moment of nothing twice the amount of people she scanned popped up looking just like her. "Clones!?"
"Hey Kitty, think we should stop her?" Ladybug asks.
I smile, "Well of course!" and we spring into action!
… Or so I thought.
"Why is this so hard?!" I scream as I hit multiple clones of Check Out with my staff and push them away to the edge of the building we somehow got to the top of.
"Because we can't find her!" Ladybug shouts back to me, I catch a glance at her and she is a frazzled mess. Her hair is halfway out of one of its pigtails and her face is red. Her body is moving, trying to fight back but I can tell behind her eyes there is something pulling her away from the battle. I assume it is that it is just because her unused Lucky Charm lay a few feet away from us through the herd of akuma clones, she must be trying to figure out how to get it back.
"Ladybug, how can we do anything!?" I whip around and knock away a few more clones, finishing my spin I see Ladybug standing there, frozen. "LADYBUG! LOOK OUT!" I yell as the akuma clones tackle her and push her off the edge of the building.
I spring forward and jump off the building, seeing Ladybug hit her head on the stone wall as she fumbled for her yo-yo. Her body went limp after the impact. I cling to the edge of the wall for less than half a second longer and then push myself to her and catch her in my arms. I land on the ground and look to her, "Ladybug! Ladybug!" I pat her cheek trying to wake her. The herd of akuma clones are closing in on us. I can't fight without her, so I do the only thing I can think of, I run and hide.
I found a secluded alley way across town and hid in it. Trying to catch my breath I lean back against the wall, cradling Ladybug in my arms. I look to the entrance to the alleyway to be sure that we weren't followed. Suddenly there is a flash of pink light. I fear that Check Out and her clone arm has found us but when I look to my arms I realize that it wasn't Check Out. I see a small red kwami zip out of Ladybug's miraculous and lay down on the girl in my arms stomach.
-End Flashback-
"Marinette?" I whisper as I brush her hair out of her face and take in her features, Marinette is My Lady?"
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