A/N To anyone confused as to why I had Blue Exorcist and Attack on Titan mentioned in the previous chapter, they were both anime's where The voice actor for Adrien voiced the main character

Disclaimer: I do not own miraculous ladybug

The Mime

"Again"

"Oh, come on that was a perfect shot"

"A. gain." I said slowly saying each syllable like it was its own sentence.

Chloé rolled her eyes and threw her knife again hitting bull's eye. "Why are you my trainer?"

"Cause your trying not to get your dad suspicious" I said. "Any luck by the way?" I said leaning against waiting for my cousin to show up after his shoot.

"On my dad, telling me what happened to my mom?" Chloé asked. "He's being as tight-lipped as ever. It's been four months, Annie, this goes any longer I may just decide to look into it myself."

"There maybe a reason why he's keeping quiet" I told Chloé "a lot of what they did was, confidential, telling anyone was a risk" I continued. "Maybe, your safer not knowing"

"I thought you were on my side!" Chloé barked.

"I am, I think you have every right to want to find out what happened top your mother, but Chloé remember, I know what happened to my parents, and it nearly broke me."

Chloé shook her head. "That's different, your parents are dead, my mother's still alive."

I bit my lip and looked away. Chloe's eyes softened and her mouth opened to convey what I hoped was an apology when...

"Hey guys" Adrien said entering the basement. "Ready?"

I forced a smile and pulled out my fencing sword. "Ready"

Adrien showed his ring. "Plagg Claws Out!"

Cat Noir fought hard, his strength more then double what a normal teenage boy should have been. When Chloé, Adrien and I had started secretly training in the Agreste Mansion basement he had wanted to train as Adrien, giving the excuse that he didn't want to hurt us.

Our reaction? That we needed him at his best, so that if we got involved with Akuma's again, we wouldn't risk being burdens.

To which he would argue, that we should only fight as a last resort.

Chloé and I usually rolled or eyes by that point.

"Plagg tell you about that Dance?" I asked as I swung my sword and Cat Noir effortlessly blocked it with his baton.

Cat Noir tilted his head in confusion. "Dance?"

That's a no I thought to myself. "Every year around the end of the school year there's a Miraculous Dance, where Miraculous holders from all over the world meet up and get together, it's supposed to be away of keeping close ties, so you get to know that even if your miraculous is the only one awake in your country, you're not alone, and that if need be you can always receive help"

"Where is it this year?" Adrien asked.

"Usually the hometown of the youngest/newest miraculous holder" I said. "Which is hopefully you and ladybug, since the ideal age for chosen's is 15."

Adrien pursed his lips. "That's convenient."

I nodded. "The real person to talk with this too, is the one who gave you those powers. He's the Guardian of the European Miraculouses." I told him before crouching down and swinging my foot only for it to be caught in his claws. Cat Noir smirked and flipped me over.

I hissed. "Could you try not to break my legs please? I don't have an indestructible suit that absorbs most of my hits" I stood and brandished my sword again and took a running jump at him only for him to block my sword. While he was focused on blocking my sword I kicked my foot up and hit him in the abdomen. It didn't hurt him but I was able to push him away from me.

"You sure you don't want me to change back?" Cat Noir asked.

"No, Cat, you're purrfect" I said with a half smile.

"You're puns are horrible" Cat Noir said with a smile. I knew he was being ironic but I couldn't help but play along.

I pouted and looked at Chloé. "Can you bee-lieve he said that? My puns are pawsitively clawsome."

Chloé wrinkled her nose throwing another dagger hitting the target dead centre. "If you say so."

Chat Noir took that moment to extend his baton and knock my feet out from under me knocking me on my ass.

"Hey!"

"Look whose pawsitively clawsome, now?" Cat Noir laughed.

I glared at him and kicked my leg out hitting him right in the stomach. It didn't hurt him – the suits protecting them from most things that would cause them pain. But it didn't get him to move back. I jumped back up and aimed straight at him.

Cat noir laughed and started spinning his baton so that it was shielding him from me.

I breathed deeply through my nose. "Remind me the rules of the game again?"

"No rules, just take me down, without killing, maiming, or breaking my bones" Cat Noir sat.

I nodded and pulled out a pocket knife and threw it. It stuck to Cat Noir's baton and Cat Noir stooped spinning his baton to remove the knife.

In that moment of distraction, I charged, knocked his feet out from under him, rammed my feet hard on his hands so he would let go of the baton and pointed the sword at his throat.

"I win"

"Finally," Chloé muttered twirling a knife in her hand. "My turn"

"So…" I asked Master Fu. "Is it happening this year?"

"The dance?" Master Fu asked. I my indignant look. "Perhaps… why?"

"I have the previous ladybug and cat noir outfit's, I thought if the dance was approaching…" I cut off and looked away.

"You could still give it to them" Master Fu said.

"Yeah, but, is it?" Annette asked. "I mean I know I won't be going but…"

"You're an overly curious girl" Master Fu finished for me "Ok, Ok, Ok, yes, I was planning on hosting the party, at the lake house"

I stared at Master Fu wide eyed. "My uncle would have your head!"

"I am still part owner" Fu said with a chuckle. "It should be fine."

I shook my head and laughed.

"Shoot!" I yelled when I stared at the dress in my closet. It was red with black polka dot's all over it. The back was bare though it had a black jacket that covered it surrounding the soldiers. The dress was created in the poodle style, with out the poodle. It had been passed down from ladybug to ladybug for at least two generations, Master Fu had given it to my mother several years ago, when she had turned 18 during her very first Miraculous Dance.

The Dance was held in one of the Miraculous cities, where Miraculous holders from every country would come to meet and have fun and dance.

The last dance had been held in China and they changed locations every year. I knew my cousin would not be able to go, and generally the practise was that if one of the duo couldn't go the other couldn't either.

Yet I couldn't help but feel that perhaps it was time to hand the dress back.

And I couldn't because it had a giant tear right through the seam.

Yeah.

I couldn't very well give this to my uncle. He would give me this extremely long lecture about how careless it was of me, and how I should have been careful, despite the fact I hadn't touched it in years.

My fathers outfit on the other hand had a white dress shirt with black slacks, a black dinner coat and a green tie that was in perfect shape.

Typical.

I took the dress down from where it hung on the closet.

I wasn't that good of a seamstress. And I couldn't ask uncle if he could fix it, not if I wanted a five hour lecture on how I should have been more careful and probably refuse just to spite me.

And I couldn't very well go to anyone else in the fashion industry, it would get back to my uncle and that five hour lecture I would receive would be doubled.

I sighed, and I had hoped I would be able to give this dress to ladybug too.

The next day I was in luck, I overheard Myléné discussing a hat that her father had asked Marinette to fix. My rose a little, I knew a hat was not in anyway similar to a dress, but, it was better than nothing.

When Myléné had finished, and had gone to her seat I hesitantly went to Marinette and put forward my request.

Marinette went quiet for a moment before she answered. "I'd need pictures of the rip, and the style of dress" Marinette told me the next day. "Or better yet, I could come to your house, and take a look at it there?"

I nodded. "That would be ok, I can tell uncle I accidently took one of your books home."

Marinette tilted her head her eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Why the lie?"

"The dress itself is sentimental, uncle finds out is ripped, I'm looking at a five-hour lecture that I really want to avoid and going to another shop would mean he hears of it and I get another 5-hour lecture on top of the original 5-hour lecture."

Marinette pouted. "Well… I guess… I could come over to take a look…"

"Great!" I said with a smile. "If you can, we can discuss payment after you've seen it"

Marinette blinked. "Wait pay?"

I nodded. "Well, yeah, I doubt you're familiar enough with me to do things for me for free so… yeah, pay."

Marinette just stood at me in slack jawed amazement.

"I'm not going to pay much," I said. "But I'm not about to have you slave away either."

Marinette stared at me.

I started to feel uncomfortable so I plowed on through. "I'll call Nathalie and let her now that their will be a guest this afternoon. Right after school instead of lunch though, ok?"

Marinette just nodded slowly. I turned to Alya confused she just stood and pulled Marinette to her seat with a slow shake of the head.

I slowly walked back to my seat.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"You are living with Gabriel Agreste, he is loaded with money, I think she thinks she's getting more money that your willing to pay for." Nathanael said.

"I only have 300 euros saved up" I said with a scoff. "The rest is money, I can't access till I'm 18"

Nathanael blinked at me. "It's the fact that you can act like 300 euros is a small amount that make people hate you."

'Oh' I mouthed and looked down.

"Speaking of money, you can't access" Myléné asked. "H-how much would that be?"

"Umm, I'm not allowed to talk about it"

Myléné looked almost faint. Ivan patted her back. "Breathe Myléné, breathe!"

"Myléné?"

"I'm fine, I just never thought about you having so much money, you couldn't talk about."

I shrugged. "It will get my through college" I said. "But, it won't give me friends who actually care for me." I said. "I got lucky in that regard."

"Speaking of friends" Myléné cut in. "You guys going to my dad's show tomorrow?"

"Nathalie bought the ticket's two weeks ago, 1 for me, 1 for Adrien, 1 for my 'uncle'

"What's with the quotation marks around uncle?" Nathanael asked me.

"Cause knowing uncle he's cancelling last minute" I said. "He's constantly doing it, I'm not holding out much hope for him this time around."

"You sound bitter"

I shook my head. "No, just expectant, I had hoped after Christmas he would have changed slightly but he's back to being the same workaholic he's always been." I said before turning around to listen to the lesson for the day.

"Here it is!" I said pulling the dress out of my closet. School had ended for the day, and Marinette and I had driven straight here after school.

Marinette blinked. "Ahh, it's very umm…"

"Ladybug-ish?" I asked eyebrow raised. "Yeah, my parents were fans, My Dad's suit looks like something Cat Noir would wear."

"This is your mothers dress?" Marinette said. "It looks vintage, like maybe from the 1920's"

"Yeah, it's been passed through the generations." I said.

"Your great grandmother a fan of the previous ladybug's too?" Marinette said confused.

I nodded. "Umm Yeah, you could say that" I lied through my teeth. "So… can you fix it?"

Marinette gave it a critical glance. "It won't be easy…" She said. "But I think I can do it."

I smiled and clapped my hands together. "Yay!" I laughed. "Now should we discuss payment?"

Marinette sighed. "I don't want 1000 euros for this, It's a simple fix"

"Good, you're not getting a thousand I have 300 euro's and I'd like to use that for other things too." I said with a chuckle.

Marinette hesitated before nodding. "H-how much are you willing to pay?"

"30 euro's" I said. "And I have it by next week"

Marinette looked a little distraught. I blinked before my eyes widened. She was unaware of what I was doing.

"It's called a bargain Marinette, your supposed to fight for a more reasonable price"

"200" Marinette said aiming high. "And you get it in two days."

"100" I said with a laugh. "And I get it in a week"

Marinette nodded. "Deal" She said happily.

I opened my wallet and handed her a fifty. "Half now, the other half you get when the jobs done… deal?"

Marinette nodded. "How should I get it to my house?"

I neatly folded the dress and put it inside one of the many dress boxes I owned. "This work?" I asked. "Or I can drop it off tomorrow before the show?"

Adrien and Chloé entered my room at that point. "Nearly done?" Adrien asked. "I thought we were going to train?"

I nodded to Adrien, while Marinette looked a little fine.

"Word to the wise" I whispered in Marinette's ear. "He responds better to confidence," Marinette nodded and walked forward tripping slightly. Chloé rolled her eyes but said nothing about it.

"Hey Adrien" She said with a soft smile. "It was nice seeing you."

Adrien smiled to her and shook her hand. "Nice to see you too Marinette."

Marinette seemed to swoon a little at the contact but I put a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down" I whispered. "He's not so bad"

Adrien nodded. "Yeah Marinette I'm really not."

"Trust me he is the dorkiest dork to have ever lived" Chloé said with a shake of her head.

Marinette glared at Chloé. "No, he's not!" She told Chloé harshly. Then she paused and looked at Adrien shyly. "A-are you?"

I pretended to think about it. "Well…"

Adrien pulled Marinette out of the room. "I think it's time for you to go Marinette" He said.

"I'll bring the dress over to you tomorrow" I called to Marinette. Just as she disappeared down the stairs.

Chloé and I stared at each other before the pair of us broke out laughing.

"Nice guys" Adrien said. "Real nice, would it have killed you to not ruin my reputation?"

"The nice boy one? I prefer the adorkable nerd, who got all his flirting skills from anime" Adrien revealed that to me about a month ago, I still had a hard time thinking about it without laughing.

Chloé chuckled. "Would explain all the over the top flirting, you do when your Cat Noir, Adrien sometimes subtlety works wonders."

Adrien glared at the two of us. "What did I ever do to get stuck with the two of you as the ones who know me most?"

"What Nino doesn't know?" Chloé asked rubbing her hands together looking as though Christmas had come early. "Sweet! It's been forever since I ruined someone's reputation for fun!"

"Chloé…" I said then I chuckled. "That's not nice"

Chloé shook her head. "I'm Chloé bourgeois, being nice is boring."

"Knock, knock" I said as I entered Marinette's bedroom. The box that held my mother's dress tucked under my arm. "Hey Myléné, Hey, M. Hapréle" I said nodding to the two other occupants in the room. "Hi Marinette"

M. Hapréle, Myléné and Alya turned to face me. "You must be, Annette, Myléné's told me so much about you" He said his arm around his little girl.

I blushed. "I hear your going to be in the show tonight?" I asked. It was one of the few things Myléné wouldn't stop talking about. At M. Hapréle's nod a smiled. "Break a leg!"

M. Hapréle chuckled "Thank you Annette" He said before his phone rang, he answered his phone after spending about a minute, he gave his daughter a hug, he hurried down the stairs.

I turned to Marinette. "Here, and once again thank you so much, for doing this for me" I told her handing over the box.

Marinette nodded, "I should have it done within the week"

I stood around awkwardly for a few moments. "Well, I should probably get going, thanks again, I'll see you at the show tonight. See you guys."

I turned to go. "You want to stay and relax for a bit?" Marinette said curiously. . "Your bag is open," She said adjusting the bag slightly. I tilted my head confused. "Oookay?"

I stirred the cocoa, silently. "So, Marinette…" I asked in an effort to break the silence. "How have you been lately?"

Marinette paused. "I'm good" She said.

"You have a gymnastics' competition coming up, don't you?" Myléné asked me.

I nodded. "It's in a couple of weeks." I said. "Coach has got us practicing so hard"

"At least you know what your good at" Myléné said darkly. "Gymnastics, you know 3 different languages, you're fearless, you know how to fence, and I've heard rumors that you can also bake."

I shook my head. "All products of my upbringing I assure you"

"A lot of people would kill for your upbringing" Myléné muttered.

"I'm terrible at physics, I can be a brat, I'm a liar, and I've kept secrets from you, and I'm not fearless," I said. "Courage is not the absent of fear, but the belief that something else is more important" I told Myléné. "And in that way, you showed more courage than I ever did, the first week back in school, you willingly traded yourself, when you saw that I was in danger, is that not courage?"

Myléné looked down and blushed. "I-uh, um"

I giggled. And put my hand on her shoulder. I looked up at Marinette and Alya. "Would you two not agree?"

Slowly Marinette and Alya nodded.

Myléné downed her drink quickly. "Well anyway, thanks Marinette, but I should go I want to swing by my house to change before the show" She seemed to be fighting the urge to blush.

"Ivan, meeting you there?" I asked curiously.

Myléné blushed. "Yeah, he is"

I smiled knowingly.

Myléné turned the tables on me. "What about you, excited to see a certain red haired artist?"

My eyes widened and my cheeks turned beet red. "Myléné!" I screeched while the girls around me snickered.

I swiveled around to glare at the two girls. "That never leaves this room" I glared.

I heard someone's phone ring and I turned my head in the direction of the sound. "Hey is that my ring tone?" Alya asked.

Marinette giggled hesitantly before handing the phone to Alya. Alya seemed to have to outright pull the phone out of Marinette hand. Which I found a bit odd.

"Oh Myléné Annette I have this amazing video I want to show you"

Myléné shook her head. "I have to head out" I stood from my table. "Me too, I had to sneak away, to get here, if I'm not back soon my uncle is going to kill me" I said. "And I'm not so sure if I'm exaggerating."

Myléné shook her head. "With the way, you talk about that man, you'd think he was the devil or something"

"No, no the devil wouldn't care, my uncle's problem is the exact opposite" I told Myléné. I turned to Alya, "Why don't you show us the video on the way?"

Alya looked a little miffed as though that had been what she was going to say, but let it go.

Marinette spoke up. "Hold up Alya" She said. "Your bag is open," She said adjusting the bag slightly, before standing straight up one hand behind her back. "See yah!"

Together Alya Myléné and I left the house together.

"Ughh!" Alya screeched. "Where is it?" She said searching through her bag.

Myléné checked her watch. "I can't wait, Alya, I got to go" She said. "I'll probably see it later, on your blog"

Alya nodded. "Ok, it's already uploaded to that anyway" She said. She waved to us before heading off.

"Really?" I said. "In front of the journalist, really?"

Myléné chuckled nervously. "Well it's not like it was a lie"

I glowered at Myléné. "Why not just blurt out, I personally know Cat Noir and Ladybug while you're at it?" I said "Because that is just as likely"

Myléné scoffed. "Yeah uh-huh sure" You've been going to school with your hair in a ponytail lately."

I tugged lightly at the ends of my ponytail. "It keeps the hair out of my eyes, your point?"

"The black bow?"

"I happen to like this bow."

"You're unconsciously dressing yourself like Lady Noir, the very same superhero that Nathanael is obsessed with, face it Annie, your smitten."

I rolled my eyes. "Maybe I just happen to like her color scheme" I said crossing my arms.

"Sure" Myléné said rolling her eyes. "You keep telling your self that"

I put a hand to my eyes. "Am I really that obvious"

"Not to Nathanael" Myléné said. "I just notice because I sit right in front of you"

I nodded "Good." We stopped at the bus stop and started to wait for the bus.

Myléné looked at me hesitantly. "Why don't you, ask him out?"

I looked away. What I had told Nicholas was true, there was someone else, but that wasn't the reason I didn't date.

"If anyone knew the real me, they would be disgusted" I told Myléné. "There are skeletons so deep within my closet, that I don't know if I could ever air them all out. It was mistake I made with Ivan, I can't make it again with Nathanael."

Myléné looked at me uncertainly. "Ivan couldn't handle your secrets"

I shook my head. "I couldn't handle the secrets I was keeping, and I broke up with him, believing he deserved better than someone who couldn't trust him."

Myléné went silent. "Could you ever trust us with them?"

I smiled. "That's the prayer"

Myléné wrapped an arm around me. "If it's about the whole Valentine's day thing… he understands there are things you can't talk about."

I nodded and looked away. "You and Ivan going out after the show?"

Myléné blushed. "Not that it is of your concern, but yes, we are, we are going to eat at Le Grand Paris,"

"The restaurant that M. Bourgeois owns?" I asked. "Nice"

At the point the bus arrived. "Good luck tonight!" I said. "text me the details later!"

I waved to Myléné before heading back home.

As is typical of a day in Paris ending in y. I was half way home when as per usual, an Akuma attacked.

The one for today. A mime.

His powers? Making anything he mimed come to life, while the object he mimed was still completely invisible.

Before I could contemplate what, I could do, my entire body was wrapped wrap tightly in rope and yanked away.

I hit the ground with an "Oomph"

"What do you think your doing?" Ladybug hissed. "Get out of the line of fire!"

I blinked and stood shakily getting dragged along concrete hurt. "Love to Ladybird, but I actually don't know what the line of fire is, since I can't see what he mime's."

"Ok first of all it's Ladybug" Ladybug says with a glare. "Second… then run in the opposite direction of Mime."

"Ladybug and Ladybird are the same thing" I said.

A black baton came in between me and Ladybug I looked to glare at a grinning Cat Noir who was sitting on a window sill grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"Aww my two favorite girls, fighting how cute." Cat said. "Annette what are you doing here?"

"Throbbing" I said rubbing my backside. "Seriously though that hurt" I said to Ladybug.

Ladybug narrowed her eyes at me. Before turning her attention to Cat. "Tell your girlfriend to get lost."

"Not his girlfriend" I cut in. "No, just-just, no."

Ladybug rolled her eyes. "Sure."

I turned to Cat. "I thought the interview convinced everyone, that I was not dating you"

Cat Noir put a hand to his head a gave a nervous chuckle. "Umm,"

"Hey!" We turned to see Chloé bourgeois knife in hand. "Enough talking more, fighting" She said. Then she turned to a few civilians. "Get the heck out of dodge!" She said twirling her knife. "I'm about to do something stupid"

Chloé threw her knife at the mime it passed right by him, slicing his arm slightly in the process.

Ladybug lost her mind. "What do you think your doing!" She yelled "You could have hurt him!"

I saw Chloé hunched a little the euphoria dying a little when her idle screamed at her. "I-I know what I'm doing" She said. "All my throws are very well aimed, I never miss-not ever." She said staring at Ladybug wide eyed.

Ladybug looked to the both of us. "You two should head somewhere safe, it's dangerous for civilians to be out here"

I wanted Cat Noir to step in and try to convince Ladybug to back off. But doing so could have led to secrets no one was ready to be exposed, so I understood why he didn't.

I looked behind Ladybug and pulled her out of the way just as the Mime started to throw something. I felt something slice through my arm creating a huge gash in my arm. I fell to the ground hissing in pain.

Chloé and Cat Noir wasted no time. Chloé threw her knives, Cat Noir charged at the mime. Ladybug knelt towards me. She looked at her yo-yo.

"I'm fine" I said standing shakily. "I've had worse."

"You're bleeding."

I ripped a long red strip off my blouse. "I've still had worse" I said handing it to her.

Ladybug glanced at me uneasily and started to tie the make shift bandage to me arm.

"You shouldn't have come" She said. "Your hurt"

I smiled. "Amazing story to tell the kids someday."

Ladybug forced out a laugh. "If you live that long."

"At least I died trying to protect those I care about." I countered before standing. "Now the real question is… what are you going to do?"

Ladybug looked around her and back at her Yoyo she threw up into the air. "Lucky Charm!" She shouted. A box appeared and landed in her hand.

I blinked. "Well, weirded things have been produced from that thing" I said. "What do you need."

Ladybug looked around and turned to me and smiled. "Can you, Chloé and Cat Noir, making him angry? I need him ready to fuse."

I smirked. "Oh Lady, you have no idea" I turned to the duo fighting. "Insult him!"

The Mime turned to me and Cat Noir thinking quickly cut his baton in half and threw it to me.

I started to rotate it so it was making a nice little shield in front of me.

"Poor pathetic you" I taunted.

"Look at his pathetic wardrobe, what couldn't afford something better?" Chloé snorted. "The mime turned around and mimed something before he could do anything however Cat Noir threw his baton hitting him right in the shoulder.

"She is right you know" Cat Noir said extending his staff slightly so that he was leaning on it. "That is a pawsitively clawful outfit. "Wouldn't you say so?" He directed that last question directed at me.

I smiled and stepped forward. "Absolutely

The Mime started to miming again attacking us with anything he could throw at us.

"You figure out who he is?" I said shielding myself and Chloé as the Mime tried to skewer us.

Cat Noir shrugged. "He may be M. Haprélé, your friend Myléné's father."

My eyes went wide and I cursed, but before I could come up with another option. Ladybug called up.

"Oh, M. Mime!" Ladybug shouted. "Look!"

On the Eiffel tower was an image of a flyer of the show that was happening tonight.

M. Haprélé became angry and mimed a sword. And cut the Eiffel toward in half.

He held his hands up and that somehow stopped the Eiffel from falling on him.

Ladybug smirked and used her yoyo to pull the hat off his head. She reached inside and pulled out a piece of paper and ripped it in half. The akuma escaped, ladybug purified it and the used the miraculous Ladybug cure to fix everything.

I blinked as my shirt fixed itself the bandage around my arm disappeared and the cut on my arm healed, the only evidence that it had ever been their was a faint scar.

"Well" I said that went well.

Ladybug stalked over to us. "It could have gone worse, stay home next time."

Chloé and I turned to each other Before I turned to Ladybug and glared at her, "You're welcome" I hissed sarcastically.

"So, let me get this straight, you ripped your mothers best dress, and to keep that secret, you snuck out so you could have someone you know fix it, and you were on your way back, when the akuma attacked, forcing you to fight him to save your own neck."

"Yes"

"And the reason why Adrien disappeared on me is because he saw me and was trying to pull you to safety but you were to stubborn."

I nodded quickly. "Yep"

Nathalie glared and bent down to whisper in my ear. "I will neglect to mention this to your uncle who by the way is out on business, and allow you to go to show, if you stay in your room all day tomorrow, no phone, no computer no anything, understood?"

I nodded quickly.

Nathalie nodded. "Good" She jerked her head upstairs. "Tell Adrien that his punishment is exactly the same."

I smiled and ran upstairs.

"What do you think" I asked Adrien when he came into my room. He blinked when he saw me wearing a black dress a red cardigan wrapped around my shoulders. Slipped onto my feet were flats. My hair had been curled slightly. My face had a light casing of make up. Some blush, my lipstick the same shade of red as my cardigan.

He blinked. "Um… you look good" He said. "But is it necessary?"

I looked down at myself and rolled my eyes. "Myléné insisted I wear something nice." I told him. And it was true, she had called insisting that I wear something nicer that what I usually did.

Adrien raised an eyebrow before holding his arm out. "The shows about to start. Ready to go?"

I giggled and wrapped my arm around his own. "As always" I said.

"Wow" Myléné said staring at me in shock. "You look spectacular Annette"

I smiled. "You said nicer"

Myléné giggled. "Nathanael, is going to flip out!"

My eyes widened and suddenly, I felt self conscious I wrapped my cardigan tighter around me. "W-why would you say something like that?"

"You sitting with me?" Adrien asked running up.

"I think I'm being relegated to somewhere else" I said with a laugh. Myléné nodded and pulled me into a seat.

Myléné looked at my cousin and pulled him to an aisle seat where Marinette and Alya were sitting.

"Well aren't you playing matchmaker tonight" I whispered as she past by me to sit beside me leaving the aisle (the seat on the other side of me) wide open.

Myléné smiled.

"Hey," I turned my head to see Nicholas. I smiled politely at him.

"Hey Nick" I said. "What's up?"

"This seat taken?"

I turned to Myléné "The seat beside me taken?" I asked.

She turned her head to see Nick standing by the aisle seat.

"Sorry, yes, that's for another friend of mine sorry." Myléné said. "You'll have to find somewhere else."

Nicholas hesitated slightly before nodding and walking off. He hadn't been gone five minutes when a certain red haired artist and Myléné's boyfriend turned up.

"Hey" I sat a little straighter in my seat.

"Hey" I responded. "Nice to see you."

"Same to you" Nathanael said. I stood to allow Ivan room to sit beside Myléné.

"I umm I saw you today" Nathanael said. "Take the hit for Ladybug"

I turned to him wide eyed. "You were there?" I asked him are you ok?"

"I'm fine" He said I took a deep breath and nodded. "I'm more worried about you"

I looked at him confused. "Me?" At his look against my arm it dawned on me. I stilled. "I'm fine Nathanael." I said "Fit as a fiddle"

Nathanael looked at my arm that was covered by the red fabric of my cardigan. I pulled the cardigan off and showed him my bare arm. "See?" I said. "Good as new"

He hesitantly put a hand over my arm and stared at the faded pink scar. "I was scared for you" He admitted. "I don't think you've ever been hurt by an akuma before"

I had. Just never in front of Nathanael, not that I told Nathanael that. "I'm fine" I said. "It was just a scratch."

Nathanael shook his head. "Annette, I-"

But that was all he could get out before the show started.

I pulled away only then noticing that my heart had been racing.

A/N The dance brought up here is a kind of idea I have, where it might appear at the very end of the story. I believe it was actually stated that the box that the miraculous holders have actually more then one level to it and that there are more miraculouses under neath the original 7 but instead, I am having them scattered around the globe. And i just like the idea of them once every year getting together and having one huge celebration.